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✰...𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 made it to your bedroom door after walking up your long spiral stairs and your never ending hallway. you held in your giggles as you walked all them steps because of rocky's obnoxious pants and heavy breaths, complaining about how many stairs you had.

while zaire and connie walked up the stairs like it was nothing. your uncle jerry made them do a lot of works outs that involved their legs so these stairs weren't shit to them. zaire playfully shoved rocky, telling him to stop being so extra and that the stairs wasn't none.

you twisted your bedroom door knob to reveal your clean bedroom, smiling at the sound of awe's coming from the boys. you could see in the hesitation of their steps that they weren't sure if they wanted to walk in from how perfect it looked. but, you sort of pulled them in since you wanted to close the door already.

"y'all can sit over there while i get ready," you pointed to an area in your room where your balcony was at, long window curtains draped down to cover the balcony doors. the three boys sauntered to the chill area, humming softly to themselves in rhythm at the song that was playing on your opened laptop as they all sat on the comfortable swivel chairs that were facing your wide screen tv.

once you left your room to walk into your walk in closet, the trio turned to look at each other and stared at each other as if your room left them in shock. that's when their eyes flickered to the coffee table in front of them, seeing bowls of candy and chocolate set on it.

giving each other one last look, the boys sprinted out of their seats basically racing each other to grab the candy from the bowl. hands were swatted, smacked and even pushed as they all chaotically tried to grab the candies that they wanted. after many swats later, the boys sat back in their swivel chairs with their hands filled with lollipops, chocolate, hard candies so on so forth.

"that ain't fair connie, you took all the reese's cups," rocky pouted like a big baby, staring at the m&ms, starbursts and dum dums that he placed on his lap. connie ignored rocky's whines and opened the wrapper, obnoxiously sniffing the reese's cups to brag to rocky.

"here, stop whining," zaire threw a reese's cup at rocky as he spun in his swivel chair, rocky celebrating to himself and hurriedly ripping the wrapper apart. the boys were eating the candy that they took from the bowl like it was their last snack but slowly stopped their chewing once they heard your closet door opening.

"what y'all think?" you voiced out before revealing yourself from exiting your closet. rocky licked the chocolate from his lips, almost feeling the reese's cup fall from the tip of his fingers. zaire popped a jelly bean in his mouth, the corner of his lips curving up to a smile. connie slowly sitting up on his seat after man spreading, his eyes flickering from your red customized air jordan 10's and up to your face.

you kept your hands laced together behind your back, swaying your body slowly from side to side still waiting for them to answer your question. your braids were styled down with two parts of your hair being pulled into two small ponytails. hair accessories, pink strawberries designed hair ties were on those two small ponytails.

you wore brown lip liner around your lips, nude lip gloss coated lightly on your plump lips making them shine in the light. you had eyeliner applied to your eyes along with long fake lashes placed on them, your cheeks rising a bit as you smiled and batted your lashes. the tip of your nose and your cheekbones shimmered of highlights.

your outfit might be simple to those around you, not that you didn't mind a simple outfit but to the boys? it was breathtaking. you wore a light pink mini skirt and a light pink zip up polo shirt that showed your abdomen, the shirt containing yellow, blue and white stripes. a silver necklace was worn around your neck with a playboy icon charm on it, silver hoop earrings to match with it.

connie blinked his eyes at the sight of your thighs being squished against each other as you stood a few feet away from him. the sight of your ass pressing against the wall while you leaned your upper body forward, still having your hands behind your back. he could've sworn he felt his throat go dry from how good you looked.

his thoughts began to wander to his lustful imaginations until rocky started to holler, almost startling him, "WOOOOW!" rocky spun around in the swivel chair before sprinting out of his seat rapidly forming an 'o' shape with his lips after forgetting the candy that was on his lap. he whispered oops under his breath and cleaned up before standing straight again to look at you again.

"what did nelly say?" rocky placed the candy on the coffee table before tip toeing to your laptop that was playing "hot in herre" by nelly. rocky pressed the volume up button as he playfully started to dance and grind the air in place while pointing at you, "i said..it's gettin' hot in here, so take off all your clothes!"

your charmed bracelets shook on your wrist as your hand flew in front of your mouth to giggle at rocky who yelped after connie threw a small pillow at him but frustratedly missing. rocky lowered the volume and slumped his body back on the swivel chair with a grin on his face, grabbing his candy back onto his lap.

"y'all want anything to drink before we leave? unless y'all wanna take it to go?" you asked, finally moving away from the wall to stroll towards your mini refrigerator. connie slowly spun his swivel chair as his eyes followed your figure when you walked.

you pulled down on your skirt before bending down to grab 4 glasses of seagram's escapes beer, holding a strawberry guava flavor , cherry italian flavor , a colada flavor and a wild berry flavor. after hearing a sure come from one of the boys, you grinned from ear to ear and closed the refrigerator door closed with your foot before skipping excitedly towards them.

you let them, rocky and zaire, pick their drinks before turning to look at connie. you lowered your body down to his level on the chair, deliberately waving the last two flavored beers in his face, "here you go," you whispered to him in your rasped voice. you eyed connie's adam's apple that bobbed after he gulped, your head spinning at the small touch of his fingers brushing against yours to take the bottle from your grasp.

"thank you," he nodded, popping the cap off his bottle and your bottle with his car key before downing the drink. you spun around on your foot and took a swift sip from your bottle, letting the liquid down into your throat.

"y'all ready to go?" connie asked the group as he rose from his seat, spinning his car key on his index finger. rocky and zaire nodded to indicate that they were ready and looked at you, waiting for your answer. only thing you needed to do was grab your small purse to toss your cell phone, house key, lip gloss and a pack of mints into it.

once you got done gathering your belongings to toss into your purse, you and the boys headed out your room and down the long spiral stairs to leave. that's when you met your mom at the bottom of the stairs, her hands on her hip along with her foot tapping.

"where you off to? and who're these people?" your mom, alicia, wagged her finger at connie, rocky and zaire who were standing behind you on the stairs, taking swigs of the flavored beers you gave them. you took three last steps before answering your mom's question about your future whereabouts.

"ma, this is connie, zaire and rocky," you pointed at each person who's name you introduced, all of them waving and smiling at your mom who was smiling back at them, "and we're going roller skating."

alicia chewed on her bottom lip, flickering her eyes to you and back up to the boys. your mom was a pretty woman with long, athletic buff arms and legs from playing tennis all her high school and college years but she decided to not go pro to focus more on working up to being a lawyer, she still plays tennis on her own time.

"y/n...you know what your father said about going out with people he hasn't met yet," your mom said, almost whispering. you clicked your tongue in annoyance about your dad, it was annoying having your choice of friends being controlled. you were turning 18 in a few months and you didn't need your dad still being this controlling.

"mom, please," you breathed out, looking in your mom's eyes so she can just let you off the hook. alicia slowly nodded her head just from picking up your tone, "alright, go and have fun. just bring her back by 11," your mom glanced at the boys, not sure on who was driving you to your destination or not. it didn't matter since all three boys said 'yes ma'am'.

you kissed your mom on her cheek and thanked her before walking out the front door, connie and the others following right behind you to get into connie's white car that was parked in front of the steps of your front door. connie trying to be a gentleman, opened the passenger door for you and jokingly bowed down, motioning for you to sit inside.

the drive to long beach from beverly hills was only 40 minutes long, including 20 minutes of traffic. for that whole hour that you four were in the car, music was being played and jokes were being laughed at.

all four drowning in conversations about past memories that connie, zaire and rocky had locked in their brains. you left connie's car knowing that the three almost got arrested for sneaking into a destiny's child concert their sophomore year in high school.

connie walked right beside you with his hands stuffed in his pockets, nearing the entrance of the roller skating rink. connie held the door for you and swiftly walked inside to playfully close the door behind him so rocky and zaire could open the door for themselves.

"nig- you ain't funny connie," zaire swung the door open to catch up to you and connie. your eyes scanned the entire interior of the building, the music blaring in the speakers so loudly you could feel the base bouncing upon the ground underneath you. the multi colored carpet matching with the multi colored lights that were flashing around the room and the rink where couples, singles and groups skating around.

connie could see your wowed smile in the corner of his eye the more you gazed around the room, your eyes shifting to groups of people sitting on benches or the carpet eating ice cream, drinking on slushees and just talking. another area way further down the building was where people were bowling if they didn't want to skate.

"let's go pick your shoe size," connie whispered in your ear so you could hear him from the loud music, eagerly nodding your head to follow behind him. zaire already paid for an entry ticket for the four of you so you didn't have any trouble getting access to choosing some skates. you skipped excitedly to a bench to start putting on your roller skates.

"do you even know how to skate?" connie asked you, his roller skates behind held with his fingers as he looked down at you, snorting at you struggling to put your skates on. you jokingly mugged him and poorly tied your skates, "uh yeah? why?"

" 'cause it looks like you don't. you're not tying them right," connie chuckled lowly as he knelt down on one knee before gently grabbing your ankle to turn your body. he placed your foot on top of his knee so he could have a better visual of your skate to help you tie them well enough for your comfort.

you nibbled on your bottom lip at the feeling of connie's finger tips brushing against your skin when he moved your foot off his knee to pick the other up. your hand grasped the edge of the bench, your head slightly cocked to the side as you watched him swiftly tie the laces.

"i can teach you though," he tapped your ankle to indicate that he was done tying your skates. you waited for him to put his skates on, which didn't take him too long to do, before responding to his comment. connie took your hand in his to help hold yourself in balance, taking your other hand that was waving frantically in the air.

"i can skate. just haven't done it in a while so i kinda...forgot," you mumbled the last part since you were growing bashful. connie rested his eyebrows to mirror his narrowed eyes, his lips pursed at your wack excuse. if you didn't know how to skate, you could've just said that. he thought to himself. what was there to be embarrassed of? besides not wanting to fall.

"uh huh, you forgot alright," connie poked his inner cheek, not sounding convinced whatsoever. you let out a quick yelp after feeling your hand being tugged by connie's hand, "bring yo ass to the rink." connie ignored your pleads for him to slow down until he reached to the ramp, skating down it while standing holding onto your hand.

your nails accidentally sunk into his skin a few times since you were holding onto his hands so tightly. connie was skating backwards so he could have a better view on helping you. as he instructed you, you were getting a hang of out- besides you just needed a lil warm up since you forgot how to skate.

"ojos al frente," connie looked for your eyes since you kept looking at your feet, his two fingers motioning for you to look up. you swiftly lifted your head up and furrowed your eyebrows, not having a clue on what he just said.

"you speak spanish!?" an impressed smile appeared on your face as you looked at connie, "that's sexy," you drawled, softly biting your bottom lip. you could feel a giggle coming from the back of your throat after seeing connie shaking his head with a poor attempt of holding back his smile.

"gracias," he said shyly. not many people complimented his speaking language. he was so used to people mocking it or making fun of how he sounded when he spoke spanish. you liking it was something different, you were the first. he cleared his throat before asking, "can i let go now?"

"wait, hold my hand!" in a blink of in eye, you yanked one of your hand back and laced your other hand with connie's so your hands could be fully intertwined with one another. connie felt his cheeks warm up from you not hesitating to hold his hand.

as you and connie skated hand in hand, connie caught a few glimpses of you dancing to the song that was playing. he shook his head with a smile creeping on his face that he really thought you weren't capable of skating cause of your poor attempt of tying some skate laces.

"this my song connie!" you squealed, your hands playfully patting his shoulder. connie pursed his lips and rubbed his shoulder that you repeatedly kept smacking while listening to you sing to the lyrics of 'i'm so into you' by swv.

"maybe we should let swv sing, yeah?" connie said in your ear before quickly looking ahead to avoid your glares. you rolled your eyes and jabbed your nail against his shoulder again, ignoring his high pitched yelps and 'what'd you do that for?' whines.

"you think you eddie murphy huh? you ain't funny," you curled up your top lip and looked at him up and down to mug him before turning your head to continue singing. while you sang, you honestly thought he wasn't watching, though he was.

he wasn't watching you in a creepy way, it was more of him taking the time to admire you. he nibbled his inner cheek, eyeing the way you closed your eyes without any worries of crashing into anyone since you were clinging onto connie by his hand. eyeing the way you waved your hand out in front of you the more you got into the song, singing out the lyrics like you owned them.

the ceiling light began to dim as the first verse of 'always be my baby' by mariah carey began playing. the dj tapped his microphone before speaking, "ladies and gentlemen, grab yo boo thang cause we...about...to slow mothafuckin jam!"

you looked at connie with a huge grin on your face, connie looking back at you and slowly shaking his head already knowing what you were thinking, "nope nope nope! you heard what he said, grab yo boo thang...we not in that category," connie repeated, wagging his finger firmly at you.

"pleaaaase?" you tugged on his flannel, batting your eyes with your bottom lips all poked out. couple or not, you wanted to dance with him right now. you looked at the other couples dancing together, you even spotted rocky having his arms wrapped around some girl's waist, his face nestled in the crook of her neck while spinning in circles. you searched for zaire and saw him sitting lonely on the steps of the rink, stabbing his slushee with his red straw.

"fine, i'll dance with zaire," you squinted your eyes at him to be all petty and huffed, pulling your hand away to skate to zaire but didn't make it far after connie grabbed your wrist to pull you back. connie caught you when you almost lost your balance, the side of your face resting against his chest.

your lips pursed at the sudden change of thought that connie had, him switching up so fast because you wanted to dance with zaire? you mentally shrugged it off and change that thought to happy thoughts because now you got to dance with him like you wanted to.

"i'm dancing with you, happy?" connie spoke softly, looking down at you when you tilted your head back to stare at him. you kept your arms wrapped around his waist with your smile being all gummy, connie would be lying if he said your smile didn't make his heart skip a beat.

"yeth, very happy," your giggles vibrating against his chest. connie slowly turned you around so your back could be pressed against his chest, making it easier for the two of you to skate in rhythm. you held connie's arms close to your waist, humming softly to the music.

to show that you were comfortable in his arms, you closed your eyes to feel the music and his touch. connie could feel your body basically melting with his. his finger tips grazing your abdomen as he maneuvered his hands on the small of your back before placing them on your hip.

connie puckered his lips as he listened closely to lyrics of the song that was playing, "these lyrics seem a bit too personal," connie said in your ear, snickering lowly that he was joking after your eyes shot open to roll them hard.

❝ you'll always be apart of me. i'm part of you indefinitely. boy, don't you know you can't escape me? ooh, darling, 'cause you'll always be my baby.❞

✩ 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 ✩