Gettin' Hooked by Nyomi Scott

Author:Nyomi Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

I’m not sure when sleep finally won out, but I do know it was well after the deep hues of nighttime started to brighten to purple as the sun kissed the distant horizon. And when it finally came, it was the sort of hella hard sleep where I hardly moved and time passes hexa quickly.

Stretching onto my back, trying to untwist the material around me, I wished I’d taken the time the night before to get out of my jeans and sweatshirt.

Rubbing the heel of my palm across my eyes, taking special care of the lingering bruise, I wiped the sleep from my eyes and glanced wearily toward my clock. The green digital display read 9:42 and sun, bright-ass sun, had finally been able to get in through all the clouds and filled my room with golden shimmering beams.

It wasn’t much, but at least a couple of hours were better than no sleep at all. Suppressing a yawn with the back of one hand, I reached my other into my pocket and yanked out my cell, flipping it open right quick to call Kayla. Fo’ sho’, we needed to talk. Bad.

Her phone rang four times, then into her voice-mail. I hung up and dialed again, but the same crazy thang happened: her voice came on tellin’ me to fill up her inbox and she’d get back at me.

“Kayla,” I said, then paused to gather my thoughts right quick before going on. “Kay, we need to talk. Holla back.”

Figuring she could still be sleeping, I decided to shower and get something to eat while I waited on my girl. We’d be cool again as soon as we talked, worked shit out, I decided, feeling hella better about things this morning since I’d purged up so much emotion last night.

Still laggin’ like crazy, I took my time showering, lingering in the warm spray, lathering in the sweet-scented soap, washing my hair and then letting it sit with conditioner for a bit.

By the time I was out and dressed a couple hours had passed and my stomach was frickin’ growling, only having had cheese and crackers for dinner the night before.

I tried Kayla again, but ended up in her voice-mail just like before. I left another message, then went to ask Gram if she wanted something to eat. She said no, but I decided I’d get her some of whatever I was gonna fix myself anyway.

Takin’ some pastrami out of the fridge, I placed a heaping pile in the micro. I crossed my feet and leaned my elbows back onto the smooth black granite countertop to wait, and started wondering if Kayla was sleeping hella late or if she was gonna straight up ignore me.

I knew she was mad, I knew she was hexa hyped about this James guy and I had to admit he was hot. The girlie had good taste in dudes, but even as fine as he was, it didn’t make up for the fact that he lived too far away to take her to prom.

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