From Broken Hearted To A New Beginning

Chapter 20

James

I called Angela back about 2 hours later after our last talk. We stayed on the phone until almost 8:00pm. Angela and I had never really talked that much before, usually the most we'd ever say to each other was "Hey" or "Wassup" but today was different. When I called her earlier, it was basically just to find out why she has been upset; since Trey isn't trying to find out anything. But after talking to her for that little while, I realized that I wanted to talk to her more.

"Haha, very funny." I said in reply to Angela's "joke". "You know it was funny. But anyways, what you doing." "Nothing, chilling on the phone with this beautiful girl named Angela." Fuck why did I just say that? Things got quiet for a moment because I knew she was a little shocked by what I just said. "Uhh, I didn't me-" I started to say. "It's ok. But cool." she said cutting me off and replying to my before statement. Things got a little awkward afterwards but then slowly started to get better the more we talked. "It's almost 8:00 so I better go ahead and get ready for tomorrow." she said after a while. "Ight, talk to you tomorrow then. "Wait." "Wassup?" I asked. "Do you think I can ride to school with you tomorrow...you know, so that I wont have to deal with Trey and all that?" I was a little surprised she actually asked me to bring her to school but who could turn down Angela? "Ight, I can do that. Where you stay?" "Kk, thank you so much! And I'll text it to you so you wont forget." she said with excitement in her voice. "Ight. Bye Ang." Bye James."

I hung up the phone with Angela and I could feel my heart beating through my chest. I didn't know what had gotten into me. When I had said I wanted a girlfriend I didn't mean I wanted it to be my nigga's girl-even though we're not really together. I took a quick shower then hopped in my bed and waited for Angela's text about her address. Half-asleep, I felt my phone vibrate waking me back up. I looked at it to reveal two messages-one from Angela and one from Trey. Fuck! I had completely forgot that I was supposed to text Trey what I had found out about Angela and Isabella so I decided to read his message first. "Aye man. What happened to the info? Getting a nigga tense and shit." was what it read. "My bad bruh,I got busy doing things. But I didn't find out anything. She didn't tell me nothing we barely even talked." I know I was lying my ass off but I didn't want Angela to lose my trust. It took Trey no longer than 2 minutes to text back saying, "Man nigga you ain't no help but thanks anyway. And by the way, I think things are getting worse. Angela hasn't text me back since earlier this afternoon. I'm really getting worried." As I read his message I felt guilt arise in me. Nothing serious was going on with me and Angela but the fact that she's been talking and texting me all day since this afternoon and never even replied back to her boyfriend was eating me alive. "Damn man, just stay calm...I'll see if I can get her to talk to you. That's if I can get her to talk to me." I texted back. The first part wasn't hard; the second was the hard part. I had to figure out how I can get Angela to text Trey without him finding out that we actually talk. "Aye Ang. I need you to text Trey...but don't tell him I told you anything. Just wait a few minutes after you get this and text him. Please." And in less than a minute Angela texted back "Ok(:"