How They Met

By Ralph Mczillionz

You ever read one of those sweet love stories were everything works out all lovey dovey in the end despite all the hard aches and pains the couple go through, it actually ends up bringing them closer together when it’s all said and done? Yeah this isn’t that story. This love story is like nothing you've ever read... or will read again, it's that love story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781682229927

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ISBN: 978-1-6822299-2-7

Contents

How They Met

Once upon a time there was this smooth, cool, super good looking guy named Ralph (RJ to all his friends) who was living life to the fullest. Everything in his little world was great, yet there was something he was missing in his life, something he just couldn’t quite put his finger on… What was it you ask? A new car? Naw, the one he had would have to do, even though it just stayed parked in front of his house with no license plate at the moment. Jewelry? Yeah it had to be that because he didn’t have any. Not much of the flashy type, and in his line of work flashy wasn’t a good thing. What’s his line of work you ask? We’ll get to that later; brings attention that you just don’t want. So what could it be? What in the world could he possibly be missing then? Money!!! That’s it, has to be. I mean who doesn’t need money or at least more of it, yet something tells me that’s not it. See Ralph never cared much about that. Yes, he understands that it’s needed in life to survive, but it’s not needed to live and truly be happy right!!! I’ll just go ahead and answer that for you, of course you don’t. No one can make you happy like yourself. No one can bring you joy at times when your down like you, right? No one can love you like you love yourself. True happiness comes from within, or so he thought…

I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T. Best describes her. You know all those independent songs those rappers and what not makes. I’m not 100% certain but I think they based them solely off of her. Who is this girl I speak of? Jasmine, Jazzy Jade to all her friends. Ms. Independent. There’s not much she needed a man for. Well of course for the obvious reasons that I won’t elaborate on or go into further details about, but I’m sure you can come up with the needs she might have that a man could help her with. She had her own car, her own money, and stayed at home with her parents (why leave if you’re staying rent free?), not much of a need for a man and she was living life like there was no tomorrow. A physical body that only God himself could have made, yet she never stepped foot in a gym. She kept her body in shape by dancing. What kind you ask? Well that’s another story in its self. So I’ll get back with you on that. Don’t let me forget. Even though I’m sure you won’t. They never do. You readers are something else, I tell ya. Anyways Ms. Jade was at the prime of her life. Life really couldn’t get any better and at the moment why would she want it to? Little did she know that one drunken night at a friend of a friend’s house would change her outlook on life forever…

History is told by the victor. So you never really truly know what really happened in any story, but if what I just said is true, what happens when there are two victors? It could happen right? Both parties could win right? Well in this particular situation I think that happened, but I’ll let you be the judge of that.

Now it would be nice to say that when Ralph and Jasmine first met it was love at first sight. Hell it would be nice to be able to say that there were sparks in the air. Wishful thinking. But trust and believe that there were sparks in the air, just not love sparks. More like I can’t stand you sparks, that is if they make such sparks. Every love story can’t start and end happily. What did you think? O don’t tell me, I’ll just let you know right now. Their story is like none I’ve ever seen in my life to this day. Who am I? Just some random narrator, the author, who came up with but my opinion still holds weight just like any other person. So let me explain to you how these two young distant lovers first met. From my perspective that is.

One late night Ralph was at one of his friend’s house. At the time his license was suspended so getting around wasn’t the easiest of things to do. He had to rely on other people to get wherever he needed to go. Luckily for him his cousin was a cab driver so he had a way around at all times. Even though his cousin still charged him an arm and a leg but that’s neither here nor there. Anyways, he’s at his friend’s house one night just relaxing, it’s getting late and when that happens when you don’t have a car that can only mean one thing. Get all your chickens lined up in a row now or forever hold your piece. Late night booty calls don’t work to well when it gets too late without a car. Believe you me, I know firsthand but this isn’t my story, back to Ralph and Jasmine. While Ralph was working out his nightly kinks his friend informed him that he had to make a run but when he returned it wasn’t going to be empty handed. With that being said Ralph already knew he could put his phone down and completely relax. His friend never let him down in these types of situations so tonight would be no different. I think we all have at least one of these types of friends. The friends you know are going to deliver on the goods every time hands down. And if you don’t you really need to find one, they come in handy a lot in these types of situations. So as Ralph was waiting he began to think. Should he make a back-up booty call just in case he didn’t like what he sees he asked his self? Always better safe than sorry right? Naw, no need, even though he wanted to he strayed away from that thought. Deep down inside he just knew everything would work out perfect on its own. Boy was he wrong…

When Ralph’s friend came back he came back delivering on his promise as usual. It’s not too many times when another man can say he loves another man but this is definitely one of those times. Ralph peeked out the window and seen his friend’s car about to pull up followed by another car, a red Jetta to be exact. He didn’t want to come off like he was waiting this whole time for them to come so he ran back to the couch and got on his phone. Give them the impression that he was doing something, anything other than just sitting there waiting like a lost puppy.

They came in and she came in first. Boy was she a sight for sore eyes. Hell a sight for eyes period. How do I know that’s what Ralph was thinking you ask? Because I’m the one telling the story. When you tell it you can have him feel any way you want him to. Pansy him and the story up as much as you like. We all have our moments. Anyways, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, there’s not too many words on this planet (and Venus, don’t ask how I know that) to describe her so I’ll try my best. Let’s just start off with beautiful, breath taking, gorgeous, amazing, the shit (in a good way people), astonishing and so on and so on. You get my drift? Yet the first words out her mouth as soon as she opened the door were I’m not going to be here long I got to go soon.. Ralph’s mind, body, and soul didn’t know what to do when he heard that. She said it so loud but it wasn’t even directed at poor old Ralph, it was just said loud enough for him to hear it and get the message loud and clear that tonight wasn’t going to be the night he got to get some from Ms. Jazzy Jade. But Ralph was a positive person, life’s experiences had taught him how to make lemonade out of lemons plenty of times so this situation was going to be no different. He would make the best out of it, one way or another.

When everyone finally came thru the door Ralph’s friend introduced RJ to Jazzy Jade. Stay with me now, don’t let me lose you with the names, Ralph and RJ are the same person but kind of different in the since. Just like Jasmine is Jazzy Jade, yet there really two different people kind of. I’ll explain in more detail later, just remind me. Are you writing down all these reminders? Yeah you, the person reading this, I need your help to tell this story right so please don’t let me forget. Now where was I, O yeah, Ralph’s friend introduced them to each other. Now Ralph already knew Jasmine’s friend so that was a plus on his side. The friend could only say good things about him in his mind so that gave him an advantage somehow in RJ’s crazy fantasy world. In situations like this you got to take what you can to stay positive though, so I give him an A for effort. After the introduction not too many words were exchanged before Ralph’s friend and Jasmine’s friend where both in Ralph’s friend’s room. Very understandable, it was about that time and with some luck and heck, maybe even a little prayer, RJ might end his night with the same fate. Who knows? Yeah that’s right, this guy right here, small perk of being the narrator.

They talked for a second and then she went right in the friend’s room after knowing what they 9 times out of 10 were doing. This confused Ralph a little but he still stayed positive, maybe seeing someone do it would make her want to he thought. Kind of like live porn. No? It doesn’t work like that? Well don’t tell me, somebody tell that to pour old Ralph who’s sitting on the couch waiting believing that. Jazzy Jade came in and out the room several times, every time not saying a single word to little old RJ, he was stumped. He didn’t know what to do. Should he call it quits? It wasn’t too late to still hunt for something else… Could always count his loses now and move on right? I mean that’s what I would do but this isn’t my story. Even though he did just that. He went thru his phone and searched and searched and texted and texted but came up empty handed. Guess it just wasn’t meant for him to get lucky tonight. You win some and you lose some. Can’t win them all the time right? All you can do is try, and RJ tried and tried tonight with no luck. At this point in time there was only one thing he could do… Call his cab driving cousin to bail him out of this nightmare.

He called his cousin to see where exactly he was. Knowing his cousin, he could be anywhere and that wasn’t a good thing. His cousin informed him that he was close and could be there in 35 min. That was perfect for RJ, 35 minutes was just enough time to leave on a grand scale. There was still enough time to right this wrong in his eyes. So what he did next even shocked Ralph