The Power Forward ((Norminah fan fiction))

Chapter 3

Camila wakes me up in the morning and we both get ready in our basketball stuff.

We go down to breakfast and we sit down at a table with Ally and Lauren.

"Good morning," Ally says in her sunshine-y morning voice. "Are you guys excited because I know I am."

"I'm so excited," Lauren says between bites.

"Same," Camila joins in. "The campers already love us it's so cool. I feel like, honored because you don't really realize how much you're idolized until you're faced by a ton of people who want to be just like you."

"Camila, we should go get food," I suggest.

We get up and go over to the buffet line.

"What are you gonna do about N? Are you gonna talk to her about last night?" Camila asks.

"I want to but I don't know when I'll get the chance."

"You have to sooner or later."

"Yeah, I'm gonna pick later."

"Why? Oh my god do you like N?!"

"I don't know if I do."

"Oh, my god."

"Shut up. I'm hoping to figure it out soon."

Once we go through the buffet line we sit back down with Lauren and Ally.

"Dinah might like Normani," Camila blurts out quietly after we sit down.

Ally starts nearly choking on her cereal and Lauren spits her coffe back into her cup. I slap Camila's arm.

"Oww. Sorry I had to," she replies.

"WHAT?!" Lauren exclaims. "I thought you were one hundred percent straight according to Normani back when we all played together."

"So did I," I respond. "But after I found out she liked-"

"Hold on you found out?!" Ally buts in.

"Yeah after our last game. But anyways after I found out she liked me, I didn't know what to feel for like a year. Then when I saw her a few months ago I was just overwhelmed by that feeling of not knowing and I just want to know how I feel. Okay?"

They drop the subject and we go over to the court. We break up into our groups and Normani explains the shooting drill to the campers. We step off the court to give room for all the campers.

"You seem a little anxious," Normani says, still watching the young players. "Is something wrong?"

"Uh, no, just a little confused about something."

"Okay. Just know that you can always come talk to me."

"Okay." I hesitate but decide to say, "For a while now I've had mixed feelings about someone and I just don't know what to think you know? I just want to figure it out as soon as possible."

"I get it. A while back, I felt that for about a year before finally realizing I was in love with the person."

As soon as she says it I know she's talking about me. I think back to that night. I take my chance as it comes. "Do you think you're still in love with them?"

"I'm not exactly sure. After I hadn't talked to her, and yeah it's a her, for a while, the feeling faded. But over the past year she's been popping up everywhere but I never really talked to her. But I talked to her pretty recently and I'm pretty sure I still love her."

That's good news on my part.

"What?" Normani says. Realizing I said it was good news, I quickly try to cover it up.

"Oh, uh yeah it's good news because I'm kind of in that position and I can get advice from you."

"Oh, alright. Do you think it's time to start a new drill?"

"Yeah I think they're good."

Normani walks over closer to the campers and says "Finish this one up and I'll explain the next drill."

Normani explains a different shooting drill and comes back to stand next to me.

I go through the whole morning practice without saying much. Just thinking. At lunch I tell Camila quietly that Normani low key admitted to still liking me.

"Well what are you gonna do?"

"I don't know, Mila."

After that, she drops the subject and we eat and talk to Ally and Jamie.

I go through the daily scrimmage without saying much and Normani announces that it's a free night/afternoon.

"Dinah, can we talk?" Normani says after everyone goes their separate ways.

We step outside and she continues, "You sure you're okay? You don't seem like yourself. You're normally loud and energetic and outgoing but you've been quiet and reserved almost this whole time. Granted it's only been a day but still."

I look at her. I can see that she really is concerned in her eyes. And that's when I do it. I kiss her. We pull away from each other and I can feel myself start to blush. "Normani I'm-" I start. She interrupts me by kissing me again. We kiss passionately for a minute or two before Normani pulls away.

"I would say let's take this back to my room but Lauren's in there."

"And I would say we could go to mine but Camila's in there. I guess we'll have to find somewhere else."

Normani grabs my hand and starts leading me somewhere. We get to the top floor of the building and she opens the door to the first room.

"Good thing they keep them all unlocked in the summer."

We go into the room and lock the door behind us. We start to kiss again and I lift up Normani's shirt, then remove my own. We keep our kiss as we reach the bed. Normani lays down and I lay on top of her, still keeping our lips intertwined.

Normani removes her shorts and tugs at mine. I fling them off and start kissing her neck. Normani flips me over on the small bed, nearly knocking us both off it it. She straddles herself and starts leaving a trail of kisses down my body. When she gets to my panties, she bites the fabric and pulls the one side down, ever so slightly.

What a fucking tease.

She starts to kiss my neck again and I realize what's going on. Normani and I are basically having sex.

I sit up with the realization. "Is everything okay?" Normani asks me.

"Yeah but I'm not exactly sure what the fuck is going on. One minute we were talking outside and next thing I know we're basically naked in a bed together."

"Are you saying you think its a bad thing we're basically naked in a bed together?"

"No."

"Well, I think it's a bad thing. I think," Normani pauses and reaches her hand to the back of my bra, "we should be completely naked in a bed together."

She unhooked my bra and removes her own as I throw mine off of me. We begin to kiss again but I pull away. "We'll be late for dinner if we do this, though," I tell her.

"So meet me back here after dinner and we can do this for as long as we like."

Normani winks, pulls on her clothes, and leaves me confused and naked, but anticipating the night.