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✱ Naima's p.o.v ✱

"Grayson let me go" I whine when he won't let go of me as I'm trying to get to work. He slept here tonight since he's too lazy to head home. And I haven't thrown up this morning so we should be good.

"I don't want to leave my baby Dolan" he whines back and strokes his hands over my totally flat belly. I take his hands away from my belly and smile at him.

"I think that baby Dolan will be totally fine" I say and give him a light kiss. "And you have to go home too, Ethan needs you at home and you know that" I say and rise a eyebrow.

"I know" he says with a sigh and I laugh at him.

"But I'll see you tonight, we have some things to discuss" I say and open the door for us to step out of.

I step out and wait for him to do the same. When he finally does, I lock the door after him and take his hand and walk him down the the cars.

"Bye gray, see you tonight" I give him a kiss and he gladly excepts it. When I pull away he kneels down in from of my stomach and give it several kisses but I pull his head away.

"Gray, not in public! People don't know yet and I don't plan on telling them this way" I say and look around, but no one seems to be around.

"Right" he says and shakes himself back to reality. "Can't wait for tonight, love you"

"Love you too"

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As I'm done with the vocals for the day, I get called up to Annie's office before I go so that where I'm heading right now. I greet a few people on my way there, most of them I worked with before I had my breakthrough. When I got more famous, those people were exchanged to some other people that supposedly would be better. But for my sake, I could have the old ones left.

I knock lightly on Annie's door and she says come in from inside. I open the door and step into the office.

"You were expecting me?" I smile at her as I sit down in one of the chairs opposite her.

"Yes. I just got an offer that I think you'll be very interested in" she teases and I laugh.

"Hit me" I say and she smiles even bigger.

"You have been asked by Elle to do a cover shoot, a bikini one in about 2 months" she squeals but I keep quiet. I can't do that, by then my stomach will be showing and I don't think I'll tell the public before that. I want to wait at least until I'm 4 months pregnant. "Why are you not excited?" She asks as she sees me quiet.

"I would love to, but I can't" I guess I'll have to tell her now, I wasn't planning to tell her this soon but I have to do it.

"Why not?"

"Annie, I'm pregnant" I smile and rub my belly gently even tough I'm not showing at all, but it's a instinct I have.

"Gosh Naima congratulations! How long have you known?" She asks and comes over to me and embrace me in a hug.

"I'm just one month pregnant, but by the time of the shoot I'll be showing. And Grayson and I don't won't to tell everyone that early" I say and I see the smile grow on her face as she sits down again.

"I'm so happy for you Naima! But I have an idea, what if I reschedule the shoot a few months and we can make it a pregnancy shoot with you and Gray?" She offers and I got to admit, it sounds good.

"That sounds perfect, but I'll have to talk to Grayson. But if you try to reschedule it for a couple of months later than planned I'll try to convince him" which I think will be easy since he's a model himself and everything.

"I'll try my best, but we need to talk about something. I'm very happy for you Naima, I really am. But you have to understand that this will change your career" she says seriously and I nod. I know that it will, I just don't want to think about it too much.

"I understand that, but I just want you to know that I'll always take my family first"

"That's what I wanted to hear, that baby has to be your priority. I'll help you as much as I can, I can fix so that you can bring the baby here when you work for example" Annie says and the smile on my face grows. The things she does for me.

"Thank you so much Annie, I can't believe that you're willing to help me with this. I couldn't ask for a better manager"

"Thank you Naima, I'm more than willing to help as much as I can. But you can head home to that loving boy of yours now" she smiles and follows me to the door.

I give her a warm hug before I exit the room and head down to my car.

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You do you 🤙🏼

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