Part seven: Anxious Evenings
Kita’s POV
We all ate supper very excitedly. I was outside on the balcony lounge chairs, lighting a cigarette and watching the beautiful Chicago sunset when I heard a voice say:
“Do you mind if I join you?”
My heart jumped halfway out of my chest. Joe stood in the door trying not to laugh.
“I am so sorry if I frightened you. I didn’t realize you were so lost in the view. May I use your lighter Dear?”
Oh Lord, he called me Dear. I wanted to tell him he could use my lighter and the rest of me in any way he wanted when I realized how whorish that would sound.
I stood up and handed him the lighter without a word. I leaned over the balcony and continued to admire the sunset when Joe decided to start up a conversation.
“So Kita, here’s the thing…”
I turned my body to face him and removed my sunglasses when his jaw slightly dropped.
“My Gosh, you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen in my life. I’m serious.”
I blushed, looking down slightly to disguise it. He saw this then lifted my chin with his right hand.
“Hey, can’t take a compliment, beautiful?”
He was making my heart race in so many ways I thought it would end up bursting. 
“I, I can take a compliment. I just don’t know in what way this compliment should be taken.”
He used his left arm to pull me in closer, lifted my head upwards to him and heard him whisper:
“Like this.”
That was when my whole world went up in flames. I had never been kissed like this and had never felt this with any man. It was like, yo.
I started giggling at the train my thoughts and he pulled back.
“Was it that bad?”
“No, no not at all. I was just thinking about how perfect it was actually. I’ve been hoping you would try something but didn’t think it would be a good idea to pull a hit it and quit it with Andy’s friend.”
Joe scrunched his nose up at this.
“Is that all you’re looking at? A hit it and quit it thing? If that’s the case then I’m sorry but I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.” He put out his smoke and started to head inside.
Okay Kita, this is the part where you grow a pair and tell him straight up.
“Joe, I don’t want to just hit it and quit it with you because you’re Andy’s friend and because I think you and I would work out given the right circumstances. Now that I know I’ll be in Chicago for a lot longer than I planned I really would like to see if you and I could work. If that’s what you want?”
I saw a wide smile on his face. “That’s exactly what I want dear. But for now, let’s just enjoy the sunset together?”
He held me from behind and held onto the banister while we watched the sun go down – placing butterfly kisses from my shoulders up to my neck. This had to be heaven. 

Joe’s POV
My head was screaming all sorts of amazing things the first time my lips met with Kita’s. It was magical; like a Disney movie. The sun was all the way down and we made our way into her room – she still hadn’t packed away her shopping or her bags.
“Ugh, excuse all of this but I’m usually not this messy at all.” She shook her head and I walked over to one of the Victoria’s Secret’s packets, lifting out a black and red lacy number.
“Please tell me you’re going to show me you really are a model wearing this!” We both ended up laughing so loudly we didn’t hear Andy and Maymay come in – he was behind Ray with his head rested on her shoulder.
“Looks like you two are getting along well,” Andy commented with a wink to me.
“I would say that.” I imitated his and Ray’s stance placing a kiss on Kita’s cheek and she giggled.
Ray was positively beaming. “Crys, you won’t believe this! Kita and Joe are official!”
We all heard the Holy and large number of profanities being uttered along with footsteps racing up the stairs. Kita and I didn’t bother moving except for Kita nuzzling into the stubble starting to grow on my chin. She was too cute.
Crystal stopped in the doorway and looked at the way I was holding Kita and heard her say: “That’s like, yo.”
Kita started laughing and said “yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking the first time he kissed me.”
It all made sense now. That’s what she was giggling at. I just wanted to be alone with her a bit and maybe finish off those butterfly kisses to other places… Joe, stop it – I mentally chided myself.

Andy’s POV
I loved Kita and Crys like they were my own sisters but I knew for a fact that Joe was most definitely not going to be sleeping in his room anymore or Kita in hers or whichever way they had planned it. Fact is, Kita is voracious when it comes to men and Joe doesn’t really give it up to a woman unless she’s breathtakingly beautiful or Goddess Like.
Kita was more than both but it was more than that. I had always said to Ray that I had thought Kita and Joe would get along fabulously – I just didn’t realize it would be so good that they would most likely end up falling for each other and very fast. I left them on their own and dragged Crystal out who still had her jaw open.
“You’re going to end up catching flies like that.” I taunted.
She gave me a sharp look. “Shut up, I’ve never seen her like that with a man. Ever.”
Ray nodded in consent. “She’s just so relaxed and at ease. It’s like they’ve already known each other forever.”
I looked back on the early days of mine and Ray’s relationship and couldn’t help but smile.
“Yeah I know another couple who were like that. They still are.” To punctuate the sentence I kissed her forehead lightly and squeezed her hand. It was late and the ladies had a long day ahead tomorrow, unpacking and all that jazz so I voiced my concern.
“Honey, I think its bedtime. You all have a long day tomorrow unpacking and getting settled in so we should head out early. I’m going to be with the guys getting our suits ready so it’ll be a girl’s day again. I’ll get the girls new phones with US providers too so it’s easier to communicate.”
Crys got up to argue and I held my hands up.
“I’m not taking no – besides Joe and I had discussed it earlier and I was getting texts as Kita swiped away. She didn’t spend as much as I thought she would so you ladies deserve new phones. Keep your old ones as backups.”
Crys came over and kissed my forehead. “Thank you Andrew. You’re an amazing man and we love you the same way we love our sister here. Hey, do you think I could get Nick’s number? He seemed cool and I enjoyed talking to him. He’d make a great friend.”
I smiled at this. Nick needed some guidance from someone who didn’t want to bone him. I typed in the number with the dialling code for Crys and pulled her in for a hug. “Good night kid.”
My nickname for Crys was always “Kid,” not disrespectfully but out of love and for Kita it was always “Mami” because she carried herself in a way that was Ultra-Confident and knew no boundaries.
We went into our own rooms and heard Crys’s unpacking in her room and very little tangible noise from Kita and Joe (which meant they were probably doing the nasty) and when we got to our room I picked Ray up and she wrapped her legs around me.
“So Honey, are you planning on showing me what’s in those Victoria’s Secret’s bags?”