Murder in the Dark

I shouldve stayed in bed

DIIIIIING

The bell rings and we all rush to the bus because we don't wanna get stuck by someone we don't know. But it always ends up happening anyways somehow. Maybe it's because we walk slower in the halls because it hits us how tired we are half way to our locker. Or maybe that's just me, but anyways.

Everyday when I got home I'd text Matt to see if he wanted to go to the park. It's a fifty fifty chance with him. Some days he just wants to sit around and text but other days hes so down to go to the park and is waiting for the text. Today is one of the good days where he actually wants to go to the park. So i go to our usual meeting spot and wait for him there.

"LILSS!" I hear from a distance, I get up and look in the direction the sound is coming from and see Matt jogging over to me.

"MATTY B!!" I yell back jogging over to where he was to meet him in the middle. Then we chat for a little bit longer. But when we started walking i noticed him smiling more than he usually did when we were walking to the park.

"Why are you so smiley today matty?" I say looking at him and giggling thinking it was about something I had said. But he didn't respond all he did was shake his head and look up at the road. then he finally said something.

"We're almost there, what do you wanna do?" he says already knowing my response and running over to the basketball courts. 

He found the nearest basketball we could find on the court and started dribbling the ball like a maniac. I run up behind him and steal the ball from him then taking a half court shot. I missed... bad. but he didn't say anything, he giggled and just grabbed my waist and pulled me in for a kiss.

"Nice shot" he said smiling at me but, his phone buzzed. he picked it up and saw a text from someone. it must've been important because he backed up and said he needed to "take this." I just stood there helpless knowing i couldn't just say no.

He stood over in the corner of the basketball court just smiling, giggling, and nodding his head. Like he just couldn't get enough of talking to whoever was on the phone. It was almost painful for me to watch, so i didn't, i picked up the basketball i had shot the time before and started shooting 3 point shots until matt finally hung up the phone. 

"Sorry lils my mom had to tell me some really important stuff, so wanna 1 v 1?" he says expecting me to believe him. But for some reason i did, and i handed him the ball and backed up to my hoop. We played awhile longer but as sunset hit we decided to walk home.