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january 25th, 2024
4:10 pm

NOELANI MADE HER WAY up to her bedroom, a basket full of freshly dried clothes in her hands.

Alani was asleep in a nap, Jalen was working and Leilani was out doing God knows what so Noelani had the house quiet and to herself.

Noelani hummed an old song by her friend, Ayoluwa, as she made her way up the stairs slowly so that she didn't fall backwards from the weight of the clothes.

Once she was inside her bedroom, Noelani placed the basket on top of the made up bed and then adjusted the door so that she could hear any noise that Alani made.

Continuing to hum, Noelani dumped the clothes onto the made up bed then reached for one of Jalen's t-shirts to start folding it.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Noelani could hear Leilani call behind her.

In response, Noelani let out an annoyed sigh but didn't turn around.

"Are you folding his clothes?" Leilani asked as she laid on the empty foot of the bed.

"I'm folding our clothes actually." Noelani said in a dry tone, "Don't start. I've literally had enough of you."

Leilani scoffed, "Ouch."

Her gaze turned to a framed picture on the nightstand of Noelani, Jalen and some of their friends, "Rude, Noel."

"Please shut up, Lei." Noelani responded as she grabbed a new article of clothing.

"Still rude!" Leilani replied.

Noelani ignored her, choosing instead to put away a stack of now folded clothes into Jalen's closet.

Her cousin followed her into the enclosed space, "He has a lot of shoes, huh?"

Noelani turned her head halfway to give Leilani a weird look, "Um, yeah. I guess. He's a sneaker head, that isn't a secret."

Leilani took a pair of Jordan 1 Diors into her hand, looked inside for about twenty seconds then replaced them on the shelf.

"What are you doing, Lei?" Noelani asked in an annoyed tone.

"Just seeing what his shoe size is." Leilani replied.

"You're weird," Noelani commented before pushing her cousin out of the closet, "What does it matter what his shoe size is?"

Leilani shrugged before plopping back onto the end of the bed, "You know what would fix your grumpy mood?"

Noelani rolled her eyes at the abrupt change of topic, "I'm not grumpy. I'm annoyed because you won't stop going out of your way to piss Jalen off."

"A little anger once in a while is good for the soul," Leilani replied in a cool tone.

Noelani sent her a glare whilst folding a white tennis skirt in her hands.

"Fine," Leilani blew out a breath, "If I apologize to him, will you come out with us tonight?"

"'Us'?"

"Me and Jamie. There's this new club opening tonight near LACMA. Come with us," Leilani encouraged.

Noelani made a face, "Nah... That doesn't sound like a good idea."

"Yes, it does," Leilani poked Noelani's shoulder, "When was the last time you went out out? Like dancing, have fun, getting drunk out?"

Noelani racked her brain throughly to provide an answer but most of her memories of partying were pre-Alani.

"I quit that when I got pregnant." Noelani admitted finally, "It's been awhile."

"Exactly! Alani is almost a year now." Leilani pointed out.

"I know but when I'm more than three hours away from her, my stomach starts to hurt. My mom says it's worry or anxiety or something. I don't know."

"Pop an Advil and relax," Leilani suggested, "Don't be boring tonight. Let's bring the old Noel out tonight."

There was that word again.

Boring.

Noelani could feel the burn of being publicly challenged rise inside of her and she released a deep sigh before placing the half folded shirt to the side, "I don't know about the old Noel popping up but, I'll go... For like forty five minutes."

Leilani narrowed her eyes, "The whole night."

Noelani immediately shook her head, "An hour."

"Five."

"One."

"Three."

"One."

"Two? Please. Just two?"

Noelani pursed her lips a little, "Just two. And it has to be after Jalen is home and Alani is asleep for the night."

Leilani rolled her eyes as she slid off of the bed, "Obviously. Now where do you keep your party clothes?"

TIME SKIP!

10:46 pm

Noelani was already regretting coming out tonight.

Once upon a time, being in the hottest club on opening night in a short dress would've been a regular night for her but as she looked around at the expansive club with multicolored lights, all Noelani wanted to do was be in bed with her boyfriend, asleep.

Maybe, Leilani is right and I am becoming boring.

She glanced down at the timer on her phone and then up to where Leilani was dancing with her own phone in her hand.

"You know," Noelani rose unsteadily due to her high heels, "I think I've had enough tonight. Jamie isn't even here..."

"Uh, uh. You haven't even tried to have fun. Come to the dance floor with me." Leilani took Noelani's arm to pull her along.

The song blasting in the venue was the latest DJ Khaled and the bass was making the floor slightly shake.

"Speak of the devil," Leilani jerked her chin forward.

Beelining towards them was Jamie, in her own dress and heels and three shot cups in her hand.

"Hey, y'all." Jamie greeted when she was close enough and began to pass out the shots of whiskey.

"I'm breastfeeding still. That means no alcohol," Noelani reminded them as she passed back the cup, "I was about to leave anyway."

"No. You promised me two hours and it hasn't even been thirty five minutes." Leilani complained.

"I know but..." Noelani trailed off as the song switched over to Essence by Wizkid.

"I love this song," Noelani began to let the beat course through her body similar to blood, feeling her hips move accordingly.

"Finally! There she is! Let's have some fun," Leilani and Jamie threw back their shots as the night continued on.

Maybe just a couple of songs wouldn't hurt...

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