One Chance

Waiting for Him

Janet POV

So I was able to sneak out without Mauldin bothering me or noticing. Unfortunately, Nelly caught me right before I left.

"Hey J!"

"What's up?"

"Why you not givin' my boy any play?"

"You serious right now?!"

"Yeah?"

"After he did me dirty? Really Nelly? Did he have you come over here and talk him up?"

"Look it was in the past. Y'all obviously moved passed that now. Y'all cool."

"Yeah and it took me a while to get over that."

"You know he still got love for you."

"I can't talk about this right now with you. He knows what's up. He and I spoke."

"I'm just lookin out for y'all. You guys were made for each other. You belong together."

"You didn't know what happened or know the ins and outs of our relationship. And it's something I'm not going to get into now. Nelly, I love you like a brother please just leave it be."

"Okay J. I'm sorry. I love you sis. I just want what's best for you guys and I think that's each other."

"I understand and love you too. I gotta go." I gave him a quick hug before I found Joey and left out.

I can't believe Nelly approached me with that crap. I can't believe Mauldin asked me if we could get back together! I can't believe he said he still loves me after all that. The fucking nerve...I've been married and had whole a kid after that...and he still loves me?!

Yeah...who am I kiddin... I can believe it. I was beyond good to that man. But he treated me like shit in the end. I knew I could never could go back to that. When I needed him he wasn't around. He was always working. He took me for granted like they always did. It made me think and wonder again if I was the actual problem in my relationships. I always struggled with guys and relationships. Maybe I just didn't know how to pick them. Maybe it stemmed from my relationship with my own father, Joseph. We didn't have a decent relationship until I was damn near in my thirties. It was everyone trying to come up in being with me, but never really with me.

Plus Darius really had my whole heart, he just didn't know it. He was so young though! I don't know how it happened. At first it was just me teasing him, but he ended up puttin it on me. Did he know what he was doing? Maybe I was the one gettin played. Did he know the affect he had on me? Did he even know what he was getting into? Did he really know what came with being with a person like me? He had me though. I could never reveal that. I didn't want to be vulnerable and didn't want to put myself out there. I've been hurt too many times.

I don't know if I've ever dealt with the trauma from being physically and verbally abused from Rene or Wissam. Sure I had sung about some things early on in my career, but people assumed, they never really knew about Rene. Very few knew about that Wissam. Even Gil didn't know all of what went down with Wissam. Most just speculated. Or maybe he did, but didn't say anything...you never know with Gil. He had his ways.

"Hey J you going back to your suite?"

"Yes, Joey thank you."

I was so lost in my thoughts again that I didn't realize that Joey called me several times.

"Oh I'm sorry Joey...what's up?"

"Nothing don't worry about it."

"No, what's wrong?"

"I just wanted to make sure you good."

"I'm good. Thank you Joey." I smiled sweetly at him.

Out of everyone, Joey was silent and constant in my life. He just watched and observed. He didn't have to say anything. He just knew. He knew a lot stuff that went down in my past that others didn't. He got me out of situations no one knew about. I knew some questioned why we haven't, but he was like a big brother to me. I would never.

I was excited and nervous about inviting Darius to my suite. I just didn't know what to expect from him. And I'm sure he didn't know what to expect from me. Why was I so nervous about this? It was like I haven't had sex before. It wasn't like we haven't already been messing around. Did he affect me that deeply?

Once back in my room, I stripped down and jumped in the shower. It was long day and I needed to rinse the funk off. I had already taken the extensions out and was washing my hair. Once finished and rinsing off I got out drying off and oiling my body. I decided to let my hair air dry after moisturizing it. I slipped on a silk robe that was mid thigh on with nothing underneath.

I'm glad that everything went well with the show. Speaking with fans after was always my favorite. I missed my Eissa though. He has been with either Randy, Latoya, or Rebbie. They wanted to spend time with him since we were in the states. They didn't get to see him too often. I wish Michael was around to meet him. It made me sad that he was gone. I also wanted him to get to know his grandma too. She enjoyed it when he was around especially since he was the baby of all the grandkids. She said he kept her young and on her toes since he was so lively.

I grabbed my phone and saw that Gil was texting me with his foolishness about getting dick. I curled up on the couch and waited for him to get here.

Dario POV

Tommy took me to the bus to grab some things, then dropped me off at the hotel. I made it to my room. I sat there for a while contemplating what I was doing. It was one thing with us fooling around, but she clearly let me know tonight she wanted more with her kiss. But then again she's done that at other times. How did I know she was for real this time?

Why was this different from those times? Did we want to open that door? Would this cause problems? Maybe we should keep it simple or just keep messing around with each other. Would this confuse things? Who am I kidding nothing we had going on was simple.

My phone vibrated, seeing it was Guero I texted him back.

G: you good
D: yeah I'm good drank too much
G: ok cool
D: see you tomorrow at practice
G: 👍🏻

Finally collecting myself and my thoughts, I took a shower and did my hygiene. I threw some clothes on. Checking my phone one last time I saw that Janet had texted me when I was in the shower.

Janet😘: Are still coming by?
                   Darius🥰: On my way now baby
Janet😘: See you in a little bit

I threw on a jacket and left out. Thankfully we were downtown Atlanta and everything was within walking distance. The hotel she was staying at was across the street. I made my way in. I see why she was at this hotel, it was nice. Ours didn't have suites. I used the key card in the elevator to get to the area where the suites were on the top floor.

I took a deep breath when I approached her door. I was about to use the key card when she opened the door smiling.

"Damn..." I muttered under my breath seeing her.

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