Love Affair

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 teacher and I was thankful. 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 today?"
I asked coyly

"Yeah, we got a big game coming up. Why wassup?"

"Oh I'm, uh... no reason just asking."
I lied terribly as I began rummaging through my backpack for my sketchbook 

"You sure? "
He questioned with a raised brow

"Well, there's this party going on tonight on my block and I wanted to know if you'd come with me?" I said spilling the beans 

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

He peaked at me through his hysterics and ceased his laughter.

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

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

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

"Yeah, 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 and final tone looking back at his phone. No longer interested in the invitation.

"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 absolutely

"Yeah ok."
I said beginning to draw in my pad on a fresh page. 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. 

"Hey Skylar, wait up!" 

I heard someone call out from a far. I turned around and saw that it was Brandon jogging over to me. I remained stationary so that he could, once he was close enough, I gave him a warm smile.