Pressure (Liangelo Ball )

10

I went back home after Liangelo woke up. He had some things he had to do so I decided to come home, and talk to my parents about going to New York. It's on a Thursday so they are leaving Sunday. I hope they let me go. I walked inside and my parents were having lunch. My dad comes home from work for lunch everyday.

"Hey" I said and sat on the stool
"Haven't seen you in a couple days" my mom said
"Yeah you guys are so busy" I said
"you too" my mom said
I nodded
"I made the team" I said
"Oh my goodness, that's great honey" my dad said
I smiled
"I also wanted to talk to you guys about something" I said
"What's up" my mom asked
"So next week is the boys next door's draft for the NBA. It's in New York and they invited me to come. It's for 4 days. They're staying in an airbnb. Their whole family is going." I said
"Who invited you" my mom said
"the boys" I said
"You're 18, if you want to you can go, just be smart" she said
"I will, always" I said
She nodded

I went upstairs and texted Liangelo what my mom said. He was happy I was gonna get to go with them. I had to text Chelsea and let her know that I was going to be gone for two conditioning days. She didn't mind, she just told me to let a coach know. I was really excited, I've never been to New York, so hopefully this is fun.

I have all star practice tonight, but other than that, today is pretty chill. I basically am going to watch all American all day since Chelsea is hung over and asleep, and Liangelo has a lot of stuff to do with basketball. Pretty chill day.

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I got out of cheer practice. I was exhausted, they have such difficult stunts and routines, I'm so sore and my knee is killing me again. I got into my car and drove back home from the gym. I looked over across the street to see if all of Liangelo's cars were there. One wasn't, so he must not be home. He hasn't texted me either. Even though I texted him a couple times. He's probably super busy. It was almost 8 by the time I got back from practice.

I showered and put on some pjs. I probably won't be out anytime soon. I got a FaceTime call from Chelsea ...

"Hey babes, what're you doing" she asked
"I just got home, are you home yet" I asked
"Yeah just got here. Have you talked to Liangelo today?" I asked
"No" I said "I mean this morning but not recently"
"Look what I sent you" she said "he's at the girls ucla game"
"really" I said
"Yeah, I mean it doesn't mean anything, but he's shady like don't deny it Ava. Just because you like him doesn't mean you can deny the obvious like he's sketch. He likes you, but he likes her too and that's just the bottom line" she said
"We were literally fine this morning" I said
"It has nothing to do with you. It's her. She's probably on his dick, and since he's confused like he gives in. Yeah he invited to New York and everything but she's still in his phone. And y'all aren't even official it's not like you can get mad and confront him. Like it sucks but do you until he decides what the fuck he wants" she said
"this is annoying" I said "do I text him like"
"If you want to, I wouldn't, but if you want to" she said
"I'm not going to. I don't wanna be annoying like it's rude we aren't dating" I said
"Exactly. Just do you babes" she said
"Ugh" I said
She chuckled "let's go out"
"Go out where" I said
"the boys wanna race and go for a ride tonight. Jules just got a new car so they wanna drive it" she said
"I'll come then" I said
"yay I love when you hang with us. We'll pick you up around 11" she said
"That's late chels" I said
"Yeah because it's whack to drive early they can't" she said
"Okay" I said

I look at the pictures she sent me again. It was a picture of Liangelo with his friend Anthony at the UCLA women's basketball game. It doesn't even matter that he's there, but the fact that he hasn't reached out since this morning. Like how do you go from being all sweet and inviting me to New York, to completely ignoring me. It's weird.

I changed my outfit and just put something simple.

I waited for Chelsea to pick me up. Around 10:30 Liangelo decided to finally text me.

Liangelo Ball: hey, wyd? Come over.

It honestly feels like I'm a call for when he's bored. I didn't answer. I waited for chels and the guys. I walked outside and saw Chelsea and her boyfriend, along with our other friend Julia, Jules, and his other friends. I got in the passenger seat of Jules car. Everyone kinda knows Jules likes me. It's a given. But I don't pay any mind to it, because I'm interested in someone else obviously, but maybe I just should.

We drove to get something to munch on. We sat outside to eat our food. It was such a nice night.
I got another text from Liangelo.

Liangelo Ball: where you at ?

With my friends.

Who? Chelsea and them

Yes.

What's wrong ?

Nothing

I thought we were gonna hang out tonight

I texted you and you ignored me, because you were at a basketball game. So I decided to hang out with my friends instead.

It's just a basketball game ?

I'm not saying anything.

Who even told you I was at the game ?

Does it matter ?

no, but it's just funny. Your friends are crazy. It's not that serious, I went to a basketball game. I didn't talk to her. I went and I left. Ask Anthony, I talked about you basically the whole game. You were at cheer practice, I had nothing to do, Anthony wanted to go.

Stop explaining yourself, it's not my business why you went.

You're stubborn. Just come over tomorrow. Help me pack. Have a goodnight with your friends, don't listen to everything they say about us. They don't know what's going on. You do.

Okay, goodnight Liangelo.

Goodnight miss stubborn. ❤️

I say Liangelo's confused, but I feel like I'm the one that's confused. I like him, and I shouldn't be so sensitive to a lot of things.