Hurting (a mindless behavior story)

Like Old Times- Chapter Thirteen

Anna's POV

When we arrived at the boys house, we all parked.

We all got out of our cars and walked up to the front door. Craig opened the door and everyone walked in.

I walked over to the couch and plopped down. Roc sat down next to me. I sighed and pulled out my homework. I turned sideways and faced Roc and slid back so my back was on the armrest and I put my feet up, just in case he tried to slide closer.

He sighed. "Look, can you talk to me, please?" He asked with pleading eyes.

"Hey. How was your day Chres?" I asked. Wow. That's the worst way to start a conversation. You know what I'm just gonna try letting people in and see what happens.

"Besides you being mad at me, good." He said smiled. I guess because I called him Chres instead of Roc. I chuckled.

"Yeah I know I can be a pain in the ass." I said and gave him a small smile.

He smiled back. "You got that right." I would have taken that to offense but I know that I was acting like a pain in the ass so I just laughed. He looked at me with a happy confused face.

"What?" I asked. 

"If you were any other girl you would have lashed out because I agreed that you were a pain in the ass." He said and raised his eyebrow.

"Well I know I am one so there's no reason to get mad." I told him. "And I'm not like everyone else. Being normal and the same as everyone is BORING!" I said and laughed.

"Wow." He said to himself and chuckled.

"So, you and Nevaeh huh?" I asked and smiled with one eyebrow raised.

"She's cute." He said and blushed. He looked over at her doing her homework while sitting on the couch listening to music.

"Go talk to her." I said and semi pushed him towards her.

"Okay okay. No need to be pushy." He said and walked over to her. He plopped down next to her and she smiled up at him and took out her earphones.

Craig came and sat next to me.

"What's up?" He asked.

"Nothing. I'm just about to start my homework." I said.

"No. What's up with you? All today you were pushing people away after you and Brianna got into a fight." He said.

I got quiet. "It was nothing. It's just I've never been in a fight before and she just started saying the wrong things to me and.....I just lashed out. I was shocked I did that and I just didn't know how to handle it." I told him. "Then yall kept saying don't shut us out and I didn't know if I could stop shutting people out but I wanna let you know that I'm trying to let people in again."

"Anna, it's ok. We got you, alright?" He asked.

"Okay." I said.

"Now on to a better note, can you help me with my math? I don't understand that shit." He said. I chuckled.

"Sure." I said and helped him.

Ray's POV

I was sitting at the table eating a taco and DeJara came up and sat near me.

"You must really like tacos." She said and chuckled.

"You got that right." I said and took another bite of my taco.

"Wow. I bet you I can eat more tacos than you can in a minute." She told me.

"No you can't. IM THE TACO KING! You can't beat me boo boo." I said in a ghetto voice and patted my head.