Changed For Me (Mindless Behavior & Jhene Aiko)

That Bittersweet Day

Sanaa's POV

We ended up arriving to Starbucks about ten minutes after leaving the mall. The whole ride there pretty much consisted of singing and rapping. I was surprised when Alexis turned to me and told me I had a beautiful singing voice. I was flattered and embarrassed at the same time, I never sing in front of people, so that was a whole other ballgame.

When I unplugged my phone and parked, I noticed a car there that I knew quite well, from the most bittersweet day of my life.

Flashback to two years ago, July 17, 2012.

I was sitting in my room, on a hot July summer's day, reading the second book to the Twilight Series for the umpteenth time, when my phone rang. I scrunched my eyebrows together and pushed my large glasses further up onto the bridge of my nose. Nobody ever calls me, unless its my parents or my big sister.

The caller ID said RESTRICTED.

Normally I wouldn't answer phone calls like that, because it was normally someone with the wrong number, or someone from school trying to prank call me.

"H-Hello?" I answered the phone hesitantly.

"Wassup? Dis Sanaa Harris?" The male voice on the other line answered.

"Who's asking?"

"Travis Turner." The phone fell out of my hand.

Travis, also known as the cutest black boy in all of 9th grade, was calling me. Could it be?

How'd he get my number?

Does he like me?

Does he want to date?

"Hello?! Damn man I think she hung up. I done scared the shit out her man." I heard Travis' voice from the floor, where I'd dropped my phone. I scrambled to pick it up and put it to my ear.

"Hello? I'm sorry, my, um, sister had my phone. But this is Sanaa, can I help you with something, Travis, is it?" I replied, acting as nonchalant as possible.

"Yeah, dis Travis. Anyway, Sanaa, I found your number on Facebook, and I thought you was cute so i decided I wanted to hit you up." 

Oh.. My.. God.. Travis Turner, thinks I'm cute.. I nearly passed out after he said the word "cute" but I had to keep myself calm and collected. "Oh really? Well thank you."

"No problem, but I'm at the movies, with a group of friends, and they all got girls but me. So, I was wondering if you'd like to come as my date." Travis said into the phone, making me want to scream, although I didn't.

"Well, sure. What time?" I asked. "Around 6 I guess." Travis replied

"No problem, see you there!"

I hung up the phone and immediately began scrambling around my room, searching for something to wear. It was 4:30 so I had some time.

I went to my bathroom, and shut the door. I tore off my clothes and jumped into the shower.

When I got out, I went to my closet to search for clothes. I looked through the racks, and found a black V neck shirt, some tight jeans , and my black vans. I straightened my chest length hair, and put on some mascara and eyeliner. When I was finished, I looked in the mirror. I looked better then I normally did, and I was proud.

Since the movie theater was only a ten minute walk from my house, and it was still light out, I went downstairs to see if my mom would allow me to walk.

"Mom, hey, can I go to the movies?"

"Oh, this is kind of sudden but sure, I'll go get my purse, what movie do you want us to s-"