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"What?" He squinted his eyes once again.
Rickie and Nabora both laughed. "Nothing Kaleb, we'll talk to you later."
I hated both of them.
Kaleb shook his head. "Yeah, aight. See y'all." He turned around to leave.
"Bye." I said after him. It had kind of just came out.
He looked over his shoulder and I thought my knees had given out.
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"Bye."
He turned back around. I couldn't even utter any more words.
Nabora and Rickie gasped. "Bitch, is you serious. Did he ju--- I know he didn't!" They both grabbed me and began spazzing. Quietly of course so he wouldn't hear them.
"Girl, he gave you that look." Rickie let out.
Y'all know the look, the look almost every boy covered in deep melanin knows how to give. The look that just has you second guessing your whole reason for being alive when it's done by the right person. That look. He gave me that fucking look.
"I think I just got even more hot." Nabora began trying to air out her shirt.
Just in enough time, a truck arrived. Letting us know the A/C people were here to fix the furnace that had become my house.
We walked back to my porch and sat on the swing. I palmed my face. It was so hot.
"I'm not gonna lie, I actually sort of saw that coming." Rickie stated.
I removed my hands from my face and looked at her. "Saw what?"
"You and Kaleb. Y'all been liking each other since diapers practically. And now that he has moved back, it's time to make some thangs happen." She rubbed her hands together.
"Hell yeah," Her and Nabora dabbed each other up.
"Refrain." I glanced at Kaleb who was back playing football and got up. "MAMA!" I opened the screen door. "The a/c people here!"
She came to the door. "Girl why are you doing all that yelling. I was right in the living room."
"My bad." I sat back down with the girls as she went to talk to the a/c guy that had gotten out of the truck.
----- Hours later, the A/C had been fixed and the girls and I were in my room getting ready for bed. My mom had ordered us a pizza for dinner so we were all pretty stuffed.
Rickie usually slept in the bed with me and Nabora normally made herself a palette on the floor. She didn't like sleeping with other people.
After taking a shower, I slipped on an oversized t-shirt and got in the bed next to Rickie. Nabora and Rickie had already taken theirs and were dozing off by now. We had spent the whole evening talking about "the look" Kaleb had given me, you know real girly shit.
I couldn't help it though. It just kept playing over and over again in my head. I sighed, turning the light off. I grabbed my phone off the dresser and began doing my nightly scroll through twitter.
I tweeted: Could I have been more awkward 🤦🏾♀️
Ten minutes later, I had sat my phone back on the night stand, leaving it to charge and I too, was now going to sleep. A notification came through my phone. The chirp letting me know, it was twitter. I leaned up and grabbed my phone.
KTheGreat liked: Could I have been more awkward 🤦🏾♀️
I sort of forgot Kaleb and I followed each other. He had followed me back in middle school when we thought having a twitter was really doing something.
I hoped he didn't know I was talking about our encounter. But from the looks of it, he did. I silenced my phone and laid back down, turning my body the other direction this time, forcing myself to go back to sleep.
Another notification had went through, this time a mention.
KTheGreat replied: 👀📲
I didn't see it until the morning. ------ I hoped you guys enjoyed this first chapter and respond to it with how well you have responded to and supported Into You.
