Can't Just Be His Friend by Tina Martin

Author:Tina Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: romance, young love, broken hearts, best friends, unrequited love, jealousy, in love
Publisher: Tina Martin

Chapter 18

Reggie dropped me off at my apartment in the morning after we had breakfast together. I indulged in some organizing and cleaning at my place. Seeing Reggie’s house in shambles gave me the motivation to spruce up my own place. I was in the middle of swiffering the kitchen floor when my Mom called me.

“Hey Tiffanyyy.” Anytime my Mom elongated my name like that, she was up to something.

“Hey Ma. What you up to?”

“Nothing. What are you up to?”

“Okay Ma…what’s going on?”

“I talked to Reggie today. As a matter of fact, he was just over here.”

“And?”

“And, he told me you spent the night at his new house.”

“Yeah I did, Mom, and nothing happened in case that’s your next question.”

“I’m just glad y’all talking again. That’s good enough for me.”

“What was Reggie doing over there anyway?”

“He was moving some boxes for me.”

“Wait a minute…what boxes?”

“You know those boxes of old dishes and clothes I had stacked up in the kitchen…”

“Nooooo!” I yelled, throwing away a soiled Swiffer cloth.

“Girl, what’s wrong with you.”

“Ma, I had my journals in one of those boxes! Please tell me it’s still there and safe.”

“I told Reggie to drop it off by your house, honey.”

“This can’t be happening. I feel dizzy. I feel dizzy. I’m gonna faint.”

“Tiffany, go sit down.” I sat down as my Mom suggested, but that didn’t calm me down any. Reggie had my journals, my personal thoughts and feelings for four years of my life – those crucial high school years. And if he read any of the passages in those journals, my life in denial of being in love with him was over.

I had been writing journals since I was in the ninth grade and my topic of discussion was always Reggie. I wrote things in there about Reggie that I wouldn’t let anyone read. They were for my eyes only. I needed to get all the feeling I had for him out on paper. Back then, Reggie wasn’t paying me any attention. But now it seemed like he saw me – not as the skinny little tom girl he grew up with, but as a woman with curves and responsibilities and mostly as his best friend.

I remember the first time I started writing about him. It was the moment I found out he had a girlfriend. Her name was Erica James. I will never forget her. She was light-skinned with long curly black hair and she had something I didn’t have in high school. Breasts. She was the most popular girl in our graduating class. All the guys were trying to holla at her. But the only boy she wanted was my Reggie. And I couldn’t be mad at Reggie for venturing out and dating girls. He was good-looking back then. Really good-looking. So you can only imagine how he looks now. Year after year, Reggie kept getting better and better. From his abs, to his toes, the man was perfect.

I didn’t want to call him and ask him to bring the box over by my place.

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