As we were getting ready to head out, Ava stops. "Paige said she's coming to pick us up?"
I look at her confused, "Why? I thought we were supposed to meet up with them?"
"We were supposed too, I don't know. Paige is indecisive so, this is normal for me," Ava smiled, going to sit on the couch.
I let out a sigh, making my way beside her. She turns her head towards me, a confused look on her face.
"What you huffing-and-puffing about?" I let out another sigh, "Tate, I swear. Just tell me."
"Okay," I move to face her, "Wait, before I tell you, who's all going to lunch?"
"Paige, Nika, me, and you, I think. Why?" I feel myself become more anxious, if that's even possible.
"So, you're telling me it's like a double date?" My head is spinning, is what I'm wearing good enough for this, what if I mess something up, thoughts spiraling from there.
"God girl, you are the most overthinking overthinker I've ever met. Everything is going to go fine. By the way, Nika is like obsessed with you," She held onto my knee, trying to stop my bouncing leg that I didn't realize was bouncing.
"Okay, okay. You really think she likes me?" She goes to answer me when there's a knock at the door.
"Hold on," Ava heads to the door, once it's open I hear a couple of familiar voices. Paige and Nika.
"Ta, get over here!"
"Okay, give me a sec," I try to calm my nerves down, not having much success.
Walking over, I see Paige and Ava already deep in a conversation about who knows what. Then, I see Nika. She looks just as anxious as I feel, but once her eyes meet mine, she almost completely changes. Her tough, flirty front is put back on. That's when my eyes travel down to her hands.
"I got these for you, you know sense you said your favorite color is red and all," Nika holds the small bouquet of roses.
"Oh Nika, thank you," I grabbed the flowers, than pulling her into a hug.
Once I realized I was now hugging her, I pulled myself away than moving to were she couldn't see my face. "You didn't have to do this, you know."
"I wanted too. Pretty flowers for a pretty girl, " The smile on her face made me smile, but the sentence itself left my cheeks red.
I looked over at Ava, she was also holding flowers. "Now who's idea was it to get us flowers," I raised my eyebrows, pointing between Ava and I.
"Oh, that's lover girl for ya," Paige jumped into the conversation, throwing her arm over Nika's shoulder.
Nika elbows Paige in the stomach, causing me to laugh. Nika smiles at me, "I mean I suggested we get something for you guys, you know. But the true lover girl is Paige. I mean look at her, she's practically glued to Ava's hip!" She's says, throwing her arms around.
"Aw, you jealous. Wish you could be like this with Tate," Paige pulls Ava into a hug, throwing her into a laughing fit.
If Nika's face wasn't red before, it definitely was now, "Oh shut up Paige."
"You ain't denying!" Paige points in her direction, laughing hysterically.
"You coulda just asked Niks," I say, suddenly feeling confident, looping our arms together, "I wouldn't have said no."
Nika looks down at me, "Oh, now you're all confident. I see. I like it."
The smirk that held its place on her face all of last night, it was back. My face was growing more red by the second.
"Um, so you guys wanna go get somethin' to eat or y'all just wanna stare at each other with those dumb looks," Paige breaks the silence that had taken the place of the playful bickering that was there before.
Ava smacks her arm, her rubbing her arm in the same place, "P, their in love. Let them have these moments."
"Alright so you guys ready to go eat," Nika says, her accent slipping every once in awhile.
"I am, so let's go," I say dragging her out the door, our arms still linked together.
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The drive wasn't bad, just teasing from Paige and Ava, than the flirty convos that went back and forth between Nika and I. We reached the place we were supposed to have our "Double date", it was Caines.
"Never thought I would be having a date at Raising Caines," I muttered to myself, not realizing Nika heard.
"You say that, but their food," She used her hands to demonstrate chefs kiss, "best date you could ask for."
I laugh, "Really? Hmm, guess I'll be the judge of that."
"I like this confident you," She leans down into my ear and whispers, "It's kinda hot."
It was so simple but so affective, "Oh shut up."
"Hey, I'm just saying," She put her hands up, surrendering to me.
I laugh, making my way to the door going to open it. But was stopped by Nika. She grabbed my hand from the handle.
"Let me get that for ya, Ta," I smile, she's cute. She's also hot, and funny, and .... Okay I should stop myself.
"Thanks, " I mutter, not fully able to function around her.
"Of course. I'll do it for a girl like you any day," She winked. Okay she's gotta stop.
The table we picked seated four, of course. Ava and Paige sit beside each other, Nika and I across from them.
"Okay, so I know this isn't the most ideal place for a REAL first date, but I think you guys will like it," Paige rambles.
"Babe, it's perfect. Don't overthink it, okay?" Ava says, Paige's face flushed red. And I mean RED.
"Yeah, yeah, okay," Paige stutters.
"Ohhh, she got you down bad!" Nika screams.
"Nika, I swear!" Paige whisper-screams, causing Ava and I to laugh.
"Okay, stop calling each other out. I want this to be a good date, not a fighting match between you two," Ava says, pointing between her date and mine.
"Aight, I will, only if she does too," Paige pouts, Ava shaking her head.
"Okay, I guess I can stop. But to let you know, you did start it," Nika points to Paige, she looked offended.
"Okay, breaking that up before it can start," Ava buds in, stopping Paige from saying anything.
"I mean, Nikas right though," I shrug, gaining a smile from Nika.
"This is why I like her, she knows what she's talking about," She drapes her arm around my shoulder. I could get used to this.
I lean into her, taking in this moment. God, I can't take this anymore, "Your really pretty, Niks. Just thought I'd tell ya."
"Oh, really. I mean I don't compare to you. You're beautiful," She smiled, my face burning. I chose to lay my face into her shoulder.
"Don't hide the blush from me, I wanna see it," She gently moved my face to face her, "There, that's better."
We sat there for a second, I moved when I realized there was still food in front of me. I couldn't focus on anything Paige and Ava were talking about. Nika moved her arm from my shoulders, eating what was left in front of her.
Small conversation between all of us continued throughout the meal, Paige and Ava doing most of the talking, bringing us in by asking questions. I soon became curious, wanting answers for my own questions.
"So, how did y'all meet?" Pointing between my friend and her date.
"Um, I think it was a party," Paige shook her head in agreement, "We talked a little, hitting it off, and...yeah...we're here."
Blush formed on the talking girls cheeks, "Ava, is that all that happened?"
Nika became interested, leaning forward, "Yeah, is it?"
Ava seemed at a lost for words, looking towards Paige, "I mean we were drunk, anything coulda happened."
Nika and I shared a look, "Oh my God, you guys slept together. Didn't you?"
"I...I, you know let's drop this, like right now," Ava finally managed to stutter some words out.
"Wait how long ago was this?" I questioned, maybe prying a little.
"About a month ago, can we drop this," Ava was now not looking at anyone, not even the girl beside her.
"Yeah, yeah, but that's crazy," Nika spoke up, leaning back in her seat. She looked at me, than back the the couple in front of us.
Silence filled between us, causing me to shuffle in my seat. Nika, without moving her focus from her food, places her hand on my thigh.
Oh god, I feel myself tense up. I look at her, she's smirking. She knows what she's doing.
"You alright Ta, you seem," She finally looks at me, "Tense."
Don't know what happened, but my brain finally told me about what I was planning. The playlist. "You know the song that's playing right now?"
"Yeah, why," She seemed confused.
Honestly, the song playing wasn't one of my favorites, but it'll work, "It's probably one of my fav songs ever."
"Can you remind me what the title of the song is?" She moved closer to me, which I didn't think was possible.
"Love me Harder, you know, by Ariana Grande and The Weeknd. It's so good," trying to play this off. Nika nods.
"It does sound pretty good," She goes back to eating, her hand never leaving my thigh.
A couple minutes pass, everyones done eating and kind of just chatting.
"Guys, you should come to our game friday night. It'd be fun," Paige asked, looking between Ava and I, "Oh, and you know what? You guys could wear our jersey numbers. That'd be cool."
Ava smiles, "We'll definitely be there, jersey numbers and all."
"So you'll be rocking the number 10, huh," Nika leaned in, whispering into my ear.
Smiling ear to ear, "You can count on it. Honestly, I think it would look better on me than on you."
"You might be right, I could never out do you pretty girl," With that she leans back, taking her hand off my thigh.
"I'm gonna go to the bathroom real quick, than we can leave, maybe find something else to do?" She said in a questioning tone.
"Aight twin, don't take to long. We could go see a movie or something, only if you guys are down," Paige's eyes dart between Ava and I.
"I'm down, you?" Ava says.
"Yeah, that's cool."
"Alright, let me go use the bathroom real quick and we can head out," She turns, speed-walking to the the restrooms.
"What was she saying making you blush and all, Tate?" Ava asked, smirking.
"Nothing much, just the usual," I pull my phone out, opening the Spotify app.
Clicking through the app, I find Nika's account. The playlist the first thing I go to.
"There's no way," I say aloud.
"What's wrong," concerned laced Ava voice.
"Oh nothing major, just something Billie Eilish said in an interview," A chuckle escaped from both Paige and Ava.
"You a fan?" Paige asked.
"Yeah, I've been following her since Ocean Eyes," I ramble on.
"Yeah, she follows everything BUT sports," I shrug, Ava rolls her eyes.
Nika makes her way back, "Alright, ya guys ready?"
"Yep," All of us say at the same time.
My head was completely out of it, she was making a playlist based of songs I liked. We made our way to the movie theater, wanting to pick a movie.
"You good Ta?" Ava asked as we got drinks, the other two buying tickets.
"Yeah, but I gotta tell you something," Ava shot me a look.
"What is it?" She smacks my arm.
"Oww, what was that for?" She shrugs.
"Tell me now," She says in a whisper-yell.
"That playlist I told you about," She shook her head, "Well, she added another song. And that song so happened to be a song I told her was other one of my favorites."
Ava squeals, like literally squeals, "Girl, shut up. They're gonna ask questions."
"Good, I need you to realize that woman is obsessed with you, and I know for a fact your just as obsessed with her," Ava says, kind of rushed.
"Okay," I honestly have no clue where she's going with this.
"So I need you to make a move, ask her to a date, or ask her over to our dorm. I don't know think of something, but DO something, okay," She was rambling at this point, was I goning to make the first move probably not. Do I wish I could, yes, yes I do.
"Yes, ma'm," I salute to her, causing her to laugh.
"I'm serious Tate, don't waste this," I nod.
"Okay, A, but we should probably go see what are dates have bought tickets for," I say, trying to move this conversation to another time.
"Oh, I got that covered," I snap my head towards her.
"Ava?"
"Yes, Tate?"
"What are we watching?"
"Guess you gotta wait and see," And with that, she sprinted off to find Paige.
"You're stuck sitting beside me pretty girl," A voice came from beside me.
"Niks, you're stuck with me, not the opposite way around," I say, moving my head to face her.
"Sure, we'll see about that," She walked a little ahead, stopping once she realized I wasn't right behind her. She used her head to motion for me to come on.
Oh god, what have I gotten myself into.
A/N: soooooo..... this is a long one. Sorry about the slow updates, I really try to make these good, so I sit on them trying to make them perfect.
Also, would you guys like some drama in this, or do you guys want a smooth sailing kinda thing.
But thank you guys for getting it 1.4k reads, like what?!?
Anyway, thanks for reading, and maybe I'll become a little more organized with the updates.