Saturday, 6:15am
Again like so many times before, I heard a basketball pounding against the concrete outside my window. I covered my ears with my pillow, forcing myself back to sleep.
But like many times before, I ended up waking right up. I angrily hopped out bed, mumbling swears under my breath. Looking outside, there Saint was per usual shooting his lil ball into the hoop.
He was dressed in nothing but a sweater, sweatpants, a durag, and some slides despite the cold weather. The sun wasn't even up yet but my man was out here practicing.
I lifted up my window, letting the heat out. "Saint cut that shit out!" I hissed, squinting at him.
He waved me off, continuing to bounce that damn ball.
"Saint." I called out to him, speaking through my teeth. "Come here."
He hopped the gate that separated our houses. I heard as the wind howled in the trees and the cold air kept hitting me constantly, hardening my nipples.
Once he was at my window, I leaned out of it and grabbed the ball out of his hands. "Now shut the fuck up."
"Ayo give me my ball Cassie. I'm not playing." He mumbled.
"What the fuck are you gonna do about it?" I asked putting the ball down and coming back to the window.
I watched as he opened up my window a little more, jumped up, and put one leg through it.
"You lucky I can't push you off. Cause if I did, you'd get hurt and I don't want that." I said, helping him in.
Now that he was in my room, he stood face to face with me. He was so close, I could feel my nipples graze his body that was almost pressed against mine.
"Where my ball at?" He mumbled.
I swallowed my spit, looked him in his eyes, and said "I don't know."
"Cassie I'm not playing with you." He mumbled once again. "Where my ball?"
"I. Don't. Know." I responded with a smirk on my face.
Lightly gripping my neck like he did when we kissed, he asked the question again.
"Where my ball at?" He asked, letting his lips touch mine as he spoke.
I gasped for air. Not because he was choking me with force but because I was so taken back. "Under my bed."
He let go of me, ducking under my bed. He grabbed his ball, coming back up to face me. He stared at me and my shocked expression.
He then pecked me on the lips. "I'll be back." He spoke, then putting one leg out of my window.
"So you really going back to practice." I whined.
"Duh." He said, rolling his eyes.
"Stay with me." I pouted, tugging on his arm.
He looked me up and down, licking his lips as one of his legs still stuck out of the window.
"You know damn well ya moms gone trip if she see me with you this early in your room." He sighed, taking his leg out of the window.
"Don't nobody gotta know. Just be quiet." I smiled, pulling him closer to me by his forearm.
He dropped his ball, letting it fall down on the floor.
"Boy I said be quiet! My mom finna come in here talking bout, 'Who the hell bouncing a basketball in my damn house at 6 in the damn morning!" I whispered.
"You right." he snickered.
He sat on my bed and I sat on his lap. He kicked his slides off, laying us down. Shifting in a comfortable enough position for the both of us, we spooned and put the covers over us.
"See ain't this better than playing ball all loud and shit while people sleeping?" I asked.
"Nah. Matter fact I was thinking bout waiting til you fell asleep to dip." He sighed.
I elbowed him in the chest. "Your mean." I whined, scooting away from him.
"Get yo ass back over here. I was playing with you." He laughed, pulling me back into him and now wrapping his arms around my waist.
"We ain't close the window." I laughed.
"Fuck it. We got each other for warmth." He shrugged.
There was a short silence before I broke it.
"I gotta ask you sum." I announced.
"What is it?" He asked.
"Can you please come to Lisa's party?" I asked.
"Noooo Cass. You know I don't fuck with parties like that." He whined.
"Why not?!" I asked, turning over and putting my leg over his hip and the other under the other side.
"I don't know, I just...I don't know. Especially house parties...like..." He said as if that explained anything.
"But it's not a house party. She's renting that skiing place. Me, You, Lisa, and Keone are supposed to stay in the lodge hotel rooms the day before." I explained.
"Skiing huh?" He mumbled.
"Yesssss." I whined. "And it's after your game so you don't have to worry about anything. A nice way to relax after working so damn hard and not getting enough sleep."
"Mann...aiii." He mumbled. "I'll go, but I ain't skiing."
"Why?!" I scoffed.
"Mane cause..." he started but didn't finish.
"Saint cause what?" I smiled, poking at his chest and twisting my finger around.
"Ion know how to ski girl damn." He whispered.
"Ha ha!" I laughed teasing him.
"You gone teach me?" He asked, biting his lip.
"Mmhm." I murmured, kissing his lips.
As we kissed, we both heard footsteps come down the hall.
"Aw shit." Saint mumbled.
With all my strength, I pushed him off of my bed.
"Damn what the-" he hissed before I shushed him.
"Get under the bed" I mouthed.
He rolled under as the footsteps approached my door. I threw my covers over me acting like I was knocked.
My heart beat so fast as I heard someone turn the knob on my door. Taking a little peek, it was my mom.
"This lil girl letting all the damn heat out. I just knew one of her windows was open." My mom huffed, closing my window then leaving my room and closing the door behind her.
Once she left, I leaned over my bed looking for Saint under it. Finding him, we both smiled at the situation. He slid from under the bed and back on top.
He sat up, leaning against the head board. I got on top of him and laid down like a newborn laid on its mother's chest. We put the covers over us and from there we both fell asleep.
***
9:00am
Waking up still on top of Saint, I adjusted my eyes to the bright light in the room. I rolled off of him, getting out of bed.
"Finally your up. My arm done fell asleep." He laughed.
"Why didn't you just get up?" I asked, stretching my entire body out.
"I ain't wanna wake you up." He said, waving me off.
"Hmm." I murmured with a smile at his small gesture.
Fixing my tank top strap and pulling it up, I stretched out my arms a bit more bending backwards.
"Okay. I can't keep hiding you in here. Hop out the window then ring the front door bell." I ordered.
"Aiii." He murmured, taking what I said in effect.
Not even a second went by and I heard the doorbell. "Damn that was fast! What the hell?!" I said in shock.
I ran out of my room, watching my mom beat me to opening the door. I couldn't see who it was at first assuming it was Saint. Getting a closer look it was actually Lisa standing at my front door.
"Good Morning Ms. Davis." She spoke.
"Morning Lis." My mom said, greeting her back.
My mom let Lisa come in, walking past me. "Your friend is here." She whispered, walking up the stairs.
I walked over to Lisa who was about to close the door but something had stopped her. We watched as it swung open. There Saint was confused as hell.
He walked in, yelling up the stairs. "Hey mama!"
"Hey Saint!" My mom yelled back downstairs.
"Ew, what's he doing here?" Lisa joked, scrunching her face up at Saint.
"He's at his moms for the weekend. So we usually spend the weekends together." I explained.
"Yeah." Saint said all confidently closing and locking the door behind him.
Lisa rolled her eyes, turning back towards me. The three of us sat in the living room. "Cass, why aren't you dressed? We posed to be going to the mall today." Lisa sighed, putting her bag down and unzipping her coat.
"Oh shit, I deadass forgot." I said, in realization.
"Wow Cass, you really leaving me?" Saint asked.
Before I could answer, Lisa cut me off. "Yeah she is, for me. So you can go back home to ya mama."
"No that is not what I was gonna say." I announced before Saint threw a lil cry baby fit. "What I was gonna say was that we should all go together. Us three plus Keone."
"Okay." Lisa mumbled, agreeing with me.
"Yeah Saint needs to go anyways. He finally decided he wanna go to your party. He need ski's and shit." I smiled, getting up from my seat on the couch.
"You just had to tell her." Saint said sucking his teeth.
"Oh so now you coming to my party huh?" Lisa asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Hell yeah and what about it?" He spat, playfully.
"I still want my 99 cent card and non-scented hand sanitizer." Lisa said, looking down at her nails.
"I'll go and get ready." I smiled happily.
"I'll wait down here." Lisa sighed, pulling out her phone.
"And I'll go back to my moms crib and meet y'all niggas back here." Saint said, getting up, dragging his feet across the floor and leaving the house.
I locked the door behind him, heading back to my room. Grabbing my towel, I walked into the bathroom to take a shower.
***
Finally ready, I headed down the hall and back into the living room. Saint had already been there dressed and ready. I applied lip gloss on my lips, smacking them and putting it away.
I could smell his body wash and cologne on him. It was my favorite. I walked over to him. Sitting on lap, I gave him a nice sloppy kiss.
He pulled away. "Get off me. You done got lip gloss all over my shit." He huffed.
I pushed him away, getting off top of him.
"Aii be like that then." I pouted, going back over to Lisa.
"You see that bum over there Lis..." I spoke, causing her to look up at me and smile.
"Cassie you better stop talking reckless and get yo ass back over here." He said, widening his legs and leaning back.
"Yessum!" I jumped, hopping back over to him.
I sat back on top of him. He gripped my butt while I just laid there.
"Ain't this my hoodie?" He asked looking down at me and his hoodie peeking through my coat furrowing his brow.
"Yeah." I smiled.
He sucked his teeth, holding me a little tighter. "You lucky I love you. Cause I would've taken that shit right back my nigga." He smiled.
"Are we ready or what?" Lisa asked, making a rapid motion hand gesture.
"Yeah. We are." I smiled, nuzzling my head in between Saints neck and shoulder.
"We finna go pick up my boyfriend cause this not fair. Ion like third wheeling" Lisa sighed, getting up from her seat.
Saint held me in his arms as we stood up. "Mama we finna leave now!" I yelled upstairs.
"Okay have a good time Cass." She yelled back down.
"Thanks. I will!" I yelled back up.
Lisa stepped out first. Then Saint and I followed as he still held me like a baby. He closed the door behind us.
I passed him my keys and he locked the door. Saint put me down, handing me my keys back. I scurried to Lisa's car, but before I could escape his arms reach, he smacked my ass.
I turned around with a smile on my face. He bit his lip looking me up and down.
I got in the passengers seat of the car, sitting next to Lisa.
"So you just finna leave me back here by myself?" Saint asked, sucking his teeth.
"Saint shut up! You are such a cry baby." Lisa spat.
"Well excuse me nigga damn. Yo ass just mad Keone ain't here. But when he do get here, he better put you in check." Saint responded.
"Boy shut up!" Lisa laughed attempting to hit Saint but he only dodged her hits.
"Ah ha! You mad!" He laughed.
"Cass you could go back there, if you'd like." Lisa smiled.
"You sure?" I asked giggling at the communication going on between them.
"Yeah go ahead." She said waving me off and starting the car.
I climbed over to the back seat, sitting down next to Saint and buckling my seat belt.
As soon as I did, he pulled out his phone.
"Saint what are you doing?" I smiled, covering my face.
"Taking a video so I have some to look at later." He said biting his lip.
"Stopppp" I blushed.
"Girl please. I got mad of these in my camera roll. With and without clothes. This ain't new." Saint laughed.
"What do you need em for?" I asked, watching as he stopped the video and watch it play back.
"Lets just say these shits come in handy." He smiled all goofy, raising his eyebrows.
"Your nasty." Lisa laughed, pointing back.
"Keep your eyes on the road Miss Uber driver." Saint said, sucking his teeth.
"Babe stop..." I said, before him and Lisa started play fighting again.
"Man she started it." Saint said sucking his teeth.
"Both of y'all...stop!" I demanded, sounding like the mother of two immature kids.
"Man whatever." Saint said sucking his teeth once again and waving us off.
I laughed, shaking my head. I looked down at my nails, tracing my thumb over them. My other hand rested on the cup holder in the middle separating Saint and I.
Suddenly I felt his hand, lay on top of mine. I looked up at him. He leaned in, placing his lips on mine.
"I'll stop." He spoke.
***
Pulling up in front of Keone's, we watched as he stood there shivering in the cold. It had to be about 30 degrees outside and he was in a hoodie and nothing else.
Lisa rolled down her window in irritation.
"Keone!" She called out.
He ran up to the car.
"Yeah babe." He answered, watching as his breath left his mouth.
"Put some damn clothes on!" She said, trying to put some sense into him.
"Oh, you see I ain't know how the weather was gonna be so I just threw on a hoodie. But then when I stepped out my door, it was already locked and I couldn't remember where the spare key was so-" he rambled.
"Baby...did you check under the welcome mat?" Lisa asked.
"Oh shit!" He said in realization, running back to the front door of his house.
"He's fine as shit but something up here just ain't clicking." Lisa sighed, pointing to her head in frustration.
Both Saint and I laughed at Lisa's remark, watching Keone rush back out of his house struggling to put on his coat.
Finally getting it on, Lisa reached over letting Keone in. They greeted it each other with a peck on the lips.
He turned towards Saint and I, dapping up the both of us. Then he fastened his seat belt.
"You straight?" Lisa asked dapping him up and making sure he was okay.
"Yeah I'm good." He smiled.
"Okay." Lisa huffed, starting the car.
"Let me drive the car." Keone demanded confidently.
"Noo!" Saint, Lisa and I said in unison putting our hands out in front of us as if we were stopping something.
"Aii chill." Keone, said letting his voice get higher as he put his hands up in surrender.
Lisa pulled out from in front of his house and drove down the street, Saints hand intertwined with mine, and the sound of Keone humming filled the car.
This was one of our first times going out as a group and I was here for it.
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