Junior Year - Twists and Turns

Chapter 10: False Love

Wednesday came and went quickly. On Thursday I was supposed to go meet Carla and instead ended up going to see Erick. Erick wanted me to go see him early, as in 10 in the morning early. We finally came to agree to meet at 11:30 and I had to tell my grandma that I was on my way to go see Carla and do our history summer assignment. I leave at 11 and walk through the creek, the town houses and Willow Run. The streets aren't as busy as they normally tend to be and I was wondering why and then I remembered that it was only 11 and no one is really out in the summer around that time.

I get to the park where we always meet and tell him that I'm there, he tells me to just stay there and wait. I'm scrolling through my phone and decide to call my friend Brittany, but ironically Erick's heading my way as I start the call. She picks up and we start talking about the summer assignment, "I did the vocab and I don't know how to do the questions. I can't even find the answer to question 1."

Erick creeps up behind me and has his body pressed against my back and whispers in my ear, "I'll give you an answer."

"Stop," I say in such a funny way.

"I didn't say anything.. what?" Brittany was confused on the other end not knowing what was happening on my side.

"I'll call you back just text me," I say as I start to turn around and face Erick.

He mumbles, "No she won't."

He walks towards the monkey bars and stands there and I'm just standing there staring at him. I stare at the way he does things, the way he stands, the way he acts and I just think about how I could have done such a fucked up thing to Oscar. He turns around and says, "No hi? No hug?"

I make that annoying ugh sound and say, "My bad."

He walks towards me and give me a hug with a peck on the lips, "Hi."

"Hi," I smile.

We start walking towards his apartment, "I've been up all night, I haven't been able to sleep."

"Why?" I ask knowing that he was probably out with his crew, but as he calls it family.

He smiles, "And then we have a show tonight so I've been calling in radio stations to promote so that people can come out to see us. I've also been calling them so that they can listen to our new song Day by Day. I've been having to do that deep voice you know?"

I can't help but laugh at how excited he is, "Yeah I know."

"You should come to one of my shows," he says as we cross the street to get to his building.

"I should," I say between my teeth.

We get to his building and for the second time we don't go to the laundry room, we go into his apartment. His nephew was there, watching T.V. and looks up at us as we walk through the door.

"This is my nephew," he stops to gesture to him and then he gestures to me, "This is Mirella."

"Hi," I'm the shy type of person when it comes to meeting people, especially family members. I stand as he walks back and forth looking for something and then realize he called me by my middle name. I was going to ask him what he called me but eventually forgot all about it. He finally finished doing whatever he was doing and starts head to his room, "C'mon."

I just follow him.

"Don't open the door for anybody," he yells to his nephew, whose name I can't remember.

Obviously we go to his room for that main thing in this whole FUCK buddy relationship we have. He sits on his bed and this time unlike last week when I was there he is more sensitive to what he does. He even asked me if I cared if he tried some new stuff and honestly I didn't care at the moment. We get into it and this time out of the others was intense, we went for nearly half an hour... non-stop.