‘fucking aye Kim.” Is all I say when I open it, hoars laughter now fully audible. She controls herself enough to put her hands up in an apology.
“Dude I was only trying to get your attention, I didn’t think you were gunna have a full blown heart attack on me.” She says still smiling widely. I shake my head again in feigned aggravation. I like Kim of course. Dirty blond and about my height, so fairly tall for a chick, her braces-covered smile disguise the fact that she is 3 years my senior. She’s dressed as she usually is, a plain white tank top and jeans. The bright red bra making her look like she has a bathing suit on or something underneath the top. Her uneven suntan showing even in the dim light of the evening owing to the fact that she probably fell asleep sunbathing and didn’t quite even herself out.
“Yeah yeah, apology accepted, what can I do for you cuzo?” I ask already returning to my phone. There’s a moment of quiet when she does not respond so I look over to find her leaning into the car snootily reading my messages. I raise an eyebrow, and close the ongoing message. She continues to look at my phone for a second longer and then makes a face that I can only describe as feigning mild interest. As she looks up at me.
“Well I was going to ask who’s Tina number one, but now I feel an obligation to ask, who are-” she looks back down at my phone to my recent messages list. “-Kristan, Aiva, Zoe, Tina #1 Tina#2 and Jessica?” She finishes sweetly with a matching sarcastic smile. I stopped myself from groaning, but after a moment I answer with the painful truth.
“just friends” I say simply. Kim narrows her eyes at me. Not even bothering to pretend to believe me.
“oh? Word.” She says nodding her head and sticking out her lower lip. “so… I guess that begs only one more fairly interesting question”. She says, I tilt my head to indicate for her to continue. “Is Tina #1 number one because of her talent in the bedroom or did you just find her first?” She asks again with no attempt to veil her sarcasm.” I smile and give a small laugh, a self pity laugh owing to the fact that I have no idea how well either of them would perform having not sealed any kind of a deal with either of them. But I decide with a little sarcasm of my own.
“As a matter of fact I made them compete for their placement.” I say mostly sarcastic, but with real confidence. Kim gives me a half disgusted half impressed scowling smile, as if she is not quite sure if she believes me. This causes some real laughter for me. It was true after all, when the two girls had found out they were both in my phone as Tina, A competition for #1 did in fact take place. I decided to leave out that the competition was merely a contest of which one of them could recite superficial things about me such as my birthday and favorite color.
Kim still looks like she is contemplating everything that I just said, but she does reach in and pinch my ear quickly. “Ow bitch!” I say while still smiling and laughing. She leans back away from the car and starts toward the house, her ponytail swinging as she walks.