The Other Side *A Blake Griffin FanFic*

The Interview

Brielle was nervous. It was the 4th period in San Antonio in a game that seemed to be flying by. Blake was here, just like the night before, but he was sitting in a suite with some other NBA players who had come to watch the action. He was going to hang out with them and watch Brielle’s interview on TV away from the arena. That was Brielle’s request. She was nervous enough as it was she didn’t think she would be able to do it with him sitting right there watching her.

The buzzer went off and jarred Brielle from her thoughts. OKC had managed to pull it out and they were taking a tied series back to Oklahoma. The guys were all hyped as they ran back to the locker room. Brielle high fived a few of them before grabbing her bag and making her way over to the Inside the NBA set. 

She was put in a chair off to the side where a makeup artist did her makeup and curled her hair. After she was done one of the producers came over and told her to wait where she was and they would move her over to the set when it was time for her interview. 

She could hear the guys talking and laughed when someone would say something funny. Eventually Brielle could hear her and Blake’s names being thrown around and knew it was almost time. Sure enough the same producer came and got her sitting her chair in the middle of the table. Ernie Johnson and Shaq were to her right while Kenny Smith and Chuck were to her left. 

“How is it that the two old guys get to sit on either side of the pretty lady?” Shaq joked after they had all greeted Brielle.

“Who are you callin old?” Kenny asked glaring over at him.

“Ya know what. This is bullshit, switch me places,” Chuck said bumping Kenny.

Brielle laughed watching all the guys go back and forth. In the end, the former NBA athletes got their way and Brielle ended up sitting between Shaq and Chuck. Hopefully the two of them wouldn’t fight with each other with her in the middle. 

“Thank you for coming on,” Charles smiled at her.

“You need to be thanking Blake,” Brielle said looking over at him.

“I will. He has his turn with us in OKC,” Charles said looking down at the stack of papers in front of him. 

Brielle took a deep breath as the producers counted them down back from the commercial break. The camera shot to a live picture of Spurs fans that were outside of the arena still having a good time even though their team had lost the game. 

“They party hard here in the Alamo city,” Ernie said as the camera panned the crowd.

“I’d be partying hard too if the women out here were all I had to pick from,” Charles laughed. 

Brielle knew her eyes had to be huge. Sure she had watched the show before in passing but enough to know how Charles felt about the women of San Antonio. She wasn’t sure how one of them hadn’t beat him up yet. 

“Ouch. San Antonio women I think you’re beautiful,” Shaq laughed. 

“That’s why you’re an idiot,” Charles answered as the camera came into focus on the five of them.