Be Alright || Norminah

Be Alright

"Dinah are you sure you can come out with us?" Ally asked worriedly as her tall bandmate coughed into the elbow of her jacket.

"I mean you don't look too good right now."

"Oh. So you trynna say I'm not cute?" the sassy Polynesian bantered with her oldest bandmate.

"You know what I mean, Bigs. I just don't want you to get more sick."

"Als, I'll be fine. It's just a small cough," Dinah said as she continued to search for her phone in her clutch purse.

Seeing this, Lauren, who was fixing her makeup in the mirror, asked the blonde what she was looking for. "What's up D? You looking for something ?"

"I can't find my stupid phone. Can you call it please, Ralph?" She asked.

"Dinah," Lauren started, almost incredulously.

"You're holding your phone in your other hand."

"Oh," the tallergirl coughed again. "Thanks."

The other two girls in the room eyed each other, both feeling more reluctant than before to let Dinah go out.

"D, you know you don't have to come out tonight," Ally tried to reason. "I wouldn't mind staying to care of you. Or maybe even ask Man-"

"Ally. I already said I'm fine," Dinah protested sternly.

"Now, is everyone ready?" She continued.

Feeling slightly frustrated, Dinah walked into the bathroom to wash her hands in efforts to create some distance between her and her worrying friends.

"Where's Normani?" she frowned as she eyed her hair one last time in the mirror and applied some lip gloss.

"I'm right here, love," Normani responded, walking swiftly into the bathroom to greet Dinah with a kiss to her cheek.

"Is everyone okay? Can we go?" She asked looking around at all three girls getting ready in the guest room of her and her girlfriend's house.

Ally took that as the opportunity to tell Normani about how stubborn her sick girlfriend was being.

"We're fine. Dinah here, however, isn't," Ally said.

Hearing what was going on in the room Dinah stepped out of the bathroom with a roll of her eyes at Ally's accusation.

With a suck of her teeth she lightly smacked the back of Ally's head.

"Why you gotta be such a snitch, Allyson?"

"Ouch, Dinah Jane. I'm just looking out for you because you clearly aren't looking out for yourself," the short Latina responded, stepping closer and closer to Dinah's face as she spoke.

Seeing the potential of an escalation in the two's argument, Normani quickly stepped in.

"Woah, okay. Calm down Mama," she said trying to calm Ally down.

"D, are you feeling sick?" Normani asked her girlfriend.

"Only a little bit," Dinah replied softly as she scuffed her shoes against each other.

"Do you feel well enough to come out with us all tonight?"

"Yes. I. Do," she said pointedly in Ally's direction.

Rolling her eyes at Dinah, Normani takes a second to herself to think.

"Well, even though I don't believe you-"

"Hey!"

"Let me finish, D," Normani says.

"Fine. Go on," Dinah sulks.