The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Tony

I was in the park waiting on the fellas to show up so we could run 3s. It was a cool day to be out here for real. For the first time the girls were actually gonna be out here watching and whatnot which never happens. Hopefully don't nobody act weird cuz of the audience...well or the new players either. So it was gonna be Me, Jay, Charles, Mar, Riek, and Kev. I was practicing shooting 3 pointers when Jay walked up.
"Still hitting that ugly jumper, I see." he said laughing. I started laughing, he hated my shit cuz I'm left handed so it hit different.
"You just mad cuz I make these look effortless." I said laughing.
"I mean you still gotta make it to shoot. You know I be smacking shit." Not gonna lie, Jay was the GOAT at blocking shots. Most people never expected it because he's shorter than the rest of us, but he definitely had game. "You might be right about that." I looked over and saw this other girl I had never seen before. "That you?" I asked.
"Yeah that's Suki." he said. "Bad as a mufucka right?" he said.
"Right. Where you find shorty?" I said giving him props. She was like 5'6, light skinned, thick as hell with a small ass waist, and had some long ass wavy hair.
"Admissions office at the university. She's a sophomore there, cool as fuck."
"Damn when was this?" I asked.
"Yesterday. While you was at a dinner and shit, me and Mar went on campus. It was lit out there last night."
"That's what's up." I said as Mar walked on the court too.
"I see you brought the whole fam out." I said as we shook hands with him.
"You know wherever my girls go, the kids go." he said as I waved at Nic, Erica, Erica's daughter, and Malachi.
"Good shit! You tell them about shorty from last night?" Jay asked Mar.
"Yeah. Zion supposed to come over for dinner tomorrow to meet them." Mar responded before we looked at each other and laughed.
"Another one." we all said laughing. I looked over and seen 2 trucks pull up.
"Looks like the rest of the fellas have arrived." Mar said as Iris, Dom, Depth, Aries, and Araya hopped out of one truck and went and sat down. Then Charles, Riek, and Kev hopped out the other one.
"What's good yall?" Riek said walking over and dapping everybody up.
"I can't call it." Jay said in response.
"Yall ready to take this L. You know to whomever ain't on my team." Charles said walking up smiling.
"This gloating ass nigga." Mar said as we all laughed.
"What's up yall?" Kevin said all calm and shit as usual.
"What's good Kev?" I said to him.
"Shit, ready to get this rec in." he said as he went to start stretching.
"Okay, the sun shining and our ladies are all here. Let's get to it!" Jay said.
"Alright, old school style." Mar said as he reached in his bag and grabbed a deck of cards and we all pulled a card.
"Anybody got an Ace?" I asked. "King?"
I got a King." Jay said.
"Alright, captain 1 is Jay. Anybody got a Queen?" We all looked around. "Jack?" Looked around again. "Well, I got a Jack. So it's me and Jay. You get first pick since you got the higher card." I said, but we all knew who he was picking. "Bet. C-Money." Which is what I expected from Jay.
"Alright, I'll take Mar." I said.
"Okay, okay. Imma take Kev, let's see what you got." Jay said which surprised the fuck out of me.
"Cool, Riek come on playboy." I said as we broke into our teams and went to our own sides. "Your boy cool?" I asked Mar.
"Yeah, I guess they had a talk T." he said.
"I can't speak for Jay, but I know Kev ain't on no bullshit." Riek said.
"We know, he too cool for all that." Mar said as we laughed and went ahead for the initial face off. Jay ended up edging it their way and Charles took it down the court. Riek was on him though. Charles got to a point where he had no choice but to pass. He passed right to Kev and Kev was posted to the side and hit that 3 flawlessly.
"Good shit." Jay said as the ball came to me and Jay was in my face trying to throw me off, but I went ahead and passed to Mar and he passed it to Riek. Riek took off down the court and dunked that bitch. Man Riek had crazy ups, we couldn't lie.
"Okay, show out then bruh." Mar said. The ball went to Kev and Mar wasn't letting up off this cat for shit, so he passed to Jay who was open. Shit, I'm slipping. Jay hit the most perfect lay up.
"We see who came to play today!" Charles said. I knew we was about to have to stay on these cats. That whole team was actually shorter than all of us, but they was running this shit.
"You got this baby!" I heard Toya say from the side. Mar passed me the ball and I looked and went ahead and shot from half court. "Swish!" Mar yelled as I sank that mufucka. "Yeah we see who out chea!" he said as C-Money got the ball. I wasn't letting up off this cat because he was too quick with it. He ended up passing behind his back to Jay but then Mar stole it from Jay and brought it down the court when Kev got that shit back and took it back down the court and smacked another 3.
"Okay! This nigga might just be a problem!" Charles said as they shook hands. Jay was smiling at how this shit was playing out for real. Not gonna lie this be real fun shit. I love real life competition and this was going from both sides for sure. I like how we can all hang and it don't be no bullshit. Good, clean fun and positive vibes. And even though we was down at the moment, I was enjoying the fuck out of this for sure.