ride me

GABRIEL

I watched Cristela beaming with a sort of light I only saw rarely. She was beautiful and joyful. Her eyes were bright as if stars were behind them and her beautiful lips were stretched out in a contented smile. She sipped from the drink and then searched for a waste bin and threw the smoothie cup inside.

It was late evening, she had treated me as nothing but her friend. Not her fiancee or anything romantic, a friend.

I didn't mind, If I would be more honest, I even enjoyed it. As she turned to me, she mouthed something but my mind didn't register it since I was busy admiring her, I had lost all my senses in the process, I knew that I admired her often, too often but who was I to blame?.

“Huh?." I asked with an apologetic smile.

She shook her head, and she opened her mouth to repeat it.

“I'm tired o these women eyeing you. " She said and then scrunched her nose at a particular woman who had been drinking me up.

I shook my head, and chuckled.

Enjoying the way her eyes burned an