Me, Him, Us

Chapter 2: Donnie

Chapter 2

Am I really just going to sit on my couch alone on a Friday night? Wow my life is just so exciting. I mean I could do school work? Or sleep? Or watch tv?...I think we all know what option I’m going with! TV!

While I settle myself on the couch with a hotdog because I love hotdogs, maybe because Howard likes them but either way it’s a quick easy snack. I know I know, it seems like a lot of my decisions are based off of Howard but I’m a really compromising person. I don’t like other people feeling uncomfortable so I really do try my best to make everyone around me comfortable.

Anyways back to real life, I was half way through my episode of Friends, which btw is definitely Top 10 of my favorite shows because this is my third time watching it! I’m definitely a Rachel lol. My phone rings, I flip my iPhone 6s around to see who could possibly be looking for me since no one ever calls me. The screen reads “Donavan” and I instantly smile.

“Hey Donnie. What’s up?” I say after I pick up the phone

“Hey Bella, how are you doing?” He replies with that deep voice, with a twing of an Australian accent.

“I’m good just sitting at home about to binge series for the rest of the weekend, why can I help you with anything?”

“Woooow! You’re not even going to ask how I’m doing? Damn who hurt you!” I roll my eyes at his stupid remarks

“Well you never call me so you obviously need something!” He laughs loudly.

“Okay fine that’s true,I need help with my hair and I know you’ve got a blow dryer so can I come through? And then maybe we can chill?”

I immediately jump up and down squealing

“Definitely please ! I’m so bored. Howard went out so I’m bored out of my mind here alone. I have popcorn so we can have a movie night!”

“Perfect, thank you so much! Send me your location and I’ll be there soon”

“Okay cool, just hold the buzzer when you get here till I open okay, bye! Mwah mwah”

“Mwah mwah” he giggles and hangs up the phone. I quickly send him my current location before I get distracted.

Okay let me explain first before everyone jumps to conclusions,I am definitely not cheating on Howard! Donavan Riley is Jennifer’s cousin and one of my friends, he’s studying computer engineering and in his 4rd year. He’s a year younger than me so usually we don’t hang that much but whenever I need help with something I usually ask him for help because most of the time Howard says no or his busy! But not to make it seem like I’m using him cause he also regularly ask for favors as well such as me doing his hair, but I won’t deny Donnie is quite handsome, compared to Howard who is tall and lean he is more buff and under 6 feet, which isn’t a deal breaker cause he’s still taller than me but I mean he is Jennifer’s cousin I’m not crossing those boundaries. I won’t deny when I go watch his rugby practices I do find myself staring at him longer than I should but rugby guys are my kryptonite! There’s just something about a man having muscle that I personally feel is such a big turn on but anyways my crush on Donnie was momentary because well duhh I have a boyfriend so those thoughts were pushed out as soon as the entered my mind.

I guess my day dreaming went on longer than I expected because soon my buzzer is going off again and I’m off like Usain Bolt to open before he stops buzzing. I open the door and listen as he climbs the steps because he probably wouldn’t know which door is it, to be fair my door doesn’t have its number on it so it’s actually quite difficult to find. I hear his ragged breaths before I see him but can you blame him? He’s an athlete but any one can relate that my stairs are deadly! I can’t wait to move out of this place. I see his pitch black hair and make eye contact with his hazel eyes that soften when they see me. Immediately we both start laughing because he’s hunched over gasping for air from the stairs.

“I’m sorry Donnie, I know how difficult it is to get up these steps” I say while I’m still smiling hard. “Come on in, I have a glass of ice cold water with your name on it” I say while walking back in.

While I’m in the kitchen he finally enters my apartment, he looks around in wonder.

“I can’t believe you’ve been here for almost 4 months and this is the first time I’m seeing your apartment.” He says while drinking the water.

“To be fair, I don’t like people in my space so it’s really uncomfortable for me to have anyone here but Howard or Jennifer. Like someone being in your house is another level of myself you’re seeing if that make sense?”

“No I get, well I hope you’re not feeling uncomfortable with me being here?” He says sheepishly while scratching his hair.

“Oh s**t! No no it’s okay. You’re like family of course you’re always welcome here!”

“Perfect, since I’m family what do we have in our fridge” he says while raiding my fridge.

“I have juice and I can make you some hot dogs if you want? They’re really good I promise.”

I say while stepping in front of him and taking the ingredients out for him.

“Ahhh you’re absolutely amazing Bell, thank you” He says while hugging me from behind.

“Wait shouldn’t we do your hair first? Or what?”

“Nahh we can do that later, I’m hungry”

“Why do I get the vibe you came here just to steal my food?” I shake my head, this foolish boy!

“What?! I’m hurt how could you think so little of me? I missed you…and I was hungry. I was trying to kill two birds with one stone” he looked fake hurt, with a hand over his heart.

“Oh shut up let’s eat” I proceeded to make his food.

After the food was done we went to the living room and sat in the couch, he sat on the L shaped part of the couch while I sat in the opposite corner, but close enough to share the blanket with Donnie cause I was feeling a bit cold. We spent atleast an hour just watching Netflix on the tv, since I figured out how to connect my Netflix to my tv my life has literally changed for the better and my school life worse because I really do spend most of my time just binging shows. I really do like spending time with Donnie, he makes me feel so light and relieved because he never makes me feel stupid, or ‘too much’ as Howard says. The best part about Donnie is he doesn’t speak much, so he prefers that I do most of the talking and boy do I love to talk so I really do enjoy his company, the first time I met him and had the initial crush I wondered for a second if I had met him before Howard would things be different?

FLASHBACK

I’m so excited ! Jennifer is coming to visit me for the first time at my house in South Africa. Let me explain a bit first, we went our separate ways for summer break but after talking it over we decided to plan a vacation to our holiday house in South Africa, which is honestly my favorite country in Africa. Unfortunately the only way she could come was if her cousin Donavan came with her, but it’s fine I’ve never met him before but the more the merrier and she assured me he was a fun type of guy. Anyways at the moment im waiting at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg which is kind of small but it’s where our private jet stays when we don’t use it, so yes I sent my private jet to fetch Jennifer and Donavan from Australia. I see our beautiful white plane with gold stripes on the side pull into the parking bay, with the name ‘Princess’ written on the side, what can I say I’m a mommy’s girl. I run up to the plane as the stairs descend and say hello to the flight attendants that step out first, since I’ve seen them before. I’m  brought out of my conversation with them when I hear a high pitched scream followed by someone ploughing me down. This could only be Jennifer, so we jump up and down screaming at the top of our lungs.

“Bitchhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

“OMG I’m so f*****g happy you’re finally here! I’ve literally been counting down the seconds” I say once we’ve pulled away from hugging each other.

“Dude we have so much f*****g catching up to do! I’m so excited for the massages, the relaxing, the partying that’s about to happen” she says while dancing and throwing her ass back.

She quickly pauses when we hear a throat clear and that’s when I saw him.

Standing there with his bag in his hand, about 5’9, bronzed, hazel eyes and the darkest hair I’ve ever seen.

“You guys done?” He asks while smirking, even from a distance I can see his small looking….dinosaur teeth?

Okay I know I’ve only seen him for a second but damn this guy is hot.

“Donavan come down and join us loser” Jennifer screams from beside me.

He immediately drops his bag and comes to join our little circle and starts twerking, my jaw immediately drops because I’ve never seen a guy just openly twerk like that and be so good at throwing it back!

After 5 minutes of what maybe looked like 3 people having seizures, we laughed it off and went to go get the bags.

We walked out the airport and straight to my matte green G63, my baby number 3.

“Babe I absolutely love your car, like woahhhh I’m taking it home with me” Jennifer says while kissing the front seat.

I look back at Donavan and ask him “I don’t know how we’re going to deal with this weirdo”

He laughs and says “we could always kill her?”

I take a second to think about it then nod my head, we both burst out laughing.

“You guys really aren’t that funny, but I’m glad you’re getting along” Jennifer says with her arms crossed while pouting.

I turn on the engine and ask the most important question before anything can happen

“Who’s connecting to Bluetooth for music”

FLASHBACK OVER

“BELL!!!”

I quickly shake my head and look at Donnie, who’s clapping his hands in my face

“Are you okay” he asks with a concerned look on his face

“Oh yeah sorry, I was just remembering the the first time we met each other back in South Africa”

He throws his head back and laughs

“Wow that was random but yeah good times, with good memories” he says while looking at me with his funny looking eyes.

Before I get labeled a b***h Donnie has really small eyes, like it’s so cute because it basically always looks like his eyes are closed. Sometimes I just stare at him to try guess if his eyes are open or closed…I have yet to figure out.

Anyways I’m brought out my weird moment by my FaceTime ringing on my iPad, I look and see it’s Jennifer calling me.

“Bitttccchhhhhh”

If you haven’t noticed this is how we regularly greet each other.

“b***h where the hell are you?”

“I’m at my place right now with Donnie, he came to raid my fridge, you ?”

“Wooow, thanks for the invite bitches. Come over here, let’s have a movie night and we can do masks “

I look at Donnie, and he nods his head

“Okay we will catch the next bus that comes, see you soon slut. Mwah mwah”

“Mwah mwah”

I look at Donnie and smile

“Guess we’re going to Jennifer’s place”

“I thought Howard was coming here tonight?” Donnie asks while looking at me

“Well he was supposed to but honestly I just want one night were I don’t make plans around him, let me quickly call him actually”

I stand up and go to the window while I search for his contact, I take a deep breathe before dialing and waiting for him to answer

“Hey Bella, what’s up” yeah he doesn’t call me babe, or angel or whatever cute names other girlfriends get.

“Hey, uhm I’m going to Jennifer’s with Donnie and we’re having a movie night so you can’t come here anymore after the party, will you be alright?”

“Okay uh wow that’s cool I guess. I’ll just stay at Jacks tonight then, enjoy your movie night”

“Really? Aw thank you so much. Enjoy the party bye Mwah mwah”

“Bye”

Okay so maybe it wasn’t okay but he’d have to deal with it, she needed to be more firm and stronger now.

I turn around look at Donnie and do a little dance

“Let’s go did you check the bus? Or we could walk?” I ask while I start packing up

“The bus isn’t coming for another 30 minutes, let’s just walk I could use the fresh air anyways” he says while fixing up the living room.

I won’t lie there are times when I really think and compare Howard and Donnie. I know it’s not right at all but maybe I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself. Or maybe it’s because the pressure of not being with Donnie makes him easier for me to be around and because I see him as a friend. I won’t lie compared to where we started Howard and I have changed I mean sometimes when I look back at where we started and look at us now I really do question it but you know what that’s a conversation for another day, let’s go have a horror movie marathon.