“Oh really?” Sabine thought aloud. Something made her respond…
Sabine: Where?
It took him a few minutes to reply. While she waited, Sabine tuned into her professor discussing logistics. She was in her final year as business analytics major specializing in operations research. It was a money motivated career path and when she graduated, she expected to find a job rather easily as the expected growth for the field in IT and healthcare was becoming more and more in demand.
Sabine was a big-time numbers, equations and problem solving geek so although this may have bored the average person she could listen, learn then execute streamlining processes and procedures for better efficiency in her sleep.
Adair: I’ma be honest, you seem like the type of girl that’s used to nice shit, and I probably can’t give you that now on my lil ass paycheck but once I graduate and my career takes off, I’ll give you all the fancy dates you deserve. But for now…would you be willing to accept a movie with pizza and wings at the crib?
Sabine broke into the absolute biggest smile she’d ever held. No one, no guy, no person had ever made her feel what Adair did in that moment. His honesty was what won her over. She never understood how people pegged her for this “need to be spoiled” type of woman, especially without knowing herbackground however she appreciated that Adair knew value when he saw it, so she was going to accept his pizza and wings. For some reason, she felt he’d hold up his future promises.
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Adair and Sabine ended up having their “date” the next evening and she didn’t regret it a lick. They ate pizza, wings, and cheesy bread while watching stand-up comedies which she surprisingly never saw before.
Currently they were sitting on his big bean bag chair, laughing their heads off at Martin: You So Crazy. Sabine was in literal tears while Adair watched her find what he’d saw a million times growing up hilarious. He didn’t think she’d like the humor but surprisingly, she did.
“Oh my gosh,” Sabine wiped the tears from eyes. “My mom would kill me if she knew I was laughing at all of these offensive things.”
“It’s just jokes.”
“Well…” Sabine sighed. “You can’t tell my mom that,” she murmured. “Have you decided where you want to go to grad school?” she asked changing the subject.
“Actually,” Adair scratched the top of his waves. “I got into Columbia.”
“Co…” Sabine choked on her words. “Columbia…Columbia Law?”
“Yea man.”
“So…you’re like…really smart.”
“I mean, I know a lil somethin’”
“Adair, that’s amazing! I’m so happy for you!” Sabine threw herself into his arms giving him a hug. The news was new to her but pretty much settled in and planned out for him. It wasa big accomplishment for a kid from the projects. His mother threw a party every day for him seven nights in a row when he got accepted. Everybody was proud and rooting for Adair.
“Thank you…” Adair sniffed her hair which smelled like lavender. “What about you?” he asked when she pulled away. “What are your plans?”
“Oh, this is the end of the road for me. I wanted to go for my masters, but I’d rather jump headfirst into my career. I have an idea for my own analytical software that I want to develop. It’s in the early stages but I’ve been working on it for some time now.”
“That’s dope as fuck.”
“Yea,” Sabine nodded.
“What made you get into that?”
“To be honest, I don’t know. I just like solving problems. It started with math, then in high school there was an extracurricular course I took for beginners marketing and it kind of took off after that.
“Before you told me your major I kinda thought you would’ve been pre-law too.”
“Why is that?”
“I…I maybe looked you up.”
“Oh God…” Sabine groaned moving away from him. Just when she thought Adair was someone she could actually get to know. “And what did you find?”
“It ain’t even like that. I honestly just wanted to know if you went here after that night, then…your Facebook told it all. I’m pre-law so of course I know who Charles Knight is, Sabine. I mean who the hell doesn’t?”
“That’s not who I know,” Sabine spoke lowly with her head down.