"Lovette Rose Davidson. When you gone stop playing with me?"
Turning her head, Lovette slowed down and tilted her umbrella to see who was yelling out to her. Locating the offender, she walked closer to the shiny Blue Jeep Wrangler and familiar face she had unknowingly almost walked by.
"Excuse me?" Love asked.
Smirking, the offender further rolled down her window to reveal a pair of almond shaped deep brown eyes, ghanaian-esque nose, and full lips.
"You heard me.." the girl said, slightly leaning out of the passenger side window.
"The girl" is Denesha. Denesha Jones. Current president of her chapter of Delta Kappa Omega, co-captain of the most popular dance team on campus, and resident advisor for one of the freshman dorms. A very involved young woman. On the opposite side, Lovette D was considered by many to be practically a hermit. Everyone knew that her books, her degree and her scholarship were always at the forefront of her mind. Which wasn't a bad thing, because it allowed her to graduate a full year earlier than her peers, and she used the year to start an accelerated masters program. At only 21 years old, she was on track to earn her MBA from Columbia at 22..
"I don't know what you're talking about Nesh," Love sighed as she stood in front of the window. "And I just did my wash-n-go today, so can you quickly explain? And hey Natasha" she added, waving to the driver, another member of DKO.
"I think you do," Denesha said after her line sister waved back. Nesh licked her lips and let her eyes slowly travel up Love's slender body, sending small shivers down the grad assistant's spine. She licked her lips, unlocked the car and carefully stepped out of the jeep and onto the ground. Her beautiful, smooth dark brown skin glistened in the dwindling sunlight, contrasting perfectly with the light blue tank and jogger ensemble she was wearing.
"You've been avoiding me all week, Love. Not picking up calls, not answering texts....you're starting to hurt my feelings."
Lovette rolled her eyes at Nesh's obviously fake pout and leaned on the back door of the jeep, shifting their position so the top of the sorority girl's body blocked out the sun set and she was able to cover them both with her umbrella.
"Well you've been texting very...suggestive things, and as your professor I can't really condone that behavior."
A beat passed as DeNesha and Natasha exchanged a look between themselves and then both looked at Love.
"AHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA" Both girls screamed out in laughter.
Chagrined, Love felt her face flush with heat as she watched the girls roar with glee.
"Girl." Deensha giggled as she stepped closer to Love. "We are the same age. Actually, if you wanna get technical, I'm older than you. And you're my English teacher's assistant. The assistant part is very important, Dwight."
Huffing, Love crossed her arms, recognizing the slight insult.
"The point is," she began "I am in a position where you probably shouldn't do things like that! I could get in trouble."
"But you like a bit of trouble," Nesh quickly countered. "We all used to room together freshman year before you dumped us for the honors dorm...you remember. Right?"
Lovette knew she was in danger of overheating now. She stood up fully to uncross her arms, shifting her tote bag so she could still hold the umbrella over the Nesh and herself.
"Ok, well, this was great. I'll see y'all around."
"Waitttttt" DeNeshsha whined, "Always so sensitive! I actually did have a real question for you. And we can drop you off at grad housing if you want, we're headed in that direction anyway."
Lovette quickly thought through her options. She could either walk the ten blocks in the classic New York drizzle-rain, struggling with her heavy-ass tote and further frizzling her hair.....or - "It's cool, the B/C is right around the corner, I can take it to 118th and walk fro-"
"Girl, shut the hell up and get in the back seat."
With that, Denesha lightly pushed Lovette backwards in order to open the back door for her. "And hurry up please, I just got these braids in last weekend".
Approximately 15 minutes later, Lovette accepted that she had been kidnapped. While driving up the few blocks towards 120th, and Love's apartment, Natasha said she was going to stop at a liquor store first to grab some drinks for the Twerk x Tequila party happening later that night. Why they couldn't do that after they dropped Love off, she didn't know. Denesha and Natasha are probably choosing to hold her hostage just because. The women of DKO were known to have slight power trips sometimes. But, it's also probably why they were the best and most impactful sorority on campus.
"Ugh. There's never any parking here. I don't even know why I keep this car" Natasha complained.
"Stop it Tosh," Densha laughed. "You know you loooove saying, 'Well I don't have to take the subway', with your ole bougie self. Plus, do you realize how often you hit up sample sales in Jersey? And if you didn't have the Jeep, how else would you carry around all of those clothes?"