Full Out

Chapter 9: Firecracker

Brooklyn in the mm

"Girl I swear they be trying to kill us with this cafe food" Jasmine over dramatically said, but she was right, as much as we paid in tuition the food here should be so much better. It could be worse though, we came on fried chicken Wednesday the one day the staff put some effort into the food.

I just laughed at her cause she was killing that macaroni and cheese "Mhm you say that while you on your third plate" I replied. I had some greens and a piece of chicken and I couldn't even lie it was good tonight.

She rolled her eyes at me "Well I had to eat something, oooh looks whos coming over here" she said smiling and sitting up straighter. I looked across the dining hall and saw Lorenzo and a group of his friends walking towards us.

I hadn't talked to him since the night at the studio, I'd done everything in my power to avoid him because he made me feel things that I did not want to feel. He saw that I was staring and smiled at me making me blush and look down at the table.

Before he could make it to the over to me Brooklyn came out of nowhere and grabbed his arm "Hey baby" she said to him in an extremely happy voice. He looked down at her and she pulled him into a hug.

I expected him to push her away but he leaned down and whispered something in her ear. While his face was near his she pulled him into a kiss and he still didn't pull away.

I guess I had no reason to be upset, he never did say that they had broken up so I had really set myself up for this one. Thinking about it he never even expressed his feeling towards me, for all I knew he slow danced for a lot of females.

"Jas lets go" I said sliding out of the booth, she had been faced down for most of the encounter "Girl why this chicken is bomb" she asked and she finally saw them lip-locking 5 steps away from where we were sitting.

We both go up and leave and Lorenzo pulled away from Brooklyn "Zoey wait" he yelled coming up behind me.

I was so angry and embarrassed that I spun around to him "Save it for another dumb bitch who will listen asshole" I yelled at him before walking away. We had created a scene and everyone was staring at us.

We left the cafe and made it halfway back to our door room before we heard heels clicking behind us "Aye Zoey" Brooklyn called out. Half of my mind wanted to keep calm and ignore her but the other half reminded me that mama ain't raise no bitch so I turned to face her.

"I heard that you have some little crush on Lorenzo but you need to get over him and quick because he's mine and he ain't going nowhere" she said with a smug grin on her face.

She had two of her friends behind her "Me and him had a little two-hour break but we are back now so keep your eyes and hands off of him" I was getting beyond pissed off the more she talked. We all stared at each other for a while before they finally walked off.

I turned to go inside my building when she called from behind me "Oh yeah Zoey I understand you may be hurt that your best friend stole you man but that gives you no right to try and take mine, if you won't good enough for your high school boyfriend, what makes you think your good enough for mine" she said.

All that ran through my mind was how the hell did she know about that, she was finally about to get the response she wanted out of me and I ran up behind her ready for a fight.

I didn't notice that Lorenzo had followed us until he grabbed me and picked me up while I was charging at Brooklyn "Lorenzo what are you doing, put her down I'm your girlfriend come over here to me"

I was struggling to get out of his grasp "She talked her shit so put Zoey down and lets see if she can back up what she was saying" Jasmine yelled at him

"Jasmine would you stop instigating, damn do you want her kicked out" he yelled back. All I saw was red, I wanted to let all my anger out on her, I guess Lorenzo holding me was making Brooklyn even madder because she tried to run up on me but one of Lorenzo's friends grabbed her.

"You stupid slut bitch" she yelled at me "At least I don't have to try and manipulate a man into wanting me" I yelled back. "At least I can keep a man" Brooklyn fired back at the same time Jasmine was yelling for them to get out the way and let us handle this.

"Bro take her back to her room" Lorenzo said to his friend that was holding Brooklyn before carrying me to my building. The whole time I was still fighting and struggling to get away from him, I was so angry my eyes were watering.

"Put me down" I screamed in his ear while punching his back, I guess he got pissed because he put me down and held me against the wall in the hallway of my building "Yo cut that shit out you dead-ass starting to annoy me" he said.

I pushed him off me "Well I didn't ask you to come play Superman now did I" I asked him walking away. Instead of doing to smart thing and leaving me alone he followed me to my room and I tried to slam the door on him but he easily pushed it open and came inside.

I just stared at him with my arms crossed "You wanna tell me what that was all about lil mama" he asked me as he sat down in my computer chair. I just rolled my eyes and continued to stare at him, if looks could kill he would be six feet under.

He looked at me and laughed "Babygirl that look you got on your face not intimidating nobody now tell me what happened.

The fact that he was laughing and pretending to not know what I was mad about angered me more "GET THE FUCK OUT MY ROOM AND BE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND" I yelled.

Again like a dumbass he didn't leave he just got up and walked closer to me, so close we were almost chest to chest. My heartbeat sped up and I felt a little dizzy with him being so close so I took a step back.

"Listen to me, Brooklyn is not I repeat not my girlfriend, she just dont know how to let go" he said to me. Did he really think I was that stupid "I just saw you kiss her and you were whispering in her ear" I said back

"Okay maybe I did kiss her back a little but that was spur of the moment and what I told her was to leave so she didnt embarasses herself" is what he said next. I wanted to believe him but I also didnt want to, how could I trust him, how was I to know if he was teling the truth or not.

He smirked looking down at me but didn't say anything "What" I asked him and he just started to slowly walk towards me and I walked backward until I hit the wall next to my bed.

He gently held onto my waist and whispered "You sound a little jealous babygirl" he said with a hint of playfulness in his voice. I scoffed at him "Please, me jealous of her" I responded back.

He picked my up so fast my head started spinning and placed his face close to mine. My mind was all over the place, my heart was fluttering and skipping beats, I had a hard time remembering to breathe, he looked me in my eyes and licked his lips. I was on a special kind of high, I was high off him.

The way he looked at me was intoxicating, I could not think of a better place to be, his arms were so strong and he held me effortlessly before gently laying me on my bed and hovering over me.

His lips were mere inches from mine and I knew he was going to kiss me, I was so glad that I had put on some Carmex not too long ago, I closed my eyes and readied myself for it.

He burst out laughing and I was so confused "I knew you wanted all this babygirl, but not yet" he said still slightly laughing. He leaned forward and kisses my forehead before getting up and walking to the door "See you later firecracker" he said with a big goofy smile on his face.

Then he left, like he seriously just left the one time I wanted him to stay. I grabbed a pillow from the side of my bed and screamed into it. I could not believe he did that to me, but did I really want him to kiss me? "No" I said trying to make myself believe that if was true.

I could still feel where his lips touched my skin and it felt heavenly, I had to snap out of it, this was not the time for these feelings to happen I needed to focus on dance and myself so I got up turned on some music and practiced my eight counts to get my mind of off him.