GETTING THEM 18

 GETTING THEM 18  

We had just pulled over at the mall and I looked at him with a smile.

“What?” He asked

“Nothing” I replied. 

“Well your face looked like you wanted to say something” 

“Ya I was just thinking” 

“About what?” he asked

“We should do something different other than just sitting around having supper here…”

“I agree we always come here but where do you want us to go?” he asked

I had many places in mind I would have wanted to suggest but I needed to be sure what his pocked looked like, I did not want to drag him to a place he could not afford. Austin and I had not yet talked but I knew we needed to be in a place we could talk.

“Well I was thinking of a place we could go and talk” I said.

I could tell he wanted to ask what was wrong with us talking from the mall but he quickly just started reversing. “Hey you have not told me where we are going” i said.

“Call your roommate and tell her you will be back in school tomorrow” he said.

“Well then let me go and pick something I am going to change in” I said.

“We will buy on our way” he said.

“Well I hope it won’t be a long drive…”

“We are going to Tiphanny’s” he said.

I sighed with relief as I liked the place a lot however; this was clearly going to be the first time we got intimate. Was I ready? Well I had been from the first time I kissed him but first I needed him to talk to me and tell me something more convincing about the other lady. Lumbiwe had fed me with so much worry that I could not see anything past the thought of Austin leaving me. I had been to Austin’s flat twice but we would normally just walk in and quickly walk out, he was a gentleman and on those occasions he had never attempted to touch me. We passed through his flat and he asked me to join him as he wanted to leave the house cleared up a little. However, Austin’s flat was already tidied up and instead he went to shower and asked me to wait for him. He left some clothes on the bed and asked me to help him pack them up in the bag he intended to carry.

“Honey can we still pass through my room I have things I need to put in place too” I said.

I said this with the view of explaining to Litase that she would be alone for the night. I hated to disappoint her but I wanted to be with my man and I hoped she would understand. Surprisingly, Litase had left a note under my door explaining that she would be spending a night out with a guy friend and if I was bored I could join them and she left the address. I was relieved and just packed up a few things and we left.