My sweet Amina I want you to fart on my face and also fart loudly during anal sex, my boyfriend Tyrone Ferguson said calmly to me as we sat cozily inside the Caribbean Sensations Restaurant in the east end of metropolitan Ottawa, Ontario. Located on Montreal Road, the place is small but absolutely wonderful.
I'm really fond of Caribbean food and have been coming to this quaint little place for a while now. The owner, a kindly forty-something black lady with a charming French accent, makes the most delicious food ever. Seriously, the food is something to write home about. I introduced Tyrone to Caribbean food last month, and now we're both addicted to it.
Tyrone Ferguson and I are addicted to each other as well. Two souls from opposite sides of the globe. We simply can't keep our hands off of each other. Passion is a powerful thing, ladies and gentlemen. It keeps getting us in trouble, though. Like that time Tyrone and I got caught having sex by some bozo at the Saint Laurent Mall. Thanks to my quick thinking, we got away before security could get to us. Still, Tyrone doesn't know when to quit. We can't keep having sex in public spaces, seriously.
Wow, I said, sipping on my lemonade while eyeing my plate of delicious white rice with brown bean sauce and goat meat. My name is Amina Alzahrani and I'm a young Saudi Arabian woman living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I study bio-medical engineering at the University of Ottawa, and my boo, Tyrone Ferguson, is from Buffalo, New York. He transferred to Carleton University's MBA program from Buffalo State College. We first met in Buffalo, New York, and later ran into each other at Billings Bridge Mall in Ottawa. We've been together ever since.
Tyrone Ferguson and I love each other, and we have a passionate relationship, but it's not without its challenges. I'm a Muslim woman and Tyrone considers himself a lapsed Christian who's flirting with agnosticism. I'm from the Yanbu region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Tyrone hails from upstate New York. We're from different worlds, to say the least. The fact that we're still together after everything the world threw at us is a miracle, I think.
Tyrone means a lot to me. I love this man something fierce, but the stuff that comes out of his mouth sometimes stuns me. I smiled politely at Tyrone, who flashed me a wicked grin, and touched my knee under the table. Usually, I like this sort of thing. The other patrons in the small Caribbean restaurant, all of them black folks, minded their business instead of staring at us.
The fact that Tyrone and I, a black man and a hijab-wearing Arab woman, are dining together in this black-owned and operated restaurant didn't seem to bother the owner or the other patrons. We were just another couple dining, that's all. Nobody stared at us or made us feel unwelcome. That's part of the reason why I like Caribbean cuisine and the beautiful, friendly people whom it originates from. They've got diversity among themselves, and don't make someone like me feel unwelcome. I wish other Canadians would emulate them.