The Boy Next Door | LaMelo Ball

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A few weeks later, everyone is talking about homecoming.

I don't think I am going to go because LaMelo and I haven't spoken about it.

When I bring it up he just shrugs his shoulder and he changes the subject.

I find it weird but I shake it off.

I get ready for basketball practice and I tie my hair up.

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After practice, everyone gets ready to leave.

I wait for LaMelo, but he is no were to be seen.

"Have you seen Melo?" I asked Giselle.

Giselle shakes her head. "No, no I have not, not since practice ended."

Giselle gets up from the gym floor. "Mabey try asking on of his friend, I have to go, bye!" Giselle rushes off,

Weirdo, I think to myself.

I put on my sliders and I grab my duffel bag.

I walk over to LaMelo's friends and teammates and they look at me as I walk up to them.

"-Shut up, she's coming!" I hear one of them say.

"Hey Joslyn,"

"Hey, have you seen LaMelo?"

His friends nod their heads.

"Great," I say. "Where is he at?"

"Can't say, he told us to give you this though!"

They hand me a sticky note and I look at it.

You have to search for me ;)
-Melo

I do not have time for this, I wanna go home!

"Okay, he give you anything else?" I asked.

"He told us to tell you to walk out of the gym, you'll find another clue waiting for you. He also said 'Good Luck!'"

I nod my head letting out a groan.

I walk out of the gym and I see a basketball roll towards me.

I pick it up and I notice writing on the sides of it.

Go to the place where we first met, you'll like the surprise that I have bet!
-Big Daddy

"Boy ain't my big daddy!" I walk to my car and I dribble the ball along the way.

I drive home and I park my car in my driveway.

I drop my duffel bag in my room and I see two other basketballs on my bed.

I flip them around and I don't see any message on them.

"I know for a fact that these balls weren't here when I left for school this morning," I say to myself.

I grab the balls and I dribble them across the street.

Once I get there I see a bunch of cars in the drive way.

I recognize them as my friends cars.

"What the hell!" I say to myself.

I walk to the door and I keep on dribbling the two basketballs.

I see Giselle open the door and I look at her.

"Follow me!" Giselle giggles.

I hold the balls in my hand and I follow Giselle to the backyard.

I see some of my friends and some of LaMelo's friends too.

They are standing in a circle and Giselle joins them.

I see her glance to the side of the house and I lift an eyebrow at her.

"Pass!" Giselle says.

I pass her the balls that I dribbled on the way here.

She passes them to someone else and then that person passes them to another person.

I see LaMelo walk from the side of the house and he calls for the balls.

Once LaMelo catches the basketballs, he smiles at me.

"Damn, I finally got the balls to ask you out to homecoming!" LaMelo says grinning from ear to ear.

I smile at him.

"So what do you say?" LaMelo asked. 

"Duh," I walk up to him and I give him a kiss on the lips.

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