Mama's boy

Chapter 20

I was at work, a stupid client had been hitting on me for hours, when I decided it was enough, I took off my apron and threw it under the counter before taking a break.

"What do you think you're doing? You can't take a break now, your shift is at its end and that dude was wasting all of his money on you."

My boss entered the little room I had taken a seat in.

"Oh so you were aware of how inappropriate he was being" I glared at him, not willing to take his shit this time "and my shift is over in an hour, if I need to sit now I'll take a break now, it's the first one I'm taking today and I have a right to at least two."

He totally ignored the part where I talked about my right to work as a person and not a machine. "He wasn't being inappropriate, he was giving you good tips too."

"He was trying to buy me."

"And what's wrong with that?" he pulled a disgusting smirk at me.

A tiny part of me wanted to take out the knife from my boot and show him what he could have from me for free, but I reminded myself that that wasn't how I handled situations at work anymore and calmed myself down.

"He's more than twice my age, he could have kids older than me." And I knew something about that.

And with that, my break was over.

When I got back home I found Dinah totally passed out on the couch with her phone in her hand, I smiled at the image, I learned in the last couple of weeks that nothing could wake her up in that moment so I put a blanket on her and took the phone from her hand.

I wanted to put it on the little table beside her but it lit up and my curiosity could have killed me at that moment, so I peeked at what seemed like a few texts on her lock screen, fortunately no images this time.

Mani: I'm not kidding, that's it!

Mani: sorry

Mani: did you fall asleep on me?

Mani: oh you did.

Mani: it's fine, I just wanted you to know that I'm serious and I'll show you

Mani: I can't wait to see you tomorrow hot lips, sleep tight.

Oh my God.

I put the phone down and went to my room where as soon as I hit the mattress I immediately fell asleep, without even taking off my untied boots.

When I woke up a bittersweet feeling took over me, I dreamed about Camila.

Again.

That had happened so often since she had left, I craved what we had so much, enough to dream that she was still there to hold me sometimes even more than once a night.

I missed every detail of hers, but most of all the sight of her parted lips when she got close for a kiss.

There was no way of telling what I would have given in that moment to feel her lips and be awake at the same time.

The thought never left my mind for the entire day and when I was done studying, I went with Gabe to Dinah's, since I knew Camila couldn't be there and she had to watch Gabe anyway in a few hours.

And I was the biggest idiot in the world 'cause I totally forgot about Normani's texts and I just opened her front door like I usually did and, nope.

I grabbed Gabe and turned him around as soon as I realized shirts were on the floor.

"Mami, Dinah's girlfriend is here!" I was so close to giving up, how did my son know Normani and how was he more updated than I was on this?

"Girlfriend?" I inquired.