Basketball Diaries.

Chapter 6 - Your Majesty.

Rose walked into her house, opening the door. She drove back to Stacy's and left a note for her, insisting that she'll come back another time. She cut on the lights to her mansion, allowing Craig to walk in and get a glimpse of the place. It was unlike anything he'd ever seen. Never being in anything bigger than a condo, this place was the biggest and large home that he'd ever set eyes on. He looked up at the large ceilings with his mouth wide opened, glancing in amazement.

"Well, here we are." Rose sighed as she wiped her heels off on the carpet.

"Wow. This is amazing." Craig said in a dazed tone.

"Take off your shoes." Rose said as she pointed to him. "Nicholas would be pissed off if he seen a tiny spec of a mark on his 'Al Pacine' white carpet."

"Oh." Craig said as he took off his shoes with the front of each of his feet.

Rose gave Craig a look of slight irritation. He had no sort of class whatsoever. She could tell by the way he took off his shoes, by the way he walked, and by the way that he dressed. She hung up her jacket and placed her wet hair in a bun.

"I thought that you loved wearing your hair out?" Craig said in shock as he scrunched his eyebrows at her.

"I can't wear it out here, Craig." Rose snarled as she shook her head. "Nicholas doesn't like it."

"Oh." Craig said as he looked ahead. "Do y'all have anything to eat here? I haven't ate in a while."

"I thought that you said that you weren't hungry in the car?" Rose barked. "That was the point! For me to stop and get you some food while Nicholas was gone."

"I obviously didn't want fast food, brat." Craig scoffed. "I wanted some real food."

"Look, you're not going to come in my house being picky when you don't even have one!" Rose barked. "Now you need to hide before-"

Suddenly, Rose heard the door to the home unlocking. She shoved Craig into the closet by the door and locked it as Nicholas walked into the front door.

"Hi!" Rose said as she put on a fake grin, tucking in her lips.

"Hello Rose?" Nicholas said as he shut the door and gave her a weird look. "Why is your hair wet?"

"I was looking for the newspaper out in the uh.....the front of the home!" Rose lied as she nodded her head. "I couldn't find it so I came inside, soaked as a joke."

"Well sweety, how about you move from in front of the closet?" Nicholas grinned. "I need to hang up my jacket."

"Ahh. How about I take that for you and hang it up myself while you get our bed ready?" Rose winked.

"Oh hoh hoh hoh." Nicholas smiled as he leaned forward, gave her a kiss, then leaned back after giving her his jacket. "Just like a wife is supposed to do. Take care of her husband."

As Nicholas walked upstairs, Rose snatched Craig out and gave him a terrified look.

"You take all of your things and move into the pool house!" Rose said as she shoved him out of the house. "You'll be able to see when Nicholas is coming because there's glass windows all around it. Now go! Go! Go!"

As Rose shut the door, Craig went out to their far pool house and got himself situated. Inside of there was everything that he wanted inside of the small home. A nice sized bed, a nice sized tv, a bathroom, a pool on the outside, and a small kitchen area inside of the one room. It was like Rose had two houses. He set his bag aside and got situated inside of the bed. Their comfortable bed. Even though he was homeless, he didn't feel like he was. Even though he was out on the streets, it didn't feel like that. It felt like this was his home.