It was the curve of her ass that caught my attention. It was apple-round, the kind of ass that looked like it was holding her shorts up. She was dressed in clothes that looked like they should have been her baby sister's, pink shorts that suctioned into the tops of her thighs and a t-shirt that hugged her slight, chocolate frame in ways that made me jealous of the cotton as she walked past.
I growled a little 'wassup' at her and watched her smile spread faster than she thought it would. She whispered 'hey' and went into the store, giving me a generous view of that ass, hands on her waist tugging the t-shirt up so I could take it all in.
She'd been in there for a good while before I noticed her coming out. Little mama had come pretty close to getting forgotten after my customers started showing up and I'd exchanged a couple of the bags in my pockets for some of the dollars in their wallets. There's just something about ready money that a fat ass can't compete with, especially after it's been in a corner store for twenty minutes. What the hell is in a corner store that it takes twenty minutes to find one of?
My hands had been in my pockets long enough to itch for a Newport when she came back outside, walking my way and looking right at me with a crooked smile.
"What are you still doin' out here? Waiting for me?"
I laugh and tell her that yeah, it's something like that and she tells me her name is Candace. We go back and forth like that for awhile before our conversation starts to draw attention. I'm not a real big fan of attention, especially when I'm standing on a busy corner with a quarter-pound of product in my pockets so I ask if she wouldn't mind following me to my car. She looks me up and down again, this time checking to see if she should consider me dangerous, before finally giving me another of her smiles and falling into step alongside me.
Once we're in my car, I relax my guard and our conversation takes off. I find out she's a smoker and I roll a whole gram into a cigarillo wrapper while she watches waiting for the paper to rip, or some weed to fall out. I tell her that I've been doing this for awhile and that's not going to happen but she watches with her mouth half-open, expecting it anyway.
I take the blunt from her at the point in her coughing fit where she gives it up without argument and she leans against me while catching her breath. When she finally has her breathing under control, she turns and looks up at me. As soon as I see her upturned face and soft, moist lips I wrap an arm around her and pull her into a long, slow kiss. When we finally pull away, we both take deep breaths of the bitter, blue smoke that has, by this point, filled the car.
"This shit got me goin'," she says.