𝟎𝟐𝟎, 𝖽𝗈 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗐𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 ?
𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍: 𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗆𝖾 𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗇 𝖻𝗒 daniel caesar

𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚'𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

As always, every week was a long week leaving my brain fried, body sore, and tired as hell. The only thing that was pushing me was knowing that the end of each day I was having some form of communication with Imani and what pushed me through the week was the excitement of our weekend sleepovers.

"You packing like you finna go up that mountain and save yo marriage", Malia joked as I stuff my duffel nike bag with any type of clothes not caring but ready to go see my baby.

I rolled my eyes at her, "girl please", i said waving her off. She cleared her laughs, "nah for real, it's cute to see you like this, i can't wait to meet her", Malia teased the idea.

Ever since Mani and I made it official, it's been nothing but the team's goal to meet her; it was safe to say they already loved her based on the stories i tell them and how she interacts with them on social media like she already know them.

"Stop pushing it, I haven't even asked her yet", I tell Malia zipping up the bag making sure I had everything I needed. Malia sucked her teeth, "why not? You don't want her to meet us? You be stingy with her bro", Malia groaned.

I laughed a bit, hell yeah I'm stingy with her cause it ain't shit to share. "You doing a lil toooo much, you want her or sum?", I joked and Malia winked her eyes shrugging her shoulders.

"Ion usually swing that way but I did love to play on them swings at recess so I'm familiar with that area", She smirked but the smirk was quickly wiped off as I threw the nearest object at her.

Cause ion even play like that suh.

She mumbled bitch underneath her breath before throwing the object back which happened to be shoe, "all jokes aside, you don't have to let us meet her but at least consider it", Malia spoke.

I had no problem with the team meeting her, I just wasn't sure how everything would pan out or if Imani even wanted to take that step. We haven't even told our parents yet... "Okay", is all I say not wanting to get her a definite answer but something to her string along with the idea.

When I made to Mani dorm, she sat at her desk sitting criss cross applesauce in her chair with the beats resting on her head blasting music as she worked the sewing machine focused.

Her roommate had recently transferred away from USC to UCLA (poor choice) but she was cool people, when she left she let me have her key to the dorm so for moments like these when Imani didn't check her phone, blasting music and her own world meaning she wouldn't be able to open the door. I could just let myself in.

I dropped the duffel bag on my shoulders onto the floor slipping my shoes off during the process then making my way over towards to Imani. Sliding the beats off her head, "Hey baby", I greet her leaning down giving her a peck on the lips.

"Hi", she replied, humming at the kiss. "What's this?", I ask her pointing at the clothing piece she was currently working on. The way her face lit up at the question and that big smile plastered onto her face is why I always asked what she was making.

As much as she loved making clothing pieces, she love to talked about it. "Uh it's not done yet but I went to the book store on campus to pay for my science books and they had these USC apparel shirts so I thought it'll be cool to cut em all up and put it into one shirt like a quilt or sum", she rambled talking with her hands as she explained her idea.

"And then I'll be able to wear it for your next game, I'll look cute", she smiles as she finishes talking, her eyes still sparkling as she waits for me to say something. "I can't wait to see it when it's done, I'm getting turned on at the thought of you wearing it... for my game", I tell her with a sly smile.

She playfully roll her eyes but her smile was still big, "how do you even think of this stuff? its so creative and it always looks good", I question curious on how her beautiful works. "I don't know, I just get the idea in my head and work on it. Not all of them are good but ya know", she shrugs, "and sometimes I see just see something and get inspired by it", she answers.

I hum at her, "it's beautiful how your brain works and don't say they don't look good because fashion is suggestive, you might think that you made wasn't good but the next person will love it. always admire your work good or bad", I reassure her.

Imani nods her head at my words taking them in, "thank you baby", she says softly to me placing a kiss onto my cheek making me smile at her. "You're welcome, always".

"One thing before you get back to it, I was wondering if you're comfortable enough to meet the team official?", I ask folding my lips in between my teeth. "You don't have to meet them but I'll love for you too and ever since we've made it official they've been dying to meet you, but it's all up to you".

She shuffles in her seat before tearing her eyes away from her work and at me, "Of course, when?".  I was a little shock, actually no I was a lot of shock. "Really?", I trail tilting my head at her to make sure making her laugh as she cups my face into her hands fixing my head straight.

"Yeah, why you look so shocked?", Imani asked me, I shrug a bit because honestly I wasn't completely sure why I was shocked. "I don't know, it's just we're still new so i kinda got the idea you would still wanna wait", shrugging my shoulders.

Humming, "I get that you see it that way but no I'm okay, I'm ready to be out and open if you are...", she says but it's more of a question. "Yeah, I am", I quickly answer before stealing a kiss from her lips. "I'll let them know, okay".

Imani and my teammates in the same room was more chaotic than i expected but it was a good chaotic, everybody was having a good time and enjoying themselves. Imani meeting them was so natural and easy that thirty minutes in she had already fitted in with everybody so well.

Even though, I still made sure to watch her closely done from the expressions on her body to her body language looking for any sign of discomfort but she was good, everything was good.

As a team we had spilt all of us into three groups for a game of charades, and of course they put me and mani onto separate teams. My baby was soooooo far away.

My fingers danced around the rim of my glass cup filled with the contents of some unsweetened tea, as I stared at Imani in front of me too focused on the game to notice my stares. Smiles printed on her face and giggles escaping her soft brown lined lips. I shifted in my seat as a rush of heat ran through me.

"You got ants in yo pants? Fuck stay still", Kennedy teased me swatting my lap in a motherly manner. I mumble a soft apology still staring at the girl ahead of me. "Girl, you need to chill... you finna bust out yo damn drawls", she egged my shoulder.

Throwing my back at the joke laughing a bit as I cleared my throat because she was right, but when I looked back down taking a glance at Imani whom eyes were already on me... oh I'm finna bust out my drawls for real.

She did that little head tilt swiping her tongue over her bottom lip trying to read me like some book, and she smiled like she had read all the pages before straighten her head and turning back to the game.

Nooooooo, keep your eyes on me, keep reading me... just look at me baby.

"LEBRON JAMES", Kiki yelled as Dom did the motions of bouncing an imaginary ball up and down but she shook her head no.

"KOBE", no
"CURRY?", no
"COME ON ITS UH DURANT?", no
"AJA WILSON?", no.

All the answers seemed to be wrong and no matter how many names we shouted she still shook her head, "Ju", Imani replied with a soft firm tone. Dom stopped and pointed at Imani, "yeah", she said smiling at Imani for finally getting it right. "Well I did say LeBron James so technically I did get it right", Kiki tried to justify her answer making the team laugh.

Imani looked over at me with a smile and that glow in her eyes, that glow she gave me when she asked me to be with her, that glow when she demanded to kiss her and that glow when she said yes to being mines but to be fair this was a little different... a different glow but a glow i was itching to know what it was for.

So I stood up from the couch where I was smooshed in the middle, "we have to go", is all I could slip out of my mouth to embarrass that I might say the wrong thing.

Everybody looked at me confused, I cleared my throat before I repeated myself, "Me and Mani have to go... uh she... has an assignment due at 12 and I don't want to her to miss it".

There was a silence as everybody shared eyes with each other, fuck... say something say something say something. "Yeah, shit I forgot about that", Imani stands up saving my ass and suddenly everybody seemed cool with it.

Cool with that the fact she had to leave to do an assignment, but probably not the fact I was ripping my girlfriend away because I wanted to explore that glow... what the fuck.

"What was that?", Imani ask instantly as we step inside of her dorm shutting the dorm behind her locking it slipping her coat off her shoulders. "You okay? What's wrong?", she asked worried at my silence.

"I should be asking you that question, what was that? That... that fucking look you gave me... what was that?", I asked hanging on by a thread clearly losing my mind.

Her eyebrows raised in her confusion digging her hands into the pockets of her pants, "what are you talking about ju?". She had to be acting dumb because there was no way she gave me that look for no reason.

"Stop making it seem like I'm crazy, I saw that look you gave me when you got that answer right about me... it was like... I don't now", I whined because now I was feeling dumb.

What if the look didn't mean anything and I was just over analyzing everything but I wasn't because as soon as I told her, it was that glow again. "That", I point at her. "That look". I say.

"Oh shit", she mumbles mainly to herself. "I-I didn't even know I was...", she rambled stopping herself scared she'll say something she didn't want. "No, you didn't know what?", I asked.

Just tell me Mani.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to look at you that way it's just everytime I see you... I just want you", she says. "W-what do you mean? Want me? You have me", I string and she sighs pulling her hands out of her pockets as she walks over to me. "Yes I have you but ... Judea... I want you", her words are spoken into whispers but it ringed loudly all over my body.

Oh.

She places her hands onto the bottom of my waist before she lingers them underneath my shirt gripping me tight yanking me gently towards her, ohhhhh she wants me. "I only want this if you're ready Ju, I can wait".

Her hands burned into my skin as they continued to rise on my bare skin, my breath hitched as her fingers ran over my clothed nipple. "Tell me Ju, do you want this?", she whispers.

Clearing my throat, I nodded my head too scared that my voice will betray me. "No baby, words... tell me you want this", she begs me with a sly smirk on her face as she runs her thumb across my other nipple.

A moan escapes my lips as I answer, "y-yes...", I answer almost dropping to my knees as she places a kiss onto my neck. She smiles into my neck before looking into my eyes then stealing my lips.

Oh fuck yes, I want this.