Only one who gets me. {Kyrie Irving}

The Man I Wanna Be

"I've spent my whole life
Gettin' it all wrong
And I sure could use your help
'Cause from now on
I want to be a good man
A do like I should man
I want to be the kind of man
The mirror likes to see."
-The Man I Wanna Be, Chris Young

"Yeah, that's what you are remember when I used to call you that?"

"Yes I do." I said quietly thinking back.

"I knew you were having a rough time so I thought maybe he would somehow cheer you up, I'm sorry if this isn't helping." Coach said.

"It's fine Brad you did nothing wrong."

"Hey, I can leave if you want me to."

"No stay Bron, coach can I leave?" I asked Brad.

"Yeah." He said. "Hey y'all practice is canceled." Brad said and I motioned for Bron to follow me.

"Hey baby, Ima go do some stuff but I'll be home by dinner promise." I said and I kissed Ashley. "Love you."

"Love you to, have fun and I'll see you tonight." She said smiling at me. I walked out and Bron followed.

"She's pretty." He said breaking the silence.

"Don't go stealing my girl to." I said.

"What?" He asked.

"Nothing I'm sorry." I said shaking my head. "But don't say stuff like that, I'll tell Savanna."

"Well She is I'm not saying that I'd wanna marry her or something I'm just saying she's pretty."

"I know now can we take your car cause Ash has gotta get home in mine."

"Sure, when'd you propose to her?"

"Long story, but um three days ago."

"Oh ok." He said and we got in his car. "So how have you been? I've noticed your the star on the team."

"You know LeBron, I know you haven't watched any of my games and I know you don't care, so don't act like you do. This is my team and you just walked in all of a sudden, and now your acting like you care. I know all you care about is growing your legacy and trying to be the greatest." I snapped and I leaned back and sighed. "I'm sorry bro." I said looking out the window.

"Hey it's fine, but Brad called me and told me to come over because he thought..."

"Don't bring Brad into this." I snapped. What's gotten into me.

"Hey Kyrie." He said stopping at a stop light. "I'm sorry for what ever your holding against me I didn't mean to do anything wrong. We used to talk remember last season."

"Yeah I remember last season." I grumbled.

"It's just times gone by so fast Your now like 27." He said changing the subject. A/N: I know Kyrie is 26 but in order for it to be two years after he left he would have to be 27.

"Yeah don't remind me, Lebron can I talk to you about something?"

"Yeah what?"

"I don't wanna be an old dad, like I don't wanna be 30 when my first kid is born."

"Hey it'll all come with time don't worry about it, I was What 32 when Zuhri was born." He said and I nodded my head.

"It's just I wanna be a good husband and a good man but it's like right now I'm not."

"Kyrie, she wouldn't be with you if she didn't like who you were." He said.

"I know but I just wanna be able to look in the mirror every day and see the man that I wanna be." I said frowning.

"Give it time, y'all will have a family and it'll all work out trust me. Kyrie if this whole thing requires you to change who you are then don't get yourself stuck in it. Your gonna have to change some things, but you should never have to change who you are."

"Thanks Bron." I said. "How king you in town?" I asked changing the topic.

"A good while." He said laughing. "Off-Season so I've got nothing to do."

"Ok, why are you laughing?"

"Cause you haven't changed, you were getting useful information and we were having a serious talk but I guess you just couldn't take it so you changed the subject."

"It's just something I do cause at some point it starts to feel uncomfortable." I said shrugging.

"Kyrie at one point or another your gonna have to deal with that uncomfortableness." He said. "You've just gotta learn though, you'll see the big picture one day."

"LeBron James stop making it sound like I'm a ten year old child!" I snapped.

"I'm not I'm just being honest, it'll start to sink in when she hands you the pregnancy test, but it'll fully come into play when your holding your child for the first time." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"LeBron I get the big picture I'm just not a mature as you, I like to have fun, go out sometimes, do fun stuff. I'm not all, well I have to do this because of this and I have practice tomorrow so I can't stay up past nine and..."

"Kyrie shut up!" He said. "I'm not like that, and one day your gonna look back and say that I was right, I never wanted to have this conversation, but I've taught you things that your gonna need to know and your gonna use along the way. At the moment you think it's just another crazy pointless talk that I'm giving you that your barley listening to, but in a few years you'll understand." He said.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"We're just driving." He said.

"Can you drop me off at my house?" I asked.

"Yeah." He said while sighing.

"I'm sorry." I said.

"Sorry for what?" He asked me.

"I'm sorry that I never listen to you, and that I get short tempered and yell at you, that I never apply anything you ever tell me into my own life. Darn I'm sorry I'm just not the person you wanted me to be, I'm like a failure to you."