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"You've been missed so much," Angela admits, holding Kevin's cheek with one hand and kissing the opposite side of his cheek and lips.

Kevin ended up catching a flight to Miami right after dropping Masani off that morning. He knew it seemed really soon, but he didn't want to keep letting Angela down. There were plenty of free times Kevin could've gone down to Miami and he chose not to.

Angela pulled out her IPhone and took a picture of the two of them. They were both naked, but the covers were covering most of their skin. She held the duckface while being laid beside Kevin's chest. Kevin hesitantly made a goofy face and observed the picture they had just taken. They had took plenty of pictures before and she never dared posted them; neither did he. But he had to admit, he always felt weary when taking them.

"I want to make this my wallpaper so bad, but—"

"Dodge."

"No, Kason," Angela answered, rolling her eyes with obvious annoyance in her tone. Her long and sparkly acrylic nails continued to tap on her phone. "He always plays with my phone and I don't want him to start getting the wrong ideas. As far as he knows, me and his dad are Aladdin and Jasmine, or some other mystical and magical fucking couple."

Kevin couldn't be mad nor irritated. It was a reasonable and valid point she was making.

"What do you think of us, Kevin?" Angela asked, rising out of the bed to fix and comb her hair in the vanity in front of the bed. Her bare behind was in Kevin's view, his back still pressed against the headboard.

"Um, what do you mean, Ang?"

"You know what I mean. Like you want to be together or something?"

Kevin chuckled. "Where is this even coming from?"

Angela stopped brushing her hair, turning around to look at the confusion on his face. She smiled before climbing back into the bed, wrapping herself back around Kevin's torso. "I don't know. It just seems that's what you want."

Angela's coffin shaped nails traced Kevin's chest.

"Well, is that want you want?"

"Yes, but," Angela stammered, "but not right now. I have other priorities in line. And of course, The Shade Room already knows about us."

"Yeah, of course not right n—" Kevin paused, realizing what she had just said. "The Shade Room knows what about us?" Kevin nervously questioned.

"They think we're together. Somebody must've told them about us. They have pictures of you going backstage from one of my concerts. Also that time you and Tristian had came to that party in NY and Tristian was caught leaving the hotel with some girl. They knew I was there and that you were there. So it's a pretty good speculation that it wasn't only Tristian having a good time."

Kevin quickly hurried out of the bed to search for his phone. He didn't want this to ruin anything set out for him. He knew how relationship drama made many athletes look and he didn't want to be one of them. He grabbed his jeans that were hanging off of her dresser and put them on. He also worried that the other women that he was messing with had blocked him or was on the way to sending him a screenshot of the post looking for answers.

"Are you leaving? You're really scared of the fucking Shade Room? You know how many times I've been on that dumb page."

Now, Angela wasn't exactly anyone's favorites across the entertainment industry. Her mouth mostly got her in trouble, especially being on Twitter and jumping in on everyone's business. Beautiful girl, but a real ugly mouth.

Kevin ignored her and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He sat on the bed beside her and searched up the page on Instagram, and of course, his and Angela's names were included in their most recent post.

#TSRBaeWatch: NBA star, Kevin Love, looking boo'd up with upcoming rising R&B singer, Angela Houston.

The picture under the headline showed them leaving a hotel. Angela's hair was wrapped in a tight bun on the top of her head, presenting her glammed up face very clearly. Kevin had on

"What the fuck? How did they even get pictures of us?" Kevin whispered to himself, scrolling through all of the comments under the post. The comments weren't necessarily bad — well for Kevin. The misogyny of it all was truly revolting. While they praised Kevin, a white man, for getting with a black woman, many of the comments were filled with hatred and animosity towards Angela. They brought up her baby father situation, how 'easy' she was, and so many other unnecessary comments. Kevin placed the phone down beside him on the silk bed and turned his to neck to look at an unbothered Angela. She was too consumed with rolling the blunt that was on her nightstand. 

"Oh, you done reading?" Angela asked, stopping mid-lick of the wrap to look at Kevin. Angela giggled to herself before sliding her tongue to the end of the wrap and rolling the blunt in between her long pink acrylic nails.

"I don't like how they talk about you, Ang," Kevin huffed, turning around to look at Angela.

"I'm pretty used to it by now. They're just envious, Kevy. Nothing you can do about that one."

Kevin didn't respond.

"Are you okay?" Angela asked.

Kevin should've been asking her that. He knows he should have.

"Yeah, I'm just—"

"Don't be scared."

"Scared?"

"Not scared, but I know how you get when you become to consumed about something. Try not to let this ruin your day. This'll blow over in about a week, it's okay," Angela calmly said, drawing the blunt in between her glossed up lips.

Angela was always nonchalant like this; almost too nonchalant. But that nonchalant attitude would go away when Dodge was around. They weren't together, but he felt had some type of ownership towards her — meaning her actions, behaviors, attitudes, and damn near everything. Deep down she was scared what Dodge would do once he saw the rumors on Instagram. The drags of the weed would only numb her anxiety for only a moment.

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short chapter, i know. but i sometimes plan to make the chapters strictly with ang and kevin short.

sorry for the long time no see. college classes been kicking my ass !

love you and part two should be out soon xoxo

now onto the questions

how do you think dodge will respond?

will the media take this lightly or it will be pretty big?