Chapter Three
Keegan
When I was standing by the main doors to school, and I saw what Destiney said to Jasmine, I was damn shocked, I never thought anyone would have the balls to stand up to her. It was hot and I wanted to make a move towards Destiney, but I knew it would have been too much right then, so I hung back and just watched.
She stopped just inside the doors to the school like she felt me watching her, she would stop and turn, she didn’t notice me watching her at first but when she did finally notice, I couldn’t help but smirk at her and give a wink. I could see the blush form on her cheeks, and I knew there was something there.
I just need to figure out how to make this girl mine. I can tell she is something different. She thinks I have never noticed her before today, but she is so wrong, I have had my eye on her for some time now, and I have always wanted to make her mine, but with the way high school is, there is always a way things need to be. With me being the captain of the football team and Jasmine being the cheerleading captain. But I am tired the stigma of how things need to be. I am going shake it up this year. I can’t wait to see what happens.
I make my way inside shortly after Destiney and I walk down the hall and see her switching out her books from her locker and just when I am about to walk up to her, someone else walks up and starts talking to her. So, I wait.
I hear everything and I am not liking what I hear. This girl needs to have more confidence in herself. Which gives me an idea. I’m digging this girl, and it’s in this moment that I become more determined than I ever have been to make her mine.
As I make my way to our first class for the day, I follow behind Destiney and her friend Hannah at a distance, I don’t want them to notice that I am close by. After I heard the rumors about what happened in the parking lot, I felt like I needed to keep my distance, but I also need to make sure nothing happens to Destiney.
If I know Jasmine like I think I do, it won’t be good. She is a jealous, conniving, manipulative, bitch and I don’t want anything to happen to Destiney. I can’t let anything happen to my girl. I have this gut feeling that Jasmine is already making plans to mess with Destiney and I can’t let anything happen.
When I make it into the classroom, I notice the girls sitting in the back corner of the room. Instantly I can already tell she doesn’t like to be the center of attention. That is going to be something she will need to get used to if she is going to be with me, but that’s okay, we will work up to it.
I make my way to where they are and I plop myself down just on the other side of Destiney and I feel like I just won the lottery, I can’t seem to take my eyes off her. She is beautiful with her long, curly hair, I love how the length reaches down to the bottom of her back, and when she turns to look at me, I see the hesitancy in her beautiful brown eyes, I need to fix this and fast. I know she is trying to figure out why I am sitting here. She doesn’t trust me yet and I don’t blame her, she thinks I haven’t noticed her until today. But after today I plan to change all that. This girl is going to be my queen.
When she looks in my direction, she lowers her head and releases sigh like I am burdening her or something. I’ll change that too. She will come to love me when she realizes how good I can be to her. Then she looks up at me and when her eyes meet mine, I forget to breather for a minute, her eyes are the most beautiful shade of brown I have ever seen.
“What do you want Keegan?”
Wow, my name coming off those luscious lips does things to me, and I can’t wait to hear it again. It makes me want to do things to her that will make her say my name over and over. The things I want to do to her are not something I should be thinking about right now.
“Look, I know I messed up this morning telling Jasmine what I did, but I honestly didn’t think it would be such a big deal to park in that spot. I’ll be sure not to park there tomorrow.”
She is so cute; she thinks I am going to give her a hard time for what she said to Jasmine this morning. I could care less, I thought it was such a turn on that she stood up for herself. That is the first time I have seen her do that. I really hope I get to witness it more often. I can’t help but give her my smirk and I can’t help but move my eyes up and down her gorgeous body and back up to her face and when I look into her eyes, I think I see something there that looks like it could mean something more. I lean down a bit so that we are eye level and I look into her eyes, and I tell her not to worry about Jasmine and that she will get over it.
She looks a bit shocked by what I just said. She must think I am messing with her or something. I am really starting to regret not saying anything to her sooner right now. But before I was too nervous, she was always the most beautiful girl in my eyes, and I was always worried about making a fool of myself in front of her. I plan to prove to her that I am totally serious and that I don’t give a shit what Jasmine thinks. I am all about this girl and I will do whatever it takes to prove it to her.
She looks at me for another few seconds then turns to her friend who just shrugs her shoulders. Destiney then mumbles something I can’t quite catch but then turns back to me and gives me more skepticism.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?”
I lean a little closer to her and when I do I have to use all my will power not to close my eye and take a deep breath because the moment I lean towards her I smell pineapple and hibiscus and it feels like I am in heaven, I think I just found my new favorite scent and I can’t get enough of it. I mentally shake my head and try to focus on what I need to tell her. So, I lean a little closer.
“I said, don’t worry about Jasmine, she will get over it. She thinks she runs this school. But we all know who really runs this place.”
I can’t help but give her a smile and a wink after I repeat myself. But when I do, she leans back a little and just stairs at me. I need to find a way to prove to her that I am serious, I don’t know anything yet, but I need to figure out something and fast.
She seems skeptical of me right now. I turn to look her over again and I notice the pretty sundress she has on, it has bright yellow sunflowers all over it and it makes me wonder if sunflowers are her favorite. I will have to bring one for her tomorrow. But for now, I look into her eyes.
“You look good today, Destiney. I like the dress, you look beautiful.”
There she goes again with that look on her face. She really doesn’t believe me when I giver these compliments. I can’t believe I waited this long to say something to her. I first noticed her back in our sophomore year and I never did anything to grab her attention, I am such a dumbass. I have always thought she was beautiful. I need to rectify this and soon. I’m going to head home after school and try to figure stuff out. I got to have this girl.
Chapter FourKeeganWhen she seems to regain her composure, she then gives her head a slight shake and comes back with something even I wasn’t expecting. I can’t help just stare. I wasn’t expecting her to be so nice, but I am glad to hear her talking to me no matter what she says.“Thank you.” Her voice sounds so heavenly. I can’t wait to hear more.She gives me her sweet smile and I now know I got this, she can feel it too, but I know it’s not going to be easy.By the time we both regain our composure from this expected conversation, the teacher walks in to begin his lesson I just wish he would have stayed out of the classroom a little longer but when she turns to focus on his lesson and pulls out her notebook, I have no other choice but to do as she does as well. When class is over, Destiney and Hannah quickly grab their things and scurry from the classroom quicker than I thought possible for women to go. I didn’t even get a chance to talk to her after she took off. But that okay,
Chapter FiveKeeganOnce 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
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