Elevation (Jacob Perez Story)

Chapter 21 | Have my Back!

Tuesday

Paris was at Grub'Stop in the afternoon, buying a frappe as Lucky came on into the store. As Paris was buying her frappe, Lucky came up from behind her

Lucky: "Er Paris?..."

Paris: [She quickly turned and was shook when she saw him] "Lucky... what do you want?"

Lucky: "How you doing?"

Paris: "I'm great, thanks" [She said blank]

Lucky: "...Look I know I've been avoiding you and things have been rocky between us since we last talked but... I just wanna apologise for how I treated you, scratch that for how I've been treating you. You didn't deserve the mistreatment and the blind eye I turned to it, you didn't deserve any of it. Honestly I miss talking to you cause you was real cool before I fucked things up, but yeah I just wanted to set the record straight cause it was never my intention to force you into anything you didn't wanna do you know"

Paris: [She nodded with a small smile] "Thank you for having the balls to apologise to me Lucky. It means so much to me. I feel like I should apologise too tho. I feel like I might've given you the wrong impression and lead you on. You got the wrong idea, so... sorry for that"

Lucky: "Nah I'm not taking that apology. You don't have to apologise. It was all my fault, not yours"

Paris: [She nodded]

Lucky: "Look Paris, Maurice ain't yo friend. I know I should've never done what I did but I wouldn't of been so excited if Maurice didn't gass me up about you"

Paris: [She looked confused] "Gass you up? What are you talkin about?"

Lucky: "He was trying to jeopardise my chances with you. He was telling me shit bout how you wanted it and how you was dying to fuck me. I thought he was trippin but he was convincing cause y'all did seem kinda close at the time so I thought maybe y'all talked and he was giving me a heads up but after what happened I realised he's no good, as a friend. As a person for that matter. Dude is poison!"

Paris: [She took a deep breath, she looked mad irritated]

Lucky: "You deserved to know, my fault as much as Maurice's role in this too. It wasn't all just me but I do take full responsibility for my actions. So yeah I just hope we can move on this and pick up from back where we left off before all that mess"

Paris: [She screwed up her face] "Go back? You mean we should just be friends I'm hoping"

Lucky: [He chuckled] "Yeah... I mean I missed you"

Paris: [A smile crept on her face] "That's sweet Lucky. And fine... we can be friends"

Lucky: "I won't blow it this time, I promise [He flashed a big smile] Look let me leave you to it. But I'll see you around, aight"

Paris nodded as Lucky acknowledged her and left the shop. When he left Paris switched up, thinking about Maurice's role in talking lies on her name

Paris finished her class as she was walking along the halls. She still had the thought of Maurice talking bad on her name on her mind. In her favour she happened to see Maurice and his friends walking away from the changing rooms down the hall. She walked up and Maurice smiled expecting to greet her but she was not happy and instead slapped him hard across his face. The boys made wincing sounds stood behind him

Hakim: "Damnn!" [He said low]

TJ: "Yoo"

Darnell: "Ooo" [He had his fist against his mouth]

Maurice: "You crazy, Paris?! Tf you slapping me fo girl?!" [He threw his arms up]

Paris: "You sneaky moth- That's for telling lies on me!" [She yelled pointing her finger in his face]