It was a few days later. I was in Germany after a long flight. It was night. I was in Angela's apartment building standing in the hallway outside her apartment. Her apartment door was closed as to be expected. I knocked on it. I heard heavy footsteps come across the floor and slide the chain lock. The door opened and a tall African American man appeared.
"Hi who'r you?" he asked.
"I'm Shawn Shawn hunter," I said.
"Oh so you're Shawn."
"Yeah. Um. Who are you?"
"I'm hakeem Angela's boyfriend."
"I'm here to see Angela is she in?"
"I'll check."
"Ok."
The door closed. Inside I heard hakem and Angela talking. Angela sighed.
"Ok," she said.
Her soft footsteps came across the wooden floor and she slid the chain lock and opened the door.
"Shawn," she said when she saw me, "what are you doing here?"
Shock crossed her face. She was even more beautiful than I'd remembered.
"Well I'm here to see you baby. And jasmine," I told her.
"Oh wow well i….i don't know what to say. This is a shock."
She opened the door wider. I saw a beautiful baby perched on her hip. Her skin was the color of Angela's and mine her eyes big blue and brown. My heart melted.
"This must be her. Wow she's beautiful," I breathed.
"Shawn this really isn't a good time hakeem and I are about to go out to dinner," Angela told me.
"Well I'll come with."
"Someone has to watch jasmine."
"Oh."
"And we've been pretty short on babysitters lately," hakeem informed me.
"Oh."
"You haven't changed a bit you're still the same irresponsible guy you always were," Angela said.
"Hey. That isn't my fault."
"Oh really? Shawn we really have to go if you will-" she dismissed me with a wave of her hand.
"Fine fine I'll go."
"A better time would've been when she was born."
"I hope you and hakeem are happy together."
"ya know what? We are in fact."
I left.