𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝|𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝙹𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟸

A few weeks had passed by since Michael told Imani about his list. Currently they were at his house working on homework and he wanted to work on the first thing.

"Imani?" He asked and she hummed, letting him know she heard.

"Do you wanna start the list today?" She looked up at him and smiled lightly while closing her history book.

"Sure! What's your first thing on it?"

"Okay but you gotta promise me you won't laugh?"

"I can't make no promises, but I'll try." She answered.

He sucked his teeth. "Anyways, I wanna get into a fight."

There was a moment of silence before Imani put her hand over her mouth and started cracking up.

Michael furrowed his brows. "I don't see what's so funny-"

But he got he got cut off my Imani laughing even harder. "I'm sorry it's just-" She couldn't even finish.

He crossed his arms and raised a brow. "You done yet?"

She wiped a tear before shaking her head. "Yeah I'm done. I'm sorry it's just you're kinda, I don't know, scrawny I guess. I can't imagine you fighting."

He put his hand on his heart, offended. "I'm not scrawny."

"Whatever you say. Any who, who you tryna fight anyway?"

He thought for a minute. "Um...Omarion."

Imani cocked her neck back and looked Michael up and down. "What beef you got with him?"

The true reason Michael didn't like him was because he liked Imani, but he wasn't gonna tell her all that. "He owes me money from freshman year."

"Freshman year-" She started but Michael cut her off.

"That's not the point. You gonna support me or not?" He asked.

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah I guess. Just known I'll laugh if you get your ass beat."

***

The next day, Michael got ready for school. He tied the laces to his Black Air Forces, waiting for Imani to get here since they decided to walk to school together.

A few minutes later he heard a knock at his door. He went to open it and saw Imani standing on the other side with a yellow hoodie on. Despite it being mid September, it was 52 degrees outside.

"Not the black Air Forces." Was the first she said when she saw Michael.

"Shut up." Michael closed the door behind him and they made their way to school.

"So you ready to get yo ass beat?" Imani asked as they walked, the breeze lightly slapping them
in the face.

Michael turned around so he was facing Imani. "You really don't believe in me?"

"Um yes." She said like it was obvious.

He ran a hand over his mouth before chucking lightly. "Aight bet."

When they got to school, they both went their separate ways, planning to meet up at lunch time.

***

Imani sat in her in her 3rd period class staring at the clock. There was only 5 minutes left until lunch, but it felt as though the clock was going extra slow.

Finally, after what felt like forever, the bell rang. She grabbed her books and quickly walked out the room. When she got to her locker, she was met by Asia standing there scrolling through her phone.

"Damn why it take you so long? I've been standing here for like 5 minutes." Asia said while looking up from her phone.

"Girl my math teacher be tripping." She muttered while putting her books away. "But we can go know."

They made their way to the cafeteria, talking about nothing in particular. But when they reached the doors of the room, there was a group of kids blocking the way. They heard what sounded like two people arguing.

"What is going on? Can they move, cause I'm hungry as hell." Asia complained.

"I don't know." Imani muttered. She tried to stand on her tippy toes to see if she could see what was going on but it was no use. Everyone was taller than her.

Then out of nowhere, she heard a noise that sounded like someone getting punched in the jaw. The group of people ooohed loudly.

Imani's eyes widened as she looked around for Michael. When she found he was no where to be found, she finally figured out what was going on.

"Excuse me." She said while pushing people out the way so she could see. When she got to the front she gasped at the sight she saw.

Michael had Omarion pinned down to floor and was beating the mess out him. While Michael only had a scratch on his forehead, Omarion had a busted lip, black eye, and bruises all over his face and stomach.

"He must of really wanted that money." Imani thought to herself while watching the fight.

Eventually, two teachers pulled Michael off of him before he could seriously hurt him. Omarion scrambled into the arms of one the teachers while Michael just smiled cynically at his fear. They sent them away to what she assumed was the nurse.

"Okay y'all." Another teacher announced. "Nothing here to see anymore, go enjoy your lunch."

Everyone else made their way to the cafeteria, but Imani went the opposite way to the office so she could talk to Michael.

Imani pushed the door to the office opened and saw Michel sitting in one of chairs near the principal's office. He had a bag of ice for his wrist, but he looked pretty happy.

"Damn." Is all she said as she sat down next to him.

"Shouldn't have underestimated me." He chuckled while pressing the ice on his wrist harder.

"I guess." She muttered. "What did the principal say?"

He kissed his teeth loudly. "I got ISS for a week."

"As you should. You beat his ass bad. You must of really wanted that money."

He looked at her up and down before chuckling lightly. "Yeah, I guess you could say that."

A/N: This chapter wasn't totally trash ig🥴
-Mariama❤️