Junior Year - Twists and Turns

Chapter 9: Choosing Sides

Later that night I ended up going to the movies with Cindy, Star's younger sister, and her boyfriend. I told Cindy about everything happened during the week and she just shakes her head and gives me advice. Her boyfriend is funny, his name is Luis, and he tries to be helpful and tells me that it's not worth doing stupid things. I just nod and agree because its true, but I just want to do something new this summer. I felt like I was going back to the person I was before I moved to Alexandria and if the people I call my friends are hating the person I'm being, then why bother trying to please them at all?

We ended up watching Step Up: All in, which I found entertaining. The entire time I was texting Erick and we planned to oovoo each other when I got home. We weren't able to get it work because either his phone or my phone was being retarded, so I just went to sleep. The next day I had to go with my sister again to Hammond because she couldn't ride the bus and had gone missing in action yesterday. I was supposed to stay at the library across the street, but it was starting to lightly rain and I wasn't dressed in anything for the rain to come.

As I'm walking home Star texts me telling me that she wants me to go with her to Walmart so she can buy Chalo a shirt since she had ripped his when she went to his house that Saturday. I got home to change, get an umbrella and left as if I was going back to Hammond. Star was parked behind the building waiting for me, I didn't want my parents to know I was gonna go out with her because of what happened Saturday. We left for Walmart, talked the entire ride there about everything that had exactly happened on Saturday when she went M.I.A. After buying him his shit, she dropped it off at his place in Springfield and we hung out until I had to go back to Hammond.

Star had left me at the library and I waited for my sister. By the time my sister got out it had started to pour and we had to walk through it. We got home soaking wet and I went straight to the shower. Later that night I decided to sleep in my little sister bed in my grandparents room because I wanted to be on my phone all night without my uncle seeing.

Erick has stayed bugging me to talk to my friends because they all stay saying he's a bad influence on me. I finally caved in and gave him Hilda's kik thinking he just wanted to talk and try to smoke weed with her or some shit. I fell asleep for a few hours and when I woke up Hilda had sent me this long ass message about how she was going to kill Erick and all this other stuff.

Me: What happened?

Hilda: He called me a fucking hoe ! what the fuck.

Me: tf, why?

Hilda: I don't fucking know ! But i'm gonna cut him! Like why the fuck would you go crying to him ? You gave him my kik !?

Me: I'm sorry, I didn't think he was going to do that shit. I'll talk to him.

Hilda: No, I'm done. If you fuck with him, we aren't talking.

That killed me. Hilda said a whole lot more and I did everything I could to make sure I didn't lose her. Hilda's the only person who gets me and losing her would be like losing my other half and I wouldn't be able to live without her. I finally got her to not leave me and I decided to talk to Erick about being a fucking dick head.

Me: Why the fuck did you call my best friend a Slut?

Erick: The fuck. Calm down, I was just playing.

Me: Whatever, you don't even know her like that and now she's mad at me.

Erick: fuck it.

Me: You know what I'm just not even gonna get into it.

Erick stays being on weed and alcohol, so talking to him was going to be useless. Hilda had made it very clear that I couldn't talk to her about Erick at all. I couldn't really loose Hilda because without her life would just be a blank piece of paper. When she told me it was either Erick or her, I was blown. Erick had come into my life and completely impacted me in a way that I couldn't explain... and for me to just drop him like he was nothing was going to be hard as shit. Somehow we made it work out though, I still have my Hazelnut and I rarely meet Erick.