Hysteria (studxstud)

7. Exams.

I could feel the sun coming through the curtains, I don't know when I fell asleep but when I looked over at my phone I saw that it's after 2 in the afternoon. Cris was still sleeping beside me as I got up and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I went out into the kitchen to get food. My mom cooked peanut porridge this morning but it was cold so I warmed up enough for Cris as well for when she woke up, it's her favorite thing in this world.

I remembered exchanging numbers with Julio last night, so I ran back to my room for my phone to check if she had sent me any messages. I saw that I had five messages from her and I started smiling like a love sick puppy. My phone was snatched from my hand and I turned around to see Cris reading the messages. I rolled my eyes and walked away knowing I wouldn't be able to get it back from her.

Cris left after 5 because she had to go home and get her uniforms ready for school. She said she had something to talk to me about. She lives with her dad and they are basically inseparable. I know she's leaving me to go live with her mom overseas but I don't want her to leave me. Her mom has made a whole new life there and she wants her to be with her, so she's waiting until after exams. Her mom had a little boy  and her step-dad's daughter from Peru lived with them as well. It's going to be her time soon and i'm getting sad every passing day.

My mom had finished washing and started on dinner. I finished getting my uniforms ready when I went to the living room to study with my brother. We were there passing jokes along when mom said that dinner was ready.

We all ate around the table, with my little brother Darian sitting on pillows to be high enough to reach the table. My mom asked about my plans after exams in regards to school and I told her that I'd be going straight to college, she didnt mind but she preferred if I went to 6th form first like Dre did.

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It was the end of May now and exams had already started. Cris and I would be revising Information Technology past papers day in and out since she was into building computers and playing games so she wanted a good grade.

We studied every day for each upcoming exam and also planned our summer events while we took our break to roll up a splif to smoke.

All our exams have passed and we were glad to finally be finished with school. As expected, we didn't graduate because of being gay but they used other things to cover up the real motive but that's fine. Just another set of youths being oppressed by the system for not conforming to their societal norms.

Rox finally came up to me after 2 months, she told me that she was sorry for walking away and good luck in my future. She told me that she was migrating at the end of July and how the rumors were true about she and the 6th former but she wasn't involved with the math teacher. She was going through some things and he saw her crying and decided to be a helping hand. I knew that she was depressed but she never really spoke to me about her thoughts. I would read her poems but i never saw her attempting suicide coming and me breaking up with her made it even worst but Mr Marcomb was there to help her get over it.

I was devastated, I was lost and I didn't know what to do so I left school to go to the cafe on Wallace street. I sat down with Britty to talk about my thoughts while eating cheesecake and warm milk. She got up to attend to another table when someone came through the front door. I looked up and my gaze met Julio's eyes. There was small spark there when she realized me, maybe I'm just seeing things.

She walked over to my table with a little kid walking behind her, they resembled each other. Could this be her son?

"Hey Jay right?"

"Yeaah, hey Julio, wassup?"

"I'm good ma, just getting a milkshake for my lil man here."

"That's your son?"