Chapter Five
Keegan
Once the day is over, I make my way out to my car and when I climb inside, I start the engine and make my way home, I have a few phone calls I need to make and get things in order.
Once I make it home, I see my parents sitting at the dining table looking over their laptops and they greet me as I walk.
“Hey son.”
“Hi honey, how was school?”
“Hey mom, hi dad, it was good, I have a lot of homework to get done, so I’ll just be in my room. Let me know when Dinner is ready?”
“Of course, honey, see you in a bit.”
I make my way up to my room and throw my book bag on the floor by my desk and throw myself down on my bed face first into my pillow. I release a deep breath and try to figure out how I am going to handle Jasmine. I know she isn’t going to back off as easily, but I need to find a way to get her to leave Destiney alone. I roll onto my back and pull out my phone, I make a phone call to take care of one task for Destiney, As I lay here thinking about her, I start to feel my eyes droop in sleepiness and before I know it, I’m falling asleep to images of what life could be like If Des really was my girl.
When I wake up later to my mom calling me down for dinner, I slowly climb to my feet and make my way downstairs to the kitchen to have dinner with my parents.
When I make it down there, mom and dad are already at the table with plates full of food and my mom was kind enough to fill a plate for me.
“Thanks mom.”
I lean over before I sit down and give her a kiss on her cheek to show my appreciation for her. She really is the greatest. My parents have been together since they were seniors in high school, they were your typical high school sweethearts, my dad was the quarter back for his high school and my mom was the shy, quiet bookworm. They met when I my dad needed to have tutor for one of his classes and that teacher assigned him to be tutored by my mom and they were not too fond of each other at first. From what I have heard mom hated him, he was the typical playboy, and she was was…not. But after they spent time together, they ended up falling for each other and they have been together ever since.
So, when I think about asking for advice on how to handle this situation, I think of my parents they are the perfect example on how to get Destiney to fall for me and to give me ways to get Jasmine of my back and to leave Destiney alone.
While I’m sitting here at the table with my parents I can feel their eyes on me, when I look up at my mom, she quickly looks away and to my dad, when I look over at him, he looks to my mom, it’s like they can sense my turmoil and want me to talk but they aren’t too sure how to go about asking me.
“Okay guys. What do you want to know? You clearly have something you want to ask me.”
My dad is the first to. speak up and when he looks at me, he gives me a tentative smile.
“Well son, we can tell something is bothering you and we just want you to know that you can talk to us if you want to. We know a lot more about life then you might think we do.”
“Okay well, you both know I have been seeing Jasmine off and on since last year and I recently broke up with her, but she refuses to take the hint and she won’t leave me alone. I don’t know what do to make her see what she isn’t seeing. Now she is starting to mess with Destiney, I’m sure you guys know her parents the big shot lawyers in town. What am I going to do?”
My mom gets this smile on her face when she looks at me, like she knows that I have feelings for Destiney, and she doesn’t seem sad about it. I have a feeling she would be happy for me to be with Destiney over Jasmine.
“Well, honey. This Destiney girl is a very sweet girl, we do know her parents, her mother and I have had lunch together a few times over the last year or two. They are lovely people. This Jasmine girl…not so much. Her father is something else I tell you what.”
My mom knows her mother. That’s great, that could possibly work in my favor one day. Maybe. I wonder how close my dad is with her dad.
“I know her father as well son. He is a great guy. Very humble and hard working. Always works to give his little girl everything he can. Even though he gives her the world, she seems to not let all that go to her head. She seems like a sweet girl from what we have heard from her parents.”
“Okay great, I know she is a sweet girl, I have known her for years. But never really thought anything could come of us together until recently. But because of Jasmine, I can’t do anything about it. I’m afraid Jasmine is going to seriously hurt her if I don’t think of something.”
“Well son, the only thing you can really do right now is just keep an eye on Destiney and try to keep Jasmine away from her. If something serious happens then we will have to go through the propre steps, and I hate to say it, but we may to get her parents involved at some point. For now, though son just try to keep the girls away from each other and try to look out for Destiney.”
I give both my parents a nod of my head and finish my dinner. We all finish in a comfortable silence with the occasional words about how our day went and once we are all done, we all go our separate ways to finish any work that needs to be completed for the day.
I make my way up to my room to finish all my work for school the next day and once that is completed, I make way to my bathroom to take a shower and then get ready for bed.
As I’m laying here is bed, I can’t help but think of Destiney again and as my eyes drift closed, I see visions of Destiney and what our future will be like. I can’t say that I am not happy about what I see as I drift off to sleep.
Chapter SixDestineyAfter what happen yesterday at school, I’m dreading going back again today. But I guess I need to get some sort of education so that I can get out of this horrible town, when I graduate at the end of this year, I plan to move to a college town far from here and make something of myself.When my alarm goes off, I make my way around my room to gather my clothes to wear today. I grab my black, ripped, skinny jeans. I bright pink tank top, and my light grey pull over hoodie. Along with my matching bra and underwear. Once I am in the bathroom, I start the shower and turn the water to hot and strip down and make my way into the shower. I wash my hair and body with my Pineapple Hibiscus shampoo and body wash. Then once I’m clean I rinse myself off and turn off the water. I get myself dressed and go back out to my room and grab a pair of socks and my favorite red Converse shoes. Once I’m fully dressed, I make my way downstairs for breakfast.When I make it downstairs, I
Chapter Seven Destiney When I wake up the next morning, I make my way through my morning routine. Yesterday was horrible, it was mortifying, but I can’t skip out on school just because Jasmine got the jump on me. I need to get through this year so I can move on and make something of myself. I need to be able to get away from here. I make it through my shower, and I make my way into my closet to pick out what I want to wear today, I pick out my favorite tight-fitting sundress, covered in, you guessed sunflowers. What can I say, they are the prettiest flower known to man, I love the yellow of the petals and how the brown in the center accents the yellow petals perfectly and the way the green of the leaves and the stem pulls everything together beautifully. Anyway. I throw on my perfectly fitting sunflower dress and I grab my brown and black wedge heels and a black leather jacket to wear over my dress. I think this might be my favorite outfit so far. The dress brings out my curves pe
Chapter EightDestiney“Hannah, what am I going to do?”“Oooh, you have an admirer, you need to go and find out who it is.”“WHAT!? Are you crazy, I can’t go? I can’t deal with this shit right now.”“Why not? You clearly have someone who really likes you. Why not just go and find out who it is? You don’t have to accept them, just go, see what they have to say and then decide what to do.”“Hannah, I can’t. What if they are some serial killers, stalker psychopath or something.”“Des, I think you might be over-reacting just a little bit. If your so worried about it, I’ll go with you. I’ll hang back and just observe. Just to make sure nothing happens.”“Hannah, this is crazy.”She watches me mull over all this craziness and she looks at me with pity and sympathy. What if this could all be true…Then yeah, I would love to have a love like this person is describing. But it just doesn’t happen for me. I’m not meant to have this kind of love.“Des, look, just think it over. They don’t want to
Chapter NineDestineyWith nothing else said Hannah and I got up with our trays full of food and walk to the trash cans by the door and dump what’s left and put our trays on top to be collected later. When we leave the lunchroom and make our way back towards the hall and then to my locker. We make our way to my locker and when I reach for the lock to open it, Hannah places her hand on mine and gives me a smile. I give her a nod, and she turns to open my locker for me and when she does, she takes the flowers and note out and walks to the same trashcan I threw them in earlier and drops them in for me. When she walks back over to me, she leans in and gives me the hug she knows that I need right now, and we switch out my books for the next class she closes my locker and wraps her arm with mine and we walk away towards our next class and tells me everything will be okay. We make our way to her locker, just before we head to class, hers is on the way so why not. Once we get the books she
Chapter TenKeeganToday Is going to be great, when Destiney opens her locker and sees what I left for her she is going to be so happy, she will have no other choice but to fall into my arms and beg me to take her as my girl. I had to get up earlier than I usually do in order to make it to the flower shop and the school before anyone else, and when I sweet talked Mrs. Smith in the office for the combo to Destiney’s locker, she couldn’t help but give it to me. I don’t usually do that, but I need to do this for Destiney. I need her to know someone cares for her deeply. But I don’t want her to know it’s exactly me yet. I need to take this step by step for my plan to work. I just hope it will work. I can’t let Jasmine get in the way and ruin everything. Once I have everything set up in her locker, I quickly write her a little note and slide it inside with the flowers. I hope she likes this, I’m not exactly the romantic type but for Destiney, I will learn to be. I would do anything for h
Chapter Eleven Keegan What am I going to do? How am I going to make it up to Destiney? I need to figure out how to fix the major screw I just caused. After Jasmine and I walked away from Destiney and Hannah at the lunch table we went to sit at our table with the rest of our friends. Or what everyone calls them. But I am beginning to feel like all of this is what is expected of me and what I feel like I am supposed to do, not what I want to do. What I really want is to just be myself and be with Destiney. But I know my father would never let me quit the football team and move on to something else. I don’t hate playing football, but I just wish I could do something different. One thing that nobody knows about me, not even my parents is that I love to draw, and I am pretty good at it. I could always put this talent to good use if I could just figure out a way to tell my dad and him be okay with it. But I know he would never accept it. He says there is no money in artistry no matter
Chapter Twelve Keegan After dinner I make my way back up to my room and when I plop down in my king-sized bed, for a while trying to come up with a plan, I can’t believe I was such an ass yesterday, there is no way she is going to forgive me so easily. I need to come up with something good. I start to feel myself drift off to sleep with dreams of Destiney. When I wake up the next morning I realize that today has to be a better day. I can’t let Jasmine and those ‘people’ that are my so called friends control my actions anymore. I need to make a change and I need to talk to my dad about what I really want in life. I just hope he is understanding and willing to let me make a few changes. Today is going to be a better day. I can’t let Jasmine and those ‘people’ control my actions anymore. After I dinner with my parents last night and after talking with my mom about everything going on and that she basically tells me the same thing about what my dad said. So now I just need to figure o
Chapter ThirteenDestineyThis last week has been crazy, weird and a total cluster. Jasmine won’t leave me alone, Keegan has been showing more attention to me and it’s been a bit odd to say the least, and I don’t know how to feel about it. The day after he walked away with Jasmine, he had the audacity to have more flowers sent to me. He thinks just by sending me flowers and chocolates and stuffies that it will make what he did forgivable and make everything okay. Well, he has another thing coming if he thinks I am going to make it that easy for him. Once I am at my locker Hannah comes up to me and she can tell something is bothering me and isn’t sure she wants to ask or not but knowing her she will anyway. Hannah and I have been friends since the first grade, and we both know each other so well, we are like sisters. Sometimes I wish she really was my sister. “Hey Des, what’s wrong? Did Keegan do something again today. I swear that boy will not leave you alone. It’s like he is in lov