How Jesse Got His Karma

thirty-six

"The things I would do to that man if he just gave me the chance." I look up from my book as I see Paola and Justine looking at something behind me as they sit in front of me at our lunch table.

"Oh my gosh! Look!" Paola squeals to Justine, "He turned a little bit, do you see how nice his ass looks in those pants." She puts her thumb and point together holding it in front of her in the air pretending to pinch his butt I assume.

Furrowing my eyebrows in confusion I drop my book on the table next to my tray of food and I turn around to see who they're looking at.

I turn to see that they're looking at Mr.Maddow as he's standing at the back wall of the cafeteria with his usual cup of coffee from Starbucks in his hand as he lifts the cup to his lips listening intently to Ms.Warren as she spoke to him. I guess they were on their break and didn't have a class this period.

Rolling my eyes, turning back around to see them looking at him all google-eyed still, "Y'all that's a grown-ass man."

Paola sucks her teeth as she puts her head in her hand leaning on her palm, as she continues to gaze at him, "Aht Aht! Don't even start that. I'm already eighteen and legally, America says that I too am a grown-ass woman." She says and Justine nods her head in agreement staring at him the same way.

"Yeah, Karma. He already knows what it is. I shot my shot already I'm just waiting to see if I scored." she smirks as she refers to when Mr.Maddow had asked for her name and she responded by saying that she was legal.

Chuckling at her and her very vivid imagination I say, "He's not going to let you know if you scored because you're a student." and then look to Paola and say, "And Paola you have a whole boyfriend now." I finish as she averts her eyes to me and says

"So I can't just admire a gorgeous man that will never give me the time of day." she's still looking at him and I turn around quickly to glance at him again and I'm shocked to see that he's staring back at me, Ms.Warren now nowhere in sight. I watch as the right side of his lip quirks up and he raises his hand that is not holding the Starbucks cup and sends me a two-finger wave and before I can process his greeting I hear Justin and Paola shrieking behind me.

They have lost all of their cool at this point and I'm pretty sure he can see them as they flail their arms around and say, "OMG he said hi!" and I'm very tempted to move away from them as people turn to look at our table.

In embarrassment, I grab my book and cover my face as I turn to look at Mr.Maddow, and shocker he's full-blown smiling at this point as he is still looking at our table and trying not to laugh at their antics. He notices me looking again, as I notice that he threw his cup away and has crossed his arms leaning back against the brick walls of our cafeteria, biting his lip in amusement hiding the smile that I know he was trying to hold back.

I turn back around quickly to face Justine and Paola and I guess they noticed his behavior just now as they were talking about how cute he looks when he smiles. Rolling my eyes at how dick-deprived they look right now I say, "Paola. Boyfriend."