Love Affair

3| What's The Worst That Could Happen?

Skylar POV

I Had finally made it to school, being 15 minutes late so I needed a tardy pass.
I made it to my first period and gave the teacher the slip. He examined it and nodded his head.

He was a substitute and I was glad. That meant that I could start the day off light. I took my seat next to Brandon who was deep into his phone looking at some basketball scrimmages. He looked up and greeted me.

"Look who decided to show up."
He teased

"Whatever, I was just a little late no big deal."
I said lightly

"I thought you was gone leave me hanging today."
He said pretending to be sad

"You know I'd never do that to you."
He just smiled at me and returned back to his phone .

"Um.. do you have practice after school?"
I asked

"Yea, we got a big game coming up why wassup?"

"Oh..I'm no reason just asking."
I lied

"You sure? "
He questioned

"Well, there's this party going on tonight and I wanted to know if you'd come with me?"

"You? Party? Tonight?"
He burst into laughter like I had told the funniest joke ever. I just looked at him with a blank facial expression.

He finally stopped laughing

"Oh you're serious? My bad, who's having this party anyway."

"This kid named Rakim."
Brandon tensed up and his expression grew serious.

"Rakim? Rocky?"
He questioned as if he was recalling something

"Yea that's his name. You know him?"
I said answering whatever question he seemed to be looking to confirm.

"We're not going to a drug dealers party." He said in a firm tone looking back at his phone.

"Drug dealer? What are you talking about? If you didn't wanna go with me, that's all you had to say."
I huffed and pulled my sketch book from my backpack.

"Look, I didn't mean it that way. Just trust me on this, He's trouble."
Brandon said

"Yea ok."
I said beginning to draw in my pad. The rest of the period was silent between us.

I was wondering though. Rakim a drug dealer? I mean he didn't look like he sold drugs to me but if he did how the hell did Brandon know about it? I decided to keep my thoughts to myself.. for now.

•••

The final bell had just sounded, releasing everyone to go home and I was damn near running out of that place. I was heading home but decided to stop by the local corner store not far from my house to get me a few snacks since I barely ate my breakfast this morning and skipped lunch. I walked into the store and went straight to the chips section grabbing me  bag of hot fries then headed towards the beverages. As I was about to turn down the aisle I came face to face with Rakim holding a bottle of Hennessey in one hand and a bag of jolly ranchers in the other.

"Excuse me."
He said quickly then narrowed in on my face showing off those perfect teeth again.

"Skylar, right? The pretty girl from the block."
He remembered

I put my head down and smiled

"Yea, hey."
I said trying to walk past him to get my hands on a pink lemonade brisk.

"Hey, did you tell your friends about my party tonight?"
He asked following behind me

"Um, yea.. they said they'd be there."
I lied and continued towards the register.

He smiled and continued to follow me.

" What about you?"

"Uhh, I uhh have studying to do... yunno school stuff."
I stammered, hoping he'd buy it.

"Ohh, school stuff."
He repeated putting emphasis on the phrase.

We had made it to the register. He placed his things down grabbing my chips and brisk and putting them with his to be rang up together. He paid for it and handed me my stuff as we left the store.

"Thanks."
I said opening the chips and popping a few in my mouth.

"Don't mention it. But uh I know you have school stuff to do "
He said making air quotations -

"but I really would appreciate it if you'd come. You ain't gotta stay long or nothing like that. Just stop by, see if you like it. If not you can just leave."
He said with pleading eyes and a irresistible smile

"Ok fine, I'll be there."
I said finally giving in.

I mean what's the worst that could happen? Its not like I had anything better to do.

"Cool, aight it start at 9 - see you then."
He said and we went our separate ways.

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