The next morning getting ready for work I was in the best mood. That kiss was everything I wanted for a "first" kiss and more, it was thrilling and spontaneous. My cheeks hurt from smiling so much just thinking about it.

I still was kind of confused on what the kiss meant, but I mean I'm optimistic. He wouldn't have kissed me unless he actually liked me...right?

As I was in the middle of putting mascara on in the bathroom, Celine walks in with her phone in hand.

"Hunter dropped you off yesterday right?" She asked looking up with a smirk on her face

"Yeah why?" I question lowkey confused as I continued to apply my mascara

"That's cool, but you seemed to have left something out about what occurred before he dropped you?" She says with a knowing an smile

"What are you even talking about" she honestly was confusing the shit out me

"I'm talking about that kiss y'all shared outside the apartment" just as she said that I accidentally poked my eye with the mascara wand

"Oh fuck" I said my left eye twitching a little

"Oh fuck is right you sneaky bitch" she said glaring playfully at me

"How do you even know? Were you watching me?" I asked as I grabbed a makeup wipe to rub the running mascara out of my tearing left eye

"I wasn't watching you, but paparazzi was"

"Huh-" she then shoved her phone in my face, me coming face to face with a ShadeRoom post about Hunter

"Swipe left" she said and I did only to see a shot of Hunter and I kissing in his car. It was blurry and you couldn't really tell it was me, but I knew damn well it was me and apparently so did Celine.

"So you gonna explain or no? little miss 'We are only friends'" she said mocking my voice

"Whatever Celine" I said attempting to reapply the mascara to my left eye making sure to be careful this time

"Don't 'Whatever' me!" I roll my eyes at her. Then her face morphs into one of horror "that's why you didn't tell me! You had sex with him didn't you!"

"No! We didn't have sex crazy! I'm still a Virgin!" I say shocked. As you can see Celine is the more dramatic of us two.

"Ok calm down. You know even if you did have sex with him, I'd be proud. I mean it's Hunter, if I spent a whole day with him best believe I would have-"

"Ok Celine, I get it" I said putting my mascara back in my makeup bag "but as I said we didn't have sex" I walked out the bathroom past her to go put my makeup back in my room, and of course she followed me

"But you did kiss though?"

"Yeah we did, it was just a quick goodbye kiss" I say trying to downplay it as I looked for heels to match my outfit

"You act like it was some cheek kiss or some shit" she says laughing lightly

Grabbing the heels I wanted to wear I quickly slipped them on, I quickly checked my phone through the process and saw the time

"Well would you look at the time, loved the chat but I gotta go or I'll be late" I said grabbing my bag, kissing her on the cheek and heading to the door

"Nadia don't think this talk is over!"

"Yeah, yeah! Bye Celine" I yelled as I headed out the door.

I finally arrived at work, and began to set my things down on my desk. Sitting down I sighed knowing it was going to be a long day.

I started to dread coming to work, it was just not what I imagined it to be. The only reason I chose to major in journalism was because I knew my parents wouldn't support my decision to do music, and it was the second thing I was actually interested in.

My cousin on my moms side, Vince pulled that move. He went from a political science major to a Music major with an emphasis on Jazz. Let's just say he was the family gossip topic for his "stupid" decision.

Couldn't have been me. Don't get me wrong having this job is a great opportunity in itself, but I'm just not feeling it.

Ruby disrupted my thoughts as she stood by the door "You good? You looked a little out of it"

"No I'm fine, what's up"

"Nothing much, I just came to ask you if it was okay that I invited Laurel out to lunch with us, since she's new and all"

"Oh no, that's totally fine I don't have a problem with. That's great though I have yet to really really meet her so it'll be fun"

"Ok cool" she says about to walk away

"Oh wait! I don't know if I'll be having lunch with you today, I might be having it with someone" I was actually thinking about getting lunch with Hunter and maybe then we could talk a little

"Well okay let me know what you decide to do. Oh and if you don't come with us tell your mystery man I said 'Hi'"

She said walking away "who said it was a mystery man?" I question

She just threw a smile over her shoulder and kept on walking, I shake my head.

I quickly grab my phone and click on Hunter's contact name, the phone begins dialing until he finally picks up and answers

"Hey Nadia, what's up" he answers, his voice already putting a smile on my face

"Hey Hunter" I responded hoping he didn't spot the giddy-ness in my voice

"Wasn't expecting your call, but glad you did. It's great hearing your voice" he says chuckling,  this nigga is smooth.

"Yeah, actually I was calling to see if you wanted to get lunch later and talk about...ya know" I said trailing off not necessarily wanting to say the word 'kiss'

"Oh the kiss? Yeah don't worry about it. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing. Don't think into it too much, but I'm actually not in New York right now"

Spur of the moment thing?! What the fuck! Am I the only one that felt anything from that kiss at all?!

I gotta keep my composure. Don't blow up

"Oh okay. I didn't know you were traveling" I say tight lipped

"Yeah I'm in Atlanta. Despite having a fractured wrist I still have to go to the preseason games and stuff" he says laughing lightly

"Oh okay we'll never mind then" I said quickly, my heart sinking by the second

"We can still hang out when I get back"

"Yeah I'll think about it" I said hanging up before he could say something else.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK I'm such an idiot to think a guy like that would actually like a girl like me as more then a friend. Does he kiss all his friends who are girls?!

That shit literally ruined my whole day.

I focused on solely on getting my work done hoping to take my mind off this. To my surprise, lunch rolled around quicker then I thought as Ruby passed by the office "So you're not coming to lunch with us right" she questioned

Grabbing my bag "actually yeah I'll join you guys" putting on a forced smile.

A/N: I know in like chapter 1 I said Hunter was 25, but that's actually an inaccurate age for a rookie turned second year player. So he's actually 23 the same age as Nadia, but he's older then her by a couple months.

Also I know y'all sick of Hunter's shit already 😂😂

One more thing: Y'all see that new book cover though?! I made it myself, what y'all think?

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