Ineffable

28 | LOVE ME, GIRL

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Iris

"So," I start, spinning the straw in my vanilla milkshake.

Alyssa raises her eyebrows, gesturing me to continue. She is drinking her all-time favorite Mocha Boba from straw, happily and loudly.

Alyssa and I are at Ricky's Diner, the place we used to hang out in middle school. After school, I asked Victoria and Alyssa to meet me but Victoria couldn't because she had practice. Nevertheless, Alyssa agreed.

"Thomas asked me out."

I can hear the slurp stop as Alyssa's eyes widen, looking at me. Slowly, she leans away from the glass and says—in the most dramatic way possible, "The fuck what?"

I repeat, "Thomas asked me out."

"That cockroach-sucking moth—"

"Alyssa." I give her a look and glance around the diner where people are looking at us as if we're some crazy batch.

Little do they know that we probably are.

"—fucking bastard. How dare he—?"

"Calm down, woman."

"Iris, gurl," Alyssa starts, holding up her hands. "I ain't gonna calm the fuck down after that set of information."

"For god's sake, please?" I plead.

"Fuck no."

"For me?"

She huffs out, mumbling a fine to me, as she crosses her legs and looks at me. "So, he asked you out. Tell me everything."

I tell her, "It started off with him asking about this Friday and I, very casually, said yeah—"

Alyssa interrupts. "The match? Dude, you should have got by then that he was asking you out."

"But I didn't—because I am dumb and an idiot." Alyssa nods, agreeing with me. After glaring at her, I continue, "And then he literally asked just directly that I want to go out with him or not, and then I asked why and he said he doesn't want to let me go again."

"What kind of bullshit is that." Alyssa scoffs. "Please, tell me you didn't fall for that."

"I just replied that I have class."

She looks at me, straight into the eye. "Yes, Iris, you have class."

"I don't know whether to kick you or hug you," I say, shaking my head.

"Love me, girl." She winks at me and both of us laugh, lightly easing up the tension in me. She asks, after, "You didn't tell any one of the boys yet?"

"Of course, I didn't," I huff out. "They will put me in a dungeon or something and say that they are trying to protect me."

"I know what Caleb would say." Alyssa clears her throat. She tries to say in a deep voice, "Iris, I am your brother. It is my responsibility to grab hold of all those motherfuckers who try to do anything with you and I will start with Noah."

"You know what he told me a few days back?" I say in the same tone, "You will date only when you get married."

I sigh, pushing back my hair. After taking a long sip of my milkshake, I grumble, "I don't know what to do."