Hey bro wanna shoot some hoops?
Carlito said wearing black basketball shorts gym shoes and a white tanktop with basketball in hand.
"I've got a date." Prince shrugged, trying to choose between two shirts.
That one. Carlito said helping his brother decide between the shirts
"Yeah," Prince nodded, pulling a black silk dress shirt off its hanger.
"So who's the lucky lady?" Carlito said sitting on the bed
"Eva," Prince slipped the shirt on, "She asked me out."
"She asked you out?" Carlito asked tossing the ball in the air
"I know right," Prince shrugged, adding his cuff-links.
"Well we are rich now" Carlito shrugged
"A girl like that...what am I gonna say? No."
Eva's not bad looking" Carlito said tossing Prince his cologne
"We'll see where her head is. Should be a good time," Prince nodded.
"Speaking of that..." Carlito began doing pushups, "I need some man to man advice"
"Shoot." Pulling on his gold watch.
"I like this girl who I'm digging now but I'm not experienced in this department if you get me."
"Right so you need to know how to..."
Put myself out there,cross the friend zone without being too bold or wierd
"Have you talked to her yet at all?"
No its kinda hard to approach the subject with her, She sees me as friend , like when I'm around her I choke.
"All I can say is," Prince sighed, "You can't walk up to girl and expect yourself to be the ultimate Mack. Developing your style for talking to women takes time. Guys will advise you to say this or do that but its their style. Besides, women can see through when a man isn't being himself. You have to develop your way of doing it through trial and error. Just be yourself and ask her out."
That's it exactly like that? Carlito said looking through Prince's closet.
"For me anyway. I just introduce myself and go from there but that's my style. You've gotta find your style. Even I still feel nervous approaching girls but it doesn't feel impossible. Nah it doesn't feel impossible. You win some, you lose some."
"But you live you live to fight another day " Carlito joked
So where you and Eva going?
"Just out for sushi." Prince said, "Don't wanna eat too much with dinner being tonight."
"Right gotta make room." Carlito nodded
Hey bro you mind if i borrow one of your shirts?
"It's cool." Prince slipped on his adidas. "Just be you, practice. I'm out." Prince called exiting the suite.
...
Carlito knocked on Room 516
"Who is it?"Aj asked
"Carlito." Carlito said
xoxoxoxoxoxo
I walked into the dining room area and joined the guys.
"Larrell, what's up?" they all said.
"Nothing just chilling. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone"
"Larrell, do you want to say grace" Sasha asked me.
"Sure"
I said a quick prayer feeling like I was flipping God the bird because now I essentially a puppet for the enemy.
"Let's eat" I said. "By the way, has anyone seen Becks and Christina" I asked.
"No, honestly I haven't" Trey said.
"Maybe they went on ahead on a solo journey" Prince suggested. In reality, I knew what happened to them…they are gone, most likely never to be seen again. Victims of my change of direction, potential love gone for eternity. I probably won't experience love again and may not want to. However, there is one that gives me a sense of passion….now that Becky and Christina are gone, I have a strong pulse for someone else. I don't know where or who is bringing this on to me but I got to get rid of this burning sensation like Jerimiah in the Bible.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
At the Thangksgiving table, he was so sublime to her.
Wearing a pinstriped navy blue suit and black shirt, Prince looked handsome. Coconut skin glowing gold under the lights.
Lunch had been a splendid experience. Prince had been a gentleman to her and alot more intriguing than Eva'd originally thought.
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Mahogany tables, chopsticks, wasabi, soy sauce, tmz, cameraphone lightshows, pallets of statched rice and freshly cut tuna.
"Prince, is Tre still mad at you?" A reporter asked.
"What?" Prince cocked his head.
"Stephen A Smith said you and Tre were having problems in the forest."
"Why is he even talking about me?" Prince scoffed, "I'm not an athlete. That fool don't know what he's talking about." Prince shook his head. "Now, can I live? Eat some food?" Gesturing for privacy.
"Are you two dating?" The reporter asked.
Eva turned to Prince, looking into his eyes and answering for him, "Yes."
"What the fuck does it look like?!" Prince irritably groaned.
Suddenly, a waiter stepped between the reporter and their table, "Please don't disturb our customers." Shooing the reporter away.
Prince shook his head, breaking his chopsticks and effortlessly using them with his left hand.
"You're a southpaw?" Eva asked.
Prince shook his head, "Right-handed," he smiled, "playing basketball, you have to be comfortable with your left," as he swabbed the sliced maguro (tuna) in the soy sauce, gently laid it back onto the block of rice, dabbed wasabi atop the morsel and placed on Eva's glass plate.
He felt alot more relaxed now that cameras and reporters were gone.
Eva felt amazed. Prince ambidextrous, she watched as he eloquently took apart and rebuilt six more blocks for her. "Thank you," she smiled, her heart beginning to beat.
He was so hot. the amber light pouring onto his coconut skin gave his melanic armor a golden hue. He was dressed in all black, like a vampire.
Eva closed her eyes, imagining his fangs in her throat, his arm wrapped around her back as he drained her heart.
"You look beautiful," Prince complimented, admiring the red dress she wore.
Eva shyly blushed, "Thanks. You look nice too."
Prince sipped his nihonshu sake then turned to Eva "I always thought you..." he paused for a moment, probing his mind for the right words, "have a nice face and a pretty smile."
Eva could feel the butterflies gathering. "I, thanks." Was all she could say, trying to grip her chopsticks. "I'll never get used to these."
"Let me show you," Prince gently reached across the table, his fingers tangling with hers, gently guiding her fingertips into an odd stance, "Try it now."
Eva blushed as she lowered the sticks with a soft stroke of his finger she knew, a second later, the rush of success filled her as she raised the sushi to her lips.
Prince released, watching her eat a second portion with a smile on his face.
Eva swallowed a pint of water and gasped, she'd broken the stance. "Could you..." blushing, "show me again?"
Prince smiled, "Sure," leaning over the small table. His fingers repositioning hers. "Like this."
"Thanks," she smiled.
Eva stared into his eyes. Chocolate brown.
(Do it.) She pleaded, her heart beated.
When he leaned forward, Eva met him halfway. A quick awkward first kiss. A test kiss.
A reward kiss.
Both smiled, returning to their meal and ignoring a hiss of disgust from a nearby table.
"So," Eva smiled, her face cherry red, her mind searching for a good question to ask him.
"I heard you like soccer." Prince filled in the void.
"Yeah, I played in highschool." Eva smiled.
"What position?"
He was calm now. Bold. After that kiss, he KNEW he had her in the palm of his hand. This wasn't going to be an awkward cat-and-mouse high school date like most but a mature adult one as long as he guided it.
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"Kill Bill, definitely." Eva smiled, completely as ease now. Both loved Quentin Tarrantino movies and were sporty but interested in art.
xoxoxo
"I just never wanted to be seen as the dumb jock," Prince admitted.
"Yeah," Eva nodded.
"And this was before anime and gaming became a cool thing to do so it was tough being between the geeky-artsy crowd and the jock crowd at times because I never fit any of those steretypical modes."
"I kinda felt the same way." Eva admitted.
Talking so...openly was so easy for him. He didn't mind being judged He was so bold to her. So mature.
An anomaly amongst the common man.
xoxoxo
"Can you dunk?"
Prince chuckled at that question. It was a dumb question. "Tomahawks, Windmills and Reverses, basic stuff not the crazy eastbay ones."
Eva smiled, imagining.
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Sasha glared at the sight of the two sitting together across from her at the Thanksgiving table.
"Shitake mushrooms," Asuka smiled, offering Larrell.
"Kimi no bunka kyouyuu suru tame ni arigato (Thank you for sharing your culture with us.)" It just rolled out of Larrell's mouth.
Asuka froze, nearly dropping the plate. "(You can speak Japanese too?)"
"(That's what I was about to say.)" Prince gawked.
"(Wow, brotha's speaking Japanese. That's something you don't see everyday. No offense.)" Brock mused.
"(Agreed.)" Larrell shrugged.
"(Never in my life have I been around so many foreigners that I can speak Japanese with. What the hell?)" Asuka smiled.
"(It must be apart of my Pharaoh ability.)" Larrell deduced.
"(Yeah.)" Prince nodded.
"There you go with that again bro," Carlito smiled, spooning some dressing onto his plate and passing it.
"All I hear is blah blah blah blah," Alexa admitted.
"You speak Japanese?" Eva smiled in shock at Prince.
"Yeah, a bit of Spanish, Arabic and Romanian too." Carlito answered for his brother.
"That's so fetch." Alexa smiled. "Ooooow," She hissed as Sasha popped her.
"Stop trying to make fetch happen, Alexa, it's just not gonna happen."
"Looks like Rells got me beat tho." Prince smiled, scraping greens onto his plate..
"Larrell, how do you say Thieving Skank in Italian?" Sasha asked, glaring Eva.
Larrell shook his head. "My ability doesn't work that way. I gotta hear or feel the language...I think."
"All skank everything" Sasha mocked, helping herself to the shitake mushrooms.
"Hater." Eva hissed.
"Peace." Tre said, "It's Thanksgiving yall."
The two stared at eachother down. A silent truce.
"Ladro puttanna," Nikki said slowly.
Sasha smiled. "Thanks Nikki."
Eva glared at Nikki.
Brie cleared her throat, refusing to translate for her confused husband.
Brock sat at the table, "We're all just getting along, aren't we?"
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"I like your dress." Paige said, turning to Alexa who was wearing a sapphire blue dress.
"Thanks." Alexa smiled genuinely.
Nikki rolled her eyes, looking at the quietest man at the table. "How do you like her dress, Corin?"
"...It's nice." Corin agreed, dousing his greens with vinegar.
"Yeah." Brock concurred, "do you have a boyfriend?"
Paige rolled her eyes. Nobody even noticed or glanced at her dress.
Roman turned to Corin. His head leaning in Paige's direction.
Corin ignored the hint. "Seth, how do you feel about Paige's dress?" Corin asked eating a forkful of collards.
"I think she looks beautiful." Rollins smiled.
"Yeah, she does." Brock concurred, "do you have a boyfriend?"
"Yes." Rollins answered.
(Hopeless.) Corin thought as his elbow grazed Alexa's.
She smiled, awkwardly, repositioning her body.
Corin sat, classic black suit and tie for the event, shaped-up hair. Alexa looked so beautiful. A life-like Elsa in that dress.
Corin glanced across the table. Paige sat, rolling her eyes at him.
"These taste amazing. What are they?" Alexa asked.
"Chitlins." Corin answered, "Wait until you put this on it," handing her a bottle of tabasco.
"She's about to go from snorting cocaine to food meth right now." Ambrose laughed chewing his pork.
"Oh my god!" Alexa gawked. "These are so fetch!"
Sasha facepalmed.
Alexa was hooked.
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"There's a concert tomorrow. Linkin Park." Brock reported.
"I know. I'm going." Corin nodded.
"Nah, there old stuff was good. The new music, it just isn't clicking for me." Sasha shrugged, sipping her wine.
Most of the table nodded in agreement.
"Yeah but you can't expect them to be angry teenagers forever." Alexa defended, "I like their new sound. Its not as good as Hybrid Theory but is them growing. I loved minutes to midnight."
"You gotta admit A thousand suns was garbage though." Prince added.
"It was okay." Alexa shrugged. ""I wouldn't call it garbage."
"Nothing beats Meteora." Eva said.
"Hybrid theory." Sasha countered.
"Overplayed." Eva shrugged, "it was their first album too."
"What do you think Prince?" AJ asked.
Prince shrugged, "Corin what do you think?" Dodging the question.
"I like both. No point comparing them."
Alexa smiled, "I'm going to the concert too. If I can get a ticket. Maybe we can go together."
"oooooooooooohhhh." Ambrose instigated.
"Sure." Corin answered.
"oooooooooohhhh."
"So are you seeing anyone?" Alexa asked.
"Not at the moment." Corin answered.
The table shook. Paige rolled her eyes.
"Just getting alone fine, aren't we?" Brock asked.
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Everyone sat at the table
Nikki had the pefect plan
"Boy this food looks good" Nikki said taking a bite of a turkey leg.
3.2.1 Nikki started pretending like she was choking
"Nikki?" Carlito eyed
Nikki began dramatically falling out her chair and rolling on the floor.
Oh shit Carlito said getting up from his seat and running to aid Nikki
Carlito lifted Nikki from the ground and began performing the hymlic
Nikki positioned the piece of meat on her tongue and shot it across the room.
"You alright?" Carlito asked arms still wrapped around Nikki's sexy body
Nikki spun around her chest touching his as she looked into his eyes
"You saved me." Nikki said crying on cue
"Your welcome." Carlito said
"Umm you alright now try to chew you food good." Carlito said getting ready to leave
"No hold me for a minute." Nikki said tightly embracing Carlito
"Ok...ay" Carlito said
Nikki waited to see if the heartburn would stop
(Nothing) Nikki thought disappointed
Nikki released the embrace and slapped Carlito across the face
"What the hell are you doing feeling me up like that" Nikki said storming off
"What?" Carlito said confusedxoxoxo
"Nikki, what the hell you doing" I looked at her.
"What you mean" she said.
"Why have you been feeling on Trey, Carlito and Corin like that? You know they have girls to do that for them? I said.
"I'm sorry, Carlito was an accident, Trey felt on me first in defense and Corin didn't give a fuck really but Paige and Alexa did" she told me.
"I'm glad you didn't do any stuff with Prince because Sasha would've killed you"
"Yeah, I know….I could just to fuck with her but-"
"Quit, Nikki while you're ahead"
"Why do you care so much anyway? Don't you have Becky and Christina to worry about?"
"No, they are gone and God only knows if they will return" I told Nikki. The burning sensation I was feeling came back but even stronger.
"I need to sit down. I also need a glass of water as well, could you bring me one?" I asked.
"Sure" she said. Nikki returned with a glass of water and I drank it all. It still didn't help.
"What is wrong, Larrell"
"Damn it, Nikki. I still have this burning sensation in my stomach and around my heart, I don't know what to do about it."
Nikki as soon as she heard that phrase she said, "Larrell, I have an idea"
"What" I asked.
"Hug me"
"What will a hug do right now" I asked.
"Just trust me right now" she said.
"OK" I said. I hugged her. Then all of a sudden, I felt this aura come around the both of us. I looked into her eyes and then it hit me, "Nikki, you must be…the ancient queen of the North"
"Yes, I am Amenenhat"
"Now, I know why I had that burning sensation….my queen was near. That is why Becky and Christina had to be taken out of the picture because they were blinding me from my real queen…my Nikki, my Golddigger, my Picses."
We came back to reality after we broke apart.
"Wow" we both said.
"I see why Cena needed to be gone as well…I was blinded by a false sense of love, security and…
"Money, most importantly" I joked. She gave me a hard stare after that statement.
"Hey, I ain't saying you a golddigger…."
"Well, this "golddigger" is going to be your queen so you're going to learn to love it…"
"Welp, at least my bank account is set up well" I laughed. She shook her head.
"Let's join the others already, your highness"
"After you, Golddigger"
"Don't make me kick you in the royal jewels" she said.
"You'll learn to love that nickname" I said as we walked back inside to join the others at dinner
xoxoxo
"The concert you wanna go?" Carlito asked Aj
All eyes shot to Aj
"Sure its a date" Aj said perky
"Its a date" Carlito nodded
"Ohhhhh" Ambrose said instigated
That's so romantic, Hey you wanna go to with me? Brock said grabbing Nikki hands
"Well...um...with all the money you get from being gym leader you can get us VIP passes." Nikki smiled
"I don't do my job for any money i do for the good of the community." Brock said
"Boy bye" Nikki said snatching her hands away
"Oh man." Brock sighed in shame
"She takes my money when I'm in need." Carlito began
"Yeah she's trifling friend indeed" Ambrose continued
"Oh she's a golddigger way over town that digs on me" Larrell joined in
"Now I ain't saying she a golddigger but she ain't messing with no broke nigga." Everyone said joining in
"I am not a golddigger!" Nikki screamed as everyone continued on
Everyone laughed at Nikki's expense
"Where the turkey at?" Roman asked
The door and a creepy man with a mutated looking hand came in pushing a small table with the turkey on top.
"Who are the fuck are you?" Prince said
"I'm Hanson I'm the caretaker."
He said introducing himself
"Now alot of people are intimidated about making a turkey but really its quite simple you just got to know the anatomy like right over you got the tiniest stink hole. " Hanson said rubbing his hands by the turkey butt like he was fingering it.
"Eww." AJ scrotching her face in digust
Its big enough to get you hand right inside it. Hanson said jamming his hand into the turkey
"Uhh ughh I stuffed the shit out of it." Hanson said
Everyone groaned in disgust
"I cook it with all the gibblets, the penises and ginas" Hanson explained
"The fuck?" Sasha said sick to her stomach
"Now alot of people like to based their turkeys but I use this." Hanson said licking the turkey
Ambrose looked in disgust
(I thought i was crazy) Ambrose thought to himself
"I get to the hinny hinne hole mmhmm" Hanson said digging in his nose and putting his boggers on the turkey
"That's nice and good" Hanson said
Paige retched trying to keep down her food
"I don't what the hell that is but I'll lick it anyway" Hanson said licking the crack of the turkey's ass
Tamina coughed in disgust at Hanson eating out the turkey
"And then get it right on there" Hanson said placing the turkey between his legs and humping the turkey
Eva put her head down
Prince grabbed the bottle of wine and took a big swig.
"Pull that off and bam that gives a kick." Hanson said pulling off the mole on his nose and putting it on the turkey.
"And now lets bring it to the table." Hanson said sitting the turkey on table
"Alright who's ready for a wing?" Hanson asked
"Yours or the turkey's?" Rollins said
"Hahaha Treated!" Ambrose instigated
"Well I what you'd like how about a leg." Hanson fired back
"Ohhhhhhhh" everyone instigated knowing Rollins had a injured knee
"How bout two?" Hanson chuckled
"I going take this leg and shove it all the way up your ass all the way to knee." Rollins said
"Seth relax." Roman asked
"Is their something you haven't made?" Carlito asked
"I did order apple pie." Hanson said
"Alright now." Everyone cheered to have a fresh untainted meal.
Hanson sat a pan of apple pie on table.
"Who wants the first piece?" Hanson asked
Sasha raised her hand
"There you go" Hanson said passing a plate to Sasha
"My germs." Rollins said sticking his finger in Sasha's pie.
"My germs." Tamina said doing the same.
"Hahaha my germs" Hanson said sticking his mutated looking hand in the pie.
Everyone eyes wide mouth open could not believe he had just fucked up the pie too.
Hanson began sneezing and coughing in the pie.
Everyone got up and left they had lost their appetites.
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