It was around 6:40 in the morning and I straight forgot I had to start school. It's damn near October so everybody's already settled in and now I have to be the new girl. Fuck, I hate this! I better not have to do an introductions in any of my classes. I'm not standing in front of nobody telling them nothing about me. 😒
My mom comes in my room making sure that I'm up. I poke my lips out and get out of the bed. I really don't want to go to school, so I'm going to take my sweet time getting ready. I picked out the first pair of pants that I seen, which was a white pair of ripped jeans. I put on a black tank top to go along with it and some black and white chucks. I then went into the restroom to brush my teeth and stuff. After all of that I fluffed out my Afro and changed my tongue ring to a white one. My grandma had made breakfast but I was now an hour behind so I just grabbed a biscuit and a sausage patty. This would be bomb with some jelly, but I didn't have time for that.
My mother was pissed that I took forever, but I'm not ready for all of this. I'm nervous as hell to start a new school. Since I was so behind my mother would have to drop me off and then she's heading straight to work. My school was hella close to my grandmas house, unfortunately.
"Ok, bye. Have a good day baby." My mother told me as she came to a sudden stop in front of the school.
"What?! You not coming in with me? I don't know where to go." I gave her puppy dog eyes.
"Jay, I don't need to go in with you. You know you need to go to the office. Just ask where it is, you getting too old for this." She shooed me out the car.
I took a deep breath and told her goodbye. The school was huge and I'm nervous as ever right now. As soon as I walked in the school I was greeted by a security guard.
"Good morning. I was wondering where the office is? Today's my first day." I say in the kindest way possible even though I didn't want to be there.
He points right across the hall and I head towards it. There was a few students in the hall so I'm assuming class is in session right now. Before I opened the door to the office I look through the glass window to see a lot of students in there. Oh my god, I really wanna turn around. Like my mom said, I'm too old for this. What's there to be afraid of anyway?
There was a line of students standing near the secretary desk so I just stood behind the last person. It's so many fine dudes in this office. I think I might end up liking it here. The line was moving fast and I grab the clipboard to sign my name. The room was full so I had to stand up against the wall and wait my turn.
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What the hell. I've been standing in here for an hour now! They can't be this busy, schools going to be over soon dealing with them. I'm only here for a freaking schedule. Forget it, I'm a just go up there and ask the secretary.
"Excuse me. Excuse me, cuse me...." I was trying to get her attention, but I can tell she's ignoring me.
I was about to start waving my hands in her face, knowing damn well she can hear me. I said excuse me one more time before I was interrupted.
"Don't even bother mane, they don't give a fuck." This sexy dude says standing next to me.
I stood there just looking at him because I was shocked he said something to me. He was like 6'0 ft tall, a caramel complexion, a curly fro, he also had some tats on his arms and hands. He wore a black and white True religion shirt and I haven't had the chance to look down at his bottoms yet, I'm way too mesmerized by his face. From the look of it, it looks like he has nice teeth. I needed to snap out of my gaze and respond.
"I'm just here to get a schedule though. It's my first day and I have no idea where to go." Was my response.
He fixed his mouth to say something before a security swooped him up and took him to the back of the office. I knew he was a bad boy, me likey. Well anyway, I finally got the attention of the secretary and she asked for my name and then printed out my schedule. See, that only took like two minutes. Well now I have to search this big school for my class. The secretary told me that everyone's in 3 period already 😐. On the paper it reads: Afr. Amer. Hist. 304. That class seems like it'll be interesting. I assume it's on the third floor of the school since all the first level classes read 100.
I begin my journey and climb two flights of stairs. This isn't as bad as I thought. The class was easy to find and now I'm standing at the door, afraid to open it. My hands were kind of sweaty because of me being nervous. I then enter a silent classroom to find my teacher standing in front of seated students.
"How may I help you?" The teacher asked as everyone stares me down.
"Today is my first day. And this is the class I'm assigned to..." I stand there awkwardly.
"Welcome to African American History. I'm Mr. Thomas, but you're welcome to call me Dave."
I wave awkwardly at him and say nice to meet you.
"So introduce yourself to the class... Tell us a little about yourself. We're not doing anything right now."
Noooooooooo! This is what I DIDN'T want to do. Everyone had their eyes glued onto me so I needed to start speaking soon. I know my body language told everyone I was nervous because I swayed back and forth.
"My name is Jakiyah. I'm from Atlanta and I just moved here yesterday." I didn't have much to say, so that was it.
I was about to ask where I should sit and noticed someone walking in the door. It was the cute dude from earlier.
"We got a new girl." He says grinning as he walks into the classroom.
The teacher then tells me I can sit anywhere in the room. I find an empty seat next to the cute guy. I could feel him looking at me and it made it hard for me to concentrate on the teacher.
"I can't even see now cause of her big ass fro." Says the girl behind me.
I twist my neck around to check her over processed hair out. I don't have time for stuff like this so I scoot down in my seat. Don't get me wrong I will beat somebody down if they jump stupid, but this really isn't worth fussing about. When she said that everyone started to laugh, even the cute guy. I wasn't embarrassed at first but now I kind of am. I looked over at him and he quickly stopped laughing. This is just perfect, a great way to start my first day 😤.
The teacher showed a bunch of videos about Ancient African civilization. As I looked around the class I noticed most people not paying attention. I don't see how because I found this stuff to be interesting, I believe I'm going to love this class. After a while he dismissed us to go to lunch. I honestly wanted to ask if I could stay in the classroom because I didn't know anyone yet.
"Aye new girl. You can sit wit' me and my people at lunch." The cute dude said.
I'm surprised he's still talking me. I'm not complaining though.
"Ok." I simply reply. God why is it so hard for me to be social.
"So you from the ATL huh? I didn't get your name though." He looks me in my face but I held my head down.
"Yeah, I'm from Atlanta. And I'm Jakiyah. You are?" I look him in his eyes.
"I'm Trae. But you can call me T Dawg." He then opened the door to enter the packed cafeteria.
"I'd rather call you Trae." I chuckle a bit.
I wonder if he has a girlfriend or anything like that. I sort of feel comfortable around him. He has the type of vibe that makes it feel like I've known him for a while.
"So new girl, this where you get in line. The food shitty, but our vending machines got some cool stuff. And this is my table, where me and my niggas sit."
Is this really happening? One of the cutest dudes that I've seen since I've been here for a few hours is inviting me to sit at his table. I was starving, but I didn't want to get in line by myself and from the looks of it Trae was ready to sit down.
"Who this?" A brown skinned dude with a boosie fade asked.
"This the new girl. She from Atlanta. Damn baby, what's your name again?" Trae asked.
What the hell. My name isn't that hard to remember. He better be lucky he nice looking.
"Jakiyah. It's Jakiyah, but if it's too hard to remember you can call me Jay." I look everyone in the eye and then put my head down.
"That's cute! I'm Sydney, I prefer to be called Syd though."
Sydney was pretty, she was light skinned with braces and a short cut, similar to Dej Loaf. She also wore these big glasses that gave her a 90's type of style.
"I'm Jordan."
"I'm Tori."
"I'm Mike."
People kept introducing themselves. I made eye contact, but to be honest I really wasn't paying any attention. I would forget half of their names anyway, but I'm pretty sure they're a real cool group of people. I'm happy that I ran into Trae, he might make this an enjoyable year for me.
Trae's POV
The new girl pretty as hell, mane. She skinny as fuck though, but we can work on that. I know Mike black ass gone try to hop down so I need to let him know I call dibs on this one. What attracted me the most to her was her skin complexion, not only the color but it looked smooth as chocolate.
I can tell she doesn't talk much either. Everybody at the table just talking to her and she's smiling her lil heart out. I don't know if she's nervous or if she's actually quiet. Maybe she got a boyfriend and that's the reason she's being so antisocial. Syd's like a sister to me so I'm a have her see what's up for me.
"Bro, we gone have to show her around the city one weekend." Sydney says, she can tell I'm feeling Jakiyah.
I think I kind of pissed her off when I asked what her name was again. I didn't forget it, but I ain't want to seem like I was thirsty or no shit like that. We sat and made small talk for the remainder of lunch. I asked her questions like; what's it like living in Atlanta, if she played any sports. She replied with simple answers like; it's ok, or no. Damn, she must really be shy. I told her I would show her the rest of her classes to see if she would finally open up.
To be continued......
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