12. Amina Sinclair
Amina Sinclair
“Ifeel like she may be having a boy. Look how low her stomach is sitting. You want to make a bet?” I asked Gemini, as I sat down on his lap.
We were at the park. Gemini worked all morning and afternoon, and here it was, a little after six in the evening, and we walked down to a park that wasn’t too far from the truck stop.
I was the one that spotted the park. It was one of those parks with big pavilions, where families could get together for parties, and things like that.
There were a few playground areas, and water slides for the kids too.
“Man, hell nah. I’m not betting. You don’t think that’s weird? Baby, we don’t even know these people. How we going to make predictions on what they’re having?” Gemini asked me, looking at me like I was crazy, as he reached over, so that he could grab his phone from the table.
His reaction had me cracking up. You would really think that I was a psycho, judging by the way he was staring at me.
“So, you mean to tell me that you never looked at a pregnant woman, and made a prediction on what she might be having?” I asked him, as he strolled along on his phone.
“Amina, no. I think we been together on this truck for too long. You carrying on like I’m one of your home girls.
Men don’t look at women, and say to ourselves that a pregnant woman might be carrying a boy or a girl.
If I ever get a woman pregnant, I’ll make my prediction then,” he stated, tossing the phone on the table, and he picked his arms up, wrapping them around me, so that he could place me in a bear hug.
So smitten over this man, I kissed his arms, while turning to look at him.
“You want babies, Gemini?” I asked him, and he smiled.
“Damn baby. We just became a couple a few days ago. You trying to give me babies already?” he sarcastically asked, making me laugh, while playfully pushing him.
“Stop. I’m being serious. Do you want babies?” I asked him again.
“I’m not opposed to having children. I take that kind of stuff serious though.
Growing up and seeing that foundation of having two parents in the house, raising kids, I know how important that is.
I don’t want a broken home. I want my kids to be raised surrounded by love.
Before you, I guess I just never met someone that made me want to settle down and talk about having kids.
I know that it’s a commitment, and it’s going to take both of us being active in the home, so I already said that if that day ever comes, I’m going to expand my business.
Have men go out on the road, do all the pickups, and drop offs for me.
I’ll stay local, that way I don’t have to leave my wife at home on her own, raising kids, while I’m on the road for months at a time,” he said.
His answer was perfect. It was one that any woman would want to hear.
I wanted children of my own too. Hell, just a couple of months ago, I thought that this would be the year where I conceived. I thought that I would give birth next year. Things didn’t happen that way though.
“I like that. That’s a beautiful answer. Let’s back track a little bit though. You said that we just became a couple a few days ago. We’re a couple Gemini?” I asked, turning in his lap, so that I could straddle him.
We had our own little thing going on. No one was over here to see what we were doing. I wrapped my arms around his neck, while his grabbed my ass.
Gemini was still in the clothes that he had on all day for work.
In the white tee, you could see little smudges of dirt on him, but it was still attractive.
He wore black jeans, and he was in his black work boots.
He smelled like a man would smell after a long day of work, and here I was, all up under him, soaking it all up.
Never a musty smell coming from him. Just a man that put time in on the clock, and it was one of my favorite scents from him.
“We literally can’t be anything else. Like, at this point in the game, we can’t be friends, love.
You been taking raw dick from the first time that we explored.
I don’t give raw dick to friends, so damn right we a couple now,” he said, lifting one of his hands that were on my ass, only so he could smack it.
“And Gemini, I swear on everything that I love that I don’t do shit like that.
I don’t want you to think that I’m just this person that goes around having unprotected sex with men because I promise I don’t.
The only guy that I’ve ever had unprotected sex with is my ex.
It’s just something about the heat of the moment.
It was so special, that it felt like the right thing to do,” I finished, and then I let out a chuckle because you could hear it in my voice that I was in over my head for this man.
“I don’t think that way of you. I think really fuckin high of you. I told you that already. Like you said, that moment was special. My dick clean though, baby. I can show you paperwork if you want to see it,” he said, finalizing it with a kiss on the lips.
I was becoming so obsessed with him, so as I was on top of him, I was smelling his neck, up under his arms, rubbing my lips against his lips, playing in his hair, the whole nine.
I felt like this was my safe space. I’ve always been overly affectionate.
Not every guy’s love language was physical touch though.
With Jacob, he was that way. It was one of those things where you weren’t going to know that he loved you by showing physical touch.
Instead, you would know it in his actions, his words, and even in his acts of service.
I could tell that I would often annoy him on those times when I would get under him and become overly affectionate.
Gemini wasn’t like that with me. He allowed me to do me.
He allowed me to sit up under him, smell him, kiss all over his face, and as if we’ve been a couple for years, and he had just become accustomed to my ways, he sat back, enjoying it.
Moments went by, and they were setting up to start the gender reveal.
When I saw that, that’s when I removed myself from Gemini’s lap, so that I could stand.
I wanted to see the entire thing. I wanted to be up on my feet, feeling as if I was a part of the family, watching to see what the gender was getting ready to be.
“You weird, love. You don’t know nobody over there. You acting like you going to meet the baby,” Gemini said to me, looking at me like I was crazy.
“Gemini, please. You know you want to find out the gender too. If you didn’t, you would have wrapped this up a while ago, so that we could get back on the truck,” I told him, and he flashed a smile at me.
“Nah. We didn’t leave to get back on the truck yet because this your world. We do whatever you want to do. If you want to sit at a park, and watch a strangers gender reveal, then we can do that baby,” this man had a way with words.
He knew what the hell to say to me, and that’s why these past few days, I haven’t been able to keep my legs closed for him. He knew how to talk his way right into some sex. He was so smooth with it too. The things he said would just roll of his tongue so easily.
I watched as the parents to- be made their way to the front of the pavilion.
They looked to be a couple in their middle twenties.
Looking at the father, his reaction made me smile.
You could tell that he was so happy. I wasn’t sure if they had children already, but if they didn’t, judging by how happy they both were, it was obvious that becoming parents meant a lot to them.
The dad was rocking back and forth, smiling big.
The mom was doing the same thing. You could tell that she wanted a daughter because she was dressed in a beautiful pink dress.
The dad was team boy because he was rocking a nice blue Ralph Lauren button down with denim jeans.
They were surrounded by family and friends, and each of them had their phones out, ready to record the gender reveal.
Maybe I was weird like Gemini called me because here I stood, with my hands clasped together, counting down with the rest of the family, and friends.
“5…4..3…2..1,” I counted down with then, and within seconds, blue smoke filled the air.
I smiled, watching the way the dad jumped up, and down.
The mom got a little emotional, crying. I wasn’t sure if she was crying because she didn’t get the girl that you could tell she was wishing for, or if she was just filled with so many emotions watching the dad’s reaction.
What I do know is that when the dad grabbed her face, placing both hands on the side of her face, and he kissed her tears away, followed by him embracing her, and throwing his hand in the air to celebrate, it caused me to shed tears of my own.
I was an empath. I’ll cry when I see other people cry. Seeing the way the family was crying, and celebrating with the parents to- be, it got the best of me, and I began to shed tears of my own.
“Amina, that’s weird as fuck, baby. Why you crying?” Gemini asked, reaching his hand out, so that he could pull me to him by the back of the sweatpants that I was wearing.
He sat me in his lap, and I laughed through my tears. I wiped my eyes while looking at him.
“A mixture of everything. That was beautiful. I know I don’t know them, but I don’t have to know them to see that what they have is beautiful.
I hope to have that one day too. I want to be able to be someone’s wife, and give babies to my husband,” I was honest with him, telling him what made up a big part of why I had been crying.