tongue piercing • liangelo ball [ON HOLD]

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"I can't believe you'd do that! That's terrible!" I say, laughing as hard as I possibly can.

"He was being annoying! So I shut him up. He deserved getting punched in the face." Liangelo says and I toll my eyes.

"Yeah, remind me not to steal your brownies and brag about it so I don't get punched in the face." I say and he scoffs.

"I may have been a douche to you before, but I'd never hit you. I was raised better than that." He says and I smile.

"I believe you on that. Anyways, I'm hungry. You wanna get something to eat?" I ask and he nods.

"McDonald's okay with you? Because I'm broke at the moment." Liangelo says and I laugh.

"As long as I'm with you, I don't care where we're going or how much money you have. But yeah, McDonald's is great." I say with a smile and Liangelo looks at me awestruck.

I look at him sternly and point to the roadways making sure he's paying attention while driving. He takes one hand off the wheel and puts it on my knee and keeps driving. He drives all the way to McDonald's with a slight grin on his face I can't help but think is adorable. My heart skips a beat when he bites his lip. It seems no matter what this kid does, it makes my heart go crazy. I guess he's caught me staring because he chuckles and shakes his head, his grin growing wider.

"Take a picture. It lasts longer." He says and I laugh.

"Maybe it does, but I think I'd rather just stare for the moment." I say and place a chaste kiss on his jawline. 

"What were you thinking about while you were staring?" He asks as he parks in the parking lot of the McDonald's he's taken us to. He turns to face me and I blush.

"You had this adorable grin on your face. That and you bit your lip, for some odd reason it made my heart skip a beat. In general I was just thinking about how adorable you are, and how lucky I am. Because I truly am, I'm very lucky." I say and Liangelo kisses me. 

This kiss is unlike any we've had before, it's full of passion. I kiss back quickly and turn my head to the right to deepen it. It quickly went from a passionate kiss, to a passionate makeout session. Liangelo pulls away before things get heated and cups my face with his hand. He smiles and kisses my nose and rests his forehead on mine. 

I close my eyes, taking the moment in. I open my eyes again and put my arms around his neck and hug him the best I can in the car. I pull away and press a quick kiss to his lips before winking at him and getting out of the car. He follows suite and we order and sit down.

"I'm surprised you're one of those girls who get chicken nuggets. For some reason I thought you would get something different." Liangelo says with a laugh as I bite into one of the chicken nuggets he bought. 

"Well, what can I say? I like nuggets." I say and he chuckles again.

"Anyways. So, where did you move here from?" He asks and I sigh.

"Hell. The place I moved here from is legit hell. But it's Scottsdale, Arizona." I say and he nods.

"Never heard of it. But if you hate it so much I don't wanna hear about it." He says and I roll my eyes playfully.

"I usually don't like talking about it. That place was a living hell for me, obviously. I never want to go back." I say and Liangelo nods. He grabs my hand and we eat in silence as we eat. We get done and go back to the car and I shiver because it's cold. 

"I've got a hoodie in the back if you want to put it on." He says and I nod, grabbing it and putting it on quickly. Because of his athletic build and muscular arms it's huge on me. I turn and look at him and he busts out laughing. He takes a picture of me and I roll my eyes.

"You're cute, y'know that right?" He asks me and I nod.

"Honey, I'm fabulous." I say and flip my hair dramatically. Liangelo busts out laughing as he starts the car and starts the drive home.

We sit in silence, holding hands, and listening to whatever music was on the radio. As we approach our neighborhood we go straight past my house and pull into what I can only assume to be his house. My eyes go wide and he chuckles.

"Baby girl, they're gonna love you. Come on, please. But if you don't want to you don't have to. I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want to do. But I'd really enjoy it." He says with puppy eyes and I sigh in defeat. 

"Fine. You owe me though." I say and wink, getting out of the car cautiously. I quickly fix my shirt and grab Liangelo's outstretched hand and follow him inside his house.

"Liangelo! Wait, who's this? She's beautiful!" A woman says in the doorway, and I assume it's his mother.

"Thank you, Mrs.Ball. You're beautiful youself." I say, blushing from nervousness.

"Come in you two, Lonzo's home too." She says smiling brightly, making me slightly less nervous. "By the way, you can call me Tina." She adds as I walk past her and nod.

"Yo bro! Long time no see, where the hell were you? Oh, hello gorgeous. Who are you?" A boy who seems slightly older than Liangelo says and I giggle.

"Shut up, Lonzo. She's my girl, go talk to yours." Liangelo says, scoffing when Lonzo chuckles.

"Wait, she's actually your girl? As in, your girlfriend?" He asks and I nod and his eyes go wide. "Congrats bro. Treat her well." 'Lonzo' says as he goes back to sit on the couch. Then a  man who I've seen on plenty of memes in the past couple weeks comes in the living room and stops in his tracks when he sees me.

"You must be the infamous Erin we've heard all about the past couple days?" He says and I giggle.

"That would be me. It's nice to meet you, Mr.Ball." I say and outstretch my hand for him to shake. 

"Call me Lavar. It's nice to meet you as well. Did Liangelo finally ask you out like I told him to?" Lavar asks and I giggle once more. I look over at Liangelo to see him about as red as a tomato.

"Yes sir." I say and he smiles.

"Good. He needed a girlfriend honestly. Started to think basketball was the only thing he'd ever fall in love with." He says and I smile.

"Why y'all making so much racket? Dang, I'm just tryna-Erin? What are you doing here?" Lamelo asks and I roll my eyes.

"Nice to see you too Melo. I'm meeting your family, obviously." I say and he chuckles. 

"Oh. Liangelo finally ask you out? I've been telling him to do it for a while." Lamelo asks and I giggle.

"Yeah, he did." I say and give Liangelo's hand a soft squeeze. 

"Well, in celebration of Gelo finally getting a girlfriend, I say we all watch a movie together. Are you good with that, Erin?" Tina asks and I nod.

"Of course!" I say and she smiles brightly. I rub Liangelo's bicep lightly and he places a small kiss to the top of my head. 

"They like you. Thank you for doing this." He says and I smile.

"You're welcome." 

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hey guys! thank you so much for 1000 reads! like what the heck?!?! i never imagined having that many. so thank you to you guys who like this book. anyways, i like this chapter a lot. it's probably one of my best written chapters so far. i like it a lot. enough of my rambling, hope you enjoy and thank you again!