19. Amina Sinclair
Amina Sinclair
Iwas with Gemini, as he was wrapping up a pre- trip inspection. We were still in Oklahoma. This was our second day here. Gemini said that we would probably leave late tonight, or early tomorrow morning.
Oklahoma greeted us with nothing but crazy traffic, and accidents on the highway last night, and if that wasn’t enough, we had to experience three guys trying to break into Gemini’s truck last night.
That shook me to my core. I thought that they would pull a gun out on Gemini, but they didn’t.
Hell, I even thought that Gemini would pull his gun out on them and use it.
I was glad that they found their common sense, and got the hell on, so I didn’t have to witness a blood bath.
I woke up in a good mood this morning. Gemini and I showered at the truck stop, and I cooked breakfast for us inside the truck.
Most mornings, all Gemini really wanted was an omelet, so that’s what I decided to make for him.
I chose to make instant oatmeal for myself.
We both didn’t play about our coffee, so I handled that too.
Now, I was just sitting up front in the passenger seat, with my legs pulled up, with yet another book in my lap.
I went through so many books on this truck with him, that I literally lost count.
As I was sitting down, my phone started buzzing in the cupholder. I picked it up, seeing that Gianna was calling me. She was putting a call in to me through facetime.
I answered for her, and her beautiful face appeared on the screen. She was just like her brother because while he was outside working, I could tell that she was somewhere working too. Judging by her chef hat and coat, I knew that she was on the clock somewhere.
“Good morning, beautiful.” I answered for her. My greeting caused her to smile.
“Good morning, baby. How are you today?” she asked me.
“I’m doing good. You? I see you’re up at it early this morning, just like your brother,” I announced, and when I said that, she laughed, while shaking her head.
“His ass is working today? That’s why I was calling you because I just tried calling him a couple of minutes ago, but he didn’t answer. You would think that because it’s his birthday, that he would have taken the day off,” she voiced, and when she said that, I shrieked.
I damn near started crying when she said that to me because I didn’t know that today was Gemini’s birthday.
Me, and this man talked about so many things on this truck, but we never discussed birthdays.
I felt so damn stupid because his name was Gemini for God’s sake, so you would think that I would have known that his birthday was coming up since it was currently Gemini season.
“You didn’t know that Amina?” Gianna asked me, and my eyes got watery because I didn’t.
I was one of those people that loved to pour into people on their birthday. I loved to get them nice gifts, cake, and just celebrate them. This man didn’t say anything. We woke up this morning, and he didn’t even mention it. He got up and started working like it was just another random day.
“We talk about so much stuff on this truck, but we never asked about birthdays. Gianna, we were together all day yesterday. He didn’t say anything.
I cooked breakfast for him this morning, and he didn’t say anything, either,” my voice cracked as I shared this with her, and during this moment that I was getting ready to have, I heard Gianna laugh on the other end of the phone.
“It really doesn’t surprise me. Gemini has to be the only person in the world that doesn’t give a damn about his birthday.
He treats it like it’s just another day.
He probably purposely didn’t tell you, so that you wouldn’t try to surprise him with anything.
Amina, chill out. I could see if you knew when his birthday was, and you just forgot today.
You didn’t know. I know you, and you’re about to start,” she threatened, but it was already too late because tears had started falling.
I felt so bad. During the moment that I was having, the passenger door opened, and it was the birthday boy standing right there, just working and carrying on like today was just another random Monday.
“Bae, why you crying? Here. Put my phone on the charger. My shit on 1%,” he casually said to me.
I think I have so many ‘moments’ in front of this man, that he was no longer phased by the tears. Look how he just casually witnessed me crying, and he didn’t bat an eye.
“Why wouldn’t you tell me that today is your birthday, Gemini? I just found out from Gianna,” I croaked, lifting the phone, so that I could show him that his sister was on the facetime call.
He smiled, while kissing my tears away, and then he took the phone from my hands.
“Why you told her that? Now, I got her fuckin crying,” Gemini said to his sister.
He talked to her with a smile on his handsome face.
It was so evident that he loved his sister deeply.
It was the way he looked at her, even through a video call.
I was looking at him talking to his sister, all the while trying to wipe the tears that were falling from my eyes.
I was feeling so many emotions right now.
I felt like the worst girlfriend in the fuckin world.
“Because why wouldn’t you tell her that, Gemini? That’s so fuckin weird!” Gianna snapped on him, telling him exactly what I wanted to say, but was just too emotional right now to say it.
“My bad, baby. I’m not heavy into birthdays like that. I swear I didn’t keep that shit away from you to be weird. All the deep shit that we talk about. I guess we forgot to talk about the little stuff too,” he took his eyes off his sister, so that he could look at me.
“That’s not little stuff to me, Gemini. That’s the day that you were born. It’s the day that we celebrate another year of life. I wish I had known that. We don’t even know each other’s birthdays,” I whined to him, and he smiled.
“I do know your birthday, bae. It’s November 8th,” when he said that, I felt even worse than I already did before.
I wasn’t sure what the hell was wrong with me this morning, but my God, my emotions were all over the place.
I knew that I could be very emotional, but even this was new for me.
I was really sitting here having a fit because I didn’t know it was his birthday, yet he called my birthday out so easily, letting it slip through his tongue like it was nothing.
“How do you know that?” I cried to him.
“I only know that because when you showed your I.D at the bar in Louisiana so you could get a drink. I saw it then. Gianna, hold on,” Gemini said, talking to his sister, and then he placed my phone in his pocket.
He came for me, pulling my legs down that I had folded Indian style, so I could take them out of the seat.
He turned me around, so that I was sitting sideways in the seat, facing him.
He stood between my legs, and he was smiling.
Seeing that smirk on his face caused me to stop wiping my eyes, so that I could push him.
“Gemini, it’s not funny. I didn’t know. I feel like the worst girlfriend to you,” I went on to say.
“You not the worst girlfriend. We didn’t talk about that, and that’s my fault. Stop crying because you making me feel bad,” he said, reaching his hand out to wipe the remaining tears away.
“Can we at least go to dinner or something tonight then?” I asked him.
“Yeah bae. We can go to dinner,” he said.
He leaned into me, while I grabbed him on the sides of his face, and repeatedly placed kisses on his lips.
“Happy birthday, handsome. I’m so mad at you right now, but I love you so much,” I told him.
“I love you more, beautiful,” he replied, sealing it with a kiss on the lips.
Once he pulled away, he took my phone out of his pocket, so that he could finish talking to his sister. I placed his phone on the charger like he told me, and after he spoke with Gianna for about ten minutes, he handed the phone back to me.
He told me to give him ten minutes to finish with the inspection, and then his closed the door.
Gianna was still on the phone, and she had this smirk on her face.
I already knew that she was going to say something slick.
Even though the phone had been inside Gemini’s pockets while he was talking to me, I’m sure she heard the entire thing.
This would be her first time witnessing me, and her brother in action, especially when he calms me down whenever I’m having one of my moments.
I knew she was going to troll me because of it too.
“Oh, girl please. I didn’t know you was in that deep,” was the first thing that Gianna said to me. I laughed because I knew it was coming.
“Bitch, I’m deep. I got it bad for your brother. That dick is messing with my brain cells,” I told her, and she started gagging at what I was telling her, carrying on as if she was getting ready to throw up because she couldn’t bear to even hear me talk about her brother in that manner.
“Oh, please spare me with the details. I don’t even have to know.
You know how sick in the head you have to be to cry because you didn’t know your man’s birthday?
Your ass is crazy,” she continued to troll me, and because I didn’t give a damn, I sat back, with the phone in my hands, on my own little high, not giving a damn about what she was talking about.
The only thing that I was thinking about right now is what I was going to do for my man tonight. We had to do dinner or something. I wanted to make him feel special. Just like he always makes me feel special, even though it’s nowhere near my birthday.
“What are you going to do for him tonight? I heard him agree to the dinner,” Gianna went on to tell me.
“When we get off the phone, I’m going to find some restaurants in the area. Probably do a nice dinner tonight. What else does he like? He’s so simple. I wouldn’t even know what to get him,” I told her, and she smiled at that.