Jasmine gave Noelani a wide eyed look from the driver's seat.

"Bro, his mom and his dad fucking saw me straddling their son about to make out with him. Oh, and his little sister. I'm never going back to his house ever again." Noelani repeated from the passenger seat of Jasmine's car.

"Yikes. What'd you do when they saw you?" Sydney leaned forward to stick her head between the two seats.

"I shook their hands then ran out of that house like it was on fire or something. I sprinted to my car. I want them to never have to see me again. Shit was mad mortifying." Noelani rubbed her forehead.

"You're gonna see them. Jordan told me that-."

"Pause, when did you and Jordan get back together?" Jasmine asked as she pulled into the school parking lot.

The three had just gotten back from lunch off campus.

"Last night. Maybe it was this morning. I don't know." Sydney shrugged and took a sip from her Wendy's cup.

"You are.... Unbelievable." Noelani laughed as she got out of Jasmine's Ford Taurus , "Why'd you break up with him in the first place?"

"'Cause he called me crazy. Duh." Sydney closed the back door.

Jasmine and Noelani broke into giggles as they walked into school together.

"Oop. There goes ya man." Sydney nodded over to Jalen.

Jalen was at his locker, a caucasian freshman girl with blonde hair and brown eyes was standing in front of him, smiling in his face as he spoke.

"He must be fucking kidding me." Noelani blurted.

"Oop." Jasmine said.

"If I go over there, will that make me seem crazy?" Noelani asked in a pondering tone as the trio walked forward.

"Oh, definitely. But you'd be in your right." Sydney replies.

"Would I be though? We're not together." Noelani watched as the girl moved to grab the drawstrings from his hoodie, "I should drop kick him. And her. Just cause."

As the trio passed the two, Jasmine shoulder bumps the girl hard then gives her a dirty look.

"Lani. Yo, Lani." Jalen called out to them.

"You're not gonna respond?" Sydney asks softly.

"No. Fuck him. I'm not the one to play with. If he wants to go and fuck with white girls then he can."

Suddenly a hand grabbed the strap on her backpack, essentially forcing her to fly back while Jasmine and Sydney kept walking.

"Did you just snatch me up?" Noelani whirled on her heel to see Jalen.

"Yeah. You weren't answering." Jalen shrugged.

Noelani rolled her eyes then went to her locker in another hallway, "Yeah, well. Ya looked busy."

"Are you jealous?" Jalen smirked as he leaned against the set of lockers next to hers.

"No. Why would I be jealous? That girl is in my study hall, she's an airhead. Plus I look better than her." Noelani shrugged as she took out her physics textbook and examined it, "Girl looks like a damn pitbull."

Jalen laughed, "Oh, you are jealous. That's cute."

Noelani sucked her teeth, "Fuck out my face."

"Are you mad for real? She only wanted to know when the next home game was."

Noelani closed her locker then gripped the drawstrings of his hoodie, "Doing this?"

"You must've not seen me push her off, huh?"

"Do what you want Jalen. We're not together. I got class." Noelani started to walk off.

Jalen grabs her free hand, interlocking it with his, "We should skip."

"I can't skip again. My dad will be pissed."

"Come on." Jalen dragged the word out.

"Even if I wanted to, and I'm not saying that I do. Where we would go? It's 1:00 pm on a Thursday."

"Uh, you've ever been to San Francisco?"

"No."

"You wanna go?"

Noelani felt her lips curve into a smile, "You're not serious. Stop capping."

"I don't cap. Come on. Exit's this way." Jalen led her down a hallway the opposite way and then opened one of the double doors for her.

Noelani texted in the group chat with her friends, 'If my dad asks about me, tell him that I got sick or something and that's why you didn't drive me back'

Jasmine quickly texted back, 'WYM?'

'Going to San Francisco with j'

Then from Sydney, 'I thought it was fuck Jalen, he can do what he wants?'

'Shut up, you were single for literally a second and a half'

'...true'

Jasmine cut in, 'wait you're leaving right now??? are you crazy?'

'I've never been before'

'Doesn't mean you just up and leave, Noel!'

'Relax mom💀'

Jalen opened the passenger door to his car and Noelani slid in then flung her backpack into the backpack.

"Okay. Full disclosure. I've never skipped before." Jalen said as he sat in the driver's seat.

Noelani raised a brow, "Are you scared?"

"Fuck no."

"Then why haven't you started the car?"

"Can I have a kiss?" Jalen asked after an extended moment of silence, his body slightly slumped in the drivers seat of his car, "We were interrupted last time."

"Prolly cause we're not supposed to." Noelani mumbles.

Jalen snickered, turning to look at her, "Its not like I'm asking you to get in the back or nothing."

"No. The last thing I need is for my dad to come out here and see us."

Jalen looks around the empty parking lot, his movements exaggerated, then poked his head out of the window, "Anyone? Hello! Anyone here!?"

"Shut up," Noelani leaned forward to meet him and their lips collided.

He held her face as the kiss grew deeper, Jalen almost immediately slipping his tongue into Noelani's mouth.

Noelani leaned a little further over the gear shift in an effort to get as close to him as possible.

Jalen pulled away for a second, leaned forward to start pecking her lips continuously for a minute, then deepened the kiss again.

After another minute or two, they both pulled away.

Noelani tucked her lips in to hide her smile as Jalen finally started the car.

"Oh look, we kissed and the world didn't end."

Noelani slapped the back of his head, "Shut up, kid."

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