Too Good to be True
by Felicia Evans
It was 9:30 in the morning. The rain was pouring down hard outside and I truly wanted to stay in bed all day. As I started to drifting off to sleep, my cell phone rang. I reached over towards my nightstand and looked at the caller I D that read “Camille White.” I started to ignore her call but I thought that she might really need me for somethin so I answered.
“Hello, Rayne speaking.” I said, sounding almost dead.
“Girl, please stop answering your phone like that. Its Camille.” Camille is my best friend. We do everything together.
“Wasup Camille, What you want?” I asked. I wasn’t really in the mood to talk to anyone.
“I need you to do me a big favor.” The excitement in her voice made me nervous.
Every time Camille ask me to do something for her, it always involves a guy that she wants me to talk to. Yet, every time I do it, I end up hating the guy she picked.
“Camille, the last time I did something for you was when you wanted me to go out wit you, Anthony and his ugly ass brother. You told me his brother was hella sexy and he turned out to look like Flavor Flav.”
“I know, but I swear this time the dude I need you to talk to is hella sexy. He’s tall, Carmel Complexion, nice smile, he seem like he got a nice body and he’s only 19. Oh and his name is Brandon.”
“Well, sense he all that, wont you talk to him then!?” I hated how she always wanted to hook me up wit somebody.
I can’t I’m talkin to his potna James! We all goin kick it. Please come.” Camille whined. “ I swear I wont let you down.”
“What happen to yo other dude Anthony?” I asked.
“I already told you, me and him broke up!” I could since she was getting frustrated.
“Rayne you comin or not?”
“Oh my God! When and what time?” I was extremely frustrated, but like always, I was giving in.
“Tonight at 7. You goin come?”
“ I guess but I gotta ask my mom and if this nigga ugly, got kids or miss any of his teeth I’ma beat yo ass!”
“Thank you girl, I promise I wont let you down.”
When I hung up the phone, I decided to just get up out of bed and take a shower. I was lightweight not feeling good, but I was hopping that a warm shower would help me feel better.
I had just finished eating my breakfast when my cell phone rang. I ran to the living room where my phone was laying on the couch and when I looked at the caller I D it read “James.” James is like my brother we’ve been cool for 6 years now.
“Yo wasup blood?” I asked.
“A, yo Brandon, I got some work for you. Check it out, you remember that girl Camille, I was tellin you about?” James asked.
“Yea why?”
“ She got this potna that said she’d talk to you. We goin all kick it around 7, you down?”
“I don’t know man, the females you be tryin to hook me up wit be lookin hella dusty.” I wasn’t sure whether or not I should trust him on that one.
“Man, Camille said she looked good and she hella cool. Come on bruh, trust me.”
“Yeah, whatever blood, I guess I’ll go.” I knew it was goin be a long ass night but I was prayin that the girl wasn’t that bad.
Time was ticking and Camille was on her way. Luckily, I had already takin’ my shower earlier, so all I had to do was find something to wear. I went to my closet and decided to put on my light blue hip hugger jeans, a pink and white shirt that said “Sexy” on it, my pink and white air forces and my pink baby phat jacket. I put my hair in a tight ponytail, put some lip-gloss on my lips, sprayed some perfume on and was ready to go.
About 30 minutes later, the doorbell rang. My nerves were going out of control and in my mind, I jus knew this boy would be dumb ass ugly, but when I opened the door I was surprised to see two fine ass guys wit Camille.
“ Hey Camille,” Even though I was speaking to her, I couldn’t keep my eye’s of the brotha on her left. I almost wanted to rape him.
“So, which one is Brandon?” I kind of knew who Brandon was because he fit the description Camille gave me and because he was also peeping me out. I just wanted to hear her say that.
“Rayne, this is Brandon. Brandon this is Rayne.
The Moment I saw Rayne’s face I automatically fell in love. She was tall but not too tall, curvations, Dark Chocolate complexion, beautiful almond shaped eyes and a sweet and sexy smile. Something about Rayne was grabbing my attention.
“ Its nice to meet you Rayne.” I gently shook her hand then kissed it.
“Its nice to meet you to.” The softness of her hands was making it hard for me to let go, but after a while I had too.
“Well, since we all know each other now, can we go?” Camille said impatiently.
“So exactly where we goin’?” Rayne asked.
“ I think we should go to Mel’s Diner.” James stated.
“That’s cool.” I commented.
When we got into James car me and Rayne started talkin. The best thing was that her and me had so much in common…
“I really like you Rayne. You a sweet girl.”
“ Thank you. I really like you too. So tell me, do you have any siblings?”
“ Yea I do. Jus one though. I aint never met her though. What about you, you got any siblings?”
“ That’s crazy cause I have a brother and I never met him. You sure we not long lost siblings.” She asked jokingly.
“ I hope we aint, cause that would surely hurt my heart a lot.”
Finally, we pulled up in front of Mel’s Dinner. We all pretty much chit chatted the majority of the night and shared Ice cream amongst each other. Then it was time to leave.
“Oh my God!!! He is such a sweetheart. Thank you Camille for hooking us up.” For a long time I haven’t had a man, so the fact that I had someone to talk to was makes me so happy.
“ I knew you’d like him. Y’all look like a cute ass couple too. You should go out wit him. I mean if you don’t take him now then someone else goin snatch.”
“You right, but I’m just tryin to get to know him a little bit before we start anything serious.”
“ I feel that.”
“Rayne!!! Come here?” My mother yelled.”
“ Camille, I’ma call you later, my moms calling me.”
“Alright then sister. I will get at you later.”
2 years later
*Two years has passed and Rayne and Brandon have been inseparable. The two of them are so in love its not funny and yet still, everyday they find something that they have in common. Brandon has met Rayne’s mother and vice versa. The two couple were even planning to have children but then the weirdest and saddest thing happened*
“ Rayne, your dads coming to visit you today.” My mom said, with sadness in her voice.
“ What!!! Why? He hasn’t been there for me at all so why he comin’ to see me?”
“ He wants you to meet your brother. He said that he felt bad not being in you guys life so he wants to make it work.”
“ WOW!!! I don’t wanna see him!” I stormed of to my room angry as hell. How can a man that’s left his baby at one year old think that after 21 years can comeback into my life? That was just a question I’d never understand. About 2 hours later the doorbell rang.
When my dad and me pulled up in front of my girl, Rayne’s house, I felt sick to my stomach. I was suppose to be meeting my sister and I couldn’t believe that it was her.
“ Dad, what is my sisters name?” I asked praying he’d say something other then Rayne.
“ Her name is Rayne….