Their Journey.

F O U R T E E N.

                                                                                Khyra

After dinner, JaMar asked to talk chill on the porch for a minute and when I was about to say no, mom cut me off and told him I will and to come back in before it got too late. I told him I needed a jacket since the weather had picked up and it was a little chilly. I stopped by my room and grabbed my favorite NIKE windbreaker jacket. I told twin I would be back and left out the room before she could say anything. When I went outside he was sitting in the same corner we were in earlier. I walked over and sat down and started to pick with my nails. He looked nervous and I found it cute. I was no one to be nervous around so I don't know why he was. 

"Why are you nervous? I'm nobody special." He looked at me like I had grown an extra eye. 

"You are special and I'm not nervous. Stop capping on me man." He started laughing. I didn't know what to say so I just looked out at the sky. I knew he had a thing for me but I wasn't sure I wanted a relationship. Seeing my mom go through what she went through affected me because I seen up close and personal how ugly love could get. I only seen old love and that was from my older uncles and grandparents. I haven't seen young love close. I don't know if I was willing to open my heart like that. I felt him staring at me so I looked to him and while I was thinking he was going to look away, he didn't, instead he started smiling really big. "You know one day that bestfriend title is going to change, right? I'm willing to take you as whatever right now and will wait however long I have to. I'm not giving up on us." I really was lost for words now. Usually I always had a remark to throw back at him but since the dinner he has been persistent in trying to be around. He had scored with my mom and had her on his side and honestly my whole family were #teamJaMar. We sat and talked about our plans for tomorrow before I told him I was going inside to get ready for bed. He stood and hugged me and seemed to not want to let go. 

After I got inside I went to my room I shared with my sister. She was laying on my bed with a big grin on her back. "Somebody got you smiling hard. You holding out on the tea sus?" I asked her. She tried to put a fake unbothered face on but started smiling again. "Girl it's just Ra. He's been making some corny but cute comments." I knew Khya was the one who wanted to be in love, saying that she wanted what mom and our dad had. She wanted to experience real love and knew that she would eventually. We talked for a while before I went to go shower and went back into the room seeing she was still in my bed and had turned on a movie. I knew she was probably going to sleep in my bed with me and Kameron would be coming in later in the night/morning to come get in her bed. Usually when he came over he would stay in the den playing the game until he was tired and would come in our room. 

I got in the bed with her and checked my phone and seen I had a few messages from a few different people talking about our senior orientation. I turned to Khya and decided to bring up the senior president thing to her. "So I was thinking, since I'm probably going to be busy with work and everything but I still want some hand in our senior activities so I thought you should run for senior president. I mean one thing we know how to do is have fun and I want my last year of high school to be memorable." She looked away from the movie and faced me back, "I was already thinking about that. I know I wanted my senior year to be fun as well and me and Faith were thinking about running for president and vice president. I knew you were going to bring it up eventually. I'm down but I am going to need your help winning." I knew that wasn't going to be hard for her to win because we were considered popular. We weren't mean popular but we associated with everyone, literally. I started getting sleepy so I turned on my side facing away from her and started to doze off.