Diamant Harris, known by her stage name "Iridessa", is on her way to becoming the new hottest thing in female rap. She has the perfect look, she has the perfect flow, she has the perfect life, and the perfect man.
Everything is perfect.... until on...
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"Can I ask you something?" Dia whispered from the back seat of the car. She knew the driver could still hear them, but she didn't care— it's not like the man knew them personally.
"Ask me what?"
"It's about last night. Why'd you say no when— yuh know? Why'd you tell me to ask you tonight instead?"
"Because I panicked. I don't mean no as in I don't want you to ask me, I just meant no as in— I just didn't think that was the right moment."
"Well I'm not asking you again," Dia said very seriously.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean exactly that. I'm not asking you again, because I thought we talked about this before. I thought you said we were ready?"
"We are ready."
"So why'd you say no?" Dia just couldn't understand that part.
She's been engaged before, so she knows exactly how this works. But unlike last time, this actually felt real. She wanted to do this because she sees her spending the rest of her life with this woman, not because she felt like it's what she was supposed to do— what society wanted her to do. She actually wants to marry Aurora because she wants to. Because she loves her, whole heartedly.
"I didn't say no— not really anyway. I said to ask me again tomorrow."
"That's not any better Aurora. It felt like you were rejecting me. And honestly? It hurt like hell. It was hella embarrassing how you just shut me down like that."
"I'm not rejecting you," Aurora held Dia's hands in her lap. "You know I love you and that I wanna be with you. Don't even question that."
"If you loved me, you wouldn't have said no."
"I want to marry you Dia," she assured her. "For real."
"Sure," Diamant slowly pulled her hands away from Aurora.
"Please don't be mad at me about last night," Aurora pouted.
Tonight was not the night for Diamant to be catching any type of attitude or getting mad for any reason at all— not for what Aurora had planned.
"I'm not mad," Dia whispered. "I'm just letting you know I'm not asking you again. And I'm being deadass serious too."
"Damn, so it's like that?"
"It's like that," Dia nodded her head. "You wanna marry me, then you can ask," she crossed her arms over her chest.
She wasn't mad per say, but she definitely did feel some of way about it.
