Why can't I be with him?

School Time!

Today is my first day of school with Tyrece and the twins! I am so excited I can burst!

Right now we are eating breakfast which consists of eggs, grits and biscuits. It was delicious! I could eat it all day.

When we finally finished, a started heading out. I figured out why they walked instead of driving to school on our way there. It wasn't a very long walk, but it still made Tyrece worry that I might be putting too much strain on my newly recovered legs.

It got so annoying I stopped trying to reason with him, and started ignoring him....

The school was a the small, white church I usually saw when the bus passed by on my way to my old school.

The twins had already walked inside, but I was too nervous to go. Even though Tyrece and I would be in the same class, I was still nervous.

What if no one likes me?

They can act just like Ma and Ruby and say I should the here because I'm white. If they do they would technically be correct...

Tyrece looked at me and saw exactly what was making so afraid to go inside.

"Hey, everyone is going to love you, okay? You're amazing and beautiful. I might just have to fight a lot of boys after school for trying to steal my girlfriend." He said with a smile, making me laugh. He could always cheer me up.

The all of a sudden I heard a voice behind me.

" This is your girlfriend?!" Said by who I could only assume was Cindy Crawford.

I turned around to see a very dark girl with a bewildered look on her face. Her expression was quite hilarious actually.

"How you go about datin' some white girl like her, Tyrece?!" She said eyeing me like I was being accused of something.

"What do you mean by that, Cindy?" Tyrece asked sounding a little aggravated.

"You know exactly what I mean, what you do to get some white girl to like you?" She said folding her arms across her chest.

What she said kinda made me feel somewhat angry at her, but then again a lot of people think like that around here. It still bothers me though, why would Tyrece have to do anything but ask me for us to be together?

"Cindy, all I did was ask her and she said yes." He answered back seeming calm now. I guess who knew how people were too.

He had grabbed my hand and was about to lead me away when all of a sudden Cindy grabbed my arm and pulled me towards her. Her long nails digging into my skin while she have me a mean look. Tyrece didn't have much time to react because it happened so fast.

"You listen here, white girl, I know what you trying to do and I won't let you do that to my Tyrece, you got it?"

Before I could ask what she meant Tyrece had gotten his wits about him and pulled her hand off me and led me away, holding me close. He led us inside the building and the whole time I can feel Cindy's eyes burning holes into my back.

What did she mean?

This is what I thought about all day. I tried to forget about it by looking around.

This school was much different from my old one.

You could tell it was the church, and that they didn't receive just about anything from the school board. All their book weren't updated to the new ones. The classrooms were sections of the church split up by curtains.

I didn't want to seem stuck up so I didn't say anything.

Tyrece led me to class and the pew were our seats while we had a long wooden table in front of us. We sat in the middle because it was warm from all the people sitting around it. There was a small fire ave in the side of the room so it wasn't too cold in the back.

The teacher, Mrs. Widow, didn't seem to want to be here at all. She looked tired and bored the whole time.

She has taught us all subjects and we didn't leave the classroom unless you had to use the bathroom badly and even then you had to basically be disrupting the class every 5 seconds to prove it. Cindy Crawford was glaring at me like I had done something horrible to her.

School was tiring. Tyrece had to keep me awake throughout the whole time, and once he let me take a little nap on his shoulder before waking me up so I wouldn't get in trouble.

It was finally time to go home and on the wall back I started to think about last night.

I mean I wouldn't mind having it happen sooner or later, but then I am not taking into consideration Tyrece either, right? But it's my body and I don't feel very comfortable with the concept of doing that yet.

We finally made it home and everybody went to doing homework. After that we had dinner and went to bed.

It was silent between me and Tyrece until I spoke up.

"Tyrece?"

"Yes baby?" He said turning over and wrapping his arms around me.

" I think....." I started to hesitate on if I was making the right decision.

"What?" He said

" I think I know when."