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Once we showered and moisturized, we got into his bed naked.
I loved skin-to-skin contact, and Franklin seemed to like it as well.
The television played in the background as I lay my head on his chest. I could feel his heartbeat against my ear, and it made me feel relaxed.
“My cousin wants to have game night at her house. She invited us over. That’s if you want to come. I know this is new, but I think it would be fun. It would just be us and the dude she’s been messing with. I haven’t met him yet.”
“I ain’t gonna lie; I usually don’t like being around new people, but I know how much your cousin means to you. Let me know when and I’ll be there.” He leaned down and kissed my forehead.
“Okay, and thank you. Maybe your best friend can come too.”
If he needed one of his people there to feel comfortable, then I would extend the invitation. I knew Lauren wouldn’t care as long as I didn’t invite a bunch of people. One extra person wouldn’t hurt.
“Cool. I’ll run it by him.”
I covered my mouth and yawned. “Okay.” The day caught up to me, and sleep tried to overtake me.
“You don’t have to fight your sleep, Junie,” Franklin said when I yawned again.
Nobody had ever called me Junie, but every time Franklin did it, I blushed. I thought it was sweet that he thought enough of me to give me a nickname.
“I’m not fighting it.” I lifted my head to kiss him. “Good night, Franklin.”
“Good night, Junie.”
I fell asleep with my head on his chest and his hand rubbing my ass.
I didn’t want whatever this was to end, but I hoped I wasn’t moving too fast.
Chapter
Sixteen
Franklin
Juniciaand I had been going strong for a little over a month, and I was ready to make her my girl. I knew she was over her ex, at least it seemed as though she was. She got rid of anything of his that was left over at her house, and she hadn’t said anything about him since we found out about his sentencing.
I wasn’t sure if she was ready, but I wanted to make my intentions known. If she wasn’t ready, I would be fine with that. I hadn’t thought about dating anyone else, and I didn’t want her to deal with anyone else either. Ol’ girl from the doctor’s office reached out again, but I told her I was good, then blocked and deleted her phone number. I had forgotten about her until she texted me to see what was going on with me. I thought she would have moved on, but I guess not. Oh well. At least I kept it real with her.
Junicia mentioned going to her cousin’s house for game night. I wanted to tell her no, but if we were going to be in each other’s lives, we needed to meet each other’s people. I wasn’tconcerned with her officially meeting my parents since I barely fooled with them, but I did want her to meet Quan since he was the only person I talked to outside of her.
It took a few weeks to plan a night that would work for everyone’s schedule, and even though I didn’t like going to many places, I looked forward to seeing Junie with her people. I knew I was a different person sometimes with Quan, and I wondered if Junicia was the same way. People acted funny sometimes when they were around certain people, and I hoped Junicia wasn’t like that.
I told her I would drive, so we were on our way to her cousin’s, and the question I’d been wanting to ask her sat on the tip of my tongue.
She was too into the music and singing her heart out to notice I was nervous.
Junicia’s head whipped over to me when I turned the radio down. “Did you not like my singing?” She smirked.
“Love it,” I teased. She and I both knew she couldn’t sing. “I wanted to discuss something with you.”
She turned in her seat to face me. I glanced at her, then back at the road. I was glad we were in the car because I was too nervous to look into her eyes. They did something to me every time I did.
“I’m listening.”
I cleared my throat to give myself a second to think over my words.
“We’ve been dealing with each other for about a month now, and I’m really feeling you. It may be too soon for you, and that’s okay, but I was wondering if you wanted to take things to the next level.” I glanced over at her, but she had her eyes on the road.
