Dark Girls

1

It's September, the back to school month where everyone is scrambling and getting ready to adapt to either a new year of high school or the reality of adulthood also known as University. Just a few months ago, I convinced myself that I was totally ready for this next step, my oblivious self was thinking that it was going to be a breeze and I'll be a doctor in no time; but here I was standing in the middle of the school's parking lot frozen with uncertainty.

"How you gon get your schedule, if you out here looking like a deer in headlights" I heard Renee's voice call out

"Poor thing, she looks terrified" Tatiana's voice added as they both walked up to me, my stiff body turning towards them

"I don't think I can do this" I said as I shook my head "there's too many people"

"Okay first off, half of these people don't look like they want to be here" Renee replied "and second off I'm your ride and i am not about to drive your sorry behind back home"

"And besides, you would be wasting that academic scholarship" Tatiana pitched in as she rubbed my arm in comfort "I don't think you want to throw away all your hard work because of first day jitters"

I sighed in agreement, I did work pretty hard in high school to get in university and it would be a waste of that amount of effort

"Alright, the melanin girls are about to take over..look out University of Chicago" Renee hollered as she stood at my right end and linked arms while Tatiana was on my left

"Let's go and conquer this shit" I said with a hint of confidence as we walked towards the school

..

"Ouu wee there's a lot of damn people in here" said a surprised Renee as the line for class registration was growing

"Well I did warn you to wake up earlier" Tatiana said while shrugging her shoulders

"I woke up at 7" Renee defended

"Yeah and you picked me up which would be a 15 minute drive from your house, and then you picked up Chantelle which is an extra 25 minute drive, and then we had to drive to the school which is an additional 10 minutes, which meant that we arrived at the school at around 8:15 - 8:20 which in University is late" replied a nonchalant Tatiana

"Okay damn, then what time should I wake up?"

"Maybe around 5-530 or even 4:45"

"In the morning ?!" hollered Renee as Tatiana nodded "if you want to make it on time, you have to sacrifice your sleep"

"Uh-uh nope, I ain't about that life" Renee replied shaking her head "not at all'

"Next!"

"Damn why she screamin" said Renee said as we all jumped at her loud voice

"Hi, um I'm here for my classes" I said politely as the lady looked through her folder

"Name"

"Chantelle Evans"

"Date of Birth"

"Uh.. March 17th 1998"

"Ohhh, a freshman, good luck" the lady says handing me my timetable, as I furrowed my eyebrows trying to understand why she said that

"W-what do you mean by-"

"Next!"

...

"I have never seen someone, scream next in a monotone voice" said Tatiana as she shook her head

"Homegirl doesn't like her job, I sure wouldn't" replied Renee shrugging her shoulders

"Do you think when she said 'ohh a freshman..good luck' was a threat?" I asked as we walked towards the benches which were located outside

"Nah, she was just playin"

"I think she was joking, probably keeping you awake"

"I wouldn't worry about it Chan, office ladies always say shit" Renee said reassuringly "and besides what do y'all have this semester"

"Well I took, economics, business and finance and statistics,english 100 and 101, art history, spanish and french" Tatiana said looking at her schedule

"For your girl, I took biochem, statistics, and physics, english 100 and 101, world history, drama and french" Renee added "which means I got a class with my girls"

"Well for me, uh I have biology, chemistry, physics, english 100 and 101, economics, french, world history, and statistics" I replied as we all looked at each other with pride

"We are gonna kill this semester, cause it seems we got one heavy ass year" Tatiana replied folding her schedule and placing it neatly in her purse

"Ouu y'all fine black man on the rise" Renee blurts out as we all slowly turn around to get a better look

"He fine, but I doubt he likes black girls" I replied as shrugged since you can never know these days

"Oh girl hush, he probably one of them pro black dudes"

"Cause he got a dashiki on?" I asked as I shook my head

"Well you never know" Tatiana adds shrugging

"Girl he would definitely like you" I scoffed

"Whatchu mean"

"Oh come Tat, you light my girl you got that nice hair and shit, of course he gon go after you" I replied

"It's true Tat, dark skin guys now days don't want anything to do with brown and dark skinned women, but the minute the see a light or mixed girl they be jumping on it like that Apache song" replied Renee as we both nodded

"Well that's dumb though, cause y'alls complexion is beautiful, your skin be glowing the minute light touches it" Tatiana replies shaking her head

"Yep, well black guys don't think so" I said shrugging

"Yeah, but he still fine tho, like oh look at his arms girrrl" Renee replies as she continued her fawning

"Renee, get yourself together we legit have like 5 minutes before class starts" I replied grabbing my things and placing them into my bag

"We gotta go Ren" Tatiana adds in as she snaps her fingers in front of her face

"Wait one more minute, I wanna look at my baby daddy one more time" Renee replies as we rolled our eyes and laughed at her

"Okay bye Felicia, we leaving" I replied walking off with Tatiana

"Okay damn hold up I'm coming" Renee hollers quickly gathering her things and walking towards us

"You stupid you know that" I told her as she caught up with us

"Girl whatever, let's just get to class" Renee replies as we walked on continuing our conversation