Sensibilities | Deetranada AU

allure

Later That Week
(Nov POV)

Nova and Lexy walk slowly through the mall, a large bag in his hand. 'What time you supposed to be goin' over there?' Lexy asks, taking a sip of her smoothie. 'Whenever I'm done, told he her we had to go see mami,' he explains. 'When you takin' her over there?' she asks. He hesitates, unsure of what to say. 'I mean, I will at some point.' Lexy's eyebrow raises and he struggles to explain further. 'Mami knows, she just hasn't met her yet.'

'And the reason for that is...' Lexy adds, hoping for an answer. 'I just haven't had time. She's been busy, I been in the studio. I just wanna spend time with her, not worry about other shit.' He isn't sure if it's the truth but Lexy doesn't seem to care. 'You better take that girl to mami before she show up one day and catch y'all.' He reddens at the thought, looking around to change the subject.

He spies a jewelry store and starts toward it, Lexy following. He walks in, giving the salesman a small smile as he looks through the glass displays. 'Uh, fuck you doin' Nov,' Lexy says quizzically. 'I wanna get her something,' he says, moving to another case. 'What, like some promise ring bullshit?' she says with a laugh. He looks up, frowning. 'It's not bullshit, it's romantic.'

Lexy laughs again, following him to the next case. 'It's bullshit, y'all too young to be promisin' anything.' 'You sound like Ekko now,' he retorts. 'I'm not sayin' y'all won't make it, you just can't be promisin' that girl the world when you know you can't give it to her.' That's what you think. 'I got this Lexy. Now move, I wanna see if they got this in gold.' Lexy shakes her head, stepping back. 'Do you bruh.'

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Later

(Dee POV)

Dee and Nova sit near each other, her phone resting on the couch as she goes live on Instagram.  He isn't paying much attention, letting her enjoy her fans. She scrolls through the comments, reading the next one. 'How long y'all been together?' she reads. 'Long enough.' She continues scrolling, seeing more of the same question again. 'Y'all are cute. Aaw, thank you,' she replies with a smile. 'You the cute one,' she hears him whisper. She smiles, continuing through the comments.

''Deetranova to the top. Ayee,' she semi-yells. 'What?' Nova says, moving to look at the comment. 'Nah nah, Novtranada all day.' She laughs, the comments starting to roll in faster. It's an even mix between Novtranada and Deetranova declarers. 'See, they sayin' Novtranada,' he says, pointing at a few comments. 'No they not, see look, one, two, three, all Deetranova,' she counters. 

'Hold up, I got somethin', she begins. She picks up the phone and focuses it on only her. 'We gon' post the same thing and y'all gonna decide the winner. If you with Deetranova, like mine and if you with the losing side, like curly fries.' 'Bet,' he says, pulling out his phone. 'You already know I'm 'bout to win this, Novtranada don't even sound right.' 'Nah, she just sayin' that 'cause she tryna win,' he responds.

She starts to say something else when he leans closer, his lips meeting her ear. She quickly covers the camera, pausing the video. 'What I get when I win,' he whispers. 'Chill man, you got people screenshotting this shit,' she says quietly, ignoring her heart beating faster from the feel of his breath on her skin. 'No me importa, just don't back outta my prize.'

She exhales deeply, gently moving him from beside her and uncovering the camera. She resumes the live, the comments insinuating that something happened between them. 'Aight, we just took the picture and we postin' it now.' His hand eases onto her thigh, gently rubbing out of view of the camera. She fights her smile, biting her cheek as she uses her dummy phone to post a recent picture of them. 'Whoever got the most likes in ten minutes wins,' Nova says, his hand still on her thigh as he posts the same picture.