"Aria?",says a voice nudging my shoulder. I lift my head and see Ms.Vick staring at me through the lens in her glasses.
"Falling asleep in class is not acceptable at all! Detention!",she says slapping a slip onto my desk. I stare at the note in disgust and sigh.
"Girl, I told you we should have came home earlier from the movies.",says Kayla. I look over at her and roll my eyes.
"We saw like...three fucking movies yesterday!",I mutter to her.
"Not gonna lie though, those three boxes of popcorn and jalapeños had my gassed up in the theater.",she whispers to me.
"Thats why it was smelling like eggs and ham! You kept saying it was the boy in front you lier!",I say tossing a crushed of piece of paper at her, and we both giggle.
"Ari, you got eyes to your right.",she says. I look over to see a tall, handsome boy not too far from me. His eyes locked onto mine and quickly looked back ahead. He was the new sophomore everyone was talking about.
"Girl! Thats Miguel they been talking about! You better get him, he over here giving you them lover boy eyes.",she whispers to me.
"Girl no, I don't even know him!",I say.
"You know his name, thats enough right?",she says rolling her neck at me. I brush my hair back with my fingers.
"I don't know man, I'll see.", I say.
"You better, get him first before all these other hoes get to him. You don't want no leftovers.",she says. I roll my eyes and push the detention slip in her face.
"Let me deal with this first.",I say. She nods her head and throws a gum wrapper on the floor.
~Lunch
"Hey coach!",I yell in the gym. He turns around and rolls his eyes.
"Whats you do this time Ari?",he asks.
"Look, I got a detention slip. I fell asleep in class, but you know I have been watching my families kids all weekend. I barely have gotten any sleep! Please just get me out of this one, and I'll sweep the cafeteria after lunch. I promise. It wont ever happen again.",I say to him.
"Aria, this is the last time. If I hear anymore of this nonsense behavior, you wont play in the game next month. Benched. Get it together young lady.",he says to me. I smile and hug him tight.
"Thanks coach!", I say running towards the cafeteria.
I see Kayla and Cathy at a table together waving their hands at me telling me to come.
"Girl where was you?!",asks Kayla.
"Talking to coach! He's gonna get me out of it, but I gotta clean up the cafeteria after lunch.",I say.
"Oh damn, well I cant help you with that, I have to run a mile to get my grade up in PE. Can you believe I'm still failing coach class?! After all the squats I do in front of him!",says Cathy.
"You so god damn nasty Cathy! Ima start snitching on you.",says Kayla.
Cathy and Kayla are twins. We been best friends since elementary. We fuck with each other hard.
"Kayla?",I ask.
"Girl, did you forget I got the test with Mr.Butler? Ain't no way he gonna let me slip out to clean.",she says.
"Damn! Im finna be here looking stupid!",I say pounding my fist on the table.
"What you getting mad for? That detention slip?",says a voice behind me. I turn to see the new boy, Miguel.
"Um no, I got somebody to get me put of it. But I have to clean the cafeteria after lunch. Thats the problem.",I say. Miguel sits down next to me and smiles.
Kayla nudges Cathy and they both giggle.
"Me and Cathy best get going,we got girl shit to do.",says Kayla blowing a bubble with her gum. Catchy smiles hard at me and waves and they both scurry off.
I look back over at Miguel as he stares hard into my eyes.
"You know I could help you out?",he says.
"No its okay, your first day cleaning the cafeteria wouldn't be so great would it?",I say to him. The bell rings for next period.
"Ill take that risk.",he says. We both get up and he follows me to the corner of the cafeteria to get the brooms as everyone leaves. Minutes later the cafeteria is clear and we start to sweep.
"Miguel is your name right?",I ask him.
"Yeah, word gets out here fast huh?",he asks. I nod and smile.
"So where you coming from? You live here or like...what?",I ask. I tried to keep the silence from coming.
"Moved here from California, in Los Angeles. My mom got a new job, and wanted the best for me and my brother.",he says.
"Oh, thats good. You like Michigan so far?", I ask him.
"The weathers different, other than that yeah i like it.",he says. He looks up at me and smirks.
"What about you? Aria right?",he asks.
"Yep, or Ari.", I say smiling hard. I couldn't stop smiling!
"Why you smiling so hard? You like what you see?",he asks. I look at him and raise a brow.
"I barely met you.."
"Im talking about appearance, you can learn about the other side later.",he says sweeping closer to me.
"I don't know, you alright.."
"Alright? You sure, because you smiling hard girl.",he says walking up to me. He was so close a chill went down my back.
"Aria! You cleaning?!",says a voice on the other side of the cafeteria. I look over and see Coach.
"Yes Coach, Miguel is helping me.",I say as Miguel stumbles back a bit.
"Better, I don't want to ever see you sweeping a cafeteria again! You hear me?",he yells.
"Yes coach.",I say back as he leaves. I push between my eyebrows in embarrassment.
"You in a sport huh?",he asks. I look up at him and nod.
"I can tell. Coaches be hard on good players. What you play? Basketball?", he asks me.
"Yeah. Good guess.",I say continuing to sweep.
"You got a game coming up?",he asks.
"Yeah, next month.",I say.
"Ill be there, see what this girls basketball teams got.",he says. I roll my eyes.
"Oh we got something alright, just wait and see.",I say. He smirks and sweeps the dirt pile with mines and tosses it in the trash.
"Well I guess its clean, I don't feel like cleaning the tables.",he says.
"Im not either way, you coming or staying?",I ask him grabbing my backpack.
"Where we going?",he asks.
"The library, just to show your around a bit. Come on stop asking questions!",I say. He grabs his bag and quickly catches up with me.
We walk through the silent empty hallways and up the stairs. I felt his eyes behind me and turned around and see him looking at me. He steps up the last stair to me and looks deep i to my eyes.
"Your beautiful.",he says walking to me as I walk backwards into the wall.
"Thank you.", I say with the same stupid smile on my face. He stops in front of me and pushes a strand of my hair from my ponytail behind my ear.
"Come on, lets go to the library.",he says whispering to me. He was teasing!
