New Girl

Chapter 3

"First day at a new school." I groan to myself as the last bell rings.

I've already been harassed and got invited by Jay to meet his friends. I get home, change into a white crop top and black basketball shorts. I decide to slip on my dunks, grab my phone and a hoodie and head out the door.

I head to the court near the school and see Jay talking to three other guys, they all look familiar and I'm pretty sure I have classes with 2 of them. I wonder why he hangs out with Anna instead of them in school. Maybe I caught him on a bad day but the thought lingers in my mind.

"Hey Amari!" Jayshawn calls out. He waves me over to where they're standing "I want you to meet my friends."

Behind him were three boys. One had braids, the other had a red du-rag on, and the last one really caught my attention because he was the only white boy in the group. There was nothing wrong with that it just caught me off guard plus he was kinda cute.

"H-hi." I waved smiling slightly " I'm Amari..." Am I nervous. Girl get it together.

Jay then said pointing to the first boy with the braids "This is Immanuel or Manny."

Then going to the boy with the du-rag " Matt"

Then to the last boy with curly hair "and Samuel but everybody calls him Sam."

Manny and Matt just smiled and waved and Sam didnt do anything. He just kinda stood there.

"We were just about to play a game of basketball you wanna join us?" He asked.

"She's a girl Jay, she's probably gonna be worried about breaking a nail or sweating." Sam says while smirking. I decide to not respond to what Sam said since I don't care what he thinks but Jay does it for me.

"Dude, your girlfriend spazzed on her for accidentally bumping into her today." Jay explains to him

His girlfriend? Then it clicks

"Anna's your girlfriend?" I clutch my stomach and bust out laughing. Sam looks at me.

"Yeah, why is that so funny?" He raises his eyebrows

"It's not but I am so sorry you have to deal with all of that." I say waving my hand in front of me.

He shrugs. "She's not that bad but she has a really bad attitude problem."

"Nah it's more than that g," I start "It's borderline racism. She definitely told me to go back to whatever hood I came from."

"Huh?" Matt says and looks at Sam

Manny just slaps him in the back of the head. "We try to tell this dickhead to do better but our boys in love so what can we do."

Sam grimaced at the word love "Ion know about love but she's cool to kick with once you get to know her." There's a look on his face that I can't read but it doesn't look happy.

Jay and Matt look at each other and start cracking up. There's definitely more to that but I decide to leave it alone.

"Jay why do you hang with her?" I ask him

He stops laughing and rolls his eyes "I don't we were coming back from a student council meeting. I was just following behind her."

"Oh." Is all I get out. I nod my head. That makes a lot more sense now. I do feel bad for Sam though.

"So Amari , where you from?" Jay asks me as he starts dribbling the ball

"Chicago, born and raised." I state proudly grabbing the ball from him.

"Chicago? So your from the same place as Chance the Rapper and G-Herbo?" Matt asks me.

"Yah, Herbo visits the city schools sometimes to tell them about how it's possible to get out of the hood so you don't have to end up in jail or dead." I say everyone looks interested except Sam he just looks annoyed

"So are we gonna play basketball or listen to her life story," Sam sighs. I roll my eyes, what's his problem, I think to myself.

"Yeah let's play ball." I start to dribble the ball cross it between my legs fake the shot and pass the ball straight to Sam. He catches the ball and shoots

"so 2 on 2?" He asks " Me and Matt against Jayshawn and the new girl?" He passes me the ball and I begin to dribble 

"The new girl has a name you know" I state annoyed

"Yah, I know but "new girl" fits you" He tells me smirking. God, is he always this annoying.

"Amari you ready?" Jay asks me giving me a confused look.

"Yah, lets start" I say snapping back into reality

*couple hours later*

The score is 17-20 Jayshawn and I are losing by 2 and all we have to do is make this layup and we're tied. I hate to admit it to myself but Sam is actually really good.

"Jay watch behind you!" I scream as Matt runs to get the ball. Jayshawn passes me the ball and as I go for the layup a body appears out of nowhere.

My life flashed before my eyes. When I realized what had happened Sam was on top of me and Manny was calling for a foul shot. Everything moved so fast up until I realized Sam was on top, I just stared at him and really took in his features like how his eyes are hazel but they changed from brown to green to blue to like a grayish color or how he had permanent dimples as he talked. I don't think he's white anymore but I can't tell where he's from.

"You look good on the bottom" He wispers in my ear as he winks and gets up he lends a hand and I get up.

Matt is at the free throw line as Jay yells out "Oh thank god you guys are finally up I thought you were gonna fuck on the court!"

I just laugh as him and Matt start to moan trying to depict what it would look like and Manny pretends to be the cameraman.

"Chill with all that, he'd have to buy me dinner first" I say laughing "So am I shooting a foul or am I waiting to see who cums first." Jay pushes Matt away and I stick my tongue out as Manny throws me the ball.

"Foul," Manny yells" two shots!" 

I laugh as I go to shoot the first one, it goes in
18-20
I shoot the second one, it goes in
19-20

Jay sprints down the court and I go and defend Matt. He tries throwing me off but I stick with him the whole time. He gets past me and dunks.

"AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!" he says doing his best impression of LeBron

"Ahhhhh....Ahhhhhh..." Sam and Manny whisper screams pretending to be the crowd

I go to high five Jay "Good Game" when suddenly we hear clapping.

When I turn around I feel my stomach turn and my eyes go red.