Love, Hate & Everything Between

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You can't play mas and 'fraid powder
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Taylan's POV

I'm lying on my belly, in just a pair of shorts and a baseball jersey shirt with the big yellow bonnet covering my head.

My feet swing behind me alternatively while my fingers slide across my phone screen, my upper body weight pressing into the pillow.

Thankfully Friday has finally arrived, allowing me these few minutes to just be.

Sigh

I'm not a big texter. In fact I'm mostly in school and church groups- which have been archived for the longest while.

I don't even have my app notifs on. Just to really explain how much of a texter I'm not. 

The friendships I have are those where my friends and I don't talk often, but when we do it's all types of conversation in one.

And that's precisely the case right now.

Brianna and I used to attend the same extra class in 1st and 2nd form and we've been friends since then.

As I said, a friend who I don't text that often but she's one of those close friends who even when you don't text each other for a while....the friendship remains the same.

Distance doesn't make you grow distant.

And new friends doesn't make you not friends.

It's always more than that with Brianna and I.

Bri is very loud- no home training if you ask me or, maybe she has, and just chooses to embarrass her parents.

You never know

She's very vocal about sex and guys and her feelings about sex...

And guys.

That very trait of hers was just too noticeable even before exchanging words with her, but it was never off putting.

Somehow.

At first, being in her presence and engaging in her conversations however minimal, made me feel uncomfortable.

Yet, after a while I got used to it. That uneasiness and weirdness that I always felt whenever 'sex', or anything seemingly sensitive was a topic of discussion among my peers slowly disappeared.

Overtime I became more open and less embarrassed talking about things that my parents never took the time to discuss with me.

Maybe that was a good thing, maybe a bad thing....I don't know

But despite that, Bri is literally ride or die. She goes to Central High so we haven't seen each other in a while.

It's not like I could go out with her if I wanted to...daddy isn't too fond of her and according to mommy....

'Shi look like bad influence'

But is that enough to judge her?

Because she 'looks like bad influence'?

They did say looks can be deceiving so...

..is that enough to restrict the possibilities I may have to interact with her?

It's not like that's all there is to her.

Might as well restrict the possibilities I may have to interact with my phone...there's plenty bad influence on here