unexpected.

ch.9

Monique's POV

I woke up to a small breeze whipping along my face. I attempted to rub the sleep out of my eyes as I glanced over to the open window. My phone lit up with a notification and I ended up scrolling through all the ones I received over the night.

Instagram, snapchat, same old, same old. Then I finally stumbled upon a text from Chris that came in only 4 minutes ago.

"morning babygirl. i enjoyed spending the day and night with u. ur bout the most down lil shawty i've ever encountered and i hope that today we can make some more memories. also, come downstairs i've got a surprise for you."

I looked up from my screen with a smile and made my way downstairs. It was quiet and I knew the boys would still be sleeping since it was 7:30 in the morning and they probably wouldn't be up till 10:30 the earliest.

Once I reached the front door, I opened it and looked down to see all of my bags of presents from yesterday. I smiled widely finding a teddy bear and huge bouquet of roses in the middle of the bags. I bent down to grab the roses seeing a small card with a message on it.

"Decided to get you your gifts sooner than later. I hope you like the bear, name him whatever you please. Can't wait to see your gorgeous face later today. ~ Chris"

My heart seemed to stop for a moment as took the moment in. I sniffed the roses and looked at all the bags. "My God, he's so mushy." I laughed to myself, grabbing them all and bringing them up to my room.

I dropped them on the floor and huffed because of how heavy they were. I sat back down on the edge of my bed and text him back.

"you'll never know how much i appreciate u. thank u boo, the roses and teddy are really cute."

Once I sent the message, I got up and grabbed my vase sitting on my window seal. I filled it with water in the bathroom and gently placed the flower in it. "So cute." I mumbled to myself as I set them back down.

I decided to get ready for the day since it was gonna be another long one. I ended up finishing pretty quickly and didn't bother putting on any makeup except for a bit of mascara and dip brow pomade.

By this time it was only 9am, so I text Shay letting her know I'd be at her house by 1:30pm. As soon as I sent it, a FaceTime call came in from my mom. I quickly answered with a smile.

"Hi mommy." I cooed. "Morning nique-nique. You're up early aren't ya?" She asked. "Ehh, I'm hanging out with Ray and Shay today so I was eager." She nodded and cleared her throat. "Alrighty well I was just checking in on y'all since DeAndre didn't wanna answer his phone last night." She said, rolling her eyes.

"Oh I'm sure he lost it again in that giant mass of clothes in his room." We both laughed and she agreed. "Okay, well I love you. Tell that knucklehead I love him too and I'll see you guys tomorrow night." "I will, I love you too."

And just as I hung up, another call came in. This time from Chris.

"Hi Chris." I greeted him with a wide smile. "Well good morning to you too baby, whatchu doin right now?" He asked me. "Nuthinnn." I sang.

"Then you down to go out for some breakfast?" He questioned, keeping his eyes on me. "Fine, only if you let me pay." "Pffft." He chuckled. "Whattt, I'm tired of being the only one receiving. Let me be nice." I whined.

He rolled his eyes cutting me off. "Whatever you want, now stop whining you big baby. I'm like 2 minutes away so be downstairs." "Well you were just so sure of me saying yes to breakfast that you're already on your way huh?" I laughed.

"I told you I wanted to see you." He smiled, looking at me then back at the road. He's so cute, always giving me butterflies and shit.

"Alright well let me finish getting my things together and I'll be down there in a minute. See you soon." I said. He nodded giving me a small ok and I hung up. I slowly walked over to my pile of presents and went through the one Gucci bag to find a box.

I opened the box to reveal the small Gucci clutch with the gold chain strap Chris had gotten me. I think he'll appreciate me wearing such a stylish piece of fashion. I made my way down the steps, putting my keys in the bag and spritzing a bit on perfume on my neck.
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Just as I grabbed the doorknob, he pulled up to the front of my house. He rolled the window down and flashed a smile my way. "Hop in ma!" I smiled, closing the door behind me, running over to the car.

I hopped in and leaned over pecking his lips gently. "Mm, your lips wayy softer than I remembered." He lowly mumbled looking down at my lips then back into my eyes, leaning in for another kiss. I blushed, pecking his lips once more before he took off.

"Aight so where you tryna eat baby?" He asked, resting a hand on my thigh. "Doesn't matter to me, anywhere is fine." He nodded, keeping his eyes on the road.

I looked down at the tatted hand, lightly tracing my finger along the outline of the little skull tat. He glanced over at me with a small smile, but kept quiet. This boy really has my heart already.

Chris' POV

I decided to take to her to one of my favorite spots in The City. A lot of my favorite spots in the Bay happen to be in San Fransisco, it's just a nice ass place.

I grabbed for her hand after she slid her shades on. We then walked into the diner and it was pretty busy. Mostly elderly people, so I knew no one would recognize me.

Once we ordered our table and sat down, I noticed Nique was kind of quiet.

"Wassup baby? You enjoying yourself?" I asked reassuringly. She nodded and slowly looked up to me. "I'm just sad that you're gonna have to eventually leave and I'm only gonna be able to see you on the screen again." She mumbled.

"Baby, don't trip. We dealt with this for over half a year now. I think we'll make it through." I chuckled, caressing her cheek gently. She smiled slightly, causing me to smile.

Man, it's just something about this girl. It's like she's the source of my happiness. After years and years of being in the entertainment business, I've only ever met one person other than Nique to make me feel like this. I'm just hoping this time it can last.

We eventually got our food and were just talking about random things, learning even more about eachother than we already knew.

"I ended up rolling my ankle, hyper extending my achilles tendon and boom. That's when I knew singing was my last chance." I explained. She laughed to herself and I rolled my eyes at her. "Shut up, it ain't funny. I was a real baller. I still am, I could whoop you 1 on 1 any day."

"Mhm, whatever boy." She said pinching my arm gently.

I looked over to her as she seemed to play around with her food a bit. "So what'd you name your teddy bear?" I asked her trying to cheer her up. A smile then appeared on her face and she looked to me, "
Then there suddenly was a moment of silence between us two and all the could be heard was the murmur of everyone around us. I looked to Nique and saw that her gaze was on an elderly couple sitting at the counter across from us.

They sipped their coffee and shared a few laughs every so often. I could see a small smile come across her face. I wrapped my arm around her, pulling her close to leave a small kiss on her forehead.

God knows how much I care about this girl. She truly meant the world to me and I had only actually known her for about 6 months. I guess unexpected things in your life can be the greatest part of it.

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just a quick lil update. very short cause this was more of a filler chapter just to get a move on of things. hope it wasn't too shitty lmao. i swear i'll do better next chapter :))