Love Journey

8. The Bad Luck

Troy Stevens

Getting around here is so hard, thank goodness my mother took the taxi man's number or we wouldn't have gotten to the university at all, Rihanna blasts through the radio as he drives, I examine myself grey joggers, white V neck shirt and Huaraches, I look pretty good actually but I am late. When we pull into the school we stop by the guard asking for directions but a girl in an orange T shirt addresses us,

"Are you a fresher?" I look at her confused, A what?

"Are you a new student?"

"Yes I am"

"Well follow the girls in the orange shirts and they'll lead the way" she points in the direction of a line of girls also in bright orange shirts leading the way. David drives slowly following the directions, the girls make with their bodies, coming to the final girl in front of a building. I get out with my mother following me. Inside is a bunch of tables and a line, l join it and my mother tugs at my shirt fixing it,

"Name and Division?" The woman asks,

"Troy Stevens and uhh Science and Technology?" I finish with a question unsure of the correct answer, the woman looks at me with a raised eyebrow, then returns her gaze to the sheet in front of her. Yup this is going to be a long day.

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Samantha Eden

We pull up to Pirates Cove, it is our first time. We usually just go to Brownes Beach, which is free a literally 15 minutes away, but Nicole begged us for a little change in scenery and by scenery she means eye candy. Ayesha isn't bringing Tre as she planned after Nicole talked her out of it, it is written all over her face but Denise and I are trying to cheer her up. As soon as we are inside we take too much pictures. Ayesha and Nicole even start talking again, Denise is now friends with the bartender, supplying us with drinks,

"Another round???" I ask, this is the fourth round, I'm beginning to think she is trying to get us drunk since she is the designated driver,

"What? Not my fault he likes me and gave me extra, I can't drink so DRINK UP!" she shouts handing us the bottles of beers. We lie down on our towels listening to the music and the waves crashing against the shore. I dig my toes into the sand, this warm was missed, a few grains of sand trickle down between my toes and back to pile, I missed this. I missed my friends the entire summer, our last semester at Barbados Community College (BCC) was so hectic, and now it is a few days before orientation. I just need to relax the next few days before the work load kills me.

We make our way into the water, after the fools put sand in my hair, I was trying not to wash my hair but I guess that's a lost case now. Nicole stops splashing us for a few moments and an odd expression crosses her face,

"Ayesha" she says, "Isn't that Tre over there with a girl?" she points and we follow the direction of her finger, it is Tre. He is frolicking with a girl on the sand, he has her dangling over his shoulder as she laughs loudly, and before we know it Ayesha is bolting out of the water towards them and the three of us hot on her heels.

"TRE! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!" she shouts getting their attention and the entire beach, he drops her looking completely guilty,

"Wha-What are you doing here? Why aren't you at Brownes?" he says walking towards her but the girl tugs his arm,

"That's not what I fucking asked! Who the fuck is she?" She says pointing to the girl holding his arm like a damsel in distress,

"Umm I'm Tre's girlfriend. Who are you?" The tall, tan girl replies,

"I'm his girlfriend tho"

"Wait wait, how long you and Tre been together?" Denise asks the girl,

"A year" she says rubbing his cheeks which came off more disgusting than cute, Ayesha and Tre were only together from March, Ayesha's anger quickly transitions into pain,

"Babe-I" she slaps him in the face before he can continue with a lie, she runs up the beach and leaves. I follow her leaving Denise and Nicole who look like they are about to pounce on Tre. Leaving those two with him is a bad idea but I want to go check on Ayesha. I run to the car park looking around trying to make her out, Maybe she went back to the car, I think running to where Denise parked. I find her sitting next to car, she has her face covered with her hands, I sit next to her on the scorching ground. I'm not sure how this heat isn't bothering, I place my hand on her shoulder and she looks at me with tears streaming down her face, then throws her arms around me in a sorrowful cry,

"Shhh, its going to be okay" I try soothing her but her cry becomes louder, she begins to talk but I cant understand anything. "He doesn't deserve you girl, we're gonna be here for you" she crying diminishes and she holds me tight. Two shadows form above us, Ayesha and Denise covered in sand with our things,

"What happened??"

"You don't wanna know" Nicole says dusting sand from her hair,

"Sam, how you could let her sit down there" Denise says trying to pick her up, as she puts all of her weight on her, I watch the human tug of war above me.

After a few stops, we go to Denise's house, he mother doesn't mind us at her house and she starts cooking us lunch. We pile into Denise's bedroom, in our efforts to help our "baby" through this breakup. Ms. Richards makes alfredo, her alfredo cures everything, headaches, period pains and yes breakups.

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Hey guys I don't usually ask questions but tell me how you're enjoying the book so far.

How would you react if you caught your s/o cheating on you?

How would you feel finding out you're the side and not the main?

Until next chapter happy reading 😊😊