"𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟"
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October 5th
3:15 pm
Orlando, FL
Stepping into the quiet library with her book bag weighing down on her shoulders. She looked around the packed room trying to find somewhere to sit .
She continued scanning while walking in further into the room, hoping she gets lucky and would find something.
Soon she spots a familiar face from across the room. And just like she saw him, he saw her.
He waved her to come over with a slight smile and she did just that.
"Hey Isaiah" she smiled reaching the table.
"Hey" He greets her, watching as she pulls out the free chair and sitting in it.
The pass few weeks Isaiah and Brooklyn became closer after she finally gave him chance to be friends. She thought it was unfair not to, she explained how she wasn't looking for a relationship right now and asked him if would be okay to be friends.
Of course he agreed and even admitted he was disappointed, but would respect her decision. And so far he had.
She was glad to finally being able to get out there and become friends with new people. Imani was her only friend after she decided to date her ex Best friend and boyfriend Khalan.
After middle school her parents decided to home school her, tearing her from the experience of high school but since she had Khalan, she would sometimes go to the events but never talked to any there.
She thought she only needed him and he only needed her, but that all changed went she went to college, finally breaking away from here parents and becoming free.
That's when she met Imani, she was her dorm mate and at first they didn't like each other. Imani thought that Brooklyn was stuck up and was just another bitchy rich girl while Brooklyn thought Imani was loud and annoying.
"Hey?" Isaiah tapped her shoulde noticing her spacing out "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good" She nods her head before reaching down to her bag, grabbing her mac book that had a clear case with the princess and the frog stickers on the back.
Taking a quick a deep breath in she started working on their group assignment for Mr. Evens class.
Once in a while Isaiah would glance over at her. He know that she wanted to be just friends and all but his couldn't help but to look at her as more then that.
Her hair was in a natural state, blowed out and put into a messy puff. He let his eyes roam down her body noticing how her dark blue scrubs clung to her waist and thighs.
That was the first thing he notice when she came in.
"Your staring" she whispered soft, peeking at him out the side of her eyes
"You make it easy to"
She smile while rolling her eyes "Do your work"
"Yes ma'am"
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Pushing open the door she walked out the building feeling the light wind push against her skin.
Isaiah followed her close behind shoving his hands into his pockets as he watched her pull her phone from her jacket pocket.
He peeked his head over hers, letting his height loom over her.
"Wya?" she typed then sent it off.
"Who's that?" She jumped not realizing how close he's gotten.
"Umm," she steps back trying to maintain a bit of distance.
"My bad just curious" He smiled
"It's cool" He nodded his head as she slid her eyes back to her phone seeing Imani texting back.
"Parking lot" she responded briefly
Brooklyn peeked over her shoulder as she continued to walk soon stopping to face him. "I have to go, but I'll see you in class tomorrow?"
"Sure" he sighed disappointedly
He adjusted the bookbag strap on his shoulders before heading in the opposite direction from where she was going.
Taking a quick shortcut through the grassy field on the campus, she made her way to the parking lot that was just in front of her.
Where she was standing she could see Imani who was getting out of the passage side of a car Brooklyn didn't recognize.
But what she could say was Imani was noticeably angry as she slammed the door close and continue walking until the driver decided to get out as well.
A heated argument was exchanged between the two before he end up getting back in and pulling away.
Worry was clear on Brooklyn's face as she steps closer to her friend who was stressfuly pushing the free hairs out of her face.
"He gets on my nerves" Her voice shook as she was trying to stop herself from crying.
"Was that Nikko?"
"Yes," she sniffled, rolling her eyes "I spent the night with him because I wanted to spend time together, but all we did was argue. That irritating bro" She sobbed feeling her chest clenched up, hating the feeling he gave her.
It hurt her to be on bad terms with him, she loved him too much for that. And it hurt her even worse, feeling that he didn't feel the same.
She felt like he was okay when she was mad at him, but for her, she couldn't take it.
"I hate him" she sobs finally letting herself cry.
She said it buy deep down she knew she didn't, she just hated how he was acting.
Brooklyn looked down at her friend with teary eyes, she hated seeing the people she cared about crying.
She moved closer to Imani and wiped her tears as they fell. She wanted to hug her, but she knew Imani wasn't big on physical touch, so if she wanted a hug Brooklyn would always wait for her to initiate it.
"Wanna skip the rest of the day and chill at home" She questioned not knowing what to say at the moment.
"Yea"
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Pushing her hair behind her ears as she laughed at the joke Imani said with a straight face.
"I'm not playing" She added watching Brooklyn move around the kitchen. "He got me fucked up, thinking I'm finna kiss his ass"
Brooklyn smile noticing her change of attitude compared to earlier.
"You hung up on him" she shook her head walking into the pantry, grabbing a bottle of champagne and two wine glasses for the both of them.
Imani rolled her eyes. "You suppose to be on my side"
"I know, just tryna help you make sense"
"I am making sense" she whined taking her glass from Brooklyn's hand "He never feels secure about me. Every picture I post with my ass poking out, he wants me to delete it"
"I don't know why he got with a bitch with the fattest ass if he wouldn't be able to handle it"
Brooklyn smiled putting her glass to her lips and sipping from it. "You right"
"I don't know how you dealt with the breakup if I felt like this over a little argument" She sighed looking up at Brooklyn.
Once she noticed her facial expression slowly starting to change, she realized her mistake.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring that up" she spoke softly
"It's fine. I had to walk away to save myself, so in the end, I had to" Her eyed guided down to the glass in her hand, swirling it.
"Let's stop talking bout it before I call Khalan on some hot shit" Imani quickly said feeling the vibe get thrown off after her statement
"I need some stronger" She shoots the rest of the champagne in her mouth and lift off the stool, going into the pantry where most of their liquor resided.
She comes back out holding a bottle of Cosamegos and shot glasses "I don't know why you come out with that soft shit" Imani glared at the champagne.
"I didn't know it was that type of night"
"Well it is now" she grunted as she popped off the cork and poured the both of them a drink.
At the count of three, both girls throw the alcohol into their mouths, immediately feeling the burn in their stomachs.
Brooklyn let out a soft cough feeling the consequences of not drinking liquor for a while. Placing her hand on the counter and pushing out the air out her mouth.
"That shit hit you, huh?" Imani laughed
"Yeah, wasn't expecting it to hit me like that"
"Good, this means a long night for us, Now go put on your pajamas while I find us a movie"
"Deal" she smiled setting her cup down and scurrying up the stairs to her bedroom.
Quickly she grabbed everything for a shower and headed to the bathroom.
Once everything was done she went back to her room, wrapped in her black towel. Entering the bedroom, she switches the lights on revealing the final product after moving everything completely in.
Canvas took up one wall in the corner of her room, and each canvas was hand-painted cartoon characters she did. Next to it was her queen size bed with dark green silk sheets and a black comforter with a mini Tina teddy bear proper up with her pillows.
She walked over to the bed grabbed the laid-out clothes and threw the towel on the bed first putting on the white tee shirt and then her pink hello kitty pajama pants on.
After all that she slipped on her pink teddy bear house shoes then opened her bedside table grabbed her own blanket then going to the living room where Imani was waiting.
When she made it down she had snacks already spread out on the table and the lights off with the black phone already paused on the tv.
Brooklyn sat down on the couch next to Imani and reached over to get some of her chips and spinach dips as she unpaused the movie.
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Thirty min into the movie and many shots later, Imani was already asleep and wrapped up in her blanket.
Brooklyn shook her head with a disappointed sigh following after. She turned her head back to the tv trying to focus on the movie again, but the sound of a ringing phone snatched her away again.
She shifted her body trying to find the source until she found Imani's phone.
"Your phone ringing" She shook the sleeping girl
"Answer it" she snored moving her body into a more comfortable position.
"Hello?"
"Where's Imani" Duke sighed on the other end of the phone.
"She's sleep"
"Well come get this for her," he said then hung up the phone.
Brooklyn looked at the phone in disbelief before rolling her eyes and tapping Imani.
"Your brother here"
"The money on the table" she simply while shutting her eyes again.
Reaching forwarded grabbing the cash and quickly standing up with her princess and the frog blanket wrapped around her body she made her way out of the apartment to the lobby door where his truck was parked in front of.
She knocked on the passager door pulling his attention from his phone and onto her. He presses the unlock button, letting her open the door triggering the inside light to come on giving him a better lighting to look at her.
"Hello" she sang closing the car door.
He didn't say anything, he just pulled out a bag of weed and sat it on her lap.
"Hey" he finally responds taking the money from her hands.
"That was dry" she smiled but it soon faded watching his facial expression drop "You okay?"
"Yeah" he looked away and laid them on the phone that continued to go off as messages rolled through.
She leaned back feeling as he was lying. His face lacked the "fuck you and the world" kinda vibe, but now it was just kinda "fuck you", I guess?
She didn't know how to explain it but she just knew it was something. Years of tiptoeing around other people's emotions, and being scared of their reactions taught her a few this about studying body language.
"Long day?"
"Yeah, some like that" He sighed shutting the phone off.
She shook her head noticing it was a burner.
"You wanna go somewhere?" She smiled, leaning further up enough for her hands to make a mini drum roll with her nail.
"I got things to do, next time," He said causing her to smack her lips softly stopping the drums
"It's not going to take long, How much time you got?"
"Enough, I hope" He rolled his eyes.
"We going? For real" She chuckled leaning up to see if he was actually serious.
He didn't say anything, he just started the car back up
"Hurry and tell me where we going before I change my mind"
She smile as she quickly fumbled with her phone and went to maps. She propped the phone up for him to see as the voice com gave directions.
𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫
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