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Chapter 1: Summertime

When I close my eyes, you are there.
When they open, I cannot tell
which parts of me are still mine.
Where you begin,
I end.

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"Jaimie come on! We about to miss the train!" Monique yelled taking my attention away from my journal.

I seen Tish and Monique running over to the train, making me get up and run after them. We were tryna go to the best sandwich place in the city before it closed for the day. It was 1:30p.m and it closes at 3:00p.m. So we were hoping we could make it before we go to the park to Chill. We made the train and got on quick before the door shut behind us.

"Thank god!" I said out of breath.

"Girl I can't breath!" Tish yelled making me and Mo laugh.

"Same! And yo ass was just sitting there writing in that damn book with ya poetry and shit." Mo snapped glaring at me playfully.

"Shut up! You know you love my poems!" I shot back making her roll her eyes.

"You right.." she said slightly nudging me.

As I turned to put my book back in my bag, I noticed this chocolate brown thing staring over at Mo. He peeped me looking at him and quickly looked away, so you know I had to say something.

"Hey!" I yelled across the subway over at the boy.

He looked up and a couple of his friends did too.

"Why you looking at my friend?" I said making both Tish and Monique look over at me and then the guy.

"Who he looking at?" Tish asked smirking.

"He looking at Mo like he wanna eat her." I said making Mo's eyes dart over at him.

He started smirking and looked down, licking his lips.

"Don't be scared now! You know you want her!" I yelled making him look back up. That's when his friends started pushing him laughing.

Mo started blushing making me and Tish playfully nudge and laugh at her.

The train had stopped at our stop and Mo dragged us off.

"Hey don't tell me you shy now?!" I laughed as we left out the train.

"No I'm not. You just put me out there that's all." She said with her arms folded.

"Girl you know I was just playing." I said walking over to her hugging her. That's when Tish walked over as while and hugged her tight cheesing making Mo give in and smile hugging us both back until the guys from earlier came off the train.

"Hey..Im sorry about earlier with all that staring. It's just you're gorgeous and I wanna get to know you more."

"It's okay. My homegirl just embarrassed me putting me out there like that." She said looking over at me mean mugging.

I just shrugged my shoulders.

"Nah she ain't do nothing wrong. She actually gave me the courage to come and talk to you." He said smiling.

"Ayo Jamal come on! We still going to the courts right?"

"Yeah yeah I'm coming." He said kinda shewing them away.

"Wait y'all going to the park?" Tish asked looking over at Jamal.

"Oh yeah we were going there too!" I added.

"Yeah to play some ball. Y'all might as well come with us." Jamal insisted.

"Oh okay cool." I said grabbing Mo's hand.

"Wait what about the sandwiches Jaimie?" She said trying to make an excuse not to go with them.

"Girl by the time we get there, it's gonna be closed. Will just go to the Burger King by the park. Aight?" I said as she sighed.

"Fine let's go." No sighed smiling as we walked with Jamal to the park.

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We were now at the park on the benches watching the boys playing ball. There were already a couple of guys on the court already. That's when my eyes caught the attention of one guy who walked over and dapped up Jamal. He was caramel complexion, 6ft, wore all black basketball shorts with a black tank top and Jordan's, and had real nice cornrows.

After he spoke to Jamal he looked over at me catching me staring, making me quickly look away. I looked back to see him still looking. He then smiled making me smile back. That's when I heard someone call out for him.

"Vic come on yo! You holding the game!" One of the guys said holding the ball.

He looked back over at me grinning, making me laugh. He then turned around and jogged back over to the court.

"Jaimie who is that and why was he smiling so hard at you girl?!" Tish asked.

"Idk." I said still looking over at him.

"Hey come on y'all! The game is starting!" I heard Mo yell over to us. As we looked over she had just gotten finished talking to Jamal as we seen he jog over to the court. Well..this summer is gonna be real interesting.

To Be Continued...