Never Forsaken

4

○●Ciara●○
The next morning
"Daddy !!!" I know he's probably asleep but I don't care.

I heard groaning in a sleepy voice.
"What's up now Ciara?"
I laughed a little.
"Daddy cmeah' pleaseeee."

I love messing with my daddy.
He came in the kitchen where I was.
"Remember you said , God does things in decency and in order? "

He sighed rubbing that gooey stuff out his eye.
"Yeah, what about it Ciara." |rolling my eyes.| he's so not a morning person.
"Well, he really didn't give you a CEO position at that place for you to be late."
"Alright baby girl. I'm up. You made breakfast?"
"Yeah pop. But I wrapped yours up, you can take it with you."

He nods walking back upstairs.
I go in the cabinets to find a pop tart to heat up.

○●Dana●○

Good morniiiiiiing.

I'm getting for right now. I'm only going to do and 4 hr shift.
Doing more hours right now isn't what I wanna do.
I finished getting dressed in my work uniform, and I hear my phone ding.

It's a text from the pas- I mean Eric.

○●Eric●○ Good morning lovely. Hope you have a great day at work, I'll see you soon.

I replied back with a sweet good morning. Telling him "you too" and "ok."

Grabbing my keys and phone. I started walking out my room towards the door.
I proceeded out the door to my car.
Getting in cranking up, I turned on the gospel station.

I turned it up a little pulling out of the driveway.

At work
Alicia tried to talk to me so many times today.
I'm not trying to hear it. I'm not holding a grudge she's just not worth my time.
Every time she walked up to me asking about the stocks in the back of the store, I called Renéé.
Telling her.
"Help her. I gotta do something real quick."
With the statement every time, I walked away.
Lunchbreak

I finished ringing up a customer. I see a shadow in front of me while I'm bending down to get the "20 min break" sign.
I just say "Ugh." Lightly when I got the sign putting it up there. Then I got a chance to look up.

It's Eric.
I smile."Hi pastor. U- um, what are you doing here?"

He held up a bag of chik fil a.
Smiling he said. "I wanted to surprise you, but I don't know if you're down?"

I smiled like a kid in a candy store.
"Yes I'm down."
He lead me out the store to his car.
He drove us to a park nearby. We got out and sat down on one of the benches.
We prayed and begin to eat.
"So, where'd you come from?"

"My mother's womb."
We started laughing together.
"I mean, before you got the food... were you at home?"

He's been smiling at me this whole time. Like noooooo pastaah!
"No, I wasn't home. I was at work. I'm gonna be heading back soon and I don't mean to be pushy or nothin' but can you pick Ciara up from school ? I'll be home late like around 5. She's a teenager .... n you know. I don't want her alone."
I giggled a little.
"Don't worry about it I got it. This lunch was good though, thank you very much."
We got up walking to the car.

Back at work.

Before I get out the car I turn to Eric smiling.
Man, he's really getting to me.
"Thanks again. I really enjo-"
He smashed his lips into mine. This time I didn't push back.
It felt right, I liked him for all the right reasons. But as soon as the congregation popped in my mind I stopped him.

"I'm sorry.."
I quickly got out.
"Dana , wait!"
He got out the car yelling from the doorway.

I turned around mouthing, "I'm sorry." Before walking back inside.