Chapter 10: Love Shows Through The Pain

Shad’s P.O.V.

I looked at Cassie as she stood in the middle of my office. She refused to sit down so I guess I just have to get what I have to say it fast. “Look Cassie, I miss you and all the good times we’ve had together. Believe it or not, you were my best friend. I don’t have many people who stay around and put up with my bullshit but you did. When I found out you had a crush on me, I kind of flipped out. I didn’t want our friendship to be ruined and lose you forever,” I sighed as I looked at her.

“I don’t get why you flipped out. It was a crush. It wasn’t like I was in love with you,” she snapped after staying quiet for a while.

“But I’m in love with you,” I didn’t even have to look at her to know she would be speechless. After having sex with Meyshia, I realized I was just trying to find someone to replace Cassie. All the hook ups and dates I’ve been on this past year have been all because of her. I acted like a kid before but I’m manning up now. I finally had the nerve to glance in her direction and she opened her mouth to say something.

“Shad, Coach Graham said that he needs to talk to you in his office. Something about tomorrow’s practice,” Nicki said when she walked in.

“Okay,” I gave her a small smile before she left.

“That’s my queue,” Cassie quickly left out after Nicki but I knew we would finish this conversation tomorrow.

Nicki’s P.O.V.

I pecked Drake’s lips before I left to go home. It felt good to get my past off of my chest. I never told anyone about that night. Nae only knows because she was at the party when it happened. Even though I didn’t tell him the entire truth, it was nice to tell him some of it. I was really falling for him. He’s better than all of my exes and the fact that he’s trying to be nicer in the gym really shows me that he’s trying. I started the car up to drive home with Blake. “What did Cassie want?” I asked her as we pulled out of the parking lot.

“She just wanted to say thanks for helping her stay on the team,” she shrugged as if it wasn’t a big deal to her.

“Oh, okay,” I let it go as we finally pulled up to the house. Mylan came rushing out as soon as I turned the car off. “What are you doing My?” I asked as I picked her up.

“I missed you,” she mumbled as she hugged me.

“I missed you too baby,” I kissed her forehead and brought her into the house.

~~~

Later that night Blake was sitting on my bed as I rubbed My’s hair. She was knocked out in my lap. “Don’t you ever worry about her?” She asked me.

“Worry how?” I titled my head.

“Like worry about her future and how she’s going to feel growing up without a mom and a dad?” She elaborated.

“I do and it’s really hard on me sometimes. I don’t want her to feel as if she has to be excluded from things because she doesn’t have her mom anymore and her dad isn’t in her life,” I explained.

“Well you seem to be doing a great job,” she rubbed My’s back as I picked her up.

“I’m going put her to bed,” I told her as I brought Mylan to her room. I placed her in her bed and pulled the covers up. She woke up slightly and looked at me. “Goodnight My,” I said before bending down to kiss her forehead.

“Goodnight mommy,” she leaned up and hugged me before lying back down and asleep. I got up and closed her door. I closed my eyes as I finally let my tears fall while thinking about how I could do this. I missed my mom so much and everyone always said I treated Mylan like my own daughter but to hear her call me that is just overwhelming.

Cassie’s P.O.V.

I came to practice early today so I could tell off Shad. I’ve practice what I had to say all night. I didn’t even knock when I walked into his office. He looked up from his magazine and smiled. “Cassie,” he said as he stood up.

“I only came here because yesterday I listened to what you had to say so today you will listen to what I have to say,” I said getting straight to the point.

“Fair enough,” he sighed as he stood in front of me.

“I haven’t told you some things that you have a right to know. I’ve a crush on you since you moved next door to me when I was twelve. You were an older guy so naturally I liked you. When were started becoming friends, I fell for you even harder. It hurt me how you reacted when you found out but I’ve moved on from that. At some point I swore to myself that I was in love with you but I’m no-,” I tried to continue but he grabbed my waist and pulled me to him. He crashed his lips to mine and kissed me passionately. I lost a mental battle with myself and kissed him back as I wrapped my arms around his neck. When he tried to slip his tongue inside of my mouth, I pulled away. I stepped out of the embrace and took a minute to collect myself. Tears stung my eyes but I refused to let them fall. I haven’t cried since a tragic experience happened years ago. I hated that he made me so emotional.

“I’ve wanted you to kiss me like that for years,” I admitted.

“Then what’s the problem?” He asked.

“The problem is that it’s too many years too late. I’m not in love with you anymore Shad,” I refused to look him in his eyes.

“Oh,” he sounded hurt but I just walked out of his office. I left him in the same way he left me many times before. Don’t look back Cassie.

Drake’s P.O.V.

I made the girls do conditioning all practice because it looked as if Nicki and Cassie were both distracted. “What’s wrong with them today?” Mere asked but I could only shrug. I wanted to ask Nicki what was wrong but I couldn’t in the middle of practice. After practice I nodded towards my office and saw her following me. After I closed and locked the door, I pulled her close to me.

“What’s wrong?” I asked as she wrapped her arms around me. She tried to speak but tears raced down her face and she started crying. “Shh,” I kissed her forehead and tried to calm her down. “Baby I can’t help if you don’t tell me what’s wrong,” I told her as she finally calmed down.

“Yesterday I was putting Mylan to sleep and she called me mommy,” she said and then started crying again. I was shocked to say the least.

“How do you feel about that?” I rubbed her back as she pulled herself together.

“I have mixed emotions about the situation. I mean no one could ever replace my mom but is it bad that I liked it?” She pulled away slightly to look at me.

“It’s natural to like it and it was bound to happen. You treat her as if she’s your daughter already,” I wiped some of her tears away.

“But I just don’t want to disappoint her. What if I’m not good enough?” She looked almost frightened.

“Trust me you will,” I pecked her lips softly.

“But then as she gets older she’ll start wondering who’s her dad and then she’ll learn everything and hate me,” she ranted on.

“You’re doing what you think is best for her. She’ll understand,” I assured her.

“Thank you,” she said softly before standing on her tiptoes and kissing me. I held her close as we got lost in the moment.

Nicki’s P.O.V.

“I have to go,” I sighed as Drake released me from our hug. He bent down and pecked my lips softly before smiling at me. “I’ll call you later,” I promised before walking out of his office.

“That took a while,” Blake said as I got in the car.

“Shut up,” I playfully rolled my eyes.

“So you know we have our first competition coming up. I’m so nervous but excited,” she bounced in her seat slightly.

“It’s gonna be so hard considering we still have more girls that are going to get cut. I would hate to participate in some of the competitions only to be cut before the state championships,” I scrunched up my eyebrows. That would be the worse feeling ever, to know that you where so close only to not make the final cuts.

“Where is the competition coming up going to be?” Nae asked from the backseat.

“Um I think it’s in Florida,” Blake answered as she fixed her hair in the mirror.

“Why are you fixing your hair? Like you have someone to look good for,” I joked as she lightly pushed my arm.

“I felt like my hair was sticking up,” she said as I pulled up to my house. We all got out and went inside.

“You guys can head to the living room, I need to talk to My for a minute,” I told them as I climbed the stairs to My’s room. I opened the door to see her peacefully sleeping. I smiled slightly and sat on her bed. I gently stroked her hair as she begun to stir. When she saw me, she instantly popped up from her bed. “Glad to see you’re excited to see me,” I laughed as she jumped in my lap to hug me.

“I missed you,” she mumbled as I held her closely.

“I missed you too baby,” I kissed her forehead as I thought about what I needed to say. “My, you know how mommy went to heaven years ago right?” I asked her as she nodded. “And you know how daddy isn’t here at the moment right?” I looked at her as she shook her head once again.

“Can you be my mommy? Everyone has a mommy and my mommy went to heaven. You act like my mommy,” she looked up at me with her big brown eyes.

“Only if you want me to be,” I tried to hold in my tears as she smiled.

“Of course I want you to be,” she giggled excitedly and hugged me again. There is nothing in this world that I would trade for this moment right now.

Chapter 9: Facing the Facts

CeeJay’s P.O.V.

I walked up in the gym and immediately regretted it. Now this fool better not be doing what I think he is. I looked at the place my crew usually sits but I only saw Cassie. “Cass, what’s going on?” I asked her as we looked around the gym.

“I don’t know. He told the rest of the girls to stand over there,” she shrugged. I’m really getting annoyed of Coach Graham.

“He so did not!” I heard Nicki laughed extremely loud while talking to Nae.

“I think he did!” Cassie yelled and Nicki flicked her off.

“I swear you like getting on Nicki’s nerves,” I laughed at Cassie.

“Hell yeah I do. It gives me something to do,” she shrugged.

“What ever happened between y’all? Didn’t you guys use to be best friends?” I asked. It seems like every time I ask this question, she shuts me down.

“We were never friends,” she shut me down once again. I’m gonna find out what more happened between them cause believe it or not, Cassie isn’t mean to people. She’s only mean to Nicki and now Meyshia for obvious reasons. I knew the basic reasons why they aren’t friends but she never went in dept.

Drake’s P.O.V.

I knew the girls were going to kill me for what I was about to do today. Nicki was trying to get me to tell her but I had to make today fair. Plus I think she’s going to hate me after this but she’ll get over it. “Good morning girls,” I smiled at them. They all scrunched up their face from how nice I was being. I looked over at Nicki and winked. I told her I would try to be nicer.

“I bet you all are wondering why we have a bunch of weight lifting material around the gym,” Shad said as they all said yes.

“Today we paired you up with a partner and you guys are going to be lifting weights the entire time. We paired you up with who you are most like. Dancing is so much more than just dancing. In order to dance on this team, you have to be a team. In order to be a team, you have to trust each other and we’re starting on that today,” Mere explained. I locked eyes with Nicki and she gave me a knowing look. I knew she would catch on soon enough.

“Okay so we have Maxine and Carlynda, Zhaleh and Carmelina, Blakelynn and Jaznae, Onika and Cassandra, Bethonia and Cenedra. . ,” Shad read off name after name. When I looked up, I noticed Nicki shooting me a death glare.

“Okay so go to your assigned place in the gym and just sit there until we come over and teach you how to work the machine,” Mere said as they all scattered off.

“You know Nicki and Cassie might kill each other right?” Shad looked at me. He thought I was crazy for putting them together but maybe doing this will help them see past whatever issues they have with each other and move on.

“I know,” I shook my head as I walked over to them.

Nicki’s P.O.V.

I hated him for doing his. I knew he was hiding something but something like this? I glanced over at Cassie who sat down with a huff. Drake walked over to us and looked nervous. “So I bet you two know why I put you together,” he chuckled.

“What makes you think she’s anywhere near my level?” Cassie rolled her eyes.

“Bitch you wish you could get on my level,” I snapped.

“For the circumstance of this situation, I will let that curse word slide but don’t let it happen again,” he looked at me.

“Of course Coach Graham,” I blinked a couple times and tried to look innocent. He licked his lips unknowingly and eyed me up and down. Good thing Cassie was looking off the other way because he was practically eye raping me. “Aubrey!” I hissed in a whisper so Cassie wouldn’t hear. He snapped out of his trance and chuckled. I playfully rolled my eyes as Cassie looked back at us.

“What are we doing here?” She asked him.

“Well one of you is going to lay on the bench while the other one will be holding up the weight bar. You will have to support her the entire way. Neither of you should let go of this bar,” he looked in between us.

“Yeah, she’s definitely going to be the one lying down because I don’t trust her,” she looked at me in disgust.

“And you think I trust you?” I looked at her like she was crazy.

“Maybe this was a bad idea,” Drake mumbled.

“You think!?” We both snapped at him.

“Just don’t hurt each other or you will be immediately off the team,” he threatened before walking away. I laid down first because I knew she was going to be stubborn about it.

“If you drop this one me, I will personally kill you,” I snapped my eyes to her.

“Now why would I want to do that?” She smiled sarcastically as she got behind me to hold the weight. She held it down to me and I latched on as she supported me throughout the way. I was personally shocked because I would have thought she would have dropped it by now.

“Thanks I guess,” I mumbled as we switched places.

“Whatever,” she dismissed me and we lifted the weight in silence.

Cassie’s P.O.V.

I was glad she decided to shut up because she was really getting on my nerves. I know I said I didn’t trust her but I trust her at least with this. I personally know she wouldn’t hurt me this way. She would hurt me mentally and sometimes physically but not damaging me. I was relieved when Coach Graham blew his whistle and told us to huddle up.

“Great practice today girls. Chaslyn can you meet me in my office after practice. We’ll see the rest of you tomorrow,” he dismissed us and Chaslyn followed him to his office. I guess she was getting cut. I told my girls that I’ll meet them by my car and started walking over to Nicki. She was about to say something to me but I held up my hand.

“I’m not here to talk to you fake ass Barbie,” I shut her down.

“Who you calling a-,” she started but I cut her off.

“I don’t have time for this. I need to have a moment alone with Blake,” I shooed her away.

 “Anything you have to say to my cousin, you can say to me,” she stood her ground. I looked at Blake who hadn’t uttered a word.

“Nicki, it’s cool,” she assured her. Nicki nodded and walked off with Nae.

“I just wanted to say thanks for getting me back on the team. Not many people would have done that for me and you barely know me so it means a lot,” I said sincerely. She smiled as she listen to me talk.

“It’s cool. I’m just that type of person who can’t let one of the best dancers walk out like that. I want to be on the best dance team that this school can have and in order to do that, we need the best dancers that this school has,” she explained.

“Well thanks again and even though Nicki and I aren’t cool doesn’t mean we can’t be,” I smiled at her.

“Thanks Cassie,” she returned the smile before walking off to Nicki. I grabbed my dance bag and was about to walk out when I felt a grip on my elbow.

“Lemme talk to you for a minute,” his voice filled my ear.  I turned around and looked at Shad. I was so over talking to him.

“No Shad you can’t. I’m very busy and I actually have places I need to be,” I lied and tried to walk off but he pulled on my elbow again.

“Come on Cass, just give me five minutes,” he pleaded. I weighed out my options and thought if I hear him out, I could finally tell him to leave me alone for good.

“You have four,” I sighed as we walked to his office.

Drake’s P.O.V.

“I’m sorry,” I said to Chaslyn as she walked out the door. We had to cut someone and it just got harder every time. There was a knock on the door a few moments later. I smirked as I told her to come in. Nicki dropped her dance bag on the door and locked it. I leaned back as she came and sat on my lap.

“I should hate you right now,” she pouted.

“But you don’t” I mumbled as I kissed on her neck.

“You paired me with the one person I have issues with,” she sighed and I pulled away from her neck.

“Why don’t you like her? She seems really nice,” I looked at her. She shifted her eyes and opened her mouth to say something but then closed it. It seems like she was thinking of a lie to tell.

“She is, she’s nice to everyone but me,” she finally replied. I could tell she didn’t want to speak on the subject anymore so I decided to change it.

“My birthday is coming up,” I smiled at her.

“Really? I would not have known considering that you told me a million times last week,” she giggled. I pulled her so that she was straddling me.

“Well you gotta give me something good,” I kissed on her neck again.

“Mmm, what do you want?” She closed her eyes and let my lips relax her.

“You,” I whispered in her ear and I felt her shudder under me. I pulled back so I could look at her and she finally opened her eyes. We stared at each other for a while as my hands rubbed up and down her thighs. I thought she was going to get nervous and stop talking but she surprised me by slowly grinding against me. My hands found their way to her waist as she leaned in by my ear.

“How do you want me?” She said with her voice full of lust. It just crossed my mind that I never asked her if she was a virgin. I mean when she’s dancing, she appears to be a virgin but when she’s with me, her actions show that she’s not.

“I have a question,” I pulled her back so she could look at me.

“Shoot,” she smiled as she leaned back a bit and fully sat up straight.

“Are you a virgin?” I felt her immediately tense up and her eyes shifted away from me. I could tell that she was experiencing a million of emotions at once from that simple question. “You don’t have to tell me,” I told her as she looked at me again.

“No, I think you have a right to know. My last boyfriend was my everything for the longest time and I wanted to give him my virginity. I was planning to give it to him one night but I caught him cheating on me. We started to argue and he tried to rape me but when he hit me, he knocked me out so I guess he gave up. I woke up and found him screwing some girl in front of me but he had taped me up so I couldn’t move. It was the worst experience of my life. Some guy broke the door down and beat him up but I was so in shock that I didn’t even notice. Yes he tried to rape me but no he didn’t. So yes I am a virgin,” she explained and I immediately wanted to kill the guy that did that to her.

“I want to kill him,” I mumbled but she rubbed the sides of my face making me relax.

“Doesn’t matter. It’s over and I’m here with you,” she whispered before kissing me. I kissed her back as I pulled her even closer. Learning everything that she’s been through has made me see her in a new light. She’s even stronger than I thought and it just made me fall for her even more. It seemed like at that moment, all the air was knocked out of me as we pulled away. I rubbed my thumb across her cheek and she smiled making my thumb sink into her dimple. I think I love her.

Chapter 8: Take Care of You

Drake

I walked into the gym and went by Shad and Mere. I looked around and saw the girls sitting by the bleachers. “Tasmine, Christina, Shreya, and Brooklyn can you please leave the gym. I’m sorry but we have to cut you,” I told them as they left. We have twenty girls left and only twelve spots. I saw that Casandra showed up so I guess Shad talked to her.

“Today I have a couple of friends here to judge your dancing. They’ll tell me who they like and one of you guys are leaving by the end of this week,” I explained to them. I looked at Nicki but she refused to look up from her nails as if they were the most important thing in the world. I sighed as my friends arrived. I asked a couple of old high school friends to help them. They sat back as the girls dance in sync. My eyes were trained on Nicki as she danced. I could tell she added more pain to her dance but that’s what made her better than everyone else.

“Who’s the girl in the pink shirt?” Curtis asked me.

“That’s Onika,” I smiled slightly as I watched her.

“She’s good,” Noah nodded his head.

“So who are your top dancers?” I looked at them.

“Nicki, Cassie, Blake, Jaznae, CeeJay, and Carrington,” Jay spoke on behalf of all of them. I nodded in agreement. Glad to know they had similar opinions to mine.

Shad

I sighed as practice was finally over. I walked over to Blake since she was by herself. “So I’ll see you tonight?” I asked hopefully.

“Yeah,” she nodded with a smile. I was on my way to my office when I past Cassie.

“A word please,” I said to her as I continued my walk. She came in a few moments later.

“What do you want Shad?” She had her hair in a high bun and it looked as if she’s been crying.

“Are you okay?” I stood in front of her.

“If that’s why you called me in here then I can leave,” she snapped.

“Look I’m sorry for what I said and how I handled that situation,” I apologized. She just nodded her head while looking off at a distance. “Come on Cass, you know you wanna forgive me,” I smirked at her. Before I found out Cassie had a crush on me, we were really close friends. I pushed her away because I didn’t feel the same way. I regret that now because I lost a great friend in the process. She locked eyes with me and her face remained straight. She looked as if she’s lost all emotion in her.

“Goodbye Shad,” she said just above a whisper and walked out of my office. I can’t believe I managed to hurt her. She was an important factor in my life and I also pushed her away because I didn’t want to hurt her.

“Cassie wait!” I rushed to catch her arm and spun her around. “Tell me what I have to do to fix this,” I pleaded. I needed my best friend back and I was willing to do anything at this point.

“You know exactly what you have to do,” she mumbled and pulled away from me. She walked out of my office and left the gym. I know exactly what I have to do?

Nicki

“Ow! Nicki stop!” Blake whined as I plucked her eyebrows.

“Suck it up you big baby. It’s not every day you go out on a date,” I smirked as I filled in her eyebrows.

“It is so not a date,” she mumbled.

“It is so a date!” Nae yelled from the bed.

“Nae! Get up and help me do her hair,” I told her. She put her magazine down and walked over to us.

“So does Cassie know that you’re going on a date with Shad?” Nae asked.

“I’m doing this for her. If anything, she should be thanking me,” she crossed her arms.

“Hold up, you what!? You helped her come back onto the team!?” I was beyond pissed.

“Nicki, I have a heart and I couldn’t live with myself for not helping someone when I knew that I could,” she explained.

“I still don’t see why you helped her. She’s nothing but a bitch,” I mumbled.

“A bitch that used to be your friend,” Nae mumbled back.

“Shut up,” I shot her a look and continued doing Blake’s hair.

“Wait! You guys used to be friends!? Oww!” She groaned.

“See that’s what you get for moving. Now stay put,” I said to her.

“When did you guys used to be friends?” She asked.

“I’ll tell you another time,” I promised in hopes to change the topic.

“So how awkward was practice today? Coach Graham stared at you the entire time,” Nae smirked at me.

“He can stare wherever he wants to stare. I hope you noticed that I didn’t return the stare.” I made my point clear.

“You know you like him. Why don’t you just give him another chance?” Blake looked at me through the mirror.

“I don’t like seeing two sides of him. I only liked one side. He doesn’t know what he wants and until he does, I won’t be around,” I shrugged. Just as I put the last curl in her hair, the doorbell rung. “Nae can you get that?” I asked her. She nodded and went downstairs. “Nervous?” I looked at Blake.

“Extremely.” She smiled lightly.

“Don’t be.” I put a little bit of hairspray on her hair and then I was done. “You look gorgeous Blake.” I smiled as she looked at herself in the mirror.

“Wow.” She stared at herself in shock. I made her hair look like loose curls and we dressed down the outfit a bit with the jacket and boots.

Blake

I passed Nae in the hallway and smiled. “You look absolutely stunning.” She smiled as she took in my appearance.

“Thank you.” I hugged her before going downstairs and to meet Shad.

“After you.” He opened the door and we left.

~~~

“You know Cassie likes you right?” I asked him.

“Nah she don’t.” He shrugged it off.

“You know she does but I guess you’re scared to admit it,” I smirked at him.

“Even if she does, nothing’s gonna happen.” He shook his head.

“Why? You guys would be cute together,” I questioned him.

“Aren’t I on a date with you?” He raised an eyebrow at me.

“We both know this isn’t a date. I heard you talking to him so what do you want?” I sat back and crossed my arms. I was waiting for him to bring this up all night.

“You heard that? How did you even know that was him?” He looked at me a little shocked. I guess he didn’t think that I would figure it out.

“I know his voice. Well if you talk to him again, tell him that I said ‘fuck you’.” I stood up and left. I went home after a very unpleasant evening. I sighed as I opened the door and went to my room.

“How’d it go?” Nae asked as sat on my bed.

“It went okay,” I lied. I plopped down on the bed as Nae scooted closer to me.

“Sit up,” she commanded and I did as I was told. She took out some of the hidden bobby pins that were in my hair. “I hope that he knows if he ever hurts you then I’m coming for his balls,” she threatened. We laughed at the thought.

“Won’t be necessary,” I mumbled as she pulled my hair into a ponytail.

“Come on, Nicki went out so let’s stay up and watch movies just like old times,” she suggested. I nodded as we went to pick the movies out.

Nicki

I stuck my hands in my jacket after knocking on his door. He opened it and smiled. “I’m glad you came,” he said as he let me in.

“Mhmm,” I mumbled as I looked around his house. It seemed really nice.

“Can we talk?” He looked at me as I avoided his gaze. If I look into his eyes then I would be falling for him again and be sucked right back in.

“Isn’t that why I’m here?” I snapped my eyes towards him briefly.

“Nic come on. Stop giving me the cold shoulder,” he pleaded and walked over to me. He toward my figure and looked down at me.

“You know I’ve been screwed over, lied to, and cheated on but never have I had a guy treat me like shit and a queen at the same time,” I shook my head.

“Stop comparing me to your ex. I’m not like him. I don’t want to hurt you and I want to try to be nicer when were in the gym. I want to learn how to love and I want to explore these feelings with you.” He lifted my chin.

“How do I know that you won’t hurt me like those in my past have?” I was slowly giving in.

“Easy, those people were too dumb to see your potential.” He wiped my tears.

“Do you?” I asked.

“Do I what?” He scrunched up his eyebrows.

“Do you see potential in me?” I searched his eyes.

“Onika I see more than just potential.” He tucked a piece of hair behind my ear.

Drake

I moved closer to her wanting to close the gap in between us. My lips brushed hers softly as I kissed her. She gasps when my lips touched hers but kissed me back. I held her gently as I tried to take away all the pain she ever felt. She’s one of the strongest women I ever met. She’s been so strong trying to save everyone else when she truly needs someone to save her. She brought her hand to my chest and pushed me away. “I need to go.” She jumped up and headed to the door.

“Nicki can we talk about this?” I grabbed her arm.

“Drake this is your career on the line. You could go to jail. Do what’s best for you and let me go.” She meant it in more ways than one.

“What about what’s best for you?” I pulled her towards me.

“Aubrey stop.” She tried to pull away but I wouldn’t let her.

“Stop pushing me away.” I pulled her closer.

“This is wrong!” She snapped.

“Then why does this feel so right? Let me take away your pain. Fall for me and I promise I’ll always be here for you. Let me take care of you,” I whispered against her lips. She took in a deep breath before I connected our lips. I wrapped my arms around her waist as she locked her arms around my neck. I pulled away and rested my forehead onto hers. “I got you okay?” I looked into her eyes.

“Okay,” she sighed. I kissed her again and for the first time, I deepened the kiss. I wanted her to know how serious I was. She kissed me back as my arms traveled down to her ass. I gripped it hard and she moaned into my mouth. I’ve been wanting to do that again for a while. I slowly pulled back and stared at her. “I trust you Aubrey,” she whispered to me. A smile worked its way onto my lips as I pulled her towards me.

“Come on let’s get you home.” I pulled her close and I drove her to her house.

“Call me when you get home.” She told me.

“Of course.” I promised and kissed her softly.

“Goodnight Aubrey.” She blushed as I pulled away from her.

 

            “Goodnight Onika.” I smiled at her one last time and made my way home.