𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲
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October 22𝐧𝐝
8:30 am
Orlando, F𝐋
Pushing open the door to the restaurant, Brooklyn was greeted by a line of people who were waiting to be seated. She opened her purse, grabbing her phone to text Kimberly. "I'm here"
After sending the text she waited for her response which didn't take long. She told Brooklyn to look up and when she did, Kimberly could be seen waving her down.
Walking past the people in front of her, she made her way over to her. And once she was right in front she finally had the chance to get a good look at her.
And she had to admit, Kimberly was a beautiful woman. Her long black body wave hair was slicked back into a ponytail, showing off the tattoos on her shoulder neck and. Her mocha long sleeve body con dress that reached her ankles, covered any more tattoos she had.
She was shorter and way thicker than Brooklyn. Her curvy body was accompanied by thicker arms and breasts, and also the seven-month baby belly.
"Hey boo" She smiled letting her Miami accent more noticeable to Brooklyn.
"Hey" She smiles excitedly, she looked down at her belly that poked out her ash white cardigan.
"Omg, I can't believe how much you've grown," Brooklyn followed behind Kimberly as she walked back over to their table. Where two menus were already placed flat on the table.
"Huh," Brooklyn pulled off her purse that strapped across her chest, over her head, and placed it on the table next to the condiments. "We've met before?"
"Girl yes. You were around eleven or ten, you use to love me" She gasped out not believing that she actually forgot about her.
"I'm sorry" Brooklyn laughed. "I don't really remember"
Around those years of her life wasn't really clear, a lot was happening and to cope with it she forgot almost her whole childhood.
"It's all good" she smiled "But how have you been, I heard you made it into college"
"Yeah, it's close by actually"
"Oh so you didn't wanna be too far from home" she chuckled as she reached into her large bag, grabbed the half-empty water bottle, and took a few sips from it.
"You can say that" she laughed off her comment "What about you, I heard you and Matty might move down here"
"Yeah, it was just a thought. Morgan is always missing her grandma and my mom be wanting her every weekend, but the drive" She widens her eyes and lets out a deep breath to exclaim the stress.
"I understand" Brook laughed "I took that drive a few times, can't imagine having to do it every week."
"Right! But me and Matthew been talking about it and I just hope we decide before our baby comes"
"Well, when y'all figure it out, let me know," She said making Kimberly nod.
"I Faso will, imma need a handy helper with moving" she laughed making Brooklyn do the same
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Breakfast with Kimberly was cut short once her mom called for her to come to get Morgan, but nevertheless, both girls had fun and got the chance to get to know each other better.
Kim dropped Brooklyn off at her apartment and while she was on her way back, she texted Giovanni that she was ready for him, to which she got a reply almost instantly.
He told her that he had to pick up a few things and then he would be on his way.
Walking into the apartment with the loud keys in her hand, announcing her presence, she walked in to be met with Imani, walking down the stair, still in her pajamas.
"Bitch where the fuck you been" she instantly began cussing out her friend who's been missing since last night. "Yo car is in the lot so I thought somebody kidnapped you"
"Girl, stop being so dramatic" Brooklyn smiled while throwing her purse onto the couch.
"I'm not, you just up and disappeared on me" she frowned as she followed Brooklyn to the kitchen
"The same thing you did to me with Nuke?" She glanced back before opening the fridge to grab the apple juice carton
"Not you throwing shade" Imani mugged.
"I'm just saying" She shrugged as she moved over the cupboard to grab a glass cup and then to the fridge for the apple juice.
"No, what you saying is, that you were with a nigga and you were cheating on me"
"Girl bye" Brooklyn shook her head as her lips thinned out from smiling. "You know I would never" she played along.
Imani waved her off before turning around after hearing someone creep down the stairs.
"Hey Nikko" Brooklyn pressed her lip together while side-eyeing Imani who was avoiding her gaze.
"When you get here," He asked rubbing away the tiredness.
"Just now" She put the top back on the juice and then returned it to its spot. "But I'm not gon be here long, so y'all can have y'all alone time again"
She walked past Imani with her glass in her hand and ignored her as she stared her down.
"Where you going?" she yelled from behind as Brooklyn just jogged up the stairs, smiling to herself.
She looked over the railing and into the kitchen where she could see Imani hopping off the stool. "Let me find out you going out with my brother"
That was the last thing she said before Brooklyn entered her bedroom. She took a couple of sips from the cup as she walked over to her closet and pushed it open.
She crossed her arms as she just let her eyes scan through the different clothing that hung off the hangers. So far she was liking anything she saw so finally used her hands to dig through and finally pulled out a grey puffer vest and a plain black hoodie.
She tossed the bed as she walked up to her shorter dresser. Finally putting down her cup, she used both hands to open in look through many drawers before pulling out a pair of black stack socks and black leggings she threw on the bed...
After finally getting dressed, Brooklyn stared at her reflection in the mirror, posing for each picture she took of herself.
Going to her gallery she scrolled through the pictures as she walked out of her room and down the stairs.
The smell of eggs filled her nose as soon as she entered the room, she looked up to see Imani cooking while Nuke sat on the couch with his phone in his hand.
She walked over to the same couch that Nuke was sitting on to get her purse. "Can you hand me that" She pointed to the black bag next to him before looking back down at her phone as a text message rolled down her screen.
"I'm outside" The text from him read.
Brooklyn swiped it and turns off her phone, seeing Nuke handing her purse.
"Bye, y'all" She waves off the couple, which made Imani put down the spatula and looked over at Brooklyn who was walking to the door.
"Tell my brother I said hey," She smiled making Brooklyn roll her eyes.
"Will do"
Leaving out the apartment Brooklyn finally made her way back downstairs where Giovanni was waiting for her in his car.
Opening the car door and triggering the light inside snatched Giovanni's attention from his phone and onto her as she hopped in the car.
Almost instantly her nose drowned in the soft scent of his cologne. He smelt good, he always did.
Dropping his phone in the cup holder, he sat up while licking his lips as he shift the car from park to drive.
"You know how to skate" He glanced at her as he turned out the lot, watching as she buckled herself in.
"Yeah?"She said finding his question random. "Where are we going?"
He didn't say anything. He just kept driving.
"I know you hear me talking to you" She smiled as she lean forward in her seat to get a better look at him.
" Grab that bag that's in the back" Finally letting her eyes leave him, she looked in the back seat of the car to see a large gray bag.
Snatching it up and putting it on her lap, Brooklyn began scrambling through it to find a hat, gloves, and ear muffs.
While she continued looking through finding different types of snacks, Giovanni frowned feeling the phone in his pocket go off, he was going to ignore it but once it rang again he reached into the pocket of his black hoodie, pulled out the flip phone finally answered it.
"Fuck you calling my phone back to back" He leaned back in his seat with one hand on the wheel while the other propped his phone against his ear
Brooklyn looked away from the bag and at him, noticing the sudden attitude change.
"I'm not working today, I'm busy." He rolled his eyes as he responded to who ever he was talking to. "Hit up Leo or Rocky with that shit"
Slowly he began getting irritated.
So instead of dealing with that he just hung up the phone and put it on silent before tossing it into the cup holder with his other phone
"You can go handle yo business," she said finally looking away.
"Didn't I say I was busy" He glanced over at her "I can handle business whenever, I just wanna be here with you right now"
She looked towards the window feeling as if her heart did a million flips in her chest.
"Can I do that, Brooklyn" He smiled shoving her shoulder.
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The sound of the sharp blade scraping against the ice filled the cold and empty rink as Brooklyn and Giovanni were the only two people skating on the ice.
Brooklyn laughed as she once again slipped and fell into his warm arms. A smile on his face as he looked down at her, watching as she embarrassingly continued to slip.
"I need the wall," She begged him again, but it felt like the more she asked the further he'd bring her on the ice.
He shook his head again before fixing the black earmuffs, making sure they were actually covering her ears.
"You said you wanted to learn" He chuckled.
She rolled her eyes and mocked him. So in response, he loosen the grip he had on her making her slip again.
"Okay, Okay, I'm sorry" Her screams echoed through the ring.
Her hands tightly gripped his shoulder, fearing that she would actually fall this time. Duke only laughed at her reaction before finally helping her again.
"Don't fuckin do that" She pinched him.
"Ouch" he grabbed his shoulder
"I should make you fall," She said keeping her eyes on the ice and her skates.
"If I fall we both going down"
"Then down we go" She smiled before kicking his skate making him lose balance.
"Brooklyn!-" He shouts as both of the falls and lands on the hard and cold ice.
She laughs seeing the look that he gave her, and she kept laughing until she laid on her back holding her stomach.
"I'm glad you found that funny" He laid next to her watching as her beautiful smile raised her cheekbones and made her almond eyes turn into crescents.
"I'm sorry" She took in a deep breath trying to calm her laughter "You okay?"
"I'm good, but how you feel?" She turn head to face him, to see that his eyes were already staring back at her.
She flipped her body to the side using her hand to support her head "I'm having so much fun with you" Her voice almost came out as a whisper as she confessed that to him.
He looked away feeling a weird feeling in his chest, it didn't hurt but it was uncomfortable and unnatural to him. And every time he looked back at her that feeling arose again.
He didn't know if he had a sudden heart condition or if he was going crazy.
𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫
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