LOOK BOTH WAYS (2022) dir. Wanuri Kahiu
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LOOK BOTH WAYS (2022) dir. Wanuri Kahiu
“I’m about to push a baby out of my vag, and I’m gonna do it after eating a buffalo chicken sandwich”
The Black Queen
By Natalie Bennett
lili reinhart for miu miu😍
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Enjoy this look both ways Natalie fic because I love Lili Reinhart and I thought this was cute. This is based off Natalie’s mom timeline :)
Warnings: None
Sitting at your usual quiet corner spot at your usual coffee shop you sip on your drink drawing some character sketches on your ipad. After a few minutes of drawing, deleting, re drawing and so on you finally stop. Taking a deep breath and running a hand through your hair you look out the large window, seeing all the people walking around. After observing the busy people going about their day. You got up to get another coffee hoping it would help get your creative juices flowing. Hopefully.
Looking down at your phone one last time before reaching the counter. The barista, Frankie gives you her usual very happy smile. Too happy for the little mood you’re in but you don’t want to ruin someone else’s day because you’re in a bad mood so you return it. “Another of your usual?” she asked in a teasing tone. “Yeah, thanks Frankie” You smile thanking her. When you turn you see a blonde outside by the door, some guy talking to her and he doesn’t look very friendly. Giving her a creepy smile and going to grab her hand as she tries to pull away but he’s very persistent, putting a hand on her back and sliding it down. You think quickly and speed walk over to the door opening it to reveal the two.
“Hey babe, who’s this?” you ask the blonde. She gives you a quick confused look. Obviously wondering who the hell you are until you give her a ‘play along’ look and she smiles turning back to the dirty blonde man who’s shorter than you, looking up at you in surprise. You tower over him easily smiling at him as you place your arm around the blonde. “This is…” her soft voice trails off, not knowing the man’s name. “David” he introduces himself. “Ahh, David” you put your hand out and he glances at it for a second before shaking it. You squeezed a little too hard and he squirms, trying hard to cover it up but it was very obvious it hurt. You pride yourself in that, he made the gorgeous blonde woman uncomfortable.
“What we’re you guys talking about?” You ask as you let go of his hand, easing him of your death grip. “I was just telling her about this party I’m having tomorrow night” he says swallowing thickly. “Yeah. He said there we could have a lot of…fun” she finished slowly. Clearly the guy was making an awful pass at her. “Yeah…Well, we should probably go. Don’t want our coffee to get cold” You say turning at looking into the beautiful blonde’s blue-green eyes. Just now taking in her true beauty as the sun hits her just right. You snap your self out out your day dream quickly and turn back to the shorter man.
“It was nice to meet you Danny” you say before turning and opening the door and ushering the blonde to follow you. She breathes out a bye before quickly going into the coffee shop, you following behind once you give the man a death glare and making his scramble away, bumping into someone during his not so graceful exit. “Im so sorry. That guy just looked creepy as hell and you looked uncomfortable. I’m sorry if I-“ she quickly cuts you off placing a hand on your arm. “No thank you actually- wow” she starts to speak but cuts herself off when she squeezes your muscular arm. “Sorry” she quickly apologised removing her hand and you suddenly miss the contact of this beautiful stranger. You smile, letting out a small laugh snaking your head, “No it’s cool, I get that a lot” you dismiss her.
“Oh really?” she said in a teasing tone. “Oh yeah. Mostly from my mom or my best friend Abby. They’re always like, ‘how do you get so buff? It’s not like it’s from your job’ But surprisingly lifting and lugging stage equipment helps out” You start ramping nervously as she looks at your with those beautiful big eyes. “Oh? What do you do?” she asked. “And thank you for the save back there. He was very creepy and persistent” she says smiling slightly. “I’m a sound engineer, at the studio in the city. Also you don’t need to thank me. I just wanted to help you out. Men are very gross” You dismiss her, cringing at the memories you’ve had of all the guys who’ve tried hitting on you. Key word: tried.
“Lazer Studios, right?” she asks, flashing her smile that sends a tingling fluttery feeling in your stomach. You give her a shy smile and nod. When you go to speak you hear your name being called out. You turn seeing Frankie raising your coffee cup in the air before placing it on the counter. You take all the courage you have in you, turning to face her and ask her a simple question that you didn’t know would change your whole life. “Would you like to join me? I can buy you a coffee as a…’sorry you had to deal with that asshole’ kinda thing?” you ask scratching the back of your neck nervously. Hoping you don’t get rejected.
She glanced down at the phone in her hand sending a quick text before smiling up at you. “Yeah that would be great” Your smile grows wide as you gesture for her to the counter. She smiled looking down at her feet before walking ahead. “Frankie!” You wave over the barista and she gets your order up and ready to be paid for, “Mine and whatever she’s having” she glanced at the blonde beside you then back to you then back at the blonde smirking.
“What can I get you?” Frankie asked. “Iced oat milk latte please” she answered and it just hit you. You don’t know her name. “I didn’t get your-“ Frankie cuts you off, “Name?” Frankie asked. “Natalie” the blonde answered turning to you with a small smirk. “Natalie” you repeat. “Thats a beautiful name” you comment staring into her deep ocean eyes. Frankie clears her throat making you both turn to her. “Go sit, I’ll bring it over” she nodded her head to your table with your ipad you had long forgotten about when you first set eyes on the blonde beauty. “Yeah” You breathe out, picking up your cup then leading Natalie to your ‘safe zone’ as you like to call it.
You pull out her chair and she mumbled a soft ‘thank you’ as she sits down. You look back at Frankie to see her smiling widely at you, sending you a wink and a thumbs up before she turns to continue making Natalie’s coffee. You turn back, placing your cup down then see the Blonde looking at your sketches with a small smile. “Shit sorry, I forgot that was there and open” you say turning off your ipad and shoving it in your backpack.
“You draw?” she asked her smile growing wider, clearly noticing your nervous ipad shoving. “Yeah? It’s not a big thing. It’s more like a hobby” you wave your hand as you look back at her with a small and still nervous smile. “Well, your hobby is pretty good” she compliments you. “Thanks” you say looking between here eyes, glancing at her lips for a millisecond before looking back into her eyes. “Do you like to draw?” you ask trying to make conversation and get over the flipping feeling in your stomach every time she looks at you.
“Yeah I do. I actually studied 3D and 2D animation in college” she admits nodding. “No way. That so cool. I love animated movies. The art is so beautiful. So much better than if it were real life” you gush. “Right! Animated movies are always better than live action versions. They can tell the visual story so well with the art. A lot better than if it were special effects or something” she agrees. “I’m sorry, I didn’t ask what you do” you say taking a sip from your coffee.
She looked like she was fighting in her head wether to tell you or not. When you’re about to apologise for over stepping she gives in. “I want to be an animator. That’s the goal but as of right now I’m a mom doing animation on the side” she smiles at the thought of her child, playing with her fingers waiting for your reaction. You felt a little upset at the fact she was probably with someone, loving her happy life with her partner, but you never let it show. Wanting to know more about her child that clearly gives her so much happiness.
“Really? How old?” you say smiling. “She’s 3 and a half. 4 on June 23rd” she says her smile growing wider by the second. “A cancer. Nice” you comment matching her wide smile. “Yeah, she’s pretty great” she said giving Frankie a smile and a ‘thanks’ as she places her coffee on the table. “What’s her name?” you asked after she sipped her cold beverage. “Rosie” she answers showing you her phone lock screen of a little dark curly haired little girl with tanned skin and her mothers breath taking smile.
“She’s absolutely adorable. She’s got your million dollar smile” you comment looking back to her, seeing a faint blush on her cheeks. “I actually just came from dropping her off at her dads” she says. “Oh you guys aren’t together? Sorry, that was rude” you questioned but realised you could be hitting a sore subject. She waved her hand dismissing your apology, “No it’s okay. We’re just friends. We hooked up once in college before graduation and then Rosie happened. But I’m not interested in trying it. I don’t want to start something with him, especially since we have Rosie to think about now” she admitted a heavy sigh leaving her lips.
“Yeah I get that. My parents got together and broke up a lot, so I get where you’re coming from. It’s a very mature decision. Props to you mama bear” you smirk leaning back in your seat. a blush covered her cheeks as she avoids your eyes making you smirk. “I’m also very much not interested in him like that” she admits.
And that one coffee led to many more until you finally had the guts to ask her on a date. After a few more dates throughout two months she asked you to be her girlfriend when she noticed you were stumbling over your words. You were going at her pace, you never wanted to overwhelm her. You found out more and more about her daughter and after three months of dating officially you met Rosie. She’s exactly how her mother described. Energetic, kind and creative like her mother. You also met her parents and Rosie’s father, Gabe. They all gave you a talk about treating Nat right and not hurting her. Obviously you’d never do that, you’d never hurt such a beautiful soul like Natalie Bennet. You grew close to both Rosie and her father. Nat couldn’t be happier and neither could you. You helped her get into animation more, helping her with your connections at Lazer studios. She created an animated short that premiered at a film festival and she was on a panel.
After two years of dating the three of you moved into a house together. Close to both Gabe and Nat’s parents. You’d have Friday family nights weekly with Gabe and his girlfriend, Nat’s parents: Rick and Tina, your best friend Abby and Nat’s best friend Cara when she was in town visiting from LA. You, Nat and Rosie all doing what you can to help Cara and Abby get together every time because the two were so blind to see each others crushes on each other.
Another three years of memories tallied your relationship with Natalie to a beautiful five years. So after thinking long and hard since your four year anniversary you got her a beautiful emerald ring, her favourite stone. You learnt that on your first official date. You asked her parents for their blessing, no matter how old fashioned it may be. After they happily gave it to you, you then got the little locket you got Rosie. You told her how happy her and her mom make you and if she’d be okay with you asking Nat to marry you. She was ecstatic. She said you were already her family but it would be “the best thing ever ever ever” if you were officially a part of the family. When you asked Nat the most important question of your life, cleaning up after a long family game night before you’d both tuck in Rosie to bed. She said yes. You then presented Rosie with her locket with a matching emerald stone on it.
On your wedding day as Rosie handed you and your soon to be wife (in a few minutes) your rings, she said “good luck mama” Your heart had never felt happier. A tear dropped from your eye in happiness. As you looked at the girl pushing you toward her mom. Nat looked at you with the biggest smile you’ve ever seen, clearly she heard it. Once you two got married and had your honeymoon you moved into a new bigger place. Natalie Bennet and her daughter Rosie made you the happiest person alive. You were a happy family.
Many serious conversations later You and Natalie started the process of having a baby with your brothers sperm. On your first try you both looked at the test Nat had taken at 3am after a movie marathon and they were all positive. 9 months later you both welcomed your son Ben or Benny as you’d call him. Once Benny was a year old you both wrote and illustrated a children’s book. ‘the night owl and the early bird’ based on your kids. Because unlike his sister Benny was a very very early riser.