Massive thank you to RunSilent Rundeep for this chapter's edits.
We received our yearbooks on the penultimate day of finals. Those final exams would count heavily toward our college applications. The important things for me though were the pics of girls in the yearbook. I admired the cute smiles on some of the girls, especially considering that most of the pictures were taken at the start of the year. Some of them have grown so much since then. There was the girl who used to have braces - how sexy she looked, then, without them. Or the girl whose breasts suddenly grew to be so big.
I'd been sitting with Ellie and Kacey, which made a weird threesome. Ellie sort of tolerated Kacey more than the other girls did, which was why Kacey sat with us at lunch. Maybe she didn't feel threatened, given how she'd essentially pushed me Kacey's way. While they were looking at their yearbook photos, comparing and asking each other all sorts of girly things, I noticed Joleen's picture - which had been taken a few days after she had arrived from her earlier school. Her relationship with me has gotten strained, and I was sad about that. During the time we had been apart, Joleen had started hanging out primarily with Bryanna and Tawny. All three were black, though I don't think it was race that got them together. In Bryanna's case, I had the sneaky suspicion that it was about Joleen's need for sexual contact each day.
Bryanna was one of the hottest girls in school - by that point, probably one of the hottest in town. She had a wonderfully balanced body: she had a good sized chest, a good sized ass, and an amazing hip-waist ratio. Her skin was perfectly caramel. Bryanna almost always wore something that was either very tight-fitting or short and loose. Often she'd surprise us with a stunning silk romper. Her style was roughly what Joleen used to wear before that incident on the bus. Back before the incident, Bryanna and Joleen would probably have gotten along quite well even if they didn't have a semi-lesbian thing going on. But Joleen dresses so preppy, with polished shoes, a standard shirt, and often a sleeveless jersey. That's not very "fashionista" for someone with her "diva" attitude, but I think she's still trying to live down that bus incident - the one that made her switch to my school, the one that made her need to kiss someone everyday or get a migraine level headache. Like I did.
Tawny, the third of the trio, shared Joleen's more chocolate-like skin tone. I would admit that I didn't think she was as attractive as the other two girls. Like Whitney and Stacy, Tawny was on the cheer squad. She didn't hang out with them very often, though. It seemed like she actively avoided them, outside practice. I didn't have a sense of her personality. It was hard to say anything about that, really, I hadn't talked to her much. Granted,I didn't really plan to. It's not that I thought she was completely unattractive. I could admire certain parts of her body. It was remarkably similar to Ellie's: rather petite with small-ish breasts and a firm butt. I mean, she'd be perfect for modelling, I'm sure. But - well she was indeed sitting next to two firecrackers: Joleen and Bryanna.
I gawked at the three of them sitting and chatting. Joleen had been looking down at her yearbook, I assumed she was checking her picture. She looked at and glanced at me before quickly looking back down at her book. Then she looked back at me again, before going back to the book. I could tell she'd noticed something, something that had her frantic. Before I could even warn Ellie or Kacey, Joleen got up and dashed over to us. Kacey and Ellie immediately stopped talking when the bold black beauty stooped over me.
"Mikey, we need to talk. Now!" I didn't know what she wanted, but I wondered what she had seen in the yearbook that had made her so direct with me.
"Why?" I asked, expecting her to explain.
"I said, we need to talk Mikey. Like now boy, get up!" She said before grabbing my arm, Ellie grabbed my other arm.
"I don't think you've any right to take my boyfriend anywhere, at least not until you explain what you need from him." Ellie tugged me towards her.
"This ain't none of your business bitch, I just need to borrow him for a second. I ain't interested in your boyfriend," I had hardly ever heard Joleen talk like that. It was surprising really, usually she tries to be less colloquial. Her tone and inflections were sounding a lot more streetwise. She tugged at me again.
Ellie tugged back. "My boyfriend's business is my business, how about you go back to your gang or crew or whatever." Ellie was possessive, that much I knew. She probably liked Kacey because she never felt threatened by her. My Mom didn't make her feel threatened, either - nor any MILF, for that matter. I'm sure she knew that I disliked Stacy and that I was literally using her as a toy. But Joleen was the real deal, the one who could steal me away. It looked like the conversation would get way worse before it got better.
Joleen dropped her yearbook and tugged so hard I fell off the chair. "And as I said," she continued, "I need to borrow him for one second. You ain't own him bitch, he ain't your property. Mikey is his own man, so he can definitely determine by himself if he can go!" That got the attention of a few other kids nearby, not long after my table was surrounded by the other students in the cafeteria.
I got up to my feet, but I didn't move. I could have easily broken free from both of them, but then what? Should I go with Joleen? I was tempted to. I did have a soft spot for her, one fueled by pure guilt. My mind control powers had changed her life so drastically.
Could those powers help me get out of that situation? I wasn't sure. I was growing afraid of them, and didn't want to use them - unless I was provoked. But what good are mind control powers when two women are fighting over you? The only thing the powers did was make each of them want you more.
On the other hand, going with Joleen would definitely upset Ellie, and I didn't want to upset her either. And if I chose neither, that would just upset them both.
Ellie cried out and tugged me back to her. "I told you, hoe, he is mine and he isn't going anywhere."
The large group of students gathered around our table said, "Oooohhh,". I heard whispers about how Joleen and I had had a short fling, and how then I'd dumped her for Ellie, and that Joleen couldn't move on. I heard people whispering about my involvement in the English class incident. Then more whispering - just dumb rumours.
Joleen was so angered by what Ellie had said that she paused before responding, Tawny and Bryanna came over to stand beside her. "I told you, he ain't a piece of meat bitch. I just need to talk to him, I ain't gonna eat him."
"Like I'll believe you skank," Ellie countered, garnering more, "oohs," from the students.
Joleen said, "What is it with you nerds? Do you think that with all your straight As you don't need common sense?" Then she muttered, "Teacher's pet!" That got some laughs from the crowd. That last jab hurt, because Ellie was sensitive about being called an "overachiever" or a "teacher's pet." The laughs from the crowd still hurt more. Ellie may have acted tough, but underneath she was a really shy girl.
"You know what," Ellie shouted, "fuck you Joleen, and fuck all of you!" She teared up, still holding onto me. That only earned more jeers from the crowd of students. They all threw a "Fuck you!" back at her and then chanted "Teacher's pet!" My girlfriend let go of me and hid behind her hands, sobbing.
That was the last straw. First Kacey and her mother; Ellie and these jackals. Once again, I'd had it.
"That's enough!" I stood up straight. "All of you. Get the fuck out of here. Before we have a problem." As I watched the crowd, I realised that they were looking at me as-if for the first time. In the space of two months, my height had gone from average to tall. My arms had grown thicker, as if I had become a gym goer. My shoulders had broadened. My hair had darkened. My jaw was stronger, and my eyes pierced. I was finally starting to look like my father, and that made me look scary. It's no wonder they stopped laughing, stopped talking, and then left as quietly as they could.