CLASS OF '92 ➝ MÝA. [CANCELLED]

[CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT] The Devil

[EXCUSE ANY ERRORS]

𝐁ROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
JANUARY 29th,1990

"Xavier is the best boyfriend, I swear." Ashley said with passion as she was in mid rant about her relationship with Zay.

"What does he do for you to say that?" Aaliyah inquired, furrowing her eyebrows and resting her elbows on the lunch table.

"That's for us to know and you to find out." Ashley playfully said as her eyes looked over to me.

I looked down at my fingers and I started playing with them as I started to feel uncomfortable. Quite frankly, I was in a weird position.

Aaliyah has no idea that Caine came over to my house on Friday. And I doubt she knows that Caine is a dead man walking. I really want to tell her but Caine put his entire trust in me. I didn't want to betray him at all.

But as I am keeping my loyalty to Caine, I'm not keeping my loyalty to my bestfriend. And it was eating me alive.

Furrowing her eyebrows, "Why are you so quiet? Everything good?" Ashley asked, looking at me attentively.

"Yeah, I'm straight." I responded, looking up at the both of them.

"No you're not, you've been quiet this entire time." Aaliyah budged in, looking at me with a sense of worry.

"Malik did something to you?" Ashley asked and I shook my head.

Sighing, "Sometimes, I just don't wanna talk. No hard feelings." I reassured and I could tell that the both of them wasn't buying that response.

"Yeah he did something to you." Ashley mumbled and I rolled my eyes, getting up from my seat.

"Malik and I are fine! Look, ima catch y'all later." I expressed, walking away from the table and out of the cafeteria.

I needed to talk to someone about this urgently. I couldn't talk to Malik because Aaliyah is his bestfriend. And I'm pretty sure he was going to tell her regardless of me saying not to. I couldn't talk to Nasir because Aaliyah is family. And Jordan wasn't even at school today so I was left with one person.

The reason why I was in this situation to begin with.

Caine.

The problem with that was, I don't even know if he was at school.

Or if he was alive.