"Aspen, I'm bout to run to my office real quick. Harlem is the only one here." Memo spoke over the intercom. 

"Okay, can you make some fredo tonight?" She asked.

"Shrimp or chicken?" 

"Both."

"You and your damn father." She heard her say making her chuckle. 

She turned on her stereo up singing along to the music while doing her homework, she sat up getting the cookie dough out her refrigerator. Once she finished her homework Harlem walked in her room turning the music down.

"What?" She asked looking at him. 

"Can you ask Jamie is he coming to my game?"

"I don't know who that is."

"How you don't know the man who's giving you my nieces and nephews?" He asked making her tilt her head looking at him blankly. 

"You're wrong but ask mom or dad for his number so you can ask him yourself."

"Why you can't just give it to me?" 

"Because I erased it from my mind."

"You never forgot anything." He stated making her roll her eyes.

"Give me your phone." She demanded as he handed her his phone. "Don't mention me when y'all talk."

"I don't like you enough." He turned her music back up and walked out the room. 

"Maybe I'm tripping or I just can't figure you out. One night you say you love me, the next you flipping out but you could bounce. You know I don't need no man, I could do bad by my damn self." Aspen rapped along to the music.

"What would you do if you was in my shoes?! Would you make it work or would you wanna choose? I wish I never met you boy!" Ky yelled entering her room making her laugh. 

"You scared me." Aspen said turning down the music watching the rest of the girls walk in. 

"If we playing Trina, we playing Trina." Nay laughed typing in a song with a smirk on her face.

"Bitchh." Lay laughed throwing her head back. 

"No you didn't." Aspen laughed standing up so she can rap with her. 

"No time for the little dicks, you see the bigger the dick, the bigger the bank, the bigger the Benz, the better the chance to get close to his rich friends. I'm going after the big man, my g string make his dick stand!" They all yelled as India recorded them laughing. 

"Y'all know Trina my bitch!" Nay yelled laughing. 

"Aspen, I'm bout to go get something to drink." Lay spoke making her nod as her and Nay walked out.

"Hold on, turn that down." She spoke as her phone started ringing, she smiled answering Darius call. "Hello?" 

"Have you been to the doctor recently?" He asked making her furrow her eyebrows.

"Why you-"

"Cause I think you lacking Vitamin Me." He said as she busted out laughing. 

"Try again." She laughed.

"Four plus four equals eight, right? Well you plus me equals fate." 

"Cute." She chuckled. "I got one." 

"Go head." 

"I'm in the mood for pizza-"

"Oou, me too." Ky cut her off making her suck her teeth as Darius started laughing.

"Go head, I'll let you start over."

"I'm in the mood for pizza-"

"Bitch, why you repeating yourself? We heard you." India said as Darius put his phone down from laughing cause he could just picture Aspen face.

"I'm not even talking to y'all." She rolled her eyes.

"Start over." He laughed.

"I'm in the mood for pizza-"

"Yes, we should get some!" Nay yelled walking in typing on her phone.

"Brah." She stated blankly as Darius started cracking up. "I don't even wanna do it no more." 

"Aspen, your lil brother just dropped his phone in front of me and when I picked it up it was on add a new contact." Lay laughed. "He said I'm doing a survey who has the most fours in their number, what's your number?" 

"Aww." Ky laughed.

"Damn, I gotta use that one." Darius said. "Can you ask her to repeat that?" 

"No." Aspen laughed. "Did you give him your number?" 

"I had to." She laughed. "That was so cute."

"You gon hurt that po boy heart baby." Nay chuckled.

"I hate when your accent come in and out, baby." India mocked her. "August Alsina, Boosie, NBA Youngboy, Webbie face ass." 

"First of all, Boosie, Webbie,and Youngboy from Baton Rouge. I'm from NOLA bitch." Nay stuck up her middle finger.

"Ooh because that made a difference." India rolled her eyes.

"You free tomorrow?" Darius asked.

"Almost forgot I was on the phone, um every Thursday I spend it with my PopZay, remember? I'm not doing anything Saturday."

"Saturday? Imma see if I could change some shit around. I'll talk to you later baby girl."

"Okay." Aspen smiled hanging up.

"Here go this dumb ass smile." India said rolling her eyes. 

"I'm happy, leave me alone." Aspen chuckled. 

"Have you spoke to Jamie?" Ky asked.

"Who?"

"Uh uh bitch don't play my cousin." India waved her finger side to side. 

"I don't know who that is." She shrugged. "Who is that?" 

"I could dig it." Nay chuckled. 

"Y'all are annoying." Lay chuckled. 

"Work work work, try me you get murked murked murked." Nay mumbled.

"Oou this used to be my shit! There was a time I thought that you did everything right, no lies no wrongs boy I musta been out of my mind." 

"Thank God you blew it, I thank God I dodged a bullet. I'm so over you so baby good looking out I wanted you so bad, I'm so through with that cause honestly turned out to be the best thing I never had!" They all yelled while Nay recorded them. 

"Aight Cheetah Girls." Josiah walked in her room turning her music down making them laugh. 

"When y'all get back?" Aspen asked her parents.

"Just now."

"You got the stuff?" 

"Yes girl." Memo rolled her eyes. "You want Fredo?" 

"It don't matter." Siah shrugged. 

"So you want something else?"

"I just said it don't matter."

"That's not a straight forward answer."

"Ivy, it doesn't matter. If you cook it, cool. If you don't, it's not like I'm going to be mad."

"So yeah?" 

"Aight you making me mad now." He walked out the room making her laugh.

"Y'all staying for dinner too?"

"You know I'm always done for your Fredo." Nay said making her laugh as she walked out. 

"Your father so fine." Ky spoke.

"You're disgusting."

~

"So where we going?" India asked the group.

"Just walk girl." Dell said.

"Who your Pusha T looking ass talking to?" 

"Sonnnn!" Ky threw her head back as everybody laughed. "I don't know why you always saying something to her."

"She know I'm fine so I don't care."

"You not."

"Excuse me? I'm ugly?" Dell stopped some girl.

"No, you look good." The girl smiled. 

"Okay but you're ugly?" India looked at her making Jamie push her so she can walk.

"Who house we in? What the hell?" Nay asked looking around. 

"This not no damn house." Gee smacked her in her head.

"How y'all doing?" Some boy asked looking at all the girls. 

"If somebody don't get their grandfather out my face." India spoke. "Where the fuck we at? Who the fuck is these people? They ugly and it stink."

"Can you be quiet?" KC asked.

"Why the fuck everybody looking? Bitch what you looking at? You look like Shawty Lo then the nigga over there look like Leslie Jones and oh bitch, why is frontal on your eyebrows? I'm so fucking done and I want to leave, where are we?" 

"Girl, you so loud it's-"

"Bitch, who are you? Get your Marques Houston Dumb Donald looking ass not my fucking face. Stupid ass got on a fur coat in 80 degree weather, your thigh high boots bout to rip from your big ass. I don't know why the fuck y'all bring me here!"

"Why are you bugging?" Jamie whispered hitting her.

"Dell, can you tell her to chill?" Gee asked.

"What she doing?" He looked up from his phone then back down.

"This nigga so used to her bugging this shit not even phasing him." KC said making them laugh.

"Y'all know y'all can't take her places with people she don't know." He shrugged. 

"But where are we?" Ky asked.

"KC been working on a clothing line and this is his store." Gee smiled as they looked around. 

"He can't dress his damn self, what these-"

"India." Dell cut her off. 

"Watch I don't say shit else." She said sitting down. 

"You don't gotta be quiet, fuck them best friend." Nay laughed.

"So this what you wanted to show me?" Lay smiled. "What kind of clothes are you doing?" 

"Women clothes." He smirked.

"You wanna be Jody Jo from Baby Boy so bad. This from Paris, feel how soft this is."

"India!" Nay yelled.

"Anyways, I wanna different types of body shapes like you know tall females barely got pants that properly fit them and shit so I'm tryna be different." 

"Bitch, you just want to look at females." Nay said.

"That was original plan." He chuckled. "But I got my own girl so now it's just about the clothes."

"Ouu, this shirt dope." Ky smiled walking to a off the shoulder shirt. "You designed all these?" 

"All of em." He chuckled. "I was thinking of shit I wanna see my girl walking around with so I came up with a bunch of shit. How y'all feeling it?" 

"I like it." Lay smiled. 

"I'm getting free clothes right?" Nay asked. "Or discounts? Like 99% off."

"Bitch." Ky laughed. "But yeah this really dope."

"Y'all gon model for me when I do my lil fashion show in like a month or two? Y'all get to pick a outfit to keep and I'll feed y'all." He smiled.

"Yeah." Nay, Ky, and Lay said in unison. 

"India?" He asked as she typed on her phone.

"She said-" Gee started rolling not being to read the text. "She said-"

"Nigga let me read it, you play too much. Just read the- ayooo!" Jamie yelled throwing his head back. "A fucking yo!"

"She said you better get your Damon Wayans looking ass out her face with this abandon ass house, she not going to jail for stealing clothes out this crack house." Nay said through laughs.

"I really just don't understand." Ky laughed. "Like what the fuck is wrong?" 

"Y'all be feeding into her, if y'all don't-"

"She said why you talking T Pain?" Gee laughed cutting Dell off.

"No I did not." India chuckled. "My phone on the table, Gee just wanted to say that. Y'all ain't see me pick up my phone, he's lying."

"She mind texted me."

"Y'all mad childish." KC threw his head back while everybody laughed. "India for real though."

"I'll think about it." 

"Thank you." He hugged her kissing her cheek.

"Uh uh, back up bitch." Dell pushed him. "Then you let the nigga kiss you? You want me to punch you in your shit?" 

"I really wish I was scared of you so you wouldn't make a fool of yourself every time you threaten me."

"One day, you gotta fuck her up because I'm not feeling how she just be talking to you." Gee looked at him. "Like damn, India ya nigga?"

"You wished you was in a relationship bitch." 

"Bitch, I am in a relationship."

"With who?" India asked laughing. 

"Most def not me." Ky said checking her email. 

"All y'all could suck my dick." Gee walked out the store making them laugh.

"Y'all done pissed my brother off." Jamie shook his head. "Oh bitch, where you going? I rode with your bitch ass!"

"Y'all stupid." Nay laughed.

~

"Favorite color?" Aspen asked eating her ice cream. 

"Red."

"Suwoop." She said a lil too loud making some people look at her.

"You gon get us shot." He mumbled shaking his head laughing. 

"Favorite animal?" 

"Don't got one, hate animals."

"How can you hate animals?" She frowned. "Their better than humans."

"I just hate them." He shrugged. "What's your favorite animal?" 

"Okay, my favorite reptile is a turtle. Favorite mammal is a hedgehog or dolphins, favorite birds are owls or penguins. Favorite amphibian are frogs, favorite insect is a butterfly or lady bug."

"You could never just give an simple answer." He looked at her blankly. "I don't even know the difference between amphibians and reptiles, you ain't even have to name all that." 

"Reptiles have scaly skin like the outside is is a different sculpture."

"And who the fuck has a favorite insect?" 

"I'm a scientist." She shrugged. 

"When I'm going to see you do this scientist shit?"

"You never asked, you can come to a fair with me."

"Your next one considered me there." 

"Okay." She smiled. "How's apartment hunting going?" 

"It's been aight, I ain't find shit yet but I'mma keep trying." 

"I can help you look or even get you a apartment, my family own lots of them."

"I wanna do this on my own." He chuckled. "But if I need help, you the first one I'm running to."

"Good." 

"Oh I got something to say." He spoke making her raise a eyebrow. "You ready?" 

"Yes?" 

"Do you have 11 protons? Cause you are sodium fine." He stated as she busted out laughing. 

"You learned a science pick up line for me? Aww." She continued laughing. 

"The other ones was blowing my shit, I had to Google them." He chuckled.

"I appreciate you for always trying to keep this smile on my face." She smiled leaning her head on his shoulder.

"I barely do shit, you be laughing at a nigga for nothing." He smiled. "But it's sorta kinda like my job to keep you smiling."

"You sorta kinda maybe doing a good job." She smiled looking up at him. 

"I sorta kinda maybe will take that compliment."

"You sorta kinda maybe will not had a choice." She shrugged as they both laughed. 

"I never met the female version of me, shit kinda scary. I like it." He spoke making them have matching smirks. 

Aspen boldly grabbed the side of his face looking into his eyes before connecting their lips, her body started tingling making her smile into the kiss as he touched her hand. She leaned up more so they could be even closer as he wrapped a arm around her waist.

"I've been wanting to do that for three weeks now." He spoke against her lips making her laugh.

"Your lips are so cold." She chuckled looking at his ice cream. "You should of just did it."

"Ain't know if I was moving too fast or not, don't wanna pressure you into moving faster with me just because I'm older."

"My life is based on everything moving at a fast pace, sometimes it's going too fast but I'm the one who signed up for all of this." 

"But you could handle it, you too smart not to. You got this and you deserve everything coming to you."

"Can I tell you something I haven't told anyone yet?" She asked playing with his fingers.

"Yes."

"I've been applying to other colleges outside of Georgia." She spoke lowly. "I've got accepted to all of them and I'm really stuck."

"Stuck on what?" 

"Staying close to my family or picking my own route."

"Well, can I know the colleges you got accepted to out of state?" 

"Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Chicago, Columbia, Stanford, Duke, Dartmouth, John Hopkins, Brown, Cornell, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Howard, and Fordham." She stated the ones of the top of her mind. 

"Aspen."

"Yes?"

"Those are some of the number one colleges in the world, those shits are hard to get into and you did at the age of 15." He told her. "If you wanna leave, your family will always be here. That's why they invented cell phones, planes and this thing we drive, can't remember what they called though."

"I get your point." She chuckled. "I guess I'm just scared."

"Change is always good and I mean it's not like you can't always transfer if anything but I do think you should spread your wings a lil. Didn't your grandmother go to a college in Virginia? Talk to her about leaving."

"You real smart." She touched his temple. "Thank you for listening to me."

"I really wish you stop thanking me for shit with your proper ass, do you even curse?" 

"I don't." She chuckled. "I can but I don't."

"Curse for me, say anything." He said making her smile.

"Bitch." She said as he busted out laughing.

"Bitach." He mocked her still laughing making her laugh. "You ain't even say bitch, you said batch with your country proper ass."

"I don't like cursing." Aspen laughed knowing she most def didn't sound right cursing. 

"I like that bout you, you innocent but I know you ain't truly innocent." He chuckled making her smirk. "Don't ever change for anybody else."

"I won't, I love myself. I'm kind of awesome." 

"You more than awesome, you-" He stopped his sentence pulling out his phone. "You're astonishing, amazing, astounding, marvelous-"

"I just know you did not look up synonyms for awesome." Aspen spoke looking at him then his phone. "Better word than awesome, I'm done." 

"Chill." He laughed as she threw her head back still laughing. 

"Nobody has ever did that." She chuckled. "You are a different breed."

"I've been telling you, I'm not your average joe." He smirked.

"You most definitely proving it." She smiled. "Ouu can I do my corny pickup line that kept getting interrupted?" 

"Go head." He chuckled. 

"I'm really in the mood for some pizza-"

"Me too." He cut her off making her look at him blankly. 

"Oh, that's how it start? I forgot, I'm sorry go head." 

"I'm really in the mood for some pizza-"

"We should go get some." 

Aspen smile dropped and she looked at him blankly, she grabbed her bag standing up as he kept laughing. When he noticed she walked towards the door he grabbed his stuff going to chase after her still laughing. 

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He wrapped his arms from behind putting his head in the crook of her neck. "Tell me please, I wanna know."

"I'm really in the mood for some pizza, a pizza you." She smiled as he tucked his lips in then finally laughed.

"That was cheesy as hell." He laughed. "Allat damn trouble for that booty ass line." 

"Do a better one." She chuckled.

"If nothing last forever, will you be my nothing?" He asked making her smile real wide.

"Okay, yours was definitely better." She said still smiling as he walked them down the street still holding on to her.

"You know my style, I like to make you smile."

"Okay Fifty!" She laughed. "Dipset."

"Sissss." He dragged out stopping them. "Fifty is from G-Unit."

"Seriously?" She asked.

"You lucky you said that dumb shit in front of me and not in front of anybody else." He laughed. "G-Unit sweety G-Unit."

"Oh yeah you right." 

"No you did not just look it up!" He laughed reading the Google search. "Don't be talking bout me when you doing dumb shit like this." 

"I'm so over you." She laughed. "Let's go get pizza though."

"I'm always down for that." He smiled taking her hand so they could walk.

Aspen didn't know where this was going but she was really loving how it's going so far, she hoped he continued making her this happy.

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Feeling Darius? No? Why?

I started Pretty Little Liars over and now I start to notice a lot of shit they could've been figured out smh they was acting so dumb. 

Y'all keep nominating me for these awards shit lol y'all know I don't write for recognition but thank y'all anyway for believing in a nigga, y'all the real MVPs.