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I was in the middle of getting ready for school when one of my favorite songs 'Africa' By Yemi Alade, I couldn't help but feel happy. I put on my earrings and rings while dancing around. When I was done, I paused my music, got off Spotify locked it and placed it in my back pocket. I walked to the kitchen and stood next to my mom. "Good morning mama." I said, she smiled at me. "Mornin Neveah, you ready to go back to school?" She asked. I shrugged.
She looked at me. "You still haven't talked to your friend Hayes?" She questioned. The main reason that we haven't talked is because we both started acting distant to each other. When I say 'We' I mean me, I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that Hayes didn't even care that I was a dark-skinned girl and that he didn't even care about what the waiter was saying. Even though we talked about what went on that night, I still let my own insecurities get in-between our friendship that could have even turned out to be more. I just hope that we could back to the way we were before.
I sighed. "No ma, I haven't talked to him. I hope he'll want to talk to me today." I said, she gave me a small smile. "All you gotta hope is that it won't be awkward and that he actually wants to talk to you again." She said, I smiled and sighed. "True and we should head out right now ma. " I said, she nodded. We walked downstairs, put on our shoes, got out of the house and got into the car. I didn't feel the need to carry my backpack because it was the first day of school.
She dropped me off at the back of the school, which is the closest side to the cafeteria. I got out of the car and waved goodbye to her. I walked into the cafeteria. Our cafeteria had several booths on the left. I walked to the first booth which was closest to the kitchen, plus where some of my friends sat. I stood next to my friend Vivi. "Hey y'all." I said, they smiled and said hi back. "How have you guys been?" I asked them, they smiled at me "We've been good, we just can't stop think of camp." Vivi said, I smiled nodding, reminiscing all the fun moments that we had at camp. We were all in marketing so we had the chance to go to camp and that honestly made a lot of us have better connections.
The cafeteria door opened and my friends and I looked at who walked in. Of course it was none other than Hayes. We held eye contact as he went to sit with his friends, I finally looked away. "Girl you need to talk to him." Vivi said, I sighed. "I don't even know what to say. He probably doesn't even want to talk to me." I said, they rolled their eyes. "Come on we all know you both want to talk each other again but the both of you are just playing games." Mila said, I giggled. "I swear if both of y'all don't talk to each other by the end of the day then I'm gonna force you guys to talk to each other." Elena said, I smiled. "Y'all are something else." I said, they chuckled. I get what they're trying to do and I'm grateful for that, they're really sweet for trying to get us to talk again.
The bell rang, which meant that it was time for us to go to class. Hayes and I had some classes together, we still didn't talk. Weird, I know. First of all we hang out with different groups at school, so I don't know how he would act if I just went and talked to him. Second of all even though we have classes with each other, I still don't know if he would want to talk to me. I don't know many be I'm just over thinking it.
I walked to class and sat where I usually sit. Everyone slowly started coming into class and sat down. Did I forget to mention that this is one of the classes that I have with Hayes. Yaaay! What an amazing thing! (Sarcasm)I would rather have him say a couple of words to me, even a simple "hi" would be awesome rather than him just flat out ignoring me.
Our teacher cleared his throat, catching our attention we all turned and looked at him giving him our attention. "Since you guys all know that this unit is ending right?" He asked, we nodded. "Okay, I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew that. " He continued with a smile on his face. "Oh Mr. Kelly are we going to get new seats?" This kid named Ryan asked, Mr. Kelly nodded. "Oh that reminded me, Ana can you please make a new seating chart, I think that I lost the other one that you gave me." He asked, Ana nodded but you could tell that she was annoyed. "Okay so start working on your letters everyone. We're going to be sending them before we head out for break." He said, we nodded and got the laptops and started working on our assignments.
The bell rang, we put the computers back and put our notebooks in our class basket. I picked up my back pack and walked to my other class and no Hayes was not in this class. I'm not really sure how I feel about him not being in this class though, weird I know. I did my assignments, before I knew it was third period which was my marketing class. I love this class, what we were now doing is preparing for competitions. Time went by really quickly in this class, since the bell for lunch had already rang, we all put everything away, grabbed our back packs and started walking towards the cafeteria.
On the way there I saw Hayes standing near his locker by himself. I took a deep breath and started walking towards him. I tapped his shoulder, his head snapped in my direction, he looked surprised. "Hey Hayes." I said smiling. He raised his eyebrows "Oh so you still know my name?! You still know who I am?!" He said, he was about to leave but I reached out for his hand making him turn around. He looked down at my hand, I quickly let go of his hand. He looked at me and sighed. "What do you want Neveah?" He asked. "I just want to talk to you Hayes. I'm sorry." I said.
He rolled his eyes. "Why now? Why do you want to apologize right now?" He asked. "Why do you want to talk right now?" He continued. I bit my lip. "I don't know why it took my so long to apologize. But the reason I started to ignore you in the beginning is because I just didn't get why you stood up for me when the waiter said what he said, or even whenever anyone said anything bad about me or my skin color or where I'm from." I said "I know what I did was really stupid. Even though in the beginning I was just trying to keep myself from getting hurt from whatever could happen in the future I ended up hurting both of us, our friendship by ignoring you. But last but not least I just want to say thank you for always being there for me, thank you for always standing up for me. Thank you for giving me on the most memorable summer and I hope that we can continue to be friends. What do you say?" I asked.
He smiled and shook his head. "You sure do know how to get a person to forgive you huh Neveah?" He said, I shrugged smiling."I do try. But what's you answer?" I asked, he chuckled. " It's going to take time for me to fully forgive you and it's also going to take sometime for us to be able to be how we used to be but that doesn't mean that we're not going to be friends and we're defiantly going to be making a whole lot more memories." He said, we smiled and hugged each other, not going to lie it kind of hurt to hear that but hey I can't blame him for feeling like that.
We pulled apart. "You better believe that we're going to have a stronger relationship." He said I smiled and nodded. "This year will definitely be an interesting year." I said looking at him. He nodded, we both laughed and walked towards the cafeteria and got our lunch, I went and sat with my friends and he went and sat with his friends.
Haayy how have y'all been? I know, I know its been a fat minute. I've just been so caught up in life. Its sophomore year, I have so much to do and its just been pretty crazy. So far this year has been an emotional roller-coaster. But I can't complain, I'm truly grateful to be alive. But anyways I hope that y'all like this chapter and I also hope that y'all have an amazing break. HAPPY HOLIDAYS from my family to yours <3 I love y'all.
