Love's POV

It has been almost two months since Mehki left. Temor has called to check on me every day since our first conversation.

I wake up to the ringing of my phone. "Hello"

"Mi Amor, what are you doing?"

As soon as I hear Mi Amor, I know it's Temor. Once I explained to him why my nickname is Love, Mi Amor is his name for me now. It's cute but hella cheesy.

"Just waking up, what about you? " I ask

Temor pauses for a moment " Thinking about you...wondering when are you going to come and see me or at least let me take you out?"

I gave myself 30 days to deal with all these emotions before I would consider dating again. I wrote Mehki a letter and have been waiting for a response. It's been three weeks, and he hasn't responded. My head thinks I should believe what he told me and move on. My heart wants to wait. My heart always causes me trouble, so I decided to listen to my head for a change.

" I'm off from work tomorrow. If you want to hang out when I get out of class." I tell Temor, then I tell him what time and where to pick up. Just like that, I will be going on my first date as a newly single girl.

The next day I'm sitting in class a little excited. Checking my appearance in my compact mirror, I like what I see. My micro braids are in two French braids, light makeup, just mascara, eyeliner, lip-gloss. A white bodysuit and my favorite GAP jeans that make my booty look nice. All-white Tretorn tennis shoes and my Purple leather jacket create my look for today. I am going for cute and casual.

As I leave class, my classmate Eric West walks with me, his hand on my lower back, looking down at me, smiling. Eric, like always, asks to borrow my notes. I laugh because I already had them out to give to him.

Eric has been borrowing my notes since our first class together freshman year. Engaged in my conversation with Eric, I didn't notice when

Temor approaches us and asks me if I am ready to leave. Temor is looking directly at Eric. I pass the notes to Eric and tell him I'll get them back during our next class.

Tremor and I walk towards his car, and he asks, " How do you know E?"

"E? you mean Eric?" I question.

"Yes, how do you know Eric?"

I look up at him and notice his face is full of tension. " Eric and I have been in a few classes together since freshman year. We hang out with some of the same people, so we cool."

Temor doesn't respond; he just opens the car door for me and kisses my forehead.

Getting in the car, Temor asks me if I am hungry. I said yes. He wanted to know where I wanted to go to have lunch. I told him he could decide. He chose to go to his place and order out.

It doesn't take long to get to Temor's apartment; it is literally a few blocks from the college. As we walked into his building, I heard Temor's pager going off. I notice he looks at it and puts it back in his pocket.

Temor's apartment looks very much like a bachelor pad with leather couches, a big-screen television, and a stereo system that covers one wall. I can't front it is fly. There is a large fish tank on the other side of the living room.

He tells me to get comfortable and walks out of the room.

I look around and put my bag and coat on the chair, and sit down. I hear Temor on the phone in the other room. I can't hear the conversation, but I hear his tone, and it isn't friendly. After a few minutes, he joins me and asks what I have decided on for lunch, we end up ordering Chinese.

Temor tells me to pick out a movie. I took a look at his movie collection. I picked Misery and Purple Rain because I can't decide I love them both.

I have been up since 6am. I get sleepy after eating lunch. My eyes feel so heavy the next thing I know, I'm waking up in bed with Temor.