Rosalia Empath James, is a 16 year old girl who has had a ruff life. Her parents died in a car accident when she was four, and her God mom/ Foster mom Grace James took her in and has been raising her ever since. The James family had been in South Cr...
After a day I made up and made out with Jordan and now were both cool again but besides all that it's homecoming week. Homecoming was taken a lot more seriously in Beverly than in Crenshaw, but that on this that was the same was the pep rally, kinda. I was stuck in Beverly and couldn't do much about it
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After getting ready at my house I got Aaliyah ready and drove my Rolls Royce to the Bakers, once I got there the door to the Baker home opened and in maroon pants and a white button up, Billy Baker greeted me. "Hey, Rosa. You look great"
"Thanks Coach Baker. It's weird seeing you in a suit and not a track suit" I say making him laugh as he grabbed the car seat and put it on the kitchen island "is Jordan ready yet?"
"He's in my office looking at his reflection" I nodded and started walking away while Billy went back upstairs. The office wasn't that far from the front door and had no door, so it wasn't hard to find. Inside, Jordan was looking at his reflection and I stared at him for a few seconds before announcing myself
"Hey ugly" I say
"Hey, beautiful" the word set it and Jordan looked over at the doorway at me, then down to his outfit "Does it look bad?"
"No, you look good" I smile walking over to go hug him "How long will it take for everyone else to get here?"
"Spence is on his way, JJ is picking up his dates, I haven't heard from Asher yet and Liv's getting ready, so like 20 minutes" Jordan stated
"Oh so I'm early" I say causing Jordan to look at his watch
"No, you're late, I gave you a different time because I knew that you were gonna take a long time getting ready" Jordan corrects and I chuckle at how well he thinks he knows me
"So your telling me that I could've gotten food before I came here, I drove by a In-an-Out on the way over here" I argue
"No, because we're all going out to eat at that Italian restaurant by Rodeo Drive" I groaned following Jordan out of the office and into the living room "We'll get food later"
Before anything else could be said, the doorbell ran multiple times, like someone was repeatedly hitting it. Because of it being annoying Jordan quickly made his way across the wood flooring and opened the big white front door. Outside on the porch was JJ and his twin dates, in the same short, hot pink dress, behind Spence, Coop and Grace. By the looks of it. Spencer was already ready, so I assumed that Grace was here to take pictures with us and then send us off.
Everyone walked into the house and immediately, the house was loud. The only people left to wait for were Asher and Layla, and Olivia who was upstairs. Within a few minutes, Billy came back downstairs with his now fully charged phone. "Jordan, stop making that face and smile at the camera"
I laughed as Jordan and I turned toward the phone for Billy to take pictures of us. During our little photoshoot, the doorbell rang, again, but Jordan and I were too busy posing to see who came in. It wasn't until Olivia came walking down the stairs we saw that her date was Chris.
"Olivia, are you serious?"
"Leave her alone, she looks beautiful"
Olivia smiled genuinely that me and then smugly at Jordan "Thank you, and last time I checked, I don't need to run my dates by you"
She went with Chris, and everyone went to stand with their dates for the group pictures. Billy was making sure everyone was in frame when he noticed a couple missing "Wait, wheres Asher?"
As if on cue, the front door opened and Asher and Layla came in "Who's ready to turn up?"
"Perfect timing! Everyone get in, you all look amazing. Get tight, humor me" Billy started counting down and everyone posed for the group picture, most of us feeling carefree and happy, me being one of them
Later
"I don't know any of these songs" I commented, holding onto Jordan's arm as we walked through the gym
"You just danced to every single one of them"
"That's because I know how to follow a beat" I smiled, and after a while things got boring
"I'm board, Baker"
Jordan set his cup down beside my arm and nudged me with his elbow "Are my dance moves not on your level?" Jordan began doing some cringe-worthy yet basic dance moves beside me, eliciting laughs out of me.
"What's going on inside that head of yours?"
"Aaliyah"
"You miss her?" I Jordan asked and I just nodded my head, reaching over to mindlessly play with his hand
"Why don't you just FaceTime my mom and see her?"
"Or you and I could leave and go do stuff alone"
There was a certain tone in my voice that made Jordan's head shoot toward me. However I was looking down at his hand messing around with his fingers "I like stuff. Let's go
The two of us walked out of the school gym hand-in-hand, and narrowly missed the shit show that when down
One trip to In-N-Out drive thru later, Jordan and I were at an empty part of Venice Beach sitting on a blanket with all their food laid out "I can't get my milkshake through my straw" I pouted, and once I got tired of moving mt straw around, I just took the entire lid off and started eating it with a spoon
"So what got you into business?"
"Un, there's not really a story to it. I just used to look up to how much of a powerful and smart business woman my mom was, and I told myself everyday that I would be just like her, and having a daughter of my own just made that dream so much more real for me" I explain
Nothing was said after that and we sat in a comfortable silence before I finally spoke up
"Wanna go swimming?"
Jordan looked down at his tuxedo pants and my dress "Like this?"
I just shook my head in disappointment and started unzipping my dress. "I think we both know these were too expensive to swim in the ocean" Jordan was a little bit in awe when he looked up at me as I was stripping in front of him
"On the beach"
"No, in the Grand Canyon. You can keep your clothes on if you want" With that I took off running toward the water wearing only my bra and underwear. Jordan looked around, then quickly undressed and followed me into the water "Ew, your naked"
"You started this" I smiled widely at the quarterback and in combination with the moon and the water reflecting every light nearby, I was glowing. Literally and with carefree happiness. Jordan just stared at me "I really want to kiss you"
"Whats stopping you"
Jordan and I both met each other half way and it was the perfect moment
The next morning of Homecoming, I woke up and started smiling almost immediately. Even when I loudly stretched, I was still smiling and looked out of my bedroom window where the sunlight was coming in. I'm basically on cloud nine, and I walked to my bathroom with breast pumps on getting ready Liv popped her head in "Can you be happy in silence? Some of us are depressed"
"Liv! How are you today?"
"I'm breathing, aren't I?"
I giggled, so Liv took a step back in fear. "You are, aren't you" I smiled at my best friend, and she was thinking of way to perform an exorcism "Anyways, I have to getting for homecoming"
"Isn't that at night?"
Yeah, but I have to go to Crenshaw and visit my friends"
