Volume One

"Where are we going?" I asked my best friend, Jala, as I rode in the passenger seat while she drove blasting No Limit.

"If I hit it one time, imma pipe her. If I hit it two times then I like her. If I fuck three times, Imma wife her!" She yelled looking at me. "It ain't safe! It ain't safe!"

"Really?" I mugged.

"Come on this our part." She smiled turning it up which I didn't even know it could go anymore. "Fuck him then I get some money!"

I laughed trying to hold it in but I couldn't as I started dancing and rapping along to the song. "I need tongue, I need face. Give me brain, concentrate. I go foam, Prada case. Kill a weave, rock a lace."

"Ayee!" She stuck her tongue out as I laughed dancing with her. She knew how to get me turned up.

"Where we at?" I noticed the car parked.

"Jay basketball game, it should be the last quarter but I at least got to act like I came." She said making me laugh shaking my head.

"Sad really."

"Shut up."

We walked into the charter school hearing people yell, whistles and sneakers scuffing. As Jala said it was five minutes left in the game as we found a seat some where. She started cheering as I intently watched the game, basketball was my favorite sport.

As time winded down, it was only two seconds left making everyone, including me, stand on their feet as #12 threw the ball all the way across the court. The bell buzzed as the ball went in making the side we were sitting on go crazy. If I knew who was playing, I would've shared their excitement but I was just standing.

"Let's go wait by the concession stand, they be taking forever in the locker room." Jala said making me nod.

"Oou, some cookies or something would be lovely." I rushed out.

"Calm ya high ass down, I wanna get some wings and pizza."

"Most def."

I was high as fuck and hungry as fuck, I wouldn't gotten as high as I did with Jala if I knew I was coming to a basketball game. After getting some Twizzlers, we waited almost ten minutes before Jay came out in a sweatsuit and headphones around his neck.

"Congratulations baby!" Jala yelled jumping on him as they both fell back making her laugh as he smiled.

"Thank you baby." He leaned up to kiss her as they both smiled.

"Okay okay, let's get up. We getting food."

"Ooh babe." He looked at her as they got up. "I told Shep, we could play 2k all night and order food."

"Okay, I could come with."

"I don't want him to third wheel though."

"And that's what best friends were invented for." She looked towards me making him look at me.

"Oh wassup Jae? I didn't even see you." He hugged me.

"Hey."

"Aight, well meet us at my house."

"Sounds like a plan." She smiled.

"Who Shep?" I asked as we got in the car.

"A boy on the basketball team, he's chill as fuck and the boy is fine." She wiggled her eyebrows making me laugh.

"Can we get Pizza hut?" I asked. "I'm not in the mood for Dominos."

"But I like Dominos wings." She pouted.

"So Dominos wings and Pizza Hut pizza?"

"And they cinnamon twist."

"We so difficult." I laughed.

"So? Jay give me anything I want." She smiled.

"Goals."

"We shouldn't be anyone goals." She spoke making me laugh.

Ten minutes of us laughing and recording videos we got to to Jay house safely. We got out walking directly in the house, I followed her to the living room where he was turning on his PS4. He smiled at us then went back to doing what he was doing.

"Babe, I want pizza from Pizza Hut and wings and cinnamon twist from Dominos."

He scrunched his face up. "Why you being so difficult?"

"Because I don't like Pizza Hut wings."

"So why not get pizza from Dominos? You like Dominos."

"But Jae don't, unless it's the pan pizza."

"Then get the pan, duh." He looked at both of us like we were dumb.

"I'll order it, how many wings and what's the topping?" I spoke up.

"I think we should wait for Sheppard cause he picky." Jay rolled his eyes making me laugh.

"Oou, babe do you have ice cream?" Jala asked.

"Omg, yes with sprinkles?" I smiled following him to the kitchen.

He opened the freezer and looked in pulling out three different tubes of ice cream. "Butter pecan, cookies and cream or strawberry?"

"Butter pecan." I smiled.

"Strawberry."

He grabbed bowls then started giving us ice cream. "I want more, the hell I suppose to do with this amount?"

"You bout to eat, you gon ruin ya appetite."

"I'm not no damn child, Imma eat this ice cream then fuck my food up."

The doorbell rung as they continued going back and forth, I was looking at them seeing they continued arguing. I rolled my eyes going to the door seeing a boy digging in a bag. My dumb high ass ducked telling him to don't shoot me.

"What?" He asked confused pulling out the games.

Laughing in embarrassment. "I saw you digging in the bag and I just- nevermind come in." I got up opening the door wider.

Chucking, he shook his head. "Where Jay?"

"They in there." He walked in the kitchen with me following behind him, he raised a eyebrow at them arguing.

"It's never a time I'm with y'all, y'all not arguing." He laughed making them turn our way.

"It's always him." She rolled her eyes taking her bowl that was now filled with ice cream.

I followed suit grabbing my bowl and sat down on the couch, watching them put in 2k. I laughed making them look at me, I didn't even know why I was laughing. They went back to doing what they were as I started eating my ice cream.

"Are you blowing your ice cream?" The boy, Sheppard, asked as they all looked at me laughing.

"It's too cold." I said still blowing it.

"But-"

"She high as hell." Jala cut him off laughing.

"Nevermind then." He shook his head still slightly confused. This boy gon think I'm retarded.

2k started playing music making Jala stand up and start dancing while rapping she grabbed my hand and I started dancing with her. Black Eyed Peas x Imma Be started playing and that's when we started acting a fool.

"Can I play?" I asked as they both looked at me.

"Can you play?" Jay asked.

"Yeah I can."

"What team you wanna play with?"

"Lakers."

"You like the Lakers?" They both asked in unison.

"Yeah."

"Okay!" Shep clapped.

"You gotta go." Jay said making me laugh.

"What team you like?"

"The booty ass Celtics." Jala rolled her eyes.

"They ain't the asses but-"

"They ain't the Lakers." Shep finished my sentence.

"Oop, they already finishing each other sentences, next thing you know they gon be-"

"Don't finish your sentence." I laughed cutting Jala off.

"You could play with Shep while I order the pizza." Jay handed me his controller pulling Jala on his lap as he pulled out his phone.

"I hope you know I'm bout to kick ya ass." I bragged making him raise a eyebrow as he looked at me.

"The nigga back there can't even beat me."

"We two different people." I laughed as he picked the Warriors to play with. "Hmph."

We started our game and before we know it the doorbell was ringing. I kept my eyes focused on the game as score was 107-110. I was losing by three points but tied us up as I shot a three.

"Yeahhh!" I yelled laughing in his face as he sighed.

"Food here." Jala sang.

"Not eating until I win this game."

"Guess you gon starve!" He yelled as he dunked.

The game had seven minutes left and I started getting nervous, I just talked all this shit. I couldn't lose, I started getting frustrated as he scored again. I stole the ball from him, shooting a three making my score higher than his. I scored again then again as the time was now 60 seconds.

"Oh shit!" Jay yelled standing up dropping his pizza.

I couldn't get as hyped as them because he had the ball and he could still beat me, he stood up and moved closer to the t.v. He crossed my player as the time went down, it was now five seconds. He shot the ball from across the court and it went in as the game ended. I jumped up sticking my tongue out and laughing.

Score was 117-115. I smiled looking at him as he had his hands on his head confused as fuck. "This nigga has never lost a game until today." Jay laughed recording.

"Nah brah, you had to cheat or something." Shep told me making me laugh harder.

"No one likes a sore loser." I teased as he sat down getting some hot wings.

"Can we watch a movie?" Jala asked cuddled up with Jay. "I wanna watch Freaky Friday."

"That's the movie when they switch bodies or some shit like that?" Jay asked as we nodded. "Nope."

"Word, something else." Shep said.

He grabbed the remote going through list of movies. "The Conjuring 2?"

"Seen that like 3 times." I said.

"The Dark Knight?" Jay asked.

"Big Hero 6." Jala and I gasped looking at them.

"No, I want us to watch a movie, we all haven't seen before." Jay said crushing our dreams.

"If we don't find a movie, can we watch Big Hero 6?" Jala and I pouted looking at them.

"First of all, y'all ugly." Shep said making us laugh.

"But yeah, if we don't find anything." Jay said.

We argued some more since we couldn't agree on anything, after almost ten minutes Jay and Shep agreed on Insidious: Chapter 3. I didn't do scary movies so I was against it but Jala was all down for it because it gave her more of a reason to be under Jay. Jay turned off all the lights leaving only the movie to light the room.

"I'm just not understanding why we had to watch a horror movie, I think-"

"Shush!" They all said making me roll my eyes as I ate my hot wings.

"Y'all could have just told me to move." Shep mugged Jala and Jay as they laid out on the couch making them laugh as he sat next to me.

The way Jay living room was set up, they had three couches. A one seater, a futon and a smaller couch. I was sitting on the smaller couch so when he sat next to me, we were automatically touching. I didn't mind and I don't think he did either, Jala and Jay were laying down cuddled up watching the movie as we were just sitting there. Uncomfortably.

"You comfortable?" I asked.

"Not really but I ain't wanna say anything, you was sitting here first."

"It's cool." I chuckled.

I curled my legs leaning my head on the arm rest as he leaned back putting his arm over the back on the couch. I grabbed one of the pillows and covered half of my face not prepared to be scared. I heard kissing sounds making me roll my eyes.

"Y'all loud as hell." I glared at them.

"Just go upstairs." Shep said making them laugh but they ain't waste no time.

We fell into a silence as I watched the movie occasionally jumping, this movie was bat shit scary. I just don't get how people enjoy scary movies, who the hell enjoys being scared? Retarded people, that's who.

"So I'm guessing scary movies ain't for you?" Shep asked.

"Hell no, I hate them."

"You just got to remember that this shit ain't real."

"You one of those people, huh?"

"What people?"

"The retarded ones that like scary movies." I said making him laugh.

"Nah, I just don't scare easily."

"Hmm." She squinted her eyes.

"So you one of those people?" He asked mocking me.

"What people?"

"The scary punk ass people."

"Oooh burn." I sarcastically remarked making both of us laugh.

"You wanna change the movie?"

"Yes." I said with quickness making him laugh and get up so he could get the remote. He took his seat back and went through the list of movies.

"Can we watch Sing?" I asked smiling.

"You're a child." He laughed clicking it anyway.

He leaned back putting his arm over the back of the couch and without knowing it I was laying on his shoulder. I don't think neither of us noticed, we laughed and watched the movie until we drifted off to sleep.

"Ohhhhh, look what we have heaa!" Jala yelled making both of us open our eyes slowly. His arms were now wrapped around me as I was laying on him.

"Oh my bad." I spoke moving off him.

"You cool." He mumbled.

"Sorry to break this up but it's going on 12 and we gots to go."

"Yeah, okay." I nodded putting on my shoes.

"Meet me at the car." Jala said as her and Jay walked out.

I nodded grabbing my wing box that had my leftover food I wanted to take home. I got up and stretched grabbing my jacket. Sheppard got up still looking half sleep and walked me to the door.

"So." He spoke making me turn around before I could walk outside. "I want my rematch in 2k."

"So you could lose again?" I laughed. "Any time, any place."

"I think I need ya number to tell you the place and time." He smirked making me laugh.

"Smooth." I continued laughing making him laugh as I took his phone adding my number in it.

"I'll text you."

"Okay." I nodded walking out the door instantly getting in the car cause it was type chilly out here.

~

Smiling at the picture Jala took of me and Sheppard, I thought back to that day. I shook my head not believing that was the start of our relationship, it's been a year now and it didn't even seem like that.

"Sterling Sheppard for the basket." I heard making me look up from my phone as he walked outside acting like he was dribbling a ball.

"He shoots, it's going, it missed." I said raining on his parade as he stood up straight glaring at me .

"It be ya own girlfriend." He spoke making me laugh.

"Oh shut up." I reached out for a hug then kissed him. "You did so good baby."

"Well, I mean where would the team be without me?" He joked as we walked to his mother car. "You going home or you chilling with me for a few?"

"Do I want to go home and be annoyed or do I want to chill with you and be annoyed?" I held both of my hands out weighing my options. "Well, I guess you ain't that bad."

"You got jokes tonight." He scoffed.

"You know I'm funny." I giggled.

"Hey baby, you did so good." His mother spoke as he got in the passenger seat while I got in the back.

"So I been told." He looked back at me as I stuck my tongue out. "Jae coming with us so you don't have to take her home."

"Okay, I'm not coming in anyway. I got called into work."

"You cooked? I'm hungry."

"You got two hands."

"I just played a game with no breaks ma, don't do me like this." He looked at her.

"I'll give you money to order something then."

"Slaaattt!" He said making me bust out laughing.

We pulled into his driveway after ten minutes in the car, I sat in the backseat while she counted out money and gave it to him. She kissed him on his cheek as I leaned up so I can give her a hug.

"Jae, make sure he good." She joked making me laugh as he smacked his teeth.

"Y'all stay tryna gang up on me, fake ass friendship." He mumbled the curse.

"Get smacked Sterling." She yelled as we got out the car.

"You ain't gon do shit." He said once the door was close.

"He said-"

"Shut up!" He grabbed me from opening the door pushing me towards the house making me laugh.

We walked in turning on the lights in the living room, I followed him to his room dropping my bag on the chair. I sat down on the bed putting my phone on the nightstand watching him move around his room until he stopped in front of me coming between my legs.

"What are you doing?" I laughed as he leaned on me kissing me. "Didn't you say you was hungry?"

"Yeah, I'm bout to eat." He smirked kissing me as I matched smirked laughing.

"Well then." I pushed his head down hearing him chuckle.
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