Cliché Novelty

Chapter 7

Calvin

I watched Yvonne as she stood before me tapping away at her phone avoiding eye contact, we had been standing like this for a while just outside the gates and her sudden change of demeanour was causing me some sort of discomfort, I sauntered over to her snaking my arm around her waist but she abruptly stepped away

“What?” I spoke up

She looked up at me her dark brown eyes not giving me any clues of what I did wrong. She was pissed.

“Von” I spoke in her ear and she moved away “Stop being like this” Before she could walk off I grabbed onto her wrist

“Talk” I demanded

“Calvin, for fucks sake let go of me” She tried to wriggle her arm free but I didn’t budge “You’re hurting me” She whined, I eased on my grip

“Yvonne, you’re pissed, what’s wrong?”

She looked at me before shoving her phone in my face displaying a picture of me carrying some girl from Jeff’s party last week, I laughed lightly before shaking my head “You’re joking innit?”

“Does it look like I’m fucking joking?” She snapped

“Fucking chill. I don’t even know her”

“What kind of bullshit are you trying to feed to me –

“No, what kind of bullshit are you trying to imply?”

She raised her eyebrow before continuing “What Calvin? What do you honestly expect?”

“I expect you to trust me; you’re angry over some girl I don’t even know, she was licked at the party and some girl asked me to help her out and that’s what I did. That’s all”

“That’s all? Let me call some any next man and let him carry me somewhere and tell you that’s all” She spat

“Rah, you need to chill”

“Don’t tell me to chill Calvin, we both know if you were in my fucking position you would be vexed” She snapped abruptly whilst jabbing her finger into my chest

“You’re a big girl to be getting jealous over some girl I don’t even know, come talk to me when you’re done playing with your childish games innit” I shoved her hand away and made my way into the college building.

After sitting down by myself in English, Tolu burst into the classroom, looking all eager, she slumped herself down at the table before continuing

“You alright?”

I nodded, keeping my gaze locked on my phone

“I saw you and Yvonne outside, she looks mad pissed”

“Yeah I know she’s just being long” I said after a while

“Ahh” We stayed in silence for a complete second before she continued “Where’s Billie?”

I raised my eyebrows in confusion before she carried on

“You know? The other girl who’s in our group, quite petite? Has that nice dusty chocolate skin colour, and normally wears her hair in a slicked pony tail?”

I shook my head not sure who she was on about.

“Yeah, well her. She’s in our group.”

Billie

8:32am on an 8:40 start.

Shit.

I leaped out of bed and into the bathroom, yanking my headscarf off of my head, after nearly falling into a concussion from slipping out the bath I had quickly rushed out of the bath whizzing through my routine and slipped my lousy attire on before brushing my hair into a ponytail and rushing out the door.