Into His Love

Intro

Kimberly

"I can't believe summer is over already. We're really about to be seniors. Weren't we just freshmen like yesterday?" my best friend Nadia sarcastically asks, taking a bite out of a slice of pizza.

It's hot and humid on the last day of summer break. The sky is clear, cloudless and a gentle breeze ruffles the grass.

"Yeah, I know," I agree, fidgeting with my silver charm bracelet, not really listening to her as I look out the window to the right of me at the cars driving by and the crowded sidewalks.

"What's up?" She asks me, placing her pizza down on the red plate in front of her. I guess she noticed the lack of attention I was paying her. I take a sip of my sweet tea and glance over at her plastering a fake smile on my face in hopes that she wouldn't press it out of me to talk.

"Hmm? Nothing." I sit up and attempt to look like I'm physically and mentally here with her and not away drowned in my own thoughts.

"Lie again. Kimberly, we've been friends for eight years. I know when something is wrong with you and I damn sure know when you're lying," she responds. "It's Trevon, isn't it?"

I shudder at hearing his name. A part of me thinks about denying it, but she'd know I was lying again. Nadia knows me like the back of her hand and has quite a way of reading people. Sometimes I find it rather ...annoying.

I nod and shift uncomfortably in the booth that we're sitting in and she rolls her eyes.

"Ugh! Why are you even still worried about him? He wasn't any good for or to you. I told you to leave him a long time ago. He had the nerve to cheat on you and still think everything would be all fine and dandy. That dumbass mutha-" She begins her rant in between eating her last slice of pizza..

"Nadia, that's not the whole story," I try to justify the situation knowing it partially was. He was a typical boy in this generation, only concerned with getting in between a girl's legs, so when he realized that I wasn't easy and would just give it up, he went to find someone who would. Or at least that's the story I tell myself.

"See. There you go again." She chews, rolling her eyes. "Lying."

I look at her knowing that no matter what I say, I will not get her to think otherwise. Nadia is as stubborn as a mule. Once her mind is made up, there's no way in hell to change it. I can't blame her though - she's a Taurus.

"Fine. You're right. Happy?" I surrender, throwing my hands up in annoyance. I start eating my pizza which is cold by now.

"No. Want to know why?" I look up at her, awaiting her response. "Because I never want to see you hurt like that, especially not over somebody like him. You gotta let it go Kimberly. It's been two months since y'all broke up, right? You gotta let it go."

I lean back in my seat. That's easier said than done. The thought of having to let someone who meant so much to you go is way easier than actually cutting that tie...