The Wrong Side of the Track Ch.20

When I woke up I was wrapped in a pair of strong arms as I tried to pull away from his embrace he pulled me into him tighter. I turned to face him and he was wide awake.

"how long have you been awake" I said groggy
"an hour or so" I was shocked at his response
"why didn’t you get up or something"
"cause you look beautiful when you sleep" I blushed and turned away he grabbed my chin and pulled my face to his and gave me a light kiss.
"come on lets go downstairs" I said as I got up and put on his button down shirt from last night
"do we have to" he groaned as he grabbed my hand and pulled me back on to the bed and began kissing me again.
"Marcus…come…on" I said in between kisses
"fine, but you owe me bae"
"okay" I headed downstairs so he could get dressed
"morning sleepy……head" Derek said realizing what I had on
"we I guess you had a good night" I punched him in the arm and walked to the fridge and grabbed some juice. Marcus walked down the stairs in nothing but his pants and suit jacket on but he left it unbuttoned.
"morning" Derek said as he smirked at Marcus
"morning man"
"so what you up to today Derek" I asked
"I guess I’m gonna go to jasmine’s and fix this mess were in"
"oh well tell her I missed her yesterday"
"and what are your plans for today" Marcus questioned me
"I don’t know hopefully something with you" I said as I gave him a kiss
"how about meeting my grandma"
"what" I said mortified
"don’t you wanna meet the most important person in my life besides you"
"of course but what if she doesn’t like me"
"I told you before just be you shawty and she’ll love you"
"OK when" I said taking a sip of my juice
"now" he said making me choke on my juice. I jumped out of my seat and ran upstairs I got in the shower and put on a white sun dress with white flip flops and put my hair in a bun. I ran marcus shirt downstairs to him where him and Derek sat eating and laughing like the best of friends.

"here" I said
"what"
"put this on I don’t want to go meet your grandma while your half naked and have her think that I'm…I'm some kind of floozy"
"haha OK I’ll put it on bae"
"thank you" I said as I watched him start buttoning his shirt.
"you ready" he asked me as he finished his last button
"as ready as I’ll ever be"
"cool" he gave me a small smile and a reassuring kiss
"bye Derek I hope everything with you and Jasmine work out"

"bye sweetheart have fun" he shouted back to me as we walked out the door to Marcus’s car. We drove to the same side of town we were on for Janelle’s party we were actually only three houses down from where Janelle's party was. When we pulled into the driveway a women was working in her garden she looked over at the car and stood up placing her hands on her hip. She didn’t look like much of a grandma she had to only be in her late 50’s my grand ma was 72 and got around in one of those hoover round things.
Marcus gave my hand a small squeeze as he got out the car and proceeded towards his grandma.

"where have you been I was worried sick about you I thought you got yourself in some kind of trouble." He grandma hollered at him I walked up behind him and grabbed his hand.
"Grams I'm fine the party ended late so I crashed at Audrey's"
"and this must be Audrey" she said as she looked me over
"Grams this is Audrey and Au-"
"boy I know that" she said joking towards him I reached my hand outwards for her to shake. To my surprise his grandma shooed away my hand a greeted me in a warm embrace.
"any girl who can get this boy in a suit is family to me" his grandma joked I laughed
"well I'm gonna go freshen up" Marcus said as he bolted into the house his grandma shouted a few things to him as I admired her rose garden, I’ve always liked gardening my grandma the one in the hoover round taught me how when I was young and she was a little more mobile.
"they’re beautiful aren’t they" his grandma said as she walked up behind me
"yes ma’am"
"call me grams well help me pluck a few of them"
"sure" I said as I began to kneel in front of the garden but she stopped me before I could get all the way down.
"girl you can’t mess up that pretty dress of yours" she said as she walked to the side of the house and returned with some overalls "here put these over your dress" she said handing them to me. After we picked a dozen or so flowers we went inside and she offered to get me a glass of lemonade. We stood in the kitchen talking about Marcus when he walked up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. His grandma gave us a small smile.
"ya’ll are adorable now are you’ll staying for lunch"
"of course" Marcus replied as he walked over to his grandma to give her a kiss on the cheek. After a few minutes his grandma set the table with a large bowl of chicken salad and pitcher of lemonade. We all ate lunch enjoying great conversation his grandma told me stories about Marcus, I would have never guess thing that made me laugh and him blush.
"grams that was good" Marcus said and I silently agreed
"thank you" she said as she got up to put the dishes away
"grams me and Audrey will do that"
"thank you" she said as she sat back down and watched us clear the table.
"grams I’m gonna take Audrey to get some ice cream"
"alright"

Me and Marcus gave his grandma a goodbye hug and we headed to his car. When we got to dairy queen I ordered a chocolate dipped cone and Marcus ordered a fudge brownie sundae. We picked a table in a far corner near some shade. While we ate Marcus kept staring at me which made me blush.

"what" I asked him
"nothing"
"what is it Marcus do I have ice cream on my face"
"no I was thinking about how beautiful you were" I blushed and continued eating my ice cream and he continued looking at me.
"Marcus stop looking at me like that"
"I can’t"
"Marcus plea-" before I could finish Marcus cover my mouth with his after a few seconds he pulled away.
"what was that for" I asked confused
"because I love you"
"I love you too"