Stay in Your Lane | Lonzo Ball

Chapter 58

Lonzo

After getting Izzy to class, I went back to the parking lot of my dorm suite to get my car knowing that I wouldn't want to walk all the way back up here after practice and rehab after my next class.

With all that was on my mind about her, I decided to call my oldest younger brother Gelo.  He's the first one that I went  to about anything that happens with me. Melo often times was too immature for the subject matter. Actually, he was always too immature.

"Wassup man?" he answered on the third ring.

"Nothin much. I got about ten minutes until my next class starts. Just checkin in on you. You good?"

"Yeah, I'm straight. At home sick. Melo dumb ass passed his cold around to everybody."

"Damn bro. Sweat it out in practice and you'll be good," I said.

"Oh yeah no doubt. Mamma looking after me pretty good though," he said, "but wassup? I know you that's not all you wanted. You called me three times earlier today. I was sleep, my bad."

"You know me to well, man," I laughed, "um I didn't want much just uh- I think I'm gonnaaskIzzytobemygirlfriend."

"Hold on, run that back one more time? Don't try to speed by it cause I think I heard you right."

I took a deep breath and repeated, "I think I wanna ask Izzy to be my girlfriend."

"For real? Something must have happened."

"What you mean?"

"I know you've been liking her for a minute, but I thought you were going to go slow. You did just break up with Daina a few months ago," he explained.

"I know. I just..."

"Did y'all do something bro?"

I knew he could read me and there was no point of beating around the bush with it. I also knew that I could trust him with anything. He's kept a lot of things that we've talked about to himself and I've done the same for him.

"We uh- we kinda took things to the next level last night."

"Whaaaat? For real? Y'all had sex?"

"Yeah man. Other than winning state championships and playing college ball, it feels like one of the best things that's ever happened to me ever in my life. I'm still stuck on it."

"Damn, I knew she already had your ass sprung but this really did it. You got some of that older woman ass and you shook."

"Call it whatever you want man, but it didn't feel like we just had sex and it didn't feel like I was just fucking. It felt like...a lot more."

"You ever felt that way before?"

"No. Not at all. Never."

"Oh shit bro."

"What?"

"She done made your ass fall in love."

It didn't hit me until he said it. Maybe that's what this feeling is. I mean, I don't think I've ever really been in love with anybody so maybe that describes why this feeling is foreign to me.

"How do you know?"

"Cause that's how I feel about Gia, the girl I dated before Brittany."

"Oh yeah, the girl that was on the swim team that you were with for like two years."

"Yeah her. I was in love her. It took me screwing up with her to figure that out. We were close and really liked each other before we ever did anything, but once we did it just multiplied the way I felt about her. To be honest, I'm still in love with her. I only say I love you to Brittany not to hurt her feelings. I was really in love with Gia and I know that cause I don't feel close to the same way with Britt."