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“ Sounds like a date. What time should I pick you up? ” I ask, jumping up and down in
excitement, like a kangaroo shot in the @ss with a tranquilizer gun.
“ Well, as my newly appointed parole officer, you should know my time schedule and
curfew, right? ” Emilie jokes, her sense of humor even more resplendent than her beauty.
“ Haha...pretty funny. Alright, how about five o'clock? I need to get my nails and
makeup done, ” I joke reciprocally.
“ Seriously? ” Emilie gasps.
“ No...not seriously. I'm not Gabriel. ”
“ Haha. Well, if you were, you'd be very pretty like him. ”
“ I don't want to think of him as pretty. ”
“ Alright then, five o'clock. Let me give you my address. ”
While I'm writing down the directions, I display an ineffably big smirk on my face, as if
I've been daydreaming about Emilie all day long. Jordan walks past me and gives me a queer
eye, the same eye at Grand Ma's funeral.
“ Johnson, why do you look like an idiot? ” Jordan dares to ask, not thinking before she
speaks— as always.
hand.
start a fight.
“ I have a date tonight, ” I whisper to her, covering the bottom part of the phone with my
“ Who the hell would want to date you? ” Jordan persists, looking as if she's ready to
“ Why do you have to be so negative all of the time, Jordan? ”
“ Because you're a loser. ” Jordan walks out of the kitchen and back upstairs to her
room. I don't understand her sometimes— hell, all of the time. She never used to be like this.
We use to be able to talk without being at each others' throats. But now, something has
changed. She's completely different now that she's going to Stanford. Is she stressed out from
all of her studying, so she has to take it out on me? Or is it because she thinks that she's
better than me since she's going to Stanford and I'm not, thus, giving her the reason to be so
indignant with her affronts. Whatever the case may be, she's really starting to get on my
nerves. I'll have to deal with her later— at least before I take my MCAT, or else she'll stop at no
end with her insults if I perform miserably on it.
I have about four hours before my date with Emilie to prepare for my usual get-ready-