Save Me

24| Brandon

I sat in my car outside of the Winters' residence half sleep. It was well after midnight, but Lauren texted me to come by.

I looked out of my window to see Lauren finally walking out of the house with a big t-shirt and sweatpants on. She tied her hair up in a tight bun to remove it from her face.

I could see the tension in her face as she got closer to the car, but she put on a small smile when she got inside. "Hey," she said.

"What's wrong?" I asked her with a furrowed brow as I shifted myself in the seat to face her. She sighed deeply.

"Just thinking..." her voice drifted off.

I smacked my teeth. "It's my job to be short on words, not yours. Talk to me."

Lauren cracked a grin exposing her dimples and shook her head. "Sucks to get a taste of your own medicine, doesn't it?"

I poked her cheek with my index finger and examined her beautiful face. "Not really. You look kind of cute when you're brooding. What's up though?"

"Couldn't sleep."

"Me either," I told her.

"Christian got arrested tonight. My phone has been blowing up because of it and people want me comment on it. Meanwhile, I've been trying to hide that part of my life from folks for years. I'm already getting side eyes from my own family. The hardest thing I had to do was explain everything to Nas. I swear I didn't look like his favorite person anymore as I talked about it. I wasn't ready for it...none of this."

I scratched my head and sighed. "I'm sorry. I promised you that I wouldn't beat his ass, so this was the next best thing."

"I figured that when the news was talking about a 'inside source' and shit. This too shall pass hopefully..."

"It will," I assured her while placing my hand over hers. "You know I got your back forever." She smiled and bit down on her lip, but didn't say anything in reply.

"Why you looking at me like that?" I questioned her with a smirk.

"Nothing. So, why couldn't you sleep?" she asked.

I tucked my lips, slightly embarrassed to admit the reasoning. "Um, I may have been thinking about a certain someone."

She crossed her arms and cackled a bit. "Oh, ok. Who is this someone?"

"C'mon now. You know what's up. You really gone make me say it?"

Lauren playfully rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I really don't what's up because according to you, we can't go there. What's that about?"

I sighed. "Laurie, I love you. That I do know. Everything else is blurry to me. I've never been a relationship, so I don't know how it works. The last thing I need is for another person to leave my life because I fucked up something again."

She licked her lips and leaned in on the center console between us. "Come here," she whispered to me.

I did as told and met her lips. She held my face and deepened the kiss. I kissed her gently, carefully, but it she didn't want me to be gentle. Laurie knotted her fists on my shirt, pulling me harder against her. I groaned softly then my arms circled her, gathering her against me, I pulled her petite body up into my lap, our lips still stuck like velcro.

Lauren's hand roamed down to my groin area and I knew that I had to keep it together. I pecked her lips one last time before trying to back away slowly.

"Laurie," I said as her lips moved to creating passion marks on my neck. "Lauren, baby. Stop, please," I pleaded with her. She groaned out of frustration and laid her head on my chest.

"Sorry, but if we gone do this, then, I wanna do this the right way for once. Trust me, I'm not saying that I don't want you in that way because it's hard as hell to resist you...literally and figuratively," I told her, mentally trying to get my erect member to go down.

She lifted her head and gave me a long look. "Seeeeeee, you need to stop. Saying sweet shit like that is what almost got you lucky in this car."

I kissed her nose as she wrapped her arms around my neck. "I'm being serious though. You deserve the best. I want to take you on a proper first date and all that. If and when we take the next step sexually, I promise it'll be amazing...just not here. Cool?"

She simply nodded as she laid up on my chest. "And I'm not going anywhere, Bam." I wrapped my arms tightly around her small frame.
"I'm holding you to that," I said.

We held each other in a comforting silence. She eventually dosed off to sleep in my arms, but I let her stay put because I didn't want to let her go just yet. I let my seat back and closed my eyes as well.

"Brandon, wake up." Lauren tapped me in a panic.

I kept my eyes closed, but replied to her voice. "Merry Christmas Eve to you too. What's wrong?"

Lauren moved back into the passenger's seat and I slowly opened my eyes. "Sky just called me crying." I sat up out of concern.

"Chill, just tell me happened?" I looked down at my phone to see that she had called multiple times.

"BJ was out w-with his friends," she stammered. "and he got shot 2 times. He's unresponsiv--" Lauren cried out before she could finish her words. My heart raced when hearing the news. I hadn't seen that boy in over 5 years, but he still had a place in the very back of my heart.

"They know who did it?" I questioned with my eyes focused on my fists.

"Some f-fucking cop..." I zoned out on everything else that Lauren said after that.

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Soooo, Lauren and Bam official. They cute or nah?

How Bam gone act about this BJ getting shot thing?