All Eyes On Me | All American

Chapter Thirty-Two

           I groan when Layla pulls into the student parking lot, I definitely regretting not taking her up on skipping school today and I know that she will turn this car around if I tell her let's just stay at the hotel today. The only reason I'm not telling her to take us back to the hotel because I can already hear Olivia and Spencer claiming that a sign of depression is skipping school now. It's always something with them and being that sometimes I come to practice and other days I don't show up, I don't want to give them yet another reason to add to their list of why I'm depress.

Though I just want to stay in the hotel bed and sleep the day away, after the situation with Jordan I woke up in a bad mood and I know that being that he tried to get in contact with me multiple times last night, but I ignored all his attempts I know that he's definitely going to want to talk things out. And if he did the same thing as last time we had gotten into a little disagreement, he had enlisted help from Olivia and Spencer — the main two people who I really don't want to deal with. I just know this day is going to long.

After Layla parked the car, we walk through the parking lot and towards the school entrance doors. "Oh, I meant to ask you about how your parents high school reunion went?"

"Uh," I debate back and forth about if I should tell her about the situation with Darnell and the conversation that took place last night, but I have enough situation that I have to deal with. After last night conversation with him I had silently agreed to keep some distance between us, despite being mad at Jordan I still wouldn't do something that I wouldn't want him doing to me. Even though he tried to dismiss and lie about who was calling his phone. "It wasn't that interesting."

"Couldn't be too boring, seeming how you were away the entire weekend, and you didn't even contact me once until you needed me to pick you up." Layla says, but before I could even say anything she walks ahead of me. "I have to go quit the Student Council, but I'll see you when you need another ride again."

I nearly got whiplash at her attitude because everything was good between us last night, but then again, we really didn't talk last night I showered the horrible day off my body then went to sleep. It's just one thing after another, this is exactly why I don't have the time to entertain Darnell delusion right now. He had dumped a lot on me last night and some of them, not all of them, was actually accurate and I can admit to that.

I mean, I do find him attractive, but I have already admitted that to Spencer, Coop, and Patience the very first day I saw him so that's no secret. And he's right that I didn't steer clear of him when I admitted to flirting with me or when he told me that he didn't care about my relationship with Jordan. And maybe I did entertain his flirting but like I told him I can handle being around a guy who has a crush on me, I've been around plenty of guys like that and nothing happened.

But I don't recall me ever flirting with him, maybe some playful banter back and forth I don't think it was more than that, but he seems to like differently. And now I'm thinking about him again.

"Hey." A hand touches my back and I turn my head to see Simone standing beside me. "Everything okay?"

"Hey, Simone." I greet her with a side hug. "When the last time we actually spoke?"

"It's been a little minute. Maybe since the whole pregnant test situation. But are you okay? You have been just standing right here for a while now."

"Yeah, I was just deep in thought." I step to the side so that I'm no longer standing in the middle of the hallway but over to the lockers.

Simone follows me to the side. "I never got the chance to thank you for taking the fall for the pregnancy test, but seriously thank you. You didn't have to do that—"