I'm studying at my desk at home when I hear the door to our apartment open then footsteps as if someone is running.
"Ding Dong!" Dionne bursts through the door startling me.
"Studying time's up, fun time's on!" she chirps skipping into my room.
"Di, I won't go out again; I hate parties."
"Who said were going out?" she smirks.
I smile when she jumps and goes outside running again, I feel like I have a baby living with me.
"Matching pjs! And with red hearties!" she squeals coming back putting the silkiest pair of white pajamas with tiny red hearts on them in my lap.
"We're having a girl's night!" she fist bumps the air and I laugh at her enthusiasm when she pulls me by my hands, "Go! Put them on till I do as well to prepare the snacks and everything!" she pushes me towards my bathroom.
I spin around and hug her, "Oh" she says wrapping her hands around me squeezing me "I love you too!" she says softly.
I smile and tell her, "Thank you, Didi" and she smiles again and I go to put on the cutest pair of pajamas ever!
I put them on and head out to find her in the kitchen wearing the same pair as I do with a head band on her beautiful hair, emptying a pack of skittles in a bowl.
She looks up, "Aww! Aren't you the cutest? Wait I got you something!" she rushes towards her room then I empty the popcorn into another bowl.
She comes running with two tiny white pearl clips and adds one on each side of my hair, "Now, you look Bonita!" She chirps.
"I feel so girly right now"
"Wait till the masks part!"
"Di, you're the cutest"
"You are!" she starts making hot chocolate and adds "Go, put the stuff and start some music while I finish this beauty".
I do as she told me and tell her "What should I play?"
She comes and plays "Say my name" by Bebe Rexha and starts swaying her hips to the beat and gestures for me to join.
I join her feeling the rush of the moment letting the music wash over my body, I move my hips and shoulders to the beat singing the lyrics with her. She holds my waist and we start to move to the beat with each other, our voices filling the apartment as the music blasts around us.
She stands on the couch and continues dancing with me on the opposite one as well, "No, those moves need the counter!" she screams over the music and she jumps from the couch pulling me after her towards the kitchen counter then I climb up.
I start to sway seductively swishing my hair and she joins me when the bell of our apartment interrupts us.
"Who's the fucker intruder?" Dionne tells me.
"Lower the volume till I get it" I tell her jumping off of the counter reaching the door.
I open the door and my eyes widen at seeing him standing there. I rearrange my disheveled pajama, shit! my tummy was on display from moving.
He's flushed, he looked to the side again like the day I almost flashed him and the whole city with Dionne's tiny dress.
"Omer, Hi!" I greet him awkwardly and his eyes snap to me again; eyes roaming my red hearts pajama, I feel heat rush to my face from the embarrassment and I see a hint of a smile on his face.
He recollects himself and gives me a white box I didn't see in his hands when I opened the door.
"Hello, dove."
"Mughrabi! Do what do we owe the honor!" Dionne comes into view behind me and he tilts his head and looks between us, smiling.
"Oh my God! Mughrabi, did I see your mouth spread into a semi-smile?" Dionne exclaims and I look down smiling assessing the box.
Fuck.
No, a million fucks.
It's a laptop. A very expensive one.
I look up stunned "How? I mean why?"
He raises a brow, "it's yours"
"It can't be" I rush, "Sorry, but I can't just accept that; this is a lot."
"It's not"
"I still can't, I'm really sorry but-
"Dove, take it; it's yours, don't decline" he orders.
I feel my cheeks heat, "I'll take it, but under one condition" he cocks his head questioningly.
"I'll pay for it. In installments." Shit, this came out so stupid.
He rolls his eyes. He rolls his eyes?!
"Fine, lady of hearts" he says and spins to leave.
"Wait!" I call, but he's already inside his apartment closing the door.
"Have a good night, dove; dance well, tell me if the dance lessons paid off" he says and winks before closing the door.
I stand there stunned, frozen in my place with the laptop in my hands.
"Are you closing the door, lady of hearts?" Dionne says before snickering.
He winked?!
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