I Should Be

[VirgosAngel19]

“Baby, just take step one!” sung Mark just before the rest of the guys joined in to sing their hit song I Should Be. Cheri had been sitting around watching some old video tapes of her favorite group, who also happened to be her boyfriends’ close friends, Dru Hill. She had just gotten around to watching the episode of 106 & Park, when her boyfriend came home.

“You watching that tape again?” said Dawand, her sexy 5’11, 175 lbs, almond colored, hazeled eyed boyfriend. He always dressed in nothing but the best. His hair was cut low with waves, and he always kept his face clean.

“So what if I am?” asked Cheri, she was sick of him. She tried to leave him many times before but he always cried at her door, or called her non-stop to take him back. She hated being around him cause he only treated her like a trophy. He never talked to her when they were at home alone. If he did it was to complain or to ask for sex. She felt trapped, she wanted to be away from him. She needed an escape. She wanted out.

“You must be feeling depressed.” said Dawand checking his mail, “You only watch that thing when you are. But what I don’t get is you that watch it everyday.”

“That should tell you something then.” mumbled Cheri.

“What?”

“Nothing, why do you care anyway? It’s not like you watch it.”

“Cause, I have to come home to it. Damn, I hope when they come over tomorrow you won’t be watching that thing.” said Dawand checking his answering machine.

“You know I’m sick of you perpetrating like you actually know them.” said Cheri stopping the tape, it was apparent she wasn’t gonna get to watch her tape in peace so she decided to turn it off.

“I told you I really do know them.”

“Right, so why haven’t I met them yet? I mean, I’ve met every single last one of your other friends. Why haven’t I met them?”

“I told you they’ve been really busy trying to get their new album ready. Not to mention they’ve been touring non-stop and they’ve had to do non-stop appearances.”

“Uh-huh, so how did you meet them?”

“I told you, I know them from waaaaaaay back. You know my mom and Larry’s mom are close.”

“Why do you call them by their first names?”

“Come on Cheri, I already told you I know them well enough to call them by their names. I aint bout to call them n****s Sisqo, Jazz, Woody, and all that s***.”

“Riiiiiiight. I believe you.” said Cheri sarcastically as she walked into the kitchen.

“You still don’t believe me do you?” said Dawand following her into the kitchen.

“Nope.”

“You’ll see tomorrow. And guess what you’ll be looking real stupid when they show up.”

“Sure, anyway, look I may be late tomorrow. I have to meet my brother to plan our mom’s surprise party. You are still coming to that right?” asked Cheri taking a sip of the water she had taken from the refrigerator.

“I don’t know, I don’t really want to go.” said Dawand leaning against the counter.

“You promised to go.”

“Come on Cheri, why do I have to go?”

“Because you promised, not to mention you already told my brother that you’d help out.”

“Well look, I’ll have to think about it.” said Dawand walking out of the kitchen.

“Oooh, Lord help me. I don’t think I can put up with this man any longer.” said Cheri looking up at the ceiling.
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[VirgosAngel19]

“Hey man, what’s up?!” said Larry walking into the house.

“Hey, what’s up my n****s!” said Dawand giving each a pound as they walked into the house.

“Yo, this is a nice house. We should hang out over here more often.” said James looking around at Dawand and Cheri’s two-story well decorated house.

“Oh, I aint got nothing to do with this, Cheri did it all.” said Dawand closing the door after Tamir walked in.

“Speaking of this Cheri, where is she? She’s all you talk about, I was ready to meet her.” said Rufus taking a seat on the couch.

“She said she’ll be a little late, she had a party that her and her brothers are throwing for their mother.”

“Oh, is this her in these pictures.” said Tamir looking at the many photos on their fireplace.

“Yeah, that’s her.”

“Daaaaaaaaayum,” said Larry looking at the vacation photo of Cheri in her bikini, “I know you said she was fine but man!”

“I know, look at her in that suit!” said James.

“Ay, ay, y’all are spending too much time on that photo. Move on.” chuckled Dawand, he just loved the way his friends admired his woman.

“Yo, what you been you up to lately. n****s aint heard from you for a while.” said Mark.

“Man, been busy and s***. You know, Cheri’s a wild one. She can’t get enough of this here.”

“Yo man, I aint wanna here all that.” said Tamir making a disgusted look.

“Hey, what can I say, but anyway yeah man, I been just chilling and s***. Not doing too much. But hey y’all talking about me, and y’all the ones that aint been calling a n****.”

“Well you know what’s up with us.” said Larry, “Ay, my mom’s been asking for your mom to call her so hey, just giving you the heads up to tell your mom.”

“Oh aight, y’all want something to eat. We got a ton of food in there. Cheri is the bomb cook. Hey maybe I can get her to cook y’all something when she get home.”

“Nah man, we can get it ourselves. I’m sure she don’t wanna come home after a long day and cook six n****s something to eat.” said Rufus.

“Y’all sure, she can cook her ass off.”

“Yeah, but I’ll take you up on that offer to go in there to get something to eat.” said Mark nearly running to the kitchen.

The guys sat around for another hour catching up on things when they finally decided to go to the den and play some video games. They were so caught up that they didn’t hear Cheri walking into the house. She called out to Dawand a couple of times but of course he couldn’t hear her.

He must be playing the damn video games again, she thought, I guess I should go see what he wants to eat.

“Dawand, what do you want….” she started before she realized that her favorite group was sitting in her den.

“Hey baby girl.” said Dawand stopping what he was doing to hug and kiss her.

Oh Lord he’s showing off again, she thought.

“Hey, who’re they? I mean I know who they are but could you introduce us?” asked Cheri finding herself blushing and acting very shyly.

“Alright, guys this is Cheri, my lovely. And Cheri these are the guys. I don’t think I need to introduce them seeing as how you watch their videos and play their songs non-stop.” said Dawand.

“Hi it’s nice to meet you.” said Cheri reaching to shake each of their hands.

When she reached to shake Marks’ hand she had to pull back due to a slight shock that went between the two.

“You shocked me.” said Cheri.

“Nah, I think you shocked me.” said Mark staring deeply into her eyes.

Cheri found herself staring into his. She was very attracted to him; after all he had been her favorite group member. She had always thought about what she would do when she met him. She thought about what she would say and how she would react if he hugged her. She always saw herself flirting with him and exchanging numbers. Then again every time she saw herself with him, she was single. So much for that.

“Okay, Cheri how did things go with the party?” asked Dawand pretending as if he cared.

Oh please, she thought, no he’s not putting on a show.

“Everything went well. Ma’s gonna be so surprised.” said Cheri putting on a fake smile. Which she always did whenever he decided to put on a show for his friends.

“So Cheri, ya boy here told us you didn’t believe we knew him.” said Larry.

“Yeah, it was a little hard to believe.” said Cheri occasionally glancing at Mark.

“Well I bet you’re a believer now.” said James.

“Yeah I guess I have all the proof I need now.” she said still glancing at Mark.

“Well that’s good, we didn’t believe he had a girl as fine as you. I mean he never brought you around so we figure he might be making you up.” said Rufus.

“Never that.” said Dawand shaking his head.

“Well I see you guys are busy so I’m gonna leave you and go take a shower.” said Cheri turning to go upstairs.

When she said that it threw a fantasy into Marks’ mind. He quickly shook it off because he knew it wasn’t right to be thinking about his boys’ girl like that.

“It was nice meet you all.” said Cheri before she walked away.

“You too.” said Mark as they made eye contact one more time before she walked upstairs.

“Man, she look even better in person.” said Tamir as they went to sit down.

“What did I tell you.” said Dawand nodding his head.

“I’m just wondering how you got something like that.” chuckled James.

“You aint know, I got it like that.”
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[VirgosAngel19]

Upstairs, Cheri had just finished taking a long hot bubble bath. She then changed into her a pair short black shorts and a white tank top. She decided that she wanted to get Marks’ mind going. She noticed how he was staring at her earlier, so she wanted to throw one more log into his fire.

I wonder what he’s gonna think when he sees me in this, she thought. I guess we’re gonna have to find out.

Before she went downstairs, their phone rang. Dawand yelled upstairs for her to get it.

Lazy ass, she thought.

“Hello?” said Cheri picking up their cordless.

“Hey Sherry.” said her best friend Trinity.

“You call me Sherry one mo’ time and I’mma kick ya ass.”

“Damn, I was just joking. Aint no need for all that hostility. Sista girl don’t need all that.”

“You know I’m playing, what you know good?”

“I swear you country.”

“Whatever, what you know good?”

“Nothing, other than the fact that I saw you all hugged up and comfortable with Kevin tonight. I knew you two would hit it off.”

“Not really, girl he got all grabby handed and s***. I had to kick his goodness that the good Lord really skipped over and walked out on his ass.”

“Damn, he seemed like cool peeps.”

“Yeah seemed like it is exactly it. Why do I keep ending up with the same dudes?”

“Cause you keep giving yourself to them. Until you get up and look for something better you gon keep getting them sorry bustas. But I’m telling you the first thing you need to do is drop that punk you with now.”

“You know I’ve tried, but he keep flashing them big pretty eyes of his and I get sucked into them everytime. And girl, you know he can lay the pipe.”

“Girl, I don’t care if he can do it while turning back flips. You need to drop him.”

“I’mma try. But hey, you know how he kept saying he know Dru Hill?”

“Yeah, ol’ lying ass.”

“No, he really do know them. They downstairs right now. And girl, Sisqo and me got this thing between us. I don’t know what it is but we keep staring at each other.”

“Girl, what you doing on the phone with me then? You better get yo ass off this phone and get yo game on.”

“Well I was headed downstairs but you called and side tracked me.”

“Well shut me up then. I’mma let you go. Stupid ass, why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

“You didn’t ask.”

“b****, look I’mma go. You get yo ass downstairs and show that n**** what you working with. Bye girl.” laughed Trinity.

“Bye.” laughed Cheri hanging up her phone.

I guess I gotta take my girls’ advice, she thought as she got up to head downstairs, here I go.
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“Yeah, tell me about. Tiara does the same thing.” said James.

The guys were sitting around talking about somethings that got on their nerves about their girl when Cheri came downstairs.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt, I wanted to come and get a book.” said Cheri looking at the guys as she walked past them to get to the entertainment center, so she could grab a book off the top shelf. Which she couldn’t reach.

“Damn, I can’t get it. Dawand can you help?” she said as she stood on her tippy toes trying to reach the top shelf.

“Oh baby, I don’t feel like getting up.” said Dawand slouching into the chair.

“Pleeeeease.”

“I don’t want to. Go get the step ladder.”

“Fine.” she said as she walked away. As she did she nonchalantly glanced at Mark from the corner of her eye. Who in turn was trying his hardest not to stare at her.

When she got back into the room, she sat the step ladder on the floor and began to climb up it. It was a little wobbly so she had to be careful as she went up. She again stepped up on her tippy toes, which only made the ladder shake more. Mark was watching her the entire time. He was looking over at her from the corner of his eye, trying his hardest not to let Dawand see him staring at her. He was looking at her calf muscles as they flexed. He was looking at her legs wanting to rub on them. Right when he was beginning to make his way up to her butt, she fell back. He immediately jumped up to catch her.

“Oh my God, thank you.” said Cheri breathing heavily.

“No problem.” said Mark helping her up.

“See look at you.” said Dawand.

“What, if you had helped me, I wouldn’t have almost busted my head.” said Cheri almost yelling as she walked away.

“I’ll be back.” huffed Dawand following behind her.

When he caught up to her he grabbed her arm and spun her around.

“What the f*** you think you doing?”

“What are you talking about?”

“I’m talking about this short ass outfit, you got on.”

“What about it?”

“Look at it.”

“You don’t have a problem with it on other occasions.”

“That’s cause it’s just us.”

“Whatever.”

“What book did you want?”

“Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree.”

“I’ll get, you take yo ass upstairs.” he huffed as he walked away.

When she watched him walk away she could see Mark staring at her. She gave him a little wink before she walked upstairs. Mark knew that if he messed with her he could ruin his friendship with Dawand. But he couldn’t help wanting her.
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Part 2 Coming Soon!!

[CarolinaCutie]

Scandalous! ::snappin' fingas in a circle:: I'm lovin' it!

[aDRUfan4LiFe]

His butt should be kicked to the curb!!!! Good story, so far,VA!!

[sexysmile]

Lovin it!! Bring on the rest.

[DruAngelAKAShelle]

Marvelous simply marvelous



~Expect The UnExpected From Dru Hill~