It Started With You

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It's 8 pm, and I get a notification from Snapchat. I unlocked my phone and sat up to see who it was. It was my brother Noah he wanted to know if I had some gas(weed), I snapped him back and said "yea when you need it."As I went to go buy some from my friend Wyatt, 15 minutes later I get another notification from Noah saying that he's outside. I told Wyatt "Thank you, I'm coming over tomorrow to smoke one with you." "Fasho, Love you, sis." I walked outside to see a gray/silver Mazda that was on. *BzzBzz* my phone vibrates and another Snapchat notification from Noah popped up saying "Outside in a gray Mazda."I left him on open and put my phone and the gas in my pocket. As I was walking towards the car Noah got out of the passenger side to come and hug me. "Big sis, how's it been"? He asked hugging me. I jumped up crossing my legs around him happy as life to see him. "It's been good, you know mom leaves me alone at the house like usual, so I won't be having anything to do but come home doing my homework, play the game for a little bit, and take a nap," I said as I jumped out of his arms fixing my glasses. He chuckled and said "The Usual."I rubbed my face and yawned, "Yea, the usual. So who you with? A girl you picked up at a party... Again"! He laughed and said, "Nah, Nah it's just a homie from Cali this nigga got money sis." I peeked passed his head and said "I see". "Come on, come meet him, his name's James." He ain't weird is he," I asked. He laughed and said "Nah." He opened the passenger door and told James to get out of the car and come to greet me. My heart pounded as he opened the door and stepped out. As he stood taller than the car, I can see the back of his head, his hair color ginger and long, and as he turned around we made eye contact with is bright green eyes. He had freckles all over his face and me merely looking at him caused me to want to just fall at my knees. James started to walk towards me. I turned and looked at Noah and looked back at James. His voice was low and sexy, "Hey, how you doing, name's James". He made me shiver by him just talking to me; greeting me with his low and sexy voice as his bright green eyes stared into my dark brown eyes. "I'm Elianna, But you can just call me Eli", I said with a slight smirk on my face. Noah clapped his hands together and looked at the both of us just staring into each others eyes. "So, who's ready to get high?", he asked. I laughed and skipped to the staircase that leads to my apartment or should I say "Mother's Apartment". As I opened the door my cat "Suki" came rubbing against my leg and as soon as Noah walked in all you can hear is "Aww, you're back to your weird ass cats". "How you gonna say something negative and positive in the same sentence, you dumb ass", I said as I picked suki up and snuggled her into my arms. James then walked through the door, closed and locked it for me. "Thank you", I said in a womanly manner. He turned around with a smirk on his face saying "You're Welcome, darling". Oh my gosh, that man is just gorgeous in all types of ways. My head was blank and I was stuck till I heard Noah, "Aye, where the remote to this shit". "Um, first of all I'm the DJ in this bitch", I said as I walked into my room and laid Suki down on my bed. James chuckled looking at all of my stuff animals and LED lights in my room. "What's funny", I said trying to find a song on the TV. He sat down by Suki and she climbed right on to him like he was her father. He didn't answer after 2 minutes of me asking. I turned my head to see that Suki's laying on James lap. "Ha, traitor", I said still trying to find a song. Noah snatched the remote out of my hand and said "Got damn you take to long just to pick a song". My mouth dropped and I was now irritated that I thought to myself that I need to start rolling up. I walked over to my vanity where my weed tray was. My relos was in my drawer, I asked Noah and James what kind of relo and flavor they want. James looked over at me and asked "Got any White Owls Blue Raspberry". I looked over to Noah and he just laughed and shrug I shook my head, turned around and started to roll up 2 blunts for My brother and I and his friend "James". "It's nice to know that someone else likes the same relos I like", I said as I was breaking down the relo. "Oh really, Yea White Owls and Dutches is all I really get," he said rubbing my cat like it was his.

I finished rolling up the blunt an lit it. My cat the jumped off his lap and came to me. She loved being around me when I smoked. Noah scooted over to the other side of the bed facing me. "Marco", "Polo" James said to be the next in rotation. I puffed it twice and passed it to him. As he grabbed the blunt from me, his fingers kind of grazed mine. Chills ran up my back and I shook my head a little so it wouldn't be noticeable. "So, you literally just stay here in your room not doing anything but watching TV and being on your phone", Noah asked while grabbing the blunt from James. I turned around toward the mirror on my vanity looking at noah, "Yea, and smoke".  James got up and started to walk around and examine my room like it was an museum. I looked at him with his back facing mine, "Is there a problem", I asked him. He spinned around having a concerning look on his face, " Oh no, I'm just looking around trying to figure out what type of girl you are". I scuffed and looked at Noah. He chuckled and handed me the blunt back, this time I had it a little longer just so I can "figure out what type of 'guy'" he is. As I inhaled the smoke I turned to Suki who was sitting on my vanity staring at me and blew the smoke in her face. She meowed and layed down. I loved when she was high with me. We have adventures together. James walked over to me and sat behind me on the corner of my bed while Noah face was into his phone. "So, you in school",  James asked. I turned around in my rolling chair and we was nothing but 3 ft away from each other face to face. Before I turned around facing him, I had already inhaled a puff and blew it in his face. He chuckled and left a little smirk on his face. I passed him the half of blunt and said "Yes, I'm in the 11th, I'm homeschooled, You?" James inhaled and answered "Nah, I graduated this year".  Noah scuffed and laid his phone downed, "lucky", he said as he grabbed the blunt from James hand. James rolled his eys as he turned to Noah and said "My nigga you only got one more year". My eyes widen when he said the "N" word. He looked back at me and laughed, "Oh I'm sorry are you one of those who don't like white people saying the "N" word. I turned back towards my vanity and rolled  my eyes, "No, I just didn't know you were one of those guys who said it, that's all", I said picking up Suki to take her to her little bed. I knew she was about to pass out after I fed her, cause I mean who wouldn't. I felt me getting the munchies so I asked James if he would take me to McDonalds so I can buy me something to eat. He looked at his phone and said "sure". Noah got up, "Hell yea, nigga hungry, I'm feeling a good double quarter pounder right now", he said leaving my room. I walked over to my purse hanging on my wall to get it. As Noah and James walked out of the room, I walked over to Suki and kissed her telling her "I'll be back baby love". I walked out the house and locked it. Walking down the steps you can hear his car bass loud as life. I got in the back and James looked back at me, then looked out the back of the window backing out of the lot. On our way to Mcdonalds, my song "Quicksand" by Morray came on and I started to go along with the song doing snapchats as I sang. Here and there James would look back at me as I recorded. It might've seem like I didn't notice but I did. He then turned the music down as we pulled up to the Drive thru. James looked back again and asked "Do you wanna order first". I looked up from my phone and said " Yea, can you order me a number 2 with a large sweet tea, and 2 chocolate chip cookies, Thank You". He turned back to the screen and ordered what I asked for. Noah than told him what he wanted, then James last. The lady on the screen told him the total and he then pulled up the window. The woman at the window said the total again, and James then went into his wallet getting cash. I handed him my portion of the total and he said "Nah love, I got you". I tilted my head and said "No, I want to pay for my own". He smiled and turned his head towards the lady and gave her a black shiny card. I scuffed and looked at my phone scrolling through instagram, liking people pictures and clicking through stories. The woman gave him back his card, we got our food and went back to my place. 

After we ate, James looked at his phone and told Noah that he's about to head to the hotel that he was staying at. "Hotel?", I questioned. He looked at me and said "Yea, I'm only down here visiting, I stay in cali." "Oh", I said nodding slowly. I was getting tired, so I walked over to my bed and pushed Noah over. I laid down and Suki came running, jumping up to cuddle with me. Noah got up and slapped my leg, "Sis I might come and see you tomorrow if that's cool." He looked at James and pointed at him as if he was checking to see if it was cool with him. James nodded and said "yea, fasho". Him saying that reminded me on how I told Wyatt I was going to go over there and smoke with him. James notice that something was on my mind and asked me, "Unless you got something else planned." I looke up at James like 'Huh'. "Oh, yea, well not really. I just told my friend Wyatt across the street that I was going to come over and smoke with him". "Friend? Wyatt?" he said with an eyebrow up. "What?", I said with my hand up. He looked at Noah and said "Nothing". I pointed at my door chuckling "Whatever get outta here, Noah I will text you when you can come over". "Aight sis, don't be bullshitting now", he said while walking out the door. "I'm not", I said getting up, walking them out. "I promise I will text you, might even call you, I'm going to set a reminder too", I said laughing while at the door talking to them. Noah half way down the stairs turned around and looked up at me, "Aight, I'm going to hold it against you now, if you don't". "Okayyyy", I said laughing swaying my hand at him. James standing in front of me like he wanted a hug or something. Staring at me and putting his hand on the door like he wanted to push it open said "You're beautiful and I want to talk, You should let me take up some of your time since you don't really be doing anything". I smile and looked him in his eye, "Why don't you come tomorrow and we'll see". "Bet, don't be bullshitting love", he said skipping down the stairs. I rolled my eyes and said "Bye". They both got into the car; music blaring as they pulled out of the complex, driving off still hearing the music from his car.