Whatever It Takes

What's In Your Pocket?

Odell POV
Practice is finally over and my next stop is Melanie's house

Until I'm cut off by the last person I expected to see

"What do you want Brenda?" I ask trying my best to walk past her

"You" she says placing both her hands on my shoulders, but I quickly knock them off

"What's wrong Odell?" she asks innocently

"I told you once, I'm not gonna tell you again" with that I try walking away again

"You know you can't forget about me Dell" she says tracing her fingers on my arm

"Don't play with me" I say bluntly

"I'll come to your place right now if you want" she says leaning in to kiss me and Jarvis appears out of nowhere thankfully

Brenda slips something into my pocket and walks away quickly

"Just gonna play my best friend like that?" Juice asks and I can tell he's pissed

"Look nothing happened and nothing is going to happen, I'm over Brenda completely. She keeps popping up randomly thinking I'm going to take her back, but I'm not"

"That's not what I just saw"

"As I said nothing was going to happen, don't mention this to Melanie alright Juice?"

"I'm not, you are"

Melanie POV
I finally got home to take a nap after being at my boutique for the last five hours and literally ten minutes laters my doorbell rings

"UGHHHHHH" I scream out loud

Slamming the door open I see Odell on the other side

"What?" I snap

"That time of the month?" he chuckles walking inside

"Odell I don't think it's funny"

"Okkk I was just kidding, how's my baby" he says kissing my forehead

"Not your baby" I say stomping upstairs to my room and he follows me

Laying face down on my bed he sits next to me

"What's wrong Mel?" he asks rubbing my back

"Nothing" I lie

"Did I do something?" he asks

"I don't know, did you?" I ask flipping over and looking at him

"Did Jarvis tell you?" he asks as if he already knows the answer

"Have any plans tonight?" I ask sitting up and looking him in the eyes to see if he's about to lie

"Look, nothing happened between her and I--"

I cut him off "Wait, what are you talking about?"

He looks confused and says "what are you talking about?"

"Who is she?"

"What did Jarvis tell you?" he asks instantly pissing me off

"FORGET ABOUT JARVIS ODELL, THIS IS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOU AND I, YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY HIDING SOMETHING" I scream

"NO MELANIE I'M NOT, STOP BEING SUCH A--" he raises his hand and stops himself

I flench and memories of how Cameron and I use to fight when we argued came back

"Mel" Odell says grabbing me and pulling me onto his lap and a tear rolls down my face "I would never hit you" he calmly says kissing my cheek

"I just want you to be honest with me Odell" I say turning and looking at him

"Brenda popped up today and Jarvis saw us talking, but nothing happened, she's irrelevant and I'm only thinking about you" he responds

"What about the team dinner, were you going to invite me?" I ask

"That's why I came here" he answers

Smiling again I lean in to kiss him and he deepens the kiss

Turning to straddle him he wraps his arms around my waist and continues the kiss

"Should we start getting ready?" I ask pulling away and he smirks and laughs

"What?" I ask laughing

"We could just keep doing this"

"After dinner, we can continue" I laugh

He jumps up and says "let's not waste time then" and grabs his car keys

As he gets up something falls out of his pocket and it's a note that says

'Dell baby this is my new number XXX-XXX-XXXX, see you later tonight...'

I guess he should've checked his pockets

"Odell"

"What?" he responds turning around

"What's in your pocket?"