Rescue Me♕LeBron James

♕Chapter 18|There's the Battle, and There's the War♕

RECAP from Chapters 16 and 17: Willow's mom has moved in with her and her best friend, Bella, so she and her mom are beginning to work on their relationship. LeBron, with the help of Bella, surprised Willow for their first date in her new cafe which LeBron has fixed up for her with Willow's friends and loved ones. He also invited her and her son, Nathaniel, to one of his preseason games, so their relationship is progressing! Lastly, we are in Part Two: Fight of this book!

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|Thursday, October 8th, 2015 - 1:00pm|

"Maaan, you don't understand. I've never met someone like her before," LeBron tried to explain to a skeptical Dwyane Wade.

"Bruh, you tellin me that you save one damsel in distress, and she's all of a sudden your soulmate? I might believe you if you didn't drop ya girl, Liyah, like a bad pass," Dwyane replied with a scoff.

LeBron rolled his eyes, "I should've known I'd be gettin' a call from you after the way them paps was on us last night."

"Damn right! How I'm gone learn about yo rollercoaster romance from Twitter? That's not cool, man. And you know it," Dwyane reminded his best friend with a firm, yet amused reprimand.

"Ok, ok, shit, I admit that I did you dirty, but that doesn't change the fact that Willow is the one D-Wade. She has this quiet strength about her, and she's such a loving spirit. She makes me wanna be better, man. I stopped drinking and smoking because of her, which she doesn't even know," LeBron explained earnestly.

"Nah, you did that because Mike was up ya ass the other day when he ran them tests," Dwyane poked fun with a laugh, remembering how Bron called him complaining and acting like he wasn't gone make it through preseason some days ago.

"Man, shut the fuck up, and be happy for me. You know good and well I could keep drinkin and smokin' if I wanted. I just don't wanna have to explain that shit to Willow. I like that she sees me as this dependable guy. She needs that in a man right now, especially with a newborn son."

"Yea, but what do you need? You're always saving everybody, Bron. Players, franchises, cities. What was Liyah not giving you, and how do you already know that Willow is giving it or can give it to you?"

"Bruh, Liyah was always nagging me about Cavs stuff, and I didn't need that at the crib. I don't know when it happened, but our relationship was no longer about us. It was about the Cavs. And she kept judging me for shit I did over the summer and was never really there for me mentally and emotionally. She just didn't want me to do anything that would bring bad pub to the damn franchise. I used to come to her because I could be me, and she was one of the few people who could look past who I was as a player and see me as a man. That shit changed with a quickness, and when I met Willow she became obsessed with her. To the point that she basically lured me into bed for the first time in months, man. We hadn't even been sleeping together," LeBron explained, realizing how fucked up things had really gotten with Liyah.

"Wow, man, I didn't realize it was like that. I hate that for you. I know how hard it's been for you to trust anyone for that exact reason," Dwyane admitted as he began to understand why his friend seemed to be so done with Liyah.

"Yea, man, and Willow is a huge fan of mine and doesn't even talk to me about basketball unless I bring it up. Simply because she is more interested in me as a person and the chemistry we have. She just sees me differently, man, and I've never had that before," LeBron whispered, that feeling in his stomach that he always felt around Willow returning with a vengeance.