The Last Lyric•Tupac•

Chapter 7-Heard Ya' Got New Homies

•Tyla with bangs• (minus the tattoo)

~unedited~

My eyes shoot up from page twenty-seven of my new book as I tune in to the gossipy conversation of Aleah and Alicia. It was a cloudy Saturday afternoon in the city of New York and the three of us were currently lounging around in my room with nothing to do. I was perfectly fine before the two showed up at my apartment door-looking for something to do.

Evidently they had come to the wrong place because I was doing my usual and I'm sure it's nothing fun about it to them. I didn't mind their company-in fact I think I preferred to hear them talk about teachers they thought were cute than Charles' old, black and white tv shows. He was definitely my father. Apparently they had taken the bus from Alicia's house to my skimpy apartment building-trying to find something to fill their free time with.

"Soooo Tyla. " Aleah calls to me when she sees I've suddenly taken interest to their conversation about our English teacher, Mr. Lee.

I raise an amused eyebrow at her tone and she smiles while looking down at her nails that Alicia was currently covering with my black nail polish.

"How was your date with Lance?" Her eyebrows wiggle in a suggestive way and I shake my head at her actions, thinking back to the beginning of this week. The date was nice. Lance was a complete gentleman and did nothing to push the boundaries of our innocent time together. But my mind wondered about the boy who had left me in the rain and his words over the phone. I never thought that I would have the guts to do that in a million years but here I was. I feared what he would say or even do when he saw me at school the next day-only because he sounded pretty serious on the phone and I acted like I took him as a joke. But nothing happened. Besides from his signature mean glares and the rolling of the eyes and I didn't know If I was relieved or disappointed. God, I really needed to put my emotions in their specified categories.

"It was...nice." Is what I finally settle with after biting my nail in thought. Lance hadn't been on my mind this whole week-probably because he doesn't go to school and chooses when he wants to come around. Sometimes he would eat lunch with us, sometimes he wouldn't come around for two days. I don't know if that'll work in the future. If we did decide to become serious with one another it would be rather difficult if he barely hung around. I was upset with myself after Lance dropped me off in front of my door, sealing our night out together with a soft kiss to the lips. I wanted him to kiss me badly-just to see if it felt the same as it did with my unfortunate opponent the first time. There was no warmness that spread through my body until it reached the tips of my toes. There was no butterflies swarming around in my tummy. And there was no strong craving for his lips afterword. Just a kiss. A meaningless, boring kiss.

"Girl we need details!" Aleah scolds me.

"Wait, wait. You went on a date with Lance?" Alicia asks while stopping her brushing movements to look at me with a twisted face. I nod slowly.

"Girl, I didn't think those were the type of dudes you liked. I thought you liked one of them smart brotha's. The one's that go to Harvard or Yale or sum' like that." I laugh at Alicia's nonsense while shaking my head. If my mother were here she'd probably make sure I ended up with one of those "brotha's". One that wanted to be a Doctor or a Lawyer. I thought that was what I wanted, too but moving to a whole different environment can make you discover new things about yourself.

"And I thought you and Pac were getting...comfortable." My smile fades and my eyes turn into saucers. Aleah looks at me strangely.

"Pac?"

"Yeah girl. Stuff got a lil' heated between them when everybody left the pool back at the cabin." I facepalm. For some reason I didn't want Aleah to know about me and Pac's regrettable kiss but I knew it wouldn't stay a secret for long. I'm actually surprised Alicia managed to go this long.