"Do you hear me?" Genesis asked.

"I heard you," Indigo said.

"I'm not playing with y'all. I know we're all mad about Haven, but school isn't the place for it; handle whatever you got to, just not in school. Especially you Flaire, you really can't afford to mess up anymore."

"I said I'm not finna do anything," Flaire spoke.

She didn't know how sure she was, but she hoped she could keep her word.

"We done? Keygan is waiting for me."

"Go ahead," Genesis stated.

Flaire walked out the door to see Keygan standing outside his truck; they hugged and stayed like that for around fifteen seconds. He helped her get into the truck then jogged over to the driver's side, starting their route from school.

"Honestly, I don't feel like going to school."

"You wanna skip?"

"Yeah." She shrugged, making him nod.

"Let's go get our work and sign ourselves out."

Flaire rolled her eyes, chuckling at how much Keygan cared about school. 

Dweeb.

"I'm going to stay in the car; I don't care about no work right now," Flaire told Keygan as he pulled up. He wanted to say something but decided not to; he couldn't tell Flaire what to do.

Flaire got on Instagram looking at the views on her story; ever since she fought Ra's baby mother, her views stayed jumping. She was about to hit two thousand views. People were so damn nosy.

She stopped seeing Ra's name as she hovered over it; she clicked his page visiting his page. She looked at his story smiling at his daughter. She saw a video of him talking, so she pressed the volume button on her phone to hear it.

"This nigga Blaire traveling state lines for his girl meanwhile the girl I had being weird to me, why stink?" He chuckled. "I'm tryna get married; I want you to get a life insurance policy on me until I get out these streets stink."

"He's a clown." Flaire smiled, laughing.

She slid up with the laughing emoji; a millisecond later, he called her on Instagram, making her roll her eyes.

"Hello, Ramier."

"Why you tryna hide your smile stink?" He smiled, making her laugh.

"I never told you to call me."

"I would've called ya damn phone if you ain't block me petty ass."

"I blocked you because you were stressing me out." 

"I miss you; you miss me, stink?"

"I do." 

"Come see me, or Imma come to you."

"Maybe tomorrow; I have work tonight."

"How is Haven doing? I saw the videos; shit had me mad as hell knowing she doesn't bother nobody."

"She's getting better; I'll tell her you asked about her."

Flaire watched as Keygan walked back to the car then looked at Ramier.

"What time you finna come tomorrow?"

"I said maybe." Flaire chuckled as Keygan opened the door.

"Yeah aight, I'll see you tomorrow or else."

"Boy bye." Flaire laughed as he hung up.

"You wanna go somewhere or you wanna go to the crib?" Keygan asked ignoring the fact she was just on the phone.

"I honestly wanna just go back to sleep," Flaire spoke before yawning.

"Crib it is." He nodded driving off without saying another word.

~

"You aren't going to go to school?" Haven asked Ezra as he laid between her legs waking from his nap.

"I'll go when you go back."

"Ezra that's not-"

"I'm going to go back when you go back." He said more sternly making her nod as she got quiet.

She couldn't believe she was missing out on school because she couldn't see out one eye and had a concussion, she got sad every time she thought about it.

"I hurt your feelings?" Ezra asked turning around to face her once he heard her sniffle. "I apologize, pretty girl, I didn't mean it to sound so mean."

"It's not you." Haven wiped her face. "I hate the position I'm in. I hate that my first fight was forced, I hate I'm in so much drama. I just want to leave this life, I've always hated my life."

Ezra gently pushed her up so he could sit behind her, he rocked her while she cried.

"It's not your fault." He told her honestly.

"I thought I was going to have drama in my life due to being your girlfriend, that would've made more sense than me getting jumped by two girls I've known since I first started talking. The most confusing thing is I still don't know why."

"Because females are catty and problematic. They think that fighting shit means something and it doesn't. Females who just wanna be in drama all day ain't gon have shit going on with their lives."

"I wished I was like my sisters, they don't have to deal with the constant pain of being different. Even having this conversation I feel like I can't breathe."

Haven suffers from severe anxiety, it held her back from a lot of things. She couldn't defend herself most of the time, a lot of decisions she made were due to her anxiety and she hated she let it control her so much.

"Talk to me about it," Ezra said trying to understand her mental health.

"I feel like I'm dry drowning, my heart is skipping beats. I'm so hot and I can't breathe most of the time. I want to scream but I don't want to be judged or looked at as crazy."

"Scream."

"Scream?" She questioned.

"Scream." Ezra nodded. "As loud and as hard as you want."

Haven held her breath in then exhaled while screaming, she screamed until her throat was dry. She didn't think it'll do anything but she felt something getting lifted off her shoulders.

"Haven!" Genesis yelled as she and Devon busted in panicking.

"She good, I just told her to yell her frustrations out." Ezra chuckled seeing them out of breath.

"Boy, I thought I was gon have to whoop somebody ass." He spoke with a spatula in his hand making them chuckle.

"You okay, sissy?" Genesis asked.

"No, but I feel better at this moment."

"As long as you're doing something that's helping you." Genesis nodded. "We'll be downstairs let me know if you need something."

"Okay." Haven nodded. "What age did you have sex?"

That question made Ezra push his head back in shock, Haven never talked about sex because her anxiety always made her feel weird.

"Honestly, I didn't officially have sex until I was like 15." Ezra chuckled leaving out he got his dick sucked all the time when he was little.

"What is official?"

"Meaning cumming while having sex."

"So when did you unofficially have sex?"

"Did Flaire ever tell you when she lost her virginity?" He asked making her turn all the way around. "I don't know why you facing me, you know I never did and never would do anything with Flaire."

"Well no, she never told us about her losing her virginity. We weren't close then."

"Basically she and Keygan lost their virginity together and at this time niggas were childish so all of us on the football team had to lose our virginity too." He chuckled shaking his head. "Since I was talking to Brat at the time, it was easier to convince her to let us lose our virginities to each other."

Haven listened, she already knew Ezra and Desiree had something going on. She used to be so jealous when Brat would tell Flaire all about Ezra.

"So she said yeah so we attempted to do something but after like 3 strokes she stopped me, we never did anything else after that. We were 13, I think."

"Does it hurt bad?"

"I can't really give you that answer, pretty girl. You'll have to ask your sisters or Mai, I would assume so though."

"I'm ready to have sex with you." She said making him furrow his eyebrows.

"Haven-"

"Just when my face heals, I'm ugly right now."

"You could never be ugly pretty girl." He grabbed her face to kiss her cautious of her bruises.

"I love you so much," Haven said then stopped realizing she wasn't supposed to tell him that. She mentally slapped herself.

I'm so damn soft, she thought rolling her eyes.

"Why are you doing all that?" Ezra chuckled kissing her forehead. "I love you more."

"Wanna watch a movie?" She asked trying to feel less awkward.

"Yeah, I'm with it."

~

Indigo sat in class not listening to anything her teacher said as she and Martin sent TikToks back and forth, she was so glad she found somebody that be on TikTok as much as her.

"Indigo, what did I just say?"

"Something about linear equations."

"If you put your phone up, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about."

"I do know exactly what you talking about, I just don't care." She rolled her eyes making a few people laugh.

She mentally slapped herself for saying exactly what she was thinking, she didn't like being disrespectful to teachers because her mother would have never allowed that.

"I apologize for that, I'll put my phone up." She said turning her phone over so she could pay attention.

Spending twenty more minutes in class, she got out of her seat and walked to her locker procrastinating about going to her next class.

"Hey Indigo, is Haven okay?" Star asked coming up to her with more girls from the dance team.

"We texted the group chat but she didn't respond, we figured she wouldn't anyway," Val spoke.

"She's fine, she just doesn't wanna talk to anyone right now."

"Can you give her this?" Summer handed Indigo a card they all signed. 

"I'll make sure she gets it, thank you."

"Thank you." Star smiled.

Indigo put the card in her locker, mentally telling herself to grab the envelope before she left or else she would forget it.

She heard the football players coming down the hall, making her roll her eyes, she couldn't stand Sevyn anymore, and sometimes it was hard not to show. She didn't understand why she was trying to collect evidence when she could just leave.

"Wassup baby!" Sevyn yelled hugging her from behind kissing her multiple times.

"Hey.." She said standing there making him look at her.

"You still not feeling good?" He asked as they started walking to the cafe to sit down.

"No." Indigo lied.

"She really got stomped out bad." They heard making both of them look towards the girls and the guy gossiping. 

"It's crazy considering her sister be out here dogging bitches, she mad weak." The other girl shook her head.

"That nigga Ezra shoulda been knocking them bitches out." The boy said. "He wasn't stepping enough for me."

"Nigga you wanna get stepped on?" Sevyn asked gaining their attention. "Cause niggas got a lot to say when they couldn't even make it on the team to be a waterboy."

"What?" 

"What?" Sevyn asked standing up. 

"Wassup?" Tyke asked coming behind Sevyn along with some more football players.

"A nigga feeling pressa?" Bison asked.

"Y'all got it." The boy said.

"Don't mention shit else about Haven before I have y'all bitches looking worse," Sevyn added before they could walk away.

Indigo nodded her head in approval because she know if she would've said something, she would've been expelled. 

She didn't need that, especially with Christmas break this week.

"Thank you." She told Sevyn as he wrapped his arms around her kissing her forehead.

"Shit been off with us for a few days, wassup with you baby?" He asked looking into her eyes making her look down.

"Just everything with Haven just been on my mind." She spoke not saying the whole truth.

"Everything gon be good, Mac and all them gon get what's coming to them fahsure."

"Yeah, I know."

"I got an early Christmas gift for you." He spoke going into his bag pulling out the gift bag.

He handed her the box as she furrowed her eyebrows, she opened the box seeing a plane ticket to LA. She was confused until it hit her, she gasped holding onto her chest in shock.

"You paid for my cheer camp?" She asked to make sure.

"Yeah baby," He chuckled as she ran into his arms.

She knew the cheer camp wasn't expensive and Genesis was going to pay for it but it's the fact he thought about her. 

"I always wanna see you, happy baby, you gon have so much fun." 

"This means so much." She hugged his neck making him hold her tighter.

"I'll do anything for you." He spoke honestly.

But be faithful, Indigo thought as she got off him.

"I can't wait till the game tomorrow, we gon fuck Eastside up then it's time for the championship. I'm trying to get this damn scholarship." Sevyn smiled. "I'm tryna go straight to the NFL, I don't give a fuck about no school."

"Not to sound like I'm doubting your skills but what will you do if you don't get drafted?"

"I'll think about it once it happens."

"What do you mean? You telling me you don't have backup plans?"

"No."

Indigo looked at him furrowing her eyebrows. She couldn't believe who she was picturing her life with, every day he showed why he was a corny nigga.

~

"You sure you don't wanna go?" Maicee asked Haven as they were on FaceTime.

"How can I go with my face looking like this?" Haven asked.

"Girl so damn what? It just shows bitches was miserable." Maicee spoke. "I can do your makeup if you really wanna go."

"I do wanna go." Haven contemplated. "But I don't wanna run into them."

"Haven I promise you, nobody there going to touch you."

"Well okay, I can surprise Ezra." Haven smiled. "You have to hurry, we're already going to miss the first quarter."

"Girl, I wanna miss the whole game." Maicee rolled her eyes as she put on her lashes.

"I'm going to get dressed, just come upstairs when you get here."

"Bet."

After forty minutes of getting ready the girls were finally there with five minutes on the clock, Maicee cheered in her head. She was so happy she didn't have to sit on the cold-ass bleachers.

"Hey, sister," Flaire spoke seeing Haven smiling.

Haven had on a shirt with her and Ezra in the front and his jersey number on the back, Flaire made it so she found it so cute. 

Maicee had on a Jersey with Tyke's number and his name along with having his number on her face. She loved the shirt Flaire made.

"Y'all looking like some football wives." Flaire chuckled at their shirts.

"Where yours at sis? I know you here for Keygan." Maicee spoke. 

"Actually," Flaire said unzipping her coat. "I been had this shirt since we were together so I just threw it on."

There was a collage of pictures of her and Keygan. She made the shirt four years ago but she always kept it even while they were friends because why not?

"I want one like this too," Maicee spoke.

"Also, I wanna apologize for the way I came at you when the whole Haven shit happened," Flaire spoke shocking both Maicee and Haven. "I was just so mad but it doesn't excuse me coming for you when you didn't have shit to do with what your sister does." 

"It's water under the bridge. I know how you feel about your family and now I just hope you know how I feel about them also. Nobody will ever play with Haven in my face."

"And that's on them bitches head!" Flaire chuckled.

"Oh wait they running their last play,"

Tyke tossed the ball to Keygan who tossed it to Sevyn who false passed it to Ezra as he started running down the field. Sevyn passed it to Bison who passed it to Ezra who got tackled by three running men just as he passed it to Keygan who took it all the way home.

Keygan aggressively threw the football to the ground as Ezra ran to him making both of them jump in the air to bump shoulders.

Everyone was going crazy, that play put everyone on their feet.

"I think they just got their scholarships," Maicee said looking at ESPN getting ready to go on the field.

Maicee, Haven, and Flaire walked on the field just as Keygan, Ezra, Sevyn, and Tyke were talking to ESPN. 

"Excuse my language but football wouldn't be shit without a team but my school team wouldn't be shit without this team. We make the plays, we do the work and we prove it to not only everyone watching but to ourselves. We make sure-"

Ezra stopped talking seeing Haven making him smile real wide, you could tell he was blushing.

"Aww." Maicee smiled as Haven started feeling butterflies.

"We make sure we dedicate ourselves so we don't have to know the feeling of losing. Excuse me."

He handed the mic to Keygan as he went towards Haven picking her up, she wrapped her legs around him as he kissed her multiple times. 

"Damn baby, you should've told me you were coming," Ezra said holding her tight.

"Then I wouldn't have seen the smile on your face when I surprised you."

"I love you so much."

"I love you." She kissed him as ESPN caught some of it and Maicee recorded.

"If nobody else gon believes in us, we are. State champs here we come, baby!" Keygan finished the interview before walking away going towards Flaire.

"Can I get your autograph?" Flaire asked pulling out her phone taking multiple pictures with the flash on. "Who are you dating? What college are you going to?"

"No questions right now, please direct them to my manager." Keygan smiled making her laugh.

"I'm so proud of you." Flaire smiled hugging him. "You're going out with a bang."

"Thank you." He put his arm over her shoulder. 

"Congrats baby bro!" Flaire spoke to Tyke.

Ezra looked over at her as she paid him no attention, he was going to say something until he heard people yelling.

Flaire looked towards the cheerleaders seeing people were surrounding them, she ran through the crowd making sure her baby sister was alright.

"Bitch back up!" She heard Indigo yell. 

"Wassup?" Flaire asked standing in front of Indigo. "The fuck you in my sister's face for?"

"This the bitch Lani," Indigo said. "She about to get the shit beat out of her if she doesn't back the fuck up."

"Baby, why are you so mad?" She chuckled. "Sevyn love you girl."

"Girl, you're weird as fuck. You pretending to be his cousin and you fucking him, what type of bullshit is that? He trained you to be his sideline, you dog ass bitch."

"Baby, you so hurt." She reached out to touch Indigo's face but Flaire slapped her making people gasp.

"Bitch, don't ever feel comfortable enough to touch my sister!" Flaire said while Keygan stood on one side, Ezra on the other, and Tyke behind her.

They dared these bitches to try to touch Flaire, they were gon go to work.

"And Imma get you beat the fuck up!" Flaire yelled towards Sevyn. "You got these bitches feeling they self enough to come up to my sister, you think you the man? See how that shit feels with a black eye!"

"Bitch-"

"Who a bitch? Watch ya mouth." Keygan cut him off stepping up.

"Fore it gets watched for you," Tyke added putting Flaire behind him.

"Damn, he's fine," Maicee said biting her lip.

"Locker room!" The coach yelled coming in the middle of everybody blowing his whistle.

"Indigo, I'm not fucking her." Sevyn grabbed her before she could walk away. "I love you."

"Sevyn, I'm five seconds from spitting in your face. Get the fuck off me, you don't love shit about me."

"I'm going, to be honest, the last time I did anything with Lani was four to five months ago. Like a month ago I had blocked her cause she was doing too much trying to manipulate the story and shit. I called her bluff and she started following you, watching everything you did so I continued entertaining her instead of telling you the truth. Which was dumb, I didn't think about it actually hurting you. Indigo when I say I love you, I love you for real."

"You must think I'm a Jayda type bitch." Indigo squinted her eyes. "Instead of being a grown-ass man and coming to tell me you were messing with bitches during our talking stage you let this dog ass bitch blackmail you."

"Girl, he loves me." Lani chuckled.

"So why are you blackmailing him? Weird ass bitch." 

"I'm not blackmailing anything. Sevyn knows I don't want anything serious with him but sex."

"But you aren't getting that so how does he know that dummy?" Indigo laughed. "Not only did you cheat with a weirdo, but you also cheated with a dummy. Dog ass bitch."

"Trifling ass bitch and nigga." Flaire added.

"Indigo, you good?" Devon asked walking over with Genesis and Alana in tow.

"Yeah, I was just leaving the clown in this circus." She scoffed walking past Sevyn.

"We're going to see each other again," Lani said making Indigo laugh.

"I hope we do so I can beat the last cell you have in your brain."

"I'm going to get him beat up, I don't care," Flaire told Indigo.

"Who?" Devon asked.

"Sevyn."

"Why?"

"He got that weird ass bitch coming at my sister because he basically dating the both of them."

"Who?" Devon asked stopping to walk. "Aye yo brah!"

Multiple people turned around since they didn't know who he was calling. The remaining people on the field turned back as Devon started walking towards Sevyn.

"Aw shit, Sevyn finna get boxed right up," Tyke said.

Devon wasn't in the streets anymore but when he was everyone knew they couldn't play with him. He didn't tolerate anything from anybody and although he changed they knew he was no bitch.

"Why you feel comfortable enough to play in my little sister's face?" Devon asked.

"Dev I-"

"Nigga, you spent all the nights eating at my kitchen table, having all these talks with me and you were playing my sister?" Devon chuckled. "Aight, I'll be seeing you around my boy. Keep ya head up."

Devon walked away making sure all his sisters were in front of him. "Maicee, you drove?"

"Yeah, I'm gon wait for Tyke anyway."

"And I planned on waiting for Ezra."

"And Keygan."

"We gon wait here with y'all until y'all pull off since motherfuckers keep playing with my sisters."

They waited 15 minutes for the boys when they came, they agreed they were going to go to the diner to get something to eat while Devon, Indigo, and Genesis went back home.

Indigo didn't know whether she was upset, hurt, or embarrassed but what she did know was she didn't wanna hear from Sevyn.

"What y'all dickheads doing here?" She heard making her head go up.

"We came to see Baby Blue," Milly said. 

"And we bought snacks." Martin smiled holding the dollar tree bag.

"You up for company?" Devon asked her.

"They're fine," Indigo mumbled. "I just have to take a quick shower, y'all can go wait in the living room."

All of them walked into the house as Genesis made sure they were fine before going to put Alana to sleep, Indigo took a fifteen-minute shower then walked down the stairs.

"How are you feeling?" Martin asked as she sat down.

"I'm not sad." Indigo shrugged. "I already knew he was cheating so I wasn't caught off guard but I'm just mad."

"Why didn't been break up with em?" Milly asked.

"I wanted proof instead of just going with my intuition because if I was wrong then I would've ruined the relationship."

"What boy had to say?"

"Basically he stopped fucking her five months ago but she started being a weird ass bitch so he continued talking to her so she won't tell on him."

"Niggas are mad weird, I don't get the cheating shit," Martin said. "Obviously if another bitch could take your attention away from ya girl then you don't wanna be with her. I love my girl and everybody who knows me knows that."

"It ain't about who you love or don't," Milly added. "It's about what one person lacking and the other doesn't. Let me ask you a question and you could tell me to mind my business but you and Sevyn were fucking?"

"No, we've never had sex."

"That's my point. He was getting the emotion from you but the sex from her, he probably does love you but he thought with the wrong head."

"Four to five months ago is where we started to explore more as far as sex so I do understand what you're saying but I'm not falling for that. I'm worth waiting an eternity for."

"Talk yo shit Baby Blue!" Martin said making them chuckle.

"Y'all wanna order something and watch a movie?" She asked.

"We already got that covered. Just relax your pretty little mind." Milly said making her roll her eyes and chuckle.

She was glad she had the distraction, she didn't wanna think anything about Sevyn.