She looked away from me. “ The stars are so beautiful, aren’t they? “ she asked, seemingly brushing off what I just said. “ Yea. “ I affirmed. We both got quiet again.
I meant it in like the best friends way... I think.
Yea, best friends.
She sat up, her dip dyed hair cascading her back. I mirror her, my braids also cascading my back, with less fluidity. She looked around, then back at me. “ This was refreshing. “ She told me, playing with her fingers. “ Yea, “ I uttered.
The hell is going on with me, is yea the only thing i can say? She jumped from the rof of the car. “ Ready? “ she asked softly.
“ Yep.”
What an upgrade. Yea to yep, where is my diploma? I hopped off the hood and got into the car. She was scrolling through her phone.
“ We’re going to the Embassy Suites, they’ve got free continental breakfast.” She smiled at me, waving her phone in the air. “ I got us two rooms, that’s cool right? “ She continued, backing out of the space we were in and starting back down the hill. “ Whatever you wanna do, it’s cool.” I told her. She nodded thoughtfully.
She put her phone on the tape deck and some sappy ass song began to play. She hummed along, leisurely tapping her fingertips against the steering wheel.
“ The fuck are we listening to? “ I questioned, slightly chuckling. She gasped dramatically. “ Boy, this right her is MUSIC! “
“ Uhm, no it’s not. Who is this anyways?”
“ It’s Teena Marie. “ She replied indignantly. “ THIS, is real music...” I retorted, replacing her phone with mine. I pressed play and some song from my Kanye West queue began to play. She paused and looked at me. “ Ew, Whaaaat is this? “ She inquired, sticking her nose up. “ It’s Kanye West.”
“ It’s stupid. “
“ Well then.” I replied, amused at how unopen-minded the two of us were. A few moments later we reached our hotel. I got us one of those luggage carrier thingys and unloaded the car while she checked us in. “ She told me there was no dried up cum on the sheets.” she boasted proudly, referring to the hotel manager. I giggled at her outburst as we rode the elevator up to the 7th floor.
She helped me push the luggage cart to our rooms. 714 & 715. “ Which room do you want? “ She asked, holding four room keys in her hand. I shrugged, “ Doesn’t matter.” She handed me two keys while she unlocked the door to room 715.
“ Ray, can you help me bring my bags in? “ She said, grabbing one of her pink zebra suitcases. I nodded and grabbed two of her bags. Shawty is carrying around a bag of bricks. I sat them down on her bed, cracking my knuckles. “ What is in those bags? “ I inquired. She smiled coyly, “ Shoes & accessories. “
“ Do you need help with your bags? “ She questioned, pushing some of her hair behind her ear. I shook my head, “ Naw, I’ve only got two.” I told her. “ Well, I’ll be over in a few, I’m gonna go put on my jammies.”
I cracked a smile and left to my room next door. I put my suitcases in a corner and kicked off my shoes, sprawling out on the bed. Relaxed I was; inside the silent room until my phone began to ring. I glimpsed at the caller I.D.
‘ My Star is Calling ‘
I sighed heavily and answered it.
“Yo?”
“ Baby, where are you? “ Star whined.
“ Not with you, obviously. I’m out of town...”
“ Why didn’t you tell me?! “ she asked sounding angry.
“ I didn’t know I was supposed to report to you, MOM”
“ Ugh, Ray! Why are you doing this?”
“ Why are you doing this?” I mimicked.
“ RAY! You’re being rude, where the hell are you? “ Star interrogated. I grew annoyed, just as I said I was.
“ Somewhere you aren’t! Look, why don’t you go over to Andrew’s house and fuck him like you’ve been doing instead of bothering me!” She gasped like what I said was untrue.
“ HOW DARE YO-”
“ How dare me what?! Please get of my phone, Zonnique.”
“ Zonnique... B-but, I’m Star. I-I’m your star...”
Please don’t let her cry.
“ Man, bye.” I hung up my phone and put it on the night stand.
I closed my eyes for a split second, then was forced to reopen by a light tapping on the door. I opened it, and well you know who it was.
She was standing there with her wet hair in a neat bun. Her body was covered by a ‘LBHS Class of ‘11 ‘ T-shirt & lacrosse shorts. She wore those ankle socks with the pom on the heel. When she pushed passed me I took a whiff of her apple passion body wash. She took a seat on the edge of my bed.
She turned to look at me, “ What’s up fool?” “ Not much.” I replied, sitting beside her. I watched as she hoisted her feet into my lap. “ Do you maybe, wanna, i dunno, like rub my feet?” She wiggled her little toes.
“ Sure.” I said, removing her socks and rubbing her perfectly polished toes and odorless feet as I’d done times before. “ Where are we going tommorow?”
“ Wherever the car decides to take us.” I told her.
She giggled.
“ What’s so funny? “ I asked.
“ Our road isn’t paved, we have no idea where we’re going and no Idea where we’ll end up. We just went... it’s like one of those adventures. Where we find ourselves and re-evaluate everything. Like, y’know.... how to get away from Eric.. or how you can get away from your parents and those girls and stuff. Our answers are waiting for us to stumble upon them. Or maybe they’re right infront of us, and we just don’t know it. Maybe that’s the point of our trip. To escape and discover....”
“ Woah, that was deep.”
“ I was thinking about it in the shower.” She told me. She let out loud yawn and climbed into my lap. She’s done it alot but this time I felt myself get, y’know... excited. She lay her head on my shoulder and I lay back on the bed.
“ Night Ray, I love you.” She kissed my cheek.
“ I Love you too.”
In the best friend way. Totally.
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