It All Started With Hello [Book One In The Hello Series]

Chapter 19- A Mindless School Gift

"Twin, I'm thinking of getting two braids." Artemis smiled, placing an arm around his waist.

"That will be so dope. Then we'd really be twins." Ray laughed. We laughed with him as we entered the auditorium.

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Jari

At lunch, we sat at our own table in the back of the cafeteria and laughed our butts off.

Some 7th grade friends of ours came to sit, but they didn't stay long. Everyone from 7th and 8th got a picture and something signed from the boys, so lunch ran over a bit.

Isis, Alexa, Artemis, and I had a second enrichment after lunch so we all went to P.E.

"I wanna play ball." Prod said.

"Football or basketball?" Horus asked as he passed.

"Whatever you playing, man." Prod said and he and Horus jogged off into the gym after we crossed the street.

I cut my eyes at him. He just left me without saying anything. I felt a pair of lips peck my cheek swiftly.

"How could I forget you?" Prod asked himself stupidly before running off again. I laughed at him as Ray, Roc, and Prince followed him and Horus.

Alexa got a football and Isis, Artemis, Alexa, and I threw the football back and forth between each other until other girls came and we started a flag football game.

The game was brutal. Girls were tripped and pushed down to the ground. When we finished, we were sweaty, sticky, hot, and dirty.

"What happened?" Prodigy asked me.

"Flag football." I answered with a smile.

"With what? Pigs?" He asked as he looked me up and down.

"Alexa and Isis look worse than me." I laughed as Prince, Artemis, Isis, and Roc walked up to us. Artemis and Isis were laughing about the game. They were so dirty it wasn't funny. Alexa and Ray were sitting down on a bench not too far away. We sat down next to them.

"Who won?" Prince asked.

"My team." Artemis said.

"Because she had us on her team as running backs." Isis said.

"Yeah. She is so lucky Alexa can catch. Too bad Juno isn't out here. She can really catch." I said.

"Y'all should be lucky that I was quarterback and not Alexa or Vicky. They can't throw," Artemis laughed. "So who won your basketball game?"

"We did. It was us and Horus against, uh, Keytoan, uh, Biggie, Cleveland, Darryl, and, uh, Khari," Roc said after pausing a few times to remember everyone's name. "Keytoan is so tall. I felt like a little kid standing next to him."

"We all do. This dude's hand it like two times bigger than mine." I said. I have small hands.

"Yeah. Ugh! Biggie! I hate that burnt mo'fo." Artemis cut her eyes and curled her lip.

"He so dark that he's hair is lighter than him." Isis laughed. We laughed with her.

"Look. Mrs. Pollard said, 'Biggie, get your black tail over here.' And Biggie said, 'I'm not black. I'm red'." Artemis paused to laugh. "So I was like if he red than I'm white. Then he said he was mixed."

"So we were like, with what? Dirt, oil, and the struggle?" Isis laughed. We were dieing with laughter as we walked back into the main building. They let all the girls clean up as much as possible before we left to go home.

I caught the bus with Artemis and Juno today because I was going by them. Isis was being driven over by her mom and the boys were going to their hotel to change out of the uniforms they were forced to wear.