Distance

VII

It is 11:00pm and Dinah and Maggie had finally arrived they checked in to a hotel room and brought their bag for the night. "I am going to call Mani real quick to see where she is". Maggie nodded and took out her laptop to do her assignment. 

Dinah went out to the small Balcony and she took out her phone and dialed Normani's number. 

N-Hello 

Normani sounded tired but her raspy voice was very attractive to Dinah.

D-"Hey Mani I called to see where you are."

N-"Let me ask Maddy."

Their was shuffling in to background and Dinah waited patiently for Normani to retrieve information. 

N-"We're just about to pull up to the hotel are you here?"

D-"Mhhm I will meet you in the lobby." 

"Maggie Normani's coming I am going to go down" Maggie looked up from her computer "I will be down in a minute". Dinah went down stairs she had actually changed into gray joggers and white t-shirt. Dinah leaned up on the counter by the lobby desk. She scrolled through her Instagram. The door had opened and in came some girl who looked a lot like Maggie. Wait that was Maggie put her phone in her pocket. "Aren't you Maddy?" Dinah asked walking up to her the girl nodded and smiled. "Oh my gosh Dinah hi" Maggie gave her a hug. "It's been a long while since we seen each other". "You grew a bit but your still small" Dinah joked. "By the way Normani's getting her stuff from the car go surprise her. "Okay and Maggie will be down well their she is". Maggie came down running to her sister. 

Dinah went outside to find Normani she had no idea which car she was looking for but she just walked around. She say a girl black hair chocolate skin she knew that was her. "Normani?" The girl turned around as she set her bag down. Normani smiled at the girl and went for a hug which Dinah embraced her. "Your tall" Normani said looking up at her they pulled away. "Well hello their". Normani chuckled "Hello". It felt like they had been never ending friends.

"How was your trip". "To be honest it was fun I took a lot of pictures and  slept."

"You do photography to" Dinah asked excitedly Normani smiled and nodded. "Why don't you check into your hotel room and we can talk more" Normani suggested interested. "Can I get your bags" Dinah asked. "If you would like" Dinah grabbed her bags and easily carried them.

"Hi Maggie" Normani said giving Maggie a hug. "So guys since we didn't know you guys would be coming we had already got a hotel room so we're going to have to share" Maddy told them.

After walking up to the hotel room Normani asked Dinah to come out to the balacony. "Dinah question". Dinah pulled up a chair by Normani. "Yeah whats up" Normani grabbed Dinah's arm and removed her bracelets. "Do you cut?" Dinah snatched her arm. 

Normani looked at the girl who looked away and Dinah looked straight. 

"It started after me and Danny broke up". 

Normani grabbed the girls hand and held it. "Tell me what happened". 

"Dinah stop wearing those gray sweat pants why don't you wearing anything short?" Danny asked. "Maybe because I don't want to". Danny smacked Dinah "Just stop hitting me!" Dinah yelled at him causing Danny to laugh.  

"He was abusing me way to much I never tell people that side of my story. I knew no one cared. After that I just knew he wanted me to be something else and I tried changing myself. I started working out lifting weights playing sports I stopped talking to people. I started to cut after people from the softball team would try fighting me. I thought I was not good enough. I graduated and I met Maggie from high school who we ended up being in the same dorm I was blessed she didn't know much about me just her sister dated Danny."

Normani was still holding on to the girls hand but this time tighter. "Dinah I am glad you told me this and I don't want you cutting anymore." Dinah gave her a long hug something she had never done to anyone. "Thank you" Dinah said truthfully. "No problem and I know this kind of unusual for our first meet up."

Normani and Dinah went in after Dinah had put back on her bracelets. 

"Dinah here are my pictures." They sat on the bed and Dinah admired her aesthetic pictures. "Can I see yours?" Normani asked. Before Dinah could respond Maggie interupted. "Normani Dinah has so many pictures you wouldn't understand" Dinah smiled "It's not that many". Dinah got up from the bed. 

Dinah had brought her unfinished photography book which she was still currently putting pictures in. "So this is the one I am filling up and and I have yet to take more." 

Normani flipped through her pictures and smiled at Dinah's nature pictures but none was of herself. "Doesn't the photographer get her own picture?" Normani asked looking up at Dinah. "Well I've never had anyone ask for a picture of me". Normani got up from the bed and she grabbed her camera. 

Before she could aim her camera at the girl Dinah was under the covers hiding. "Normani shes ticklish" Maggie whispered to Normani. The black girl gave her camera to Maddy. Maddy was also a skilled photographer. Normani jumped on the bed and she hovered over Dinah and straddled her she looked to Maddy and Maggie before she started attacking Dinah with tickles. "Stop!" Dinah laughed trying to get away from her grip. Maddy took some pictures at the right time and waited for good moment to capture another. Normani had finally stop and she looked into her eyes. 

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. 

-Audrey Hepburn

Maddy snapped one more pic and set the camera down.  

A/N: Comment if your liking this book vote and comment. Next week will be more updates since I will be on Thanksgiving break. Thank you guys for reading both Feminism Football which has 2.1k reads and this book which is growing.