Let's Play Pretend ~+*

Chapter 4

"Ma?" Jamal says as soon as he peaks his head into the kitchen. "Hey baby!" Ms. Ellis says and gets up from the table to hug Jamal. "What are you doing here?" "I can't talk to my best friend?" She says looking over at my mom. "Hey moms." Jamal says nodding towards my mom. "Hello Jamal." That's what he calls her and that's what I call his mom.

"I mean you can, it's just I thought you went to work today." "I work down the street Jamal, I'm using my 30 minute lunch break." "Hey moms." I say to Jamal's mom. I kiss my mom on the cheek. "We're going to be working on our project so we'll be upstairs." I say. My mom smirks. I roll my eyes.

"Let me know if y'all want something to eat." Moms says. "We'll be okay ma." Jamal says. We walk up to my room and I close the door. Jamal is the only boy my mom would let upstairs into my room. Especially with the door closed.

I can hear my mom down there snickering to Jamal's mom.

"They just won't quit." Jamal says as he flops on my bed. "They still think we gone get together or something." I say rolling my eyes logging into my computer. "I been told her." Jamal says pulling out his laptop.

We work on the project for about 2 hours. Then my mom knocks on the door.

"Jamal you wanna stay for dinner?" "You know his fat ass is." I say laughing. "Shut up." He says throwing a pillow at me. "Yeah moms thanks." My mom laughs and closes the door back. "You always eating up our food GO HOME!" I yell at him throwing the pillow back.

"Aye, stop that right now." He says closing his computer. "Or what." I say getting up from my desk walking to Jamal.

I throw the pillow at Jamal's face along with any other ones I can find on my bed. He then grabs some pillows in my bean bag chair and throws them at me with a big force. We're laughing screaming as he hits me with pillows left and right.

I tackle him on my bed and beat him with two pillows at once. I'm on top of him when he grabs one of the pillows and smushes my face into it. I'm screaming, he's laughing and now he's on top of me. "Stop playing Liv." He says and hits me one last pillow. He then rolls to the side of my bed and now we're both facing up on my bed.

I try to catch my breath.

"You never had to do all of that." I say. "Don't get in a pillow fight with me unless you wanna lose." He says laughing. "I hate you." I say rolling my eyes getting up. "Love you too." he says and kisses me on my cheek, grabs his laptop and walks over to his bookbag.

I check my phone.

No new messages.

"Whats going on with you and Vincent?" Jamal says noticing my face. "What do you mean?" I say turning my phone off. "C'mon Liv, I know when something's wrong, and why was he doing too much at your locker?" He walks back over to the bed.

"I don't know." I lie. "We'll figure it out though." I say. Jamal's stomach rumbles.

"Let's go downstairs." I say and laugh. "Good idea." he says and we both walk out of my room.

We eat dinner, and then after we watch a movie and Jamal goes home. I start to get ready for bed when I see my phone light up.

Text from Bae.

So, he did text me.

I respond, smiling down at my phone. I finish getting ready and go into my room and lay on my bed.

The phone light illuminates my room as I'm laying there texting Vincent.

We text until 12 in the morning, and then I go to sleep.