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Chapter 2 | Part II

Saturday Afternoon- Tamia

3:48 P.M.

"You met a guy at the mall?" Sierra squealed in delight.

We'd made it back Morrissa's house, and I was telling my girls all about my interesting encounter with Jason. Morrissa and Vie both live in the same LA neighborhood as me (Horseshoe Bend), so we all just live a few minutes away from each other.

"Yeah," I replied, "but it's not like that!"

"But you gave him your number," Morrissa said, smiling.

"He's only a friend!" I retorted.

"Is he cute?" asked Vie.

I just smiled, not replying.

"Oh my gosh, he is!" screamed Morrissa. "What does he look like? What's his name?"

"His name is Jason and I don't know, he's about 5'8, brown skin..."

At this point, Morrissa and Vie looked at each other, smiling.

"So... could this be the end of you and Larry?" Morrissa asked, turning back to me.

"What? No!" I said. "Jason and I are just friends! Plus, he has a girlfriend!"

"I still can't believe that you gave him your number," Morrissa said excitedly.

"It's the dress!" squealed Vie. "Tamia is stepping out of her shell and doing bold things! The old Tamia would have never done that! I like this new Tamia."

"There is no 'new' me," I say, trying to convince myself. But I don't know... talking to a cute stranger in the mall and giving him my number is something that I wouldn't usually do.

"Annnyway...." Morrissa said, "We need to keep this 'new you' energy going, so we need to discuss next month's concert that you will be attending and enjoying."

Vie laughed. "Yeah, we're definitely going to make a fangirl out of you!"

"Starting with their music!" Morrissa exclaimed.

"Okay, sure," I said. I couldn't help but wonder if Jason would like to attend the concert with me— just as a friend like with Morrissa and Vie. Hmm, is he even into boybands? Probably not.

Morrissa pulled out her phone and started playing a song by The Draper Brothers called If I Don't Love You This Way. "This is my favorite song of their Reflections album, but it doesn't have a music video yet," she said.

"Yet?" giggled Vie, "How are you so sure that they'll be releasing a video for this song?"

"I can feel it!" laughed Morrissa.

Talking about their songs and music videos made me realize something—I don't even know what these guys look like!

"You know," I say, "y'all talk about how gorgeous these guys are, but you haven't even shown me a picture!"

They looked at each other and squealed in unison, "You're right!"

Vie immediately pulled out her phone to pull up pictures from various social media accounts. "Here you go," she says, handing me her phone, "The Draper Brothers: Ray, Jay, and Cay."

I take the phone from her and examine the picture. Hmm, they are kind of cute, I think. Especially— wait a minute...

Vie and Morrissa must have noticed my expression because they're smiling really hard at this point.

"So, what's the verdict?" asks Morrissa. "Who do you think is the cutest?"

Immediately after she asks I say, "Y'all the one in the middle looks like the guy I met in the mall today."

They quickly grabbed the phone from me to confirm to whom I was referring to.

Then Vie says, "You met a guy that looks like Jason Draper?"

Morrissa cuts in, "Wait, didn't you say that that guy's name was Jason?"

Both of their mouths slowly opened in shock. My heart sank. No, it couldn't be. I did not meet, befriend, and give my phone number to a celebrity.

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