"He was beautiful, but he was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful."- _____
"Rocky clean your room! This damn boy keep knocking on my door for you to come outside." My mother yelled. Once again as always. Sometimes I wondered why couldn't she just come into my room instead of yelling.
Later on I had finished cleaning and doing my homework to come outside with my friends. It was usually the same person. My crush, he would knock on my door everyday for me to come play outside.
Michael. Michael was his name. He was short almost my height, had beautiful brown eyes which I always found myself getting lost into them, his smile was so white you could see his beautiful teeth in the night and he was very smart.
As I went on and on daydreaming like I normally did I heard an snap. There he was snapping his fingers in my face then he opened up his mouth and said "Here yo ass go with this shit. We finna chill or what?" As he laughed.
"Yeah, nigga move yo damn hands." As I smacked his forehead. Silently we both walked down the steps out of my apartment building and went to the open space area where everyone was. Everyone as in drug dealers, so-called "drug dealers", hoes or "fast little girls" which other women would say for the females in school, kids everywhere playing, nosy neighbors, etc.
There was a group of us that all played around together. There were six of us. Aaliyah the oldest, Quan and Michael second oldest , Q third oldest and there's Kam and I the youngest.
"Man man, you talked to harmony?" Aaliyah asked Michael while peeking over at me. Liyah knew exactly what she was doing I had a huge crush on Michael for years, but Michael had a girlfriend who's apparently name is Harmony. I've never met her nor has she met me and I knew nothing about her til a year later of me and Man man's friendship. Once I found out I kept my feelings away because I respect anyone's relationship so I decided to just stay his friend.
"Nah, she been doing... her lately." He said lowly, as I rolled my eyes. The thing with Michael and Harmony's relationship is that she always cheated and he knew, but that was his first love so I kept my mouth damn shut like always.
I believed that Michael knew I had a crush on him, he just never said anything because he didn't wanna ruin our friendship and I also believed he just didn't see me in that way.
Later on we all began to play fight which we enjoyed for some reason. I enjoyed it cause most times I would get alone with Michael, Q would try to get alone with Aaliyah, Quan would try to get alone with me and Kam just loved to play Cupid cause he's stupid.
As the street lights had turned on, which always pissed me off because my friends and I had to be in the house for school. The only two people who was allowed to stay out late was Michael and Aaliyah because their mom didn't care.
"Where my hug at?" Said Michael looking at me crazy.
"Oh yeah! I forgot." I met him half way while he began to laugh. I let the hug last for a few more seconds and finally walked into my home waving at my friends goodnight...
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