Page 34 of Feeling Blue

“Why you always talking shit?” he questioned Goody, with humor lacing his tone.

“Don’t worry about me with your naked ass. Worry about Forever.”

Blue, Forever, and Eternity all laughed at Goody because she had absolutely no sense at all when talking to people.

“Out there with no clothes on, what you thought she was gon’ do?”

“Should be sucking dick by now, but that’s not my business.”

Forever snatched her phone away with her eyes big as saucers. “Yummy! What is wrong with you? Why would you say that?”

Unable to answer from her laughter, Eternity just waved her hand at the screen before hanging up.

“Bye, sister. Enjoy your sweetie and call us later.”

When the line was clear, Forever tossed her phone on the chair she was next to and removed her sandals. Once she was in nothing but her biker shorts and tank top, she faced Blue,preparing to say something, but was stopped when he snatched his beats off, picked her up, and jumped into the pool.

Forever didn’t even have a chance to scream before they were submerged beneath the water. An expert swimmer but wanting to be glued to her man, Forever clung to Blue’s body for dear life as he swam with her hanging from him.

When he finally came up for air, Forever was gasping to catch her breath, with him helping to wipe the water from her eyes.

“You good, baby? You not trying to die, is you?”

“You could have warned me.”

“Nah, it was better this way. Needed to cool your hot ass off,” he rubbed his hand over her head, trying to smooth her hair out of her face. “Out here showing my dick to your lil’ homegirls.”

“I didn’t really show it to them. I was showing them the house, and you just happened to be in the way.” She blinked away and scrunched her nose to suppress her smile.

“Aye, we private, aight?” He peered into her eyes. “We can let the world see us on the outside, but when we’re at home in our own shit, nobody needs to be here but us. Especially when we’re half dressed,” he gave her a knowing look. “I know it’s just swim trunks, but I wanna be just yours. The kind of exclusivity that allows only us to see each other in certain realms. I’on want your sister and cousin to be seeing what’s only for you.”

Forever’s heart was slowly swelling in her chest at the way he so openly expressed his feelings. Marcellus hadn’t done that until it was too late, and none of her other men had been serious enough to desire exclusivity between them. It was such a turn on that he didn’t mind being vulnerable with her. That was a rarity in men.

“I ain’t saying you can’t talk to them and maintain y’all relationship, I’m just saying, let me and you be a mystery to anybody that’s not us. I don’t want nobody knowing or understanding nothing we got going on, not even them.”

“I understand, Blue-Blue.” Her lips touched his eyebrow as he held her up, the water flowing around them. “I’m sorry.”

“Nothing to apologize for. We still learning each other. We won’t know what the other likes or dislikes unless we talk about it.”

Forever’s mind wandered off to Dylan and her sister Journey. That had been something she’d wanted to talk about, but when Blue was sober. He’d been high and drunk out of his mind after the party, and she hadn’t revisited it since then, but since he was feeling all extra open with their feelings and whatnot…

“Tell me about Journey and Dylan.”

Forever expected Blue to look away, waver, or even look the least bit caught, but he didn’t. Calm as usual, he waded them over to the edge and sat on the pool steps with her on his lap.

“Journey is a girl I dated in high school, and kind of just kicked it with on and off or years. Dylan is her little sister.”

“So, you’ve been talking to them both?”

“Yeah.”

Forever’s mouth dropped at his blunt honesty.

“Me and Journey were actually together, in a relationship. The streets saw it and knew what was good when it came to us. Dylan just played her hand close and pushed up on me right before I got locked up. I could always tell she had eyes for me, but I ain’t think she would actually go for it, until one day she did.” He shrugged, as if messing around with sisters wasn’t a bad thing.

“Tell me more, Zurich, because right now you seem real untrustworthy.”

He frowned slightly as the corner of his right eye jumped. “Don’t start doing that shit.”

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