An Unexpected Love

Destiny

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

I reach over to hit my alarm to make the annoying sound stop. I really hate mornings, but like every other young adult in this world we need to wake up, get our education and go off into this world to make a living for ourselves. And I get to be one of those lucky people who gets to do just that. When I manage to get my alarm shut off, I make my way out of bed and head to my bathroom to start my morning routine, I turn the shower on and let it warm up while I brush my teeth and hair, when I turn to make my way to the shower and I step inside and just feel better as the warm water cascades down my body, I begin by washing my long dark brown curly hair, once my hair is washed and conditioned I move on to my strawberry body wash, I love this stuff. When I’m done with my shower, I turn off the water and reach out for my towel and dry myself off. I wrap my towel around my body and make my way out to my room to get dressed in my favorite flowy sundress, it sits just slightly above my knees, and I grab my light blue denim jackets to go over it and then I throw in my favorite black wedge ankle boots.

When I’m dressed properly for school, I make my way downstair for breakfast, my mom and dad are already long gone at work. They are always gone before I even wake up, sometimes I wonder if they are up and out of the house before the sun comes up. Yeah, my parents are those that like to work all the time and try to make it seem like they are always trying to make our life easier and better. They like to seem like those parents that are working hard to give their daughter a life they never had, but what they fail to realize is that I would much rather have them here and not their money. Anyway, I’m getting off track here, I quickly make my breakfast and grab my bookbag and keys by the front door and head out to my car. As I climb in, I start up the engine and pull out of my driveway and make my way to school.

When I make it to school, I pull into the parking lot and pull into the first open space I find. I grab my stuff and step out and make my way to the main building. Before I can even make it to the sidewalk, I hear tires screech to a halt, and I hear someone yelling my name. I dread turning around to deal with this nonsense because I already know who it is that is yelling my name. Apparently, I have a death wish because I end up turning around anyway, and when I do the person yelling name steps out of their car and comes within an inch of my face yelling at me.

“What the HELL are you doing freak, your parked in my spot!”

I’m trying to stay calm; I don’t like drawing attention to myself, and I certainly don’t like to be pushed around. Especially by this bitch. She thinks she runs the school but one of these days she is going to have a rude awakening and be knocked off her high horse.

“I’m sorry Jasmine, but I actually wasn’t aware this was your spot. I didn’t see any signage to indicate that it is yours. So, I just pulled in. I’ll be sure to not park here tomorrow.”

I turn to walk away before she even has a chance to respond. I make my way inside and I know she is livid that I didn’t bend to her will and move my car like she wanted me to. As I’m walking inside, I feel like I have these eyes on me watching me. When I turn to see if I notice anyone, I don’t see anyone at first but the more I look around I catch the person staring at me it’s not good for me that I have caught the eye of the one person who can make everything here worse for me. But when I look closer, I can see there is a slight smirk to his expression.

Great he saw everything that went down, now I am going to have to deal with the wrath of not only Jasmine but Derek as well, he has a made it a point to make sure everyone around here knows not to piss off his girl Jasmine. And that is exactly what I did. So, I turn away and make my way inside to my locker so I can get what I need and make my way to my first class.

As I walk these halls everyone is watching me, and I can hear whispers. Great, the gossip has already started. My life is only going to get harder from here on out…perfect.

I make it to my locker and put in the combination and pull it open, I swap out my books and just before I close my locker, I hear a voice that instantly brings me calm.

“Hey Bitch!”

“Hey.”

“What’s wrong babe?”
“Where should I begin? I know you have already heard everything that happened this morning.”
“Girl, don’t let that shit get to you, Jasmone is a bitch, and she is going to try and push people around no matter what.”

“That’s just it, Hannah, yeah she is a bitch but, because I don’t want to draw attention to myself I kind of have to put up with it.”

“Des, you don’t have to put up with anything. Put that bitch in her place and show her and everyone else here how tough you are and how you won’t put up with anything.”

“I wish it were that easy Han, I really do. But I know that if I were to push back, I wouldn’t have only Jasmine to deal with, I would have Keegan to deal with too along with all their followers and I just don’t have the energy for all that shit.”

“I know what you mean Des, but you need to be able to stand up for yourself, at least a little bit. But don’t worry, I got your back. Let’s get to class.”

“Let’s get going.”

I close my locker the rest of the way and we make our way to our first class and when we make our way inside, we find a couple seats toward the back corner. We like these seats, so we don’t draw attention, we like to blend in with everyone else. As we sit here quietly chatting with each other, I feel a force of something plop down in the chair on my other side, and when I look up to see Hannah’s face, I already know who this person is.

I turn to see if my hunch is correct and when I do, I drop my head in defeat and let a sigh slip from my lips.

“What do you want? 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.”

He looks at me with a smirk and I feel his eyes rake down my body and back up to my face and when I look into his eyes, I feel like I see heat in them. There is no way this guy can be looking at me the way that it looks like.

“Don’t worry about Jasmine, she will get over it.”

Did he just say that? I feel like I am walking into something. I don’t know what to think about what he just said. I turn to look at Hannah and she just shrugs her shoulders.

“Thanks Han.”

“Your welcome Des.”
I turn back to his direction and look at him with all the skepticism I can muster.

“I’m sorry, What?”

“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.”

And he says this all with a smirk and a wink in my directions. Holy crap what the hell is going on here. I feel like I am going to be walking around waiting for the other shoe to drop.

“You look really good today, Destiney. I like the dress, you look beautiful.”

My mind and has imploded. I think he is messing with me. He is trying to make me lower my guard so that he and Jasmine can pull something, find some way to humiliate me in front of the whole school. Well, it’s not going to happen.

“Thank you.” He thinks he has got this in the bag, not on my watch. But I still have manners.

By the time I begin to regain my composure from this unexpected conversation, the teacher walks in to begin his lesson and we all turn to face him, and I begin to take my notes on his lesson.


By the time lunch rolls around, there are so many rumors floating around school about how I am sleeping said guy behind Jasmines back and how I am out to try and ‘steal her man’ its ridiculous. Really? I mean come on, why would I want him, he is the big shot football star of the school football team and Jasmine is the cheerleading captain she is tall and skinny with long blonde hair and perfect green eyes and everyone wants to be her and every guys wants to be WITH her and I am…well…I’m short, with curves and long dark brown curly hair, brown eyes, a lot of people – Mainly Jasmine and her group- say that I am fat but really I just have that perfect hour glass figure, but it’s hard to not think I’m fat when everyone else around here thinks I am too. But thanks to Hannah, I don’t let it get to me too much, if it weren’t for her than I would not feel as confident in myself, but I do still need to work on it more.

Jasmine and Keegan well they have been together since last year and they are the ‘IT’ couple of the school. This crap is ridiculous. I mean seriously, Yeah Derek is cute, I guess, with his dark brown hair, blue eye, and with being well over six foot makes it nice for someone like me that barely makes the five-foot cut, and with his broad shoulders and from what I hear his washboard abs are a sight to see. But I mean, come on, does his self-absorbed personality make all that worth it? I think not. No thank you.

As I sit here with Hannah eating our lunch, mind our own business, out of nowhere I feel this ice-cold liquid fall all over the top of my head and down my back. When I look up to see what happened I notice Jasmine standing there with an empty soda cup and a huge ass grin on her face.

“That will teach you to go near my man, bitch.”

I can’t help but just here in silence I am completely shocked as to what the hell just happened. Then out of nowhere I hear a loud, booming voice call out to Jasmine.

“What the hell did you do Jasmine?”

“I’m just trying to prove to this low-life freak, that she can’t take what is mine.”

“Really because the last time we had this same kind of conversation, I told you we weren’t together anymore, did you not pay attention to anything I said then?”

Jasmine looks like she is about to have a meltdown of epic proportions. When she turns to look at me, she leans down and says, “This isn’t over bitch, you better watch your back.”

Then she storms off and out of the lunchroom. When Keegan turns to me and looks like he is going to apologize, I hold up my hand before he can even get a word out. I stand up and look to Hannah, “I’ll call you later.”

“Okay, love you. Call me later.”

I make my way out of the lunchroom towards the locker room to change into my gym clothes then I’m going to make my way home. I don’t have the energy to deal with this shit today.

Once I am changed and make my way out of the locker room, I end up colliding with what feels like a brick wall. But when I look up, I come to find out that it isn’t a brick wall at all, its Keegan. Great. I turn to walk around him so I can make my way out to my car and head home but before I can make it, he grabs hold of my arm in a firm but gentle hold and says, “Look, I just want to apologize, Jasmine should never have done that, she thinks we are still together when we haven’t been together in months.”

“It’s okay, I just need to get home, I knew this is what would happen if you and I started talking to each other even if we are just being civil. It’s the way life goes.”

“No, It’s not okay. She needs to learn that I am not with her, and she has no right to treat anyone that way no matter what.”

He seems like he cares, but I can’t let myself fall for this, this is the first time he has said two words to me in three years. I know he can’t be serious.

“I just want to go home. Please…just let me go so I can go home.”

He releases me but when I look up into his eyes, I see reluctance in letting go, like he wants me to stay. But I can’t handle the way things went just now, I need to go home and figure out what the hell is going on. After three years of not saying anything to me or to acknowledge me at all, now suddenly Keegan wants to notice me. This is getting to be too much.

I make my way out to my car and climb in, start the engine and pull out of the spot, I drive to the opening of the parking lot, check my surroundings to make sure no cars are coming and when I look into my rearview mirror I see Keegan standing there watching me leave and if I didn’t know any better I would say he looks like a sad puppy that just lost his favorite toy. Yeah, that’s exactly what I am, I toy he and Jasmine can mess with and pull pranks on to humiliate me in front of the whole school. Not going to happen. I may look dumb, but I am far from it.

I make it home in a matter of no time and I thank my lucky stars that my parents aren’t home. I don’t feel like dealing with all their questions on top of everything I went through today.

I change out of my gym clothes and put on a pair of dark grey leggings and a bright pink crop top over my sports bra and then I climb into bed and lay there thinking about everything that happened today, I text Hannah to let her know that I made it home and I am just going to rest and that I will text her later. I put my phone back on my end table and roll over to try and get some rest and before I know it my eyes are closing, and I see images of what my life could be like if Keegan was a nice guy and if he and I could be together.