Before Summer Ends

Driving Home

I opened my locker and grabbed every overdue library book, locker decoration, and picture of me and Olivia out my locker and shoved it all into my book bag. After a while.....it started to overflow and I wondered what I was gonna do, since I walk home. The hallway was getting emptier by the minute...I didn't have much time left. A tall figure came behind me, too tall to be Olivia.

The figure spoke in a kind male voice, "Hey Ruby do you need help?"
I turned around to find that Steven was the mysterious kind male voice. I felt my face get hot and my hands became very sweaty. I softened my long dark brown hair and came up with the words to speak trying not to look and sound to pathetic,

"Oh hi Steven....yah I'm just having some trouble with my book bag......there is no more space in it to put all of my junk in."

"Well today is your lucky day" Steven said flipping out his phone. He dialed a phone number too quickly for me to even see. Seconds later a voice answers. Steven spoke quietly into the phone, but I could still hear what was saying.

Steven says, "Hey big bro....remember how you said you owed me a favor.......well today your gonna pay up..." Steven says as he walks farther away, I'm guessing he didn't want me hearing what was coming next because his face turned red.

Still audible to my hearing, Steven said,"Well I've got a really cute friend of mine here from school and she needs some help with her locker stuff.........it's Ruby Moore....why?......ok whatever........yah she'll have fun.....ok see yah...."

A few minutes later the school was empty and me and Steven were waiting outside for his older brother, Hunter, who was a senior, to come pick us up in his truck. Just then, he rolled up to the front doors in a beautiful dark blue truck.

"Hey Ruby what's up, hi Steven" Hunter said with a wink.

I tried to hide my blushing with my dark brown hair. Hunter was very attractive, but he would never like me...he was a big shot athlete, another popular boy who wouldn't be interested in me.

"Thanks for picking us up Hunter." Steven said.

We threw my stuff into the passenger seat and Steven hopped in the bed of the truck. I had seen all the cool kids around the area ride in the back of their brand new trucks all of the time in the Summer. I, myself, have never rode in the back of a truck....I would never think that my first time would be with two of the cutest boys in the whole city.

Hunter and Steven helped me up into the back. I explained that I had never done this before and Steven told me just to hold on the sides of the back and have fun.