LOVE IS KEY || A Tyler, The Creator Story REIMAGINED

6-Distraction Session

It was a warm Wednesday afternoon in Detroit. Me and the rest of the "Dreamerz" were huddled under a tree on campus, spread out on blankets with snacks everywhere and our texts books. We were having one big study session for tests that each of us had coming up on Friday.

Angelo: (slams his book down) Who the fuck told us it would be a good idea for all of us to take summer classes like some damn goofy's??

Khadijah: We all agreed that it would be a good idea so we could be ahead in the fall.

Akeylah: Plus, we might be able to finish sooner.

Kenneth: Key please! As soon as you blow up you're gonna be on the first flight out of here forgetting about us common folk.

Akeylah: (gasps dramatically) That may be true but not the common folk part. I would never forget my babies!

Michelle: (scowls) Don't call me your baby. I don't swing that way.

Akeylah: (side eyes her) Bitch...I didn't even mean it that way. You're not my type anyways you too mean.

Demetrius: (shrugs) Yeah we've seen Key's type and they're more airheads than you MiMi so you shouldn't be offended.

The rest of them laughed while I sat with my jaw hung low in offense. Before I could retort, my phone began to ring. I picked it up to see that it was Tyler and answered it right away.

Akeylah: Hey Ty, what's up?

Tyler: Hey Key. I just called to see what you were up to. You know, see if you've been in the lab creating anything.

Akeylah: I have but right now I'm having a very intense study session with the gang right now.

Domonique: (yells in the background) By intense she means we're roasting her about her taste in girls!

Akeylah: That was two girls y'all come on! The rest of them were not that bad!

Angelo: (yells in background) Oh! Tell him about that time Akeylah dated every girl in our class by time we graduated!

Akeylah: (groans) Okay! I'm getting up and I'm walking away!

While all of this was occurring, Tyler had been cackling in the background the entire time.

Tyler: (laughing) Nah. Stay and put me on speaker. These niggas are funny. Better yet, Imma FaceTime you and you better answer, nigga.

I rolled my eyes as the FaceTime call came through and I answered it. He looked like he was in a studio setting but by the looks of the surroundings I chalked it up to it being his home studio.

Akeylah: (sighs) Ty, you remember the Dreamerz right?

Tyler: (grins) The same one's that was at the concert right?

Domonique: (smirks) That would be us!

They all crowded around me trying to be seen in the frame damn near crushing me.

Tyler: (chuckles) How's that school shit coming for y'all.

Khadijah: Good. We're trying to keep our girls' head in the game.

Akeylah: First of all! Don't forget me and MiMi were the one's who made sure all you niggas stayed on top of your shit in high school when we were doing all those parties!

Michelle: For Real! I swear I had to put fire under y'all asses worse than y'all own parents!

We all started bickering and throwing playful jabs at one another while Tyler just watched with amusement.