Heaven

-1 month later

"Hey baby" Elijah sat beside me at the lunch table

"Hey." I simply responded

I haven't grown to fond of him calling me his "baby". We're not a couple and he constantly calls me.

"You look beautiful today, just like every other day" he smiled and put his arm across my shoulder

"Thanks..." I trailed off

"So you wanna go on a date?" He asked, licking his lips

"You all can go out this weekend" Keyona quickly answered

"I told you I'm not allowed to date" I shrugged

"You can say you're at my house" she smiled

"I uh...I-" the bell rung interrupting me

"So is that a yes?" Elijah quickly asked

"Uhm...I'll think about it and let you know. I gotta head to class"
I explained

My uncle Steve will let me go out, if I ask him. But truth is, I'm not into Elijah like that.

"We got the same last block." He chuckled

Dammit we do.

"Oh yeah..." I chuckled awkwardly

"See y'all two lovebirds later" Keyona cooed

I mentally rolled my eyes and headed off to art class with Elijah beside me.

"You know...you still haven't given me your number" he said

That's true...and I've had my phone for a month now.

"I'll give it to you after class" I hurried into the classroom

"You two are late" Ms. G said as we entered

"I'm sorry" I said to her

"Don't let it happen again. Heaven, Chris picked you as an art partner for today's assignment. Elijah, Cameron picked you" she explained

Why would Christopher pick me and he doesn't even like me?

I sucked up my nervousness and walked over to him.

"What are we supposed to be doing?" I asked as I sat beside him

"You can either spray paint or draw a picture of anything you choose" he explained

"Have you picked which one you wanted to do?" I asked

"I was gonna' let you do that" he shrugged

"Well, I wanna spray paint" I said

"Aight. There's a room down the hall for spray painting. Come on" he got up and I followed

He's so cute.

"You got any idea what you wanna spray?" He asked

"No. I just wanna do something...unique and original" I shrugged as we walked into the other room

"Aight well let's get started" he picked up his can and got to work

*

"This coming along nice, I ain't know you liked shit like this" he smiled

There's a lot of things you don't know about me

"I-I've never done anything like this before. It j-just seems fun" I shrugged

Damn. There goes that stuttering

"Well you good fo' a beginner" he licked over his bottom lip

"T-Thank you"

"No problem...so what's going on with you and ole' boy in there?" he continued spraying

What?

"What do you mean?" I cleared my throat

"Y'all seem close. Y'all together?"

"Oh no." I answered quickly

"Oh cool..."

There was an awkward silence between us. The only thing that could be heard was the spraying of our cans.

"I apologize" he stopped spraying

"F-For what?" I faked like I didn't remember

I remember exactly what he said last month. He said: "I don't like you. We not friends, we not nothing."

"For tha' way I treated you. It was childish and I apologize" he said

"It's-It's cool" I nodded

"So we good?"

"Yeah"

"Good. Cus' I missed yo lil quiet self" he nudged me

I blushed but looked the opposite way.

"We need to catch up on our project too" I said

"Wanna come over after school?" he asked

"I gotta ask. Hold on" I said while pulling my phone from my pocket

Me: Can I go to a friend's house after school? -1:22pm

Mommy ❤️: Yeah. But be home before 9 -1:26pm

Me: Ok. Thank you. -1:27pm

Uncle Steve has been treating me and my mama like queens this past month. She's been happy and so have I. My father hasn't laid a finger on us, but I'm sure he will once uncle Steve leaves. I just want to focus on the good times while I still have them.

"Heaveeeen" Christopher waved his hand in my face

"Huh?" I looked at him

"You good?" He chuckled

"Y-Yeah. My mom said I can come over" I answered

"Aight. What you doing for Thanksgiving?" he asked

"Probably just have dinner with my mom, dad, and uncle." I shrugged "What about you?"

"My mama out of town so I'ma just be home chillin." He shrugged

Chris

She's changed just a little bit and I like it. She isn't as nervous as she used to be, she still hasn't smiled for me yet though. But in time she'll smile.

"And we're all done" I said

She stepped back and look at it

"I love it...Christopher you're amazing" her jaw dropped

"So I've been told" I smirked

"I'm serious, you have talent."

"You helped" I shrugged

"I just filled in a few colors. This is all you" she had hella heart eyes for my painting

"This is beautiful"

"Thanks. Let's get to class before the bell rings" I chuckled

At first she barely talked when she got here. Now she holds conversations, I like that. I'm still curious about those bruises I seen on her though.

"Alright" she picked up our cans

I carried the painting back to the main classroom and sat it up front with the rest. I took a step back and smiled at the work, and at the very bottom was Heaven and my initials

"Since class is almost over, we're gonna grade these tomorrow" Ms. G announced

I looked around the class and spotted Heaven talking to the boy. Well, actually it looked like he was doing most of the talking. She looked slightly annoyed with him, which I found funny because I've never seen that look on her face. The bell had rung and he was still talking to her, so I decided to go over.

"Heav, you ready?" I asked her

"Y-Yeah." She put the last of her papers in her bag

"Who's this?" the boy asked

"This is Christopher, Christopher this is E-Elijah" she introduced us

"Wassup man" he nodded

I nodded back, I wasn't interested in meeting him.

"Let's head out, baby girl" I said to Heav

"Ok. See you later, Elijah" me and her started walking off

"Wait! You forgot to give me your number!" He caught up to us

"She'll give it to you tomorrow or something" I answered back

"But we don't have school tomorrow, it's Thanksgiving" he said

"Guess it wasn't meant for you to have her number then" I shrugged and tossed my arm around Heaven as we began walking again

I looked down at her and saw her smiling.

That's the first of many, baby girl.

"That wasn't nice" she giggled

"Never said I was nice" I shrugged

"You're nice to m-me" she looked up at me

"Because you my friend. I don't know that nigga"

She giggled again as we walked to my car.

Eh...idk

The spray painting in the media

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-Carlisha