think about you

chapter four.

The sun shone through drapes, waking Gerald up. He rolled over in his bed, slowly opening his eyes. He mumbled a few swear words as he wiped the sleep from his eyes. He let out a yawn as he reached over and grabbed his phone on his nightstand. He noticed the time and couldn't believe he was up before noon. He noticed he had a shit ton of notifications. One that caught his eye was from Instagram. Avery tagged him in a picture.

Gerald opened the app and had been staring at it for a couple minutes. He reread the caption over and over. Thank you to my childhood Bay Area friends for the surprise party. Love you all! Ant had his arm draped around Megan's shoulder as he stood behind her. Avery and Jessica were in between him and Marty. Their friend Marc Griffin, also known as Marc E. Bassy, was knelt down in front of them with Brandon, who is usually referred as to B or Lil-B.

He finally double tapped the picture before tossing his phone on the other side of the bed. He couldn't help but think about the picture. Avery looked very happy despite the fact that she was crying about an hour prior. Gerald began to contemplate whether or not to text her. He wanted to make sure she was okay after her break down last night. Plus he definitely missed her. He missed being to randomly text her, especially about stupid shit. Gerald laid there reminiscing on the past and their friendship.

It was an odd one. He loved Avery as a little sister; he was very protective of her. She was his best friend, but they would bicker like crazy. They never saw eye to eye and surprisingly she still put up with his bullshit. But they couldn't deny there was attraction between the two of them. He remembered the two would act like a couple sometimes, lying in bed cuddling, sharing kisses here and there. But they kept that only to themselves, and never made anything official or thought anything of it.

His phone vibrated and he checked it. He had a text from his manager, Matty, asking about Avery. Yo G, I just talked to Avery Gillard's manager and we think it'd be dope if you guys did a shoot or if she was in your music video. There are some people who want to interview you guys together along with a photoshoot. What do you think? It'll be good publicity for both of you guys and Oakland.

Gerald let out a heavy sigh, he knew Avery would not agree. Let me run it by her first, he replied. He got up and got ready for the day still unsure of what his plans were. He went to his bathroom and got his shower ready. He began to strip and hop in when it was hot enough. After he finished, he grabbed one of his towels and dried himself off with it before wrapping it around his waist. He brushed his teeth and headed back to his room.

He heard his phone go off and he grabbed it. It was just the group chat going off. Everyone was probably awake now since his phone kept vibrating like crazy in the palm of his hands as he picked it up.

Marty: What're y'all doing right now?

Ant: Just woke up

Marty: Meg and the girls are planning to go to Six Flags. A lot of them and she invited us to go too. I'm about to cop tickets for all of us.

Matty: I'm scared shitless of roller coasters

Ant: Wait why is Meg texting you? Her ass did not text me at all today.

Matty: Lol your girl is playing hard to get with you, she's trying to play games

Marty: She realized I'm more of a man than you are, my nigga

She probably remembered how tiny your dick was and decided to fuck with a real man

Ant: Fuck you M 🖕🏻

Grady: Lol y'all are goons. But I'm down to go on some roller coasters

Blizzy: Meg's girls bad? I'm down.