Pivotal

6. Amen

Aerin Creer

"I missed you." I said into the phone as I was talking to my friend Linda from ATL.

"Girl we have to get up."

"I know I can't wait to see you next week." I pouted.

"It will be here quicker than you know it."

"I know I know, well let me get to school so I'll see you later." I told her as I walked into the entrance.

Walking more into the school I heard a lot of yelling so I went towards the yelling assuming it was fight.

As I got closer I saw it was Brandon and Justise about to fight.

"Nigga you weak as fuck You started hanging out with Josiah now you think you tuff!" Brandon yelled as Justise just looked at him not saying anything.

"Nigga if you wanna fight just hit me dude." Justise said.

"Yeah pussy, hit em." Josiah hyped up.

I've never seen Justise like this.

Then I saw Justise throw a punch at Brandon hitting him square in the face then he kept punching him until Brandon fell on the floor and everyone was screaming and yelled as I pushed through the crowd.

Justise kept punching Brandon and wouldn't stop and I saw Brandon not even fight back instead I saw a lot of blood. I ran towards Justise as I manage to pull him off and he almost swung on me til he realized who I was.

"Justise stop." I whispered as he nodded.

"Come on." I told him as I grabbed his hand and took him to the bathroom and wash his hands.

"Why were you fighting?" I asked as we walked.

"That nigga tried me." He said as I sighed.

"What he do?"

"He stepped on the back my shoes and made me trip and fall in front of everybody." He put his head down.

"Justise look at me." I said as stopped walking and he looked at me.

"Don't let them tear you down and see you upset because that's what he wanted."

"I get that Aerin but you tell me how I'm suppose to go to school everyday and he's bothering me doing little shit to me everyday I refuse."

"Alright." I sighed as we continued to walk until we reached the teacher bathroom and I looked around before opening the door as Justise came in and I locked the door.

I looked under the sink for the first aid kit. Finally I found it and I took it from under the sink.

I started to clean off his hands from the blood and the scratches then I wrapped it and looked at him as he smiled at me.

"Thank you." He told me.

"Your welcome."

"Justise can I ask you something?"

"Yeah...."

"What are we? Like friends more than friends ?" I asked him really wanting to know.

"We are farmers dun dun dun dun dun dun dun!" He yelled as I stale faced him.

"We friends, I mean I like you and you like me I just don't know if I want a relationship." He told me.

"What you mean?" I asked him.

" like I don't know the real reason why I don't want to date you is because if you get into one college and I get into the other then we're going to be away from each other meet new people and date somebody else." He said looking down. "And I don't want that." He said quietly.