Soon.

"Mykel, you tell me you love me, and then you completely ignore me. Why are you doing this? "1

"Because I love a bad thing." His eyes showed he meant what he said, “but I can’t let go, it’s too hard.”2

“Why am I so bad?” I asked, almost in shock at his words.3

“Not you Kaira, this. I can’t let go of the people who would turn on me if they
found out. I cant explain why but I cant let them go,” he said lowering his
head in shame of his own weakness.4

I couldn’t help but be angry but I still couldn’t let go, even if he was ashamed
of us.5

“Then lets keep it a secret. We’ll act like we don’t know each other around
people and be together in secret.” Romeo and Juliet popped into my mind and
everything seemed more romantic, like forbidden love.6

“As long as you wont be hurt by it,” he said looking up, a bit of happiness in
his eyes now.7

“I wont.”8

Before I continue I’ll tell you what led to all of this.9

Mykel and I never spoke until this past summer, our senior summer. We fell in
with different crowds. He was the popular rich kid, I wasn’t really in a set
category. I had popular friends but I wasn’t the girl the popular boys would
date because of my lack of stature, I preferred the kids who didn’t have the
popularity, I just didn’t like the limelight. We knew of each other but had
never spoke before, until the second week of summer.10

I was driving home one night from work, I guess it was about one in the
morning, when I got a flat. I knew how to change a tire but the spare was
back at my house and my parents were out of town. I tried calling some of my
friends but they were all either getting trashed at a party, had no car, or were
gone for the summer, so in other words I was shit out of luck.11

I had been sitting on the hood of my car for about an hour hoping someone
would be able to come get me when a nice dark, metallic green, old mustang
pulled over. I knew who drove that car and hoped he wasn’t drunk and trying
to pick up a helpless girl from the side of the rode. When he got out of his car
I realized he was walking perfectly fine and wearing a work uniform so he
wasn’t drunk.12

“Do you need any help?” Mykel asked as he walked over to me.13

“I have a flat but my spare is at my house, my parents are out of town and all
my friends are unable to get me due to no car or because their drunk.” I
didn’t understand why I just told him all of that, all he needed to know was
that my spare was at my house and I needed a ride to get it.14

“Your Kaira right?” I nodded, “you want a ride?”15

“If you wouldn’t mind that would be great,” I said relieved.16

“Nope, I don’t need to be anywhere.” He walked over and helped me off my
hood. 17

I locked my doors and hopped into his passenger seat. As we drove off I
realized how much nicer his old mustang was compared to my 02 cavalier.18

“So where to?” he asked.19

I gave him directions to my house as I realized something.20

“Jake told me you were out of town for the summer?”21

“Today was my last day at my job so now I will be.