Something About Him

-40-

chapter forty! we've come a long way!

Christopher Brown

I sip from my can of soda while sitting in the living room of my house with the clowns I call friends. We're all talking about the events of last night and it's myself, Brandon and Jay. Dom's still away with his family.

"You ain't do shit last night. That's why you scared to tell us," Jaylen accuses me causing me to laugh a bit.

So he thinks I'm lying cause I'm not going into detail.. That's cool, I guess.

"Believe what you want, nigga," I shrug my shoulder and go for another gulp and as I do that, Brandon says something.

"You worried about him," he motions towards me, "But we already know him and his girl be secretive as hell. Meanwhile you were going crazy just trying to drive Allie home yesterday. The hell happened with that?"

Jay chuckles slyly and then slightly rubs his bottom lip. "Man..." We listen as he trails off.

"Man, what?" I ask.

I'm not even the nosiest one out of the three of us. It's Jay, but that exact reason makes me want to switch the roles just this one time.

"Aight so during her dare last night when she kissed me, I ain't want that to just be the end if you know what I mean."

"Nah. I don't know what you mean," Brandon shakes his head probably just playing stupid. "Elaborate for me."

I laugh lowly but still wait for Jaylen to continue.

Before he does, he sucks his teeth. "You know what I mean, bruh, but I wanted to take her home to talk to her. That's it."

"Talk to her about what?" Brandon presses and Jay abruptly looks his way.

"Can you stop being so freakin' nosey?" He exclaims and I immediately laugh.

He's one to talk.

"You do the same shit, Jay," I speak up and he makes a face at me in response.

"Oh well," he says. "Both of y'all- mind ya business. Cool?"

"Yeah, whatever nigga," Brandon and I both shrug his words off.

With friends like ours, we'd find out one way or another so Imma just ask Allie.

Layla Wilkes

I've been home for a few hours now and right now I'm on FaceTime with Allie.

Chris texted me a little while ago telling me to be nosey for him and I'm about to be nosey for myself and then maybe I'll tell him.

"Allie, why was Jaylen so worked up yesterday?" I ask her.

After hearing my question, she chuckled and I watched as she slightly rolled her eyes.

"I think that he thought our kiss last night was more than what it was, but I'm not really complaining," she tells me. "I think he's cute."

"Ooh.. okay, Allie."

She laughs and then begins talking again. "I mean... we go back and forth a lot since sometimes he can't seem to control the words that come out of his mouth, but isn't that the case for lots of people?"

"Lots of people go back and forth, you mean?"

"Yeah. Like I'm always telling him to shut up and everything."