Love and Football (BWWM Interracial Love Story)

Chapter 15 Baby Talk

Monday, Second week of School

It was 6:00 am and Elisha woke up to the the sound of her annoying alarm clock blaring in her eardrums. She slowly opened her eyes and yawned before pulling herself out of bed. The only good thing about Mondays was seeing Reese. That gave her the motivation to get up.

After getting dressed and eating a light breakfast she waited for her mother to come downstairs. Elisha's mother was from South Africa and her father also had greatgrandparents from there but he was born in the U.S. The rule for their household was that a parent should never wait on a child, so Elisha made sure to be ready before her mother on school days. Her mother taught middle school science and started work at 8:30am at Rockford Middle. Her father was already out the house heading to work as a Chemistry professor at Broward College, a community college nearby. He was punctual and often got annoyed with Elisha and her mother for taking too long to get ready. Elisha had an older brother, Noah who was 21. He was attending college in California, at UC Berkeley, with dreams of being a pharmacist. Elisha and Noah were day and night. He was all about his books, did not take dating too serious, figuring the time would come for that in the future. He wanted to be successful and financially stable and make his parents proud. Their parents Amahle and Peter, did not have to worry too much about Noah. He was studious and responsible. Elisha on the other hand, was intelligent and creative, but madly in love with Reese, her first love. For her, the most important things in life were not career success and financial stability. Sure, they were things she wanted.. who wouldn't want them? But her heart's desire was to find true love, get married and have a family. Her parents saw this in her as early as eighth grade shortly after her heart was broken by a boy. They felt it was just puppy love though they comforted her through it, but it paled in comparison to how she felt about Reese.

They began dating in tenth grade. When she introduced Reese to them, her father nor her mother were impressed. They saw Reese as a cocky black boy from the hood. Her mother complained that he was just a smooth talker that would tell Elisha everything she wanted to hear to get her in bed and would leave her. Yes, Reese had a way with words. He possessed the ability to sweet talk any girl out of their clothes, but he had never used that ability. So when Elisha and Reese did have sex for the first time, and he was still around 2 years later, Elisha's parents perception of him started to change. They put two and two together, they were not stupid, they knew she had slept with him. They did have mini-melt downs but they got over it. They could see he was serious about their daughter and had strong feelings for her. Soon enough they realized he truly loved her. They allowed him to come over to their house, preferring it that way so the couple could be supervised. Eventually they let them have more privacy.

Fifteen minutes later, Amahle came down the stairs greeting her daughter, grabbing her protein shake from the fridge, and headed out the door with Elisha following behind her.

Elisha made it to school and walked into the senior hall to her locker to get her English Literature book for Ms.Brockmire's class. So far, Ms.Brockmire and her hadn't clashed and she was actually enjoying her class.
Ms.Brockmire stood up at the front of the class and greeted each student as they walked in, just like it was the first day of school all over again.

Elisha walked into the cold classroom and took a seat in the back.
As the students gathered into the class and took their seats chatting about their weekends, Ms.Brockmire tapped the bell on her desk to get their attention just before the late bell rang.

"Open your books to page two hundred and thirty. We will be reading Hamlet by William Shakespeare."

Elisha could hear some of her classmates sigh and groan. She snickered to herself.

Ms.Brockmire called on students alphabetically by last name to read.
Ten minutes into them reading Hamlet, Elisha's phone lit up on her desk. She turned it over to see a text message from Reese. She read it.