Black Girl Meets White World

Chapter 1: The Flashback

I took my seat on the airplane and just reflected on the past events that happened which made me now boarding a plane to Canada to live with my Grand Aunt. Everything was still blurry, I was still in total shock and I felt like I was in another universe. My mind was not currently lingering on earth. Everything moved so quickly. It was like just the other day I was home, eating mango and orange, and now I'm leaving home for God knows how long to live in a country I am totally unfamiliar about. The worst part about this is that I'm leaving in the middle of the whole school year and its gonna be dead hard to catch up. I'm a very good student who maintains a solid B average and this is just going to kill my whole process. I'm so pissed!

Flashback

My boyfriend, Jevon, showed up at my house out of nowhere. He lives in my neighborhood so its pretty easy for him to come over anytime he wants. Luckily my parents were in their room discussing business but what if they weren't? When I went out to curse him out he grabbed my hand and drew me all the way to his house. I didn't retaliate because he was my boyfriend, I trusted him, plus I didn't have anything doing in the first place. I thought it could be a fun adventure. We went through his living room to his bedroom. The living room was filled with young boys our age, apparently his friends, cheering Jevon on for some immature reason. It seemed his parents weren't home because the boys were making a huge scene with video games and snacks and any sensible parent wouldn't just allow that.

To cut a long story short, Jevon started making out with me on his bed in a very naughty way. Apparently from what I heard, when my mom found I wasn't home, she started roaming the neighbrhood for me, going door to door asking if our... their neighbors saw me. She got inputs from a couple people and suddenly found the house I was at. When she knocked on the door, one of the boys opened it and my mother just barged into the people's home, and that's when my life took a drastic turn for the worst. She decided she couldn't take this problem child anymore so she just shipped me away to a foreign country. My father didn't even get an input in all of this. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't mind if I just got lost and was never found again.

I felt sick to my stomach. The guilt killed me. The guilt made me hate Jevon. This whole thing was his fault in the first place. He was the one who kidnapped me and drew me to his freaking house. Thank God were over. I never want to see him ever again.

A boy who was pushing his bag on the overhead compartment, dropped his carry on bag on top of my head, knocking me out of my thoughts.

"Ow, what the hell!" I shouted.

"I'm sorry, it was an accident. Are you okay?" He asked looking concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I was just flabbergasted."

"Flabbergasted?" He asked apparently confused.

"Yeah, it means-"

"I know what it means but why that word?" He looked amused.

"I don't know, I just like saying it. It makes me feel smart." I say.

"Oh," is all he says before he takes a seat beside me.

"Hey, I didn't get your name." He says.

"Oh, it's Cataleya..you know, after the actress."

"Yeah, I know, that's a cute name..for a cute girl." He smiles. Are you kidding me? My life just got ruined by a stupid mistake I made with a boy and now I'm already getting hit on by a boy. Why does the universe hate me?

"Uh, thanks, what's your name?"

"Dennis." Omg, I bet he's just a rich asshole who wants to get in my pants. That explains the compliment.

The flight is very long compared to the ones I've been on in the past. I'm guessing it felt like that because I had to take two planes to get to Canada because the distance between Canada and Jamaica is really long. I've been listening to my music the whole time on both flights and eating disgusting plane food. Dennis didn't bother me much which is a relief. I was not really in the mood to talk to human beings on the two flights. Dennis was coming from and going to the exact same places as me on the exact same flights. That was such a coincidence. The flight attendants kept coming to me asking if I needed anything. I wasn't calling them so why would they think that? Atleast I didn't have to deal with stupid airplane problems anymore. I finallly reached my destination. Hopefully it won't suck here.