Vogue ➳ Normani Kordei

nineteen

Normani and I were tangled up together underneath a messy wad of bed sheets and only bed sheets.

My head was on her chest and I could hear every beat of her heart as it pumped.

Her fingers ran through my hair softly while her nails would massage my scalp on and off.

"Have you found an apartment yet?" Normani softly asked but her voice was so hoarse from screaming at our recent activities.

"Yeah." I responded just as hoarse. "I move in next week."

"What's it like?"

I shrugged and turned my body so that I was facing her completely but still laying on her torso. My fingers softly traced shapes over her toned abs. "It's normal I guess. It's actually bigger than my last place and somehow it's cheaper. I personally believe it's because someone was murdered in it but that's just my conspiracy."

Normani giggled lightly, "Maybe I can help you move in. It'd be nice to get out of this place and the office once in a while."

"You just want to have sex in every room of my new place." I joked.

Her giggle was louder this time and my hand moved up and down as she took in short breaths, "You're right."

A soft silence fell between us and it was nice. I loved being with her with no complications. I could honestly lay here forever.

Except something was bothering me. This wasn't my bed and it sure as hell wasn't Normani's real bed. We were in the guest room of her house and that's all I felt like. A guest. Normani may have admitted her feelings to me but that's still far from agreeing upon a proper relationship. I'd be fine with fucking but now that you add all the emotions, it would just be impossible.

I took a deep breath and listened to her heart beat. "Normani, what are we doing?"

"Laying down?"

I laid my chin on her chest so I could look up at her, "No, like what are we doing? Where do we go from here? The deep stuff, yada yada."

Her fingers ran through my hair once more and she smiled, "You know I can't be committed unless I break it off with Dinah."

"Want me to do it?" I joked and she smiled at the excitement I had for this conversation but quickly smacked my hand as a retort. "Fine. I won't say anything."

We were quiet for a moment until Normani spoke up to start a new conversation, "So, what do you plan on doing for summer vacation? I mean, you basically get two weeks paid vacation and it's coming up soon."

"A lot of sex."

"Really?" Her voice filled with excitement.

"No, crazy." I laughed. "I'm gonna go to Houston and see my family. My Mom and Dad do this thing that's basically a week long of barbecues and get togethers but the whole block joins in. So, almost fifty people and their close friends show up to our house every day."

"That sounds dangerous."

"It's actually really fun. I would say you should stop by but you'll be here.... with your boring job."

"My job is not boring and you know it." Normani scoffed.

"Okay the designing part is pretty bad ass, not gonna lie. Then the editor of a huge magazine isn't always bad, but don't you want to step into the limelight every once in a while?"

"Well, of course." She paused for a moment to gather her thoughts appropriately. "But that's Dinah's thing. She's the beauty and I'm the brains."

"Ha ha." I snickered but noticed she wasn't laughing, "Wait? You're fucking serious? Stop that shit. Do you know how hot it would be to see a successful black women out there strutting her stuff just as hard as Dinah is doing it?"

"Yeah, but I don't like all of the lights and cameras and stuff she does." One of her hands rested itself on my lower back, causing me to melt even more at her touch but I did my best to control myself. "She goes to clubs, and relentlessly flirts to get her way. I like to keep myself out of that."

"You flirt too."

"Hell yeah, I do. But that's because I can. Just because I'm basically an independent woman doesn't mean I can't flirt a little to get what I want." She smiled down at me. "In fact, there's something that I really want."

"This is a poor flirting job, babe. Give me something to work with."

Normani's hand trailed down to my ass and gripped one which unwillingly caused me to bite down hard on my lip out of habit. "Does that work?" She challenged.

"Yeah it helps." I smirked before crawling up to straddle her waist before leaning in to press my lips to hers.

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I walked into her office the next day after going by my hotel room to change for work.

She was at her desk, looking over some papers with her glasses pressed up to her eyes.

I walked up to sit her coffee on the desk like usual and as I tried to walk away, she grabbed my hand to keep me beside her.

"Where are you going in a hurry?" Normani smirked up at me.

I shrugged down at her, "Just to my seat?"

"Sit on my lap. I want to show you something." She directed me and I did so, making myself comfy on her.

Her hand rested on my thigh and she directed me, "Unlock the tablet and tell me what you think."

I decided to play along and pick up the small tablet on her desk. As soon as I flicked it unlocked, the picture caught me by surprise.

It was a photo of a woman modeling the outfit I helped Normani design. And you know what? It was absolutely amazing. Even though it technically wouldn't be a line by me, I was able to see something that I created come to life. I was more than amazed to see something I made become real.

"Do you like it?" Normani whispered in my ear.

"It's beautiful." I felt like I was about to start crying but I kept doing my best to compose myself. It was just so amazing.

Normani collected my hair and pushed it to one side of my head so that she could kiss the back of my neck before resting her chin on my shoulder, "Thanks to you, this is the top rated outfit of our line so far."

"That's so cool." I zoomed in on the picture to see the small details of the outfit that amazed me even more.

"How about we celebrate tonight?"

"How?"

Her lips started at the back of my neck and slowly moved to the side to softly suck at the skin. "You and I are going to meet up in here after work. Then we will go back to my place where I have a special treat set up for you."

I turned my head to the side so that she could continue doing whatever she wanted to me with ease and closed my eyes to just let it all happen. "Mm. Does it come with free food because I'm already hungry?"

She stopped what she was doing to giggle and pecked my flesh one more time, "Yes, we can get food. Although.." Her hand tightly squeezed my thigh which caused my back to arch, "I'm kind of hungry right now."

I bit down on my lip to try and control myself before responding, "Not until I get my 'special treat' tonight."

Normani's light laugh was music to my ears as she replied, "I like it when you play hard to get."