𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴

CHAPTER FOUR

WHEN CELESTE HAD woken up she tried to get out of bed but felt arms around her waist, gripping her hips firmly. she looked down to see that darrian's face was now stuffed in the crook of her neck. she smiled at the sight seeing that the sun was shining on his light skin and he looked so pretty in her eyes.

just like the night before she started scratching his curls softly. it wasn't long before darrian started shifting in his sleep, "mhmm." he hummed at the affection his hair was getting.

"morning." he mumbled, his voice filled with rasp. celeste smiled softly at his voice, "good morning." she replied. the pair didn't speak for a good couple of minutes until celeste saw the time on her alexa that read
nine on the dot.

her dad would probably be coming in less than an hour so started shaking darrian gently. "mmcht. stop shakin me leste." he said lowly before yawning. "you gotta get up, ma pops gonna be here soon." she said softly. he groaned at her sentence but started stirring from his position nonetheless.

when he let go of her waist she sat up slowly and turned around to face him. "i'll see you at the carnival?" she said lowly as he nodded in response before lifting from of the bed to stretch his arms out.

"ight, i'll see later leste." he grabbed her hand interlocking then squeezing it softly making her smile. "bye." and with that he left her room. she waited til she heard the front door click to lay her head back in the mushy pillows.

celeste's mind drifted to the boy that was next to her not even five minute ago. she wondered if she was being to clingy and how he thought of her. she hated how natural it felt for him to be so close to her when she never liked people being in her personal space.

though she wished she could thank him for making her slowly crack out of her shell that she had been for so long she couldn't even keep count.

CELESTE FINALLY FINISHED her edges that she had been working on for the past fifteen minutes since she wanted to look her utter best today. she already had done the light makeup on her face so all she had to do now was put the outfit on.

she saw that it was almost six meaning darrian and them would be here to pick her up soon. celeste quickly stuffed the powdery donut that her dad brought for her, munching on it slowly as she got up to her closet.

she took the hanger that had the bape hoodie and sweatpants on it. she dusted her hands off before slipping her clothes of to change into the comfy sweatsuit.

she then placed the red thunder fours right on her feet and laced them on. the light skin girl made her way back to her vanity to check her hair again trying to check for any flaws. her curls were pulled into a slick low bun with her edges done perfectly.

celeste pulled one of her drawers open that had her makeup organized in it. she picked out her dior lip oil to run over her lips the opened the victoria's secret coconut milk & rose perfume to drown her clothes in. she sprayed until her fingers got tired then stopped.

she grabbed her headphones that she found herself using less since she started hanging around darrian and she didn't know if it was a good or bad thing. celeste picked up her iphone and her white wallet that layed next to it. she flicked her light off then left the room.

she spotted her dad's figure who was brooming around the kitchen. "hi pa." she greeted her dad that turned his head to her as she made her way to the couch.

"hóla princesá, where you goin all dolled up?" he observed making celeste's face grown into a large grin. "i'm going to the carnival with a couple friends." she replied trying to keep the excitement in her voice hidden but it showed a lot.

"well, i'm happy you makin friends princess." he laughed at her clear excited voice. "you need money?" he already to pull out his wallet though celeste shook her head frantically, "no, pa, it's okay─" he slapped two hundred bills in her hand not leaving any room for arguments.

"thank you." she smiled at her father as she gently placed the crispy bills in her wallet. the daughter and father duo conversed in a conversation until she heard a a car horn outside of her house and a text notification from darrian meaning they were there.

"they here." she jumped up from her seat and gave her dad a hug. she opened her front door hearing her dad yell "have fun princess!" she smiled even though he couldn't see her.

she saw a car parked a couple cars down so she walked to it slowly seeing a lean figure against the car door scrolling on his phone.

she sped up her pace since she felt the air around her get cooler + she didn't bring her jacket not wanting to cover up her outfit. she made it out that it was darrian in the same outfit as they planned. she smiled so hard her dimples popped out.

darrian turned around from the sounds of footsteps and made eye contact with her. he immediately engulfed her in a hug burying her face in his chest. "huggin me like we haven't seen eachother in years." she uttered laughing softly before he let go.

"had to rub my self on you, you smell mad good. " he pointed out, "and you look really pretty." he bluntly said, emphasizing on the really part. "were wearing the literal same thing d." she deadpanned trying to dismiss her flowing red cheeks.

darrian shrugged before opening the car door for her. she scrambled into the car seeing that notti was next to her. "yo what's the word twinnie." he dapped her, sending her his million dollar smile.

she smiled back and started talking until notti bring something up, "you feelin my brotha?" he whispered to her so ddot didn't hear her since he was next to her. celeste shook her head frantically though her cheeks were flowing crimson red. her red face didn't go unnoticed by ethan as his lips turned into a smirk, nodding but not believing her.

the drive to the carnival was loud with dd and notti arguing about something and jay sighing in disappointment each time. but celeste stayed quiet like always, and suprisingly ddot was too.

celeste felt weight in her shoulder it being darrian's head laying on it. celeste smiled and leaned her head against his. ethan side eyed them, scoffing softly from the response celeste gave him earlier.

it was obvious to everybody around them that they liked eachother, but them.

DARRIAN AND CELSETE'S hands were interlocked as they walked through the middle of the carnival, one of celeste's hands occupied with the cotton candy that darrian bought for her earlier.

they were walking around trying to find something to spend there time together with until celeste's eyes landed on the small basketball game that had the pink teddy bear she had wanted for do long but it would always be gone when she came to get it.

"d." she mumbled squeezing his hand to get his attention since the carnival was filled with people.

"huh?" he turned to his head to her to see that her eyes were focused on the pink fluffy bear that was a couple feet away from them.

"you want dat?" he questioned her. she turned her head to him nodding, "please?" she pouts make her glossy lips pop out. "ight, come on mama." he pulled her to the basketball stand.

while darrian played for her teddy bear she watched him in complete awe. she loved the way he did anything for her even though they met not even a week ago. she never knew how much she wanted a best friend since ddot came along. she wanted to thank him so much. she just didn't know how.

"here you go mama." she was snapped out of her thoughts when she saw the pink fluffy bear infront of her. her face broke into a big smile before engulfing the teddy bear in a big hug.

"how come you neva hug me like that?" darrian mugged her, jealous of a teddy bear making celeste burst into laughter. "if all darrian had to do to hear her laugh was buying her a bear, celeste's room would look like bear festival.

"ok, thank you darriannn." she dragged while she hugged him tightly, pecking him on his cheek quickly before swiftly turning around. if only she could see how red darrian's face got, he done already looked like celeste!

"you wanna get ice cream? i got the munchies." she asked turning around to darrian who cleared his throat then nodded.

celeste ended up getting plain chocolate ice cream and darrian got vanilla. celeste mugged darrian playfully looking at his choice of ice cream. "you got vanilla witcho basic ass." she snickered while darrian mugged her.

"girl you got plain chocolate, i should be telling you that." he emphasized on the you part as celeste laughed quietly. "you know ion know you that much." celeste pointed out since they never got to know eachother that much.

"shi me either." he shrugged as celeste came up with an idea. "let's play twenty-one questions." she suggests while just darrian nodded.

"favorite artist?" she started off while licking on her ice cream. "mm maybe lil durk, ion know, you?" - "summer walker or bryson tiller for sure."

"favorite color?"

"brown, you?" he made eye contact with her dark brown eyes, celeste not knowing the real reason that his favorite color has been brown since he look in her in the eyes. "indigo is a nice color." she replied.

"what's your favorite flowers?" darrian asked this time making celeste think for her answer, "white and black roses." she said smiling at the thought of the flowers and darrian took note of that.

the two went back and forth sharing a couples laughs before celeste wanted to go to the photo booth. celeste put three quarters in the machine and then scrambled into the small booth with darrian following.

the first photo was celeste kissing darrian's cheek holding his chin with her hand while he smiled at the camera. click! the second photo, they put the pink teddy bear in the middle of them and kissed both sides of the fluffy cheeks. click! the third photo was both of there faces smushed next to eachother with their lips puckered up. click! the third photo celeste put her arm around darrian's shoulder while he dropped his sets while she just smiled her pearly whites. click! the last photo was taken with darrian did the same move celeste did the first photo but on celeste while her cheeks grew a obvious red. click!

darrian and celeste got out of the tight booth, celeste holding onto her teddy bear tightly as they waited for the polaroid photos.

the machine brought out for four copies of lines of the polaroid pictures. darrian grabbed two and handed the other two to celeste who took out her phone to put the photos inside of the case, noticing darrian doing to the exact same.

she out one of them inside her purse planning on putting inside her vanity mirror. "c'mon let's go on the ferris wheel." darrian interlocked there hands again for the countless time again.

celeste just smiled feelings fuzzy feeling bubbling up in her stomach but ignored it thinking it was the ice cream.

NOTE──── we all know damn well it wasn't no damn ice cream ... this girl stay lyin to ha self smh.