𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 || 𝐌𝐉

Chapter 12

"Girl shut up. Nobody was fuckin' starin' at you." Madison intervened and we walked into the office before i could say anything.

"Why are all of yall in my office?" He asked looking at us.

"You see, what happened was-" Isabella was cut off by our teacher coming in the office.

"I just had to make sure they all got here. You know some of them would try to dodge going to the principals office and end up skipping class." She said and on that last sentence she looked at Michael and he kissed his teeth.

I've never skipped class before, I'm scared to 'cause I know I'm gonna end up getting caught.

"Why are they all here?"

"Well from what the other students told me, Kehlani and Summer were arguing which resulted to them getting into a fight, then Madison decided to jump in because she saw Summer losing, which made Isabella jump in, and the boys just broke up the fight."

"What caused the fight between you two?" He asked me and Summer, but we stayed quiet. I ain't no snitch and the real reason ain't my business to tell so...

Then Summer decided to open her big ass mouth and speak. "Well what happened was-" she started making everybody, including me, kiss their teeth, but she continued anyway.

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"You got into a fight because Michael got somebody pregnant?" My mom's voice said through the phone as I walked up to my room after Isabella dropped me off. I ended up getting suspended for a week and the principle sent everyone involved with the fight home early.

I rolled my eyes, "No, I got into a fight 'cause somebody couldn't keep my name out of their mouth."

She sighed, "Did you hit first?"

"Of course not." If I was the one who made the first hit my momma would be mad as hell all that really is if I won the fight and I did.

"Did you win?"

"Yep." I nodded as if she could see me.

"Good. You still in trouble though."

"Why?" I smacked my teeth.

"Didn't I tell you to stay away from that boy? You didn't listen, now you done got suspended from school for a whole week, because you got into a fight because of him." She practically yelled through the phone, thats how I know she mad. "You just started going there a few months ago and now you getting suspended. Do I need to unenroll you from that school?" She continued with her rant.

"No." I sighed.

"I don't want to because you made some friends, but I will if I have to. So don't make me." Then she sighed, "I'll see you later when I get home. I love you, bye."

"Ok, bye." I hung up.

Since I'm suspended and I ain't got nothing to do, this week finna be hella boring.

Then somebody rung the doorbell making me quickly sit up from my bed. "Who could that be?" I asked myself out loud. My momma didn't tell me she was getting packages delivered so I crossed that out. "I guess I'll see." I dramatically grunted as I got up from my bed.

I walked downstairs all the way to the front door and stood on my tippy toes to look through the peep hole. It's Michael. I don't wanna talk to him right now. I quietly kissed my teeth and started to walk away from the door before I heard his voice.

"Lani, open the door. I know you're standin' right there."

I opened the door and gave him a deadpan look, "What do you want?" I said and it came out ruder than I intended but who cares? Not me.

"Look, Lani I'm sorry-" He said before I kissed my teeth. "I don't wanna hear yo sorry, man. It's always the same fakeass sorry. Come back to me when you actually wanna show me how sorry you are, my nigga. Why am I already the one gettin' hurt, when we not even dating yet? You not even bein' loyal and we not dating yet. I can't even trust you." I let out a laugh that was for from comical.

"But, Lani you can trust me-" He tried to reach for my hand, but I moved it away.

"How can I trust you when you've lied to me and most likely got a girl pregnant?" I practically yelled at him with tears threatening to come out of my eyes, but I held them back.

"Lani, please. I'm sorry." He said giving me those doe eyes, which almost made me give into him, but I stood my ground.

"Forget yo sorry, man. Just leave me alone." I sighed.

"But, Lani-"

"I said, leave me alone." I repeated.

"Ight." He said as he backed away from the door. After I closed the door, the tears that I was holding in before finally came out.

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I woke up like I did after I got a whipping and cried myself into a good ass nap right after. Except, you know, I didn't get a whipping.

"Kehlani?" My mom came in my room.

"Yes ma'am?" I squinted my eyes so they can adjust because she turned my lights on. "I was just making sure you were ok. You were sleeping when I got here."

As she was speaking, my thoughts went back to what happened earlier with Michael. "Yeah, I'm fine." I lied and she gave me a look like she didn't believe me. Shit, the way I said that, I didn't believe myself.

"You know you can talk to me right?" She sat down next to me on my bed. "Yes, I do." I nodded.

"So talk to me. What wrong?"

I thought about telling her but I didn't feel like hearing her scold me about Michael. "I don't know." I shrugged. I've been saying that since I was twelve, sometimes I wasn't really sure what was wrong. Other times I knew, but I didn't wanna tell her. I just got so used to doing that.

She sighed, "Well, can you tell me how you feel?"

"Hurt, mad and kind of sad."

"Why do you feel hurt?"

I looked down, "Someone hurt me." I shrugged as tears started to fall from my eyes, again. "Is this because of-" She cut herself off as I looked back up into her eyes.

She sighed, again. "Let me tell you something. That boy is young, and so are you. He's most likely messing around with girls because he's scared."

"Of what?"

"Commitment. That's what alot of people are scared of these days. Maybe it's because they've gotten hurt by someone in their past or they just simply don't wanna be committed to someone.You never know, but you have other things to worry about than some boy. You have one more year until you leave for college. So don't stress over a boy, it's the least of your problems."

"Thank you." I hugged her before she stood up.

"Well I just came to check on you and tell you food is ready so you can come downstairs and eat." She walked towards my door and walked out.

'She's right, I do have other things to worry about.' I thought, but then my thoughts went back to what I was thinking earlier today.

'But I just can't stay away from him, and I don't know why.'

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