me & tomfoolery

U+Me pt. 5 | Jordan Poole Short Story

Arrianna said yes, like they all knew. It was a beautiful engagement and she had no idea. She felt bad about what happened to Seven's rental and had been encouraging her to drink all night to forget about it. Also since she couldn't, someone had to drink for her.

"Your phone is ringing again." Seven noted as Jordan ignored the buzzing on the table they sat at. Their friends were up and down the establishment having a good time. He slow sipped his drink as Seven indulged in champagne.

Cierra had been calling him all night, wondering why he didn't invite her, he only knew that due to the slew of texts on his Lock Screen.

"You see I'm ignoring it right?"

"Okay Mr. Attitude." She wasn't about to waste her fun going back and forth with him. His mood was spoiled because he made a dumb decision and now had to pay for it. Jordan couldn't blame anyone else but himself for that.

Once she left him at the table he unlocked his phone to finally respond to Cierra. He walked outside to call her back.

"Calling and texting me like this is crazy. You doing way too much Ci."

"Why you acting like that? You told me we were linking since we reconnected and I haven't seen you since the gender reveal. That was last weekend. I'm about to be back in New York."

Jordan honestly didn't care what he said previously. He honestly wasn't planning to link in the first place. But it sounded nice when he invited her to a place she shouldn't have been.

"Listen, I shouldn't have agreed that knowing I wasn't really trying to link. But you proposed that, I didn't. What I said when we stopped the first time still applies. Too much going on, doing too much." He explained.

"Oh my God, it's about her ain't it? How you even know her?"

"It's about her for sure. That's who I wanna be with. You gotta respect that."

Cierra smacked her teeth feeling defeated. She didn't know she had competition and she knew that she was not going to beat out Seven for Jordan.

"Bye Jordan." She hung up. Jordan didn't care. He quickly blocked her and went back into the restaurant.

Juan and Audi were sitting at their own table, not able to keep their hands off each other. They noticed him walk in and called him over.

"What's good lovebirds?"

"Wondering why our friend is alone when you're here." Audi started. "Yeah, thought y'all would've gotten it together by now." Juan added.

Jordan's next move would be putting everything in place for him and Seven. "We'll be good after tonight."

"You sure? Cause she's having a good time with that Lakers player over there."

Jordan turned to where Audi pointed and Shaquille Harrison showed all 32 to smile at Seven as she sung along to a Beyoncé song.

"Yeah, no." Jordan maneuvered through the crowd of people to get to Seven.

He would be hard to ignore the way his figured blocked the light she was using to make a video. Seven looked up at him, having a stare down.

Shaquille walked around them, going back and to his table to talk to his date.

"What you over here doing?"
"Minding my business number 3. To what do I owe this displeasure?"

Displeasure? If Seven wanted to play this game. Jordan was going to play to right back.

"You owe a lot, c'mere." Seven shook her head no. "No? You heard when I said I was telling you right?"