’ ‘I’m kidding jeez calm down.’ I laugh again at the look on his face. We walked into the busy Starbucks and weaved our way through people w...iting on their drinks up to the front counter. ‘Hi Zai you want your usual?’ Tina, my favorite barista asked me when we got up to the register. ‘Yup and my friend here wants a…’ I started off before turning toward Tyler who was staring at me. ‘Umm can I have a tall drip, black, 4 sugars and a shot of caramel.’ he said to Tina who was writing his order. Itseemed like part of me was crying out "Take me. Make me your wife."He walked behind me and unhooked my bra. It was padded - a training braI think. But now exposed were two definite breasts. Small, but breastsnonetheless. It seemed so foolish now that I had ignored the swellingin prison. Now they seemed so obvious. He moved in front of me againand examined them. He cupped them and released them. They jiggled likethe breasts they were. Then he did something totally unexpected. . I can still remember that smell today. Mother had told me that his cigarettes were special ones, made from leaves grown in the West Indies. They were a secret mixture and this was why I must never tell anyone about them. Especially my father must not find out, as he did not like her smoking. The man’s name was Tyrone, Ty to his friends, supposedly from Jamaica. Actually it was only Tyrone’s father who was from over there. His mother was from Cardiff and that was where Ty was born. Mother and. It was probably a good thing that we got evicted when we did, because a wave of Puerto Ricans came in with the Democratic Party politics and insured a one-party system would prevail in the city for quite some time in the future. They took over our neighborhood with a vengeance and everything changed right down to the ads on the shop windows sporting an entirely new language.As soon as her father closed the bedroom door, Veronica was straddling my torso with her almost naked hindquarters and her.