The clock read 8:05 as Rashir opened the refrigerator to get a water bottle. He heard faint knocking on the front door and was confused until he vaguely remembered Mateo telling him he had an assignment to work on with some girl from one of his classes. Rashir yelled upstairs to Mateo's room and when he didn't get a reply he grumbled to himself and went to open the door for the girl since he felt bad that she was waiting outside.

He trudged to the foyer and swung open the front door, rendered speechless when he found himself looking down at the dark skin beauty from the bar the other night. Today, her hair was in a low bun and she was wearing a matching beige biker short set with a brown cardigan over it and Birkenstocks. Her face seemed to be bare except for some lip gloss that had her big lips look juicier than ever. He stared at her for a moment before she opened her mouth to speak.

"Uh hi," she gave him an awkward smile, "Is Mateo here? We're supposed to be working on a project." She looked at him weirdly when she realized he was still staring at her.

He cleared his throat and spoke up, "Yeah he's upstairs you can have a seat on the couch and I'll get him" He smiled at her and stepped aside to let her in the house. She thanked him and walked inside but Rashir could tell she didn't know where to go so he chuckled and said: "To the right."

She gave him an embarrassed smile, muttering a "Thanks," and turned around to make her way to the couch. When she turned around, Rashir had to refrain from groaning as he watched her ass jiggle when she took a step. The biker short set she had on was hugging her curves in all the right places and he was reminded of why he initially took an interest in her that night. He snapped out of it and went up the stairs to get Mateo and cuss his ass out for not telling him Lourdes was going to be coming over.

"Mateo, fuck are you at nigga?" he yelled in the hallway and heard an "In here," in Mateo's bedroom. "Why the hell yo' stupid ass ain't tell me Lourdes was gonna be here?" he slapped his chest as Mateo stood up.

"Why would I? She's just some random from my class, why are you so mad?" He looked at him with furrowed eyebrows. "Wait," his expression changed, "Her name is...Lourdes right? Oh yeahhh, that's that girl you were simping over at the bar the other night. Man, I didn't know it was the same girl, I never saw her remember? I was parking the car." He told him and began to walk out of his room "Where is she? What time is it?-" He checked his watch and cursed when he realized it was now 10 minutes past 9, "How long has she been here?" He asked Rashir who was still glaring at him.

"She got here at like 9:05 and I let her in, she's waiting in the living room." He said, following behind him. "Yo wait up, you gotta help me out here." He looked at him expectantly, signaling he wanted Mateo to talk to Lourdes for him.

"The fuck am I supposed to do?-" Mateo said while laughing "She's here to work on some boring-ass project bro, I can't be your wingman right now," he shook his head and went down the stairs before Rashir could tell him to stop. He was about to go to his room before he decided to go talk to Nico and tell him that Lourdes was downstairs.

"Ayo, you know that girl, Lourdes, that's friends with yo girl? She's downstairs right now," He told Nico and was confused when he started laughing. "What's funny nigga? I wanna laugh." He straight-faced him as Nico cracked up.

"I forgot her ass was comin' over today, she asked me for our address when I was her crib earlier," He said while sobering up, "Yo' ass was probably stuck when you saw her," He started cracking up again and Rashir just looked at him, annoyed.

Lourdes wasn't expecting to come face to face with Rashir Martin when she knocked on the door of Mateo's house. He seemed to be confused as to why she was there so she was a little embarrassed but had forgotten about the weird interaction as she and Mateo worked on their project. She was pleasantly surprised at Mateo's change of attitude from the last time they had spoken. He wasn't making her do all the work for their project which she was appreciative of and they had been consistently working on it for an hour and a half and she was starting to get restless.

"Can we please take a break?" She said, tired of having to read about how badly women were treated in the 1800s by their husbands. It was making her angry as she learned about how Men could beat their wife without any repercussions and it was starting to bring up old memories she'd rather forget. They were making outlines of the main points they wanted to talk about from each time period since Lourdes hadn't done it earlier.

Mateo chuckled, "Yeah, I need some water do you want any?" he asked her. She nodded and thanked him as he made his way to the kitchen. Lourdes was in awe of the house, she was familiar with the area because Gianna lived a couple of minutes away. She knew this development had bigger houses that were supposed to be for families but she guessed that with three men living in the house they needed a big space.

The grand foyer with tall ceilings shocked her when she first walked in and the huge living room she was sitting in with a 60' inch flatscreen TV had her cursing God for making her poor.

"I gotta make a call, do you mind? Ima just be gone for a couple of minutes." Mateo asked her as he handed her a water bottle.

"Yeah that's fine," she said and closed her laptop. She figured they needed a little bit of a break and she could just text the group chat as she waited. He saluted her and went upstairs to what she presumed would be the bedrooms. After about two or three minutes she heard footsteps coming down the stairs and assumed it was Mateo. "That was quick." She thought to herself. She opened her mouth to ask if he wanted to call it a night but when she looked up she realized it was Rashir that was looking back at her.

"You're not Mateo," she said with a nervous laugh.

"You right I'm not," he chuckled and sat next to her on the living room couch.

"What are you doing?" She asked him looking at him weirdly. She didn't want to admit it but his presence made her nervous and she didn't like having him around.

"Mateo finna be upstairs for a long time so why not keep you company?" He smirked at her and she rolled her eyes.

"Thanks, but I don't need your company,'' she snapped and began to pack up her stuff. She would just text Mateo that it was late and she had a class in the morning. As she was bending over to grab her bag that was on the floor, she heard what sounded like a strangled noise that came from Rashir and whipped back around with a glare on her face.

"You leavin'?" He asked her, confused. She nodded and got her phone out of her bag to reply to Aaliyah who was asking her what was happening.

"It's late and I have class tomorrow, just tell Mateo I'll text him later." She told him and snatched her laptop off of the table. She was tired and the headache she had from earlier still hadn't gone away. All she wanted to do was take a hot shower and go to sleep in her comfortable bed. She slipped on her sandals which were waiting by the door and tried to open the door.

"Twist the lock on the bottom," she heard from behind her and turned around to find Rashir leaning against the doorframe. "I apologize if I made you uncomfortable, I ain't mean to," he said and began to walk closer to her.

"You didn't, I'm just tired." She insisted and looked up at him. He was standing about a foot away from her now and she had never seen him this up close. He was wearing a white wife beater that showcased his muscles and she could tell that he was fit underneath by the way the shirt hugged him. He had tattoos going up and down his arms all the way down to his hands, she even saw the top of one poking out on his chest from the top of his shirt. She looked at his face and became breathless at their proximity. From this angle, she could see the small, red facial tattoo he had on his upper right cheek and the small heart he had on his left. His beard and earrings made him all the more attractive and when he licked his lips she had to clear her throat to get a hold of herself.

"Enjoy yo' night Lourdes," he said and reached behind her to unlock the door. She felt his hand brush against her lower back and almost jumped at the feeling it gave her. She quickly turned around and speed-walked out of the house and to her car, replaying the action in her head.

"Bitch he what? I know das right!" Gianna exclaimed as Lourdes told them about the night before.

It was the night after and when Lourdes had gotten home the previous night, she jumped straight into the shower and went to sleep after, thinking about the way her name rolled off of Rashir's tongue. She went to sleep with scenarios running through her head but she reminded herself they wouldn't happen. Rashir was one of, if not the biggest whore at UMD. Even if she was to sleep with him, she didn't think she would be able to handle the attention that came with it afterward. Rashir was known to be very picky with who he slept with, she had heard from many girls that he was incredible in bed, but didn't sleep with anyone twice, and she didn't think she could handle only having one night with the Greek god.

"It's not even that big of a deal Gia, you're sicing it." She rolled her eyes and filed her nails. They were having a little girls night at Gianna's house in Takoma Park. The girls had already decided to stay the night since it was 10pm and they didn't feel like driving back to the apartment.

"Really?," Gianna straight-faced her, "That man is too fine for you to be acting like this! Why don't you wanna explore the idea of him having a lil crush on you? I say Nala should ask Nico to play Cupid." She grinned mischievously and rubbed her hands together.

"Now why am I in it?" Nala asked, looking at Gianna incredulously. "Leave me out of this," she shook her head and got up to go to the kitchen. "Hey! Do you have any Snapple in here?" She yelled from the kitchen.

"Top shelf!-" Gianna yelled back and looked back at Lourdes, "Lo, that is the captain of the basketball team and foine! Have you lost your mind?" Gianna insisted.

"Gia leave that poor girl alone, if she says she doesn't want him, she doesn't want him!" Aaliyah said from her seat on the couch, "Now shush I'm trying to watch this episode and y'all are talking loud as hell." she pointed to the TV that was currently playing an episode of Love and Hip Hop.

"Fine! But I'm just saying Lo, when a fine man offers you dick, you don't say no," Gianna shrugged and began painting her toes with white nail polish.

"He didn't offer me anything Gia," Lourdes gave her a pointed look.

"Yet!" Gianna smirked.

It was 1am and the girls had fallen asleep on the couch after watching a movie except for Gianna, who had already gone upstairs to her bedroom. Lourdes was sound asleep until she felt her phone vibrate against her chest. "How the hell did that get there?" she asked herself and untangled herself from Aaliyah whose leg was sitting on her shoulder. She sat up and checked the notification from her phone, almost dropping it when she saw it was a follow request from the one and only, Rashir Martin. "What the fuck? She wondered out loud. "How did he find my Instagram?" she thought and began to shake Nala and Aaliyah awake.

"What? What!" Nala muttered in her sleep and sat up. She looked at the clock and glared at Lourdes "What the hell is so important that you're waking me up at 1 in the damn morning?" she snapped.

"Where's Gianna?" Lourdes ignored Nala and felt around for the light switch.

"She's upstairs in her room, why? What's going on?" Aaliyah asked her while rubbing her eyes.

"Um, Rashir requested to follow me on IG," She avoided eye contact with Nala, knowing she would be mad she woke her up just for boy troubles.

"Are you fucking with me?-" She was right, "You woke me up because a boy followed you on Instagram? What do you expect us to do? I'm going back to sleep," She grumbled to herself and got up to go to one of the spare bedrooms in the house.

"Aaliyah what should I do?-" Lourdes looked at her with panic, "Should I follow him back? Should I wait? Should I even do anything?" She exclaimed and threw her arms up.

"Lourdes calm down babe, just follow him back in the morning okay? Go back to sleep, you need to relax," Aaliyah reassured her and ran her hands up and down her arms in a soothing manner.

"You're right," Lourdes took a deep breath and rubbed her eyes, "I'm gonna go to one of the bedrooms, goodnight," She smiled at Aaliyah and stood up. She got into the bed and placed her phone on the nightstand, and closed her eyes but her body refused to let her rest.

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