Catching Feelings [bwwm]

Chapter 14- Mi Negrita Favorita

Liv's POV

Sitting on the couch and staring up at the television, I made no attempt to move from my comfortable spot when the doorbell rang.

Isabella emerged from the kitchen, and when she saw me sitting on the couch shoving popcorn in my mouth, she leaned over and slapped me with her damp dishtowel on my thigh.

"¡Mira esta chica! Perezosa y inútil." Isabella shook her head as she headed to the door. (translation: look at this girl! lazy and useless.)

I winced and rubbed the spot on my thigh where she slapped me. I have no idea what the hell she ever says and Jonathan refuses to translate for me. Instead of saying something smart and risking getting slapped again, I simply rolled my eyes as she opened the front door.

"Oh, Mia's here!" She called excitedly and I heard the door close.

They both walked into the living room, side-by-side with big smiles. Lexie, my dog, ran down the stairs and straight towards Mia.

Rolling my eyes, I got up off the couch and began heading up the stairs away from the group of traitors.

Isabella wrapped her arm around Mia's waist. "You know Mia, you're mi negrita favorita." (translation: you're my favorite little black girl.)

"Aw, that's so sweet Isabella," Mia replied just as I shut my door.

Not long after, Mia walked through my door, a plate of food in her hand and Lexie following closely behind her.

"I like how everybody in this house likes me more than they like you."

"I like how everybody in this house likes me more than they like you," I mimicked her, "Go suck a dick."

She sat down on the bed next to me and Lexie curled up at her feet.

"So you know how I was supposed to drop Josie off at school today?" She asked and I nodded. "Well, I dropped her off, and then I went back to James' house where things got a little heated."

"Did y'all do the do?" I asked excitedly.

She shook her head. "Girl, we got interrupted by an agent from that modeling agency I told you about. So, I talked to her and she was saying I had true potential and stuff like that, and then guess what?"

I sat up, completely interested. "What? Did James finally make his move?"

"The complete opposite! This man had the audacity to tell me that he wasn't going to let me model." She stared down at me, waiting for a reaction from me she wasn't going to get. "Did you not hear me? He had the audacity to tell me what to do!"

I shrugged. "He's still heated from the meeting with his lawyers on Saturday and I understand why."

"What do you know that I don't?" She squinted her eyes accusingly.

"You spent the morning with him and he didn't tell you?"

Mia shook her head. "He was too focused on getting between my legs."

I rolled my eyes. "His lawyers told him Julianna has a strong chance of winning partial custody of Josie because she deserves to be in her daughter's life."

"Julianna, the woman who abandoned her only child for drugs and fame, deserves to be in Josie's life?"

"We know that she'd be the worst influence on that poor girl, but they think the judge will allow it because Josie has no motherly figure in her life."

"What am I, a dirty rag on the side of the road?" Mia scoffed.

"James brought you up to them, but like it or not, you're just Josie's babysitter and they claim she needs somebody that's always around."

"I spent the morning with this little shit and he didn't tell me any of this."

"He was angry and probably just wanted to have angry sex," I explained. "When was the last time you asked a guy how they were feeling before you jumped into bed with them?"

"Good point," She agreed.

"By the way, Jonathan wants to know what you're doing for Josie's birthday."

She pressed her finger to her chest. "He wants to know what I'm doing for Josie's birthday?"

"James isn't going to have any time because of the trial, and Jonathan doesn't have a creative bone in his body, so it's up to you."

"But wait, I didn't know that you have some inability to plan a party," She said in a mock-confused tone. "Plus I didn't even know her birthday was coming up."

"I mean, it's in a couple of months, but Jonathan thinks we should start planning this before the trial gets too unbearable," I shrugged, "It'd also be nice to do something for Josie before her world comes crashing down around her."

Mia opened her mouth to reply as my door was thrown open and a shirtless, wet, extremely hot Australian walked in. Absent-mindedly, I clenched my legs together as he ran his hand through his dripping hair.

"Love, would you like to go for a swim?" Jonathan asked, resting his hands on his hips.

I bit my lip. "I'll be down in a minute babe, alright?"

With a nod and a wink, Jon turned around and left my room. Smiling, I hopped up off my bed and practically pranced into my closet.

"Wait, did you just call him babe? Why the hell didn't you tell me that you guys were back together?" Mia called.

I shrugged. "You're busy with Josie and the upcoming court thing with James so I didn't want to burden you."

"Burden me?" She scoffed. "The best thing you could do for me is to take my mind off of all this. So tell me, how's the sex?"

I burst out in laughter and pulled out a bikini.

"You're actually leaving me up here alone?"

"You actually think I'm going to stay up here with you when my wet, Australian boyfriend is downstairs waiting for me?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Um, yeah. Whatever happened to chicks before dicks?"

"Girl, we said those things when we were twelve and didn't know how bomb dick was." I rolled my eyes and finished changing.

She made a straight face. "You're a virgin."

"Well fuck you too, Mia," I scoffed and headed for the door.

"I guess I'll just chill in here with Lexie and Isabella."

"You say everybody in this house likes you more than me, but trust me, Jonathan would choose me over you any day."

With a final wink and a sheepish smile, I made my way outside towards my boyfriend.

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this was kind of a filler chapter so sorry

but Liv & Jon are officially back together *cartwheels around the room*

thanks for 39.8k yall

- allie x

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originally published: april 2016

edited: december 2020