Keegan (ch. 2, still)

I sat there on the computer for a while, mainly checking emails and things like that, until Mo’Feir came out of the bathroom. I turned and looked at him and tried not to look too surprised. He was standing there with a towel wrapped around his waist, and he had another towel that he was wiping his head with. His eyes were closed, and I enjoyed looking at him for the next five seconds. When I figured he was going to open his eyes, I turned and looked back at the monitor.
“Hmph,” I heard him say lowly from behind me. “I felt that.”
I looked back at him and smiled thinking, damn, he is sexy, huh?
“What, I can’t look at you now?” I asked playfully. Oh damn, it sounds like I’m flirting with him.
“Nope, the only people who can stare at me like that in this form have to want it,” he said, then looked surprised. “I mean, well, you know what I mean.”
“No, I don’t,” I said signing out of my email account and standing up. “Explain.”
“What I meant was, well, you don’t want this,” he said looking down at his own body, then eying me curiously. “Do you?”
“Whatever, Mo,” I said getting up to leave the room. “Get dressed.”
“I thought you wanted to watch,” he said as I headed out his bedroom door.
“Nope,” I said turning to get one last look at him in that state. “See ya in a minute.”
I walked across to my room and walked to my bathroom. “He is something else,” I said aloud to myself, as I ran myself some bathwater and went back to take a seat on my bed. Taking out my cell phone, I called my father.
“Hello, Key,” he answered after the second ring. I smiled.
“Hey dad, how’s it going?” I asked.
“Alright, darling, what are you into?” he asked. I could hear the smile in his voice.
I sighed then told him the whole story about how I left home. He didn’t say too much, he just listened and waited for me to finish. When I was done, he spoke.
“Well, I would rather you stay with me for the next few weeks, but I don’t mind what you do. I understand that I was not available when all of this happened, but know that you can come stay with me until you go to stay with your friend’s relative…I’m just glad that you are safe.”
“Thanks, dad,” I said. “So, what are you doing tonight?”“Nothing that I know of,” he answered. “Why?”
“I wanted to come over there, and I wanted you to meet Mo’Feir. You don’t mind do you?” I asked him.
“No,” he said. I stood up and ran to turn off my bath water.
“Alright, well, we’ll be there in about an hour,” I said.
“Okay, darling,” he said letting out a laugh.
“I love you.”“I love you too, Keegan,” he answered before I hung up the phone. I placed my phone back on my bed and got ready for my bath.
*****
We were pulling up in my father’s driveway, Mo’Feir had let me drive, and he was just looking at me as I put the car in park.
“What?” I said looking over at him after putting his keys in my pocket.
“Nothing.”“Ready to meet my dad?” I asked him while noticing the look in his eyes. He wanted to say something, and before the night was over I was going to make him tell me.
“Yeah,” he said looking away for a second, then eying me again. “You ready for me to meet him?”
“Yeah, actually,” I answered before I added, “What is it that you want to say to me?”
He looked at me strangely. “Say what?”“You want to tell me something, and I can tell by how you’re looking at me, so what is it?”He didn’t answer me for a moment, he just sat back in his seat. Finally, he sat up.
“Look, I can’t exactly tell you right now, but I will,” he said looking at me, then licking his lips. I know I’m not thinking he is sexy, I was thinking to myself.
“Alright,” I said. “I have something to tell you too, later.”
“Aight, let’s go inside now,” he said getting out of the truck. He ran over to my door and opened mine before I could reach for the handle.
“Race you to the door,” I said running in front of him.
“Wait,” he said taking off running behind me. I ran up the front steps and made it to the door just seconds before he did and knocked.
“Cheater,” he said and I laughed just before my dad opened the door.
“Key,” he said loudly pulling me in for a hug.
“Hey daddy,” I said without letting him go for a while. It had been nearly five months since I had seen him, and that was only because I ran into him at the grocery store. I let him go and straightened my shirt.
“Daddy, this is Mo’Feir,” I said. “Mo’Feir, this is my dad.”
“Hello, Mr. Sheers. It’s nice to meet you,” Mo’Feir said holding out his hand.
“Pleasure’s mine, son,” my dad said shaking his hand firmly. “Call me Spencer.” I smiled while looking at Mo. He was looking really good tonight to impress my father, but he didn’t have to do much to do so. Olive green button down Sean Jean shirt, a green and brown blazer, a pair of Sean Jean jeans with the olive green fade in the middle, and a pair of green and brown Adidas to top it off. He was smelling good too, not like cologne or anything, but like Dove soap and cocoa butter. My father led us to the living room and we sat down.
“I was thinking that we could play a few games while making a little conversation if you don’t care to do so,” my father stated as he got comfortable in his chair.
“Yeah, that would be nice. What games do you have?” Mo’Feir asked him.
“He has everything,” I said before dad could say anything. “Monopoly, Scrabble, Uno, Checkers, guessing games and all of that…”“I feel like playing scrabble, if I say so myself,” Mo said. My dad looked at him for a few seconds, then smiled.
“Now that’s what I’m talking about. Let me go get it,” he said. I got up before he did.
“I got it, dad,” I said allowing him to sit back down. “Where is it?”
“In the closet at the end of the hall,” he said pointing left, but I knew where he meant. I left out of the living room, walked through the kitchen and down the hall where the bathroom and two of the bedrooms were. Stopping for a second, I went in the bedroom that I called mine whenever I had visited my dad. It looked lonely, and the few things that I had in there didn’t make up for the look that nobody was ever present in the room. The bed was neatly made, and the closet was slightly opened. I could see from where I was that it was empty. Placing a hand on my dresser, I took a moment longer to just look around. I called it home even though I didn’t get to actually live there. Taking a step back, I went back into the hall and down to the end where the closet was and opened the door. I found the game and headed back to the living room. The two of them were deep in conversation when I walked in.
“Took you long enough,” my dad said as I put the board on the table and took out the bag of letters.
“Whatever,” I replied with a smile. “Would have taken you longer, though.”
We all laughed and he came back at me.
“Just because I have you by twenty years doesn’t mean I can’t move faster than you, darling. In fact, I could guarantee I can STILL beat you racing on foot any day.”I thought back to the days when I ran track, and he would run with me. We would often stop and race and he would beat me nearly every time. That was a during the beginning stages of my mother’s alcoholism.
“Maybe,” I admitted. “We’ll see later.”
“What about you, son? You run?” he asked Mo’Feir. Mo nodded a little before he answered.
“Yeah, I ran track all through high school, played football, basketball, baseball my sophomore year, and soccer my freshman year.”
“Well, you sound like Keegan,” my dad said. I blushed and looked at Mo. He was looking at me like there was something I wasn’t telling him.
“What? I played basketball, softball, soccer, and ran track. That’s all,” I said. “I quit my junior year.”
“Yeah, that was when her mother was having a few problems,” my dad explained before asking, “So, who will keep the score?”
“I will,” Mo’Feir said getting a pen out of his pocket. I took the notebook that dad kept in the box and handed it to Mo.
“Alright, pick a letter,” dad said and we all reached into the bag of letters.
*****
We had been playing scrabble for nearly two hours when we all decided to put in a movie. It was supposed to be a horror film, but I doubted it. I got up to pop some popcorn, while my dad came in to get a few sodas.
“You have a good taste in friends,” my father whispered as he walked past me to the refrigerator. He looked back at me and smiled after he spoke. “He knows some things.”“Yeah,” I said speaking low. He grabbed a few sodas and came over to give me a quick hug before heading back to the living room. Mo’Feir came in shortly afterward as I was putting the popcorn in two bowls. He didn’t really say anything, just stood behind me and watched. He was so close to me that I could feel the heat from his body. After a moment of silence he spoke up.
“You’ll let me hold you while we watch the movie?” I closed my eyes and thought for a second. Maybe we should try it, but…oh what the hell.
“Yeah,” I said while nodding my head. “No problem.”
He closed the rest of the space between my body and his and whispered in my ear.
“When we get home, we have some things to talk about.” After he said those words he took my earlobe in his mouth slowly, earring and all, for a second before letting go, then walked out of the kitchen. I took a deep breath and picked up the two bowls of popcorn, then carried them into the living room. My heart was racing, but I kept my cool.
“Here you go, daddy,” I said, handing my father a bowl as he got comfortable in his recliner. I knew he was going to be sleep by the time ten minutes of the movie had gone by, mainly because it probably wouldn’t even be good.
“Thank you, Key,” he said. “I put your drinks over on that table beside your couch.”“Okay,” I said sitting on the couch next to Mo’Feir. He gave me a quick glance and then focused more on the television as my father pressed play. For the first fifteen minutes all three of us were watching the film. It was an okay movie, I would give it three stars, but I couldn’t stay completely focused. I looked over at my father, whose head was tilted back, and he was sleeping. He snored, but not very loudly. It was barely audible over the movie.
“Damn, he’s sleep?” Mo’ asked looking at him.
“Yeah. He probably had a hard day at work,” I said more to myself than to Mo’Feir. “Just watch the movie.”