Trouble in paradise (official)

Chapter 11 " 🫨"

"Yo."

Koha calls out. He jogs over to Derek, exhausted after a long day of vigorous weight training. He groans, swinging his heavy football bag over one of his shoulders.

"Sup? What's going on?"

"Have you heard from Nai? I haven't heard shit from Lani." He says, staring down at his cell phone.

"I stopped by the other day to surprise her with her favorite food. But I didn't get a response."

"Mhm. Now that you mention it, it has been a while. She usually would have come crawling back by now. Hold up, let me hit her up."

Derek took out his phone. He pulls up Nai's messages, shooting her a quick text.

NaiNai👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼 : 'Hey babe imy🥴💕

————- message not delivered—————-

Derek tilts his head noticing the message turn green. "Not sent" He mumbled. "It didn't go through. You think she blocked me?" He looks over to Koha with knotted brows.

"See, this is why you shouldn't have said anything!" Koha snapped. "You and your dumbass mouth always get us in trouble. I ain't even do shit and yet my girl is mad at me! This is bullshit."

The boys make their way towards the parking lot.

"Come on. You know how me and Nai are. She's a lil sensitive, but I'm the king of smoothing shit over." He chuckles, tying his hair up into a small bun.

"No, the fuck you are not. If anything you're the king of gaslighting."

"That too, but listen haha. I just wanted some good luck sex before the big game. I don't see what the big————-."

*Bop*

"Ow- what the fuck!"  Koha punched Derek's head.

"I swear you're fucking dense! Do you understand common decency!? Like seriously? You don't just go four days with zero contact. Then randomly show up like 'Meet me in your room.' Just so you could fuck. Dumbass!" Koha shouted, punching his best friend in the arm.

Derek let out an empty laugh while rubbing the back of his head. He couldn't lie, he felt a little ashamed when Koha put it like that.

"I didn't want to just fuck her, she is my girlfriend after all. My future wife. We're cool. Isn't the urge to want to have sex with her normal? Like... that's what she's supposed to do."

A few students overheard the conversation. They looked at him like he had something stupid stuck to his face, that they could only get off with a fist.

Koha shook his head in utter disappointment. The fact that you actually believe the shit that comes out of your mouth, is what gets me. I don't know why she dates you." He says, opening the car door.

Derek rolled his eyes, shutting the door of the car. He starts it up, messing with the radio before taking off.

"Yeah okay... How's your mama doing? I know that's where you have been since Lani hasn't been letting you on her couch."

"Whatever. Me and Lani don't have half as fucked up a relationship as y'all. We're at least trying to get our shit together. Koha sighed deeply looking at the messages that weren't sent. 

This wasn't like the girls, to go this long without talking to them. Koha missed Lani's voice. He missed the way he would sit between her legs, while she braided his silky hair. The laughs, the sweet kisses. Quality time like that was something hard to come by these days. With their busy schedules. He'd be lucky to even meet up with her for a quick dinner.