The One That Got Away

Chapter 2: The Drive

"You dare me to do what?" I yelled surprised.

"I dare you to go with Joshua for a month." She said smiling boldly.

"Hell. No." I said with a straight face.

"But you're the queen of dares. You're always the one saying a dare is a dare and how you would do any dare and never back done from a dare."

Oh my god I can't believe this. Like what the fuck? She just dared me to go with the baddest boy in the school. The leader of U.D.N and not to mention the boy with all the hoes.

"I would only go with him under one condition." I said swallowing hard.

"And what's that?"

"I get to start going with him whenever I want as long as its before the school year." She said for a month, but she didn't say that month had to start today.

"Okay fine." She agreed.

*

There was only one more period of the day and for me that was P.E. Even though I may seem like a girly girl but P.E was my shit. And of course, Joshua also had P.E.

I went into the girls locker room to change into my gym clothes. When I came out I learned that we would be playing dodgeball. There were two captains, Joshua and a boy named Chris.

"Pick who you want Joshua." The coach said.

His eye scanned the room until they fell on me. "I choose Bae." Everybody looked around to find out who"bae" was. I walked over to his team because I already knew he was talking about me but not before looking him up and down.

Chris picked his team and the game started. It seemed like this would be a good game because everyone in our gym class was very athletic and competitive.

The were a total of 8 balls with 10 people on each team. Each team took their starting position and when Coach Camille blew the whistle we took off. Joshua and I grabbed the balls.

Both of us had two in each arm. We both got two people out on our first try. The game went on and on. Until it was just down to 1 person on their team (Chris) and two on our team (Joshua and I).

It may sound easy being two against 1 but Chris was fast. Very fast. And he doged every ball we threw. He threw one ball and in that moment time froze. The ball was traveling right to me face. Damn Danielle you bout to get hit. Un unt you too pretty for this shit.

I stood their with my eyes closed waiting to feel the impact but it never happened. Instead I opened my eyes to see Joshua on the floor with a look of pain.

His face was ugly as fuck and I couldn't help but laugh. I was in tears. When I calmed down laughing I bent down to check on him.

"You ight?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm a thug and thugs don't get hurt." He smiled.

"Boy, not by the look of how your face just was!" I continued to crack up. "Wait, did Joshua Davis, the baddest boy in school just take a hit in the face for me?" I smiled showing my dimples.

"Anything for bae." He smirked "oh and by the way you're blushing a little bit."

"Number one- stop calling me bae. Number two- I'm not blushing. Boy I don't even like you." I couldn't help but smile. Oh my god. What was happening? Why was I smiling?

"Yeah ight." We continued playing dodge ball until the period was over.

*-

I waited at the front of the school for my big brother Antonio to come pick me up. He was 19 and looked like a boy version of me. This boy always late. Could he ever just be on time?

I tried calling him but it just went to voicemail.

"Answer the fucking phone. You was supposed to come pick me up. I swear I'm goin slap you down when I see you."

"Need a ride?" Joshua came up to me and said. This boy be on every scene.

"Don't you have hoes to entertain?" I looked at him.

When I said that it made him mad, and when he was mad it was a little bit of a turn on. I like the way those hazel eyes looked when he heard something he didn't like. I had to remind myself that he got hoes and I couldn't allow myself to like him. Stop, I told myself.

He got mad and walked off. "Wait" I yelled. I looked down innocently. "I do need a ride. Anything for "bae" remember?

He turned around slowly. "You better be glad I like you."

When he said that a million thoughts raced through my mind. As a friend or as something more? Girl stop this a thot nigga. I'm over here tripping.

*-

We were driving and talking. I lived about 2 miles from the school. It was bout a 10 minute drive and 20 at the most if there was traffic.

"So you mean to tell me you would eat booty but not the brown part of a banana?" I asked cracking up.

"Yupp." He said proudly.

"Oh my god. Just disgusting." This boy was something else. We had spent the past 5 minutes talking about this.

I reached over him and turned on the radio. "Call me maybe" was on. Just as I was about to change it he slapped my hand back down and started singing.

"Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number so call me maybe." He sung and also danced.

The funniest thing was that he couldn't sing to save his life. But he continued anyways. "Oh my god, my ears are going to bleed." I was cracking up.

When the song went off we started talking again. It felt very easy to talk to him.

"Could I take you somewhere?" He asked looking over at me.

I looked back at him with a weird look on my face. Take me somewhere like where?

"Do you trust me?" He asked.

"Um no, not really." I said with raised eyebrows but still a smile.

"Well no, my feelings aren't hurt at all. Sit back and enjoy the ride." He said as he passed by my house.

He wouldn't tell me where we were going. The ride there was like 30 minutes and the whole time I was like "are we there yet?"

When we finally did arrive I had to put my hand over my mouth to keep from screaming.

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Song: Ethan Breakaway cover of Just a friend By Mario

I couldn't find the original version. Sorry.