Finding Love in Odd Places

Chapter 2

They were standing by the vending machines waiting on Phillip. "Are you sure he's coming?" Asked Quon who looked skeptical about the whole thing.  "Yes I'm sure." She said sounding sure of herself. "He just has to find us that's all." Quon gave her a look of disdain, "I thought you were done with guys?" "Well he's different,Quon." Quon let out a laugh, "that's what you said about Jay." She gave him a look that pierced right through his soul. If she didn't know any better Quon was jealous. Before anything else could be said Phillip came walking up to them. He smiled at Miranda causing her stomach to do a flip flop. "I would have been here sooner but some dude got in my face telling me to leave you alone that you were his girl. Some bullshit like that."

Miranda looked kinda pissed and she knew who it was too. "What did he look like?" She asked Phillip and he described Jay to a T. "Damn, I'm sorry that was my ex, Jay. He's been acting crazy lately trying to get me back." Phillip nodded his head understanding what she was saying. "Do you want him back?" "Hell to the fucking no." Phillip laughed at her response, he liked the fact that she kept it one hundred. Quon nudged her getting her attention off Phillip. "Oh I almost forgot, this is my boy Quon. Quon this is Phillip he's in my first period." They both nodded towards eachother showing eachother respect. "So where we gonna sit?" Asked Quon trying to get Miranda's attention away from Phillip for just a second. Miranda looked around for an empty table. She said, "How bout over there?" She pointed at a deserted table in the corner.

They all walked over to the table together and sat down. "So how do you two eachother?" Phillip asked. "We go way back. We've known eachother since we were like babies." Quon responded. "She's been my A1 since day 1." Quon said as he messed up Miranda's hair who gave him a dirty look. She ran her fingers through her hair trying to fix it. "Do you know how long it took me for my hair to look this lushess  and fabulous and shit." Both Phillip and Quon laughed at her response. "Is she always like this?" Phillip asked. "You mean goofy as hell with no filter." "Yeah." Phillip responded letting out another laugh. "Then yeah, but she's toned it down a little because you're here and she thinks you're so fine and shit." Miranda's face turned blood red as she punched Quon on the arm. "Dude, why you gotta be telling him my business." Quon let out a chuckle, "it ain't no secret, I saw how you was looking at him when he was walking up." "I was not looking at him any type of way." Quon laughed at her little lie amused that she wasn't going to admit she liked Phillip.

Phillip looked at both of them, he didn't know what to think. If he didn't know any better Quon secretly had a thing for her but she was just too blind to see the truth. "I hope you two know I'm sitting right here." Phillip said as he looked over at Miranda seeing that the blush was still red as ever on her cheeks. "Sorry." She said shyly looking away from him for a moment. He smiled at her and winked causing her to blush hard and her stomach to jolt and her heart to beat a little bit faster. Quon looked over at Miranda seeing the affects Phillip had on her. He didn't understand how easily he could make her smile like that. He wished he could get her to smile at him like that but he knew that she only saw him as a friend, which killed him slowly inside.

Changing the subject Phillip said, "So how did that Jay dude ever end up with you?" Miranda didn't like talking about Jay, he was a sore subject on her. "He was different when we had first met. I fell for what I thought he was instead of who he really was." She was looking at her hands and away from him. Phillip could see the hurt on her face when she talked about him. He didn't know the dude but he could tell that he wasn't a good person to hurt someone as great as Miranda. "From what I've seen he's an ass. It's his loss, he had his chance with you."  Phillip said causing Miranda to look into his pretty dark brown eyes. Phillip looked back at her looking into her hazel eyes that could easily put him into a trance. She was so beautiful it made him lose all thought. They stayed like that looking at eachother and Quon just stared at them in disbelief. The bell suddenly rang for everyone to go to back to class; which caused Miranda and Phillip to jump up startled not expecting the bell to ring so soon. Everyone stood up from where they were sitting staring at eachother. Quon wanted to ask Miranda if she wanted him to walk her to class but he knew Phillip wanted to ask. "Do you want me to walk you back to your class?" Phillip asked as he rubbed the back of his neck nervously. Miranda beamed up at him giving him her breath taking smile with her cute little dimples on her cheeks that effected his whole body. "Yeah, sure." She said looking at him noticing his cute nervousness.

She hugged Quon kissing him on the cheek like she would do to a brother and ruffled up his dreads. "I'll see you after school." He smiled at her admiring how innocent and sweet her gestures were even though every time she touched him it would set his skin on fire. "Okay, Rannda." Which was his nickname he gave her when they were like five and when he had trouble saying her name properly. She smiled at him one last time before walking off. She didn't know why but she didn't like it when anyone else called her that but she found it sweet and enduring when Quon would call her by her nickname. As her and Phillip walked side by side Phillip asked, "So what are you doing after school?" "I'm meeting up with Quon so he can walk me to my job." Phillip nodded his head his head. He turned his head to look at her, "Where do you work? So I can come pick you up when you get off." "Bilo and I get off around seven." He smiled at her hoping that she would agree to the next thing he was going to ask her. They stopped at the door way to her classroom. "Would you mind if I took you out for dinner when you get off?" She smiled at him wanting to say yes but knew how her mom and stepdad were about her going out with boys.  Against her better judgement she said, "Yes." He smiled at her happy she agreed to it. He pulled her into a hug and before he could stop himself he kissed her on the cheek.

Her face turned bright red at his sweet and unexpected gesture. "I guess I'll see you around seven." She said looking up into his handsome face. He beamed down at her happy that he would get to spend some alone time with her outside of school even though they had just met that day. "I'll see you later." He said before leaving her to day dream about him. Man she really liked that Phillip Young. He wasn't exactly her type but for some reason she was drawn to him. She walked into the classroom right when the bell rang. She sat down in her seat trying to focus on what the teacher was saying but all she could think about was Phillips kiss on her cheek.