As Real As It Gets ✔️

2: Decisions

*Cory*

“So when you going to finally announce what school you going to?: Alex said into my ear as I ran through a few of my tweets looking for a few convos since Alia was dead asleep.

Alia, what can I say about her? She was nice, beautiful, caring, down to earth, honest, and outgoing, she really cared about everything she did. She did community service and helped around the neighborhood and church that’s what I liked about her. She was like a perfect girl wrapped in a box. I never even seen this chick physically before that was the funny thing about it, she was just a face that I talked to time to time. It was like I basically knew who she was just through her twitter, I only knew how she looked my picture was basically a Chinese cartoon so she didn’t know what I looked like. I really didn’t want her to know that I was Cory Smith, number one high school wide receiver wanted by almost every since college in the US. I was that good, so many colleges wanted me but I still haven’t made that exact decision due to the fact that…Alia didn’t pick her school yet.

“You already know my situation Lex, I aint picking a school until she announce which school she is going to.” I said and Alex groaned sitting beside me and I chuckled,

“Man you really going to go to the school that she’s going to? What if she goes to some low rank ass school?”

“Then I will be going there, might have the team playing a high division due to the fact that I’m on the team and when I graduate might get out right to the NFL. Look I love football but she needs better than ol boy Chaz.”

“You mean Chaz Adams? That dude is like quarterback material, aint that’s her boyfriend right?”

I nodded my head and he shook his head, he already could tell that I was making some crazy ass decisions.

“Man Chaz fucking Adams, that girl goes with him, I mean he cool people but damn that nigga could throw a ball .”

“They don’t date anymore, they broke up around yesterday night, and I talked to her about it.” I said and he laughed and sat on the couch beside me.

I know my parents didn’t really care where I went as long as I was happy with what I was doing and keeping my major up to par that was it. All I knew was that I was going to go to college playing ball majoring in pharmacy tech and business then getting with Alia hopefully.

“So what about Keisha? You know home girl is still stuck on you especially with the whole I’m pregnant with your baby allegations.” I laughed and sat back on my chair, then tweeted.

@69StreetChef: Still Waiting on @MoreThan_Tweets to tell me what college she’s going to.

Keisha was a chick that I was truly in love with, we dated basically for around three years until she cheated on me time after time with her baby daddy who was never there for her son. It actually make me more than angry due to the fact that her baby daddy was never around a never did a thing for her child. I basically played the father of her child. Even though I wasn’t the child at all, now since I’m number one in the country she’s claiming that I am the father of her unborn child even though we have been broken up for about four months now, but I still took care of her son because it actually grown on me. I already knew that the first thing I was going to do after she had that child was  take a paternity test, just to get her off of my hair.

My phone beeped and I got a tweet back from Alia which had me smiling from ear to ear.

@MoreThan_Tweets RT @69StreetChef: Still Waiting on @MoreThan_Tweets to tell me what college she’s going to-----> Once I Get Accepted I’ll Tell You.

I smiled and shook my head then Alex started laughing hysterically.

“Man  you sprung over a bitch that you don’t even know.” I looked at him like he was crazy.

“She aint no bitch man, respect the women that you came from.” I said rudely and he shook his head.

“Man what you need to do is get ol girl number and talk to her on the phone, at least see how she sound and get to know her personally at least cause this whole tweeting shit is getting too repetitive.” He said and I looked at him.

I mean I didn’t even know if this girl was going to give me her number. To her, I was just a guy with no face. She must have thought that I was a perv or something due to the fact that I didn’t want to show my face on twitter. I mean I just couldn’t do due to the fact that I had a crazy ass ex and fans that was going to follow me everywhere. With Alia it was just a random click of follow which had us close ever since. Now Alex wanted me to call her? This was going to be more than hard, I may have been a football player but I was shyer than ever. But Lex was right, I had to step up my damn place and at least get her number.

I clicked the DM button and clicked her name

Hey I know it’s a little sudden but I was asking if you could at least slide your number over here just for the sake of your twitter crush.

I gave a little laugh and sent the message taking a big breath and hoping that she would answer back with the ten digits.

“Cory! You got visitors!” I my mom yelled from the top of her lungs and I sighed closing my eyes.

It had to be one of the two things reporters or recruits, one or the other. They always came into my home asking me multiple questions like I wanted to answer but I answered with a plain question.

I threw on the shirt and walked downstairs to see two reporters sitting there with a tape recorder and notepad, I sighed and walked and sat on the lazy boy across from them.

“Hi I’m Ryan Banks, and this is Williams Trems, we are from the Espn college website and we wanted to ask you a few questions.” He said and I nodded my head.

This man was black and big built like a fucking tower and his legs didn’t have enough space to even stretch out, I tried my best not burst out laughing then get a hand to the head by my mother.

“So why haven’t you picked a school yet to play for?” he asked and I sighed.

“I haven’t picked a school due to the fact that schools haven’t interested me yet, yes I am a big player wanted in almost every school but I really want to go to a school that will help me educationally and help  through sports so it is going to be a long look.” I replied and they looked at each other knowing that I answered almost every single question that they were going to ask me.

My phone suddenly beeped and I looked down to see her number right there in my DM which had me smiling from ear to ear.

“Are we done here? Yes? Ok.” I get up and sprinted back up the stairs taking a piece of paper and pen and writing down her number then saving it onto her phone.

Now I had to wait for the right time to actually call her.