Jasmine is pretty cool. She's a little too girly and excited but that's her, I'm happy I ran into her.
"I always see you around school with that new kid with the dreads from Brooklyn." She said.
"Damn! Gave a full description and yeah that's my friend Steez."
"You must have a lot of friends. You wavy as fuck." We walked to the food court.
"Nah. I have..." My voice trailed off and I thought about Raymond. "I have...two. You and Steez."
"What?! I see you talking to more than just one person."
"They're just associates." I scratched my head and really started thinking about if Ray and I are friends.
Meaningless.
"Yeah...just two people."
"Is that a question?" Jasmine raised an eyebrow .
"No."
"Well ok, let's eat some Popeyes. All that walking made me hungry." She grabbed my hand and dragged me to Popeyes.
She ordered the regular chicken tenders and fries and I got the same thing. Jasmine stared at me while we sat down waiting for our food.
"What?" I looked at her.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah! Whatchu mean?"
"I don't know. You just seem a little unhappy. I know we just met and all but I know this isn't you."
"Wow! I'm really an open book! Everyone knows how I'm feeling! What the fuck?"
"Stephanie you're a humanitarian-"
"My sign isn't Aquarius though." I said.
"Shh, you're a people person and you like to help others but people screw you over. You push people away. You're not really happy. When you laugh you're really crying. I know that because I've felt like that since middle school."
I gulped and the food court got quiet. Only whispers and chuckles.
"Am I right or am I right?"
"Yeah. You're right." We got our food and sat back down.
"Don't worry. We'll get through this."
"Mhm, thanks for the therapy session." I bit into one of my chicken tenders.
"I'm just saying. Who hurt you Stephanie?"
"Can we not talk about this Jazz?" I said as nicely as possible.
"Sure. I just think you're interesting." She shrugged.
I shook my head.
Weird ass.
• 7:05 p.m •
"Damn it." I said once we got out of the mall. "Whew. Never mind. I found them." I found my car keys.
"Can you give me a ride please?" Jasmine asked shyly.
"Of course. Just put your address in google maps and we out." I gave her my phone and we got in the car.
She put her address in and we left.
"Thanks for the ride!" She got out and I drove home.