Short Stories for Black Women

|| Mikayla || part 2

Ellis

I looked at Mikayla's flawless skin.

"Did you and your partner get far?" I asked when Boothenrad was done talking.

Truth be told I kinda was apart of Melanie switching periods. She was trying to make space for another class and I told her to switch psychology periods.

It wasn't like I was going out of my way to make sure her and Mikayla never got on the subject of me. It just turned out that way.

She shook her head.

"Did you guys at least get an idea of what you wanted to do?" I asked as she took a mechanical pencil and started separating her eyelashes from one another while looking at her reflection on the black screen of her phone.

"No," she said putting the pencil and her phone down and looking at me "Did you?"

"No," I laughed and she smiled. She was different then when I had first met her. She wasn't as promiscuous.

She seemed sweeter and more...normal

"Got any ideas right now?" she asked resting her chin in her palm. She really knew how to make someone feel like they had her full attention.

"No"

"Here..." she said getting out her phone again "I'll just google some 'What Would You Do?' episodes and we could steal some ideas from there. I scooted closer to her to get a better view of her screen.

"Okay like all these require actors and actual effort," she said with a laugh in her voice. "So...let's just google...." her voice trailed off.

I let out a deep breath and got out my phone to see what I could find.

"Okay here's a good one," she said and my attention was back on her. "Wanna just stand outside and yell ' hey!' and see who looks?"

"Seems simple enough"

"Alright so we'll do that?" she asked and stared straight into my eyes...goddamn...

She let out a little laugh snapping me out of my trance "yeah sounds good"

"Alright, I'll go sign us up," she said getting up and going to the sign up sheet.

I noticed she left her phone at the table. Her phone lit up with a notification and I saw that it was Grant that had texted her. He asked if she wanted to go somewhere during lunch with him.

Grant was one of my friends now. We never hung out one on one but we followed each other on social media and had mutual friends. On paper they were the perfect couple but to be honest Grant was a huge fuck boy so I wasn't too sure how that would work out.

She came back to her seat next to mine and I expected for her to respond to him but she just looked at the notification and stuffed her phone into her back pocket. She sighed and gave me a small smile.

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It was about 6:00 when Mr. Boothenrad changed the status of the project. He was giving us three weeks instead of four. I immediately texted Mikayla.

I wasn't a busy guy so it's not like it mattered to me but I kind of just wanted to get it over with.

||Ellis||
Hey did you see the update?

                                                        ||Mikayla||
Yeah I saw it. But like tbh we
only need like a week lol

||Ellis||
When do you wanna start?

  || Mikayla||
Idk . Whenever I guess.
I'm free whenever .