𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄
✩ 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞, 𝐞𝐩 𝟖
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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳ 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇, 𝐂𝐀
sᴀᴛᴜʀᴅᴀʏ, ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 𝟾ᴛʜ
𝟻:𝟶𝟶 ᴘᴍ

𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖

✰...𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐘 sat beside zaire on the carpeted steps of the skating rink with his long legs spread out in front of him, one leg straight out and keeping the other leg up to have it sway back and forth slowly. his arms were behind him with his elbows resting flatly on the carpet to keep his lean body hoisted up.

"connie's goofy ass ain't even got enough rhythm to keep up with miss doll face," zaire snorted whilst pointing at connie who wasn't matching your movements. yet connie was always the one that bragged that he was the better skater compared to rocky and zaire.

"and you got rhythm?" rocky looked at his friend who was slurping on his slushee. zaire cocked an eyebrow that rocky tried to doubt his skills. zaire whistled and shook his head as a chuckle began to escape his lips, his best friend really don't know how he can get down for real, "hell yeah i do! watch me," zaire placed his cup of slushee on the ground and rose his body off the ground to skate up to you and connie.

rocky watched zaire, like he was told to, and laughed at the way zaire sneakingly skated you away from connie without him noticing. zaire grinned over his shoulder and wiggled his eyebrows at rocky before looking back at you. his hands were up in the air without touching you as he skated right behind you, close enough to where you felt his crotch against your ass. doing all that, he then charismatically held your hand to spin you around him.

"this mothafucka," rocky whispered under his breath as he continued to watch zaire singing to you, your lips all pursed as you mugged him playfully with your eyes looking away from him. but that's when fun time was over for zaire when connie came skating full speed towards zaire to pull you away from his embrace.

rocky let out a holler, throwing his head back at the way zaire waved connie off and skated back to where rocky was seated. it took a minute for rocky to catch his breath once zaire plopped beside him on the ground, "getting mad at me and shit, his ass ain't even dancin' right! shawt' needs ah real mon tuh skate wid har!" zaire waved his finger in the air as his patios began rolling off his tongue, a few breathy chuckles getting in between his shouts.

the two began to hit each other shoulders the more they laughed, chuckling til they ran out of breath. finally, after many laughs later the two calmed down to silence, the only sound lingering was the music playing in the speakers.

zaire grabbed his bag of gummy worms that he bought and began tossing some into his mouth to eat, "she real deal fine man..." zaire sighed deeply, rocky catching a glimpse of zaire's eyes following you as you skated around the rink, dancing and skating so freely.

"uh huh, but this episode ain't about you. it's about me," rocky rolled his neck before resting it on his shoulder. he stuffed his fingers in zaire's bag of candy to grab 4 gummy worms, snickering at zaire's shouts, "you'll get yo' own episode later," he waved the gummy worm in the air before tossing it into his mouth.

as the two sat together to eat gummy worms and laughing at connie who continued to flip them off every time he skated by them, rocky and zaire could hear the sound of more people walking inside the building. rocky didn't bother looking back to see the group of people that walked in but as nosy as zaire was, he looked back for rocky.

"yo, shelby's here," zaire said lowly while pointing over his shoulder. rocky felt his eyes widened at the sound of shelby's name, it almost felt like zaire was saying her name in slow motion. rocky whipped his head back so fast he had to hold his fitted cap down to make sure it didn't fly off.

rocky licked his lips seeing shelby stroll past through the crowd, the lights flashing at her direction. her brown hand that was painted white with short squared nails, was hovering over her face to stop the light from blinding her as she walked. she walked with confidence and swag, a smile spreading across her face as she dapped up her friends that were in a circle at one table.

shelby was dressed down from head to toe, eyes from every where in the room lurking upon her. she didn't notice people eyeing her good looks though. rocky wasn't cool with all the eyes on her, by reason of him wanting only his eyeballs boring upon shelby and not anyone else's. she wore white, nike air maxes that boosted her height, standing at 5'2.

already looking tiny enough, she wore an oversized t shirt that had the r&b singing group 'tlc' graphically printed on it. the sleeve of her t shirt reaching down to her inner elbow and stopping there, leaving the creative tattoos decorating her right arm from her inner elbow down to her wrist. the brim of her denim shorts being seen underneath her baggy shirt.

rocky's favorite appearance of shelby's was her hair, her short, coiled hair that she big chopped two years ago. needless to say, her hair would grow over the years but she was so used to having short hair that she would trim it each time it got too long for her liking. not only did she keep it short for style, but she even dyed it platinum blonde.

"close your mouth and..." zaire was beginning to say but his words faded away when he watched rocky sprint onto his feet but cussing under his breathe immediately remembering that he still had his roller skates on, being the cause of him falling face front onto the carpeted floor with a loud thud echoing the room, "talk to her...nigga relax," zaire finished his sentence.

rocky laid low on the ground to hide his reddened face, knowing that shelby probably looked around the room to try and find where the loud thud came from. rocky swiftly sat up and untied the laces of his roller skates to kick them off, "shut up, i am relaxed!" rocky huffed, sucking his teeth hard to throw a mini tantrum over his skates not coming off.

zaire only shook his head at his friend that was being a whole mess. rocky fixed the clothes he had on, brushing off any imaginary dust to fix himself up. rocky fixed his hair underneath his fitted cap as he approached shelby with a walk of swagger, his hand pulling up the crotch of his pants as he slowly spun the cap on his head before swiping the tip of his nose with his thumb and licking his lips slowly.

"yo shelbae," rocky cleared his throat softly, towering behind shelby. she turned around to have her back facing the table of where her friends sat at. the smile she had on her face from kickin' it with her friends faded to a playful mug, her eyes rolling once she saw who was standing in front of her.

"mane, rocky whatchu want?" shelby sucked her teeth and waved her hand firmly out in front of her before slapping her thigh in annoyance. rocky bit his bottom lip, knowing that he boutta irritate the hell outta this girl.

shelby was someone that rocky knew since their sophomore year of high school. the two met roughly at a baseball game that jean was playing in. being the friend that connie was to jean, he obviously came to watch him and even forced zaire and rocky to come with him. the three didn't know zilch about baseball and still til this day have zero clue on how to play it or even understand it.

rocky, being the aggy 10th grader he was, decided to throw some popcorn at connie and zaire for payback since zaire threw some at him first. popcorn flying from the three until rocky accidentally knocked his popcorn off his lap and watching it land on shelby. the type of person shelby was, if you get her mad at any point just pray that you'd be breathing after she was done cussing you out.

zaire was the first to exchange some words with shelby since he already was familiar with shelby, them being in the same geometry class since freshman year. now for rocky and shelby? oh yeah words were DEFINITELY exchanged. it actually left shelby in shock. after all, rocky was the first to actually not bitch out and let shelby cuss him out.

rocky was still a baby player. he wasn't a pro like he is now on pulling ladies at all. he wasn't ugly but he wasn't good looking enough for females to have their jaw dropping to their ground with heart eyes booming out of their eyes.

braces with rubber bands that would randomly pop in his mouth because he was always shouting at zaire and connie. he was a boy with no patience and was always yelling at somebody but he's more chill and laidback now since momma latoya knocked some sense into him and gave him a pep talk about his lil anger issues and how he needed to control himself unless he wanted to get into shit he didn't need to be in. and so he listened.

he kept his wavy hair low, so low to the point where people were convinced that he might as well get a buzz cut like connie at this point. he was short and the women he was tryna holla at, only was interested in tall boys. his style? wack. his smooth talk? wack. his pick up lines? wack.

no girls wanted to be around him like that. especially with the already written reputation for being the 'snitched on yo daddy' kid. yeah...we'll get into that piece of information in another episode.

after the baseball game, the two started to become friends over time since zaire was still hanging around shelby. only person that still didn't know shelby all too well was connie. but junior year rolled around, rocky and shelby slowly began to fall off after rocky stopped coming to school for a period of time. stuff was going on at home and his hood that he still hasn't discussed with her other than zaire and connie.

that time off, he took some time to himself. and all that time was worth it. he came back to school for senior year, as a new rocky. longer, wavy hair. worked out to gain more muscles and abs on his lean body. a growth spurt making a difference of his old 5'5 self to his 6'1 new self.

he even got a couple tattoos, his large one on his chest. got his braces off, became even more street smart, worked better on his academics, worked less on corny pick up lines- never mind that's a lie. at least he got a change of style? he didn't really go for the most ladies at his school anyways. he usually shoots his shot to any girl he thinks that's fine on the street, the stores, and from other schools.

after all that, he found his way to being friends with shelby again and here they were a few months later. let's just say....they did a few things together but covered it all up with a 'we just friends' and a 'bruh ion like ha/him!'.

"sorry for wanting to holla!? where you been at, ion see you in the hallways no mo'," rocky cocked his head to the side, looking for her brown eyes to stare into. shelby turned her head to grab the bag of popcorn from her friend, telling her other friends that she'll be back.

"cause i'm hiding from yo' hoe ass. don't you got tyra to keep you company," shelby tossed the popcorn into her mouth before hitting her shoulder against rocky's arm to brush past him. rocky spun around on his heel while whispering 'ouch' under his breath. he jogged up to shelby and grabbed the side of her shirt to pull her back.

"man, i ain't worried about tyra! she's just nobody," rocky dismissed her with a wave of his hand as if tyra was old news to him. shelby side eyed the man who was puffing his chest out beside her, shaking her head that rocky was just all talk.

"mhm. where are your shoes? your feet reeks," shelby waved her hand swiftly in front of her nose, jokingly scrunching up her nose. rocky's feet didn't stink and he knew that, this man don't play about his hygiene whatsoever.

"they're with zaire," rocky pointed at zaire's lonely self, eating his gummy worms. shelby giggled at the gummy worm that fell out of zaire's hand, laughing even more when zaire pouted. shelby hollered something to him, causing zaire to whip his head around to look at the two to flip them off with both of his middle fingers.

shelby started to walk away from rocky but of course, he skipped behind her, "you're running away cause you can't resist me right?" a childlike grin appeared on rocky's face, his cheeks looking all chubby and his dimple appearing the more he smile.

shelby was walking backwards now, blinking at rocky who just wouldn't stop smiling at her. it took everything in her to not feel those butterflies fluttering not in her stomach...but her pum pum from how cute he looked, "no..i'm running away cause i can resist you," she ended up saying, with a mischievous smirk on her face at the sudden, dramatic gasp that came from rocky.

shelby snorts to herself, hopping deliberately to the benches to take her seat. rocky still eager to talk to her, sat right beside her without a slight of hesitation to slide closer to her to the point where their knees touched. shelby pretended to not see rocky almost breathing down her neck from how close he was, rocky had a dazed smile on his face with his eyes batting in admiration- man was he whipped.

"mothafu- move!" she sucked her teeth and palmed his face to push it away from her. rocky poked his inner cheek and slowly turned his head away all dramatic like. rocky pursed his lips as he stayed quiet, waiting for the time he thinks it would be perfect to seriously talk to her.

"so..." he started, twiddling his fingers together without looking up from his hand to look at shelby, "all seriousness though, i do miss seeing you in the halls and stuff," he was sounding like a child that was too scared to admit something.

shelby wiped the crust off her fingers on her shirt and licked the corner of her lips, staring at the way rocky gently clenched his sharp jaw after he was done speaking, "oh really? or do you just miss these lips rocky," she rolled her tongue against her teeth, a sucking sound coming from that.

"don't ask that bullshit when you already know the answer girl," a high pitched voice came from the back of rocky's throat as a smile came across his face again. now that shelby was more closer to rocky, she could see something shine in his teeth in the light, like some type of tooth jewelry. squinting her eyes more to see it more clearly, the corner of her lips curving into a small smile.

"bro, you got them grills didn't you!" she almost squealed from the sight of it. rocky smiled at the way shelby noticed them, one thing that made him happy for real. after telling shelby how he got them and his momma not finding out about it, shelby leaned closer to him to gently grasp his chin so she can see them closely.

shelby had to tell rocky to keep his tongue on the top of his mouth since he kept purposely stick it out to annoy her. his grills were on his bottoms, the sparkly and silver jewelry was shining in the ceiling lights that would flash at the two. shelby would turn his head slowly to the side to get better views of the sparkles showing.

still eyeing his grills closely, she let go of his chin to rest her hand on her lap. watching him lick his pink, soft lips that looked quiet suckable to kiss- "mm!" rocky leaned his puckered lips closer to attempt to give shelby a kiss on the lips once he noticed she was spaced out. but out of reflex, she pushed his head away making him lose his balance off the bench.

"yo, i know you ain't just shove my pretty face like that!" rocky rubbed the side of his face while gawking at shelby in disbelief. shelby, on the other hand, couldn't even sit straight on the bench from how hard she was laughing. had to take a couple breathes to cool down.

shelby covered her mouth with her hand, her laughs muffling against her palm as tears began to form in the corner of her eyes. rocky slowly rose from the ground and snatched her bag of popcorn, puckering his lips when some popcorn flew in the air and even landing on shelby's lap and the ground. now her smile immediately faded to a straight face, completely fed up.

"bitch!" shelby extended her hand out to grab rocky by his baggy jersey he was wearing but failed since he already jumped back to avoid her snags. rocky ended up pleading her to chill out, a bunch of sorries being in the mix as the two ran around, circling the bench that was in the middle of them. shelby ended up giving up and not caring for the popcorn anymore and sat on the bench with her arms crossed, part of her lowkey upset since the popcorn was hella good.

"uh..i can buy you a blue raspberry slushee?" rocky whispered to her, slowly placing the bag of popcorn on her lap. she snatched the bag of popcorn from his hand and poked her bottom lip out. a slushee sounded good..so saying yes would've been a good idea since she'd also be getting free food! but just when she was soon to answer, muffle shouts came from the closed entrance doors.

the muffled shouts became clear when the doors swung open, "IS ROCKENZLY IN HERE?" a voice that clearly belonged to a woman that rocky knew of, made him slooooowly crane his neck not only at the loud shouting that caused commotion but he had to furrow his eyebrows cause first of all, who did the person think they was for was screaming out his first name like that?

"aight, who the fuck is saying my government! cause i'll get crazy in this bitch real quick!" rocky sprinted up from his seat and spread his arms apart to make him stand like uppercase letter t, he turned on his feet as he kept that same arm position. mumbles of people saying 'who' and 'what kinda name is rockenzly' began to swim around the crowds.

rocky fully turned his body around and yelped seeing tyra stomping up to him. of course, the only girl he told his full name to was here to yap. shelby clicked her tongue and crossed one leg over her other, her lips forming a firm line already knowing that this was gonna be awkward.

rocky let out a deep exhale seeing tyra and covered his eyes with his hand as if a major headache was beginning to pound against his forehead. tyra gently tugged rocky by his jersey to pull him down to her height level, "rocky, its tyra!"

"baby, i know. hide them titties though," rocky slowly moved his hand away from his eyes to zip up her jacket that was revealing a bit too much for the public, "what'd i tell you about saying my full name in public like that? i can't have people knowin' that my moms named me rockenzly girl!"

"i'm sorry," tyra kept her hands clenched on his shirt, her head slowly turning to look at shelby, "this your friend?" she kept her eyes fixated on shelby who wasn't even bothering to look back at tyra. rocky muffled a 'mhm' while looking at shelby with tyra. his eyes swiftly shifted to look at tyra when she turned her head back around to look at rocky again.

"whatchu you here for ty?" rocky drawled. tyra wasn't exactly a buzzkill, i mean rocky did like being around her when it came to hang outs and sex but she was just like the other girls rocky use to mess with. only difference between tyra and the others was that tyra actually stuck with rocky for the longest...and was the first to meet momma latoya.

"i gotta tell you something. can we like, talk in private?" she said through her gritted teeth, nodding her head at shelby's direction to indicate that shelby needed to like...leave. once shelby heard, private, she was already up on her feet and crumbling the empty bag of popcorn.

"don't worry 'bout me. i'll leave you and tyra banks to discuss y'all business. deuces though," shelby stuck up a peace sign without even looking at rocky. rocky watched her walk to where zaire was still seated, looking at his cell phone, to sit beside him.

rocky motioned for tyra to sit on the bench so they could talk. the two sat in silence for a bit, rocky growing worried from how long it was taking tyra to just say what was on her mind already. she took a deep, deep breath and unzipped her purse to fish her hand into.

"rocky..." her voice cracked a bit, feeling it all dry and in need of some liquid. the nervousness building up her throat of wanting to say it, "i uh, i think i'm-"

✩ 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 ✩