No Distractions

12

"Normani?" Someone calls her and she looked at the person calling her name.

"Ye...oh it's you." Normani responded after seeing who it was.

"I heard that you didn't wanna see Dinah." Camila mentions and Normani squinted her eyes.

"I have a question for you." Normani muttered.

"Ask away." Camila responded.

"Do you think I care for Dinah?" Normani questioned.

"Well, I would believe so-" Camila began speaking and Normani cuts her off.

"Well I don't, and you have some nerve coming up to me talking about her as if you didn't sleep with her the second her and I split apart." Normani kept her tone quiet meaning that Camila should just walk away.

"I'm sorry if I-" Camila put up her hands in defense.

"Oh no no, you didn't cause any problems. I'm just tired of people expecting me to do this and do that. I'm tired of Dinah and I'm tired of relationships. So you can have Dinah and do whatever you two do while me, I'll continue to do me since that's what I was doing before and life was great. I want to make this clear, Dinah and I will only be business partners, nothing more or nothing less. Understood?" Normani gave Camila a small innocent smile.

"I- Okay..." Camila swallowed the lump in her throat.

"Great, have a nice day Camila." Normani turned on her heel and continued her shopping as Camila let out a shaky breath.

After a week has passed, Dinah finally awoken from her concussion and she turned in shock to see Normani who was on her phone.

"I had a feeling she was going to awaken today based on the doctor's notes." Normani's manager told Normani and Normani looked up and at Dinah.

"What a sad sight, can we get this over with so I can leave?" Normani ushered.

"Normani I get that Dinah hurt-" Her manager tried to speak but Normani cuts him off.

"I have other shit to do then to discuss about the past. I'm worried about the present and future now and right now we need to get this done." Normani tossed her phone at her manager who caught it and Dinah looked at the two confused.

Normani began fanning her eyes so she could fake cry and Dinah had sat up but flinched in pain. She also realized she couldn't talk so she asked for something to write on. Normani's manager gave her his phone and she began typing away on his notes. She typed:

"What's going on? What happened?" Dinah first typed.

"You got into an accident and we have pretend like you "cheating" was false as well as address that we are still together." Normani explained as her eyes finally began leaking.

"Oh." Dinah typed as she looked down feeling guilty.

"Perfect, get the picture." Normani instructed as she placed her hand on Dinah's lap and her manager captured the picture.

Dinah looked up confused on what happened as Normani shot up out of her chair and snatched her phone out her hand.

"Get rid of your attitude." Her manager crossed his arms.

"Oh shut up, we should go for drinks after this." Normani began walking out and Dinah reached out for her.

"I have nothing better to do." Her manager ushered for her phone but Dinah began typing on it.

"Don't leave yet please, can you call someone and wait until they arrive?" Dinah pleaded with her typed words.

"I'll call Kehlani." Normani huffed as she quickly rang the girl's number.

"Thank you." Dinah smiled softly.

"Kehlani shut up, and get over to the hospital because Dinah is bored and wants company. Bye." Normani hung up the phone and switched to Instagram to post the picture.

Kehlani texted Normani (🧍🏽) making her and her manager giggle.

"Realizing you have to type a whole ass essay." Her manager snickered.

"Shut the hell up." Normani rolled her eyes as she wiped any remaining tear from her eyes.

"You love telling people to shut up." He also rolled his eyes.

"Because most of the times y'all do just need to be quiet." Normani clicked her tongue as she quickly wrote the paragraph.

She finished as soon as Kehlani, with friends, arrived to the room.

"Dinah!" Kehlani greeted.

"Not her!" Dinah was talking about Simone who was lingering in the back of the crowd.

"Dinah relax, the child isn't yours. We took a DNA test and it come back negative." Camila cleared.

"That's not why I'm saying not her." Dinah sighed.

"Can I have my phone back? Normani and I are leaving." Normani's manager held out his hand and Dinah slid it into his hand with a slight frown.

"I'm feeling a pub tonight." Normani spoke up.

"Sounds spicy." He agreed.

"Thanks for coming Normani." Ryan turned to Normani.

"I'll be 100% honest with you Ryan, I was forced here and this visit was only for business. But it was nice seeing you again." Normani explained with no filter and left with her manager jogging to catch up to her.

Ryan let out a huff before help entertain Dinah. Meanwhile, Normani and her manager was drunk out of their mind. Normani had gone to the bathroom for a minute and when she walked out, a guy came up to her then got a little close.

"How you doing little lady?" He smirked and Normani almost spat out her drink.

"I nearly puked. If you ever approach a girl, please come up with a better pick line." Normani tried to walk away but he grabbed her arm.

"Wait wait, where you going little mama?" He questioned and Normani eyes lowered.

"You know, there are so many types of drunks. The girl you are touching is a physical or aggressive type and she does not like to be touched." Normani kicked him in his balls causing him to fall onto the ground.

Everyone saw and most felt the pain while others cheered for her. She straightened herself out and walked back over to her manager.

"Ouch." Her manager says causing Normani to tip her drink.

"He deserved it." Normani downed her drink and they went to go dance soon after. (No they did not hook up because her manager is gay 🤭)