Short Stories - Flaritza

Just a dream

THEY'RE BABIES OVER HERE - FLACA IS 17-18 MARITZA IS LIKE 16 (yes I flipped their ages Flaca is older now u wanna fight?)

"Flaca, please. put your phone down"

the lecturer calls out his voice stern, Flaca looks away from her phone and offers him a sweet smile 

"sorry sir"

the lecturer reciprocates the smile and raises one eyebrow 

"tell your boyfriend to leave you alone"

he says, Flaca shifts uncomfortably in her seat 

"girlfriend. I'm sorry she's coming to visit and I'm too excited to stay put, I don't know what we're doing"

Flaca admits taking a deep breath feeling all eyes on her 

"oh- I apologize for assuming, long distance?"

"it's okay, and yes sir. I'm finally gonna get to see her"

"aaa well I see why you can't take your eyes off your phone, however I need you to focus for now, on this. you have a TCA  today."

the lecturer says smiling, Flaca feels the colour draining from her face as she watched the lecturer distribute the TCA paper 

"we do? we do. yes, of course we do"

Flaca says putting her phone on the table and grabbing a pen, the lecturer gives her a quick glance 

"you'll be okay if you studied"

he says to the class but his eyes were fixed on her 

"yeah that's the problem right there"

she murmurs to herself forcing a smile towards him

"okay so, I have a quick meeting I need to attend to, I'll leave one of you in charge, PLEASE- for the love of god, don't cheat. I'll know and you'll fail"

he says throwing his bag over his shoulder and sliding his pone into his back pocket 

"Daya? you're in charge"

the lecturer announces, almost every single student in the class rolls their eyes to the back of her head and says something under their breath 

including Flaca, that girl always had it out for her for no apparent reason. Flaca was the quiet kid, she does her work, she helps others if they ask for her help and just minds her own business.

after reading the instructions out loud and seeing if there are any questions or difficulties he left and allowed Daya to take his place so she'd have a better sight of the rest of the class, one look around the room and you'd know that everyone regretted voting her as class representative.

the TCA turned out to be pretty easy, Flaca was one of the few that were finished first, she saw her phone light up on the table and smiled knowing that it was her girlfriend, maybe she landed 

naturally Flaca picks up her phone and opens the message sent from Maritza, she smiles seeing her girlfriend's face. 

"Watch your back angel"

she reads, after replaying the video reply a few times she figures out that the girl was outside of the airport, they were in the same place, well to an extent, Flaca was stuck in school with Daya glaring at her 

"put the phone away. please"

she says giving Flaca a forced, tight smile

"but I'm done from my assignment, I'm not interrupting anyone"