Where We Live, is Where We Become

CHAPTER EIGHT: His Story

9:09am, my first period class has just started. I was so exhausted, we were at the end of October and the class was talking about the Halloween dance. I wasn't a big fan of it but I know Sasha and Diamond wants to go. I know they would love to dress up in cute outfits too. Our teacher walks in, Mr. Johnson that's his name. He was an average aged man, he was bald with a bread but pretty tall though. 
"Did anybody read the chapter for today ?" He asked the class
The class was ignoring his question, they were all looking the opposite direction of him.
"Come on? Isn't Romeo and Juliet a good story ?" He asked again
"It's just fucked up, how he killed her cousin like that." A student answered him
"Watch your mouth Mike and why you say that ?" Mr. Johnson listened and crossed his arms
I turned around to see who was participating, my eyes widen as I saw who it was. The boy I met a couple of weeks ago. I never knew he was in my class, somehow our eyes met each other. He smirked and winked at me, I suddenly turned around.
"Cuz it's Romeo fault, he came to his side of the park. He should stay at his own hood." He crossed his arms
"Interesting, does anyone has anything else to say?" Mr Johnson asked
The teacher looked at me and sighed, he knew I wasn't paying attention because I was puting my favorite lipgloss on, bubblegum magic.
"Paris, what do you think about this chapter? He asked
I sighed, I hate participating, I just hate when everyone looks at me.
"Well, because of this, two wars will happen a war of destruction and a war of love." I said
The teacher showed interested in my answer, and took some notes. This period was almost over, today just started and I'm already exhausted.

Later on , it was lunch period and I get to see diamond and Sasha. We grabbed our lunch and sat down at a table.
"I'm soo tired." Diamond nagged
"Who you telling !" I yawned
"Who's that ?" Sasha pointed to the boy in my class.
I rolled my eyes , while the boy was trying to make eye contact with me. He was with other boys, probably his friends.
"You know him ?" Diamond asked me
"Not really, just in my class." I said
"Well, he's feeling you odee ." Sasha looked at them
"I don't care ." I said while picking on my food
"Because Andre got your heart right ." Sasha laughed
I pouted and gave them a sarcastic laugh,  Andre always doing his own thing. I still don't know how exactly how he feels about me.

Later that day, the school bell finally rang. That means school is over for today, I ran downstairs meeting these girls in the lobby. However they weren't there, the boy from my class was though. Mike was his name? He approached me, he looked at me up and down and licked his lips.
"What you been up too ?" He asked
I pushed some hair back behind my ear and rolled my eyes. I pulled my purse strap closer because it was falling off my shoulder.
"You're  going to answer me? You been looking too cute ma, not gonna answer." He said
I rolled my eyes once more, not because he was talking to me because my phone died and I couldn't call no one to save me.
"We can study together?" He asked
"Your a smart kid, you don't need a study partner ." I smirked
" I think I do, to get to know you even more ." He looked into my eyes and walked closer to me, I looked in the opposite direction and looked on the ground.
"You can answer your phone?" A familiar voice appeared, I turned around and it was Andre.
"My phone died." I pouted and gave him puppy eyes
He sighed and grabbed my purse from my shoulder and placed it on his.
"Let's go ." He said
"Where we going ?" I asked
"Driving around the block." He said
One eyebrow rise up, when I looked at him in confusion. He started to eye Mike and Mike started to eye him.
I'm actually happy that he came to save me but driving around the block. What is he up too? I wondered
He opened the car door for me and sat in, it was only us.
He looked into my eyes and grilled me
"Why are you looking at me like that ?" I asked
"What are you doing with that kid ?" He responded
"Nothing, he keeps bothering me. I'm trying to ignore him. He's in my class."
Andre started the car and started to drive, he rolled all the windows up. He turned on the radio, I didn't know where we were going. Should I even ask ? 

We passed our block, and kept on driving. I lowered the volume and looked at him. He looked at me and sighed.
"Where are we going?" I asked
"Business trip." he said
"For?"
"Don't worry about it sweetie." He winked at me
  I crossed my arms and looked at the window, 10 minutes later we finally arrived at our destinations.

"Yellowfield Projects", the sign said in front of the sidewalk
"Why are we here?" I asked him
He looked at me and smirked, he put his index finger on my lips. "Shhhh. When you're with  me you don't have to worry."
He got out of his  shiny black porsche, he looked at me and shook his head. I looked at him confused, what did I do? He walked towards my door and opened it for me.
"Like I said, when you're with me, you do not have to worry about anything." he closed the door
I looked at him and blushed, the beautiful sunset reflected on  his  dark skin so beautifully. He was someone I never expected to fall for, he looked at me and smiled.
"Why you so smiley for? You love me already ?" he laughed and crossed his arms
"Shut up. Lets go, where are we going?"
"Relax, just picking up a few things and we're out to the studio." 

"Studio? You  can sing?" I questioned
"Na, but I know someone who can ?" he said

We walked towards the building in the middle,  people was around outside doing their own thing. However it was too active,  people were looking at us like we were from a different planet. Girls were grilling and rolling their eyes at me. The boys stopped their dice game, just to look at Andre. This is the problem with us, everyone has their guard up, no matter where you go, people are going to stop and stare like we got beef or something.  786 was the building number, we entered the building and it smelled like pee so much. We walked into the elevator, he pressed the floor 11 and looked at me and smirked.
"This our little secret." he said
We got out of the elevator,  I followed right behind him, we heard yelling coming from someone's apartment. I looked away however he pushed me to the other side of the hallway.  We finally arrived to where, we are supposed to be at.
"Yo." Andre opened the door
"Yoo." A boy appeared and gave Andre a pound
He was a tall boy, not too dark and not too light  with tattoos all over both of his arms. He had a clean shape up and he also looked clean himself. He looked at me and I looked away, he looked kind of curious.

"Who she?" he asked
Andre looked at me and grinned, I crossed my arms and rolled my eyes. I know what he's going to say, I'm his friend, nothing more and nothing less.
"My girl." Andre said
My eyes widen and I think my jaw literally dropped. His girl, those words rang in my ears for a very long time . He looked at me and grinned onces more.

"You heard what I said." he winked
I didn't want to show any emotions however inside, I was excited because I never felt that way towards anybody and I would never  think anyone would feel that way towards me.  You know what I have to do ? tell the girls! I unlocked my phone  and texted the groupchat

"Omgaaa he told someone I'm his girl!" I texted the groupchat
"Sayy word!" Sasha texted
"And you be like, he doesn't like me. Smh"  Diamond responded
" lol he probably don't, just saying word" I texted back
"Lets see Paris, lets see." Sasha replied
I locked my phone and looked at them, I was trying to be nosey and listen to their conversation. But it was very hard to understand their lango.
" this better be some good gas."   Andre was looking through the big duffle bag
"Stop playing me Andre, you know I always got the goods." the boy laughed
"Yeah yeah." Andre stood up and grabbed my hand and lifted me up from the couch 

We left the apartment and waited for the elevator, however when it arrived it was very crowded. I looked at Andre, he looked very concentrated, he showed so much  determination in his eyes. What he had been through, nobody can tell his story but himself. I wanted to learn so much about him,  his girl or not, I'm still his friend. Finally the next elevator came, we walked in it. We were quiet,  I wanted to know what he was thinking but I didn't want to disturb his peace.

" The life we live in, it's just a game. That's why I'm doing everything I can so I can win. For a fact." he said to me as we walked out of the building.

"And how are you going to win?" I asked

" Telling my story through you."