Partly Cloudy, Damn Near Shady

Chapter 7-Confused

As soon as I finish texting JC, I see Tyson walking down the hall towards me. I don't know what to do or how to feel right now. When did he plan on telling me about this baby situation? I mean it's not like we're together or anything. It's just that I felt myself wanting to get to know him better and maybe one day if possible we can become a thing. We'll see how this all pans out.

Ty: "This here is my little five week old dumpling."

JB: "Aww she's a cutie. What's her name?"

Ty: "Well my ex told me she named her Aliana."

JB: "I like that name, it's different."

(Awkward Silence)

JB: (yawns)

Ty: "Looks like someone's tired. What, you can't hang with the big dogs?"

JB: "Boy please, all I did was yawn. That doesn't mean I'm tired. Better yet, who you calling a big dog, because I know your not talking about yourself. Last I checked you were laying on my living room floor under a blanket ready to knock out before this storm comes."

Ty: "Look, I ain't gonna sit here and let you joke on me like you do ole home girl from class. What's her name.... De'Whore?"

JB: "Nigga you stupid lol. You mean Dior. Don't come for her like that."

Ty: "Bruh whatever. You can't do nothing."

JB: "Catch this fade then." I say as I jump on him as we fall back on the bed.

As we're tumbling around on the bed he gets the upper hand and pins me down with my hands above my head. We were both frozen just staring at each other. Him looking into my eyes and me looking into his. Those hazel eyes of his do something to me I swear. As so many thoughts flow through my mind I'm brought back to reality as I see him lowering his face closer to mines.

JB: "Ah... what're you doing?"

Ty: "I was about to kiss you duh."

JB: "I think we should just take it slow, you know?" I say as I sit up and he moves to the foot of the bed with his back towards me.

He just sat there for a minute with his head hung low.

Ty: (sighs deeply) "Well I'm bout catch me some z's. I guess I'll see you tomorrow." He says as he makes his way out with his head still low.

I said my good nights and closed my door. As I turn to my bed I couldn't help but to notice he had left his phone. Something told me not to... but I just had to. I picked it up and pressed the home button. To my surprise he didn't have a lock on it. I paused for a moment as I second guessed myself. My curiosity got the best of me, so I gave in and decided to look at some of his pictures.

I didn't find anything out of the ordinary accept for the usual shirtless selfies, typical light skinned jock. There was one pic that stood out to me, it was a pic of him a girl who looked to be at least 4 years older then him and she was holding Aliana, To me they looked like the perfect family. I didn't know what to say but I couldn't help but to look at a message or two. I saw a message from a Kam. He must be one of his close friends because they can talk something serious. Their convo went from girls to money to school and of course basketball. Exiting that message I see the name #1Sis. Curious to see what his sister is about I opened the message. To my surprise I couldn't believe what I saw. After seeing that I took my ass straight to sleep.

The Next Day

My alarm blared in the air. You and I both know I did my usual daily hygiene while playing my jams. Getting out of the shower and wrapping my towel around me I make my way to my room to find my fit for the day. After ten minutes of contemplating, I finally decided on some acid-washed jeans, a black fitted V-neck some Timbs and my flannel lumber jack button down (open of course) with a black distressed dad cap turned to the back.

Being I have an hour left before class I figured I'd make myself some breakfast.

As I'm walking to the kitchen I pass the living room and take a quick glimpse around the corner. To my surprise, he had left. What time did he leave? Clearly he didn't realize he had left his phone. Oh well...I'll just give it back to him in class later.

Finally in the kitchen, I take out some eggs, bacon, blueberry ego's and a banana with some apple juice. While my food is cooking I decided to check my phone to catch up on messages from this morning. I noticed I had 5 notifications. two messages from CoCo, two from Dior's thirsty ass and one from an unknown number. Coco was asking if I was okay after everything went down last night and that we needed to talk later on. I told her I'm fine and that I'll see her when I get to the school. (rolls eyes) Dior on the other hand... her messages were filled with, "Why you talking to my man?" "First you get him in your project group and now he's over your house? Aight cool, I got you!"

Else for this unknown number. I'm iffy about opening it because I don't know who it is. With my curiosity at its peak, I build up the courage to open the message. The message just said, "Hey." I was confused yet again. I reply with the same one word, "Hey." Putting my phone down to attend to my food I hear a notification chime in to say I have received a new message. I decorated my plate with my delicious meal, took a seat at the island and snatched up my phone. The message read, "Why you so lame with that one word response? Its me, Tyson, I think I left my phone at yours. I'm not sure if I did or not but would you be able to check for me please babe?"

Did this nigga just call me babe?

I replied, telling him that I didn't see it anywhere in my apartment. In all reality I had the phone sitting right next to me. I finished my grub and out the door I went off to my first class of the day.

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