Volume three

"I don't want you coming to this game." Shep said making me stop getting ready.

"The reason?"

"Because you gon get jumped again, they been talking bout it in school."

"So? I'll rock out by myself, I'm not scared of those bitches."

"Can you please just listen?"

"I like going to your games." I looked at him blankly.

"And I like hearing you yell my name from the stands but I don't like you doing all this fighting, it's petty and you too pretty."

"If you don't want me to go then I won't." I shrugged taking off my my jacket laying back in my bed.

"Don't be mad at me for looking out for you Jae."

"I'm not."

"I gotta go to the school but I'll call you afterwards and maybe we could go get something to eat."

"Yeah maybe." 

"I love you." He stood above me.

"Love you too." He shook his head then kissed me on my cheek walking out. 

I laid down looking at the ceiling for almost ten minutes until I got bored, I stood up going in the kitchen to make something to eat. I watched my stepfather, mom and his daughter come in the kitchen looking at me.

"I thought you was going to the game?" My mom said. 

"I did too." I mumbled scratching my head.

"We're about to go to the hibachi grill, wanna come?" 

"Sure, I don't got nothing else to do." I shrugged walking back out. 

I called Esme but her annoying ass was with her nigga, Dylan was with someone else nigga and Jala dumb ass was just too dumb. I needed some new friends because these bitches got to go.

"Hey, um, instead of going to the hibachi do you just want to come with me?" My step-sister Laurie asked.

"Where?" 

"My friends and I doing a cypher."

"Like a weed cypher? You smoke? Since the fuck when?" 

"I've been smoking since I was 15." She chuckled.

"Girl, we would've been cool if I knew that. Hell yeah I wanna come."

"I'll tell them we going somewhere else."

"Bet, I'll meet you downstairs." 

I took off my jersey with pictures of Shep on it putting on a black Ralph Lauren shirt leaving on my ripped jeans and uggs. I grabbed my phone making sure I had my license, money and state ID. I grabbed a jacket then walked downstairs.

"Ready?" I asked making her get up. "We out."

"Be safe!" My mom called back.

"You could drive right?" 

"Yeah." She nodded as I handed her my car keys.

"So these friends cool? Cause I pick up on vibes and I don't like meeting new people."

"We're in college, it's so different from high school. We're all chill." She stated making me nod. 

"As long as nobody start with me then I'm fine."

"I promise you'll have fun."

~

"Laurie's here!" Some girl yelled as we walked into somebody basement. "And she bought company!"

"That's Lily." She introduced.

"All your friends white?" I asked making her look at me. "Not even to be racist, I'm just asking."

"Lily's not white." She chuckled. "She's Puerto Rican and Black, she's just light as fuck. We're all different races."

"You took forever, you better have the roll ups." A boy spoke playing 2k.

"Shut up, I got them." She dug in her bag pulling out different kinds of bluntvilles. "This is my sister Jae, Jae this is Marcus, Dave, Joc, Domi, Destiny, Lily and Christian." 

"How you doing?" Joc asked as I looked at him then Dave then Marcus, these some fine ass niggas.

"Hi." I smiled waving. 

"Christian turn around to say hey to her." Lily grilled at him. 

"Hold on Lil, Paul George on my ass." He said dunking. 

"I'll be right back." I spoke seeing Jala was calling me. "Hello?"

"Hello?" She grumbled. "You called me?"

"I was bored."

"You not at the game?"

"No, Shep told me don't go. He didn't want me to get jumped."

"Fuck them bitches." She chuckled. "Where you at now? You want me to scoop you?" 

"I'm with Laurie and-"

"Laurie as in your step sister? Bitch after four years, you finally being nice to this girl?" 

"Might as well." I chuckled. "But bitch I'm with her and her college friends, I swear everybody in this fucking room look good. From the females to the niggas, especially the niggas."

"Get me a nigga." She chuckled.

"I'm bout to ask Laurie can you come."

"I lowkey hope she say no cause I'm still type sleepy." She yawned. 

"Bitch shut up." I hung up turning around just as Laurie was standing there. 

"I wasn't trying to eavesdrop, I was coming to get the ash trays."

"It's cool, um, you mind if my best friend come? You can say no." I told her since she was just looking at me. 

"It's okay, Christian won't mind." She waved them off. "And you have a boyfriend right?" 

"Yes." I looked at her weirdly as she nodded walking away, I texted Jala the address then went back in the room with all of them. 

As I was walking in the boy Christian turned back to look at me making me stop walking, he was so damn fine. He was wearing a hat but I still could see the three tattoos on his face, one was Chinese symbols under his left eye, it was a cross under his right eye and the word blessed on top of his right eyebrow. He had grey eyes and he wasn't wearing a shirt showing off more tattoos.



"How you doing?" He asked licking his lips.

"Just fine." I said looking away as everybody was just looking at us.

"This ain't my bidness." Domi smirked sipping whatever was in her cup making the rest of them laugh.

"You know how to roll?" Joc asked.

"Of course." I said.

"We could be real cool, nobody in this fucking room know how to but always wanna smoke." He shook his head passing me a roll up and a dime bag. 

"I know how to roll." Christian chuckled standing up still playing 2k.

"Barely." Dave and Marcus said.

"Lakers your team?" I asked sitting next to him.

"If they not yours, you gotta move from by me."

"Calm down." I chuckled. "Been a Lakers fan since I was in the womb."

"That's dedication girl." Joc yelled making me laugh. 

"I like the Steelers." Laurie said making me and all the boys look at her. 

"Girl, that's football." Dave looked at her blankly. 

"Same difference." She chuckled. 

"Lakers ass though." Marcus said.

"Who your team?" I asked offended. 

"The Suns, wassgood?" 

"We just beat y'all last week though so I'm confused, what was score 102 to 90?" I asked making the boys laugh.

"It was 100 to 93." He corrected.

"Oh because that makes it better, right." I stuck my thumb up smiling at him. 

"Aight get off my boy cause we bout to spank y'all tonight." Dave looked at me. 

"Your team the Nuggets?" I chuckled. "Y'all have got to do better."

"I fucks with you cause these niggas stay hating on the Lakers but we be kicking they ass!" Christian said making me agree.

"I bet y'all don't kick our ass tonight." Joc said. 

"Facts, let's stay and watch the game. Put y'all money where y'all mouth is." Dave said.

"Niggas serious as hell." Destiny joked making us laugh. 

"It's just a game." Laurie said.

"That none of y'all even playing." Domi laughed.

"How much you tryna bet?" I asked.

"If the Nuggets lose then I'll give you and Christian $50." Dave said.

"Nah, that ain't good enough." Joc smirked. 

"If the Lakers win you gotta give my boy ya number."  Marcus smirked making me look up from rolling. 

Everybody stopped their conversation to look at Christian and I, I was going to say something but then my phone started ringing letting me know Jala was outside. I sighed in relief telling them my best friend was here watching their smirks never leaving their face.

"Bitch, you came just in time." I spoke making her look at me weirdly as I led her through the house.

"You was bout to get gang banged?" 

"You just so dumb." I shook my head going downstairs. "This is my best friend, Jala. Jala this is Joc, Marcus, Dave, Domi, Destiny, Lily Christian and you know Laurie."

"Bitch." She mumbled so only I could hear making me nod slowly. "The hell I walk into Heaven? Why the hell they all look so good?"

"Same thing I asked."

"Oh, you're gorgeous." Lily smiled at Jala. 

"Bitch this like getting a compliment from Beyonce." Jala said making us laugh. "You gorgeous too, y'all all look good."

"Thank you girl, I love your hair. Where you get it done at?" Domi asked.

"My sister Esme, sis the real deal. I could give you her website, sis prices real low too. I paid $40 just to get these installed."

"Oh can I get her website?" Lily asked.

"Of course, I got y'all." Jala chuckled.

"Can I play?" I asked Christian making him raise a eyebrow. 

"You play 2k, watch basketball, smoke and know how to roll." Dave listed making me look at him.

"Issa wife!" Joc yelled making all of us laugh.

"She don't play 2k, girl own 2k. She ain't never been beat before." Jala said.

"Until today cause I don't take Ls." Christian handed me a controller. 

"That's what they all say til they looking at the screen in shock." I chuckled picking my team. 

"Wait, let's smoke first." Destiny said making me put the controller down, I'm always down for that.

"So what's y'all deal?" Jala asked making everybody look at her while we lit up multiple blunts.

"What you mean?" Laurie asked.

"Y'all just friends? None of y'all together?" 

"Nope, we all friends." Domi spoke.

"None of y'all never tried? Was attracted to each other?" I asked in shock.

"Nah, we always just been friends." Joc shrugged. "We never looked at each other like that, it's been us since we was 5."

"That's mad dope, y'all don't get tired of each other? I be annoyed seeing this thing everyday." Jala said making me look at her blankly.

"Bitch, don't call me no damn thing." I mushed her head.

"Hell yeah, they annoying." Marcus laughed. "But we be bored without each other."

"I like this." Jala smiled. "You could tell y'all loyal and love each other."

"For real, I only got three damn friends so y'all must got a lot of trust for each other." I spoke inhaling.

"Yeah, I trust them with my life." Destiny smiled.

"Goals." Jala and I said in unison making them laugh.

"So what about y'all? How long y'all been best friends?" Lily asked.

"Our story is funny." I laughed. "My mom was her dad sidechick."

"And my dad was her mother side dude." Jala chuckled.

"So my dad was supposed to be her dad and vice versa."

"Wait, what?" Christian chuckled as they all looked at us in interest.

"Our parents grew up together but my mother hated Jala mother, they was always in some type of competition growing up. Before I was born my mom and her dad had an affair not knowing their partners was also having a affair."

"My mom got pregnant around the same time her mom got pregnant and neither of them knew who the father was since they was both cheating. Jae and I actually got the same birthday but she was born three hours before me."

"They got the DNA test and my mother wasn't pregnant by her husband and Jala mother wasn't pregnant by her husband. So our parents divorced and reversed."

"Yo, that's lit as hell." Joc said.

"And confusing as hell." Domi laughed.

"So y'all parents still together?" Marcus asked.

"My mom and dad are." Jala chuckled.

"My mom and dad not, he's in a relationship with different females." I rolled my eyes. "And my mom is with Laurie father."

"Oh yeahhh." Dave nodded.

"I was at the wedding and forgot that." Christian shook his head.

"We all was." Destiny laughed.

"So through all of that, how did y'all become friends?" Lily asked.

"My dad and her dad ran into each other like two years later and they became friends again introducing us and we've been stuck together since." Jala said making me smile.

"Y'all mothers still hate each other?" Domi asked.

"They best friends, we're all best friends." I chuckled.

"I've never met more interesting people than y'all." Lily spoke.

"Our friendship ain't shit compared to y'all." Marcus said making everybody laugh.

We continued talking about stuff while smoking, we decided to have a tapout session to see who would be the last standing. Jala and Marcus won smoking a total of eight blunts, I quit after nine. Now we was all just high as fuck in the kitchen deciding what to eat but we kept getting off subject prolonging it. 

"If Earth is tilted on it's axis, does that mean the world is always tilted?" Dave asked making us think.

"Is sand called sand because it's between sea and land?" Lily asked as I opened my mouth looking around.

"If I crash my car on purpose, did I still get in a accident?" Christian asked.

"If they call a watermelon a watermelon, why isn't there a such thing a Firemelon, Earthmelon, Airmelon? The Elemelons." Marcus pointed to his head.

"How did the people who made the clock know what time it was?" Joc asked.

"When I erase a word, where the fuck does it go?" Jala asked.

"Y'all fucking my head up." I said grabbing it while everybody laughed. "I need answers, where does it go?"

"I'm too high." Destiny laughed clutching over.

"She needs some milk!" Jala yelled.

"Yo!" Dave yelled as we all was just dying in the kitchen.

"Alright stop y'all." Domi said still laughing. "What we gon eat?"

"Bekfust!" I said making everybody laugh again.

I flew back into my seat laughing while Jala did her ugly ass laugh making me laugh harder, she fell out the seat as I threw my head back. She sat on the ground punching the air laughing while I stomped my feet slapping my leg.

"Jala and Jae gotta get out, we ain't gon never eat." Laurie said through laughs.

"We done, we promise." I laughed.

"I want some fried chicken." Domi spoke.

"I'm the in the kitchen and I'm whipping! Seasoning that chicken!" I yelled.

Dave licked all his fingers then yelled, "Finger licking!" 

"Jae get out!" Laurie said through laughs. 

"See she keep getting us distracted, it's her not me." Jala laughed.

"I'm going, I'm going." I laughed going back downstairs with Joc, Christian and Dave.

"Game coming on, you got your hundred ready?" Christian asked making me laugh.

"We ain't losing." Joc laughed.

~

"Come on brah! This should've been a easy win." Dave smacked his teeth as the game went off. 

"Wait, I ain't hear you." I stood up squeezing in between Marcus and Dave. "We what? Who losing? Easy what? Ohhh."

"Man, get out of here." Dave laughed handing me a $50. 

"We play y'all again so don't trip." Marcus laughed.

"It was another part of this deal though." Joc said as they all smirked.

"A bet is a bet right?" I held out my phone to Christian so he can put his number in.

"There it is!" Marcus yelled making us laugh as he entered his number then giving it back to me.

"Yo, I'm still high as hell." Jala spoke with her red low eyes.

"Me too, I ain't never been this high." I said. 

"You think they laced our shit? Nah they wouldn't do that." Jala squinted as everybody laughed making us stop looking at each other.

"I hope that wasn't supposed to be a conversation between y'all two." Destiny laughed.

"Y'all loud as hell." Joc chuckled.

"Since y'all high y'all don't wanna smoke again?" Dave asked.

"We ain't say that now." I tilted my head making everybody laugh.

"Turn that game off and put some music on, not no damn Chief Keef either." Lily said. "Switch it up today."

"Got chu my girl." Marcus nodded going to the speaker.

"Good dude." Destiny nodded as trap music came on while Lily glared at him.

"What? You said No Chief Keef. This LA Capone girl." Marcus laughed.

"This my shit!" I said.

Jala started shaking her head like she had dreads making me stand up and do the same thing. We started rapping, Dave walked in the middle of us putting his arms over both of us actually shaking his dreads. I got super hype when Faneto came on, shit I think we all did. But it turned into a kickback when Earned it came on.

"These niggas ain't no kin to me, no friend to me! These nigga fucking enemies." We all yelled while Christian had his arm around my shoulder with Laurie recording. 

"The beat go off?" I asked as everything went quiet.

"I up it and then my heat go off. I heard he do that sneaky talk, I heard he was a sneaky dog!" We all yelled again.

We was lit as hell for real.

~

"Jae, Shep knocking on the door." Jala said popping her head in the bathroom.

"Let him in." I said washing up as I heard the door open. "Hey baby!"

"Wassup?" He asked making me peek out the curtain to look at him.

"What's wrong?" 

"We lost yesterday."

"Gimme hug." I said making him laugh.

"When you get out the shower, Imma go in your room and chill til you get out."

"Okay baby." I went back to my shower.

I spent five more minutes then walked out singing along to the song that was playing real loud from the living room, my high ass almost fell trying to dance and sing as I made my way to my room. 

"You know very well who you are, you're the one. You've got my heart and you had a few, boy one too many but I'm the only one to wake you up!" I yelled jumping on Shep yelling making him laugh.

"Your big ass head." He pushed me off as I dropped my towel picking out something to wear, my door flew open making me cover my body.

"Bitch, you covering up ya chest with both arms like that's necessary." Jala laughed. "You could cover them lil ass mosquito bites with ya finger."

"That's funny?" I asked Shep who was on my bed laughing like it was the funniest thing ever.

"I'm sorry baby." He apologized still laughing.

"Akikiki." I looked at both of them in disgust continuing to get dress.

"Who Chris?" Shep asked.

"I don't know?" I questioned in confusion.

"How you got a nigga name Chris in your phone and don't know who he is?"

"I don't know."

"So you just be getting niggas numbers?"

"Why you doing so much? What does the message say so I can tell you who it is." I rolled my eyes putting on a shirt.

"Yesterday was lit, come through anytime." 

"Aye!" Jala yelled. "That's the new gang."

"Chris one of Laurie friends, I was with them yesterday."

"Oh that's why you ignoring all my calls?"

"Yes and no, we was so lit yesterday I had to get carried to the car." I laughed thinking about it. "So I forgot to call you back but I know I texted you telling you I was gon call you back."

"Nah, you didn't."

"I really did, see." I walked over to my phone going to our messages seeing I never sent it. "Oh damn but see I wasn't ignoring you."

"Aight but why you got his number if this Laurie friend? Fuck he need yo number for?"

"It was a bet between me and all the boys, if the Lakers won I had to give him my number."

"You told them you wasn't single?"

"Yessir, even watched ya highlights with them."

"Speaking of, I heard y'all got y'all asses spanked, clapped, whooped, blownout. You name it!" Jala yelled making me put my head down to laugh as Shep was just looking at her. 

"Jala." I called as she kept laughing.

"What was score? 92 to 71? Ahhh!" She yelled pointing in his face continuing to laugh.

"It's okay baby, fuck her." I laughed.

"I'm just saying y'all ain't never get blown out until Jay and I broke up." Jala laughed. "Y'all need me."

"Jala, get out." I told her as she walked out then opened the door to yell again finally leaving out. "Don't worry about her baby, what happened?"

"Man, them niggas was on some other shit. Nobody wanted to work together, Jay and Emmett fought in the locker room, Quan dumb ass got fouled out the game and Micah soft ass twisted his ankle. They was blowing my shit the whole game."

"Damn, I missed an exciting game." I said making him look at me blankly. "I'm sorry but y'all gon have to practice and redeem y'all self. This the worse y'all ever played."

"It is and I don't know bout them niggas but I'm going to the championship! I'm not leaving without a ring my senior year so niggas gotta figure out some shit."

"You the team captain, better start working them."

"I'm already on it." He shook his head as I stood up locking my door.

"Well we can't have the star player mad right?" I smirked unbuckling his jeans as he laughed laying back. 

"Nah, I'm extra mad." He laughed.

"We bout to fix that." I spoke getting on my knees.
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