BESTFRIENDS

Hurt Me

Because I just love Luke James and his voice, I just had to share this song. It touch me emotionally every time I hear it. And it somewhat goes along with somethings taken place in this chapter. Thanks for all the love because my story wouldn't have gotten this far without y'all support.
Enjoy!

James P.O.V

Because my mother and Raheem were still in D.C watching over my father, Sister Hamilton watched after us. That only meant I got away with things like ditching school. Cutie normally picked me up but he was running late today. He has been telling me that I need to go to school but I know he not really leaving me here. I glanced down at my phone hoping he would hurry because after a certain time the admistrators made sure that everyone lounging out in front of the school after the bell rung, was inside. I looked back as the principal was directing students to come on in. "Come on." I said looking back and forth. "Where is he." Austin asked. "You think I'd be standing here waiting if I knew. Come on now." I said stating the obvious. I tried calling him again but it went straight to voicemail. "Aye there go Frankenstein." Austin yelled and ran off to the car. His ass fell and I laughed. Thats what he get. I followed quickly so the principal wouldn't see and I got in on the backseat. "Where Cutie." I asked Frankie. "He sleep." "What." That was a total shock. He never forgot to come and get me. "Let me kiss yo boo boo." "No." Austin said rubbing his scarred knee. I unbukled my seat belt and got out once we pulled up on the street since Cutie mama car stayed in the small driveway. Frankie and Austin nasty ass couldn't keep their hands off of each other on the way in the house. I brushed pass them and told them to move but they werent listening to me. I slowly opened the door to Cutie room and peaked my head in. His mouth was wide open and he was snoring so loud. I wasn't gone wake him so I layed next to him and watched a little TV until he finally stretched over on me and groaned. He scrinched his eyes up at me and I mocked him. "Whats up." He yawned. "How you gone forget to come and get me." I asked. "I didnt." He swore up and down. "Yes you did. Yo butt been sleep this entire time." "Well my bad. It slipped my mind." "I see." "Dont act like that. You needed to go to school anyway. How you expect to pass when you spending more time with me." "You want me to stop coming over." I sat up and asked. "No..I'm just saying, I wanna see you succeed." "Okay I'll go." I said getting up and walking out of his room. I felt like he didn't want me over, for I don't know what particular reason. I bust through Frankie room and demanded that he drop me back off at school. "What why." He asked as he hid his and Austin naked body over the cover. They ass need help. "Ugh. Can you knock." Austin asked while rolling his neck. "Shutup, this not your house." I told him and he kept quiet. "Are you gone take me or not." I asked resting my head on the door. "Give us a minute." "No you ain't gotta do that." Cutie said pulling me back to his room. "What you doing. You want me to leave, right." I asked as I pulled away. "Mane its too early for all that. I never said I didn't want you here." He said rubbing his eyes. "Then what were you saying because thats what I got from it." "Im saying you gotta go to school and pass, regardless of all them punks messing with you. As long as they don't touch you. You good." He said that like he really knew what I had to go through. I try my best to ignore it all but I can't take it no more. I hate that place. "I told you already, I can't." "If I gotta drag you in that damn school, I will. You ain't learning shit here, so you can't keep doing this." "Just say you don't want me here." I cried out. I didn't wanna go back and even though I needed my education, I didn't belong there. Cutie layed back in the bed and put his hands behind his head and ignored me so I left out and as I made it to open the door I felt his hand touching my elbow. "Im not trying to make you feel like I don't want you here because I do. But you gotta go to school and stop being afraid. I dropped out of highschool because of some foolishness and I dont want that to be you." "For what." I asked. "For what. What?" "Why you drop out."

"I was always being reckless." "And define reckless." I folded my arms really wanting him to get to the point. "I was fighting, running off at the mouth to all my teachers, and being a straight up ass." That sounded so much like Raheem. That's never good. "If I could, I would change it all for the better." "Okay. I guess I'll go tomorrow." I lied. "Alright good. You ate." He asked as he slammed the door shut and we walked to the kitchen. "No." I said as he reached for something out the cabinet and the pots and pans all came crashing down. "Damn." He yelled as he tried to grab it all. I stood and laughed as the clanging sound slowly ceased. "Aw you think this funny." He picked me up and we fell onto his mattress. "Get off of me." I tried squirming my body from under him. "Make me get off of you." He got closer and before he attempted to kiss me some one was knocking on the door. "Go away." He whined. "I guess you don't want this money I owe you then." Some guy yelled from outside the door. "Alright I'm coming." He pecked my cheek and hopped up. I stood from the mattress as he opened the door. "Bout time, nigga. Yo ass owe me extra now." "I got you." The boy said while inviting his self in and to the snacks in the kitchen. I watched his every move as he walked to the kitchen. Are him and all his friends fine? "Better yet, let's go hit this." The boy said holding something to Cutie's nose. I didn't know what it was. I know his ass not sniffing. He can't be serious. "What is that." I asked turning his hand my way. "My medication. My doctor prescribed it." He said sliding his tongue down the cigar and putting it to his mouth. "Yo doctor then prescribe that. Stop lying." I punched him and he act like I really hurt him. "You didn't even hit that dude that was about jump on you that hard." "Dont go there." I said pointing in his face. "You know I'm playing." He said kissing my hand. "Um...Who is this." The guy coughed and asked. "This my boo James." He said pulling the side of my clothes to kiss my cheek. "Boo, what happened to..." "Bruh." Cutie said over him before he got to finish. "Aw I got you." The boy replied. I wonder what that was all about. "You gone be good in here. We going to smoke this outside." How could he leave me in here by myself. If I knew I was getting this type of treatment from him, I might as well went to school. "I guess." I shrugged. "Alright James and I'm low key by the way." The dude put out his fist and I looked at him awkwardly. Cutie shook his head and told him to come on. I went to the kitchen and looked in his mini fridge. It was stocked with food. I took out the mini Chicken biscuit by Jimmy Dean and placed it in the oven. All I heard was laughing coming from outside. I hope it's really funny. I sat on the floor in front of the fridge that was across from the stove and sulked. I don't even have the courage to tell him that him being out there with another dude was really a problem for me. I know that's his friend and all, but what am I really here for if he not gone be by my side. Since I didn't have anything important to do I watched my food cook. "Why you on the floor." Austin snuck up on me and asked. "Leave me alone, dang." "Okay but I need something out the refrigerator." I got up and slid it open for him. He grabbed the orange juice and drunk it right out the jug like this was his house. "How you know I wasn't gone pour me a glass and you putting your nasty mouth on there." "I ain't got none." He said like that defended his case. He probably been licking all over Frankie. He get on my nerves. I'm tired of him following me around. He need to go home or any where else where I'm not present. "Where Cutie." He asked when I clearly just said leave me alone and if I could hear them laughing from out the door then I know he could. "Outside." I sighed. After ten minutes, I took my food out and grabbed the jelly from the fridge. I picked up my sandwich to take a bite and Cutie was eating my second one. I wasn't gone make a big deal out of it because I wasn't gone eat them both and then again this was really his food. "I thought y'all was smoking." "That nigga took the first hit and dropped the shit in the bush before I got to even hit it. Now he searching for it." He pointed back and I laughed as I watched him through the window roughly breaking stems. "You didn't need it anyway." "I guess you right." He talked with a mouth fool. "Stop. Close your mouth." I told him. "My bad." He covered his mouth with his free hand and grabbed the orange juice out the fridge and drunk out the jug just like Austin. "What the hell." "What happened." He put the top on and asked. "First Austin now you." I said shaking my head as I walked off. "What I do." He yelled. "Nothing." I sat on the bed in his room and ate my food. "Damn you got the whole jar of jelly didn't it." "No." I said even though it was dripping off my biscuit and down my arm once I squeezed it together. "Give me a paper towel." "Naw I can do better." He tried to lick me and I moved away. "I don't want your saliva on my arm." "Alright here." He got close and wiped it off and still licked me. "What is wrong with you." I couldn't even eat because he was playing. I wiped my arm off and finally took a bite. Once I got finish I drunk some water out the faucet. "You full." "Yeah." "You sure." He asked. I knew he had a twix. "No give it to me." I yeeped. "Give you what." He ran all the way outside still holding my twix. "Aye Cutie let's shoot." Some guys said bouncing a basketball. "Naw man I'm good today." "He scared to get his money took again." One guy said and they all agreed and laughed. "Ight give me a minute." He tossed me the twix and just like that he was gone again. I watched on the side walk as they sat the basketball down and bent down in a circle. "Nigga give me my money." I heard someone yell so I walked a little closer. When I thought they were about to play basketball they were really shooting dice. He shouldnt be doing this. And he couldn't shoot for nothing because he kept getting his money took, but he kept betting. That was stupid to me. Well I sure know how to pick them, I went from a cheater to a gambaler. "Ight fuck this, all or nothing. I'm first." They were so concentrated and focused. "Alright." They all agreed. "I dont trust yall niggas, let him hold the money." He pointed at me. "Naw." They said. "Where the fuck he gone go. Give it to him." They all came pilling the stacks in my hand. I dont think I ever had this much money in my hand all at once. "Wish me luck." He grabbed my head and kissed me, sending chills through my body. "Good luck." I said dryly before he took his spot in the circle and shot the dice on the concrete. "Yeah Nigga." He got happy as hell but the other dudes didn't. "Naw mane double or nothing." They pulled out more money. "Hell Naw. This my shit." They all got up crowding deep around him. I thought they were gone kill him until they suddenly stopped. "Go in the house." He turned and said. I walked swiftly and once I got close to the door I inhaled my pump and just watched from the inside. The boys walked off slowly talking stuff and Cutie jogged back in. "You need to stop doing that." I said seriously. "What we were just having some fun. Them niggas ain't about none." "So what. Do you not know that they couldve seriously hurt you." He laughed like everything I say is a joke. "Boo we good." He said kissing on me. "So what you do to make them stop. They were about to beat you." I said putting my hands to his chest as he tried to kiss me. "Neva. They wasn't gone touch me. They just mad cause we got them racks." He threw the money on top of his mattress and I shook my head. There was no getting through to him. "Any where you wanna go right now, I'll take you." He said getting hype. "I dont wanna do nothing." I frowned. "Really. You mad." He grabbed my chin amd asked. "I dont like you doing that." "Ight just for you. Ill stop." "You pinky promise." I looked up and asked. "Mane I aint did this shit in so long." He grabbed my pinky and kissed it. "I promise. Now where you wanna go." "Um I don't know." I shrugged. "Alright. Yo loss." "Okay let's go to see that new movie The Rapid." "What. The Rabbit." He asked. "No. The Rapid Redemption." "The Rabbit Redemption." "No say it with me. R-a-p-i-d." All while I was sounding out the word he was sounding out Rabbit. He knew what I was saying. "Im just fucking with you." He laughed. "You play so much." "I don't know what that is or when its playing but Ill call and see." "Okay." He layed beside me and stretched his body out across the mattress and lied his head in my lap. I squeezed my legs a little together because some body was a little too happy. "This It." He held his phone up to me and I nodded. "This a foreign movie though." "I know that." He started giggling. "See this why I like you. You different." Since he only my second boyfriend, I guess in a way he was different too. "You are too." I replied. "I hope in a good way." "If you keep your promise, of course." "I dont break promises." "Thats good." I nodded. "But next showing in a hour so what you wanna do till then." He asked licking his lips. I swear I could smile all day looking at his fineness. "I don't know." I shrugged. "Why you sweating. You hot." He asked putting the back of his hand on my forehead. "A little. Turn off the heat." He jumped up and turned the central heat off and got back in his exact spot. "You need to take this vest and longsleeve shirt off." He said lifting it off of me. I let him undress me and laughed. "You happy now." I asked."Beyond." He grabbed my head and we kissed. I moaned lightly as he grabbed the back of my head and sucked down my neck. "Didnt I tell you. You gone get it." He jumped on top and I laughed and looked away. "I cant." I told him. As much as I wanted too, I wasnt ready to go to that stage with him yet. He didnt stop and I did but I didnt want him too. My phone started going off and as bad as I wanted to ignore, maybe it was important.