"Jariah, come here dude." Keem said calling out for me.
"Man move. You finna blow me." I said walking off from him.
"Dude you cant walk away and you got blood on you dawg." He said grabbing my arm, preventing me from walking away.
"Yo ass shouldn't have killed him! Why was you even here?!" I said yelling at him. He put his finger to my lip.
"Bruh shut the fuck up nigga! You wanna go to jail?" He said whisper-yelling at me.
"Man get off me. You always do this shit. I swear you never wanna see me happy. I wish I never fucking met you dude." I said walking away with an attitude.
He stood there. Not moving. Silent as he could be. He broke out of that when he heard sirens. I started running as fast as I could. He ran to his car, while I hid behind a trashcan.
So this was it... I was about to get caught. I took a glance at him as he hopped in his car. A little part of me wanted to run over and get in too, but the stubbon side said, "You're gonna get away. On your own."
He sped off as the sirens got louder and louder. Closer and Closer. I stayed as still as I could be behind the dumpster.
"He really just left me like this..." I said thinking to myself. I heard the sirens get louder. I ducked down a little bit lower. My thighs were starting to burn, my feet aching.
Just give up... you've lost already...
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present time...
"Jariah, get up." I heard Hakeem say to me. I was laying down in our science class, on the lab table. The bell had already rung for us to go to the next class. We didn't have anymore classes so we went home. He was my ride home since my boyfriend totaled my car.
"My ass was slump as fuck dawg." I said getting off the lab seat.
"I see that. You got lines all over your face." He said mushing me over making me hit the lockers. I mugged him with a side eye.
Hakeem was my friend. My first 'real' friend I've ever had. He kept it 100 percent, 24/7. Even if you didn't want his opinion, he was gonna give it to you.
I don't call him my bestfriend because I feel like that messes up the relationship. "Bestfriends" think they have this sort of obligation that they can do whatever they want to you and not suffer the consequences of a regular friend.
"When you getting a new car- Bye Ms. Krane!" He said yelling goodbye to the woman at the front desk of the school.
"Man, I don't know. He said he was gone buy me another one." I said walking out the school doors.
"You know damn well that nigga not finna buy you a car with that 7.25 an hour. He needa join what I do for real." Keem said making me side eye him.
He knew I hated what he does. He only got into it because he followed the wrong crowd of people his freshman year.
"Me letting him join that, is like you letting me do that." I said putting on my seatbelt. He began to speed out of the schools parking lot.
"But you not doing that shit... so there was no need for that analogy." He said with a slight attitude.
"Chill. You stay getting mad." I said pulling out my phone. I checked my socials, messgaes, calls. If I missed anything by Tyree, he would've raised all hell.
mybaby🧸
babe ill call you when i get to my house
ight.
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"He cheating on you." Keem said as we pulled into our neighborhood. We all didn't live very far apart. It was like a 10 minute walk to Tyree's but a 6 minute walk to Keem's.
"No he not, chill." I said as I looked out the window.
"I'm telling you."
"Bye Keem." I said getting out the car. He sucked his teeth.
"Bye Riah." He waited until I got inside to pull off.
I set my bookbag on the kitchen table. I walked to my room, making sure to stop by my mother and brother room to greet them.
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"Why yo ass keep hanging up?" Tyree said as the facetime call connected for the fourth time.
"Cause you keep playing dawg an' ian got time for it." I said rolling my eyes.
"Keep rolling them bitches and watch I knock them clean out yo head." He said putting me on pause.
"Yeen finna do nun, and tell whoever calling yo phone they can have you." I said with a big ass mug on my face.
"Man you needa chill out, that was my fucking mama dawg." He said sucking his teeth.
"Yeah yeah. You keep lying to me when I've been nothing but honest." I said. He groaned, knowing this conversation was about to pop off.
"So you think i'm lying? When have I ever lied to you?" I looked at him with a side eye.
"Don't make me answer that dude. Cause you lie everyday."
"You letting that bitch nigga put that shit in yo head. Jariah, ian cheating on you and I never lie to you." I scoffed at the lies he was telling now.
"Yeah okay. We gone see. So when I'm getting my car?" I said trying to catch him up in a lie since he claims he doesn't lie. He sent me a screenshot of the car payment, meaning he actually bought me a car.
He totaled my car because he claimed I was being friendly. He said I was going to dude's houses and letting them fuck on me. So he asked to take my car for a drive and next thing I know, I'm getting a call from the hospital saying that he was in a car accident with my car. He ended up telling me about 1 month later that he purposely crashed the car in the tree. We broke up for brief period of time. (1 week). I forgave him got back together and now we're here.
"So stop bring that shit up. That shit happened 2 months ago."
"Thank you bae."
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