Petals from a wallflower

Chapter Five

After that friday night at that game, I haven't seen Lauren. And she hasn't returned any of my texts or calls either. Its now Wednesday. What the fuck!

I'm just leaving my house for school, when my phone buzzes. I immediately grab it from my pocket. Not lauren. I put it back away and light a cigarette. Inhale exhale.

I go through the motions at school. English ceramics. Physics. Etc. Until eighth period. I practically ran to fabric arts, hoping to see lauren. Surprise. She's not there. I had finished my project early so I had nothing to do. I pull out my phone and open up facebook. I scroll down my news feed untile I came across a post from Lauren.

"Skipping school to go to my boyfriend's house>>>>"

I close my phone and put my head down. How could she? She promised she would be honest with me. She said she was over him. She said that she liked me. She kissed me. I really thought liked me. Thousands of these thoughts flashed through my mind. I could feel my face reddening. Oh god please don't cry in the middle of class I thought to myself.

I was still sulking when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I look up. Raya.

"Sup bro" she looks at me. "You cool?" She asked seeing my face.

"Yea, I guess" I mumbled. She sat on my lap, caressing my face. God, she was so hot. And I felt guilty for about two seconds for thinking this when i remembered what I just saw. I played her game, placing my hand on her thigh making cirlcles.

"Mhmm, I knew you wanted me" she said seductively. She then got off of me and sat beside me.

"Who wouldn't? You're fucking sexy." I said with an evil grin.

"Ah stop it, got me blushing" she said smiling.

"It's true" I started. And then I tried something I hadn't done in months. "Hey, what are you doing after school?" I asked

"Nothing, why?"

"You wanna come over to my place? I got a bowl packed for two"

"Hmm, sure!" She said.

"Alright cool, meet me in the student parking lot after school"

"Oh, when did you start driving?"

"Always been driving. My mom finnaly allowed me to have the car"

"Oh, ok" The bell rang. "I'll see you later" she said grabbing her bag and leaving.

I spent the rest of the day trying not to think of Lauren and what she did. I was so god damn pissed I could hardly breathe. I feel like my heart was being clenched in a fist. But I tried to ignore the ache and thought about Raya and her coming over. She was mine tonight. After years of teasing and flirting, I was gonna make my move.

*****

"This is a nice ride" Raya exclaimed

The silver Chevy camaro was finally mine. My mother finally admitted that there was no reason why she would let this car rot. After all she only drove the minivan. We pulled off and pulled out a cigarette from the pack.

"You want one?" I asked

"Girl, you read my mind" she grabbed one from the pack and lit it. I turned on the radio and "shake it off" by Taylor Swift was playing.

"Oh my god I love this song!" Raya said, turning it up. We sang along and the entire time she kept rubbing my thigh, looking at me with that devious grin of hers. Oh yea, it is on.

We pulled up my house and we got out. I locked the door and headed to the front door. We got inside and I made beeline to the kitchen. I was always hungry after school. I settled on to swiss rolls and a bottle of water.