Diamond by Victoria Christopher Murray

Author:Victoria Christopher Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2008-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

21

I slammed my locker shut, closed my eyes and leaned against it. I was so tired. I had waited all night for Jax to call, but for the first time in weeks, he hadn’t. I wondered if this was about me not sleeping with him. I wondered if he was thinking about breaking up with me over this.

“Hey, you.”

My eyes popped open. “Hey,” I said, surprised and relieved at the same time.

Jax leaned against my locker and bounced his basketball. “You look great.”

“Really?” Being the fashionista that I was, I had to add flava to my school uniform every day, even on the days when I wasn’t feeling very good. This morning, I’d needed lots of color to try to get my happy back, and at the last minute, I’d grabbed a huge red patent leather belt from my closet that matched my red hoop earrings. I didn’t think it was all that special, but now I was glad that I was working this belt.

“You look hot.”

It was good to know that he wasn’t mad at me. “Thanks.” But I still wondered why he hadn’t called.

He stopped bouncing the ball. “So, you thought about … you know.”

“Yeah, I thought about it.” I stopped. His boys were always around, and I didn’t want anyone to hear what we were talking about. The hallway was filled, but no one seemed to be listening to us. “Jax, I really like you, but I don’t think we know each other well enough to have sex,” I said, keeping my voice low.

“See, that’s the problem, Diamond. You’re looking at this as sex. But the thing is,” he said as he leaned closer to me, “I don’t want to have sex with you.”

“But you said—”

“I can hit any female I want.” He stopped, pointed at a girl passing by. “I can have her.” Then he pointed to another one. “Or her.” He turned back to me. “I can have any girl in this school. But the only one I want is you. And I want you, but not for sex.” He leaned closer. “I want to make love to you.”

The way he looked at me, the way he talked to me, if he had asked me to leave with him right then, I might have.

He said, “This is about love, Diamond.” He touched the side of my face, and I melted. “Let’s make love, together.” When I didn’t say anything, he stood up straight and bounced his ball. “I’ll hit you later, and then maybe you can let me know if you’re feeling me like this.”

Before I could say anything, he strolled down the hall, bouncing his ball, like he hadn’t just been trying to talk me into sleeping with him.

“Hey, Jax.” One of the girls that he’d just pointed to called him.

I watched Jax stop. Point. And then motion for the girl to come to him. She hurried over as if she couldn’t wait to get next to him. Jax put his arm around her, kissed her on her lips.

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