i needed this really bad.
I was thinking about this last night before I went to bed, and now I want to write a little concept or whatever. Imagine if JJ had a black girlfriend, like a 3B-4C hair, dark or brown skin girlfriend.
Maybe she was friends with Sarah, and when Sarah starting Dating John B, she’d bring this girl along, and JJ is hopelessly falling for her, and he keeps asking to take her on a date. And she’s just like “JJ, I don’t date white boys.”
JJ would be disappointed, but he wouldn’t stop trying and always hanging around you, observing her and all her habits. He was going to be her one exception.
Once JJ started picking up on the little things— for example, she’d always forgot a hair tie, and Kiara’s or Sarah’s were always too dainty for her thick hair; JJ make sure the next time he went to the store he bought the thick ties that would hold her hold, and he’d were them on his wrist.
“Fuck, I forgot a hairband. My hair’s gonna get hella tangled if I swim.” She would end up sitting on the edge of the boat.
And JJ would show up next to her, the black-tie laying on his flat hand. “For you, ma'am.”
She’d probably be really suspicious, her eyes squinted as she takes the tie from him, and JJ would just have a fat grin of his lips.
“What are you playing at, Maybank?”
“You never have a tie, and I’m just being a good friend providing you with one.” He’d jump off the boat but not before winking at her.
She would act unaffected by all JJ’s little gestures, but they’d really warm her heart, no one had done anything like this for her.
Maybe next, it would be JJ putting curl shampoo and conditioner in John B’s shower. He’d have to ask Kiara or Pope’s mom which ones to buy.
And next, he’d add curl cream, then lotion or edge control and a brush. But they’d all be the wrong brand, and for some reason, she’d want to take him to show him the right products.
“Maybank, let’s go. We’re going shopping.”
She would end up taking him to the black hair store on the mainland; usually, she’d just get her stuff from Heyward, but— for some odd reason, she wanted to spend more time with JJ.
“If you want to buy me stuff, then you have to know the right stuff to buy. Okay?”
And after she got what she needed, the shopping trip turned into ice cream, which turned into sneaking on a full ferry because it was the last one.
“You know we technically had our first date, yesterday.”
So, fast forward to when she finally say’s yes to JJ, and they start dating. I feel like they’d move pretty fast, but it’s the right pace for them.
JJ would spend a lot of nights at her house and vise versa(we’re just gonna ignore his dad in here).
He’d have her all her hair, skin, and nail products in his bathroom. Both of them would have a draw in the other’s dresser and a toothbrush.
JJ would always have a hair tie around his wrist wherever he went, it became natural to him. And she’d continually have a pint of weed on her or a juul because JJ always sit them down anywhere and forget about them.
I feel like their relationship would be tested a lot; her parents don’t like the idea of her dating a white boy, or JJ would see some injustices and racism she faces up close, maybe too many people get in her head saying she(her blackness) is just a phase or a fetish.
And it would be hard for the two of them. JJ would have to prove to both this girl and her parents that he really loved her and all of her.
But of course, they’d get through it and stand by/support each other when things got tough, all the hardships would probably bring them closer.
OH, AND YOU KNOW JJ is reading to fight anyone who wrongs his girl, whether it’s someone being too touchy, hitting on her, calling her a slur, TOUCHING HER HAIR.
He’d probably have to get on John B for asking to touch it when it was in box braids once.
“Seriously, man?” You did not just ask that. Come on, dude, you don’t ask white girls with straight hair to touch it, do you?“
Pope would chime in. "You do not ask to touch a black girl’s hair.”
Kiara too. “First rule in the book. JJ, you need to teach him better.”
JJ would love to see her in yellow and red because it complimented her skin tone.
“Should we have a small or big wedding?”
“Maybe we should sneak off to the Caribbean and have a secret wedding.”
They probably gush over each other’s eyes, JJ’s ocean blue ones, and her dark brown eyes.
JJ would want to learn how to do curly hair in case they had a daughter.
“What do you think our kids will look like?”
“I think we’d have super cute kids.”
“Of course they’d be cute, they’ll have our genes.”
So, she’d start by teaching JJ how to do ponytails and loose braids. But loose braids soon turned into a french/dutch braids.
The crew would be out on the boat talking and drinking. And JJ would randomly start braiding and playing with her hair. But would probably end up tangling it.
They’d probably have a lot of cooking lessons together with her mom.
“JJ, if it’s not spicy, it’s not gumbo.”
“My bad, ma’am. So, more paprika?”
In conclusion, I needed to live out my fantasy of JJ with a black girlfriend and I might start a series.
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