ZOEY AKILA bennet !
sugarhill, zoey's crib
featuring; @itszoeyb .

"AND BAM SHE she got hit by a big ass truck!" zoey animatedly recounted a story to ddot, running her hand through his curls as she spoke. ddot was taken aback by the sudden outburst of profanity and hit her thigh softly while saying "zoey, don't curse." zoey however, seemed unfazed by ddot's comment and continued her story.

zoey and ddot lay in soey's bed, and zoey began to tell a story she had heard from an unknown source. it was scary to say the least on how easily zoey was to take ddot's mind off everything else.

"omg—omg! you know what we should do?" zoey questions enthusiastically, clapping her hands. ddot frowns when he feels her hands leave his hair but he hums anyway.

zoey's face lit up with excitement as and exclaimed, "we should make a scrapbook together! it'd be so cuteee. especially when your my friend now." she hugs his neck and ddot couldn't handle the smile making onto his pink lips.

ddot was taken aback by the sudden suggestion, but he couldn't find it in himself to hate it or say no. he's never met someone who cherished a friendship like zoey did, and it made him feel weird.

but not in the weird weird, like the other kind.

as zoey continued to gush about the scrapbook, ddot couldn't help but smile so hard at her voice. he was so used to always being mean to everyone—mugging anybody on sight, so he isn't use to being so soft around zoey.

he hadn't even realized zoey had gotten up, holding a notebook in her hand with a box of what contained essentials for the scrapbook.

zoey set the stuff down on the bed, crossing her legs together. she looked up to ddot, "we need to take photos so we could put them in the book."

ddot nods like it was obvious. zoey groaned though since they didn't have any photos together. she was gonna give up on the idea of the scrapbook before she remembered that her dad had a polaroid camera.

zoey clapped her hands before placing them back on her lap. "my dad has this polaroid camera since he's so oldddd, but they might work as of now so imma be right back!"

zoey went downstairs retrieve polaroid camera that she had remembered her dad left in the cabinet from her first day of school photos, and she jogged back upstairs when she finally found it.

ddot was still in the same position where he was before, sittting with his back hunched on the bed—hands in his face. "i got the camera!" zoey says enthusiastically.

despite his initial reservations, ddot was a little excited about the prospect of creating a scrapbook with zoey. he could already picture the two of them sitting together, cutting out pictures and pasting them into the book while he listens to zoey's rambles.

"okay so sit up because we're gonna take a lot of pictures and you might want to stop so just tell me when to, okay?" zoey warned him. ddot wanted to smile so bad right now because of her words, they were the simplest things but zoey never failed to let him feel like that.

zoey maneuvered her postion herself next to ddot and began flashing the camera so fast ddot couldn't even tell when she started taking photos.

zoey smiled in all of them, forcing ddot to do the same. ddot in his mind was secretly enjoying it but he was never gonna let her think that.

when soey finished taking the photos, she let out a squeal of excitement and hugged ddot tightly. ddot was caught off guard and had to quickly wrap his arm around her to keep them both from falling off the bed.

zoey pulled her hands over his head to look at the polaroid pictures, "omg these are so cute, we look so good dot!"

"mhm." ddot hums—breathlessly because he was basically sitter into her chest right now.

zoey picks erself up from the ddot and sits down cross-legged with the scrapbook in her lap. she reaches for the notebook and opens it up carefully, she then grabs the glue stick from one of the boxes that held most of the materials she needed for the scrapbook.

the box was filled with colorful paper, stickers, and other crafting supplies that zoey had taken for the book. the box was filled with colorful paper, stickers, and other crafting supplies that zoey had brought along for it.

she carefully uncaps the glue stick and starts to apply it to the back of one of the pictures, making sure to get it in all the right places. ddot watches her work, impressed by how focused she is.

he puts a hand under his chin, smiling at the girl. "you so corny zo."

zoey grinned, handing ddot the glue stick. "i think it's cute, like i've never made a scrap book before and now i making one with you. and i'm like omg this is so fun." she rambled and ddot honestly finds it cute now, her ramblings are amusing to listen to now.

ddot watched as zoey wrote a small caption under the polaroid photo she just glued on it, ' dot dot,' is what she labeled it at with a small heart, coloring in pink marker.

ddot was biting his lip to suppress the grin that was making its way onto his face but at this point he couldn't even control it anymore, "you wanna sign it?" zoey asked the boy when she finished writing.

ddot shrugged, picking up the pen she was offering him. "what am i supposed to write?" he asked, zoey shrugged. "anything you want." and he did exactly that, he labeled it as oy under while zoey just smiled, happy to be there.

the cycle went on for a couple minutes, taking pictures with zoey glueing on the photos into the notebook then writting a a small caption at the bottom of it. ddot randomly thought of something, "shouldn't we write the date?" zoey's face lit up at the suggestion, and she quickly agreed.

9/22

"ddot." zoey said his name, closing the notebook the tone of her voice was more serious than he had ever heard from her, and it made him furrow his eyebrows in confusion, "zoey."

zoey held a serious face before dropping it and jumping up to hug ddot. "your so prettyyyy. like your hair is so cute and curly—and your eyes are so woah." she pulls his head back to look at his face.

ddot holds onto her waist softly since she was basically on his lap now. he furrowed his eyebrows, "that's what you wanted ta say?"

zoey pouts her lips and nods. "your just so pretty. you know that?"

ddot smiled, feeling his cheeks flush with warmth. "thank you ma." he said, feeling grateful for her kind words. he didn't wanna say anything but he wanted to say she was pretty so bad, but he didn't want it too come off weird.

"you're pretty too," he said, looking at her with a smile. zoey beamed at him, and ddot felt his heart skip a beat. "am i? your so sweet sometimes—not that you aren't sweet. you just always look mean but like i'm not saying it's a bad thing, your actually such a sweetheart."

ddot kisses his teeth, rolling his head back. "don't call me that corny shit. makin me sound cheesy."

zoey gaped at his words, "but there not?? you are like one of my favorite friends now. did i fel you—omg! did i tell you i made a new friend earlier?"

ddot rolled his head back to look at her, holding direct eye contact. "oh word? that's her name." zoey pursed her lips before opening them. "it's actually a boy, and he's super sweet just like you. omg—you guys should meet! i feel like you and cay would be great friends."

ddot scrunched up his face subconsciously. honestly it was weird on how he had gotten so used to being with zoey now, so that even hearing she was interacting with anybody new, it made him feel queasy.

but zoey didn't even catch on onto ddot's facial expressions until he broke up her rambling. "ya know not everybody is ya friend zoey.. ya know that?" he reminds her.

zoey furrows her eyebrows with a small frown. "what? am i not interesting enough? i have him like a lot of compliments too—not like i didn't mean them or did them just to like say them because i said them out of the kindness of my heart, you know?"

ddot felt a sour mood from the way zoey was talking about caleb, even the name pissed him off now and he never even met him. but he swore he had heart the name caleb before, from somewhere or someone but he couldn't pinpoint it.

"nigga ion give a fuck," he told her with a bland expression planted on his face causing zoey to stop talking for a second, look at him, just to go right back into her talking.

ddot looks at her like she's crazy because she really was unfazed by any of his comments. he ended up giving into her talkin and just listened to her talk, adding his little two cents about caleb.

and at this point ddot had forgotten the whole reason he was here anyways, it was like magic on how fast zoey was able to make ddor forget about his worries. even though he didn't notice it zoey was helping him heal, even if it by talking a whole lot of nonsense .

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IT WAS A couple days after ddot and zoey had made there scrapbook together and ddot was basically glued to zoey's side. he didn't mean to be so clingy, but he couldn't help it. wherever zoey went, ddot followed.

even if it had met listening to her talk about nothing turning into everything, he'd grown to her talking .

being with zoey made him feel like he was in a fever dream, it was a strange feeling, but not in a bad way. it was like they had known each other for years, and ddot felt grateful to have someone who would take him mind off his thoughts. but, he couldn't help but feel like he was being annoying. he didn't want zoey to feel like he was smothering her, but he also didn't want to be apart from her. it was a strange feeling, and ddot didn't know how to deal with it. he tried to give zoey some space, but he found himself following her wherever she went. he just didn't want to lose her.

zoey was just now leaving her last period class from school, waiting for marie and jahzara so they could walk to marie's apartment. it was something they did sometimes, at-least one of them didn't go to their own house.

zoey had her airpods in listening to, while we're young, while she scrolled on her instagram feed. it took her a while to realize someone was calling her name before they tapped on her shoulder causing her to jump.

zoey turned around to see caleb standing there with his hands stuffed in his jeans pocket. zoey paused her music and waved at him. "ma bad i ain't mean to scare you like that." he apologized.

zoey waved him off, "it's okay. i get scared easily so it isn't really like shocking—sorry what did you need?"

caleb licked his lips, looking around. "so like this like my new weeks round here so you wanna go somewhere wit me? like bowling or something?"

caleb and zoey are what zoey what call them friends. they talked time to time during classes or passing period—zoey thought the boy was interesting and really nice to be friends with so why not?

zoey smiled really hard. "sure! when like today?" caleb nodded while zoey frowned a little since she would be busy today. "i'm gonna be with my friends today, but maybe on the weekend!"

zoey was a little bummed about the fact she would be missing a good opportunity to make a friend but she was never gonna out anybody over her friends, unless she was free.

caleb shrugged. "it's aight, you want my number tho? so you can text me when you free, or when there's a change of plans." zoey nodded, handing caleb her phone while he does the same.

they both put in their contact info before switching back. caleb nodded, swiftly slipping his phone back into his pocket. "okay i'll see you round zo."

zoey nodded and waved goodbye, unknowingly to her both jahzara and marie had saw the whole interaction and of course with jahzara's crazy ass she recorded it.   

"omg my bae really got a niggas number!" marie swung on her, hugging her so tight that zoey almost got a whiplash. zoey was a bit taken aback by marie's reaction, she didn't even get time to process anything that was happening.

"what?" zoey obviously asked—she didn't even know what was happening right now.

marie pulled away and put both of her hands on zoey's shoulders. "you are totally goin out with him tonight, you know i'll even get my sister to do your makeup—omg maybe i can get her to lend you one of her cute dresses." she started to ramble judt like zoey.

zoey grinned because marie really was her mini me.

jahzara rolled in, replaying the scene she had recorders on her phone with her the biggest smile, zoey had immediately perked up when she heard the sound of her voice.

zoey's jaw dropped when she caught a view of what jahzara was looking at. "jah! what the hell." jahzara looked up, grinning at her. "do you wanna see?"

zoey hesitated for a moment, but then she nodded and looked at the video jahzara had recorded.

zoey's eyes widened, "y'all are crazy."

jahzara didn't even seem to be fazed by what zoey had told her, she let out a loud whoop. jahzara hugged zoey so tightly that zoey swore she heard her bones almost crack.

both marie and jahzara dragged her to marie's apartment with the goal of getting zoey to go out with caleb tonight. they didn't care if it was in a platonic way or romantic—they were just happy zoey was making the friend she wanted to so bad.

"maeve! get the fuck outta your room and come be useful for once!" marie banged on her sisters door until the older for out of it. maeve was a striking figure, standing tall with a commanding presence. her dark skin was smooth and radiant, and her long hair was styled in a beautiful lace front wig that complemented her features. she wore big black glasses and despite being a college student since the age of 19, she still lived with her sister.

"marie if you don't stop banging on my fucking door." maeve shoved marie out the way to sit on the couch, her eyes immediately averted to the tv.

marie rolled her eyes, "nigga get up! you need to help with zoey's makeup." marie held zoey's hand like zoey was her child—zoey only smiled and waved brightly at the older girl.

"aww hi zoey. and no ree, i said i was only doing makeovers for serious occasions, not fa fun dumbass." maeve's tone switched really quickly—something marie also did.

marie smacked her lips. "but she has a date!" she lied straight out of her teeth causing both zoey and jahzara to snap their necks back at her. maeve raised a eyebrow. "oh? well ion care. go find someone else to do it."

maeve got up from her seat to to back into her room. but marie still held a smug smile on her face knowing that whenever maeve said that, she was totally gonna do it.

it didn't take long before maeve came out of her room with her bag of makeup and marie clapped her hands enthusiastically, "now that's what i'm talking about."

zoey went through a lot with this makeup thing. it was rare that maeve die her makeup but when she did it was a long process. zoey was debating on either falling asleep in the chair with the amount of time it took.

zoey decided to put in her airpods in again but winced when she felt jahzara pull on her hair. "ow! jah whyyy." zoey was tender headed while jahzara really didn't care. even if her hair was gonna turn out looking good it hurts.

zoey decided to text caleb that she is gonna be able to go out with him tonight. when she finished zoey's smile became brighter when she realized who was calling her—ddot.

she answered pretty quickly, settting up the phone in her hands to the point you couldn't she her getting both her makeup and hair done. ddot popped up on her screen and zoey smiled so hard when she saw his face.

it was obvious he was high, since he was taking a hit of while zoey waved with a big smile on her face. "what's up?" she asked like ddot was calling her for something. which made ddor scrunch his face up, "niggas can't call you now?"

zoey frowned, "no that's not what i meant dot. like—you know what i meant." she rolled her eyes playfully. ddot kisses his teeth, planning on saying something about her attitude but realized she was getting ready for something.

he brushed it off though. "anyways lemme know when you can come over tonight to tutor me."

zoey's smile dropped before it came back even wider than before. "i can't tonight but maybe to more!" ddot scrunched his face up at this, this was the first time she was too busy for him.

"why?"

"actually you remember my friend caleb i made a couple days ago?" ddot rolled his eyes at the name but nodded nonetheless.

"well i'm going out with him tonight cause we're friends! i can send you the photos if we take any!" zoey said with a wide smile.

obviously she couldn't tell the mug that was planted on ddot's face like it was glued onto it. for some reason it felt like zoey was ignoring him or even lying to him—but it was just because he became way too attached to the girl.

"what nigga? so you leavin me for a random nigga you met? zoey ya know if you don't tutor me i'll fail." he tries to convince her to change her mind and tutor him instead of going out with caleb.

"zoey you done."

"yeah i'm done too." both jahzara and maeve tell her causing her to lift from marie's vanity chair. her ass was literally sweating. marie just finished laying out everything and got up from her carpeted floor, "i'm done too."

zoey nodded, looking back at ddot who held a mug on his face. "dot imma be gone so maybe we can call later?" ddot doesn't even answer her he only hangs up causing zoey to have a small frown planted on her face.

she didn't know if she did something wrong—or if she said something wrong, if she said something that must have set him of. zoey didn't even realize that she was frowning that hard before marie pointed it out. "zo why you look so sad?"

zoey shook her head—a smile making its way back onto her face, she could worry about ddot later. she cleared her throat, "it's nothing. but let me try put the clothes on."

marie gave a satisfied nod, her grin widening as she handed zoey the clothes she had picked out. zoey eagerly took the bundle, her eyes lighting up as she unfolded the sleek black outfit. the flared jeans, and the black top was form-fitting yet comfortable. she slipped on the pink boots, admiring how they added of color to the otherwise monochromatic ensemble. the pink beanie was the perfect finishing touch, and zoey was so happy she had a friend like marie and jah.

"bitch! let's take photos, we need photos." jahzara called out like she was zoey's father—zoey rolled her eyes but walked back to her best friend anyway.

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DDOT STARED AT his phone, debating on texting zoey one more time but in the back of his mind he was being way too clingy. notti snickered at how much his bestfriend was looking at the phone, "nigga if you don't stop."

ddot sucked his teeth. "mmcht. shut the fuck up."

dd and notti looked at eachother so fast before laughing harder together. "not this nigga goin throw 6 stages of grief." notti stopped laughing—ddot also pausing to look at dd.

"it's 5 dumbass nigga, do you go to school?" ddot gave him attitude just because he was in a prissy mood. it wasn't often that ddot agreed to hang out with anyone anymore, after school he mainly goes home to sleep or smoke his day away.

ddot tunes the brothers out as he gets back on his phone—he decided to just go back to him and zoey's messages. he stared at the thread for a long time before he remembered—zoey shared her location with him.

ddot shakes his head, putting his phone down on his lap. he sounds and feels crazy. obsessive even .

although he knew it was not a big deal, he couldn't help himself from checking her location again. he clicked on the message and saw that she was at frames bowling lounge, just like she said. ddot frowned at that, realizing that she was telling the truth.

he inhaled deeply before slipping his phone into his jeans pocket and standing up, causing both dd and notti to look at him with confusion. "where ya bum ass goin?" dd asked with his eyebrows furrowed.

ddot hesitated for a moment before responding. "imma be out" he didn't want to reveal that he was going to to see her. he knew that it was a bad idea, but he couldn't help himself.

dd and notti looked at eachother before looking back at ddot, "out?" they both said in unison causing ddot to deadpan them. "yes out nigga. why y'all all up on my dick?"

dd let out a heavy sigh. "nigga we know you never go 'out' unless you goin to school which is rare. so just tell us where you goin, we wanna go out too."

ddot sucked in his teeth. he didn't wanna tell them where he was going because he knew he was just gonna get clowned but their wasn't anything that was stopping him so.

"imma go see where zoey at."

notti jerked his head back. "zoey? as in zoey bennet? as in zoey kaila bennet?" dd laughed at the way notti said her whole government while ddot just mugs him. "how the fuck you know ha government?"

notti rollled his eyes knowing that ddot was just mad so any little thing he didn't like was gonna tick him off. dd also stood up from his seat, pulling notti along with him and wrapped his arm around his shoulder.

"we comin with you. so cmon—let's get a move along na." he pushed ddot.

the boys walked out of the door and made their way to the bowling alley that they were all f ai lair with—it was the closet and cleanest bowling alley around the neighborhood .

ddot couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. as he walked, he tried to convince himself that he was just being paranoid. but the thing was that he was way to used to being with zoey, that's why he was acting like she couldn't have any other friends.

he knew that it was unfair and possessive to feel that way, but he couldn't help it. zoey was someone that he had grown to be fond of, and the thought of losing her to someone else made him anxious.

it wasn't like he was saying he couldn't have any other friends since he knew how extroverted the girl was. but when ddot got comfortable around a person, it was hard to let go.

as he walked, he tried to push away those negative thoughts and focus on the present. behind him while he was walking was just dd and notti making fun of him quietly, "nigga actin like zoey don't got any other friends." notti mumbled causing dd to let out a loud laugh.

ddor could only roll his eyes as he opened the door to the bowling place. the sound of people made him cringe—he was already regret coming to this place but it wasn't like anybody forced him to come.

it was his mind that was convincing him that zoey was just ignoring him. but there was obvious evidence that she wasn't and he was honestly just being, insecure.

ddot walked around the bowling alley with his eyes averting at every girl who he might think looked like zoey but he always rolled his eyes when he noticed they were never the talkative girl.

ddot passed by a lot of places with dd and notti dragged along behind him. dd was physically trying to hold in his laugh because ddot looks like a mother looking for their child who sneaked out without permission.

while notti had his whole jaw dropped with his eyes winded, he wouldn't in a million years see ddot go this far for a girl.

ddot heard the sound of zoey's chirpy voice which caused him to look back at the bowling alley he had just passed, "who the fuck is that nigga?" ddot scrunched his face up when he saw a boy standing real close to zoey.

like his arm wrapped around her shoulder close.

ddot eyes travel down on zoey's figure, seeing she was a little bit dressed up with her hair straightened — that was the first time ddot had seen her hair straightened.

but at this point he wasn't even staring at zoey anymore—more of the boy standing next to her. ddot had swore he'd seen him from somewhere but he couldn't tell since he was facing the other way.

dd squinted his eyes at the two, ddot was debating in speaking up about the two but he just didn't care at this point. "haven't hall seen this nigga from somewhere? he looks mad familiar."

dd hums. "i was jus gon say that cause why the fuck he look so..weird,"

notti on the other hand had an idea on who it was but didn't wanna say it—he wasn't 100% sure he was right and one thing about notti was that he was always gonna have stuff to back up his thoughts.

"nigga where the fuck you goin—" dd breaks his neck when he saw ddot walk away from the little corner they were standing in and walk over to zoey.

ddot was trying to act like he didn't even know zoey was here so he touched some things around to look natural. "ddot!" zoey's soft voice called causing ddot to turn around—nodding his head at her like he wasn't missing her.

"what are you doing hereee?" zoey smiled before embracing ddot in a hug. "nothin." he hums, slightly pulling away from the hug which caused zoey to frown.

"you wanna hang out with me in caleb? you guys could be friends like i told you too—" "no." ddot cut her sentence, mugging caleb who just looked at him with a confused face, ddot was so irritated he hadn't even realize that zoey was trying to include him but instead he just pushed her away.

like he wasn't the one looking for her.

zoey breathed in, deciding to just ignore his other words and smiling at him. "you sure? i brought our camera so i could put some things in our scapbook—" "you but our camera to take photos of you and him to put in our scrapbook? i'm cool off you zoey."

"i'm sorry—"

"i don't care."

F SPEAKS 🧔🏾‍♀️

NOTE— this was supposed to come out yesterday but i feel asleep since i was up at 1 😭😭 now it's 10 pm and i finally decided to write the rest 😒. sorry he still don't like ha !! anyways fia loves you thank ya for 1k again 💗💗.