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I Can't Get Him Off My Mind Part 1

Layla: Part One: The Aftermath of Meeting Him

As Ethan walked away Layla glanced his way as he looked back at her and walked out the door, she covered her chest to slow her heartbeat down, still felling her arm tingle where Ethan grabbed her, she says to herself “That was weird, but a good weird.” She walked back to the dance floor to find Dejah, looking around she spotted her friend back at the bar with the guy she was dancing with, Layla walks up behind Dejah and begin listening to her conversation while she ordered a long island iced tea. “Thanks for accompanying me to the bar and buying me a drink EJ that’s your name right, dancing makes you thirsty” EJ shakes his head from side to side “no problem I felt like we were vibing so of course I got to do what I got to do to keep your attention hermosa.” Dejah smiled “So your Latin?” EJ bent down to whisper in her ear putting his left hand on her hip pulling her closer to him “si hermosa y quiero conocerte, tu mente cuerpo y alma”. Hearing him speak to her in spanish sent shivers down Dejah spine, she looked in his eyes and smiled seductively “I only understood maybe two words of what you just said but I liked what I heard. EJ pulled out his phone and wrapped his arm around her back “Maybe you can give me your number and I’ll teach you what I said or maybe show you”. Dejah pulls her phone out of her bra taking his number and calling his phone in front of him giving her number. She gave him a peck on his check and pulls away “I have to go look for my friend, but it was really nice to meet you and I hope you call me soon”. EJ leaves the bar as she turns around, she bumped into Layla who had this big smile on her face. Seeing her face, Dejah covered her checks from the embarrassment that her bestie spotted her in action. Layla opens her mouth, but Dejah cuts her off “Not one word” Layla laughed “What I wasn’t going to say anything bad just know he really likes you, and I met a guy too.” Layla hugged Dejah “I hope it works out for you; we should go I had enough fun for one night.” Dejah clicks on her Uber app and schedule a ride, they both finish their drinks and walk outside, while they were waiting the moon shone brightly Layla’s body starting tingling as it did when she was being touched by Ethan while she was thinking about him she heard a howl that sent shivers all over her body making her see his silver eyes, his ripped body, his beautiful hair, his full lips; silently she wished he would find her soon.

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Walking into their apartment Layla was a little intoxicated while Dejah was two sheets in the wind, both girls begin taking off their shoes flinging them to the floor. Dejah walks to the refrigerator and takes out some already thawed and seasoned burgers. Layla puts the fryer on the counter and plugs it up, she physically moves Dejah out the way who was waiting for the fryer to heat up. She opens the fridge and takes out some tomatoes, two bottles of water, lettuce, ketchup, honey mustard and cheese. She places them on the counter and hands Dejah one of the waters, Dejah hiccups and say “I’m not drunk” as she stumbles to the counter. Layla looks at her “You better not burn those burgers, drink some of that water now” as she walks away to use the bathroom, she has been holding her bladder since she stepped in the Uber. The image of Ethan face pops back in her head and she smiles at the fact he makes her shiver. Getting up and flushing the bowl Dejah runs in and kneels in front of the toilet. Layla washes her hands and states “Looks like I’m cooking the burgers”, she bends down holding her best friend/cousin hair making sure it doesn’t get vomit in it. With one look she noticed she did get a little in it. She walks to the shower and turns it on checking the temperature every now and then to make sure the temperature was good enough for Dejah, she walked to the kitchen and turned the fryer down. While walking to her room she put a part down the middle of her hair with her finger and frenched braided her hair. Took off her shirt and skirt and put on bathing suit walked back to the bathroom and help Dejah in the shower and begin washing her hair. “Layla you are the best friend and cousin a girl can ever ask for. I wish you were my sister.” Dejah says as she puts her head back. Layla washes out the shampoo and adds the conditioner “Dejah I’m the only friend you have that will wash throw up out your hair. It’s not because your family, it’s because I love you. You are my sister. Let that sit in your hair a little, and let the water run on you. You need to sober up a bit more you’re not just buzzed” she laughed softly walking to the kitchen to the fryer turned it on median heat and added some butter. She watched as the butter melts a little adding and then put four burgers on it. She walked to the utensil drawer and took out a spatula flipped each burger and turned it back down to low heat covering them with lids to keep them juicy. Dejah was leaning her head back against the shower looking pale, Layla pulls her arm to bring her back under the water and washes the conditioner out. She takes two towels off the rack and wraps one around her head and another around her body “Now Dejah your gonna have to get yourself dried and dressed all the way I will plait your hair later”, Layla help Dejah up and she walked to her room while Layla went back to the kitchen. Taking the lids off the burgers she cut the corners of the burgers to make sure there was no pink in them she untwisted the buns put the slice of cheese on the bottom and put the burgers on them, adding a dab of ketchup and honey mustard, then the tomatoes and lettuce on top of that. Layla placed the plates on the table and started thinking how Ethan likes his burgers, she turned the radio on playing her Brandy CD. She walked back to Dejah’s room who was still in a towel, all she had on was her panties. Layla walked to her drawer and pulled out two gowns she smiles at her cousin and pulls it over her head, she sits behind Dejah and parts it with her fingers and French braids Dejah hair just like hers. Layla then puts the extra gown on so that she’s just not wearing a bathing suit, grabbing Dejah arm to help her up “Come on let’s go eat I’m starving, and you need to soak up some of that alcohol’. Layla walked Dejah to the table put her unopened bottle of water in front of her, walked to the fridge and got herself another bottle, grabbed the radio remote and sat down. Brandy ‘sitting in my room’ was playing, Layla said a little prayer and took a huge bite of her burger looking over at Dejah who also took a bite picked up her phone and answered a text. “Who is that from?” Layla asked with a smirk on her face. Dejah smiled and said, “EJ nosy” and laughed cutely, “Who was the guy you met tonight?”. Layla thought back at that gorgeous man with his silver eyes and her heart started beating rapidly again as she thought back to meeting Ethan in the club. “He was perfect, everything about him, his voice was like red velvet cake with butterscotch icing, and his eyes were so deep they could see through my soul, his body was if he was a work of art, His teeth so white as if he was one of those models from the tooth paste commercials and his name was Ethan” as she said his name she covered her checks thinking about how he made her feel. Dejah took another bite of her burger and just looked at Layla “You sound like you’ve met the one”. Layla looked at her looking genuinely happy “I hope he finds me soon”. Both girls finished their food and went into their rooms, Layla undressed taking everything off and laid down in bed thinking about Ethan again she drifted off to a deep sleep with a smile on her face.

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