I woke early the next morning, I figured I get to physical therapy early so I could get out sooner. Truthfully I wasn't really looking forward to seeing Alana again for the stunt she pulled yesterday but I'll play nice. Before I got walked out of my door my phone started ringing, there was only two people who called me this early Tion and Izayah, so I didn't even bother looking to see who it was.
"Hello." I said trying to put my shoe on, but I was having some difficulty.
"Hey Seven." I almost dropped my phone, I couldn't believe he was calling me. I tried to keep my anger under control but it was slowly starting to boil over. "Seven are you there?" Gabriel asked quietly.
"Why are you calling me?" I asked trying to keep my anger in check.
"I........ I needed to talk to you. I'm sorry about what happened when you were down here, but you have to believe me it wasn't what it looked like." Gabriel tried to explain.
"Well what was it Gab? Because where I was sitting it looked like you were hanging out with the dude that stabbed my boy. Look I don't have time for this is that the only reason you called?" I asked pissed.
"Seven I'm sorry about everything that happened but you have to believe I never meant to hurt yo......" I hung up the phone before he could finish. It was too early in the morning for me to be dealing with this type of drama. As I was walking out the door my phone rang again.
"MAN WHAT?" I asked.
"Damn who shyt in your corn flakes?" Izayah said laughing.
"Nobody man I'm just stressing out right now." I said, for some reason I didn't feel comfortable telling Izayah that Gabriel just called me.
"Well listen this summer we're going on vacation, me and Iran just found out that our mom left us a seven bedroom, 20 person cabin in Tennessee. So I know you wanna come, I just need to know if you wanna ride me and Jackson or are you riding with Tion?" Izayah asked.
"Okay who's all going to be there?" I asked.
"Well right now it's me, Jackson, Iran, Tiana, Gino, Tyson, Dominic, Tion, his girl, and you." Izayah said.
"Who's Dominic?" I asked confused. Izayah mumbled 'fuck' before speaking again.
"He's my boy, he's cool as fuck." Izayah said. I could tell he was down playing the situation, but whatever.
"I guess. But look I gotta go so I'll hit you up later." I said hanging up.
Fifteen minutes later I was standing outside of the physical therapy office, waiting for Alana. After waiting for like another hour she showed up. I'm not going to lie and say she didn't look good because she did and her pearberry perfume hit me like a truck. Once she saw me she smiled.
"Good morning." She said unlocking the door. I didn't say anything I just walked in and went to one of the machines. After about three hours I was beat. Alana was sitting at her desk doing some work so I decided to tell her I was leaving.
"Yo I'm out." I said grabbing my bag.
"Um technically you still have twenty more minutes." She said never looking up. I was about to kill this bitch.
"So I'm still leaving." I said walking to the door.
"Look Mr. Hayes I can let you go early if you good get me a coffee." Alana said still not looking at me which was really pissing me off.
"Bitch you better get your own coffee. Fuck I look like a fuckin butler?" I said heated, then she finally looked at me, but she was smiling.
"Look I'm trying to be nice. So look how about a compromise. You'll come with me to get something to eat and then you can leave?" She said, I thought about it I was hunger as fuck.
"Man hurry up." I walking out the door.
After waiting for what seemed like forever we were finally sitting inside of Starbucks, not really saying anything to each other. Then she finally decided to opened her mouth.
"Mr.Hayes are you single?" She asked.
"Fuck off." I said, looking her directly in her eyes.
"Why are you so angry all the time Mr.Hayes?" She asked, I couldn't help but notice the way she licked her lips either.
"First my name is Seven, so all that Mr.Hayes shyt has to stop. Second I not angry all the time, I'm only angry when I'm around you." I said looking out the window.
"Well I think it's cute, when you try to play hard. But your eyes, there's a sadness to them that makes you really sexy." She said, then I started laughing. I looked t her and could tell she was confused.
"Alana are you flirting with me?" I asked ready to burst her bubble.
"Of course not I don't mess with athletes. Most of ya'll are the biggest whores on campus, especially the freshmen. You've probably fucked half the girls on campus." She said matter-of-factly.
"First off don't sit there and try to read me, because you don't know shyt about me. Secondly I haven't fucked with any girls on campus because I don't fuck with girls at all. So next time you think that you know me stop and think, do you really want to get into a situation you're not ready for?" I said sitting back in my seat. For the longest time she didn't say anything.
"Mr...... I mean Seven you're gay?" She asked.
"Yep." I said looking through my phone.
"I never....... I never would've guessed. I mean you don't act gay." She said, and once again she pissed me off.
"So how are gay dudes supposed to act?" I asked.
"I'm sorry, I just..........." She looked really upset, and I started to feel bad for the way I was treating her.
"Look it's cool just don't assume shyt about people you don't know." I said, and she didn't say anything still I was starting to get uncomfortable then she spoke again.
"Seven do you want to be my boyfriend?" She asked looking me in the eyes.
"What part of 'I don't fuck with girls' is not clicking with you?" I asked.
"That's exactly the reason why I asked. Look I just need you to pretend to be my boyfriend until the end of this school year, if you do this for me I'll cancel all your physical therapy appointments, and I'll pay you." She said excited.
"Why? I mean there's got to be a reason you're asking me instead of someone else. So what's the catch." I asked confused.
"Look, let's just say I have a persistent suitor. If I have a 'boyfriend' he'll back off. Plus with you being gay I won't have to worry about you trying to get inside my pants." She said.
"Look I don't know man, I'm not trying to get involved in anybody elses drama I got a lot on my plate." I said. Alana pulled her wallet out her purse and pulled out a stack of money. She counted off ten hundred dollar bills and put it in front of me.
"A thousand dollars a week just to say you're my boyfriend." She said smiling. "Come on Seven please, it's not like I'm making you have sex with me. It's all pretend." Alana was driving a really hard bargain. What the hell I was single.
"Man aight." I said sticking my hand out. She grabbed my hand and smiled.
"Nice doing business with you." She said getting up. "I'll see you Friday night at seven." She said smiling.
"Wait what?" I asked confused.
"I need you to come dinner with me and some friends. Don't worry I'll pay for everything." She said walking out of Starbucks. All that I could think was what did I just get myself into.
