Rose Ramirez and Lorenzo Martin have known each other since 5th grade. They were each other greatest enemies for the longest time. Until last year, when their paths kept crossing. After having, all the same classes, going to the exact same therapist...
Okay," Pope says. I'm so confused, they don't care, and they're not clowning me. We're just standing here in silence, it's been a good 15 seconds now.
"Wha- what you thought we were gonna clown you, for liking her?" JJ says, chuckling. Then we continue walking towards the benches in front of us.
I'm honestly in shock, cause' yeah, honestly I did. Looking back at it now, it seems hella dumb though.
"Umm..." I pause searching for the words, "Kind of not gonna lie."
We walk in silence for a few seconds till we get to the benches, then we sit down.
"Enzo," JJ says, looking at me.
"Huh?" I replied back.
"I'm trying my hardest to see things from your perspective, but, can you repeat that, I don't speak bullshit."
I scoff.
"The hell that mean?" I ask amused.
"I don't understand, why you think we would clown you," Tasher says.
"That's just some dumb shit, for real," Tasher says looking at his watch.
"Alright, alrig-," Tasher cuts me off,
"Aye, the bell botta ring, it's 8:25."
"Alright coo' let's go," I say while getting up and putting my hand on my knee.
I see across campus, Rose and Charlotte walking, in the same direction as us. She has a smile on her face, so I guess she's not mad anymore. My mind begins to wander while walking, to summer, since we only have damn near two months of school left. We get out of school on June 7th. I don't even think I can take another two days in this hell hole. Let alone two whole months.
I reach into my hoodie pocket, and feels my phone in my hands, and pull it out. A picture of 2Pac stares back at me with the quote that says "Reality is wrong, dreams are for real." The time reads 8:27, and a notification from, Jarad it reads,
"Hey Enzo, just your daily reminder that, Everything will happen at the perfect time, always remember that things will fall into place, you can thank God for that."
I write back, "Thanks Jarad ❤️" I kept walking and apparently, I started to walk right since I bumped into Pope because I suddenly heard, "Aye, quick lookin' at your phone and pay attention to walking."
I look up and say, "My bad, my therapist texted me," I say while putting my phone back into my hoodie pocket. Then I reach into my pocket, grab my Airpods, and I feel them in my ears, and go to Musi. I go to search and type Rod Wave Unreleased. I see 4 songs: Hate You Forever, Spaceship, I Swear I Do, and Melody. I tap the screen to play Melody, then I turn my phone off.
I look down at my phone and see that "I Swear I Do" is playing. I decided to just let it play. After about 30 seconds of it playing, I decided to turn it off. I didn't feel like listening to music in that moment, I just wanna be in the moment. As much as love music, I feel like not listening to it could've cleared my head, so turned it off. I still kept my AirPods in though, I like the feeling of them in my ears. I don't know why it is comforting for me, it just is.
I begin to walk up, the stairs that lead to 5 rows of bungalows. There's not a lot of outside school in San Francisco (If any.) When you walk up the stairs, Mr. Finn's class is the 2nd class. I continue walking with Pope, and them in front of me. I look around campus, and I see everyone peacefully walking to their classes, which is surprising it being 8:27 in the morning. I usually wake up around 10:00 on weekends, so waking up at 6:00 is not ideal, and not how I want to start my mornings. Even though I choose to wake up early on weekdays, and sleep in on weekends.
I'm now feet away from the classroom door, I turn and walk up the ramp, and sigh. I am not ready to do math this early in the morning, I've always been good at math though. Still, that doesn't mean I like it, I think math might be my best class, besides science. Science also came naturally to me, but the class that didn't was English. I think it's because I never got into reading as a kid. I know Rose loves to read, she usually reads a book a week. Which I'm kind of amazed by, with her books being 200-300 pages a book.
When I walk into class, I'm struck with a very strong stench. Almost as if someone, just dumped a whole tub of rotten eggs on the floor. I look at the board and it says, 'Detentions:
• Bryce Willams • Jack Abe • Blake Cole'
I laugh looking at the board. Of course. All of Bryce's friends, they are all assholes. Especially Bryce, and Jake. I'm so glad I don't have math or most of my classes with them. If I did I honestly think I'd die.
I make my way to my desk, and take my backpack off my shoulders. I take out my laptop, and notebook out. I move my unopened laptop to the right side of my desk, then open my notebook and flip to a blank page. I start to write my name and the date.
After damn near an hour (Class is 50 minutes) of sitting in that class, the bell finally rings. After I walk out of class, and I make my way towards the boy's locker room. Rose and I kept eyeing each other throughout class, but she also just acted like I didn't exist while she was with her friends and I was with my (Possible) new ones. Also Violet kept talking to me, which was hella annoying. Rose, and I sit hella close to each other in math, but she still didn't say a single word to me. I guess she's just giving me the cold shoulder today.
Song Credits:
Hate You Forever, Spaceship, I Swear I Do, and Melody - Rod Wave
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