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𝐉𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 📍Atlanta Highschool •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
I sat at the cafeteria table, munching on some Chick-fil-A fries. "Bae." I heard a familiar voice from behind me, confused I turned around. "Bae?" I asked before seeing a huge bouquet presented on my face. Omari, standing there with not a shame in sight, held the pink flowers. His grin was cheek to cheek and suddenly everyone turned to us. This overwhelming feeling surrounds me.
"It's National Girlfriend Day Jas. This is my gift to you." He said, pushing the flowers forward. My mind ran miles to try and think of something to say. "No. No Mari. We're not even together, is this a joke?" I said watching his expression fade. I couldn't believe this nigga was that delusional. I hung around him for less than a week, and he showed up with flowers.
Luckily, the bell rang and the principal rushed into the cafeteria. "Get to your classes now! What's going on here?!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. At once, everyone rushed away leaving only a few in the cafeteria. "Jas- I'm sorry. Les go out first, imma treat you right shawt." He pleaded while I gathered my things and rushed behind Aaliyah. A new rumor to start, great.
The walk to our free period was dead silent. Omari rushed behind us but stopped in his tracks once we turned the corner. "Hey, stay right here. I'm gonna run to my locker so that we don't have to go around in a circle." Aaliyah mentioned and I nodded, watching her run back to her locker.
As I waited, I thought about blocking Omari and just ignoring him for the rest of the semester. "So you and Omari?" The deep raspy voice said from behind me. I turned around, looking up to see Von. "Never that. I don't know where he got that impression from. Especially after knowing what he did to you." I confessed truly and he nodded his head.
There was an awkward silence before Von spoke up, "I've been thinking about you since our talk the other day. I, yk, apologize. But watchu doing after school?" I stared at him blankly, he just apologized to me and asked me what I would be doing. Quickly, however, I spoke, "I'm not doing nothing, and you good Von. Don't stress it." I reassured and he nodded. Von said his goodbyes and walked off.
Aaliyah came back maybe five minutes later and we began walking to our Biology class. I slid my phone into my back pocket and walked into class. "Good morning young ladies, take a seat quickly." Our teacher greeted us and we didn't say anything besides a small good morning back.
I sat beside Aaliyah and waited for the class to start. We had small talk about a few things but it was way too early to be chatting. Soon, Omari walked into the class and took a seat right next to me.
The desk was a three-person and the only seat left was next to me. I tried not the sigh and show emotion next to me but Aaliyah def caught on and gave me a side-eye. We both sneakily laughed and put our heads down.
The class started quickly after and I took out my pink 5-star notebook to begin writing my notes. Omari flashed a small piece of paper and threw it into my notebook. Trying to ignore it, I left it there but he forcefully grabbed my hand and took the note up.
The note read, 'Tryna chill after school??' And I looked over at him and shook my head. I watched his anger build up and he leaned by me and whispered, "You finna come Jas, cause ian prepare allat just for you to say no. You are gonna come. Imma make it happen." He leaned back into his notebook and I shriveled. Who the fuck was he threatening?!
I ignored him for the rest of the class and as soon as the bell rang, I grabbed my stuff and booked it out of there. The hall was cramped and I needed to get to my next class quickly. I stopped by my locker, looking into my phone and responding to all the TikTok Aliyah sent me.
Omari snuck up behind me, walking in front of me and staring dead into my face. "Yo Jas. We finna hang out right after our last class. Imma be waiting for you ight?" I ignored him and continued to scroll through my phone. All he wanted was a bit of attention and I wasn't gonna entertain him. He used his hand and pushed my chin up and I quickly slapped his hand away.
What was this? Middle school? "Don't fucking touch me Omari. I do not want to hang out with you and you needa leave me alone. Real fucking quick." I bit back and he was surprised by my reaction and he started to chuckle. "Ion give a fuck Jas. I want you so imma do what I got to d-" Omari was about to finish before Von punched him dead in the side of his face.
Struck and frozen was my exact reaction as I watched Omari throw a punch back. The two boys started throwing punches and swinging at each other. Von dropped his bag on the floor and I quickly picked it up and brought it to the side. The hallway grew with these nosy ass people who started recording.
"Fuck with her again, I will fuck you over." Von snarked and spit at Omari whose nose was starting to bleed. "Fuck you, Von. I will shoot yo ass. Mind yo fucking business." Omari spits back and got introduced to a two-punch from Von. The principal quickly rushed over and helped Omari stand up.
"Boys! Office now! Including you Ms.Jas." Our bald ass principle spoke and I rolled my eyes. I couldn't even speak about what just happened but Von silently thanked me and grabbed his bookbag.
As I began to walk away, Von swung his arm around my shoulder. "You good?" Von asked, a small smile but it quickly faded when I looked up at him. "Of course I'm okay. The real question is if you're okay. I didn't expect that whatsoever." I kept it real and he chuckled.
"Nah cause I saw that sh and the way you was speaking so I had to let lil bro know," Von said and I nodded and thanked him. We made it to the office and took a seat. Omari had taken the other route and was already in the office. Soon, he walked out and avoided all eye contact with us.
"Let's go. Come inside both of yall." Our vice principal said and we both stood up and walked in. She pulled out a seat for us, her dark skin glowing. "So explain everything. Jasmine first." She said, throwing shade at Von. I glanced at him before speaking up.
"I recently became friends with Omari and the other day, he tried to give me flowers but I didn't fuc- mess with him like that. So I declined and today he was threatening to force me to come over to his after school and I was ignoring him. Then he tried to touch on me and Von came through and they just had a little fight." I said everything honestly and she nodded. She grabbed both of our hands and gave a fake smile.
"I appreciate that Von helped you, Omari will be suspended for a while but I don't condone fighting. You all should know that. So, Von, you're suspended for the next two days." She said, her southern accent showing. Von nodded and gave me a side hug. "Aight, gotchu. Thanks though teach." He said, standing up and walking out.
I followed and did the same and when we were outside, I touched his shoulder. "You gonna be good rii?" I asked and he nodded. School was near about to finish so I decided to just leave early since my schedule had changed. I wasn't gonna get in trouble either way. We walked out together, the once awkward silence no longer there.
Soon enough, Von got into his car and while I was walking to mine, he FaceTimes me. I answered and he didn't say anything until I set up the camera. "Hello?" I said and he quickly responded. "Yoo, I'm tryna follow you to get some food. If you not busy we can chill by my crib?"
