Seventeen's Threshold

six

August 27, 10:06 am
Calabassas , California

" hello ? Is your name Rakim Davidson ? They're looking for you if you haven't heard ...." Rakim rubbed his eyes which were filled with a little bit of crust before they were removed .

" oh my gosh they COMIN ! Oh nah ! " Rakim quickly jumped out of the couch to escape as he continued to find his parents again .

So far he sat in the public library covering his face with a book he had found from the A-D book aisle , " excuse me ? You look familiar ? " a girl approaches him becoming more nervous he might get reported .

" please I don't wanna go back over there to Mr. Whatever his name is pls !" after constantly begging the girl began to lightly chuckle , " don't worry I won't .. I know who you're talking about .. my name is Juliana by the way" she held out her arms waiting for him to shake it .

" nice to meet you my name ... uh is Rakim Davidson ... you here for reading too ?" was what he had assumed at first.

" oh well yes and also to do my schoolwork tryna lick in real good , don't wanna fuck up lol . Here's my number I have to go " Juliana inserted a small note with her number into his hands before rushing out the library .

He got up also leaving the library finding another place to stay , but so far he couldn't as many places were closed and others were booked .

August 27 , 4:30 pm

Mr. Bowden sat in the living room as Protective Services had left already , he calls out Amarion Malik and Yasmine downstairs to know what went down .

" now I don't want any of you lying to-" one of them interrupted him by blurting out the truth . " Amarion said something about his parents doing crack and called him crack baby " Yasmine quickly covered her mouth looking sideways at Amarion who stood back quietly .

" AMARION HOW COULD YOU ? I don't know why the hell you have huge animosity for him but you shouldn't have said those things ! " Amarion looked down at his feet feeling guilty for the words that came out of his mouth .

On the other hand , Rakim began to lay down on the bench after a long day of walking around the whole city with his eyes shutting down as 5:30 was approaching .

Out of nowhere about two hours later he opened his eyes noticing he was in a room , a very familiar one . " there you are Keem " he left out a sigh relaxing he was back at Mr . Bowden's place .

" listen we need to talk okay ? First things first ... (..)" after the long talk and apology , Rakim has forgiven him but the only person he needed to forgive was Amarion in which he knew he would have a hard time .

" I'm just gonna eat first I'll think about it " Amarion constantly smacked his teeth after each time Rakim wanted to go " do other things " .

" mane what do I have to do to get you to forgive me ? I feel guilt saying all those things " Rakim turns around giving Amarion the death stare for about twelve seconds while Amarion kept tapping his feet lightly .

" now you realize ..... you know what I'm just gonna put this shit aside , I forgive you Amarion but please be careful next time " Amarion shook his head understanding what he shouldn't do next time .

Yasmine ran up behind Rakim covering his eyes , " uh hold on ... Yasmine I know it's you I can recognize the strawberry scent lol " she smacked her teeth forgetting she sprayed perfume on herself .

" damn it bruh , but hey I'm glad you're okay ! And don't worry I jumped Amarion's ass since he wanted to play " Amarion also smacked his teeth departing from the dining room .

" I'm playing a movie in my room you wanna watch with me ? Pretty please I want you there ..." her lows her voice doing her best to make it soft as she whispered into his ear .