I-Bello (Watty Awards 2013)

Chptr 3

About three months into school I-Bello was a cheerleader for the school and friends with Samira, Lucian, and Khadeeja they go out at least every week to the movies or to shop or whatever as long as they spend time together as friends. Lucian's been a little extra with the friendship, but I-Bello just seeS it as him being a boy. He likes picking her up and he likes giving her kisses and says it’s because she's Italian. It’s okay though he’s cool and I-Bello likes him so of course she let him do it.

“Hey baby,” Lucian called to I-Bello during class.

“Yep?” she asked writing her last sentence.

“I wanna talk to you about something very important,” Lucian said with a very serious facial expression.

“Alright,” I-Bello said getting a little worried. The rest of the class Lucian acted the same but the way that he talked to her before was still a little worrisome because the way he said it had her worried. When the bell rang I-Bello got up and went to the hallway waiting for Lucian, when he came out he pulled her by the arm out to the side so that he could talk to her.

“What’s up?” she asked getting really worried now.

“Umm well we’ve been friends for three months now…..” he started looking down at the floor with his shoulders shrugged and his hands in his pockets.

“Yeah,” she said looking at his demeanor in general. He was wearing a  green and white button down Hollister shirt with baggy black washout jeans and AC-GC’s on his feet.

“Look I gonna be straight with you Baby, I want you to be my girl,” Lucian said getting a sudden burst of confidence. I-Bello was shocked for the longest minute in her life that she almost fainted.

“Lucian ... oh mio Dio ... Lucian sì sì. Non ho mai conosciuto ti è piaciuto il mio genere.Dio mio”( Lucian...oh my God...Lucian yes yes. I never knew you liked my like that. Oh my God) she was so excited that she couldn’t even speak in English she just pulled him down to by his shoulders and kissed him on the lips. When he pulled away his pearly whites shined brightly for her to see.

“I take this as a yes?” Lucian asked to confirm.

“Yes,” I-Bello said breathlessly smiling up at his tall figure above her. I-Bello smiled just as brightly to him as he did to her. It all made her so happy to be with him officially as her boyfriend.

“Come on we gotta meet up with Samira and Khadeeja you know those Amazons get worried when they don’t know where you are,” Lucian said grabbing her hand and bringing her with him to the lunch room where she sat at a table with Samira, Khadeeja, Lucian, Eddy and Ricky. Eddy and Ricky were Lucian’s close friends everyone else was just an acquaintance of his, likewise where I-Bello only had Samira and Khadeeja as her only friends.

“Why are you late?” Khadeeja asked me as I-Bello sat down next to her.

“Lucian had to ask me something, “she responded innocently looking down hoping that her face was covered by my hair.

“You are morally wrong for leaving us to sit here and worry about you for this long,” Khadeeja scolded her.

“Calm down she a minute late damn,” Samira said rolling her eyes. Khadeeja looked at her real hard for a minute a habit they had when they tended to argue which was all the time. Khadeeja ended the staring contest by throwing a napkin at her.

“Anyway what did Lucian have to ask you?” Khadeeja asked her. I-Bello looked to Lucian not quite sure if he wanted her to tell them, but he was talking to Eddy and Ricky so she decided to just tell them.

“He asked me out and I said yes,” I-Bello said as she heard them sucking in a deep breathe in shock.

“Oh shit,” I-Bello heard Khadeeja whisper.

“What is it bad that we’re going out?” I-Bello asked confused but she got no answer as they stared at something behind her, so when she turned around she saw a tall girl with hair stacked on top of her hair in a weird bun thing. I-Bello just stared at her not understanding the big deal. “What?”

“That’s Lucian ex-girlfriend, she’s a fucking stalker and she’s got like her own posse of the ‘cool kids’,” Samira explained to her.

“Okay well whatever,” I-Bello said shrugging her shoulders turning to Lucian who was finally looking at her smiling.

“What?” I-Bello asked smiling back at him.

“What I can’t look at my beautiful  baby?” Lucian asked.

“Sure look away,” I-Bello heard someone other than her say. She turned to see it was Lucian’s ex-girlfriend standing there like she owned the place with a pink button down shirt on with the sleeves rolled up to her arm, and beige dress pants. I wasn’t very impressed at all.

“He was talking to me, thank you very much,” I-Bello said. She was a shy person, but when she got a man you better believe that she was not going to share him with anyone else.

“Oh look the new kid can talk,” she said.

“Damn right I can talk,” I-Bello said.

“And she’s got a potty mouth,” she said arrogantly.

“What you want Tinesha?” Lucian asked standing up now.

“I just wanted to see about you baby you know I always miss you,” Tinesha the new found hoe said.

“Well that’s too bad I got I-Bello, now please go on with your life,” Lucian asked her kindly.

“I-Bello what the fuck kind of name is this. This trick ain’t got nothing on my sexy ass,”  Tinesha said.

“Look bitch you ain’t gonna talk about me in front of my face like that. Ti rompo il culo su e giù per questa caffetteria se si vuole veramente a spingermi (I'll kick your ass up and down this cafeteria if you really want to push me),” I-Bello said as the Italian in her came out, and she stood up.

“What you say bitch?” She asked walking closer to the I-Bello.

“Okay some people just don’t learn,” I said walking around the table to battere il suo asino (beat her ass). Unfortunately I was stopped by Samira and Khadeeja the damn Amazons.

“Sit down, and you back off,” Khadeeja said pushing me in the chair and then telling Tinesha to go away.

“Alright fine, but Lucian we’ll talk later,” she walked off sending him a kiss.

“Bitch walked away because she was scared of your tall ass,” I said slumping down in my chair.

“Calm down I-Bello don’t let her get to you like that,” Samira said.

“Who knew such a little girl had so much anger,” Eddy said laughing.

“Come here,” Lucian said pulling me on his lap. He kissed my temple and rubbed my leg trying to calm me down knowing that worked. I smiled at him because he got me to calm down.

“I think it’s sexy when your upset,” Lucian said smiling at me.

“All you men do,” Khadeeja said smiling at Lucian. I looked at him smiling and then kissed him on the cheek before I tried to get up but Lucian’s strong arm kept me in place to look at me .

“Alright you two break in up Dipshit is coming,” Ricky said as the Dean of Students walked over and I moved into my chair.

“Where is he when there are actually problems?” Khadeeja asked.