What's Meant To Be and What's Not

Part 2

At the moment I couldn't recall everything that happened the night before, but I was sure that I had a crazy ass dream that was too blurry to understand or explain to anyone but myself. Once I was able to somewhat gain strength in my legs I opened the top drawer grabbed some sweats and a T-shirt and headed for the bathroom for a shower. While undressing I felt something wet slide down my leg . "Damn my period early 🙄" I said to myself . I proceeded to take a shower put a pad on and headed downstairs. The house looked the same way I felt. Like shit , a hot mess!

"Hey boo" my mama said as she sat the hot skillet of cornbread from the oven on the stove. "Hey ma" I replied. She went on to tell me that nesha called to see if I was up and to text her when ever I could. So I go back upstairs to look for my phone which I couldn't seem to find for nothing so I started to clean my room until I did.

*background info on nesha: she's my best friend I've known her since we were in diapers our mamas are best friends. Shes about 3 years older than me *
So I text nesha and she starts to asks what I wanted to do to celebrate graduating and I told her I didn't have anything planned. "We should go on Beale street you know get cute and go out." I told her I really wasn't in the mood for it especially after yesterdays party I'm still drunk as hell 🥴. But she went on to say how I barely went out and it's my senior year. Thinking about everything I been through in the past 4 years I deserve to enjoy myself. "Okay cool" I responded. "Oh and my friend sha gone come with us, you remember sha right?" She asks. I remembered but didn't know much about her but she was a cool person. I never got any bad vibes.

*THE NIGHT BEFORE GRADUATION DAY*
Two weeks later We get to Beale street and it's packed as hell I mean like MardiGras in New Orleans packed. (Beale street is a historical street in Memphis,tn where residents and visitors walk down a long stop that has restaurants bars movie theaters and live music.)Of course I'm under age so nesha bought some club tails so we could save money and have a good time🤷🏾‍♀️. I'm like less than half way through my second drink and I'm starting to tipsy. I'm having a good time though. but everybody knows after drinking it's time to eat 😋. So nesha, sha and I are ducked off in the corner on our phones going back and forth about where we gone eat at. Nesha starts going off about ihop 🗣. She looks up and the annoying sound of her voice stops ringing in my ear. Once i noticed she wasn't talking anymore I looked up and damn.

6'6 light skinned curly head with tattoos 😍🤤 I dropped my drink tryna pull myself together. "Hey umm are you mari?" He asked. I stood there for a second trying to figure out who was so lucky enough to have him even come their way and it was me 😂 "oh uh uh yeah I'm Mari do I know you?" "No but you dropped your id " I smiled and thanked him.. "My name is Steven nice to meet you" he said with a smile. He was the not only handsome but gentle even in the tone of voice he used.

He told me how he was from Virginia and I could tell because he had a accent that would make drip 💧 like a faucet. The background noise was chaotic but I could only hear and see him. We talked for about an hour until nesha interrupted saying we were taking too long and that she and sha was going to another bar and she knew the bartender so I was able to get drinks. She was already drunk as hell and I was sobering up from the talk I had with Steven so but we agreed on taking Uber home so fuck it !

*GRADUATION DAY
I woke up the next morning lost as hell. In my head I'm thinking ... "Where's my phone? damn I stink whats in my hair? When did I throw up ? What time is it? Oh shit I graduate today let me get up. " In the mist of searching the bed trying to find my phone I noticed... this isn't my the color of my sheets... then I looked around the room ... THIS AINT MY MF ROOM 😳 But at the same time the room looked familiar 🤔. I stopped in my tracks and looked around the room and listened to my surroundings.
I could hear loud music coming from the front of the room. I'm scared as hell to open the door because who knows where I am and how I even got here. I opened the door and looked around before stepping out. The music was so loud I couldn't hear if someone was walking towards me if I wanted to. I get to the living room and start to look around and guess where the fuck I was 🤦🏾‍♀️.