Teacher's Pet

XVI

Normani was on the verge of losing her mind, she had no choice but to face Bey at school but it was overly annoying when she was invading her dreams and popping up at places she's at. She knew Beyoncé didn't know she'd be there but it was still annoying.

Blue ended up noticing her and sat beside her with Beyoncé on the other side of her. They hadn't said a word to one another, she's only talked to Blue and she was grateful for that.

"So what color are you getting?" Normani asked Blue, referring to her nails and watched the seven year old shrug with excitement. She couldn't choose, she had so many things in mind.

"Can you pick?"

Beyoncé raised an eyebrow and leaned over to Blue. "I thought you wanted me to pick."

"Yeah but that was before I saw Mani." Blue said casually, Normani laughed to herself before Blue's attention was back on her. "So pick."

"I think you should get two." Normani started, she took Blue's small hand to show her what she meant by that. "Pink here," She continued as she pointed to her thumb nail. "And purple here." She pointed to her index nail. "Then keep it going like a pattern."

"That's cool!" Blue smiled while nodding, she liked Mani's idea and it's probably better than what her mom was going to come up with. "Did you hear what Mani picked, mommy?"

"Yes."

"Do you like it?"

"Yes, I think you should get it."

"Alright, Mani I missed you a lot."

"I missed you too, Blue. Don't you have an iPad?"

Blue nodded causing Normani to let out a small chuckle, she was in complete aw of Blue. "You should get my number from your mommy then you can FaceTime and text me whenever you'd like."

"Okay deal but I wanna hang out more."

"I'm always willing to hang out with you."

"Tomorrow?"

"Sure but it has to be later in the day, I work from 9 to 5."

Blue frowned a second, she has school after tomorrow and she couldn't stay out too late. Then her eyes widened in happiness, she had the best idea! "Mani, come over to watch a movie!"

"I don't think-" She stopped due to Blue's hopeful eyes and small pout, she did not want to endure a night with Bey but she couldn't let Blue down. "If your mom is okay with it."

Beyoncé heard the whole thing and part of her was hoping Normani would say yes. She wanted to talk to her.

"Mommy?"

"She can come." Beyoncé replied, attempting to sound uninterested. Normani raised an eyebrow, in her eyes Beyoncé sounded like she didn't want to say yes but that didn't matter, she was doing this for Blue anyways.

"Then that settles it. I'll be there for a movie tomorrow." Normani playfully saluted causing Blue to giggle.

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"You are so beautiful." Megan complimented causing Normani to smile shyly as they walked through the park and enjoyed the cool breeze of the night air.

"Here we go." Normani chuckled, referring to Megan's sweet talking as she used her spoon to toy with her frozen yogurt. "Thank you, Megan."

"Don't thank me for simply stating facts." Megan replied while sending a wink Normani's way and taking a spoonful of frozen yogurt into her mouth.