Toxic paradise

chapter 18

When we arrived at the mall, I immediately began to shop, trying on clothes and moved to the next store. Ashton didn't mind swiping his card without even looking at the price, he must've been ballin so I didn't ask any questions.

Ashton's P.O.V

Man, cece got me walkin nonstop around this mall with her. I aint gone trip though cause she deserves all this and more. Ciara dragged me to another store. Damn, her body is forever amazing. I couldn't keep my hands off of her. She wore that sundress on purpose. "Babe, we should get a matching outfit", she said. She must've been crazy. At first, I refused but she persuaded me.
We bought 2 snapbacks and black shirts that read 'Aye she's mine' 'aye he's mine'. Cece thought it was cute, I thought it was sappy but I'll do whatever it takes to make my girl happy. Our last stopwas at my job, footlocker, to pick out the matching kicks. I took it upon myself to pick out the kicks cause my baby and I gotta look fly.

Once we walked into the store, forst person who spotted me was jamal.
"Wasup man. You workin today? Cause I thought you were off", Jamal said dappin me up.
"Nah man. I just came here to do a lil shoppin for my girl and I", I said.
"That's wasup. Where she at?", he asked scanning the room.
"Check the baddest girl in the store."
As he looked, he said,"the girl in the sundress with the fat a--."
"Yeahh. I said stopping him and laughin. I don't know why every dude always say stuff like that but I get offensive cause that's all mine. "Damn bruh. How'd you get that?", he said.
"Gift from God himself, man. It wasn't easy. Especially cause she was with this ol cat named jay. Nigga didn't even want her or treated her right", I explained looking at cece while she checked out the shoes.
"Man, word around town is you never have the same chick around for long."
I laughed because it was true but cece, I think ima keep her around.
"Nah man the way it's going, I think I'm feeling cece enough to keep her around."
"Yeah. She badd though."
"Yeah. where stephen at?"
He pointed near the back. I walked over to the corner and found stephen stacking up shoes in correct order. "Yo", I said startling him. He looked back and dapped me up. "Ash, my man", he said. "What's good bruh?", I asked. "Nothin man. I'm doing work while you out there cakin it up with ya girl."
I laughed. "What you doing here anyways?", he asked placing his clipboard down.
"Man, I came here to shop with cece."
"Oh. She here?", he asked surprisingly. "Yeah", I told him. This nigga stood up, fixed his shirt and eyebrows. I looked like him like he was crazy. "What was the point of that, man?", I asked laughing at this nigga. Just then, ciara walked into our convo. She must've been looking for me.
"Baby, you like these? ", she picked out a pair of red & black retro Jordans. "Yeah, they cool", I said grabbing her waist close to me. Stephen made a noise. "Oh. Bae, this is stephen", I introduced. "Hi, I'm ciara but everyone calls me cece,she said reaching out for a handshake.
"Okay cool. I saw you at the movie night but we never really met so nice to meet you."
Ciara smiled and said,"you too."
I watched as stephen tried to stunt his game on my girl. I ain't mad at him though cause cece know who she wants and that's me. So it was funny to watch. "Bae. I'm gonna go look some more", ciara said. She kissed me on the lips and left. "Yoo! I'm so jealous of you right now man. No joke", stephen said as he watched cece's butt swayed in the dress. I laughed. "So you hit that yet?", he asked me. "Man, you already know."
"Word? When?"
"Last night man."
"You planned it?"
"Hell nah. It just happened and she can ride foreal", I said smirking as I thought about the night before.