Please excuse ANY grammatical errors.

March 3, 1992

~Tia's P.O.V~

"UNO!" Sekyiwa announced, she was happy that she was about to win.

I took my turn and then Tupac took his. "DRAW FOUR!" He yelled out.

Sekyiwa frowned, "You're cheating!"

"I ain't cheating!" Tupac laughed. "Now pick up yo four cards."

Sekyiwa and I looked at each other smacking our lips at his lie. "Now you know..." I said to him looking at him from the corner of my eyes.

"Yo cheating a-" Sekyiwa stopped herself from cursing. "Behind." She quickly corrected, shaking her head.

"You bet' not be cussin' in my crib." Tupac pointed at her. "I ain't cheating though." He laughed.

"Stand up." I told him with my lips poked out.

"Fo' what?" He laughed.

"Get up," Sekyiwa said going along with me.

"You're cheating. You LITERALLY had a whole deck in your hand. Now, you only have three cards, and since then we've only went around three times. So raise up." I motioned with my hand, standing up myself.

"Come on big bro. Lift yo behind up right now." Sekyiwa said to him.

He rose up, "See, I ain't got shit."

"Nuh-uh," I began to observe his whole body, squinting my eyes in suspension.

"Something ain't right." Sekyiwa shook her head at her older brother.

I walked over to him, still observing his person. "Turn your pockets inside out." I chuckled.

"No." He shook his head at me. "Seky get yo cards." He pointed about to sit back down.

"Nah, keep standin'." I told him attempting to dig in his pockets.

He softly pushed me back, "Girl, what you doin'!?" He yelled.

"Get 'im!" I said to Sekyiwa.

Sekyiwa grabbed him as best as she could, which wasn't enough, but it was enough for me to turn his pockets inside out. As soon as I did, a bunch of cards fell out both of his pockets. I just smirked shaking my head.

"You lier!" Sekyiwa yelled out to him.

"Mm-mm-mm, I knew yo behind was cheating." I told Tupac shaking my head.

"Now YOU get two EXTRA cards." Sekyiwa said smiling.

"Y'all some fuckin'-" Tupac was cut of by my cellphone ringing.

I looked at the caller ID. "Hello," I answered the phone.

"Wassup?" DeVanté said back.

"Nothing much." I shrugged like he could see me. They started to pick up the cards.

"That's what's up. Listen, you wanna come over here? Jojo and them here." He asked.

"Do I want to come over? I'm at Pac's house right now. So..." I trailed off.

"He can come too, he cool. We having game night get together before we go on to L.A." DeVanté said.

"Sekyiwa is here as well and-"

"She could come too. She wanted to meet us anyways, right? Today we got time."

"She could come too?" I asked. Sekyiwa's ears perked up when that came from my mouth.

"Didn't I just say that? Why you repeatin' everything I say?" DeVanté chuckled.

"Well I don't know..." I said trailing off.

"We're coming!" Sekyiwa yelled into the phone.

"No, hell nahh!" Tupac yelled. "We ain't doing that. I ain't got shit against you niggas but I ain't comin' with my sister." Tupac explained to DeVanté.

"What he say?" DeVanté asked. DeVanté couldn't hear Tupac that good, since I was now sitting on the couch, and Tupac wasn't in close proximity.

"He said-"

Tupac cut me off, but was cut off himself by Sekyiwa, "N-"

"Please?" Sekyiwa begged Tupac with a puppy dog face.

"Y'all coming or what?" DeVanté said to me into the phone.

"Please?" Sekyiwa said to her older brother.

"N-"

"I really want to meet them, and DeVanté said I could meet them when they had the time. Today they finally have time." Sekyiwa said trying to convince her brother. "I will never ask for anything else." She said with the same puppy dog face and her hands folded in a praying position.

"You know that's a damn lie. Now, I said NO." Tupac said slightly raising his voice. Sekyiwa's face fell.

"Y'all good over there? I hear a lot of commotion. Should I call back later or somethin'?" DeVanté said in a the speaker.

"A'ight, we can go." Tupac said giving into his little sister.

"THANK YOU!" Sekyiwa jumped up and tightly hugged her brother.

"Hel-" I cut DeVanté off.

"Who's all there though? You said JoJo and them. That means there's more than K-Ci there." I said into the speaker.

DeVanté laughed. "The freeloadin' brother's, Tionne, Mary, and the other girl from TLC." I laughed when he said the freeloading brothers.

"My name is Lisa." I heard someone say on the other end.

"Man, whatever. Irritating ass." DeVanté mumbled the last part.

"You're so wrong for that, but I don't know." I shrugged because I don't like being around too many people. It's too overwhelming. Sekyiwa looked at me in a pleading manner and just like that I gave in. She's been through a lot these past months and it'll really make her happy.

"We'll be there." I answered.

"Damn, that's all yo ass had to say. Taking all damn day to answer simple ass questions." DeVanté joked.

I rolled my eyes, and kissed my teeth at him. "It ain't all on me."

"Stop rolling them big ass eyes and bring that ass over her." DeVanté said laughing then hanging up.

"I know he didn- I'm finna beat his..." I trailed off looking at the phone in disbelief.

"Thank you so much!" Sekyiwa said hugging Tupac again. Then made her way towards me and hugged me.

"You better be lucky. Ion want you to be there, I know they gon' be smokin' and shit. Ion want no bad influences on you." Tupac said to his little sister.

When he said that, I bursted out laughing."You smoke weed yo-dang-self." I pointed.

Sekyiwa raised her eyebrows, "Right. Do you not think that's a bad influence? Not that I'll do the same thing. I even caught mama smoking c- " She quickly said.

"Yeah, but you know better than to not do what we do."

"Exactly!" Sekyiwa and I said in sync.

"Case closed." Sekyiwa said folding her hands together. "Now, let's go!" She said excitedly jumping up.

Tupac was right though, she didn't need to be around all of the chaos. They'll probably be smoking, drinking, and excruciating loud. I don't even like being around that. I was basically around that for the majority of my life, and hated it. I just know some of them will be doing a bit too much.

"Does my hair look fine?" Sekyiwa asked me touching her hair.

"You tyna' get dolled up for these niggas for?" Tupac said with a serious frown.

"It's fine. Now will y'all just come on." I motioned with my right hand.

Tupac gasped sarcastically with his hand on his chest. "YOU rushin' ME?" He pointed to me then himself.

He continued, "You should be the last one talking. Y'all women be taking all day for what? Impress niggas you gon' end up rejecting."

I tightly smiled at him with my hand on my hip. "Oh, so we throwin' shots now? Is this the same dude that-"

He sqinted gis eyes at me. "My sister right here." He cut me off, making me drop that particular subject.

"Mmkay, but newsflash, I ain't rejecting nobody. He knows, and I know, but YOU- you're just bald headed." I shrugged this time with an obvious smirk.

"Man, y'all both gon' get off my head." Tupac said pointing to his sister and I. "When I did have hair I probably had more hair than the both of y'all."

Both Sekyiwa and I bursted out in laughter. "Niggahhh PLEASE!" She said covering her mouth.

"Right, you did have a lot of hair but let me take these braids down and you'd see." I laughed.

"Don't let this press fool you. Oops too late, you're already a fool!" Sekyiwa laughed.

"You know it ain't to late to put these keys down and stay at home." Tupac smiled knowing he had the upper hand.

"Okay, I'm sorry." She quickly let out.

"Can we go now?" I asked.

"Let's go." He said and we all walked out of his apartment and into the hallway. He locked it up and on we were on our way.

"If I could, I'd like to be, a great big movie star!" I sang out.

"Overnight sensation..." Tupac sung in his deep voice.

"Drive a big EXpensive car." We sang together.

"Y'all are so irritating..." Sekyiwa said shaking her head. "This song is SOOOO old." She changed the radio station.

"Aye, I done told you about that shit. Leave my radio alone." He said changing it back. "What you know about this? This song ain't even old, it was made the same year me and Tia was born. You callin' us old?"

"If the shoe fits..." Sekyiwa said. I saw her smirking through the wing mirror.

I gasped, "I'm only twenty years old, and he's nineteen. How are we old?" I said turning around to the backseat where she sat.

"That's two decades. TWO WHOLE DECADES OLD." She emphasized.

"We old? Them Jodeci niggas are older than us, so..." He made a U-turn, but I knew he was just jiving around.

"Wait, you don't have to do that. You guys aren't THAT old. In fact, I'm almost you only half a decade younger than you guys." She said in an innocent tone. "Turn back around, pllleeeaaaaassssseeeee?" She said with prayer hands.

"Nope," Tupac laughed popping the p. He took a different route to their house, but she didn't know that.

"Nooo," she wined.

"We finna get something to eat. What you want? We going to Arby's right quick." He asked the both of us.

"I'm fine. That junk trifling." I told him. "Thank you though."

"Sekyiwa?" He asked looking at her through the rearview mirror.

"..."

"A'ight, I'm fine with you eating some house food. Mo' money for me, and less problems." Tupac shrugged ordering him something.

I just shook my head at their antics, holding in my laughs. Tupac drove while eating a roast beef sandwich with curly fries. Curly fries from Arby's is too disgusting. Sekyiwa wasn't paying attention, in fact she was looking at the ceiling of the car in her own little world. After a while we made it to DeVanté and Dal's house. They buzzed us up and everything, so I knew she wasn't paying attention to anything and was angry.

"Get out the car." Tupac said to his little sister.

Sekyiwa finally snapped out of la-la land. She squinted at her brother irritated. I got out the car and Sekyiwa followed suit. She looked up and gasped. I'm guessing she remembers this place from when they picked me up that one day.

"I thought we were going home?" She asked him.

"After we come from here we 'a go home. Come on. Tia lead the way, I ain't ever been inside."

"Okay," I said and began to walk towards our destination.

We made it to their door and I knocked. JoJo answered the door laughing at someone from the inside. It reeked of marijuana. The smell of it gives me a headache, especially for long periods of time, but I think I'll be able to stomach it. That's why I barely stayed in the same room when they did smoke.

"What's goin' on T, Pac, and... y'all?" JoJo greeted us and moved over,and we walked inside. It was pretty loud in their house. This is going to be a LONG day.

"Sekyiwa." She beamed.

"I'm sorry but Sa-what-a?" Jojo asked with raised eyebrows in a confused tone scratching his head.

"Just call me Seky or Sakai." She told him.

"Oh okay," he trailed off. He shook her hand. "I'm JoJo, I heard you this bald headed dude little sister, and a fan of Jodeci." JoJo said closing the door behind us.

"I am." Sekyiwa responded.

The more we walked, the more louder it got. The loudest ones were K-Ci and the other TLC member Lisa Lopes. Tupac will only fit in. JoJo can really fool the public but this man has a potty mouth and is loud. Between him and K-Ci I really don't know who's louder. At the end of the day, they all can cut up.

"Hello," I waved at everybody. They all greeted us.

"Nigga yo ass bald headed too. You just be hiding it with those caps." Tupac cracked at JoJo with his fist near his mouth.

"I'd say bald looks better on JoJo than a Tupac." JoJo threw back out.

"A Tupac? You act like he a animal or some shit." K-Ci butted in laughing.

"He is you gotta clean him, walk him, feed him, neuter him-" Dalvin jumped in but was cut off.

"Hold on a damn minute. Neuter? I need my di-" I cut Tupac off by grabbing his arm stopping him. His sister was around, and he got want I was implying.

"Besides, all y'all Jodeci members look like some type of animal." Tupac continued.

"Not me." DeVanté said. "Them other ones look like different breeds of dogs."

"But you act like one." Lisa said to him rolling her eyes. "I heard about yo ass."

"Nigga don't try to exclude yourself because you got some colored eyes and a curl. Remember Dr.Dre once had a curl and that nigga look extraterrestrial." K-Ci said laughing. Everyone else joined in.

"Dalvin does bot look like a dog." Sekyiwa mumbled, but Tupac heard her.

"Yo, I bring you over here and you jump on they side in," Tupac snapped his finger. "I'm blood and they don't even close to water."

"Damn, this nigga basically saying we ain't shit." JoJo laughed.

"If it stank like shit, and look like it, then it is." Tupac said looking at K-Ci in particular.

"I said the same thing! Breath be all the way on 21 Jump Street while his ass be on 5th avenue." Lisa laughed. "Dragon breath ass." She finished. My hand flew over my mouth when she said that to cover myself from laughter.

"Tia don't think you excluded from this. If JoJo and Pac put they head near yo titties it'd look like four and a half bowling balls. Y'all 'a all roll a strike." K-Ci joked.

My mouth dropped, "Wow, okay K-Ci thinks he funny. When you came out the bathroom we can't tell if it's your breath or your behind. Did you doodoo or swallow some?" I laughed.

"Okay, damn. She got yo ass." DeVanté laughed.

~DeVanté's P.O.V~

"This nigga invited his competition over." K-Ci joked as JoJo opened the front door laughing.

"Fuck y'all. Ain't nobody in competition with shit." I said back.

When they came in everybody was automatically on joke mode with each other. They had me rolling!

"If it stank like shit, and look like it, then it is." Tupac said looking at K-Ci in particular.

"I said the same thing! Breath be all the way on 21 Jump Street while his ass be on 5th avenue." Lisa laughed. "Dragon breath ass." She finished. My hand flew over my mouth when she said that to cover myself from laughter.

"Tia don't think you excluded from this. If JoJo and Pac put they head near yo titties it'd look like four and a half bowling balls. Y'all 'a all roll strikes." K-Ci joked.

My mouth dropped, "Wow, okay K-Ci thinks he funny. When you came out the bathroom we can't tell if it's your breath or your behind. Did you doodoo or swallow some?" Tia responded with a smile. She really got his ass.

"Okay, damn. She got yo ass." I bursted out laughing. She do got some big titties though...

"My head ain't as round as this niggas. JoJo head revolves around the earth, his head and body built like Jupiter." Tupac said back.

"Pac yo head built like a whole ass cheek. You bobbed yo head to the music and they though a bitch lifted up her skirt." JoJo went back at him.

I shook my head at them. "Y'all this is Seke-"

"SE-KYI-WA not Sekenya." She corrected me.

"A whole little girl done set you straight, unlike Puf-" JoJo nudged K-Ci to stop him.

"I told y'all she wanted to meet us. Especially Dalvin." I smirked. Tionne gasped playfully grabbing Dalvin's arm.

"Girl..." Lisa said to Tionne. "If he is doing some shit, burn his shit."

I looked at her like she was nuts. "Hell nahh! I live here too. Wait until I move out to even attempt." I laughed. I really don't like her. She talks to much and a bit to reckless for me. She cool peoples though.

"Yo she crazy as hell!" K-Ci laughed.

"They be having the best pu-" Pac said but was cut off from a grunt from Tia elbowing him.

"Don't I know!" K-Ci said looking at Mary.

Mary, I truly don't like her. She does the absolute most. I just tolerate her because she with K-Ci. They are the same person, which means there is NO type of balance between the two. That crazy shit is a whole turn off for me. I done fucked with a few crazy ones. They be too much, and I just can't deal with that shit.

"You gon' have to stop doing that shit." Pac said to Tia.

Tionne looked at Lisa shking her head. "Girl, no. If he does, I know what to do."

"What's that?" Dalvin asked. He looked calm on the outside, but as his brother I knew he was everything but.

"That's for me to know and you to find out if I find out." Tionne replied. If she only knew...

"Well, anyways that Tupac little sister-" I said and got cut off.

"Yeah, and don't nobody fuck with her either. If I find out- I bet jot find out..." Pac warned with a pointed finger.

"Ain't no R.Kelly's over here. We don't do underage this-a-way. Pipe down playa." JoJo told him.

"I heard about him being in the studio with little kids. Shits disgusting." I said with a contorted face. "Y'all can hang y'all stuff in the closet right there." I pointed as they held their winter gear.

"Okay," the young one responded. I'll call her that because her name is too complicated for me.

After they did that, Tia came and sat next to me in a chair. Pac next to Lisa, I saw him eying her after she said that crazy shit. His sister sat on the other side of Tia.

"So we just hanging up on people, huh?" Tia asked me with a raised eyebrow. Majority of the others were still talking and being loud.

"Huh?" I played dumb.

"Stop playing dumb, you heard me. Before you hung up you had some junk to say too. Repeat that, please?" She smirked. Why is she still being polite?

I shrugged, "Ion know what you talking about."

"You know what you said. Keep playing with me and I'll give you something to play with." She pointed.

"What that?" I smirked smugly.

"..." She squinted at me while I laughed.

"Don't threaten me with a good time." I said throwing my hands up.

"Now you know that ain't what I meant, but okay." She chuckled.

I raised my eyebrows, licking my lips. "Okay?"

"N-NO! Not okay, I meant whatever." She quickly corrected herself. She was still talking low, just a little louder in the beginning.

I chuckled shaking my head at her. "You said it not me."

"But I didn't." She pointed.

"A'ight."

"When are you all leaving again?" Tia asked.

"Don't try to change the subject, but we're leaving in a couple days. Martin had a lot of folks star on his show. Dude is doing well, and that show is good." I told her. She nodded at my response.

"I wasn't trying to change the subject. It was dying off and got awkward. That show is hilarious though." She agreed.

"For sho', anyways what was y'all doing before you came here? The biggest question is what took you so long to respond over the phone?" I asked.

"It wasn't my fault. Before you called we were playing UNO. Well me and Sekyiwa were, but he was hiding cards. Cheating behind..." She said pointing to herself and the little young one. It was some back and forth but it's all good now." She shrugged.

"Oh, these niggas loud as hell." I chuckled.

"Oh my goodness, yes..." She groaned.

"At least you wasn't around it as long as I was. K-Ci and Lisa got the biggest mouths here. Be loud for no reason." I shook my head.

"Pshhh, Tupac is loud on his own. That's the dude though." She laughed.

"You ain't said nothing but a word." I agreed.

"What y'all over there whispering about?" K-Ci loudly asked me and Tia , putting us both on the spot.

"None of yo damn business." I said in a nonchalant tone.

"Y'all always on some secret shit." Dalvin laughed.

"Ain't nobody on nothing." I said to Dalvin. "We was actually talking about how we smell your breath before we hear your voice, and you know you loud." I laughed getting the spotlight off us.

"Right, your breath gets places twenty minutes before you do. Like Big Shirley from Martin, everybody knows she coming because of the earthquake she creates. In your case, it's that breath." Tia cracked.

"Do you eat ass?" Dalvin laughed.

Mary looked at him from the corner of her eyes, waiting for him to answer. "I- it slipped, a'ight?"

The room got very quiet, then as if on cue we all bursted out laughing.

"Don't EVER try to pass me no blunts!" Pac yelled out.

"Nasty as hell! This nigga said it slipped." JoJo said shaking his head at his older brother.

"How it slip?" I frowned.

"The bootyhole and the--" he looked at the young one and corrected himself. "Vagina are so close, and it slipped." He shrugged. I don't know what was the point of him correcting himself, the subject was already dirty.

"AND YOU KEPT GOIN'!" Mary let out.

"HELL NAHH!" Dalvin howled out. Everybody was either laughing or disgusted.

"Wow," I heard Tia mumble from beside me. She had her face in her hands, shaking it.

"She's scarred..." I joked rubbing her back soothingly.

"Come on, let's change the subject." Dalvin said through laughter.

"I really don't know my brother. I thought we VOWED not to eat ass and to not get it eaten. You don't get the last part, right?" JoJo asked.

"Man, hell nahhh!" K-Ci grimaced.

"I was finna say..." JoJo trailed off.

"Jodeci more freaky than their songs." Lisa said shaking her head.

I felt Tia shiver under my touch. I laughed as she groaned.

"Don't say Jodeci. Them niggas be on some other shit." I said shaking my head at her.

"I ain't like them, but I could do a lil some'." Pac told Lisa and she blushed.

"Love in the air tonight. Dalvin and Tionne. Mary and K-Ci. Y'all two niggas flirtin'." JoJo said pointing at Pac and Lisa. "And y'all two whispering and rubbing each other." He pointed to me and Tia.

"You making it sound dirty." I laughed.

"Man whatever. Y'all need to stop with all that, and be together.I should have brought my girl over." JoJo said.

"We're in the same boat." The young one said.

"You in the same what? You got a dude?" Pac asked his little sister.

"No..." She trailed off. "I just meant we both ain't got nobody here is all." She said to him.

"Better been what you meant. No boyfriend until you grown, and even then probably not. I got to meet these niggas first." Pac said and she rolled her eyes.

We all played games that everyone could participate in. We ate, sang, and danced. When it was Karaoke time me and Tia partnered up. We sang some country ass song and she sounded country as hell. K-Ci and Mary were partners, and Mary couldn't dance to save her life. She sucked! Same thing with Pac, but he teamed up with his little sister.

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