Raina and I finished cleaning up everything. My mom decided to go back home. She wanted to give Rai and I our privacy since she was staying over. I was against it and so was Rai but she said she needed to get back home anyway. I told her to call me if dad stopped by.

Rai's upstairs taking a shower. I'm about to do the same in the guest bath.

Today was a long day and this shower is everything right now. After cleaning myself up I stood in there enjoying the water hitting me. I could literally fall asleep standing up.

I heard the door open so I turned the water off and slid the fogged glass door open peeking my head out. It was Raina standing in my robe, its pretty obvious that's all she's wearing.

She stared at me with this odd look in her eyes. It was like she wanted to say something but was nervous about it.

"Everything ok?"

"Yeah, I just wanted to come in here with you." She answered nervously.

"Come in, shut the door. There's a bench over there." I pointed, she went over to sit.

I dried off and got out. She never took her eyes off of me. So I stood in front of the sink facing her so she could look at all of me. She was curious and I don't mind her looking.

"Talk to me Munch. What's on your mind?" I asked while leaning my body against the counter and crossed one foot over the other.

"I can't talk to you with you know, that out." She mumbled pointing to my friend below. I laughed.

"What is that you're referring to?" I asked, just testing the waters seeing if she would say it.

"Not funny, you're trying to get me to say something dirty." She smiled sarcastically.

I chuckled a little while sliding on my basketball shorts. So she could tell me what's on her mind.

"How are you so comfortable with being naked?"

I paused thinking of a way to answer this. I'm taking a moment because I know this is a tough one for her and she's genuinely asking. I thought back to how self-conscious she's always been.

"Did you hear me?"

I nodded. "I heard you." I paused again briefly. "I love the way I look, and I'm mean that in the most humble way possible. I'm confident in myself, because at the end of the day we're all flawed. Plus I know you like what you see, just like I like what I see with you."

"You're beyond beautiful." I stated breathlessly gazing in her eyes. She slowly smiled at me, we continued to stare at each other. Something we tend to do often.

"Alright, now can you go back and put some clothes on? I already figured out you don't have anything on underneath that robe." I added.

"How can you be so sure, I could have on some shorts and a low cut tank top."

"Rai." I humorously smirked, tilting my head to the side showing her how serious I was. "I haven't had sex in a long ass time, as you already know. So I know you're naked underneath. I can tell by the way that shit's creasing up and how your titties' are moving." I stated making her gasp and clutch her breast trying to cover up even more. She hopped up speed walking out of the bathroom. I continued to laugh.

"Oh and the way yo' ass was moving when you walked over to sit on that bench." I added while laughing as she slammed the door.

I finished getting myself together then went to the fridge to grab a bottle of water. I took my time before getting to the bedroom because I was horny as hell. I was about to hop back in the shower but I decided against it.

Walking in the bedroom I saw that Rai was still in the bathroom. So I pulled back the sheets and got in the bed getting comfortable. I grabbed the remote and flipped the tv on. I was satisfied with what was playing so I left it there.

I grabbed my phone from off the nightstand next to me and started scrolling through it. Same ol' stuff on social media. I got a whole bunch of DMs by random women, I haven't seen in ages and some I've never met. I went through and deleted the nude pics and messages then blocked all of them. Something I forgot to do.

Rai finally came out of the bathroom looking all sexy and everything. Damn this is not going to be easy. She came out in a grey tank top and matching low cut shorts. The thin fabric clung to her skin, her nipples were looking straight at me. I couldn't help but look, I can see them visibly through her top. I know I look stupid as hell right now.

"Damn." I mumbled.

She smirked joining me under the covers. Her black opium scent lingered. I scrolled up on my phone to get to the camera, trying to get my focus on something else.

"Babe take a picture with me real quick?" I asked.

She leaned over, we snapped a few. She snatched my phone so she could go through the pictures. She deleted the ones she didn't like.

I leaned back. "Let me know when you're done, so I can change my profile." She sat up going through the photos and I watched tv while rubbing circles on her lower back.

"Done. I sent a few to my phone." She handed me back my phone, I went ahead and changed my profile then locked it, tossing it on the night stand. It started vibrating non stop. I grabbed it and unlocked it noticing a bunch of likes and comments.

"Dang, your phone is blowing up."

I went through some comments just out of curiosity. Rai leaned over so she could see.

"You put our picture on there?"

"Yeah, is that ok?" I asked curiously.

"Yes." She smiled and grabbed my phone again to read some of the comments. "Well a lot of people are sending the peeping eyes and you have some not so friendly supporters. —Specifically women."

"You know I don't care about that." My eyes began to get heavy.

"Troy commented, he said gon' with all that mushy shit." She imitated while laughing, I chuckled a little.

"Chance replied to him talking about you just got off the phone with your girl singing and reciting poetry. Roses are red violets are blue #headass."

"Troy just sent back gon' with all that bullshit, we all know how I get down. He better stop before my cousin Cyrene catch a flight real quick." She laughed again.

"Right." I replied while still looking at tv.

"Chance just replied to him, he said stop capping, before I call your girl and Troy replied back saying DTMF (doing too much fam)." She closed my phone handing it back to me. She shifted getting comfortable.

"Why did you come in the bathroom?" I asked while turning my notifications off because my phone was still going off.

She shrugged. "You know why."

"No I don't."

"Well it's obvious."

"I don't want to assume anything, but if you're not ready to tell me then I understand that too. No pressure."

"I don't know." She mumbled shrugging her shoulders.

"Let's change the subject."

"K." She replied a little short and kind of curt, while picking up the remote. She flipped through the channels not finding anything. The show I was watching ended there was nothing interesting on. She turned the tv off and cuddled up on top of me laying her head on my chest. I moved some of her hair out of my face, then leaned over turning the light off by the bed. We were silent for a few minutes.

"Rai, —I know sex or anything dealing with sex is not a topic you're comfortable with. Again I don't want to assume anything but I feel like I know that's what you were thinking about. —And since it's not something you can discuss, that tells me you're not ready." I spoke softly. I felt a tear fall on my chest.

I continued. "I'm not ready to go there with you yet either, I want to date you and spend more time with you. We don't have to hide anymore so we can go out and do whatever we want. I say let's live in this for a while first."

She sniffled and continued to listen.

"It's difficult, I want you every time I see you baby. You're so beautiful. Seeing you walk around here with this on, is taking some serious restraint. —Oh but when we actually do have sex imma' need you to clear your schedule for at the very least two weeks. It will be that serious. Non stop and I don't want to hear you say shit about it either. "

She laughed a little wiping her eyes sniffling again. She took a moment to gather her emotions before speaking.

"I know I'm not ready. I was trying to initiate it though. I figured I would join you in the shower but I chickened out. Then I came in here with my thin tank top and shorts on, hoping you would just take it from there."

I rubbed her back. "So that's why you took forever in the bathroom. There's no need to rush it babe. I went this long I can wait."

"I thought you were going to tell me no, and say the things you're saying right now. I wouldn't know how to handle you rejecting me. I feel like if I was any other female you would've tried to have sex with me by now." She confessed.

I exhaled. "Munch we just got back together last weekend. When we were together we weren't able to spend time together. So that's where our focus should be. —FYI you're no other female. No other female could make me want to wait, and be proud of it."

She didn't say anything so I continued.

"I love you, and don't think I didn't notice you're still wearing the ring I gave you. I noticed it when I visited your dorm. Don't forget why I gave it to you. Specifically for times like these when you have doubt, know that I only want you. I will always wait for you." I reminded her.

"Ok." She whispered faintly.

"Now stop crying, you know that shit breaks me every time." I lifted her face and wiped her tears, kissing her softly. "I love you so much baby, you have no idea."

"I love you too."

We stayed like that until we drifted off to sleep. Today was a long day between her traveling and me getting this party together we were both tired.

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