Chapter 82 – “A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.”

AN: Short chapter but I've got a longer one coming up soon! Between school, work, and games 1 & 2 I haven't had much time to editing.

Enjoy! I'm off to watch game 3. Good Luck boys!

Nef’s POV

“Hey chick, wanna go to the mall?” I asked Jackie. Jesse and I were about to head to Pentagon City Mall for some shopping. I was in an amazing mood after talking to Sasha’s mom.

“Sure.”

We piled into my car and took the 35 minute drive to the mall. We always stop at a Starbucks for coffee before we actually started shopping.

“So how’d it go?” Jackie asked, referring to me talking to Tatiana.

“Good. Mommy Dearest doesn’t hate me anymore.” We’d taken to calling Sasha’s mom Mommy Dearest whenever we spoke about her.

“That’s good…does this mean I won’t get to ogle your half naked boyfriend because you guys will be staying at his place.” Sasha had gone from staying at Ovie’s place to staying at my place and he did tend to walk around without a shirt on a lot.

“I don’t know. We’ll probably try to find that balance from before…but I’ll tell Sasha to put clothes on.”

“No! Don’t do that. I need to be able to look at the Russian Adonis.”

Jesse nodded in agreement with Jackie. I couldn’t help but laugh. My roommates are insane and I love them.

“I’m telling Chris and Norman on you two slut bags!” I said.

“Well if Norman looked like Sasha I wouldn’t have to look elsewhere,” Jackie said.

“Chris and I have a rule – if the person is famous, it doesn’t count!” Jesse and Chris have a really weird relationship…but it is a pretty funny rule…I wonder if Sasha would ever go for that?...No, probably not.

“You can look but no touching,” I said.

“Come on Nef. Didn’t your parents ever teach you to share?” Jesse.

“No. I’m the only girl. I never had to share.” It’s true, being my parents’ only daughter did have its perks.

“You’re just so selfish!” Jackie giggled.

I told my roommates that I’d made plans to go back and visit with Tatiana more. I wanted this to work so that Sasha could be happy. We stopped in BCBG so I could get a new dress. Last night on the phone Sasha and I had picked a date for our parents to have dinner at Sasha’s house and I wanted a new dress for that.

“But really, are you and Sasha okay?” Jesse asked. “He’s been staying at our place for a while but there’s been no noise coming from your room.”

“What?!”

“You two have not been gettin’ busy. Why?” Jackie.

“I can’t believe you two…wait, yes I can,” I said. “Well if you must know I started a new pill and my doctor said that I should not have sex for a couple more weeks…and Sasha has been healing from a pulled groin muscle.”

It had been a while since Sasha and I were intimate. As soon as the doctor told me it was okay and as soon as his groin was good to go I was going to jump him, tie him to my bed, and have my wicked way with him. With the way I’ve been yearning for him it would probably be weeks before I let him go.

The past few months have been incredibly difficult on all fronts. I could only hope that this marked a turning point for us. Things had to be getting better now that we’d experienced the worst.