Twisted

“Ah girl, you caught me off guard.  You looking better now than you did last night.”

“That’s because your ass ain’t drunk today.  You seeing clear now.”

In the back of my mind I was quoting Ice Cube's song, Today Was A Good Day!  And to be straight up, that was probably my best day in college.

I went to college on an academic scholarship, but I also had an open invitation to walk on the basketball team.  Since I had some smarts along with some blacktop game, I never had problems meeting females and getting numbers.

But Taylor was different. She had the looks, the body, the attitude and the personality.  But the big difference was she was smart too.  I used to trick out with some dumb ass slims but Taylor wasn’t one of them. 

She used to date one of the guys on the football team back when they were high school.  Everybody wanted to hit that from what I heard.  But they also thought dude still had ties with her.  He didn’t, she just didn't go out much and was a homebody.  Good thing for me!

She only went to that football party because her cousin was in town and wanted something to do that weekend.  Taylor had a body like Angela Basset had in What’s Love Got To Do With It.  Drop dead ass Fine!!!

After that mall meeting, Taylor and I were always together.  It seemed like we were joined at the hip.  She was cool as hell and used to hangout with me and my boys all the time.  Come to find out, we even had the same major.  I never saw her in the engineering building until after we met.  She said that she used to see me all the time.  We signed up to take many of the same classes.  We even made similar grades.  No, we didn’t cheat, but we had each other as study partners.  Ok, we cheated every now and then.

One of the things that kept us so tight in school was her family.  She had the coolest parents, but her grandmother was the one that kept me on my toes.  She took me to meet them one weekend in Louisiana.  She had to give me some rules before we got there.

“Ok, when you first meet my grandma, you’ll know right off hand if she likes you.”  She said.

“I’m cool with that”. I said.  “Most families seem to like me, including my own.”

“My family ain’t most families.  Forget the families of them other hoes!  They don’t count because this is the last family you’ll need to meet.”

I had to laugh at that one.  I had already had a phone relationship with her parents.  Her mom was laid back and her pops was always working.  When I’d talk with her pops, he’d always ask me if I went to work today.  That man was serious about having a job!

When we arrived at her parents place, her mom and pop met us outside.  We hit it right off.  Finally her grandmother comes outside, slow and curious.  She walks up to me and looks me straight in the eyes.  My ass was nervous too. 

“So, you the punk messing with my grandbaby?” She said with a soft crackly voice.

I chuckled and replied, “Yes ma am, I’m Jason.  Glad to meet you.”

She grabbed me and gave me a great big hug.  She turned to Taylor and said, “This one you need to keep cause I feel he got some good bones”.  Everybody laughed--.and I was relieved!

I think they mostly laughed because they were also relieved that she didn't curse me out.  I’m still as tight with her family now as I was on day one.

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