This is Summer

What Friends Are For

"So what did you tell him?" I say as I ask my friend Arnell.

"He's asking if he can pick me up right now." She says giving me an uneasy look.

Right now I'm at the park with my closest friends, Arnell, Selina, Senait and Sarah. All of us just graduated high school, and we've been spending most of our summer days and nights working or finding the time to hang out.

"Oooh girl, you gon have to tell him that you guys can hang out tomorrow night, it's already late." I tell her.

"Yeah what's your mom gon think about you going back home to take a shower and leave again, like right now its already 1:00 am." Senait says looking at her phone and showing up.

"Dude that's what I'm telling him but he just keeps saying it's alright. Like I'm hella tired, and I don't feel like going back home just to shower and then hang out with him." Arnell says as she Snapchats him something.

"Just know if you do go, you gon end up sucking his dick." Selina says and we all laugh. "Like I'm serious, kissing leads to more, and that's just what's gonna happen." She continues.

"I'm not gonna suck dick." Arnell says laughing. "Like I physically can't bring myself to doing that."

"I was in your spot a month ago, thinking I could never do that." Senait says.

"Bitch, hell no. I'm not fucking sucking dick!"

"I mean, what does dick even taste like?" Sarah says laughing.

"Literally it's like sucking your finger, it just taste like skin." Selina says shrugging and Senait agreeing.

Selina and Senait aren't virgins anymore like us three are, so we ask them everything. Selina has a boyfriend and Senait just broke up with hers.

"I'm actually so done with you guys, but on a serious note Nelly, you should just go hang out with him and see what happens." I tell her facing her.

"Yeah I'm gonna hang out with him tomorrow but we're not doing anything else but go eat and watch a movie." She tells us.

"And you better tell us what happens tomorrow." Sarah says.

"Yeah." The rest of us agree in unison.

So we change the subject and talk about other things, and call it a night as I drop everybody off and go home myself, but before, I make a quick stop at Cirkle k for a pint of Chunky Monkey.

Waking up the next afternoon on a Saturday, my day off. I get up and take a shower and change into some workout clothes.

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"Alright, broccoli, shrimp, rice. Now I just need red cherry pepper paste." I say to myself as I walk down the food isle in Target.

I find it but the jar is too high for me to reach, I'm pissed, like why do they have to put it that high up. I look around to see who's around me to help me get it down. A guy who's on the phone? or a guy who's trying to tame his child in the store? I go with the guy on his cellphone.

I tap him on his shoulder. "Hey sorry to bother but do you think you can help me?" I ask him and he's literally the most handsomest man I ever seen. And I don't even think that's a word but, damn.

"I'll call you back." He says to whoever is on the other end with him on the phone, and just looks at me. "Yeah, what can I help you with?" He says with a confused smile on his face.

"Um well, I'm trying to get something but it's too high up, so I was wondering if you can get it down for me? I would appreciate it." I tell him as I walk back to where it's at and show him.