This Is Me ( stud x fem )

Chapter 3 - I Care

Ray
"I'm not sick. I actually like her."
Jamie gets wide eyed. "You serious?"
"Dead ass..."
Jamie blows out in a serious manner. "Well, there's only one thing I can tell ya."
"What?" I ask.
"You pussy whipped with no pussy." We both bust out laughing as we walk back out to the almost bare court.
Summer and some dark skinned chick with nice weave and a pretty face sit on the benches that Summer and I sat on earlier.
"Summer, Babygirl, you okay?" I ask.
The dark-skinned girl speaks. "Does she look okay to you? Look at her face!"
"Steph, chill, okay? I'm fine." Summer looks up at me.
She's been crying because her face is flushed out and red and her eyes are too. This only makes me angrier. I clench my fists.
"Dude, chill." Jamie says.
I unclench my fists as I calm down. "Is your body hurt?"
She lifts up her joggers to show her skent up leg.
I dont get angry. I count to ten and stay calm like Mom tells me to. "I can help you if I take you home."
Stephanie eyes me. "Oh hell nawl. Yeen finna crawl your sticky little finger in my bestfriend's draws!"
I laugh. "Im saying my mom's a doctor. She can help you at my house."
Summer smiles at me. Goddammit, she's beautiful. "Thanks but-"
•Summer's phone rings•
"Hello?..." She pulls her phone away from her ear and someone's yelking very loudly. "Calm down, Janelle. Im at the courts... No I'm not going back to that hell hole... Im staying with Stephanie tonight... I swear."
"Its true, Janelle," Stephanie screams into the phone.
"Okiidoke... Bye-bye." Summer hangs up. "Steph, I'm staying with you tonight."
Stephanie sighs. "You know Im going to a Breuxwood party and you know they'll flip if you come because everyone know that our star cheerleader has moved to poopoo ass Ridgewood. They might try to fight you."
Jamie buts in. "Im going to that party to, lil ma." Jamie's flirting with Stephanie. They give each other lustful looks.
"AHEM! And? I've fought before," Summer says in a "duh" tone.
"Yea, but now you're hurt." Stephanie sighs. "Guess you gotta go home, mami."
Summer groans.
"Or you could stay at my house."
"Didn't I tell you, you weren't getting your grubby little fingers in my bestfriend's panties?" Stephanie says.
I laugh. "My mom is home... For now." I wink.
Summer giggles.
"And when Y'ALL leave the party, you come and scoop her up," I suggest. "Jamie knows where I stay."
Stephanie and Summer have a sidebar conversation.
"Here are the rules. Jamie, Stephanie's driving you, just incase yall try some kidnapping shit and rape me." Summer laughs at herself. "And I get to Snapchatting you all night Steph."
We all nod.
I laugh. "And if I were to kidnap you... It wouldn't be rape. Its not rape if you like it." I wink at Summer.
She giggles uncontrollably.
"Deal."
Summer tries to stand up and I grab her bridal style. "Not on my watch, you don't." I carry her to my truck.
•••••
"Backseat, Playa!" I yell to Jay (Jamie). Jay hopa out and I place Summer in the passenger's seat were Jamie was.
I get in the driver's seat while Steph and Jay are in the back.
Of course Summer hooks her phone up to my auxiliary cord. "All The Time" by Jeremih starts playing.
So Summer and I are singing, and then about halfway through the song I see Jay grinding on Stephanie in my back seat.
I tap Summer and she looks back and bursts out laughing.
I turn the radio down. "Ain't nobody getting pussy in my truck, but me holmes." Jay smirks and Stephanie blushes embarrassed. Jay gets off of her and Stephanie sits up. "Lil Nasties."
"I seeya bestfriend," Summer says laughing. Stephanie hits her.
"Ay! Hands to yourself." I pop Stephanie.
Steph laughs. "Look just cuz my bestfriend likes you doesn't mean you can hit me!"
I laugh. "Don't be mad cuz I ruined your lil session, but those seats are leather, not waterproof."
We all laugh so hard.
Stephanie gives me directions to her house. She's eighteen and stays by herself she informs us.
I eye Jay through the rearview mirror. Jay licks her lips.
"So nobody's here?" Jay asks as I pull into the complex.
Stephanie eyes him lustfully. "Nope."
"Oh, gross. Get all this estrogen out of my new truck man."
We all laugh.
Stephanie gets out.
Jay daps me up.
"If you tap it, wrap it," I say as if she could actually wrap something up. We always do that when we know the other is about to get pussy.
She punches me. "Nigga what Ima wrap? My tongue?"
They leave and it's just Summer and me cruising to my house.
"Is your friend even gay?"
She laughs and shakes her head. "You got a million questions about that one, huh? She's a character, ain't she?"
I turn down the radio again. "Can I ask you a question about you then, beautiful?"
She blushes. "Knock yourself out."
"Why don't you wanna go home so bad?"
I think my question caught her off gaurd. There's a long silence.
"You dont have to answer," I remind her.
There's another long silence.
"I stay with my dad and his girlfriend. Watching a new person attempt to take your mom's place gets kinda tiring. Plus he owns a lot of companies so there's barely ever time to slip in his accident kid. Janelle, my mom, works 24/7 so when Im at her house she's never home or shes asleep. So never having someone at your recitals or your games or your competitions gets annoying. It feels like nobody cares, you know?" Summer's looking out of the window as we drive up to my mom's place.
I park the car, turn off the truck, take the keys out of the ignition, and look at Summer. I touch her chin and turn her face my way. Then I lace my fingers into hers.
"I care."