"Go Dee, Go, Dee, Go Dee" the crowd chants. David is on the basketball court shooting basket after basket, the crowd gets louder and in goes the ball right at the buzzer. "The Buckeye's win the game" shouts the announcer and the crowd goes wild. Everybody is cheering and clapping with excitement. Michelle runs over and kisses David to congratulate him on his big win. "Excuse me are you David?" says a short heavyset man. "Yes I am," says David. My name is Mister Scott and I'm a recruiter from Chicago State University, and I was sent here specifically to check you out and I must say that I am amazed. "Thank you," said David. Here's my business card, let's keep in touch and I hope CSU is one of your college choices. "Yes, it is and I will keep in touch," says David. Mister Scott gives David a firm handshake and walks away into the crowd of people.
With his arm around Michelle's waist David says to her "Let me grab my things from my locker, and then we can go get something to eat". "That sounds nice" says Michelle. I'll wait for you. David runs into the locker room he takes a quick shower, throws on some clean clothes, gets dressed then gives his teammates a high five, and runs back out. "Are you ready?" says David. "Yes, I am, and I am starved where did you want to get something to eat at", says Michelle. "How about we walk to Robin's Kitchen?" says David. Robin's Kitchen is a soul food restaurant. "That's fine with me," says Michelle.
As the two of them both leave the gym they both spot Robert and Kevin playing around in the hallway. "Aye, what's up Dee? What's up Michelle? Aye Dee that was a good game" says Kevin. "What's up y'all," says Robert". "Thanks, man, and where y'all headed to?" says David. "We about to head over Robert's house to play the game, says Kevin. "And where are y'all going?" "We're about to walk and get something to eat," says Michelle. "Oh that's good, and we will see y'all at school tomorrow," says David. All four of them leave school but walk in different directions.
As David and Michelle walk, David puts his arm around Michelle's neck. "Have you told anybody about the baby?" says David. "No not yet and I don't think that I should tell anyone about this until you and I come up with a plan," says Michelle. "Yeah I think you're right," says David. When the two of them get to the restaurant David opens the door for Michelle. Inside the restaurant, the two of them pick a booth by the window in the corner. A waitress comes up with two menus in her hand and says "Hello I'm Janet, I'll be your waitress for the evening, how was your day?" David and Michelle both answer together and said "Fine". "That's good and I'll give y'all a minute to look at the menu," says Janet.
A few minutes later Janet comes back over to the table and asks "Are you ready to order?" "Yes, I'll have the smothered pork chops, sweet potatoes, and white rice with a medium fruit punch drink," said David. Janet says "Okay", as she writes down David's order then she looks at Michelle. "I'll have baked chicken, sweet potatoes and turnip greens and for my drink, I'll have a glass of water. "Okay I'll be right back with your orders," says Janet.
"Do you want to keep the baby?" says David. "Yes I want to keep the baby but I also want to go to college," says Michelle. "Maybe you can keep the baby and just go to school part-time," says David. " I don't know if I'll be able to go to college part-time and take care of a baby full time," says Michelle. "I'll be there to help you," says David. "And what if we break up?" says Michelle. "You don't know that," says David.
About fifteen minutes later Janet comes back over to the table with their food interrupting their conversation. Janet hands David his food, hands Michelle hers then says "Let me go back and get your drinks". Janet walks away quickly, heads into the kitchen, then seconds later she comes out with two drinks, brings them over to the table were David and Michelle are sitting and gives them their drinks then says "Enjoy your meal" and walks away to take care of other customers in the restaurant.
Michelle and David both begin to eat their food. "So what other options are you thinking about?" says David. "Abortion was on my mind but I wasn't quite sure about it, I have also been thinking about doing an open adoption," says Michelle. "I can't see someone else taking care of my kid, so I don't agree with adoption nor abortion. Maybe we could try and get our place and go to a community college part-time" said David. Before Michelle answers him she takes a bite of her food and then takes a drink of her water. "What will we do for money? I don't want to end up struggling to try to make ends meet" says Michelle. David takes a bite of his food and looks Michelle right in her eyes. "You've got a full scholarship coming your way to any college of your choice and I want to go to college too," says Michelle. "I'm starting to see why keeping the baby isn't the best option so maybe adoption is the best choice, but we still need to talk about this some more," says David. "Yes I agree with you," says Michelle.
As David and Michelle both finish their food, David catches Janet's attention, so he could pay the bill. As David goes through his wallet to get money to pay the bill Michelle gets up and goes to the bathroom.
While in the bathroom Michelle used the first stall then she washes her hands. But while washing her hands she takes a long look in the mirror, just for a few seconds she begins to look in the mirror and wonders what it would be like if she threw away her dreams to raise a baby.
When Michelle comes out of the bathroom she walks back over to the table. She notices that David has paid the bill, and he is ready to go. Michelle gets ready to go and then the two of them start walking toward the door. While walking home David grabs Michelle's hand, they walk in the direction of Michelle's home which just blocks away. Michelle didn't want to walk, so the two of them decided to wait for the #9 Ash land bus.
While waiting on the bus David and Michelle stood at the bus stop hugging. Ten minutes later the bus arrives the two of them get on the bus pay their fare then find two seats together and sit down until the bus gets to their stop. About ten minutes later the bus reaches their stop. David and Michelle both get off the bus, they begin walking in the direction of Michelle's house. When they get to Michelle's house they see Michelle's uncle Howard and stepfather Michael sitting on the porch, David kissed Michelle on her cheek then says "I'll see you tomorrow in school" Michelle says "Okay" then walked toward the front door of her house while saying hello to her stepfather Michael and uncle Howard. Before David leaves he says "Hello Mister Perez" he even speaks to Howard. The two of them take a minute, then respond. Michael says "Hello son how are you?" David responds by saying I'm fine and I'll see you again. David turns and begins walking home. He lives four blocks from Michelle's house.
As David walked in the house all he could hear was, 5,6,5,6,7,8. It was Tiffany, David's younger sister who was in her room practicing dance moves so that she can show them off to the head cheerleader at school. While practicing her dance moves, Tiffany listened to R&B singer Beyoncé song, Upgrade U, as she danced around her bedroom. "What are you doing? Because I know you ain't trying to dance, could you please turn down your radio?" says David. "Well first of all this is not your house, the second I'm working on my moves, so I can show them off to my squad, and third I will turn down my music, but I'll turn it off when I'm ready," says Tiffany. David looked Tiffany up and down and says "That ain't your squad you should be happy just to be on the team and as long as Kelly is captain you'll be doing her dance moves and ONLY her moves". Tiffany looks at David and rolls her eyes then runs and slams her bedroom door with him standing in front of it. David turns and walks towards his room.
David enters his bedroom, kicks off his gym shoes, throws his gym bag in his closet. He plops down on his bed with the TV remote control in his hand. As David is flipping through the TV channels nothing interests him, so he turns on his laptop to check his Facebook page. As David began checking his Facebook page he reads Michelle's latest status update which read: I'm so confused right now, what should I do?. David sends her a message so nobody else can't see what he's about to say. He writes: Have you told anyone in your family that you're pregnant? A few minutes later Michelle replies saying "Since I'm not sure yet, the answer is No" Seconds later David replies saying: "How about we think about adoption. I've been thinking about it ever since you brought it up when we were eating." Michelle sends a message back saying "That sounds alright maybe we should find an adoption counselor for some guidance, I'm logging off now I'll see you tomorrow in school." David sends her the last message that said " I love you :) then he logs off. After David logs off he turns off his laptop then lay in his bed until he fell asleep.
