SHAYLA ALVEZ
harlem, new york ; her apt.
[ 9:30 a.m ]

shayla slept with her mouth open, snoring really loudly. she didn't even notice that her alarm had rung an hour ago for school until her four year old sister, caro had to wake her up. "shay, shay, get up." caro whined as she began repeatedly tapping her on her stomach with her plushie.

shayla groaned and made no move to get out of her bed but shove herself down into her blankets. "caro go back to sleep." she mumbled sleepily. caro frowned, "but mami said for you to get up. it's nine."

shayla immediately sat up at this, yawning before patting around her nightstand to find her phone. she ended up feeling the material and saw that it was nine thirty. school started over an hour ago.

"oh shit." she mumbled under her breath as she stumbled out of her bed. caro watched her older sister fumble her words as she takes her stuff to take a shower. "mami also wanted me to tell you to make me breakfast."

shayla nodded at her sentence and waited til caro left her room to let out a breath she had been holding in for way too long. the thing is that her mother never even spoke to her, she would tell caro things to tell her. she didn't even look her way once.

shayla doesn't even remember the last time she and her mother had a conversation. it was that bad.

the girl took a quick shower since she couldn't afford to be later than she was now. the girl didn't even time to put on any makeup after she was done so she was bare faced. she slipped on a pair of baggy grey sweats along with a white tank top. she decided to just go in her black yeezy slides because, it was the easiest thing to slide on in such a hurry.

believe it or not she hated not dressing up and looking bummy to school but she didn't really have time to dress.

shayla took out her straightened hair out of her bonnet and slicked back a couple of edges before grabbing her belongings score leaving her room in a rush.

she walked in to see her sister almost touching the stove. she almost did a double take because of how close she was to the thing. she quickly walked over to her and took her under her arms, sitting her down on one of the stools. "okay caro sit down sit down."

shayla let out a sigh before looking around the kitchen to find something to give caro. the thing is, is that the house was empty. and if shayla didn't buy groceries there would be nothing in the house.

shayla opened the fridge to see that the milk wasn't completely gone so maybe she could just give caro cereal for the morning. it was quick and easy, it would work great in her favor since now she had completely missed the first three periods of the school day.

the girl looked into the cabinet to see that the only cereal that was left was the only food she ate when she got home. she shrugged it off though a she poured the last bit of cereal into the bowl with milk. 

shayla slid the bowl to caro and popped a spoon into there. she checked the time again, she was gonna be in so much trouble. "okay i'll see you later okay baby? bye." shayla planted a small kiss on her forehead before making her way out of the apartment complex.

she walked down the stairs since the elevators are nasty and not just the smell the people in it too. shayla ended up walking to school as if she was to take a cab it would take way too long. the girl hadn't even noticed her phone was blowing up with messages until she saw her bestfriend sending her a messages.

MIMI 💞💞.

shay are you not
coming to school?

what happened?
text me when you're back ya hearrdddd??

but please come to school, idk if i
can make through lunch w/o youuu.

i'm here i woke up mad latee .

good , but we takin a
test in history today 😣,
get ya bumass here now

okay 😒

shayla groaned as she walked into the school building. she didn't wanna be here at all and she hadn't even been in here for five minutes. she walked to her scheduled class, history slowly since she was dreading the humiliation she would feel when she walks in.

she hated attention being given to her and her teacher had something against her for some reason so as soon as she walks in there, she's gonna make it a living hell for the girl.

shayla twisted the knob so it wouldn't be that loud but it backfired on her when she saw everybody's head turn to her. she turns around and picks up the test that was on the table, going to walk away but the teacher saw her. "well looks who's finally here now. shayla."

mrs. laurel look at her with a fake smile. "do you have a pass to why you're late?"

shayla shook her head. mrs. laurel nodded before taking a paper slip out of her drawer, writing something on it before handing it to her. "here's your pass to detention." a few laughs went around the room, shayla scrunched up her face at this seeing the teacher was enjoying making her miserable.

the girl couldn't even afford getting detention since she had work right after school. shayla pursed her lips before making her way to her assigned seat which was the last seat to the corner.

she didn't even like the seat, she's told the teacher multiple times on various occasions she couldn't see from her seat but the teacher just told her to get glasses, like she can afford it.

shayla looked around seeing her best friend, milani was literally sleeping on top of her test sheet. she giggled quietly to herself knowing that she was gonna be mad at herself when she sees the drool that was coming out from her mouth besides failing the test.

she started working on the test and it was way easier than she thought it would have been. she was on one of the writing-responses until she heard the back door creak open, revealing a curly haired boy that looked smacked.

shayla looked around to see if anyone else had noticed he had just walked in but no, nobody peeped it not even the teacher.

she turned attention back to her test as she tried to re-focus.

"yo lemme get a pencil." the boy whispered to her causing her to turn her head back at him. she made eye contact with his low red ones before nodding slowly. she took a black led pencil out of her backpack before giving it to him.

he nodded as an 'thank you.' since he had just come in to the room he didn't have a test paper yet so he just stared at her. he thought her features were perfect. dd doesn't even say things like this but she was beautiful in his eyes. 

shayla turned back to her test sheet again, not being able to even write anything down because the boy called her again. "aight i know i'm bein mad annoying right now but can you get be a sheet? if i get it imma be in trouble fo bein late."

shayla pursed her lips before getting up out of her seat and taking another test paper. "shayla what do you need another test for?" mrs laurel asked her with a mug on her face. "water fell on my other one." she mumbled.

mrs laurel hummed as she watched shayla scramble back to her seat.

"here." shayla whispered as she passed the curly headed boy the test. the boy smiled at her as he picked up the pencil, "thank you pretty."

for remainder of the class time shayla was easily breezing through the test, finding it easy. while dd on the other side had his cheek to his face just staring at her. he doesn't know how he had just now noticed her since he could notice a pretty girl from a mile away.

the bell rang unexpectedly. shayla didn't even know there was a back page until she saw people flipping there paper the other side, she did the same to notice there was a back page.

"oh my god." she whispered to herself.

for dd he could care less if he had gotten the test done anyways. he wouldn't say he wasted his time though, he was staring at pretty girl the whole time. that's not a waste of time in his opinion.

he turned to his side to see the girl besides him was stressing out. she could tell she had something bugging her the whole time the two had interactions. he tapped her desk, "yo pretty you good?"

shayla turned her attention back to the boy, keeping direct eye contact with his before nodding. dd looked away embarrassingly because that was the first time someone had held eye contact with him and him being the one to fold first.

she makes him wanna speak spanish foreal.

mrs laurel walked around there area and snatched shayla's her paper roughly, but then just taking dd's normally. even dd noticed that and wasn't gonna let it slide, "why you had to snatch her's like that fo?"

mrs laurel raises a brow, slowly walking backwards to dd's seat. "excuse you?"

dd nodded sassily. "your excused. why you had to snatch her's like that for when you picked everybody's else's normally. that's weird."

the teacher let out a scoff at his true words. "you will be also be joining shayla after school too." dd shrugs at that. "cool." dd was never one to let someone get disrespected especially in front of him.

it was obvious that mrs laurel didn't like shayla for some reason but the girl was a completely sweetheart in dd's eyes for.

shayla had watched the scene play out in front of her awkwardly since she didn't even know how to react about the feeling that had bubbled up in her stomach for some reason. after dd had finished mugging the back of mrs laurel's head he sent shayla the prettiest smile she's ever seen.

she smiled back at him before beginning to pack up when she saw that milani was also in the midst of packing up. "see you at detention pretty." dd told her as he left out of the back door.

shayla didn't even know she could blush until she saw milani walking over to her with a confused expression painted on her face. nonetheless she hugged her before pointing it out. "shay who gotchu blushin like this?"

shayla didn't even know her skin tone could do that causing her to look away in embarrassment. "don't stay stupid shit like that milani. let's go to gym."

the day had gone faster than shayla had anticipated. the last bell had just rung and she watched as everybody got out of there seats at home room, leaving to go home but she wasn't one of those people.

she would have to be in detention meaning she'd miss her work hours and then come home to nobody being awake at home.

shayla walked to the familiar place that she would be in for the day. she had been dreading this for the last past hours and now she actually had to be here.

as shayla had gotten closer to the door of where detention would be held she noticed that there was the same curly headed boy she had seen this morning, standing outside of the room leaning against the wall.

she didn't want her presence to be noticed for some reason because the boy made her nervous for some reason. she doesn't know why even though he had gotten detention because of her.

shayla walked slowly behind before standing a couple feet away from him. she pulled out her phone to distract her but it was pretty much not helping since the two were the only ones in the hallway.

dd hadn't even noticed she was there until now, he noticed how put together she looked. her side profile was one of the most prettiest things he's seen. besides her face of course.

it wasn't a lie that she looked perfect. and he bets that she was.

dd looked around the hallway to see they were alone. he's been wanting to ask her this all day but the only class he had noticed they shared was history. yeah he was already obsessed.

"mm. shayla right?" dd spoke to the girl causing her to turn her head back to him and nodding. he noticed that she put her phone down as soon as he talked to her which he appreciated, he hated people that were always on the phone during conversations.

"how come i neva see you here? you new or sum." dd averted his eyes and scratched his curls awkwardly since the way that shayla was looking at him, he wanted to fold.

shayla shrugs. "na i'm not new. and ion know how i never see you either."

dd nodded as he looked down towards his feet. he raises his head once again to see shayla opening her mouth to speak, "i'm sorry for getting you detention by the way. i swear mrs laurel has something against me."

dd laughed at how worried the girl sounded. he didn't mind getting detention with her and he would never admit this but he had told every one of his friends not to do some foolish shit to get in detention. they had questioned why but left it alone when they saw he wouldn't tell them.

dd shakes his head, "nah it's okay pretty. she was talkin mad hot tho. i could tell he don't like you for sum reason."

shayla opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by the sound of the door knob opening. both of the teens turned there heads to see mrs laurel with a mug stretched on her face, "get in."

dd scrunched his face up at her attitude but walked in anyway with shayla following him right afterwards.

"rules, no phones and no speaking to one another. the detention bell rings at 3:50. don't leave earlier or your parents will be contacted." mrs laurel told them like they were actually gonna listen.

and just with that the woman was out of the room before the two teens could even blink.

dd took a seat at the desk that was against the closets and out his phone down on his desk. he leaned his head against the wooden closet before looking around to see that they were actually the only ones in detention.

he let a smile overcome his face seeing the girl take the seat next to her. "wow there's like no one in here." shayla acknowledged making dd let out a dramatic gasp, "i'm nobody know shayla? woww i thought we was locked in."

shayla looked at the boy like he was crazy as he looked like he was gonna start crying. "delusional at it's finest." she mumbles under her breath. dd heard her and threw the closets thing to him at her which was an eraser. "stop fuckin playing with me shay."

shayla laughed at how he had completely missed her and it landed on the desk. "your so bad at aiming."

dd sucks his teeth. "don't talk bout it. but anyways talk to mee. a nigga bored on some real shit." shayla shrugs. "what do you want to talk bout?"

something that dd had noticed about shayla is that when she's talking to you she's gonna give you her full attention. dd didn't know he liked attention this much from a girl but shayla looked at him like he was absorbing each word he was saying.

dd hadn't said anything for the past two minutes and shayla was getting a little concerned. "dd you good?" she asked him causing him to snap out his trance and looked back at shayla for a couple seconds before putting his hands to his face, smiling.

"you gotta stop lookin at a nigga like that shayla."

shayla pulled an unreadable face as she was confused as ever. "like what?" she laughed slightly but dd shook his head, deciding to switch the subject.

"shayla you lucky you got a pretty name and a pretty face. i only have the face." he pouted causing shayla to smile at the compliment. "thank you dd, but what's ya name? it can't be that bad."

dd shakes his head once again. "yes it is that bad shay you don't understand. my dukes betrayed me." he whined childishly. shayla rolls her eyes playfully. "it can't be that bad. just say it."

dd never really liked telling girls his actual name since they would always use it like a pet name which he disliked but he didn't care when it came to shayla. "ma name david." he mumbled embarrassingly.

shayla let out a laugh causing dd to mug her sassily. "no, no. david's such a cute name, it suites you. can i call you david?" dd grinned at the words that came from her mouth. "yeah you can call me david or whatever."

the way that both of the teens talked to each other you would've think they knew each other for years. it was weird on how fast the too clicked and breezed past from the awkward phase to friends.

shayla thought that dd was nice company to have. she liked the little things he would do like how he would slip in a compliment for her through any sentence he possibly could. along with dd he liked the girl a lot. it was a weird thing for him because the boy failed fast so if she kept looking at him like that he might fall in love.

even though shayla was in the beginning dreading to come to detention she liked dd, more than she thought she would.

sooner or later the bell had rung for the two and it was finally time for them to go home. "but we wasn't even done talking thooo." dd whined as watched shayla pick up her backpack. "i have to go to work dd."

the sentence caught dd by surprise. was he supposed to have a job at the age of sixteen too?

"why? what? huh?" dd tilted his head as he fumbled over his words. shayla smiled at the boy, picking up her phone and sliding it though her pocket. she was gonna begin to walk away until dd grabbed her wrist.

"at least lemme get ya number? please?" he says with a pout. shayla giggled and pulled her phone right back out for him to do his thing.

shayla watched as dd smiled like a little kid as he put his phone number in her phone.

F SPEAKS 💫

NOTE— no cause tell me why this is 3000 sum words 🌚. if imma right like this for each chapter y'all gonna be readin these chapter for a WHILEEE. anyways chile.. see you later pookies 😘😘.