The entire room stilled, fell quiet and the heads of the room jolted around at the projected profanity that came from Harlee's direction. 'Great.' She thought to herself in a slight state of panic. Bree, the overly observant best friend, saw the complete look of worry upon her face and quickly and quite smoothly covered for her best friend.
"How dare they fuck up my coffee, I've ordered from the same 'Starbucks' stand for 3 years, and you choose today to fuck up my shit? I can't even." She said, with add attitude in voice as she played off the outburst.
Harlee remained as a deer in the headlights, still speechless and still staring down at Alex from across the room. The aroma from the awkward and uncomfortable situation Harlee was in came clear across Bree's senses.
"You can all turn around now, I'm finished." Bree said as if she was barking orders to the class of students.
One by one the heads began to roll back around towards the front of the room, slowly each one of them went back to their phones and their gossip as if nothing happened. Bree began to notice that Alex too was still staring at Harlee. "Am I missing something?' She thought to herself.
For a brief moment Alex was overwhelmed with a million different urges upon seeing her face all at once. Realizing he was still at the beginning of his class he cleared his throat in hopes to shake off his current state of Deja Vu.
Bree slapped Harlee's arm a few times to stop her from staring down at the man. "Har, uhh you wanna enlighten me on your sudden urge to interrupt class?" She said in a whisper.
Harlee shook off her trance and looked towards Bree. "I am going to be sick." She said.
"Now?" Bree questioned. "It's the 1st day we have to wait on those types of excuses."
Harlee hung her head down towards the desk, and sat in silence for the next 75 minutes. After class Harlee booked it out the back door as fast as she could with Bree hot on her tail.
"Harlee tell me what the fuck is going on?" a worried Bree grabbed her arm in question. She stilled turned around and took a deep breath. "Do you remember that guy I told you about from earlier in the summer?
"Which one?" She said, trying to recall a particular event in her head? "Oh the photograph? The one your fast ass let take pictures of you cus you couldn't keep your legs together?"
"Yep". She answered.
Bree took her best friends clue very well with her immediate response of "That's him!?"
"Yep." and Bree sunk down against one of the trees in the courtyard.
"Damn girl, was he that bad? 'Cus you sat in silence the whole class. What the fuck happened?" Bree said puzzlingly as she sat beside her on the grass. "I mean you told me you two fucked and it was some type of weird eye opening type of shit, but that was it. Am I missing something here? I don't see why you tripping on dude so badly. Like this is new I have never seen you act this way when you see your old dudes in public. You basically like a nigga; head nod and keep it pushing."
"I know" she responded with her head low.
"I mean you failed to mention he was white, and had that DILF thing going on with him" she said as if she was imaging him naked.
"Breanna!" she interjected.
"My bad, boo I'm just surprised that Mr. Hill has you over here trippen balls out here." She teased
"His name is Alex, and this shit isn't funny, can you chill?" Harlee corrected her and began to relax a little more.
"I sowwy, boo, talk to me what's going on in that head of yours." she said more concerned this time.
Harlee took a deep breath for a moment and contemplated rehashing the story and opening the book she thought she closed in the summer back up. Her best friend was only let in on the act, not the full blown fuck session that seemed too lasted for days after. Never to know the emotional recovery road she went through during the weeks that followed. Feeling strung out, empty and completely drained as if his tongue was laced with heroin and submerged it deep into her blood steam.
When Bree came back from teaching 3 weeks ago she couldn't help but notice a change in her best friend. Harlee still physically looked the same and infectious laugh that could turn a crowd never changed. However her attitude towards hookups and random one night stands had dramatically altered, and not just she scaled back a bit, Harlee didn't hook up with anyone the rest of the summer in fact it appeared that she sworn of niggas completely, she thought.
They had gone out a few times before school actually started back, had a ball, but the usual Harlee that ended with a hookup became obsolete. The pair of them together was bad. They each in their own right pulled whomever they liked both very were discrete and killer when it came to who they had sex with. Never anyone in the same area and never anyone they saw on campus. EVER. Atlanta was big enough on its own to not have to deal with navigating through that kind of drama.
"Okay... so here's what happen..."
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