Gee Stories: Sparks

“This not my song, but I owe you a dance”

-Geornikqua Butler

In all romance and romcoms you have what they call a “meet cute”! A meet cute is when the main characters have their first interaction before they really notice each other and some how have a beautiful romance. One of my stories has a meet cute. Richwood high school around 2007 or 2008 I see quiet boy that peeks my interest that was called on in a class.. You know captures my eye, but I knew I would never forget that face. Fast forward my Godsister Ketta and I find ourselves fond of “Skatetown” on Saturday and there he was… and he was even better. Now you know this story wouldn’t continue if we didn’t hit it off, but it didn’t go as you think. It’s like for years we were just friends with sexual tension and jokes, I was a virgin and him well he was more experienced than me. The funniest part is that he was always about two miles from me all those years. However, as we got older we stayed in touch throughout high school. I get on the dance team and wrap my life around that and he becomes extremely “popular” and hated as well… Yet, whenever we saw each other it’s like we didn’t miss a beat. I loved his pretty teeth and that smile, and I always reminded him of that. Somehow we still never became anything. So he has a longtime girlfriend I eventually get a boyfriend we both graduate high school.  I eventually go to Southern University and became part of that 1%.(I’m unsure of his story). Y’all are probably like get to the point, but you wouldn’t understand until 2015 on a Sunday night at Nuvvo in all black and some vans there this man was. Y’all I was super nervous and extremely flirty when I saw this man and that night I said, “Now or never!”. It was so refreshing to see him this way he was different, but still the guy I knew. I was changed too,  I was fresh out of basic training and having a six pack. I was a new woman with a new pep in her step and confidence.  New me was ready! I don’t know if it was the alcohol or how he felt, but we were extremely close his arm around me full conversation in the middle of a Nuvvo Sunday. I reminded him of his smile as he flashed it and I was hooked all over again. My inner teen girl was giddy and I knew if we really kicked off I would be his.. And I was…