"Hey girl! Where you goin looking all sexy and shit?" She looks me up and down playfully.

"Girl stop. I'm going on a date with Kuminga." I whisper.

"Okayyy.. I see youuuu!" She damn near screams out.

"Girl be quiet damn. I'm tryna sleep." I hear Jordan's raspy voice from behind her. He comes from around her to give me a side hug. He goes behind Renee and wraps his arms around her waist and sets his head on her shoulder. I give her a look that says, 'Oh?'. She gives me the 'Yeah, that's what I said' look. I shake my head.

"Anyways, I'm gotta get going. I love y'all bye."

"We love you too! Get sumn..." She said smirking.

"Girl get yo ass in the bed. Damn." I said shaking my head big time.

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I head outside the door thinking on how this date might go. 'Will a bitch pop up and claim him out of nowhere?' Now you know damn well... 'Will he take me out then never talk to me again?' Aaija, stop overthinking so much. Trust God!

'You right!'

I get in the car and take the 10 minute drive to Jonathan's house. I believe we're having a sleepover after the date because it's around 4 o' clock right now.

I park, get out and head to the front door. Before I even get the chance to ring the doorbell, I get startled by Jonathan opening the door with a huge smile on his face.

"Hey Aaija, I'm ready, are you?" He asks sheepishly.

"Yes, I just needa use the bathroom. Can you show me the way?" I say as he welcomes me in.

"Sure." He shows me the way, then tells me he'll be in the front waiting.

As I'm drying off my hands, I get a call from Renee.

"Hi, why are you calling me? I'm in the bathroom of this man's beautiful home."

"You sure? You wouldn't answer if you were on the toliet." I can feel her giving me a questioning face.

"Girl- whatever I gotta' go. He's waiting on me." I hang up before she can respond to me.

I finish drying my hands off and I open the door and I walk back to the door. He opens the door for me and locks it behind him. He walks me to the passenger side of his all matte black G-Wagon, and opens the door for me.

"Thank you, kind sir." I say holding his hand getting in.

"You're welcome, beautiful lady." He says, cheesing.

I smile back even harder knowing I've never had someone give me this attention other than Renee or my parents.

He walks over to his door and gets in and we buckle our seatbelts simultaneously.

"You ready?" He said turning his head to me.

"Always." I nod my head.

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I look up from my IPhone 13 and see we've arrived at Dave and Busters. He gets out and helps me out the car.

He holds my hand the whole way to door, he opens that for me, and pays for our cards as I stare at him admirably.

The registar gives us the wristbands and we step aside to put them on. I put his on while he puts on mine.

After I finish putting his, I look up and smile at him wholeheartedly. I'm so geeked and I love that for me.

"Whatchu' wanna' play first?"

"I don't really know, oou maybe this one." I jog to the game where you have to time the balls in these little holes.

"Can we play this one please?" I give him my 'Pleaseee' pout.

"Of course we can A. I put 250 credits on this, and we gon' use all of em." He says laughing.

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We're at about 30 credits and we both decided to do basketball last. I didn't tell y'all but I've hooped since I was I think 10. I stopped after college, because I didn't wanna' travel all over the world. I still got it forsure though.

"I'll beat yo' ass word." He shakes his head.

"I think you forgot, I'm in the NBA."

"That doesn't mean a damn thing." I say giving him a playful stank face.

"I didn't tell you I hooped for 10+ years?" He gives me a shocked face as I slide the card through the reader.

"Hell no. Now I gotta' bring my A game."

"I thought you would've already brought it." I raise an eyebrow.

"Whatever, start the game." He smiles rolling his eyes.

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I end up winning the first and second but then he beats me by 25 in the third. I win the fourth by one point before we decide to go order food.

"What would you like today beautiful?" A handsome lightskin man asks me.

I smile awkwardly and order a 10 piece wing with s side of fries, with a strawberry lemonade.

Jonathan gets protective and wraps his right arm around my waist, and orders his food. The waitress looks at him with a mug, while Jonathan smiles at him dead in the eyes.

He tells us it'll be a minute and we walk to the table. They're cook calls out our order and Jonathan gets up and gets it.

He sits down and we bless our food, start eating when he asks me a question.

"You think he cute?"

"Yes.. Not cuter than you honestly."

"Ion' really like lightskins like that." I add.

"Hmmm." He says staring me in the eyes deeply.

"Why you do that??" My left eyebrow raises.

"I'm just focused on looking at you." I'm glad I'm not lightskin because you would've saw this redness all over my face.

"You calling me nice to look at?" I challenge.

"Sure am. Amazing to hang and talk to." I smile wholeheartedly.

"Same with you, Kuminga."

We finish eating and head out to the G- Wagon, as he opens my door for me.

"You wait here while I get your surprise."

I nod smiling hard as hell, grabbing my phone from my back pocket to call Renee.

"Alright."

Once he closes the door, I quickly wait for him to open the door to Daves'.

I ring Renee and she answers on the second ring.

"How'd it go?" She says impatiently.

"Girllll. It's going great. He's been opening doors and so polite to me. I love this for me."

"I love it for you too babes. Anyways, lemme' let you go before I get in trouble with this nigga Anthony."

"Ouu, what y'all finna' get into?" I wiggle my eyebrows.

"Shower, then go to the grocery store since this man done' ate up all my food."

"Wait... Shower, together?"

"Huh? The call cutting out. I can't hear you. I gotta' go. I love youuu." She fakes the static and hangs up quickly.

"Girl-"

I shake my head and laugh in disappointment as Jonathan comes out with this big ass panda bear stuffed animal.

He opens my door and hands me the panda and gets in his side as fast as possible.

"I'm heading home. Is there anywhere you wanna go?"

I shake my head saying 'No'.

"Ight' let's head out." He says looking at the car radio screen to back out.

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