Beyond Love

Chapter 3

Dear Diary,

The first day of school started okay for me; however, the rest of the day went nicely. It started out meeting our Advisor for the first time and meeting the students that will be in my advisory group. Everyone's advisory was split into their gender. For example, since Prince is a guy, he is in an advisory position with boys. I was in a girl advisory. The girls that I met were quite interesting, and all the girls' last names started with an H. Three of the girls I got interested in talking to. One name is Nina Hilson; she's the type of person that loves to draw and do illustrations. I saw her draw a beautiful portrait in her sketchbook while waiting for us to ascend to our advisory room. She's also a very quiet person.

Another girl that I met, her name is Tracy Houston, and she is very much of a talkative person. She's very sweet and gullible. And the last one I met, her name is Alisha. She's quiet too, but I think I will be friends with her in the long run. I noticed when I talked to her a few times, we had a lot of stuff in common.

After classes were all over, I spent a nice time with Kaylaa, Kiesha, Prince, and Michael at the Youth Center. I found it kinda interesting how Prince flirts with Kaylaa a lot. He used to didn't like her, but I guess something about her drew him towards her. But I'm not sure if Kaylaa is into him yet. She kinda seems nonchalant about it, but who knows.

Before we all sat together in the game room to chill, Michael offered me a tour around the Youth Center. He took me to the art room first and showed me his drawings. I never knew he had that kind of talent. I always saw him as this chill dude that jokes around and occasionally gets into trouble. After the art room, he took me to the music room, which was a huge room with a lot of space. Instruments, and music sheets on every stand. Michael sat at the large piano which was about 4 ft from the door. He played a slow melody of a song I have never heard. I mentioned to him that I didn't know he could play the piano. I remembered he gave me a sweet smirk and a small sarcasm, which I can't remember what he said. He continued playing as I watched him, and then suddenly, our eyes locked. There was an awkward silence and we looked away.

After Michael finished giving me the tour of the center, we went back into the game room where Prince, Kiesha, and Kaylaa were. We all got into a conversation about what happened with them after I left. All of them ended up graduating together, Michael ended being Valedictorian, Kaylaa made it as Salutatorian, and Prince graduated after all. I got to know a little about Kiesha as well, I didn't know she did a lot of activities she did in her middle school. While talking about our past, it made me feel how much I missed out on so many things with them. Even being able to go to a Luncheon with them. At least I finally met them again and we can start over our memories again.

Until tomorrow on what will happen at school.

Love,
Tasha

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A new day for the school to start. I wake up in the morning and start doing my normal routine. Arrived at school early, but this time Kaylaa came early as well. When I walked into the youth center cafeteria, I sat next to Kaylaa, noticing that she was doing homework.

"Finishing homework I see," I grinned.

"Only 5th-period homework. I will get it done way before then. But first I gotta finish the second half of my first-period homework."

"What's your first period?" I ask as I sit down.

"Multicultural Literature class with Ms. Ward. She made us read over 20 pages in one night and made us use sticky notes to annotate and write down what happened in the book. Then on top of that, we have to do an assignment chart in our notebooks. She doesn't play when it comes to checking homework," she shakes her head as she reaches over to get her notebook out of her book bag and starts finishing her work.