DIAMOND'S POINT OF VIEW

Right when that bell rung I made sure to run out of that class as fast as I can. I'm not looking for any trouble. I was doing a good job avoiding the populars.

Keyword was.

Now all my hard work has gone down the drain because of Sam. I had to avoid him and that wasn't going to be easy since I have more than half of my classes with him.

I walked over to my locker and put my notebooks and my binder in. I was done in 30 seconds tops. I was proud of my athletic skills.

I closed my locker and I thought about ways to ditch lunch. I could call my mom but, knowing her she would come and curse Britney out. Even though I wanted my mom to curse her out that would only make things worse.

I could pretend like I'm sick. Maybe my mom would pick me up without any questions. Wait that wound work either. I forgot that my mom is a nurse. This is when your mom being a nurse is a bad thing.

After thinking of ways to cut lunch my stomach started growling. Damn, I should have eaten actual breakfast this morning. I finally stopped fighting with my stomach and went to lunch.

When I was walking down the hall I saw Britney and this guy talking. More like Britney was flirting with him while he just looked at her. The boy saw me and all he did was staring at me. I heard him cat call me and I turned around. The boy winked at me and Britney scowled at me.

I just turned around and walked in the cafeteria. Once I walked in the cafeteria became quite. I should have made myself into a new person. I don't like people looking at me like that. I just stood there waiting for the floor to swallow me up.

I heard someone say "look at the booty on that cutie."

"Damn, look at that fine piece of ass"

"Who's gonna hit that ass first?"

"That big ass with those her small waist is what I'm looking for"

I was ready to die right then in there. I was like a deer caught in headlights. I couldn't move at that moment.

A loud and furious voice said "I fucking dare you to say that again you assholes." I turned around and I saw Sam with a deadly glare on his face. I smiled softly and walked towards him. He put his hands around my shoulders and said "if anyone messes with her your going to get a fucking ass beating like never before."

Everyone nodded and looked away. I sighed and said a quite thank you to him. He nodded which let me now that I didn't say thank you too quietly.

He lead me to the table I usually sit in and sat down with me. I looked down at the table trying to avoid eye contact with him but it didn't work. He was staring at me already.

I looked up at him and asked "why are you sitting with me?" I know he sat with me before but, that was supposed to be a one time thing. I don't want to make this a habit.

He gave me a goofy smile and said "I can't sit with my friend?" Oh he's just sitting with his friend. Wait. Friend? Was someone behind me?

I looked at him confused and said "Sam I don't think we should be friends." He looked at me with hurt in his eyes as each word left my mouth.

He broke the silence that was between us and said "why? What did I do?" Oh let me see your a player, your one of the popular, I don't want to get attention, his fans might kill me, and this all might be a game.

Should I continue or do you get the gist?

But I knew I couldn't tell him all of that without hurting his feelings so I just said "Sam your captain of the football team and I'm the captain of no team. Your popular with a bunch of friends, I only have myself. Your a player, I only had one boyfriend. We are complete opposites."

Sam blinked several times, trying to comprehend what I just said. When I'm nervous I tend to rant on and talk fast.

He shook his head like a wet dog and said "I don't have many friends. I only have one true friend which is Noah. The rest just hang around me for popularity. Where did you get I'm a player from?"

I sighed and said "that's what I hear all the girls say about you. They said that you can't befriend girls without getting in their pants."

He chuckled and said "don't believe rumors, they aren't always true. The only reason why I don't have girl friends is because they always flirt with me and try to get into my pants."

High school is just drama, drama, drama.

Now that I think about it I never seen him around any girls other than Britney. Even when he is with Britney he seems annoyed by her high pitch voice.

Speaking of Britney, I don't give a damn about her dumb ass threat. She could shove that note up her ass.

My mom always told me I am a strong and independent black women. I should a stand up for myself. I'm done being pushed around. I'm done playing invisible.

I'm going to be the person I was before the accident happened.

I'm going to be sassy, independent, and care free Diamond.

I smiled at Sam and said "we could be friends." Once I said those words Sam picked me up and spinned around with me.

I giggled and after a few more spins he finally put me down.

"You won't regret it princess." Princess? I could feel my face growing hotter and hotter by the second.

He saw I was acting weird because of the nickname and said "you call me Sammy so, I'm going to call you princess." I nodded my head and we started to talk.

While we were talking he waved to someone and they were walking up to our table.

When I took a closer look at the person I saw that he had black gel hair with dark brown eyes.

He had fat squeezable cheeks and a beauty mark on his cheek too. That's when I realised it was Sam's best friend Noah.

Noah was not ugly but, he wasn't Sam. He looked like something that fell from the sky. He looked like a male model.

He plopped down the seat in front of Sam and clapped him up. I don't think he noticed me yet.

His eyes shifted from Sam to me and smirked. He said "who is this chocolaty goodness?" I think I blushed so hard that they could see it through my makeup.

Noah laughed and Sam smirked at me. I said "my name is diamond." He took the back of my hands and kissed it. Than he said "I'm Noah m'lady." I laughed and pulled my hands away from his.

Noah and Sam started talking about an upcoming football game while I just sat there looking at my white stiletto nails. Out of no where my stomach started to growl. I sunk down into my seat hoping for the best.

I though no one heard but, Sam looked at Noah and Noah looked at Sam. They both stayed quite for a while until they both busted out laughing. I slapped Sam's arm and I reached over the table and slapped Noah's head. I said "hey, don't laugh at me. I'm hungry."

Sam and Noah continued to laugh and I just pouted and look away.

Boys don't understand how girls feel about food. In a heart beat I would trade both of them for a jar of Nutella. But, I wouldn't tell them that, Imma let it be a surprise.

Sam looked at me and asked "does my princess want food?" I nodded my head and Sam got up with Noah walking next to him to get lunch too.

While the boys were gone I sat there on my phone playing Candy Crush.

Right when I was going to finish level 109 I heard multiple high heels clacking. I knew that nor Sam or Noah were wearing heels today so I didn't look up.

I took a little glance up and I saw it was Britney and her minions. What did I do? oh yeah, I'm being my own person by talking to Sam.

She just stood in front of me, waiting for me to talk to her. I just continued to play my Candy Crush. she is not worth me losing a round of Candy Crush.

I think after standing there for about 5 minutes she got tired of standing there. She cleared her throat and I looked up at her and her minions. They stood in front with the same glare on their face and all there arms were crossed.

Was that suppose to scare me because they all look like they couldn't see right.

"Are you going to talk or just stand there like a retarded monkey." She scoffed and I heard the whole cafeteria laugh. She looked around the cafeteria and than back at me. I smirked and she glared at me.

She said "I told your black ass to stay away from Sam and now your having lunch with him." Black ass? Oh so she wants me to play the crazy black girl card. You got it.

I got up and walked around the table until I was in front of her. When I was in front of her she stepped back and her face had fear all over it.

I hate people like Britney. She talk a whole lot of shit but when it comes to throwing hands she cowards back. Bitch if you gonna talk you better be ready to throw hands.

I said "you can bend over and kiss my black ass bitch. Now if you knew what was good for you you would walk the fuck away from me."

Everyone in the cafeteria let out chains of "ohs"and "she burned you".

she scoffed and said "at least I'm not ugly like you." I just laughed it off. She thinks that calling me ugly is going to hurt me. I've been called that almost my whole life by girls like her so this makes no difference.

I said "I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and shit a smarter statement than that." The whole cafeteria laughed including the lunch ladies. She just stood there like she was glued to the ground and her mouth was open.

After snapping out of it she said "what are you 12."

I laughed and said "yeah from a scale of one to ten." Someone out of the crowd said she right.

She just said "if you don't shut up I'm going to punch you in the mouth." Wow that was a classic comeback. I just stayed quiet. I didn't say anything.

She smirked and said "what? cat got your tongue."

I just smiled at her and said "don't mistake my silence for weakness. No one plans a murder out loud." She stepped back and I heard the cafeteria come in roars of laughter.

She looked at me with anger in her eyes and said "is that a threat?"

I nodded my head a no and said "that's a promise."

She smiled at me and said "your so black, I cant even see who i'm talking too." So we're back to the black jokes. that's cool.

I took a step towards her and said "I wrote a poem and I think it suits you." I cleared my throat and started my poem saying:

"Eenie meenie miny moe

you ain't nothing but a hoe

you think you're cute

you think you're classy

newsflash bitch

your friecken

nasty".

After my little poem everyone clapped and I bowed. I heard her and her minions scoff while everyone else laughed.

"You should try some makeup, it will help you in your situation" was her comeback. She has no good comebacks at all. That's a good thing for me.

"You should eat some makeup so you can look pretty on the inside too." When I said that she rolled her eyes.

She said "go to hell" like that was going to hurt me.

I smiled and said "oh honey, where did you think I came from?" And with that I turned around and walked to my table.

When I turned around Sam and Noah's mouth were wide open. I used my hands to pull up their jaw and said "close your mouth boys. you might catch something." They snapped out of it and walked over to the table I was already seated at.

Sam looked at me and said "you.are.amazing.princess." I just smiled at him and looked down to see two slices of pizza in front of me. I thanked him and took a bite of my pizza.

Noah said "no one ever stood up to Britney like that. It was shocking to see the quite girl do it."

I smiled over at him and said "I don't think I'm going to be the quite girl anymore. I'm going to put bitches like Britney in their place."

They laughed along with me and we ate our lunch.

Now that I'm starting to break out of my shell and I'm not going to let girls like Britney bring me down.

Today marks the day when I started to feel comfortable in my own skin.