Him

6.

Nicki

I went to school everyday like nothing happened. Me and Ray Ray stayed they way we was before he found me. We argued constantly at lunch. Masey would have to mediate our fights over who was going to do what. But when he would sit there and stare me in my face I would lose it.

"Why the hell are you staring?!" I screamed.

"Why the hell is you head so big?" he retorted.

Roc and Prince starts laughing and that would create a rotation of insults thrown around the table. Cherry gets frustrated easily so she told us shut the hell up and then cuss us out in spanish. "Second week of school and yall been actin' like dammit fools." She complained.

"Wouldn't have these problems if he wasn't over here." I mumbled.

Even after all that this nigga was still staring at me. His eyes would roam my body in dance and he would do it on purpose. He know I don't like it. He gonna have to come over again tomorrow along with Cherry because I refuse to dance alone with him again.

Me feeling his eyes made me uneasy. Its like I can't feel anyone else looking at me anymore. All I feel is him. Shit is irritating.

Sally and the others have not touched the room because I stole the keys to it. Told them it was no need for the to constantly keep cleaning and that the room would be used for storage. Only person that has a key to it now is daddy. If he comes home I doubt the first room he would go to is that one.

Cherry got here before Ray Ray did and decided that she going to make good use of my pool. I didn't get in it all summer at all. I sat on the edge as she splashed around.

"Soooo....Honey Nut what's up with you and Ray twice?" Cherry said laying her head back floating.

"The fuck are you tryna say Cherry?" This topic of conversation was getting old.

"Mi amiga stop lying to yourself and admit you like the nigga." she slit her eyes at me.

"I don't like him. He sure as hell don't like me so therefore he gonna stay my partner for dance and dance only." I said getting up and going inside the house.

I walk in the door and heard things moving loudly. I didn't think anything of it. I walked to one of the cabinets near the fridge and the door was open. I looked down to see his dumb ass eating my cupcake and getting a capris sun out of the drawer.

"Hey." he said getting up and leaving out the back door like he live here.

I rushed out after him shouting. "Who the hell said you can eat my food?"

"Sally. She let me in. Did she make this?" he asked raising up the last bit of it. "Its good. Can I take one home for Tay Tay?" He ate the last of it smiling in satisfaction.

He started to drink the capris sun so I squeezed it and it squirted all over his face. "You don't live here. Get up and start moving. Acting like we got time to be fucking around. Can't wait til I graduate."

I walked off complaining over to the spot on the patio we normally dance.

"Prince is in the bathroom!" he yelled.

Cherry basically ran into the house tracking water inside. Uggghhh. I got an instant headache. Ray Ray walked over to me smiling looking at me. The uneasy feeling about him came over me as he got closer. He didn't stop until he was looking down at. I mean Im 5'5 so like compared to him I feel shorter. I placed my hand on his chest make him back up but he has good balance.

"Thought you didn't like being touched. So why touching me." his smirk made something inside me melt.

"Back the hell up and stretch." I said sightly pushing him.

Ray Ray

Its fun messing with Nicki. I be staring at her with intentions. But we all know she not tryna fuck with a nigga heavy. Plus she got an attitude half the time.

Like the other day, we at lunch and she was on her phone as usually. Im sitting there wondering why she can't text me back and she always on it. I was staring at her but like aint even have to come for my teeth. I know they crooked. Long story short, Cherry yelled us and I continued to stare at her.

It seem like every time I do look away from her my eyes take over and find her again. Like bruh, I seen her naked already and it was not under the circumstances I would prefer.

I did what she told me and I stretch. I look at her the whole time I did it too. She would glance at me every now and then. I laughed to myself as her body would shift from side to side.

"Who watching Tay Tay?" She asked as she stood next to me. She smelled like lavender.

"My home girl Shawnda. Can I stop? This shit hurt." My calves already burning because I had to walk to Prince house.

"Shut up and stop complaining. When you hear the violin stop I want to you do left, heel toe, right, heel toe. Each three times and don't forget your elbows need to be square." She showed how it was suppose to look before making me to it. "Now try and step with."

I was actually doing this shit right and she smiled at me. First time she did that since last weekend probably. "What's after that?" I asked out of breath.

"The over turn and shakes done by me while you nod your head then we do the same thing we started with. Ms.Ida said a whole two minutes so yeah." She stayed quiet after that.

"By over turn you mean you havin' to touch me, right?" I was shocked.

"Over turn. Me touching you for two seconds. You don't get any ideas." she said pointing at me.

I smiled at her rubbing my hands together. "I mean if you wanna try something Im all for it." I was playing. Next I know Im bout to die drowning in this pool. I can't fucking swim. I came up and seen Cherry and Nicki laughing on the ground holding their stomachs. Prince held in his laughter as I got out.

My KG shorts got hole in them and my hoodie is and shit soaked.

I run over to Nicki and swooped her up. Prince did the same to Cherry and we dropped both their asses in the pool. Cherry didn't care too much but Nicki was heated. The second her hair got wet her eyes turned red. That stereotype about black girls and their hair is, with out a doubt, true.

The red in her eyes made me fear for my life. I ran inside the house with her trailing not far behind screaming. A couple of the staff members poked their heads up from whatever they were doing but minded their business. I ran up the stairs to try and loose her but she skipped some and grabbed my ankle making me fall when I reached the top. I got outta her grip and ran to the only room I knew. Which was hers. I locked the door behind me before she started banging on it.

"The hell wrong wit you, yo?!" she screamed through the door.

" What happened to your vocabulary?" I laughed at her.

She stopped banging on the door and it was quiet as shit in the hallway. Im thinking she left until I felt something pull my braid. I turned around and she standing right there dripping wet. Not like that but like...

"Shit." I jumped and fell against the door.

"Why the fuck would you did that? Do you know how long it took me to blow dried this shit?" She yelled leaning over me. Damn this girl just make wanna do some things.

"You pushed me first. I cant even swim." I raised my voice a little bit.

"Who the fuck you think you yellin' at? And why the fuck would you run in my room?" she put her finger in my face. I grabbed her hand.

"How you even get in the door is locked." I never let go of her hand it was soft and medium sized. The thing is she didn't pull away.

"This is my house. I know how to get in and out of my room wit that door bein' closed." She looked down and realized I was hold her hand. She stared at our hands being intertwined. I lifted her head so that she can look at me and I kissed her lips. They were nice and soft as they were against mine.

For the first time she looked at me speechless. She let go of my hand and moved away from me. She unlocked the door and left out.