Krystal frowned at Noa and said, "Bitch, the hell you doing at my man house?"
"Who you callin' a bitch?"
"You, bitch!" Krystal got in Noa's face.
Marcus came up behind Noa and panicked a little when he seen Krystal. "Babe...What you doing here?"
Krystal looked up at Marcus and got angrier. He excused Noa and she walked away. "No, Marcus, what the hell is SHE doin' here!"
"Baby, can you come inside?"
"No, Nigga! Answer my damn question!" She crossed her arms as she scrunched her eyebrows together. "Is this what you been doin' while I was gon'?"
"No, listen. Ok....Noa called me while I was at Kayla's house and she offered to give me the recipe to her pound cake. I told her she could come over when I got home. So now we're making cake together." He moved aside showing her the ingredients on the messy table.
Krystal felt a little dumb and embarrassed. "Babe...I-I'm sorry. I tho--."
"Shh...it's ok. You don't have to worry about it because I understand." He paused. "Now can you tell me why your here?"
"I can't be here?"
"Of course. But it was unexpected."
"I was right by your house so I wanted to stay the night with you, even though I don't have changing clothes."
"That's ok, you can wear some of my clothes."
"Thanks, babe...I'm sorry again." She hugged Marcus and gave him a long tongue kiss. She grabbed his ass and smiled. Before walking away, she have Noa a hard mean mug.
Krystal finally went upstairs and changed. She only put on one of his t-shirts. She smelled it and said, "Damn, this smell good." She put her hair in a ponytail and was about to get in the bed. No matter how sleepy she was, she didn't feel comfortable with Noa and her man downstairs..alone...together. So she tiptoed back downstairs and easeddropped.
"So now what." Marcus asked while she closed the oven.
"Now we wait. After that, it's done."
"That's it? Man, thats easy." The room was silent for a moment until Marcus broke it. "So what's up with you and Krystal?"
Noa looked up at Marcus and sighed. "Marcus, even though I haven't known you for so long, I feel like I can tell you almost anything. So...the reason me and Krystal don't get along is...because of me. Krystal is a really nice, smart, and beautiful girl. But I'm honestly jealous of her." She paused trying to gather her thoughts. "Everything she has, I want. She has sexy boyfriends. You...are sexy as hell and she's lucky and you're lucky. Calvin...is sexy as hell.
She gets all the sexy guys and what do I get? Nothing."
Marcus had a serious, but concerned look on his face. He felt bad for Noa because of the way she feels about Krystal and herself. "Noa, you're a beautiful young lady too and you can get any guy you want. Not just by your looks, but maybe you have a great personality."
"I dont, that's the problem. Sometimes I intend to be....cocky. All I really like to talk about is myself and what I can do. The reason why is because I don't have a lot to be proud of. There's not a lot of good things I can say about myself." Noa almost started to cry but held it back, not wanting him to see her be weak.
"Noa, it's ok. I'm pretty sure you have a lot of great things to say about yourself. You just have to find it and not let your...jealousy or cockiness get the best of you."
"Thank you, Marcus. No one has ever said that about me....except my mom." She giggled.
"Your welcome." Marcus smiled and hugged Noa. They pulled away and Noa grabbed her purse off the table.
"Its getting late so it's time for me to head home. Don't want to keep your girlfriend waiting." She smiled a little.
"Alright, see you later." Marcus closed the door behind her and locked it.
Krystal listened to their whole conversation and kinda felt bad for Noa. She heard Marcus footsteps coming closer so she quickly ran upstairs and hopped in the bed. She was breathing heavy from running but tried to hide it as Marcus came in.
He walked over to his side of the bed and climbed in with Krystal. He put his arm around her and kissed her neck.
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It was 12 am and Marcus and Krystal were knocked out. She suddenly got a text message, but she didn't hear it, though. She usually do, but it was the fact that she was so damn tired. Then it started ringing for a phone call. It wasn't on vibrate so the ringtone played. She opened her eyes and reached over to get it. Her phone brightness was up high so she didn't want to look at it.
"Hello?" She said in her deep sleepy voice.
"Can I speak to Krystal?" Calvin joked. He knew it was her.
"You know it's me, Calvin. What do you want?" She totally forgot about him warning her about his midnight call.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!" Calvin was practically screaming in the phone so she pulled it away a little. When she thought he was finished she opened her mouth to say something, but he kept going.
"HOW OLD ARE YOU? HOW OLD ARE YOU? HOW OLDDD ARE YOUU?"
He continued to sing loudly to her like it wasn't 12 in the morning. When he was done she said, "Thanks, Cal. But you didn't have to yell like that." She turned her head to make sure his screaming didn't wake Marcus. He was sound asleep.
"Sorry, but you know me...ok Imma let you sleep, goodnight, sexy."
"Goodnight." She hung up and turned on her stomach, falling back to sleep.
****
The next morning, Krystal woke up to breakfast in bed. Well, it wasn't in the bed, yet but she smelled it from downstairs. She sat up in the bed, yawning and stretching. Marcus came in the room with a tray of food. He smiled at her and set the tray across her lap.
"Happy birthday, baby." He gave her a kiss on the lips and sat on the edge of the bed next to her.
"Thanks, bae." she picked up her fork as she remembered that he, supposedly, couldn't cook. Then she realized that the food looked like IHOP's breakfast. "Did you pretend to make this?"
"No. I knew you would know where I got it from."
She nodded and started to eat. She was eating a lot faster than she usually did, which made Marcus wonder. "Did you eat last night, babe?"
She also realized how fast she was eating and remembered that she didn't eat anything else after her lunch yesterday. She still had a mouthful of food so she just shook her head.
"Well eat up. Because you have a big day ahead of you." Marcus winked at her and left the room. Krystal picked up her phone and seen lots of Instagram notifications and text messages saying 'Happy b-day'. She replied to most of them before Kayla called her.
"Hello?"
"Happy birthday!!! Turn the fuck up!" Kayla yelled.
Krystal smiled and laughed at her goofy friend. "Thanks, girl, and I will."
"Mhmm, I know you will. You and Marcus gon' turn up real good tonight." Kayla said while fake moaning in the phone. Krystal's mouth dropped.
"Marcus told you?"
"Duh! But don't worry, 'cuz you need some dick anyways."
"How would you know?"
"Girl, every woman needs some dick in they life. That's why I'm glowing so much and you not."
Krystal rolled her eyes and smiled. "Yea, that's true."
"Imma talk to you later, girl, turn up!"
"Ok bye." Krystal hung up and got out the bed. Marcus
came out the bathroom wearing some cargo shorts, blue, yellow, and white plaid polo long sleeve shirt, and Oxford tan shoes. Krystal looked at him and smiled. "Damn, why you always lookin' good as hell?" She walked to him and pulled him close.
"It's natural." He answered and pressed his lips on hers. She still had on nothing but his long t shirt. She walked past him to take a shower and get dressed.
After her long shower, she came out the bathroom to see a note on the bed from Marcus telling her he was at the store with Blue. She threw it away and was about to change into some fresh clothes, but forgot she didn't have any. So she put her work clothes back on. Her outfit was at her house so she took her things and left.
***
"So what the hell we at Walmart for?" Blue asks Marcus.
"I don't know, to be honest. I just wanted to give her time to get ready." They roamed around Walmart for awhile. They went into the chips aisle and picked up a few snacks. Blue was startled by a little boy throwing something at him. He turned around and was about to snap on him, until he locked eyes with Shante.
He quickly tried to turn back around but she noticed him already. "Well, well, well...look who we have here...Xavier Wright." She walked up behind him.
Marcus turned around and looked at her with a weird look wondering why she called him Xavier. "Bitch, I fuckin' told you not to call me that."
"Nigga, whatever! Yo' mama named you after yo' daddy, not no damn color." She put emphasizes on 'color'.
Blue tried ignoring her but she kept talking and talking...about nothing. "Shante, I'm obviously not listening to yo' ghetto ass right now."
"Spell ghetto!"
"S-H-A-N-T-E."
"Nigga whatever. I gotta go take my kids home, so I ain't got time for you."
"Yea, bye!" Blue said rudely waving her off.
"One of these kids probably yours." Shante said loudly drawing attention. Marcus frowned at her. 'So she basically don't know who her babys' daddies are?' Marcus thought.
"Pshh! Yea right! I wrapped it up every damn time. Ain't no way."
"Let me find out, boy!" Shante took her kids and walked away. Marcus looked at Blue.
"All 5 of them kids hers?"
"Shidd, probably! You know she a hoe. Her legs are like doors...they open up for anybody. Hell, she probably tried it wit' another girl, a midget...shit she probably fucked a damn elephant or a horse before!"
Marcus shook his head and walked away. They paid for the few things they got and left the store.
***
It was now 2:00 and Kayla and Marcus paid for a hotel Hall to have the party in. Everyone was there except Krystal who wanted to make a dramatic entrance so when she arrived she texted Kayla telling her to tell everyone she was here.
So Kayla took a mic and stood in front of the crowd. "Excuse me everyone!" Everybody stopped talking and turned their attention to Kayla. "The birthday girl has arrived!" While the crowd turned to the door she was gonna come through, Kayla peeked outside to see Krystal and Nick, her gay friend, walking towards the hall.
"Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the birthday girl!!!" Then Krystal and Nick came through the door being welcomed by the claps and whistles. But when Kayla saw the dress Krystal wore she almost dropped the mic. She had on a strapless red tight fitted dress with black heels and black jewelry.
"Girl that dress looks amazing on you!" Kayla looked her up and down.
"Thank you!" Krystal had her hair down and curled with dark blonde highlights at the ends. Everyone ran up to Krystal giving her hugs and kisses. Marcus stood in the corner staring at how beautiful she looks.
Kayla seen him doing this so she snapped him out of it. It was just like the first time they met and he couldn't keep his eyes off her. "She's gorgeous." He finally says.
"I know. You're lucky." They smiled at each other before she walked away. After all the greetings from everyone, Krystal finally noticed Marcus standing in the corner by himself. She made her way over to him.
"What's wrong with my wittle baby?" She asked trying to sound like a baby.
"Nothing. You just look so great." He pulled her close and began hugging and kissing her. It seemed like they couldn't stop, so Marcus ran his fingers down to her ass and squeezed it a little. She must've liked it because she moaned in his ear so he did it again. His eyes was closed so when he opened them he seen William (Krystal's dad) staring at him angrily. Marcus quickly pulled his hands back up to her back and pulled away from the kiss. Since she's wearing heels, they're about the same height now.
Marcus stood back and looked at her again. "You look so sexy, babe. Did I tell you that yet?"
"Yes, you did, now come here." She tries pulling him back to her but he wasn't budging.
"Hey, did you try my punch yet? I don't think you did, so come try it." He pulled her hand and led her to punch bowl that was right next to them. She took a cup, poured the juice in it, then drank it.
She smacked her lips, trying to get the taste of it. "Mm...that's good, who made it?"
"Me." He smiles proudly.
"Well this is really good baby. I'll make sure to get some more, but right now," She put the cup down and pulled him to her again. "I want one more kiss."
Marcus looked at William again and he wasn't paying attention so he kissed her. One more kiss turned into multiply kisses. Marcus looked at William again, and this time he was slowly approaching them. He tried to pull away but she was holding on...tight. "Babe, stop." His eyes drifted back at William who was getting closer and closer. He finally managed to pull away and Krystal gave him a mad look. William was finally between them as he smiled at them.
"Hello Marcus, how are you today?"
Marcus licked his lips and said, "I'm good, and you?"
"Oh I'm fantastic! You and Kayla did a really nice job on decorating." William complimented.
"Well thank you, sir."
William looked at Krystal before he said. "Feliz cumpleaños, cariño." Then he hugged and kissed her.
"Garcias, papa."
Marcus almost forgot that they were Puerto Rican. When he walked away, Krystal frowned at Marcus and said, "Que te pasa?"
"What?"
"What's wrong with you?" She repeated in English.
"I'm Sorry. I thought he would've said something to me about grabbing your ass."
"He's not gonna say nothing. As long as you respect me, that's all he really cares about."
Marcus felt relieved and took another drink of his punch before turning around to see Calvin coming in the door.