Changing Her Ways( Norminah)

Chapter 1 part 2

Still Dinah's POV

I walk in the house and through the sea of bodies, greeting everyone who speaks as I pass, to the back of the house where I know Zendaya is. Kehlani is the DJ tonight so I leave her alone for the time being. I finally find Zendaya in the kitchen with Raven and Alessia standing around a table.

"Ladies how we feeling tonight," I say greeting everyone before grabbing a cup and filling it.

"Feeling good DJ feeling good. Just waiting for my girl to get here."

I make a face at my friend and her whipped ass but hide it by taking a drink from my cup.

"As long as she doesn't bring her little friend, I don't care if she shows up or not."

"You know she's gonna show up just because you said she's not invited."

"And that's fine. It's a free country she can do whatever she wants. Just that when she gets here, she stays away from me."

Raven laughs before standing up,"Well you two have fun, Alessia here is going to help me to the couch."

"Uhh I never agreed to that."

"Well that's what you're doing so come on."

Alessia looks at her before taking her stuff and basically walking off. If Raven wasn't injured she could have probably caught up with her, but with her cane she has no chance to catch her. We all watch her walk away, probably to find her girlfriend Ally, and Raven shakes her head as she passes.

"Probably should have asked first huh?"

"Yeah but don't worry I got you. You'll be good right DJ?"

"Yeah I'll be fine. I'm right where I want to be, in front of the snacks." They laugh and walk away to go find a place for Raven to sit. If it wasn't for Raven's knee she would probably be on the floor dancing with her girlfriend, not watching from the couch. I noticed she brought her cane to the party instead of her crutches, probably because last time she had them outside of her house besides school someone tried to steal them as a joke. Her adopted brother Lincoln beat the guy up, but still she's been wary of using the crutches ever since.

A few other people come to me and we chat about nothing. Some girls even come up to me and touch my new jacket. It's still really early, so I vibe out to whatever song is playing before something grabs my attention.

Normani's POV

I'm being dragged to this party against my will. Lauren parks her car on a random block, and I'm contemplating whether I paid enough attention to the way we came to make it back without help. Lauren is sitting in the driver seat fixing her make up and so is Tori in the passenger. I try the door but remember that they set the child lock before I got in so I didn't get out of the car at the first stop light. I really don't want to go to this party if you can't tell. They put all their makeup away and I sigh in relief at finally getting out of this car.

"Alright we all ready to have fun?"

"This is not my idea of fun."

"Well you got outvoted so suck it up introvert."

"I'm sorry that I didn't want to go to a party where you two leave me to the wolves, while you hang with your respective girlfriends. That doesn't seen like fun to me," I voice my thoughts with a small pout forming on my face.

"But Mani this could be good for you. You're always talking about stepping out of your comfort zone and all that. Why not start tonight?" Tori says all of that with a hopeful tone and I don't even look at her because I know she is smiling sadly at me. I have never been able to say not to that damn smile.