Wild Baleigh Love

Where are you

I'm worried, it's lunch time now and my phone is eerily quiet which is actually setting my nerves on edge. Ballice didn't send me a morning text today. I try rationalizing it by telling myself that he's busy but who am I kidding? Tiffany is here on our table with us. She's from their music exam, Ballice should be here too but he's not. Did I do something wrong?

"Will you stop staring at your phone?" Tiffany asks plucking it from my hand at the same time. "This is for your own good, finish your food!" She commands cutting my protests. I look down at the pepperoni and cheese infront of me and my stomach churns. No appetite. My eyes keep glancing at the cafeteria door to see if there is a sign of him getting in but he's nowhere to be seen. I sigh heavily pushing my half eaten pepperoni away.

"Tee baby bum---"

"Asshole call me that again and you'll see the end of it!" I snarl banging my hands on the table with force. Frustration.

Cam sends a furtive look around before leaning in even further to me, "You're as harmless as a pregnant cockroach, stop threatening me." She whispers softly into my ears and then runs the bridge of her nose lightly on my earlobe. Oh Lord, Cam has changed completely, since the day she became Jelton's girlfriend. Nowdays she's more arrogant and corny.

I take a sharp intake of air and glare at her after pushing her away. "Say it, I dare you."

"C'mon Tee." Tif pipes in. I don't like the glint in her eyes after turning to face her. It's too impish for my liking. "Are you worried about Ballice?" I give her a blank look and she snorts and continues, "I know he's a nerd but I didn't know he's a music nerd, he completed his exam and submitted it at exactly 11:55 a.m. Mind you, we started it at 11:30 a.m and it was supposed to be done at 1:30 p.m ... God I even finished it 4 minutes to time, he makes us all look dull and stupid, ugh!" She grunts digging a fork into her pizza forcefully.

That almost made me laugh. "C'mon maybe he had no content in his head, maybe he submitted it empty." I attempt covering for my too much of a genius jerk but I fail. Cam snorts on my side and Tif huffs at the same time.

"You also know that he's brilliant excessively and it's more like natural because he's not always on his books." Cam counters but I can't disagree with her any better or less. She's right, my jerk is a nerd, more like a science nerd.

"Whatever..." I drawl rolling my eyes.

I turn to the door again, no Bally. I feel like everything around me is a convoluted mess of conflict and emotions. I want to see him.

"What's really bothering you?" Tiffany asks.

"He wasn't amused yesterday when I left school early I think, we were on phone at 2 in the morning today, he asked me not to leave school until he sees me today, but where is he now? " I frown my eyes looking around the hall for the hundredth time now.

"Wait 2?" Tif raises a finger. "Why 2 in the morning?"

"I..I dreamt..." I trail playing with my fingers. I gather up all the courage and I tell them everything about the dream and our conversations afterwards.

"You really are soulmates, I mean true soulmates and you're both drowning in love." Tif comments winking my way and then she continues, "But stop worrying, he's okay and you're going to see your jerk in a little while, eat."

"Tee baby bum..." Cam bites at her lower lip lightly waiting for my reaction but I flash her my best fakest smile possible. "Look, why are you so worried? You know the boys are good wherever they are, oh look." She points towards the boys' table. " That's Nard, Dubel and that's Jelton joining them. Maybe the others are somewhere, they're coming in one by one. And look," she points at the entrance. " Morgan is joining them too, just wait your prince charming will join them shortly." She smiles her eyes lingering a little longer on Jelton. I can't decipher the emotion playing in her eyes.

"Are you guys okay?" I ask after she turns her eyes back to her food. She is sticking the knife in and out of her pizza without even taking it into her mouth.

"Uhmmm...yeah." She answers quickly stuffing a piece into her mouth. When my eyes don't leave hers she throws her hands in the air and swallows the food in her mouth then says, "He visited Maya in prison and he didn't mention it to me, don't judge me." She points a finger at us. " I think there's something fishy going on between them." Her voice is tripping with venom.

" I think you're paranoid, have you two talked about it?" Tiffany asks her lips curling up. " Someone is jealous."

"Am not jealous! And am not paranoid as well!" Cam snaps startling us from our trance of thoughts. "He told me he has nothing to do with Maya, for six months now, they've never conversed, well that's what I assume. But yesterday when I called him immediately after we left seeing that b***h in prison, he didn't pick up. I decided to call Aimee, you do know he shares a car with her sister. So Aimee told me that he just dropped her at home and went to pay Maya a visit. So tell me, why?" She grips the fork on her hand tighter.

" And why did you pay Maya a visit dear Camille?" I cautiously lower my voice spicing it with a soft tone.

"Because I wanted to show her that am also a b***h more than she is." She blurts.

" So did Jelton." Tiffany chimes smiling deviously at her.

" No way! You're not taking that against me, it can't be!" She interjects her eyes landing back on Jelton. "He wanted to talk to me in person but I can't give him that opportunity to feed my weak soul with lies. I told him to tell me on phone but he said he wanted to tell me physically." She snorts. " That way, I'll see the truth in his eyes, who am I kidding? That way, I'll see the vulnerability in his eyes and he knows how his eyes makes my knees turn into jelly and I can't resist him." She breathes and then continues, " It's either he speaks on phone or leaves it at that, he said I'll not trust him on phone, why is he so sure about it? Meaning he doesn't trust me too."

" Wait, I think that's serious, you should just listen to him, maybe it's a serious thing that should be told in person not in calls or text." I reason and Tif nods agreeing with me.

"I'll listen to him in person in my dreams." She says rolling her eyes.

" Suit yourself." I retort blowing her a kiss in the air.

"Relationships are something." Tiffany sighs propping her elbows on the table. "Tee, your man is nowhere to be seen." She smiles cheekily. "Maybe he's given up on you. He's found miss 'I love you too' Tee baby?" She quotes in the air and I think all the colour on my face obscures.

I can't imagine Ballice with another girl. Will he call her princess the way he calls me? Will he kiss her the way he kisses me? Will he dirty chat her the way he does with me? Will he look at her adoringly with so much passion as he looks at me? As if am porcelain, China made. Nooooooooo! I rub those thoughts off my head quickly banging my palms on the table. I feel like there is no air around. I'm suffocating.

"Tee!" Camille shouts startling me.

"What?" I groan.

"You screamed out loud." Tiffany quips looking at me in shock. Both their eyes are popped out in dismay. I look around the cafeteria, all eyes are on me. Oh s**t. "Let's go." Tiffany says pushing my phone into my backpack. "You might be running crazy. I'm sorry though. You Know Ballice loves you and you alone. I gave him my warning, he'll never dare hurt you." She whispers stroking my hair slowly with her fingers.

"I need a hot mocha." I whisper after all the attention in the cafeteria turns away from us.

" I'll get you a take away, wait for me at the parking lot." Cam volunteers standing up.

I lag behind Tiffany towards the parking lot. "I'm sorry about earlier." I say once we stop at the parking lot.

"It's okay, it's not like I'm forcing you to admit it but I want you to know, maybe you're not aware." She turns to look at me taking both my hands in hers. "Tleigh kellane, you're in love, I mean it's clear you've already fallen for Ballice completely. Allow him to be your boyfriend. He'll take care of you, that's one thing I'm so sure of. Just the thought of him with another girl torments you what about seeing him with another girl?"

" I don't want to think about it, okay if he can't be patient with me, he can as well suit himself somewhere in another girl's---" I stop myself from talking the s**t that might make me puke. I know I'm just saying. I don't want him to be with another girl, heck no!

"Mmmmmh..." Tiffany shakes her head giving me a knowing look. "Okaaayy." She drags narrowing her eyes at me her lips twitching.

"Yeah." I speak with finality as Cam walks towards us.

"Morgan wants to speak with you Tee but I told him to call you later." Cam says giving me my mocha.

" Thanks." I mumble a reluctant smile crossing my face as I inhale it.

"Since it's still early and we don't want to lazy our asses around the school, y'all are coming with me to our place since it's the nearest place from here." Tif offers. " It's not a request, it's a command." She announces.

" We may need some girl time especially at the moment." Cam gushes. "Some karaoke to let out some steam.

" Yaaay!!" I jump excitedly my mood coming right away back. The last thing I wanted was to head home for an afternoon sleep.

"I wanna shake my bum bum now!" I yell swatting Cam on her shoulder. "Karaoke Will be the last, we gonna take over in Cardi B form first." I suggest and they start laughing.

" Pop music will flow after Cardi B. I wanna be Becky G and Camila cabello for sometime." Cam rants.

" Whatever, even if you turn into Bebe rexha, Alan walker, Carly Pearce, Carlie Hanson, Selena Gomez... Whoever, I don't care, let's go." Tif rattles walking towards her car.

" Let's go with your bike Tee, I need to inhale this humid afternoon air, it also feels good to be on a girl's motorbike, there is a particular way adrenaline works when you're riding. No rush in it. Cleansed aura." She says closing her eyes dreamily.

"Huh... Let's go motherfucker!" I push her towards my bike chuckling.

Where are you Ballice?

We leave letting my thoughts wander away from Ballice.

I'm certain, if I was a ship and he was the storm, he'll sink me completely.

I don't know what to say but I'm glad you're following. I'm sorry if it's not moving in the direction you wanted, I'll just advice you to go with the flow.

Maybe Ballice is mad at Tleigh. Can someone guess why?????