Chapter 8

Kattara- Later that day.

I was at the desk studying when Levi returned from Waffle House. "Hey mama." Levi said to me, handing me a warm bag that made my stomach growl from the smell. "Hi. What'd you get?" I asked Levi not waiting for an answer; pulling out the tray and opening it revealing a sausage, egg, and cheese hashbrown bowl; it smelled absolutely heavenly. "So, what do you want to do today?" Levi asked me with a smirk on his face. "I had plans to study but it seems as if you have other plans. What are they?" I dig into my breakfast, cutting my eyes up at him for a second and waited for his response. We look at each other; seemingly communicating telepathically. He knows that I know he has some tricks up his sleeve, his eyes have a sort of twinkle when he's excited I never miss. "Josh wanted to know if we wanted to go to this puff and paint event with him and Tajah. It's near the restaurant from yesterday." Devouring the last of my breakfast, I contemplate these plans. 'Puff and Paint' is probably exactly what it sounds like. I'm picturing me being high and trying to paint even though I have absolutely zero creativity skills. When Tajah and I were in elementary school, our art teacher, Mrs. Adams, assigned Tajah and I 'Project Portrait' which just meant that we had to draw our partners to the best of our abilities. Tajah's pretty dope when it comes to arts and crafts; even back then, My portrait of her looked more like a deformed stick figure with hay for hair rather than my very human best friend; while her portrait of me came out almost as perfect as perfect could get. We were 11 at the time, I think. I wore Bifocals back then until I was a sophomore. I'm talking Arthur from 'Arthur' bifocals. Huge. It's embarrassing just thinking about it. Anyway, Tajah somehow captured all of that. It obviously didn't look exactly like me. We were 11, but the fact that she even had the attention span to really draw out all of those minor details was astounding, even to Mrs. Adams. So a puff and paint is actually right up Tajahs alley; I'm definitely going to see what she comes up with. "It sounds fun Le', when is it?" I asked Levi, "It's tonight, at 8. But we were gonna meet at 6 at Josh's dorm." "Why?", "He wants us to help him load the last of his things in his truck so afterwards they can head to Virginia." My eyes snapped to Levi's. "Why? What's in Virginia?" "I have no idea, he didn't say so I didn't ask. Maybe Tajah will tell you when we see her tonight. Anyway, he wanted us to help them load his car and then grab something to eat before we head to the event." "But wouldn't it make more sense to wait until afterwards to eat? We'll be high with the munchies." I said, chuckling at Levi. "You really want to go hungry, get high, and then starve until we leave?" Levi asked me raising his eyebrow at me. Damn, he kind of had a point. "But what're we gonna do afterwards when we're high with munchies?" "Mama, obviously we're going to get food after too because we ALL KNOW we're gonna have the munchies. Relax, all you have to do is get pretty, ride, eat, get high and paint, then eat again. Can you do that?" He smirked, smart ass. "Whatever." I rolled my eyes and laughed, getting off of the bed and walking around to stand in front of Levi. "So what're we going to do until then?" I batted my eyes while running my fingers up his shirt. Levi's eyes widened before he responded, "I wanted to go to the park, but it seems as if you have other plans for me?" I smirked and gave me a look that almost made me melt. I didn't respond. At least not verbally; I kissed Levi. Levi reacted pretty quickly, wrapping his arms around me and pulling me closer. Turning us around so Levi's back was to the bed, I pushed Levi back and climbed on top of him, smashing my lips onto his as soon as I landed; stopping his words right on his lips. Levi and I kissed like that for a while; we only stopped because I wanted to take Levi's shirt off of him. Levi, however, had different plans for me; he wrapped his arms around my waist and in one swift motion flipped us over so that he was on top of me and removed his own clothes before leaving a trail of kisses on my body.

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I absolutely loved the atmosphere in here. We paired off; Josh and Levi; Tajah and I. Tajah and I sat in a corner towards the back, while Josh and Levi sat more towards the center but sitting in a position that allowed them both to see us over here and get to us if need be.

Our teacher was an interestingly attractive middle-aged woman. I say middle-aged because she appeared to be at least 40 but she had a body better than mine! She was a caucasian, red-headed; low and red, gray-green-eyed, five foot 40-year-old woman no more than 160lbs, and lord was she thick! When I'm 40, she is definitely my body goals. And as far as I could tell, it looked pretty natural. "He-ey everybody! I'm Nicki, I really didn't expect such a big group. This is awesome thank you all for coming! Y'all ready to hear what we're doing, tonight?" After a series of head nods and "yes's and yeah's", she continued, "Awesome! SO, we're going to do some portraits! I see everyone is already grouped off, which is great, so, smoke your herb and draw another person in your group. Don't stress! This is supposed to be relaxing, have fun! We'll stop in about 3 hours and show what we've got and then I've got some mini Gatorade's and cookies I'll pass out on our way out. How's that sound?" She paused for the "yeah's" and claps. "Awesome! Let's get started!" After she finished, I looked up at Tajah while she lit a pre-rolled blunt. Minus the weed, this felt a lot like that day in art class. I was excited.

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