I do not own the Boondocks

Jazmine was expecting to be at The Bistro long before Huey even thought about leaving the house since she left with Cindy so early. But, knowing Cindy as well as she did she should have known that that would have only been the case if there was no sign indicating any type of sale. Just her luck, there was a sale at Cindy's favorite store.

"Cindy, I told you that I had somewhere to be," Jazmine said with her arms folded in the passenger seat.

"Girl boo, and I told you that I would get you there on time. Plus, don't act like you didn't take advantage of Forever 21 having a 50% off sale."

Jazmine turned to look at her purchases in the backseat with regret. She couldn't resist a sale, to that extent she got three rompers for ten dollars. She huffed and turned back around in her seat crossing her arms as she did so.

"That," she pointed to the backseat, "has nothing to do with the fact that you went to two other stores after that for absolutely no reason."

"Um, I did have a reason," Cindy said smiling as she pulled into a parking spot, "I needed shoes to match my outfits."

She smiled at Jazmine, who rolled her eyes in response until she realized that Cindy was not parked at the Bistro but, at a restaurant across the street from the Bistro.

Jazmine gave Cindy an incredulous look, "Cindy, what the hell? Why wouldn't you just drop me off out front."

Cindy gave Jazmine a look before pulling her sun visor down and opening the mirror to check her appearance. "I'm giving you a chance to look over yourself in the mirror, you know, freshen up, maybe put on a little chapstick. Plus, I was not about to drop you off in the front of that restaurant like I'm dropping you off at daycare, that's tacky."

Cindy ran her fingers through her hair one last time before turning to Jazmine, "Plus, I'm hungry and this place has good tacos."

Jazmine rolled her eyes and pulled her own mirror down. She knew Cindy was telling the truth. Jazmine had decided to wear her hair in an afro puff with a green scarf tied around it in a 70's style. She adjusted her puff and applied some lip gloss.

She turned to Cindy, who was smiling a proud mom smile. "See, now you ready to go get your man."

Cindy wished Jazmine good luck as she closed her car door and carefully crossed the street out of view of the cafe where she was supposed to meet Huey. She stood off to the in front of another store on that strip and took a look at her phone.

Besides the texts from Emmanuel that she wasn't making time to read, she had no new messages. When she looked at the time she realized she still had about five minutes before she was officially late for their… meet up?

Jazmine took a deep breath and walked in the front door. It didn't take long for her to notice his large afro. He was sitting at the table unmoving, staring at a spot on the wall. He looked deep in thought and before Jazmine could let her imagination get the best of her she forced herself to walk up to the table.

Huey must have heard her approach because he looked up before she began to sit down. He stood up suddenly and cleared his throat causing Jazmine to jump slightly.

"Hi, Huey," Jazmine said shyly, while reaching to push her hand behind her ear. When she realized it wasn't in the style she usually wore it in she awkwardly put her hand down. Hoping he didn't notice her try and touch hair that wasn't there.

He did, but he wasn't going to say anything about it.

"Hey Jazmine," Huey said in a cool manner. * Jazmine watched in curiosity as he took a step over to her side of the table. She almost thought he was coming over to show her some signs of affection until he pulled out her chair for her.

She smiled warmly at him and muttered thanks as she sat down and waited for him to sit back down as well.

Before an awkward silence could begin a waitress came up to their table to take their order. After taking their drink order, Huey a water with no lemon and Jazmine a strawberry lemonade, she left them with their menus to decide what they wanted to eat.

Jazmine allowed her eyes to switch between Huey and her menu. She ate here often last semester when her and her study group came here to work on projects and well… study. She was impartial to their grilled cheese, which had three different kinds of cheeses and was made on Texas Toast.

She took the time instead to look at Huey as he was looking at the menu to see what he was thinking. Huey always seemed to know what he wanted, and you could usually tell but Jazmine wouldn't have guessed in a million years that he had wanted her just as much as she wanted him.

Jazmine quickly looked down at her menu again when she saw Huey's eyebrow shoot up in question without him even looking at her. She continued to pretend to look at her menu even when she noticed that he had put his down.

"Jazmine, I have felt you staring at me for the past five minutes."

Jazmine huffed and put her menu down as well, "Well, if you knew I was looking at you why didn't you say something earlier."

A ghost of smile graced his lips, "I figured you would stop at some point but, I didn't know you found me so captivating," he teased.

"Whatever," Jazmine said rolling her eyes and trying to hold back a smile, "what are you getting?"

"I've heard that the vegan patty here is pretty good so, I was thinking of getting that. What about you?"

"The grilled cheese."

"Figures," he smirked at her which caused her to blush which in turn caused her to be embarrassed.

"What do you mean 'figures'," she mumbled trying to hide her embarrassment looking down.

"I mean as far as your taste goes that hasn't changed about you. Whenever Grandad would drag us out to eat with your family you would always order a strawberry lemonade. Whenever you would come over the house to do homework with me and Caesar, Grandad would always make you a grilled cheese because he knew it was your favorite."

Jazmine looked up and into Huey's wine-colored eyes. "You remembered that," Jazmine asked with genuine curiosity that almost made Huey chuckle. "Of course, I did. It is almost as though you don't believe me when I say that you are and always have been very important to me," he said in his monotone voice.

If she hadn't been paying attention she would have missed the fact that he said words that would have made her swoon if he had said it with some emotion. This didn't bother her though because she knew him and for him to change anything about himself to tell her that wouldn't have been genuine. Before Jazmine could think of a response the waitress came back with their drinks and took their orders.

When the waitress left they didn't sit in silence long before Huey spoke up, "So, Jazmine what do you want to do?"

Jazmine tilted her head to the side in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"What do you want to do in regards to us?"

"Us?"

"Yes, us"

"Well, I didn't know there was an 'us'?"

Huey leaned back in his chair and appeared to be in thought. Jazmine said nothing in the time that he sat back looking at her not wanting to stick her foot any further in her mouth than she already had. She looked up when Huey leaned forward again and put his hand palm up on the table.

Jazmine took no time putting her hand in his. As he began to talk Huey closed his hand over hers and rubbed the back of her hand with her thumb.

"There is an us, Jazmine, of that I have no question. My only question to you is how long you want to continue this game of cat and mouse before it's the proper time for me to ask you to be my girlfriend."

Jazmine blushed and looked down at their hands. Her hands looked soft and delicate being held in his strong ones. When he pulled away Jazmine looked up with mild hurt until she realized that the waitress was back with their food.

They ate their food while catching each other about different things they had missed in the years that they were apart. Some things the other knew from just watching. Other things, very few things, like changes in thought pattern and interests, were new to the other. It was as though they were getting to know each other again for the very first time.

Huey had put himself out there and laid his intentions on the table. All that was left to do was for Jazmine to decide what she wanted so they could move forward.

~Meanwhile across the street in Maria's Tacos~

At the same time Cindy was across the street with a plate of tacos and refried beans in front of her. She had strategically chosen her table where she could see across the street in The Bistro, where the afro wearing couple had chosen a table by the window but couldn't be seen.

She sat enjoying her meal while watching the couple as if their… well whatever the fuck it was, was a TV show

To her anytime a man invites you out to eat it's a date unless they don't pay. But, she couldn't see Huey not paying for Jazmine's meal, so she deemed it a date. Cindy didn't understand why this was so confusing for Jazmine, the both of them had confessed their feelings for each other. It was as simple as learning your ABC's and 123's. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, and they get together.

Suddenly, Cindy felt a presence walk up behind her and when they didn't announce themselves she felt like they probably didn't have good intentions for her. When they were close enough she elbowed whoever it was in the gut and when she heard a very masculine 'oof' she turned around and punched them in the face.

"Cindy, stop! What the hell is wrong with you?"

Cindy stopped her attack when she heard Caesar's voice, "Oh baby, I'm sorry," Cindy looked sympathetic and waved off some people who looked in their direction with concern.

Caesar sat down in the chair across from her holding his nose. He took his hand away for a second and winced and put it back. "Damn, you have a good right hook," he took the tissues he handed her and put them up to his face to stop the bleeding, "Why would your first instinct be to attack?"

Cindy shrugged her shoulders, "You can't sneak up on me like that baby. Is it broken?" Caesar shook his head no but never let his nose go and motioned a waiter over so that he could get some ice. Cindy sighed and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?"

"I asked first."

I asked second."

"So."

"So, what?"

They began a staring contest to see who would break first. This went on for a solid five minutes Cindy chewing while never breaking eye contact with Caesar. Even when the waiter came back with the ice for Caesar's nose, Caesar reached his hand out for the ice and thanked him while glaring at Cindy. Another ten minutes went by and Caesar's nose stopped bleeding. Cindy started on her beans when a thought crossed her mind.

She smirked at Caesar before flinging some of her beans at his face, the beans landing on his forehead. He cursed and wiped his face before the beans could fall into his eyes, accepting that he had lost this time.

"If you have to know," he exaggerated causing Cindy to smile and nod, "I'm here helping Huey."

"Helping Huey do what exactly when he's on a date with Jazmine?"

Caesar leaned in and Cindy leaned in as well. Caesar looked to his left and then to his right. He turned around and looked behind him and then he looked behind Cindy as well. Cindy waited patiently for him to finish looking around.

He leaned in closer to Cindy so he could whisper in her ear, "I'm helping Huey keep an eye out for Emmanuel just in case he pops up and wants to pop off." He leaned back with a smile on his face until Cindy smacked him upside his head.

"Damn it Cindy! You know this is turning into an abusive relationship real fast. If you hit me again I'm telling Mommy," he whined rubbing the spot where she hit him. It hadn't really hurt but he still liked to make a fuss.

"If you would stop saying and doing dumb shit I wouldn't hit you."

"What did I do this time!?"

"Emmanuel isn't even in town this weekend. You know every third weekend of the month he goes out of town to where he was originally to do whatever, visit family I assume."

"So… there's no chance he could show up here to mess up Huey and Jazzy's date?"

"No, dumbass."

"If I'm such a dumbass, why are you with me?"

Cindy smiled and flipped her hair over her shoulder and pushed her clean plate to the side. She stroked Caesar's face and said, "Because you're my dumbass."

Caesar smiled and leaned in to give her a kiss. When his lips touched her hair, he sat back and looked at her incredulously. Cindy was not paying attention to him at all and was instead pointing across the street to where she could see Huey and Jazmine leaving the Bistro together.

"I'm going to assume that means their date went well since their going home together," she said getting up from the table.

"So, what you were doing here was not minding your business and spying on them."

"Of course, not," she stated faking a shocked look on her face. "I came here simply for the tacos," she smiled and gestured for him to come with her.

"Where are we going?"

"I assume that Huey brought you up here so, I was going to take you back to your house."

Caesar threw some money on the table to pay for Cindy's meal before grabbing her hand and following her towards her car. "Or, I could spend the rest of the day with my second favorite person."

Cindy let go of his hand and turned against her car door to look at him with her arms folded. "And who is the first?"

"Mommy, duh."

Cindy laughed and kissed him, "Get in the car stupid, we can go back to my place."

A/N: *Fun fact I was going to put cooly here, but I looked it up and it is actually derogatory slang towards Asians mostly used in South Africa

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