LOLA

The last 2 weeks, Sebastian has been treating me so much. Last Friday he came to my house in the morning when I was in my pjs getting ready for work and decided we should both take a sick day so he could spend some cash on me. It was really cute, he said it was to make up for all the late nights he spent at work.

Each day he'd send me small things like necklaces, shoes, clothes.

"You don't have to do that you know" I said.

"I know, but I wanna treat my baby"

I smiled into the phone.

"Thank you, the gifts are really cute"

"Everything fits right?" He asked.

"Yeah they fit. I didn't even know you knew my sizes"

"I know my baby girl" he said.

"Aww, you guys are too cute" Jennifer said.

"Oh so you got me on speaker" he laughed.

"Hey Sebastian" Jennifer said.

"Hey Jenny" he laughed. Jennifer was the only person that seemed to have nothing against Sebastian, though in all honesty, she seemed like his favourite out of my family. My dad liked him although they only had 3 long encounters. But they always seemed to be laughing about something, yet Lucas would never admit he liked Sebastian. He'd just claim he's 'okay' and shrug.

"How are the twins?" He asked.

"Napping" Jennifer said.

"I was wondering why it was so quiet."

"Mhmm. Are you still at work?" Jennifer asked.

"Yeah" he replied shuffling around. "I'm taking a little break now to talk to Lola."

"Wow, don't overwork yourself baby" Jennifer said.

"Mama" Sophia called.

"And they're awake" Jennifer stood up leaving the living room to see what was up with Sophia.

"How was your day then?" Sebastian asked.

"It was okay" I shrugged. "Oh, Greg found himself a date"

"As in the Greg that sits next to you" he said not believing a word.

"Yeah, and don't say it like that"

"Good for him" Sebastian chuckled.

"Next week I'm going to a family reunion" I said, "gonna meet my grandma for the first time."

"Wow" he chuckled. "I mean, I didn't know you liked the rest of your family like that."

"You're right I don't but maybe my other cousins are cool, all I have to go off is Cecilia, her mom and my mom"

"I thought you were cool with your mom"

"Eh, I don't really wanna talk to her though. It was embarrassing when I met her again and she automatically tried to disown me."

"Your life is one long drama series." he laughed, he grunted a little and coughed. "I gotta go."

"Are you okay?"

He coughed again. "Yeah, I just need a little water."

"Take care, love you" and he cut the phone.

I put my phone down and sighed, what was up with him.

I heard soft knocks and the door that started turning into a beat.

"What it is?"

"Whats up?"

Two voices started rapping.

"The twins are sleeping" I laughed opening the door.

"Hey bitch" Kamila said strutting into the house.

"Waddup sis" Emmanuel said hugging me.

"What are you guys even doing here?" I asked. "I didn't tell you guys I was here"

"We come to your parents house often" Kamila shrugged. "I mean that sounds hella weird, but it's better than my moms house, its ratchet as fuck and because Jennifer said she was going out and asked us to babysit.

"I can babysit" I pouted.

"I like babysitting it's fine" Kamila shrugged sitting down on the couch with Emmanuel.

Why didn't Jennifer ask me?

"Do you babysit often?" I asked.

"No" Kamila and Emmanuel shook their heads.
"Barely, you know Jennifer is always with them. Last time we babysat was like a month ago"

"No, it was the month before that" Emmanuel protested.

"Are you sure because I remember us doing that thing before we went"

I raised my eyebrow.

"And that was at the end of the month, but two months ago." Emmanuel said.

"Same thing" Kamila shrugged.

Jennifer came back downstairs.

"Oh you're here" she smiled giving them both a hug.

"Lola's here, so you guys don't really need to stay" Jennifer said smiling at me.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"Out" she responded.

"With who?" I asked.

"You sound like your dad" she laughed, she looked at me and started laughing again.

"What?" I asked. Kamila and Emmanuel snickered.

"You pull the same face as him too."

"I wasn't even pulling a face" I replied.

"Yeah you was" Emmanuel said scrunching up his nose and pulling his head back a little.

"No it's more like this" Jennifer did the same thing but she squinted her eyes a more and pouted a little.

"I don't do that"

"We could argue about it all day but you do" Kamila agreed.

"I'm gonna get ready, and Kamila, you guys can go if you want" Jennifer said.

"It's okay, we'll stay with Lola"

"Okay" Jennifer headed towards the door and it slowly opened, Sophia peaked out of the door and smiled.

"Hello Emmanuel" she giggled squeezing her hands together happily walking past her mum and opening her arms out wide to hug him.

"You need to go have nap time" Jennifer said.

"I'm not tired" she pouted, Emmanuel was now carrying her on his hip.

"Your sister is sleeping"

"But - but I'm not tired" she said hugging Emmanuel's neck not looking at her mum anymore. I laughed a little and looked between Jenifer and Sophia.

"You know what, that's your problem tonight" she said point lung at us and walking away to get changed.

***

Sophia was watching Pocoyo on her iPad as we watched a bit of tv. Jennifer has left half an hour ago and it was around 7 o'clock.

"So are you guys a thing?" I asked randomly. I mean, I never thought they hung out with each other so seeing them together was a surprise.

"Mhmmmm" Kamila said pulling a stank face.

Emmanuel rolled his eyes. "Why you gotta pull that face for?"

"Because I don't like you" she said. She sat on the couch with Sophia and Emmanuel day on the other one. I sat on the floor in front of Emmanuel.

"I was just asking you don't need to start getting mad" I laughed.

"She's probably lesbian to be honest" Emmanuel said.

"Emmanuel!" I exclaimed.

"What? If she doesn't like me she can't like no other nigga" he joked sulkily.

"You're just butt hurt" Kamila rolled her eyes and played with Sophia's feet making her giggle and pull her feet in close towards herself.

"Stoppp" she looked up from her iPad.

"I can't believe you left us at the game night thing" kamila sulked. "You let Emmanuel win!"

"Correction, you let Emmanuel win"  I pointed at her.  "I thought you guys would've been able to hold it down without me, that's why I picked you guys. Now I've got Mika breathing down my back telling me how she's the better Brown"

"Mika's last name is Brown too!" Emmanuel said.

"Yh, doofus" I rolled my eyes.

He slapped his hand onto my forehead.

"Don't start nothing, with yo fivehead looking ass"

"Mmmm" Emmanuel snapped his fingers repeatedly "I saw ya man the other day"

I saw Kamila roll her eyes.

"He was at a jewellery store, I waved at him but he didn't see me at first"

"When was this?" I interrupted.

"Like yesterday" he shrugged " he seemed really surprised to see me too. I think he was getting you a bracelet"

I smiled.

"If I see a fancy bracelet on Anna's hand, don't say I didn't tell you" Kamila said.

"Can you stop with that?!"

"Who's Anna?" Emmanuel asked.

"His assistant" Kamila answered.

"Kamila thinks he's cheating on me with her" I said angrily.

NO ONES POV

Lola's nose flared as she glared at Kamila.

"You're the one who's gonna look stupid when the whole office finds out about his affair"

Lola stood up.

"He's not cheating on me! If you don't like him just tell me, you don't need to make up stories so I'll break up with him!" She shouted, her voice raising as she went on.

"Don't raise ya fucking voice at me when I'm tryna help you. And yeah I don't like him, BECAUSE HES CHEATING ON YOU!" She yelled at Lola standing up too. Sophia looked up from her iPad.

Lola just shook her head angrily. "Get out. I don't want to speak to you, he loves me and he would never, never do me like that!"

"Yo chill out," Emmanuel stood up. "You guys are good friends, don't let this get in between you. I mean, if Kamila said he's cheating then-"

"Shut up Emmanuel you don't know him like I do" Lola said, she looked at Kamila " and neither do you. If he  didn't want to be with me anymore he'd tell me, he's honest in that way"

"You're gonna look fucking stupid when everyone knows and you don't" kamila said grabbing her bag and walking out. They heard the door slam.

Lola heard Iris' little footsteps come down the stairs and she walked into the living room holding her elephant teddy.

"Are you okay Iris?" Lola asked picking her up.

"Why are you shouting?" She asked flinging her arms out, hitting Lola in the face with her teddy.

"Sorry baby" Lola smiles kissing her forehead.

"Have you asked him?" Emmanuel asked warily.

Lola turned to face him. "If I was yo girl, would you like me asking you if you were cheating on me."

"No, obviously not"

"And if you were cheating on me, would you answer truthfully?" Lola asked.

"I-" Emmanuel stuttered.

"Exactly" I stated setting Iris down on the floor. She sat with Sophia, looking over her shoulder to see what she was watching.

"But wouldn't you rather know now though?" Emmanuel stated.

***

"What do you think I should do?" Lola asked.

Michael and Haley looked at each other cautiously before looking back at Lola.

"Just ask him" Michael shrugged.

"if he asks suspicious about it ask to look through his phone" Haley added.

"Woah woah" Michael sat up properly "don't start that shit, if you made asking him, don't turn it into accusations and shit. He'll just get mad"

"Let him be mad, you wanna know. And there shouldn't be any reason for him to hide shit on his phone anyway"

Haley and Lola high fived "you see this right here? That's why you're my best friend."  Lola said.

"Do you go through Luke's phone?" Michael asked.

"Well-"

"Trick question, I know you don't" Michael said before she could even answer.

"That's because there ain't a chance he'd be talking to some other female. But Kamila wouldn't say he's cheating without reason"

"Don't even" Lola rolled her eyes.

"What?" Haley asked.

"She's been bugging me about him cheating, like maybe I believe it a little bit more now. But she had no right to be rude about him that way especially when we don't know he's cheating for certain, he's still my boyfriend and that's plain disrespectful"

"She was probably just looking out for you" Haley said. "You know how Kamila can be rude for no reason, she's just like that"

Lola just sat back into her couch. They were all at her apartment waiting for the lasagna Lola made to be ready.

"Anyways, I'll check the lasagna" Haley said standing up and going into Lola's kitchen.

"You okay?" Michael asked standing up and sitting next to her.

"Yeah" she replied.

LOLA

I fiddled with the tiny ring I wore on my pinky.

"You seem really worked up about it" he said.

"I mean, what if it's true" I said looking at him.

I really hated Kamila for telling me. At first I wouldn't believe it, but she's my friend so she wouldn't not tell me. But now I'm believing it more and more. And I don't want to believe not a single bit because I now felt guilty. Like I kind of want him to be cheating so we can break up. I don't know why. It's not like I ever thought about breaking up with him before. But now I wanted to. And him cheating would be the perfect way to leave him. But I have no idea why I wanted to break up with him.

"If it's true, you can focus on yourself. Or even find someone worth your time. If not, good for you, right?" He said not taking his eyes off me.

"Right" I said, doing poorly in trying to mask my dissatisfaction.

"Lola?" Haley peaked her head around the door. "Can you check it for me please? I think it's ready but I'm not sure"

I stood up and followed her into the kitchen helping her. We took it out the oven and she helped me set the table so we could eat.

"So how's work?" Haley asked Michael as she served herself. "You gonna be working with Bryson anytime soon?" She asked.

"You keep asking me this and I keep telling you I don't work with r and b type stuff"

"And I keep telling you to fix up and work with r and b type singers" Haley replied.

"Even if I did, I wouldn't tell you"  he said pouring himself some orange juice.

"That is rude, Bryson wouldn't stand for it. He needs to see his number one girl" Haley shook her head.

"And what about Luke ain't he yo number one man?" Michael asked.

"Like already knows he's number two" Haley said casually making me laugh.

Michael raised his eyebrow.

"It's true, I hear her tell him all the time" I said pouring myself some water.

"I might be working with Ty Dolla Sign soon though" Michael mentioned. "You still like him?" He asked me.

"Of course" I nodded, "Zaddy is still a tune till this day."

"Oh my God, or nah was the best!" Haley laughed. "Can you imagine I was singing that song in my dads car like it was nothing?"

Me and Michael bust out laughing.

"My dad would always look at me funny and tell me to take it off anytime he was around" I said. "I thought it was because he didn't like my music taste. The worst was when I would listen to Trey Songz on repeat. He would run into my room and look around before telling me to switch it off"

Haley was crying, "my brother would do that. He used to think I'd have his friends over even though I was like 14. He started telling me how his friends have been doing things before he even knew that you could put a dick in places other than a vagina"

Michael spluttered And started laughing again with me.

"I can't believe you were so quiet in high school" Michael said still laughing. "I didn't even know you were King's little sister"

"What difference would it have made?" She shrugged.

"Just would've been something to talk about. I might have even started saying hi to you in the corridors. I know you used to like me" he said smugly.

"Ugh" she said giving him a stank face, completely removing the smug look on his face. "I'm happy I didn't end up with your annoying face" she teased.

"So did you use that red lingerie Luke bought you?" I asked.

Haley blushed and started stuffing her mouth.

"Nuh uh" I took her fork. "Spill the tea sis, you never tell me any details and I tell you everything."

"That's because it's your brother" she laughed covering her mouth as she ate, blushing a bit more.

"And I'm here, I don't need to hear this" Michael said.

"So what?"  I replied.

"I just never talk about our sex to anyone else"

"Plus I'm here, and Michael doesn't wanna know" Michael spike up again.

"Just cover your ears or something" I waved him off.

"I'm not telling you anything, not now anyway" she said taking her fork back. I rolled my eyes and started eating.

"If you wanna know I can tell you, Luke tells me everything" Michael suggested wiggling his eyebrows.

"That's disgusting, stop" Haley said.

"Why didn't you wanna hear Haley's impression of their love making" I asked.

"Because you guys turn it into romance novels when you talk about sex. Just tell us he ate you out, don't start talking about how he french kissed your labia like he wanted to suck the soul out of you from your vagina"

"Who the fuck you be having these conversations with?!" I laughed as Haley bent over holding her stomach. She laughed silently then started laughing like a spray bottle.

"What type groupies you be hanging out with?" Haley kept laughing.

"And who's french kissing their vaginas?" I asked laughing.

"So yall don't talk like that?" He asked we nodded still dying of laughter "for real?"

"Mhmm" Haley answered stuffing lasagna into her before she started laughing again she grabbed a napkin and spat the food out before she spat it into us and the table and she kept laughing. Eventually there were tears in her eyes.

"You know what? Next convo I'm not talking about this anymore."

"Wait, So you gonna let me come and see Dolla Sign?" I asked drinking some water.

***

Haley had left a couple of minutes ago, so it was only Michael and me.

"I can go you know, you don't need to be a perfect hostess you can kick me out."

"It's okay, stay" I said, I checked the clock above my television and read 9:08 pm. "I think we clarified last time that you're a lonely guy."

"Is that's why you invited me to dinner?" He chuckled.

"What else?" I laughed. "Do you think me and Haley normally plan dinner? We just show up to the other persons place sometimes and end up eating together. We usually go to Mika's place though"

"How's her little family?" Michael asked.

"Good surprisingly" I nodded. "I thought her first kids dad would never be in the picture, but she actually likes Thomas"

"I always forget Thomas is Calebs dad" Michael chuckled.

"He's cute ain't he" I said.

"Never woulda thought it was Mika's kid" he joked. I laughed.

"We went to the mall with him and the twins, holdup" I took my phone out my pocket and showed him the pictures. "Look at how cute they are"

"They've grown" Michael raised his eyebrows. "I dunno when the last time I even saw Caleb"

He took my phone out my hands and looked at the picture carefully.

"Swipe to the left for more" I said peeking over his shoulder as he looked at the pictures of them together. Caleb in the middle and the girls either side. Then pictures of Caleb alone and then Iris and Sophia alone too.

"They look like you" Michael said looking back at me. Our faces were really close again but he didn't seem bothered so I acted as if it didn't bother me either.

"Really?" I asked. He's the first to say that "no one has ever said that"

"Not exactly," he swiped to the side so he was on a picture of Sophia sulking a little because we took her lollipop away from her to take the picture. "This one looks a more like you, or it's just the face she's pulling. But both of them have the same eyes as you"

"That's Sophia" I smiled. "You still haven't met hen have you"

"No, it's okay though. I don't have I meet then" he said looking up at me again.

"I want you to, all my friends have met them at least once"

He didn't reply and looked back at my phone. He slid onto my camera and snapped a picture of me off guard.

"Wait, lemme get ready" I said positioning myself. I smiled and he snapped a few then I placed my arms around his shoulders and smiled with my teeth, he did the same with his signature gold grills.

"These are cute" I said watching him scroll through them.

"Imma add this as my contact picture" he said picking one with us both smiling and me wrapping my arms around him.

"If you call me it's gonna look suspicious with that picture" I said.

"You right" he nodded. He went back onto the camera and took a few pictures of himself. He saved a picture of him sticking his middle finger up as his contact picture.

"Wow, you love to stunt" I said taking my phone back and looking at the many pictures he took of himself.

// I'm in Italia 🥴. But I'll have more time to write on the plane back so.

Byeee for now ✌🏾

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