I only write Pazzi and I only write like once every 6 months when my spider senses start to tingle, so don’t get your hopes up 😛

The princess never pays

wc 1806, est relationship, 5+1 fic about spending money

Beans

wc <1K, est relationship, fluff about a car 🤷🏻‍♀️

Car problems

Pros:

I would pass the ball and not complain to the refs every 5 mins.

Cons:

Word count: 1804

A/N: I genuinely don’t know how people write 10k word fics. I was fighting for my life just to break 1K words. Anyways, enjoy the fluff and a little crack.

Oh also, this is a 5+1.

Comments are appreciated (except for the ones that tell me to go kill myself 😛)

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Everybody knew Paige was basically rolling in dough. Between NIL, sponsorships, and the one summer she worked in an ice cream shop since her parents complained she had no real job experience, she was filthy rich.

Flaunting her money was not something Paige ever did. Sure every once in a blue moon she bought dinner for the whole team or splurged on a new pair of rare collectors shoes, but she was usually good about keeping frugal.

That is, with the exception of her girlfriend.

Azzi and Paige had been locked in now for 6 years. Instead of asking what all they knew about each other, it was more productive to ask what they didn’t know about each other.

Besides the summer fluke of the ice cream shop, Azzi was quite well off with NIL and sponsorships too.

However, Azzi couldn’t even tell you the PIN on her debit card because she simply wasn’t a money girl.

Money was more Paige’s thing, and why would Azzi need to worry about money if she was going to spend the rest of her life with Paige, and Paige was the money one in their relationship?

1. Paige and her children, KK, Ice, and recently the new freshman, Sarah, were all packed in their mother’s car when a call alerted over the Apple CarPlay.

“Incoming call: Princess Pink Heart Emoji”

Paige answered the call,

“Good morning princess, you’re on speaker phone, I’m with the kids”

She laughed from her bed “when I have ever 1. Been scandalous over the phone and 2. Been scandalous over the phone at EIGHT in the morning?”

The girls chuckled from the backseat,

“Hey mom! We’re on the way back from iHop, they didn’t have anymore strawberries though so Paige didn’t get you anything” KK attempted to get Paige in trouble.

Paige side-eyed her friend from the front seat “that’s not true baby I’m picking you up something else that I know you’ll like”

A yawn sounded through the car speakers before she spoke.

“Mkay baby, that’s fine. When you get back can you take my car for an oil change and get the good oil so I don’t have to get another for a while? I think it’s getting to be that time” She asked.

Paige smirked to herself. What Azzi didn’t know was she had gotten the younger girls oil changed a week ago while azzi was in class.

“Baby I already did that a week ago. I got the good oil too, it was like $150 or something”

“Oh that’s not bad” she responded.

Meanwhile the “children” in the car were all left with their jaws dropped at how easily the large expense was being discussed between the two.

2. “What do you think of this one, P?” Azzi asked as she posed in front of the mirror.

Paige was trying very hard to seem like she cared, but ever since Azzi promised her they would get lunch after, she couldn’t focus on anything besides the chicken wrap that had taken over her mind.

“It’s cute, just like the previous 12” she grumbled. Shopping was not her forte. Before her promised chicken wrap she was counting threads on the lush blue couch that she was sitting on outside the fitting room anyway.

Azzi pouted, her patience running thin “FaceTime Caroline then, maybe she will care about me” slowly turning to catch all angles of herself in the dress.

“Baby that’s not what I-“ maybe Caroline could speed this process up “okay”

Caroline in fact did not help. Azzi was now inbetween 3 different dresses and was seemingly at a stand still.

Paige was now considering what she wanted for dinner, screw lunch, at this rate they would be here all day.

“Princess let’s just get them all, you’ll get more time to decide which one for the fancy dinner and you get the 2 others to wear another time” she pleaded. Anything to get them out of here.

Azzi, who had seemed to be getting hungry herself, agreed, “okay go pay, I’m gonna chat with Caroline in the car”

Paige almost tripped over herself getting up “okay babe”

3. Mohegan Sun was not always just a basketball arena for Paige and Azzi.

To the outside world, the arena was a restaurant, hotel, and casino.

Paige knew gambling was bad, but when it’s taunting you at almost every game it’s hard to say no every time.

Which is how she and Azzi ended up at a blackjack table spending way too much money.

Azzi had never played blackjack before, let alone gambled. She turned to Paige “Wait babe is this a good-“

“Ma’am you cannot share your cards. Sharing cards is prohibited” the dealer argued.

“Just guess, we’re going all in anyway, we gotta leave for dinner soon” the blonde sympathized with her.

Azzi spotted KK before she heard her, which was actually rare considering she was a loud mouth.

“Hey, are yall coming to dinner, it’s time to go” she questioned.

“Yeah Azzi just lost us $500 though with that blackjack handle” laughing as she stood up.

Paige grabbed Azzis coat for her and the brunette stood up defeated. “But I thought all one color was good?”

She chuckled, helping her put her jacket on “Sure baby, maybe in UNO”

Azzi pouted, ignoring KK’s shocked expression.

“Wait Paige, you for real let Azzi bet $500 and she knows nothing about gambling?”

The three of them begin their slow walk to the car, Paige and Azzi holding pinky’s as KK walks slightly ahead, someone’s hungry.

“Yeah, so what?”

4. Paige, KK, and Nika were all spread out along the couch in the dorm playing Mario Kart.

Nika, bless her heart, was playing worse than a blind 3 year old. Not to mention, she thought she was player 1 for the majority of the round so there was really no coming back.

Azzi walked in just as Paige jumped up in victory yelling.

“In your face KK! Toad for the win!”

Azzi smiled at their antics, briefly forgetting why she was there in the first place. She greeted Paige with a peck to her cheek and sat down on the couch.

“Paige, can you get me an add free Hulu and HBO subscription? I wanna watch The Pitt with Caroline and we don’t have Hulu either for some reason.”

“Yeah baby I’ll set it up later, do you want me to change the Disney Plus to ad free too?” she questioned, keeping her attention on the screen. Nika had somehow gotten good in the last 5 minutes and was fighting Paige for first place.

“Yes please, okay I gotta go. I was just stopping by. Behave KK, Nika humble these 2 in Mario Kart, by baby” she gave Paige another quick kiss, this time in the lips.

Winking, she said “By wifey”

KK was used to this by now, she mumbles under her breath “whipped”

Nika…not so much.

“Paige you crazy dawg. That’s like $100 in subscriptions EVERY MONTH. Shit, can I get the password to?”

Paige keeps her focus on the TV, “Man yall trippen, once you get wifed up, ain’t nothing you wouldn’t do for them”

5. KK walked into the locker room in her usually peppy mood. She’d just had a great lift session and was looking forward to scarfing down some TruFru while doom scrolling on tiktok. She had about 15 spare minutes before their official practice began.

Paige and Azzi laid sprawled out on the floor. Azzi, a little more productive than Paige, was using a foam roller to stretch her hamstrings, while Paige was blasting TikToks from her phone.

Her phone caught KKs attention the most. The new iPhone 17max sat gently in Paige’s hands as she scrolled.

The girls turned their attention to KK “Hey camera”

“When do you get the new phone boogers?” She sat next to the girls.

Azzi answered her first “she got us them yesterday, see, I got one too” she held her identical phone up to KK.

“Girl! Thems are expensive, how much were they?”

“Oh I don’t know, Paige bought them” she continued rolling her hamstrings, switching sides now.

KKs jaw dropped. She could not let this go on for any longer.

1. “Okay Paige, there is no way you just buy Azzi everything bro. It was cute at first but now I feel like you would buy her a plane if she asked” she argued.

Paige smirked, looking up from her phone “you want a plane princess?”

Azzi pondered “hmm maybe a pink one”

They giggled, KK still sat there shocked.

“I don’t buy everything KK” putting her phone down, she suspected this conversion was turning slightly more serious than she originally thought.

A couple of the other girls made their way into the locker room.

Ice caught on quickly to the conversation, putting her 2 cents in. “Bro yes you do, you bought her the new phone, her gas, that one time in the casino, and literally everything that she eats”

“Woah woah woah, yall think Paige pays for it all?” Azzi questioned.

The girl all nodded and chimed in their agrees.

“Paige always swiping that card” Sarah mumbled.

Azzi and Paige stole a glance at each other before bursting into a fit of giggles. Paige was essentially rolling around on the floor laughing.

“Yall are stupid bruh” Paige said between laughs before Azzi explained.

“We have a joint account that we both put money into. Our bigger purchases we make with the joint account. But like food and little things are our personal accounts” she reasoned.

Azzi finished rolling her legs, now giving the conversation her full attention. “I never bothered getting our joint account card because Paige usually handles all the money and big purchases anyway”

“Yall really just thought Azzi was over here bumming everything off of me?” She said in a defensive tone.

KK never intended for her teasing to turn into real issues. “Woah boogers, we didn’t think of it like that, we just thought you spending your money on Azzi was like a love language or something?”

Before Paige could respond, Caroline walked in, letting everyone know it was time for practice.

As the team trickled out, Azzi held Paige back for a moment. “You don’t think I’m bumming it off you do you?” she questioned.

Paige turned her full attention to her other half. “No mamas, there’s things you do that I don’t, and the other way around too. You can cook, so you handle cooking. I can do money stuff, so I manage our payments and all that jazz. Don’t sweat baby” she gave her a quick kiss.

Azzis shoulders eased.

Making their way to the court, Paige mumbled under her breath.

“That and you can never remember your PIN”