Forever His Princess

-twenty two-

AMARI ROUSSEAU

"Hey, princess." I heard Niko say as I slowly opened my eyes. I let out a quiet groan, squinting at the brightness of the light coming from the window.

"What are you doing here?"

"Antoine called me, he said he wanted me here before you were ready so we could go to Celeste's place as soon as possible."

We were all going to have dinner at Celeste's house and to say I was nervous would be an understatement. She has a whole new family and we have to meet them. Antoine needs this. That's why I'm going, for Ant.

"Ant called you? When did you two start calling each other?" Nikolai shrugged slightly.

"Last week; the day after I asked you to be my girlfriend." I hummed and closed my eyes again, pulling the blanket up my body and over my head.

Nikolai shuffled himself under the blanket and laid down on his side, facing me, while I laid on my back. "Mar, it's 4pm, why weren't you up already? Are you sick? Do you need anything?"

"No, I'm fine. I was just tired because you're annoying ass kept me up on call all night, from 1am to God knows what time."

"You called me, princess." He said with a chuckle. "Besides, you fell asleep on call around 7am."

"Well, I missed you." I admitted quietly. It's only been two days since I saw him in person as well. What is this man doing to me?

"What was that?" Niko said smugly, acting as if he didn't hear me.

"I'm not gonna say it again, shame you missed it the first time." He laughed as he cupped my cheek for me to face him. "I missed you too. Come here." I quickly slapped my hand over my mouth and pulled away from him.

"I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

"I don't care." He mumbled, pulling me back to him but I quickly turned my head so he kissed my cheek.

"Nope, not happening." I got up and went to brush my teeth before coming back to lie down in bed next to him. I laughed when I saw the pout on his face.

"You've let me kiss you when you haven't brushed your teeth, why did you leave me now?"

"Those were pecks."

"How did you know that one wasn't just going to be a peck?"

"Because you had your 'I'm gonna kiss the fuck out of you' face." He laughed and shook his head at me.

"Are you gonna let me kiss you now?"

"Mhm." I straddled his waist and lowered myself until our lips met. Niko's hands immediately went down to my ass, massaging it, making me moan quietly against his lips.

He pulled away with a small smile on his face. "You have a beautiful smile." I said softly, only making his smile widen and his cheeks flush red.

"I've been looking for this hoodie." He said after a while, tugging at the strings.

"I took it a while ago, I like it."

"Am I getting it back any time soon?"

"You already know the answer to that, Nikolai."

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"For fuck's sake. Je le ferai pas. Il va devoir y aller tout seul, je n'y vais pas! (I'm not doing it. He's gonna have to go by himself, I'm not going!)" I yelled, throwing my edge brush at the mirror.

"Woah, Mar, what's wrong?"

"I have been trying to do my edges for the past ten minutes, I can't do it, Niko. Take Ant, I'm staying here." I said angrily, wiping the edge control from my hair. I started fumbling around with the towel but kept dropping it on the floor, making my anger bubble up further.