Three Months Earlier
"Kay-La!" Kaylee turned at the sound of her name. Lamar Harrison made his way across
the junior parking lot, "I was hoping I'd run into you two." He greeted Isaac and Kaylee.
Isaac Hollis closed the trunk of his Neon and handed Kaylee her bag. "Hoping you'd run
into us why?" He asked suspiciously, looking a few rows down at Lamar's pewter Lexus.
"I'm still mad at you, Lamar." Kaylee commented. Lamar had made plans for a study
date with Kaylee a couple of nights before, and had cancelled at the last minute.
"No you're not" Lamar smiled, taking her bag. "I'll walk you to SADD."
Kaylee gasped, "We have SADD today?" She looked to Isaac.
Isaac shrugged, "Told you we didn't have time to get you that frappucino."
"Bitch." She shot at him.
"Spaz" He replied. He then focused his attention on an amused Lamar. Isaac and Lamar
were rivals. They had been since freshman year. They were two of smartest people in their class.
Lamar was athletic, gorgeous, and arrogant. He played basketball and football and still managed
to keep a perfect gpa. Isaac was good looking, too, but he didn't know it. His gpa matched
Lamar's, but he didn't like sports. He preferred yearbook and the school paper. "What do you
want?"
"You two know everyone who goes to school here, right?"
"It's not that big of a school."
"Yeah, I noticed."
"So what?" Kaylee asked, anxious to get to her SADD meeting.
"So yesterday I was leaving school late, and I saw this chick I've never seen before."
Kaylee was interested now. "What'd she look like?"
"Real cute. 5'2ish, mixed, dark hair. Around our age."
Isaac pondered for a second, "Well, no one would transfer two weeks before finals.
Maybe she goes to West Lakewood?"
Lamar smirked, "If this girl had been around Lakewood before, I would have noticed
her."
"Well, we don't know her. It doesn't matter, we're late to our last SADD meeting."
The three walked in silence to the chorus room where the Students Against Destructive
Decisions meetings were held biweekly. Lamar, the tallest, looked into the window to see that
the other umpteen members were in deep conversation. "I say we skip this one, y'all."
Kaylee groaned, "I've never missed a meeting. Thank you Lamar. I'm gonna go to the
bathroom."
"We could go outside to find the others." Isaac suggested.
Kaylee blinked in reply and turned to walk towards the restroom. Lamar followed her,
but Isaac went outside. "Hey, Kay. What was that all about? I thought you and Izzy were best
friends."
She sighed, "We are. We've just been iffy lately." She thought back. 'Lately' was about
two months now, but no one had noticed. They still rode to and from school together everyday
and met up between classes. But, they'd been arguing a lot. For some reason, everything about
Isaac annoyed Kaylee, lately.
"I want to talk to you." Lamar blocked her walkway and gave her a look of sincerity.
"Talk then." Kaylee crossed her arms.
"Kayla, we've been friends for a long time, right?"
Kaylee smiled, "Why do you still call me Kayla then?"
"Cuz it's your name, now answer the question." Kaylee smiled. She liked when Lamar
got frustrated, his eyes squinted.
"Yeah. Since 9th grade, I guess."
"Yeah, and prom's Saturday night."
"I'm aware of this."
"Go with me."
Kaylee's eyes widened. "You wait until two days before junior prom to ask me?"
"Well, the first time I asked you out, you told me to eat shit and die. And the second time
you called me a conceited asshole."
"So, I have a potty mouth."
"Say yes."
Kaylee sighed. She'd been planning on going alone, or with Isaac, so reluctantly, she
gave in. "Fine. Call me tonight." And with that, she turned and went into the girls bathroom.