Is It Real Love ~ Kelly Oubre Jr.

Chapter 8

"Who's there?" Kelly asked as he heard a knock on the door of his room.
"It's me Kelly! Mommy! Can I come in love?" His mom said with her soft voice that always made him feel better.
"Okay mom come in."
His mother opened the door, came towards him, and put her arms around him.
"What's the matter baby? Why are you sad?" His mom said while patting his back.
"I'm not sad mom. I'm just tired. I had a basketball game as you know, and it's not always easy being the best player. Everyone expects a lot from me, so I've got to play harder than ever," Kelly said as he sighed.
"No Kelly. There's another reason. You can't lie to me anyways. I'm your mother and I gave birth of you. I memorized you my love," His mom said softly.
She knew something happened to him and he doesn't want to tell her.
"Kellolo my love please tell me what the matter is. I know something happened to you. You can't hide anything from mommy."
"MOM CAN YOU JUST PLEASE GO!? NOTHING HAPPENED TO ME! I'M FINE! STOP CALLING ME KELLOLO," Kelly screamed as he burst into tears.
His mother wasn't mad at the fact that he lashed out at her in that way. She knew that whenever her son was angry, something vital happened to him and he's hiding it from her.
"I fucking messed up," he softly said and sighed.
After a few moments, Kelly's father came into his room with a reddened and furious face. He was angry at Kelly because he shouted at his mother in that way.
"KELLY? WHAT THE HELL?! WHO SAID YOU CAN SHOUT AT YOUR MOM IN THAT WAY? WHY WOULD YOU SHOUT LIKE THAT?!?!?"
"It's none of your business," Kelly's mom said as she rolled her eyes.
"DON'T ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME! HERE, I'M TRYING TO DEFEND YOU AND TEACH OUR SON A LESSON AND YOU ACT LIKE A PEACEMAKER?!" Kelly's dad angrily replied.
Now he's mad at both Kelly and his wife.
"You are also not allowed to shout at me. There's a problem with Kelly. You are not a real dad."
"OH REALLY."
"STOOOPPPPP!!!!!!!!" Kelly shouted out.
"Don't y'all see what you're doing??? I'm fine and you're making it a big deal! Leave my room both of you," He added.
His parents were shocked and directly left the room.
"You don't know nothing." Kelly's mom continued the argument.
The father rolled his eyes anyways then raised up his middle fingers, left, and slept on the sofa.
He didn't want to sleep next to his wife. He didn't like the way she defended Kelly and shrieked at him in that way.
Kelly's mom went up to her room and slept anyways. His parents have always been messy and on and off with their relationship.
Kelly couldn't fall asleep. He was super mad. The little problem he had, turned into a big event that involved his parents.
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The alarm ringed at Maria's place. It was time to wake up. Another boring Tuesday at school.
She wasn't in the mood of dressing up too good, so she just wore a red T-shirt that had written on the middle: CHILL. and blue leggings with her white converse.
She went downstairs.
"Bye mom! Bye dad! Gotta go I woke up late again."
"Ok bye baby!" Both of her parents waived bye to her; and she waived back.
Just then, as Maria was stopping to open the door, she heard her dad mumble.
"Please stop waking up late. I don't want you to slack off," he sweetly said and sighed.
"Okay dad. I'll do my best as usual!" She answered as she blew a kiss to both of her parents and finally left to school.
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"Good morning Mrs. Smith." All students said as they sat on their desks.
"DROP QUIZ!" Mrs. Smith, their biology teacher shouted out without even telling anyone 'hi'.
She gave out the papers. Maria looked at the paper. It was easy for her.
She liked biology, so she always paid more attention to its explanation more than any subject.
It was math time.
"Hello students! Before starting the new lesson, let me give back your tests."
"Joe"
"Andrew"
"George"
"Nicole"
"Kelly"
"Anthony"
"Tia"
"Laura"
....
"Maria"
Maria's heart beat very fast. She was never stressed to receive back a test. She always had the highest grades in her class in her old school.
She took her paper and saw her grade: '13/20' and with the minus 3 '10/20'. Maria was really sad and she wanted to cry, but when she found out that most students took bad grades, she actually felt a bit better.
"Yo bro. How much did you take?" John asked Kelly.
"10-3" Kelly said while chuckling.
"7? Lmao" John said sarcastically again.
"Haha yeah what about you?"
"11-3 a point higher than you."
"Okay sit down students!" The math teacher shouted out.
"I'm very upset with you. You never study, so you will all repeat the test. No exception and I won't count this grade on your report cards," she added.
Maria was happy again. She was comfortable again. She didn't have to worry about her horrible grade nor any other student. All they've got to do is to study more and get higher grades, but their teacher had other plans.
"Still that doesn't mean that you won't get your parents to sign it and tomorrow is the repetition of the test," the teacher said and frowned.
"Noooo Nicole how am I gonna get my parents to sign this shit?" Maria said in a stressed way. She didn't want her parents to see her "amazing" grade.
"Me neither Maria! I took a 9. This test was really hard. My parents are gonna kill me," Nicole replied back angry too.
"Well at least we learned our lesson: always study. Don't always distract yourself with parties," Maria said sighing in desperate sadness. It was a horrible week for her. She failed a test; it won't count in the report card but she will get her parents to sign it, she fought with Kelly a million times, and she was dumped twice.
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It was lunch time. Nicole and Maria sat in their costumary place. There was salad today. Nicole really liked vegetables as well as Maria. They have so many things in common.
"Maria, I'm still worried about the test.... My parents..." Nicole told Maria as she sighed with sadness.
"What can we do Nicole....? We just got to tell our parents..... WAIT! I'VE GOT AN IDEA!"
"What Maria? You crept me out," Nicole said rolling her eyes at her.
"We can just tell them that it was an unprepared test. The teacher explained a lesson and then did a test on the new lesson,"
"MARIA YOU ARE A GENIUS!" Nicole said and then they both laughed out loud.
"I don't like lying to my parents, but that's the only way to save ourselves," Maria said raising her eyebrows.
Suddenly, Andrew came to their table.
"Hi girls! There is basketball practice today. Would you like to come and watch me practice?" Andrew said and smiled.
"Yes why not." They both said.
"What time though?"
"Right after school."
"Okay let's tell our parents Nicole."
They told their parents and they said they can.
"Andrew is a really nice guy, Maria. He clearly has a thing for you but most importantly some respect," Nicole exclaimed as Maria sighed.
"Unfortunately though, the heart wants what it wants," Maria mumbled and shrugged.
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School was over and it was time for basketball practice. As soon as Maria and Nicole entered the practice facility, Maria found her eyes meeting Kelly again!
"Nooo," she thought.
"He's.... Here...."
"What's the matter Maria? Let's sit and watch."
"Okay Nic-o-l----e look who's here!" She was hardly able to talk.
Kelly looked so fine while practicing and this hypnotized Maria.
"Nahhh Maria... Just ignore him."
"I c----a-n---'---t!"
Andrew was really triggered when he noticed that Maria's attention was given to Kelly. "What's wrong with her? She doesn't likw me? I always treat her right and help her in homework...." Andrew thought madly. He was sick of this.
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Practice was over and while Nicole and Maria were leaving, Kelly threw the basketball on Maria's butt on purpose!
Maria turned red and she didn't know what to say.
"Hey y'all are you alive?"
She couldn't believe it... He was harrassing her.
"Just ignore him Maria let's go," Nicole whispered to her.
Andrew had other plans rather than ignoring him. He grabbed Kelly's hands and said shouting in a loud voice.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING KELLY?! AREN'T YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF?! YOU ALWAYS HARRASS HER! JUST STOP, WE ARE ALL SICK OF YOU." Andrew yelled and shoved him.
"IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Kelly said as he glared at him and didn't avoid eye contact.
Andrew just left when he felt that Kelly was about to hit him.
"Thanks for defending me earlier Andrew." Maria said and smiled.
Andrew didn't answer her though. He just went past her. He was sick of this.
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