I don't know why but for some reason I was nervous about going to school the next day.
Well, I mean I knew why but I didn't understand it. I felt like I was in the third grade and had a crush.
I woke up this morning and decided I wanted to look my very best just in case I happen to run into Messiah. And maybe I wanted to show a little skin as well.
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I knew my friends would think something of it, because I usually wore t-shirt and running shorts with Nike running shoes to school. But today I just wanted to look nice.
Looking at the clock and seeing 7:30, I looked in the mirror one last time. My school takes in at 8:30.
Then I grabbed my bag and books, said goodbye to my mom ( my dad was already at work) and headed outside to my car. I had to pick up Avery and give him a ride. He is the only one of all my friends that didn't have a car. And it wasn't that his parents couldn't afford one or even get him one.
He was a horrible driver. I mean, cutting curbs, and terrible road rage. To him, a yellow light means 'speed up before the light turns red'. Yeah he wasn't driving my car anytime soon.
It takes me about 15 minutes to get to Avery's house and pick him up. As usual he isn't ready even though I told him in advance that I was down the street. So I sat outside his house waiting on him to come out so we could go to Dunkin Donuts before school.
After about another 15 minutes, he finally comes outside and gets in the car.
I didn't even say anything to him, I just pulled off.
" Well, hello to you too bitch." Avery said looking over at me."You look fine this morning, whats the occasion?" He says while adjusting his seat so he can lean back.
As soon as he had leaned his seat back, he popped it right back up, startling me. " You nasty! You tryna show off for that boy! And loook at all that skin you showing..... Noah beatin' somebody ass today. Not sure who but somebody gon get they ass beats for sure."
I rolled my eyes at this." Noah knows that I love him like a friend, but that's it. I honestly don't even know why he wastes his time with me." I said trying to lead the conversation elsewhere.
"Cause that boy loves you! Anyways, stop trying to change the subject. You usually don't care about dressing cute for school. This boy must get you all hot and bothered." Avery says as I pull into Dunkin Donuts.
Instead of going into the drive-thru, we decide to get out and go in.
"I don't know, Avery. He seemed so unreal. Oh, his hair and the sound of his voice. Come on, you can't tell that boy wasn't fine!" I said, continuing our conversation after we've ordered.
"Well just know I support it. You gon talk to him today?" I wasn't sure about that. Hopefully he would come up to me.
"Maybe he will approach me first."
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"Who told you, you could show all that skin?" Winnie teased me as we arrived at the table we usually sit at in the cafeteria.
"Myself." I knew that everybody would make a big deal out of my outfit but DAMN!!! It's not that big of a deal. I dressed up for school but it was just every once in a while.
"You tryna look cute for that boy that bumped into you yesterday. He got you dressing all grown and whatnot." Winnie said.
"Where's Junior and Noah?" I asked ignoring her comment. If I was trying to look cute, let me do it in peace!
"They sitting in Noah car, smoking. Like a couple of weed heads."She answered. They were a couple of weed heads. You'd think that because they're athletes they'd want to take care of their bodies. But nope. All they do was smoke.
" And they ugly asses couldn't invite nobody?! Ok. They gon need me for something and I ain't doing shit." Avery said making me and Winnie laugh.
"Excuse me?"
I froze. It was Messiah. And from the sound of it, he was right behind me. I gave Winnie, who was sitting right in front of me, a look that said ' Damn! You couldn't tell me, he was coming up behind me'. And she just shrugged at me.
I wasn't ready to turn around yet so I continued to look at a spot in the cafeteria behind Winnie.
"Sorry to bother you. But I was wondering if you wanted to see the picture I took of you yesterday." Dang I thought he would address the group but no, he was talking to me!
My hair could have been looking a hot mess but I didn't have time to fix it! Curses!
Turning around to face Messiah, I said," Yeah that would be great!"
I sounded like a white kid in a bad info commercial.
"Ok, hold on a sec." He chuckled. As he dug into his bag to find the photo, I took this time to look at his appearance. And then I noticed there was a boy standing behind him as well.
I don't know what it was about Messiah , maybe it was everything. That's what it seemed like because I couldn't point out just one thing. It was like everything tied together is what attracted me to him. But one thing for sure, was his 'look' looked fantastic on him.
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After a while of looking he spoke again,"I'm sorry I thought I had it on me. Maybe I can show it to you some other time. You can come by the art room later today." He said. " I'd go get it now but I promised my friend, we'd chill before class."
"Yeah no problem." Anything for a chance to see you again. "Where's the art room again? I'll come by after school." I said. I "It's in building 3 room 217 so it's upstairs. I'll see ya?" He asked.
"Yeah. Definitely." I answered.
He nodded his head and walked off with his friend.
