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any trouble.” He was serious now.
    After they had both finished, Kevin paid and they headed back to his apartment. Kevin’s shop was closed on the weekends, when he usually took photos at weddings, birthday parties, etc. During the week, the clients came in to pick up their pictures, DVDs, etc. and pick out frames and such. He had a wedding to do at three but said it was cool for Joy to chill there while he was gone.

    Chapter Four
    Joy walked around Kevin’s spacious apartment wearing one of Kevin’s wife beaters and nothing else. She looked at the photos on the wall. Though she didn’t know much about photography, she was mesmerized by them. After she’d satisfied her curiosity, she went back into the bedroom and laid down on the bed. Memories of the sex they’d had before Kevin left floated in her mind. She wished he was there so that she could feel him again. Touching her lips, remembering the taste and feel of his lips, sent chills through her body. She squeezed her legs together and wrapped herself in the comforter.
    The sound of her cell phone ringing broke Joy’s good mood. The only person she wanted to hear from was Kevin; and she knew it wasn’t him, because he didn’t even have her cell number yet. She looked at the screen anyway.
    “Shit. What does he want?” Joy said to herself, debating whether to answer or not. “Yeah?” she said, finally deciding to take the call.
    “Wassup? Why you answer the phone like that?” Josh asked.
    “Look, what do you want?”
    “I want to see you. I’m coming down there to chill at my aunt’s house for a couple days.”
    “Yeah? Well, what that got to do with me?” Joy said, wishing she hadn’t answered.
    “What you mean? I said I wanted to see you,” he said, irritation in his voice.
    “Well, I don’t want to see you,” Joy said, really meaning it.
    “Where are you?”
    “Home,” she lied, not really knowing why.
    “You’re lying. I called your house and nobody answered. Now, I gonna ask you again—where da fuck are you?” he yelled.
    “You know what? I don’t have to listen to your bullshit. I’m hanging up,” she said, but didn’t make a move to do so.
    “I tell you this, you better not be fucking nobody, because if you are, I won’t want you no more,” Josh said before hanging up.
    Joy threw her phone across the room, not caring that it broke. She pressed her face into the pillow and cried. She trembled as she felt the pain spread from her heart throughout her entire body. Spending four years with somebody didn’t mean you knew them. Josh clearly showed her that by his actions. When she first met him, she thought he was the sweetest person. But he was also moody and unstable. Pulling the covers over her head, she closed her eyes tight. She wanted everything to go away—her parents, Josh, and the dumb bitches at Germantown High School.
     
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    She remembered the day she met Josh. It was her first year of high school and her first day at James Madison High. She went to her scheduled home room and saw him as soon as she walked in. He looked good as shit, his skin the color of caramel. He had a little acne, but that didn’t take away from his looks. His eyes were light brown and his hair short and curly. He was sitting in the second row. There were a few other people in the room, but she barely glanced in their direction. He smiled at her and motioned for her to sit next to him. She followed his direction and sat down in the seat next to him. The teacher was doing roll call. Joy listened for her name. “Joy Williams, Joshua Wright.” When she saw him raise his hand to the name called right after hers, she looked at him and smiled.
    They sat there for about ten minutes while the teacher went over where the lunch room and different areas of the school were. This all went in one ear and out the other as Joy kept stealing glances at Josh out of the corner of her eye. Soon the bell rang and it was time for first period. Joy