To Be Loved

2| The Other Way Around

I woke up the next morning feeling some kind of moisture on my neck.

I sat up and touched it, feels like spit. What the heck, I don't droll, I turned to my side and,

"Oh mother Mary of Jesus", A scaly ugly about forty centimeter long iguana was laying on my pillow, looking me in the eyes with it's tongue outside.

"Ew!" I screamed and ran out of my room.

"There's a lizard in my room" I announced when I got to the living room, where Brie was braiding my mom's hair.

"There's a what in your room now?" My Mom asked

"Oh, that must be Othniel's friend pet lizard, they've been looking for it in the backyard all day," Brie told me

"Well it's not in the backyard, it's in my room, and it just licked my neck," I told them walking towards the sink.

"Ew, it licked you?" She asked me
"Well that's disgusting." My Mom said.

"You're telling me." I said as I turned on the faucet to wash off the spit.

"Wait don't wash it off in the sink." they shouted at me at the same time.

"Ugh, fine I'll go wash it off in my room, but tell Othniel's and his friend to had better come get that thing out of my room soon, less they want it dead."

"Don't kill that lizard Dami." My mom told me as I matched back up the stairs to my room.

If they don't take too long.

***

Music was playing through my earphones as I ate breakfast the next day.

My boy Jason Derulo just killed talk dirty and now Justin was killing stay.

Oh yeah, that reminds me, if you don't stan at least one of these two people. You need a therapist.

"Hey, you excited?" Brie asked from behind me.

She grabbed the cereal box for her meal, weirdly adding the cereal into the bowl before the milk. Creep.

It's the other way around.

"Hmm, I'm curious for sure, but I don't know about excited, I'm mean it's High School, probably going to be hard getting used to the difference and besides if all the movies we've seen are true, it prolly filled with like seventy percent barbie like girls and boys who think they're living the life because their faces are fine" I told her laughing at the part and she did too.

"True true," she said between giggles.

"Alright guys, I'm ready, do I look okay?" We both turned around at the sound of my Mom's voice.

Oh this woman never disappoints me, she looks like cake, in black pants, a white sleeveless shirt and stilettos.(image above)

"You look awesome mom." I told her, while Brie clapped her hands, "She's so getting a boyfriend soon." She whispered in my ear. Definitely.

***

"Alright kids, bye now, be careful and make some friends okay?"

"Mom we are not kids, but okay." Brie told my mom as we got down from her SUV in front of Central Peach highschool, kids were now walking in and out of the school, looking all neat and fresh for the new semester.

"Bye you two." Othniel said from the back seat he was still occupying, Mom had picked a school close to her work place for him so she could keep closer tab on him.

"Bye Othniel." Me and Brie told him at the same time, I reached out to pull his cheeks, before whispering, "let me know if any kid tries to bully you, okay?"

"Don't worry, no one's going to bully me, I'm too adorable." he told me so confidently with a giant smile on he face, he was, I smiled back at him and waved them off.

"Alright girl, let high school begin." Brie said draping her arm over my shoulder as we walked towards our school.

It was kind of ironic we were just starting highschool while in our last year.

***

"Do we have to attend all of this classes? Cause I see AP math and I'm not doing." Brie said as we walked towards our lockers while going through our schedules after getting them from Principal Claude.

"Duh." I told her. "My locker's number 52, where's yours?"

"49" she replied.

"Hmm, close enough" I said as we passed by some sophomore girls.

"Aww, you want to stay close to Mama, don't worry I'm here for you, I know you're nothing without me"

"Don't be a creep," I told her when we got to my locker and she laughed.

"Later." she said and worked towards her own.

"Alright" I said half to myself and half to her. I took off my bag and put the few books I had in it into my rectangular locker that had this greenish blue colour.

I was about to take off the denim jacket I had on when I had a girl scream "They're here!"

And chaos broke out in the hallway.

The girls began fixing their hair and adjusting their dresses, even the boys stood up abit straighter. I look towards Brie and she seemed just as confused.

What in God's name's going on.

I decided to look towards the direction everyone seemed to be facing, and that when I saw what might be the problem. Really people? Really?

Three tall boys were walking into the school and everyone was staring at them with so much awe, infact you'd think maybe it's Lebron James or Anthony Joshua that just walked in.

P.S, those two are literally my most favorite athletes.

These boys better not say they're not aware of how much clout and attention they were getting. P.P.S did you see my pun there, clout/Anthony Joshua, get it? Okay I'll stop.

I couldn't get a close look on them, so I moved forward in their direction.

I was already past Brie's locker, before I felt someone pull me back.

"What are you doing?" Brie asked, looking at me like I was about to commit suicide.

"I want a closer look on the dudes." I told her.

"Can't you see the path is cleared just for them to pass?" she asked.

"What's all the drama anyways?"

"I don't know I've never been in highschool before." she said

"Let's just go to class. I think I heard the bell anyways." she said and pulled me away from the hallway to our first period.