When Lola got back to her apartment, she set down the bags of Mcdonalds on the coffee table.

"Damn lil sis went out and bought us food" Jamal said taking a snap and hugging her sideaways. She scrunched her brows up.

"I thought you were paying" Lola stayed.

"Watching mean you thought I was paying?" He asked as he opened the bags up, Mika came out of the kitchen with cups.

"When we was talking about getting Mcdonalds you said you were paying" Lola replied.

"No I did not"

"Then why did I take your card" she laughed passing him his credit card back.

"What the fuck Lola?" He said sulking.

"Language" Mika laughed watching Sophia and Caleb run around Iris in a circle as she laughed.

"I asked you if you wanna pay and you said and I quote 'yeah yeah, we're gonna be eating good'" she shrugged.

"I was talking on the phone to Chris because he was asking where we was at"

Caleb spotted the food and ran over to us and looked in one of the takeaway bags.

"Gimme my food" he said snatching the bag away.

Caleb pouted And his top lip started quivering.

"Now look what you've done" I said waiting for him to cry.

"Noooo, Caleb don't cry" Mika said sternly. "If you want it ask nicely"

"Please" Caleb looked at Jamal hunching his back a little.

"Nah man, I payed for alla this" Jamal said pulling the bags of food closer to him.

"Hmmmmm" Caleb whined about to cry. Sophia and Iris stopped playing and looked at him.

"Don't cry" Iris said hugging rubbing his back like Lola would do to her making her smile.

Sophia saw the food and crawled up onto the couch next to Jamal and sat waiting.

"What are you doing?" He laughed watching her. She sat with her hands on her lap peeking into the bags of food.

"I wan food" she pointed at the bags and looked at Jamal.

"Say please" Lola said.

"Please JamJam" she asked leaning towards him.

"I told you she would keep calling me that" he said looking at Lola. "It's Jamal. My name's Jamal"

"Fooood!" Sophia said getting impatient.

"Say my name first"

"Let then eat" Mika said "it's gonna get cold".

"Jamarrl" she said angrily.

"See she can say it" Jamal said pleased.

Sophia stood up and walked over to Lola and started snitching.

Mika, clearly fed up of Jamal, grabbed the food bags and placed them on the dining table. Caleb looked at his mom then Jamal and walked over to her slowly side eyeing Jamal as he walked making Lola laugh.

She helped Mika give the little ones their food and served herself. When she sat down, the doorbell rang and she sighed.

"Don't look at me it's your place not mine" Mika said as she began to eat.

"I wasn't even going too" Lola said standing up.

She let Chris in and went back to sit down.

"Where's my food?" Chris said shutting the door and rubbing his hands together.

"I didn't know you was coming" Lola said looking over at Jamal.

"She used my card you know" Jamal said side eyeing her.

"I said sorry, what more do you want"

Iris and Sophia gave Chris a hug before sitting back down to eat.

"Wassup Caleb" Chris said bending down to his level as he ate. Caleb just smiled and nodded his head as he stuffed chips into his mouth.

"Can I have one?" Chris asked.

Caleb reached into his box and gave him a chicken nugget.

"Thank you." Chris smiled at him and ruffled his hair. He then took a fry and held it to his mouth watching Caleb sulk. He held it back out to Caleb and pulled it back in towards himself when he reached out making Caleb giggle.

"I saw Michael" Lola told Mika.

"Huh" Mika said looking up from her food and raising her eyebrow.

"I saw him when I went to get the food"

"Anddd" she smirked.

"And nothing" Lola laughed "we just said hi, and it turns out he lives around here"

Mika just smiled.

"But you knew that didn't you"

Mika rolled her eyes. "Look, it's none of my business. I didn't even help you find the apartment"

"But you said you liked this one better than the other one I woulda picked."

"That means nothing" she shrugged snickering. "I'm not even tryna play Cupid. I like Sebastian"

"You barely know him"

"Yeah, but he seems nice"

"So you're really just not gonna tell me what's on your mind"

"I don't know what you're talking 'bout"

"I can tell you're not telling me what you truly think"

Mika sighed, a little grin plastered onto her face.

"I think someone wants you guys together and if it happened it happens. But I'm supporting you no matter what. Unless you start dating some bum nigga, that's when I'll pop off"

Lola smiled at her cousin and ate her food.

***

Lola sat at her desk writing up her notes on an apartment she was selling and noticed Greg smiling at her.

"What'd I tell you about smiling?" She raised her brow.

"I know, I know, do it when we've got eye contact" he chuckled. "My sister said I look less creepy"

"You do" Lola replied. For some reason Greg made social situations awkward. Unlike the rest of the office, Lola had said something a week into sitting near him because she was fed up.

"How are the twins?" Greg asked.

"They're good, they liked the pie you made" Lola smiled. Greg was weird but he was nice in a way.

He smiled and went back to reading through his documents.

Lola went back to her notes but struggled to focus. All she could think about was Michael. He spoke to her as if nothing had happened and his attitude had changed into a more relaxed vibe which she didn't think was possible as he was already mellow. He had grown a little taller too although he wasn't as tall as Sebastian.

She checked the time on her watch eager to get up and leave for lunch.

"Five minutes to go" she told herself.

LOLAS POV

After waiting 3 minutes I stood up. They wouldn't care if I went to lunch a little early. I walked to the elevator and pressed the button waiting for the elevator to come down to my floor.

The doors slid open and I stepped in then clicked floor 5 before the doors shut.

I walked to Sebastian's office and saw a cleaning lady, I think her name was Alice, and she was hoovering.

I knocked on the door to catch her attention.

"Excuse me?"

Instead of turning around to face me, she stepped back. Then forwards. Then began to salsa dance a little moving her hips to her own tune. 

"Yo!" I said a little louder. Then she had the nerve to turn around and look at me like I had stopped a party.

She laughed a little when she saw me then switched the hoover off. "You need help?" She asked resting her hands on the Hoover.

"Where's all of Sebastian's stuff?"

"He moves offices. They just got him a promotion. Y'all are probably gonna like the privacy in that office."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I laughed.

"I see the way that boy looks at you" she smirked. "Anyway, he's at the corner office of this floor"

I walked to the end of the corridor and saw an open space with a few desks, similar to where I worked downstairs and I saw Sebastian walking into a big office with large clear windows. They had fully refurnished his office and it looked way nicer. The design was based off of the colours black and red and he even had a couch in there. His old office could never.

I walked over towards his office passing all the faces sitting at their desks, occasionally smiling at some of them politely.

Eventually, Sebastian noticed me and he smiled widely as he took some of his stuff out of his boxes. I grinned and walked faster over to him.

"Excuse me!" Some girl stuck her hand out so that I walked into her arm.

I looked down at the girl sitting at a desk outside of Sebastian's office.

"Excuse you, what do you think you're doing?"  I said giving the girl a stank face. She had long blonde hair slicked back into a neat ponytail and thin blue eyes.

She looked at me clearly amused, her upper lip twitched upwards making me even angrier.

"Yo, it's fine this is my girlfriend" Sebastian said coming out of the office. 

She looked me up and down then dropped her arm.

Sebastian slid his arm around my waist and led me into his office and shut the door.

"Who's that?" I asked.

"They gave me an assistant" he chuckled.

"Well congrats on your promotion" I said kissing his cheek.

"That's all I get" He said wrapping his arms around my waist tighter.

"Your whole floor can see anything we do"

"No they can't" he smirked excitedly.

"Nigga, I can see your whole floor in here"

He let go of me and clapped his hands loudly.

Grey blinds quickly went into motion and suddenly all of the windows were covered and they were alone.

"Ohh, you really got promoted."

"I know right" he smirked.

"Wait what do you do now?"

"I'm still doing architecture, but I'm second in charge of this floor."

"So you're all of those people's boss?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Yeah, does that turn you on"

I laughed at him and pressed my lips together.

"Well done, I'm really proud of you" I said before kissing him slowly holding the side of his cheek.

He pulled me in closer by the waist and kissed me deeper, more intensely. His hand stayed on the small of my back and I wrapped my arms around his neck as he picked me up.

He sat me down on his desk and placed himself between my legs as we kissed.

***

4:00 PM

I grabbed my stuff from my desk and said bye to Greg before heading upstairs to see Sebastian.

"I'm going now" I said peeking my head through his door.

"I've got more work to do." He said looking up from his computer. "I might come round later, or call if I finish late"

"Aight" I smiled blowing him a kiss.

He chuckled and caught it in his hand.

As I left, I heard the assistant snicker and rolled my eyes. I'm not about to get into an argument with her today.

***

On the way home, I saw Michael again. We had both stopped at a traffic light and he was the first to notice me.

He rolled his windows down and I looked over at his car to see him grinning. I laughed and shook my head as I rolled my windows down too.

"So you stalking me now?"

"No way. Why would I do that?"

"I don't know, why'd you move into my neighbourhood?"

"Pure coincidence" I blushed looking at the lights only to see they were still red.

"I'm liking the car" I said, he was driving an all black Mercedes and it looked like the interior was black too. "Ya mama buy you this too"

"You think you're funny" he chuckled.

"I'm hilarious" I said smugly.

He seemed to observe me a little "are you hurt coming back from work?"

I nodded and noticed he was just wearing his regular clothes.

"And you?"

"I had some business too" he smiled showing his grills.

I heard the car behind me beep and I rolled my eyes before starting to drive again and saw that Michael had already gone.

When I got home, I put my bag away in my bedroom and took a long shower before getting comfortable in some shorts and a T-shirt.

I made myself spaghetti and ate whilst watching tv and scrolling through my phone. I smirked a little when a notification popped up.

'Whereis22 is now following you'

"Imma wait a couple minutes before I follow him back" I said to myself.

After eating I washed my plates and put them away then started going over some work stuff and looking over other places I was trying to sell.

After an hour and a bit I decided I had done enough work and finally went onto my Instagram to follow Michael back.

On his page, it was mostly him and famous rappers or him on holiday. Occasionally I saw pictures of him and friends, including Darius. I even spotted Mika in the background of some pictures making me feel a bit bad.

After our break up, I was the one that stopped going out as much because everyone made me feel awkward, and by everyone I meant Darius and sometimes Emmanuel. Even though Emmanuel didn't do it on purpose, hey just assumed I was hurting and said awkward stuff. To be honest I cried a lot but they didn't need to know that, only Mika and Haley even Kamila.

I ended up scrolling so much I ended up at 3 years ago, he still had the picture of us with my motorcycle. Him holding me and me smiling as the stranger took the picture.

Imma phone began vibrating and my face filled the screen as Emmanuel's name popped up as he wanted to FaceTime.

"Hey ugly" He said when I answered.

"Hey stupid" I rolled my eyes getting comfortable.

"That's no way to greet yo big brother"

"Jamal would beg to differ" I laughed. Jamal and Emmanuel were funny to watch, although Emmanuel seemed bigger than Jamal, it was clear Jamal had more strength than him and was way more confident. Jamal was the only person Lola had seen make Emmanuel make nervous.

"I ain't scared of you brother"

"Jamal did you hear that?" I said turning around acting like he was in the room.

"Shit" he whispered dropping his phone so that she could only see his ceiling making me laugh.

"I was kidding" I finally said. "He's not here"

We talked for a couple minutes, catching up a bit and laughing.

"So what happened with Darius and you?" He asked.

"Ahhh so this is why you called?"

"I can't even lie to you, yeah" he chuckled.

"I was drunk and he was mad we kept laughing at him and his girl" I shrugged. "I was just mad he hated on me because I broke up with Michael which makes no sense at all. It wasn't his relationship"

"He said you guys were being childish and chatting shit about him and his girl"

"Wow, he went snitching to you" I laughed.

"I know right, the little bitch" he chuckled making me laugh more. "He told me and I sat there not knowing what to say. I mean did he want me to tell you off or what?"

"I don't know why he's so salty" I rolled my eyes. "I just thought it was a snake move going out with Jay after everything that happened."

"You know that you can't prove that Jay was in on it. Just the fact that her hair was also wet and fluffed out could be a coincidence. You yourself said people were going into the lake."

"Yeah but-"

"Lola, it happened a while ago. I'll admit Darius is being immature but you should just drop it."

I pressed my lips together and he laughed.

"Don't look at me like that" he chuckled.

"I didn't even do anything" I rolled my eyes.

"Hows ya boyfriend then?" Emmanuel teased.

"He's fine" I smiled. "He got promoted today."

"Before you" Emmanuel raised his eyebrows. "Who do I need to speak with?"

"He started working there before me it's okay" I laughed.

"Aight if you say so" he nodded relaxing into whatever he was sitting on.

I heard my doorbell ringing and stood up.

"Who's coming over at this time?" Emmanuel asked.

I shrugged checking the time to see it was 9:34pm.

On the screen by my door it showed the cctv footage of Sebastian pressing the buzzer again.

"It's just Sebastian" I smiled.

"So are you gonna be getting any of that promotion money"

"Emmanuel, we ain't even married" I said buzzing him up.

"So you gonna get that promotion dick"

"I'm cutting you off now"

"I was just playing" he laughed.

"Byeee"

"Lola Wait"

I cut the phone and unlocked my door waiting for Sebastian to come up.

"Heyy" I smiled giving him a hug as he came in. He still wore his work clothes and looked a little tired.

He swayed side to side with me.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Mhmm" he mumbled in a low voice.

"You said you'd call me if it was late" I said walking with him to my couch after locking my front door.

"Can I not come and see my girl?" He asked pulling me into the couch with me.

"You're more than welcome to see me" I smiled pecking his lips.

"What were you doing before I came?"

"I was talking to Emmanuel" I said playing with his chain that he often tucked into his shirt.

"Which ones that?" He asked squinting his eyes, like he did when he was deep in thought.

"The big light skinned one, with curls."

"He looks like Jamal a bit, right?"

"Yeah I guess" I shrugged. "How was work?"

"Weird" he smirked a little.

"Why?" I asked looking at him funny.

"Why you looking at me like that?" He laughed.

"Because you're looking all giddy"

"Can I not smile" he kept laughing.

"Whatever, Why was it weird?"

"I get paid to do a lot less."

"Must be nice" I sighed dropping his chain and laying on his chest.

"I mean I work till later, but it's still a lot less effort to do what I'm doing right now."

"What time did you finish?"

"I was working later to get myself sorted out but I should normally finish at 6:00"

"That's late"

"Yeah I know, but I have an extra day off now."

"I'm still really proud of you" I said.

"Does that mean I get anything?"

"Don't even" I laughed sitting up.

"What?" He said disappointedly.

"Do you want anything to eat or drink though?" I asked standing up.

"Sure"

"I made spaghetti" I said as he followed me into my kitchen.

He rubbed his hands together and followed me into the kitchen.

"Wow wifey cooking me something to eat" he said snapchatting me as I went into the fridge to take out some leftovers.

I side eyed him.

"See the attitude she gives me guys" he said stunting for the camera. "I'm telling you guys she's lovely but she can be a little a BITCH!" He yelled.

I closed my fridge door and started hitting him with my fists as he laughed.

"Call me a little bitch again" I laughed.

"Bitch" he said slowly.

I hit him again then decided to turn the tap on and I threw water at him.

"Yo chill out" He laughed trying to defend himself. He then rushed towards me and started spraying the water on me and because I'm short it went into my face.

"Ahh" I laughed stepping back away from the sink and slipping backwards onto the floor.

"Oh shit you okay" he said cutting the video off.

"Yeh" I said holding my arm out for him to help me up. He reached down to pick me up and I caught him off guard and dragged him down with me.

"Lil Bitch" I said in his face.

He just smiled at me.

// thanks for sticking through with me throughout this book, really appreciate it.

Oh, and I changed the person playing Lola, but they look exactly the same so I might intertwine the two npeople 🤷🏾‍♀️😂. And I won't be changing any of her other pictures.

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