Sleep Talking

You Got It Bad

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Weeks had passed since the young couple were able to see each other in person again due to their demanding careers.  Their calls got shorter and their texts seemed to happen sporadically because they weren't on the same schedule.  Mike was currently out with his friends at a hookah lounge in Atlanta indulging in some southern fried food because it was one of his cheat days all while reminiscing over his boo.  It had been three hours since Taj had last responded to his previous text and he started to worry about her.  He would constantly check his messages every ten minutes, pretending to scroll through his social media feed so his friends wouldn't think that he was pressed over something simple like a text.

"Yo girl ain't respond back to you?" Terrence asked him, taking a hit of the hookah in his hands.

"You keep staring at your phone like every five minutes like we wouldn't find out."  Steelo chuckled, and continued.  "You still dating that Smith girl?"

"Uh, yeah...I work with her father but I hadn't seen her in like two weeks." Bakari sighed, picking up a few fries to eat his sorrows away.

"This nigga is fucking pussy whipped." Steelo jokes on his best friend while shoving fries into his mouth.

"Man, listen..." Mike chuckles lowly. "I'm not usually one to brag but...shit, she got me fucking swimming in it.  Elite pussy hit different."

"And Uh, does your boss know you're fucking his daughter?" Terrence asked Mike.

"I think he's catching on but he hasn't said anything yet." He shrugs.

Terrence sighs, picking up his glass to drink.

"You two have only been dating for a month she's an A list celebrity... you've got to know she's not going to be available when you want her to be." Terrance said, picking up a wing to bite into.

"I Guess Im not used to actually dating someone who's in the industry.  Most of the women who I've dated aren't basic but they weren't average either. You two are in the industry, what's it like dating someone in the entertainment field?"

"Me personally, I try to stay away from it." Steelo chuckled, watching his friend roll his eyes. 

"It's not at all as bad as it seems... you just get less privacy when you're dating a celebrity and you two have already been dating for what a few months now on the low? And gossip blogs are already suspecting you two together." Terrence says, pulling out his phone to show him the post that he saved of TheShadeRoom earlier this morning and handed him his phone.

"Taj Smith rumored to be dating Celebrity Chef Mike Jordan, swipe left to check out the Fresh Princess' new boo." Mike read out the headline out loud, causing his friends to burst out laughing.

"Awe man, I haven't laughed that hard in a minute." Steelo laughed, wiping a tear from underneath his eye.

Mike swiped through the photos, thankful that they chose decent photos of the two together even though they were shot by paparazzi except for the one he posted of himself and her father after the tasting.

"That would explain all of the random women in my DMs this morning." He sighed, reaching across the table to hand Terrence back his phone.

"Any of them cute?" Steelo asked him for himself as his friends looked at him weirdly.

"What? A nigga need to get his dick wet too." Steelo kisses his teeth.

Mike rolled his eyes.

"What happened to Ari?" Terrence asked Steelo.