The Boudreaux Sisters

Chapter 13: “You Mine Now.”

The next morning, Lady was awakened out of sleep to the smell of breakfast. She exited the guest room and proceeded to walk downstairs to the kitchen. As she walked to the staircase, she walked by Darren’s room and noticed that his door was wide open but he wasn’t in there. He’s probably already downstairs, waiting on his plate, thought Lady to herself.

Sure enough, Darren was downstairs already. But to her surprise, he was the one that was cooking breakfast. Lady smiled at this and continued to walk over to the island to sit down next to Michael and Della. Once Lady sat down, Darren turned around as if he sensed her presence. He smiled and winked at her. Lady smiled even harder and winked back. Meanwhile, she noticed that Michael had his head down on the island. He was still nursing his hangover and Della was sitting right beside him, rubbing his back.

Lady decided to throw in a light joke by first telling everybody good morning and then, asking Michael, “Are you feeling any better this morning, Michael? Because last night, you had a ball!” Michael slowly lifted up his head and looked down at Lady.

“And boy, am I paying for it. I haven’t gotten drunk like that in years. It felt good at the moment but now… I’m just glad to be sitting here, talking to y’all this morning.” said Michael, as he took a sip of orange juice. Lady chuckled to herself and took a sip of orange juice, too.

Then, Darren began to pull out four plates out of the cabinet. He placed a dish in front of Lady, Della and Michael and sat the other dish next to Lady, for himself. Not he sitting directly beside me this morning. Ok then, Onzancaire! Work your magic!, thought Lady to herself. Darren also began serving the food onto everyone’s plate: waffles made from scratch, cheese eggs, cheese grits and sausage links. Everybody began to eat their breakfast and start up a conversation about last night’s party.

After breakfast, Darren received a FaceTime call from Desi; he instantly ignored it. Lady saw this and smiled evilly to herself. After Lady and everyone else placed their dishes in the sink, she proceeded to walk back upstairs to the guest room. Before she could enter, Darren stopped her in the hallway.

“Hey, Lady. Do you know when you and Della plan on leaving to go back home?” he asked.

Lady thought about it and shrugged her shoulders in response. “I don’t know. I’m guessing probably after Michael starts to feel a little bit better from the hangover.” Darren laughed at her statement and said, “Knowing my Pops, it’ll be a minute before that happens. Do you have any plans for today?”

“No, not really. You know, Desi’s the only person who I really hang out with at school and if she’s doing anything, she’d more than likely call me or text me or something. Outside of that, no. I was just probably going to pack up my stuff and lay around, chilling or whatever until it’s time to go.” stated Lady.

Darren nodded his head, in agreement. “I feel you, I feel you. Well, I was thinking about going to the movies. Did you wanna come with me?” asked Darren.

“Of course! That sounds fun.”

Lady and Darren left out for the movies around 3pm that afternoon. As they rode to the movie theaters in Darren’s car, Darren reached over and grabbed Lady’s hand. When Lady felt Darren’s hand on hers, she immediately turned her head from looking out the window to making direct eye contact with Darren. Darren smiled at her and lightly squeezed her hand. Before Lady could smile back at him, Darren received another FaceTime call from Desi. Darren’s face and mood instantly changed. He reached over to his phone mount and pressed the ignore button.

“Man, Desi has been blowing me up all day today. If it ain’t a FaceTime call, it’s a text or a regular voice call. Shit starting to get on my nerves. Like, what the fuck is she so pressed for?” said Darren.

Then, he let out a big sigh and confided in Lady.

“You know, I seriously been thinking about breaking up with her. She’s too clingy and I like to have my space sometimes, you feel me?” asked Darren.

“I feel you. But you know, you like her first boyfriend ever. She don’t know how to be in a relationship, forreal forreal. Except for the shit that she may see on tv or hear in music. It’s like she tries to emulate that plus, her mom and dad’s relationship. I’m sorry but, I don’t know any girl that wouldn’t act that way, especially over her first boyfriend.” said Lady.

“Yeah well… I guess that don’t really matter anymore. Since I got my eye on someone else now.” said Darren, as he looked at Lady and winked his eye.

Lady ignored this and continued on.

“You know, Desi has had a crush on you for the longest. Before I hooked y’all up in the mall that day, she used to cyberstalk you on social media.”, said Lady. Darren looked at Lady, laughed out loud and said sarcastically, “That’s not weird as fuck.”

They were approaching the movie theaters and Darren drove around for a little minute to find a parking spot. Once he parked the car, he and Lady began to unbuckle their seatbelts.

“Well, like I said. I’m interested in somebody else, so it’s looking like Imma have to switch up the tempo.” joked Darren, as he attempted to dance like the popular R&B singer, Chris Brown. Lady bursted into laughter at this and agreed along with him. “Maybe so.” chuckled Lady.

Lady and Darren proceeded to walk to the movie theaters, with him grabbing and holding on to Lady’s hand as they entered.

After the movies, Lady and Darren were hungry. Darren treated them both to some burgers at the nearby McDonald’s. Then, they made their way back to the house. As they approached the driveway, they could both see Michael standing in the garage. He was tossing one of Della’s bags into the backseat of his Mercedes-Benz. Michael saw the lights from Darren’s car coming into the driveway. He waved at them, as Darren began to park his car right next to Michael’s Tesla. Once Darren parked his car, he pulled his phone out from his jeans pocket and noticed the 14 missed calls from Desi. Before they could exit his car, he showed it to Lady. They both laughed together at this.

“Don’t feel bad. She’s been blowing me up, too. Just not as much as you.” stated Lady.

Darren let out a groan and said, “I am not anticipating school tomorrow, man. I know she’s going to be one of the first people I see when I pull up and it’s gon be hard but… Imma have to let her go, man.”

“But don’t you think you should at least talk to her before you just spring this on her?” questioned Lady.

Darren shook his head no, answering Lady’s question. Then, he leaned in close and made eye contact with Lady.

“Sometimes you gotta go for who or what you want,” said Darren. He caressed Lady’s left cheek, slowly brushing his index finger past her scar. “I want you.”

Lady smiled in response and looked down for a second. Then, she looked back at Darren.

“I want you, too.” Lady replied back, flirtatiously.

Darren lightly licked his lips and leaned in a little closer to kiss Lady. Lady kissed him back. They proceeded to kiss each other passionately until Darren reached into Lady’s shirt and squeezed one of her breasts. Lady instantly pulled back from kissing Darren when she felt this.

“My bad, I’m sorry. I guess I got a little carried away.” stated Darren, as he wiped a little saliva away from his bottom lip.

Lady held up her hand and responded with, “No, it’s ok. I liked it.”

Darren smiled and attempted to lean back in and kiss Lady some more. But Lady held up her hand again to block this and said, “Now… You said you wanted me right?” Darren nodded his head yes. “Well, what do you mean by that?”

“I want you to be my girl. My new girl.” responded Darren.

Lady sighed. “And what about Desi?”

“Man, she don’t even matter to me any more. I don’t care about her.” said Darren. “Matter of fact, come tomorrow morning, I’m breaking up with her. Done. Finished. Then, Imma be all about you.”

Lady smiled and thought to herself, Yeah, the Onzancaire definitely worked. “Ok.” stated Lady. Darren and Lady proceeded to kiss some more until she heard Della’s voice yell out, “Lady! We’re about to go! Are you ready?” Lady pulled back from the kiss she was sharing with Darren and rolled down the passenger window so Della could hear her.

“Yeah, I’m all packed up!” she yelled out.

But I really don’t wanna go, Lady thought to herself. She’d rather spend the night again, so she could sneak off to Darren’s room in the middle of the night and make out with him all night until it was time to get up for school. But she knew that wasn’t possible.

Darren noticed Lady’s head hanging from being upset that she was about to go home. He reached over and lifted her face up to look at him.

“Hey, cheer up. We’ll see each other at school. Plus, you mine now, so we definitely have the weekend, too.” chuckled Darren and he winked at Lady.

Lady smiled and got excited, thinking about this.

“You are absolutely right.”

They both smiled and pecked each other on the lips again before exiting Darren’s car and walking into the house.