A ǫᴜᴀʀᴀɴᴛɪɴᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ sᴛᴏʀʏ

4

Location: School
Time: 11:55 am

Q'anna

"𝑄 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑?"

I gasp one more time while picking up my phone to re-read the email correctly.

"𝑌𝑎𝑙𝑙... 𝐼 𝐺𝑂𝑇 𝐼𝑁𝑇𝑂 𝑇𝑂 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 PROGRAM!"

Before they respond Mr.Earhart continues...

" 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑠..... 𝑄'𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠!!. 𝑄'𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢"

Without hesitation I stand up and with that comes a loud uproar of applause from my classmates and everyone in my grade. I'm so shocked and blessed I worked so hard and put in so much effort to be accepted and I couldn't be anymore happier.

"𝑄 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑡!, 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑓 𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘!"

Me, Chi, Shawn & Jr embrace each other in a bear hug. They obviously know that they are the other 3 I'm choosing to get in the program with as well.

"𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑄'𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟!, 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚...."

"𝑂𝑈𝑅 𝑁𝑈𝑀𝐵𝐸𝑅 𝑂𝑁𝐸 𝑆𝑇𝑈𝐷𝐸𝑁𝑇 𝑀𝐴𝑇𝐻𝐿𝐸𝑇𝐸 𝐷𝐸𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑁𝐷 𝐶𝐻𝐼𝑆𝐿𝑂𝑀 𝐽𝑅.!"

Everyone starts loudly cheering, like 10x louder than they did for me.

"𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑡𝑓 𝑖𝑠 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑑?"

I see everyone turning their heads to the back of the auditorium, I quickly follow suit and look to see that it's the boy I bumped into earlier. I eye him from head to toe and I realize he's staring at me so I quickly turn away.

"𝐶ℎ𝑖 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙!"

She looks at Desmond and then back to me before she answers.

"𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑈𝐿𝐶 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒ge𝑑𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚"

I simply nod while thinking about the encounter we had earlier. Mathlete? If he was in a Gang how the hell is he a mathlete? When did we have a mathlete team?

Mr.Earhart's loud ass voice takes me out my thoughts as he finally dismisses everyone.

As we all gather our things and I was going to suggest we go out to eat as I see Shawn and Jr walk away from me and Chi towards Desmond.