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Capri Laurent

"Hollon' lil man, lemme do it for you." Harlem carefully took miniature car parts from Sonnet's little hands. After spending the day buried up to his neck in packing. Harlem wanted nothing more than to spend some time with his boys.

As quickly as it came spring left bringing in summer and eventually August rolled around like it always did. Which left Harlem in a position he didn't expect himself to be in, after all when school let out for break he wanted nothing to do with Penbrook.

And now his whole heart was here.

Leaning back against the bottom of his mother couch Lem carefully pressed small pieces of Sonnet's toy car together, head tight with the braids Capri had just done.

"Here, lil man." Harlem finished handing the car back to the baby watching him stare at the toy blankly before slowly rolling the lopsided unfinished car over the patterned carpet.

"Whatchu looking so long faced for?" Capri stared at the side of Harlem's fine ass face, more than he can wanted to admit he was gonna miss being able to see him all the time. Being practically inseparable by choice in hindsight probably wasn't the best idea.

"Just thinkin', Ion wanna go back to school. But at the same time ion got much of a choice. Conditioning, my spot on the team, and my scholarship all ridin' on it." Harlem shrugged his shoulders finally glancing up to meet Capri's dark eyes.

A beat of silence fell over the livingroom, both men seeming to be in deep thought over everything. Harlem being stuck in a position where he was choosing his future and the future of his boys and family over their current circumstance and Capri wondering just hope much space could change things.

"If you worried 'bout yo momma don't be, you know I got her and so yo brother. I ain't gon let nobody hurt her, baby." Capri finally spoke up pushing his thoughts away, if he knew Harlem as good as he thought then space wouldn't do them any harm.

Capri just had to trust him, he trusted him.

"I know pa, thank you for that. Youn know how much that shit really mean to me, especially knowin' what we all know I gotta make sure she good even if I can't be here physically." Harlem nodded reaching out to take Capri's dark hand into his own light one. His thumb brushing over Cap's knuckles, circling the faded bruises present.

"You packed all yo shit?" Capri mumbled glancing down to watch Sonnet in his own world. His lips rolled into his mouth, he could still take the black he was smoking earlier.

"Yea, I finished 'fore y'all came over. Lonzo 'posed to be coming over tomorrow morning for a ride back to campus. His ass need a car." Harlem hummed following Capri's gaze to the little boy in front of him. Watching him brought Harlem to a point of relaxation, in such a short time he'd grown to love the little boy just like if he were his own.

He wanted to see him do good, even with Sonnet's obvious setbacks the kid was smart as hell already. "We gotta do somethin' for yo last night here, baby. Whatchu feelin'?" Capri turned back to Harlem who was already looking at him with a smirk on his pink lips.

"Nigga quit bein' nasty, imma get you right 'fore you go but I'm talkin' bout with the gang. You trynna have a kickback or some shit? Or maybe go down ta Eclipse." Harlem chuckled a little leaning forward to kiss the corner of Capri's lips before leaning back in his hands and looking up the ceiling in thought.

Truthfully he could spent his entire night up in his bedroom with the two boys in front of him and be completely content.

"Honestly we can do all'a dat ion know how good of 'n idea it is for people to be drinkin' 'n skating but I'm down." Harlem nodded picking up his phone and sending out a text to their group chat.