Zaida’s Curse Part 3

Zaida knew that Pastor Hines was speaking to her this Sunday. Her mother always said that a good pastor can deliver a word that can speak to everyone in a room whether it’s 2 people or 2000 people.

“Get away from shallow pursuits and shallow people in order to receive true success and God’s glory,” Hines said.

This really made Zaida think. Her father always told her that no one remembers just a pretty face and to make sure she maintains a good character. He always wanted to make sure she had more to offer than her looks. Zaida had been used to getting attention from guys since high school, yet she felt like her own shallow pursuits were becoming less than enjoyable. She often found that just dating guys for their money, car, and looks was not getting her anywhere. It had been a year and a half since her last boyfriend and she has nothing to show for it but a phone book full of ridiculously uninteresting suitors.

But Zaida knew with Drew she had to bring her A game. He had everything going for him. Just being cute wouldn’t bring her home the prize.

1:00 pm came and church let out. Zaida and her mother walked to the entrance to find that it was a thunderstorm going on outside, and niether one of them had an umbrella. Zaida’s mother parked the car a block away and walking in the heavy rain was not an option.

“I guess we’ll wait till it passes,” Zaida’s mother says.

“No actually I have an umbrella for you Ms. Williams,” Drew says. Drew walked up behind and handed Zaida’s mother the umbrella.

“That umbrella is pretty small,” says Zaida. “How are we both gonna fit under there?”

“Well that’s a good question. I don’t have one for you,” says Drew.

Zaida frowns at the thought.

“But…you can walk with me under mine. C’mon I will walk both of you to the car,” Drew says.

Zaida blushes from the act of kindness. She usually doesn’t let guys see her blush but she couldn’t help it. Drew was different.

Zaida’s mom walked ahead of Drew and Zaida. For the first few steps, Zaida and Drew were silent, but Zaida couldn’t take it anymore. She had to say something.

“So how did you like church?,” Zaida asked.

“I enjoyed it. I was having a pretty rough morning so that mellowed out my day for the most part,” said Drew.

“Really? Yea I had a rough night, but now I feel way better. Pastor Hines really said some truth. It gave me some things to think really think about you know.”

“Yea. I feel you. So what are you going to do now?”

“Nothing really. I have work tomorrow so I’m just gonna take the rest of the evening to relax. Probably gonna help my mom cook.”

“Cool it sounds good. Same here. I work too. But you know we need to catch up outside of church. I always see you here with your mother, which is cool, but I’d like to see more of you.”

Zaida looks into Drew’s eye and thinks she might lose it. She couldn’t believe the words she just heard. Drew pulls out his phone and hands it to her to put her number in it. She quickly dials it to save his number on her phone.

“Blackberrys are nice but the iPhone is the only way,” Drew jokes.

“Haha Blackberry is for true bosses. iPhones are for the rest of the masses that wanna follow each other,” Zaida snaps back.

They finally get to the car.

“Thanks Drew for the umbrellas. We’d probably still be waiting there now,” Zaida’s mother said.

“No problem Ms Williams. Can’t have you both gettin wet out here. Well Zaida could’ve gotten wet but, she not that important. But of course not you Ms. Williams,” Drew says with a smirk.

Zaida rolls her eyes, “O wow Drew, you got jokes I see. I’ll remember that one.”

“Ya’ll are too cute,” Ms. Williams says.

Drew opens the door for both of them and Zaida and her mother step into the car.

“Get home safe,” Drew says.

“You too,” said Zaida.

As Zaida’s mother gets ready to pull off, Drew looks down into the car and winks at Zaida.

“This guys gonna be a problem. A ‘good’ problem,” she thinks to herself.

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