Neighborly Love

A Night To Remember

Narrator's P.O.V.
The next day Tamira woke up with a smile and did her everyday morning routine. As she was headed out to the car she hears.
"Hey, Tamira!" she turns to see the boy who makes her heart skip a beat.
Tamira's P.O.V.
"Hey Erik" I say as I get ready to open up my car door.
"Ride with me to school today" he offers, I hesitate before agreeing.
"How's your morning going so far?" He asks. "Uhm pretty good for the most part, yours?" I say trying to sound as casual as possible. "That's good to hear mine is going pretty good as well." The rest of the car ride was filled with awkward small talk until we arrived at school.
"Want me to walk you to class?" He asks with a smile, "sure." we walked to my class and before I knew it he had to leave to go to his class. I don't really like my first period, English so I texted Erik.
ME🤓:
Hey
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Hey what's up
ME🤓:
Nothing im just really bored in this class, you?
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Same, wanna hang out at lunch?
ME🤓:
Sorry I can't I made plans
ERIK😅😅:
Oh really😏 that's a bummer lol
ME🤓:
I'm kidding I don't even know anyone here besides you lol, so yea I guessss🙄 we can hang😂
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Great I'll see you at lunch
ME🤓:
See ya👋🏽
Next period was Drama and I sat my seat when I hear someone say.
"So who's the cutie your always with??" This dirty blonde haired girl asks.
"My friend..." I say with a confused look.
"Yea, but whats his name" she says with an overly toothy grin,
"Erik." I say a bit irritated that this girl really just asked me that. I have to admit I was a bit jealous but I couldn't do too much Erik and I weren't together.
"Do you like, happen to have his number by any chance?" She asked sounding like she's holding onto every grip of hope she had left and seeming a bit too desperate.
"No." I say coldly wanting the conversation to end
"Well when you see him, can you tell him a girl named Kristina thinks he's cute?"
"K, whatever." I say officially done with conversation. I text Erik to see what he's up to.
ME🤓:
Hey, I'm bored again😂
He replied within seconds which made me smile.
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Again?😂
ME🤓:
Well its not like school is overly exciting🙄
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Fair enough😅😂, what's good tho?
ME🤓:
Not much, some girl in my class thinks your cute here name is Kristina
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Interesting
ME🤓:
I guess🤷🏽
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
How do you feel?
ME🤓:
About?😒👀
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Her saying that.😏
ME🤓:
I don't care. I don't know why you sent "😏"
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Awe you're jealous😂🥺
ME🤓:
No I'm not, its just that the smirk was unnecessary
ERIK😅🤞🏽:
Hmm🤔 I don't buy it🤣 I think you're jealousss😉😏
ME🤓:
K.
I say ending the conversation because honestly I was kinda jealous but I was not gonna give him the satisfaction of saying I was, no way no ma'am.
At the end of the day I dreading seeing Erik's smug face knowing that I was jealous🙄 but he was my ride so I had no other choice because we lived reasonably far from the school and I don't know the area well. I walked down the hall to head to the front of the school to meet Erik's smug ass.
"Hi" he says overly cheery
"Hi." I say flatly
"Ready to go" he smirks
"Yes Erik." I roll my eyes and walk ahead towards his car, I beat him to the car and wait because he didn't unlock the car yet he comes to the car finally unlocking it.
"What made you take so long, we were only like 7 feet away from the front" I say unamused by him taking his sweet time walking to the car.
"Oh, just observing my surroundings why are you in a rush to go somewhere?" He says with a grin.
"No but I wanna go home"
"You know what?,"
"What?" I say nonchalantly
"You're cute when your jealous." He says with a smirk
"I'm not jealous."
"Good." He says and leans in to give me a quick peck on my cheek.
We take the usual way to go home, but then Erik turns onto a different street.
"You're not kidnapping me are you?👀" I ask a bit confused as to why he didn't just take me home.
"No," he says calmly
"Where are we going?"
"You'll see." He says with a smile while his eyes focused on the road. I sit back in a huff; we pull up to a beautiful lake with tall trees and beautiful scenery from all the wild life. Erik stops the car says "wait! don't get out yet" I respond with a simple "ok" in awe at how beautiful everything is. I was brought back to reality when I hear the trunk door close.
"Come on" Erik say as he gestures a picnic set down by the lake. In that moment I thought to myself Kristina who? I got out of the car and walked over to Erik and his set up then sat down.
"Wow!," I exclaimed "This place is beautiful." Erik looked at me with an accomplished smile.
"How'd you find out about this place?" I asked
"My brother and I, as kids used to always come out here. It was our escape; a place where we felt peace and at ease, we'd come here and enjoy nature as well finally exhaling knowing we didn't have to worry about our parents." He said in a quiet tone while looking at the water.
"If you don't mind me asking," I paused. "But where are your parents?" "They left." He said while looking down. "I'm sorry I di-" I said when he cut me off "Its fine, they left when we were 14. One day when my brother and I were coming home from school they weren't there; they left a note saying "Dear, boys. Sorry to leave on such short notice but your Mom and I have decided that we have to go we want to see the world, explore,  expand our fortune. Its a lot harder having two kids around, so we've left what wasn't as useful to us with you we left the keys in the bowl, you still have money in your account that was from us but as of today we decided we think it's time you guys find your own way of living, have a good life." And that was the end of it haven't heard from them since. I'm not as upset as I was when they first left but now and then I think about it." He says nonchalantly before putting a cherry in his mouth. "I'm so sorry you went through that" I say with a sympathetic tone, "well if it makes you feel any better I'm always here for you if and whenever you're feeling upset or need to vent." I finish with a small smile. "Thank you" he replied before getting up and saying "so, let's go swimming" he smiles. "Okay." and we head down to the edge of the lake before I say, "wait, I don't have any clothes." "Oh yea, hold up give me a second" he says before jogging up to the car and coming back with an oversized shirt "here." he says and hands me the shirt. We both swim in the lake and it felt as if all our troubles had gone away and it was just us and nature at our purest forms. We got out and dried ourselves off and were laughing at cheesy jokes we then layed down on the blanket and gazed up at the stars it was truly an amazing moment and an amazing night and slowly I realized I'm falling for Erik Menendez.