Leigh's Journal

I met this girl at school a few weeks back. Her name's Chassity. She's in my fourth period Honors A&P (Anatomy & Physiology) class; I think she was new or something. I haven't ever seen her before three Mondays ago... And I KNOW I've never seen her before 'cause there's no WAY I missed somebody fine as she is... As many dusty hoes as it is at BH, I would've seen her RIGHT through them. Seriously. Anyway, the day she walked in I had already been having a whack ass day. It was raining, I was tired, and hungry as hell because I overslept and left the house without grabbing anything to eat. The first two periods just kinda went by uneventfully. I sat down in my usual seat by the window with two seats in between me and the person to my right. The bell rings. The teacher walks in and starts the daily warm-up on the board. About maybe... Ten minutes later, the door opens and here SHE come looking all flustered and pissed off. She asked the teacher was she in the right class. He takes a look at her schedule, confirms, and of course she plops down in a heap right beside me. I was lowkey scared to talk to her because she already looked mad, but she leaned over and asked me if I would share my book with her cuz she left hers all the way across campus. I said cool.

So since then we been kinda kicking it... She gave me her number, and a couple days ago I was finally bold enough to use it. Instead of just texting her like my passive ass normally would, I just went ahead and called her. (With Nathan's help; he was the one who put the pressure on me the other night when I went over there to eat dinner.)

It was almost like she was excited to get my call. It was like a whole 180 degree change from the person I see at school. I could HEAR her smiling. To my surprise she told me to just come over. I was kinda nervous, but like I said, Big Brother put the pressure on me and I went.

I get to the address she sent me, and I knocked on the door. Some real tall, light skinned man comes to the door with a gun in his hand and I damn near take off running. The only thing that stopped me was he addressed me by name, welcomed me inside, and offered me something to drink. I also relaxed a little bit when I saw another little kid sitting in the corner playing with a doll house. To my surprise this man was her father. This man stood about 6'7'', perfect reason to be afraid, especially since he's totin' a gun... We sat down on the bed in the room and started talking. He asked me how old I was (Seventeen), asked me how me and Chassity met (3rd period A&P ) and when he answered he looked a little shocked and said, "Oh you're an honors student too, huh!" he shook my hand and told me that was good to know, then he got REAL serious and asked me the daddy question of the century:
"What are your intentions with my baby girl?" 
and I know anytime a father asks a potential that question, the result of that answer could either get you a wife, or get you in a pine box. My mouth got dry because I didn't prep myself for this series of questions. I tried to swallow and answer but my voice cracked. Ugh.
"Well, I just met her, she seems real cool. Hopefully we can study together... Er, with your permission of course... A&P is hard you know." He smirked at me and asked me why I was so nervous. I wanted to say "Cuz you been carrying around this GAT since I walked in the door", but I just kinda shrugged and smirked too. He assured me it was cool, & told me Chassity should be back in a minute, she works at a store after school. And that night we did our homework, her mom had cooked and since then we been hanging out. I think I'm startin' to like her a lil bit.