ODDS OF LOVE - SEASON 14

Episode 87

" So," Nicole said with a smirk at Luci as they walked through the school while Luci gave her cousin a tour of Barrington Academy. " So , " cuz " , what you rich bougie types do here for fun ? Talk about your daddy's stocks ? " The girl laughed out loud especially at the irritated expression on Luci's face.

Luci shook her own braided head. " Look. Let's get some stuff straight, ok ? I ain't no punk so don't play me. I'm not rich. Everyone here isn't rich. I get a scholarship just like you do. My uncles are a professor and a doctor. Former professor. Professors and doctors aren't that flush in cash. They're not poor but they're not rich either. My boyfriend Sol isn't rich either. He's here on a scholarship too. So get the chip off your shoulder before I knock it off , " cuz ". Oh , and my daddy died when I was little. He was shot. "

Nicole stopped walking near the library in the empty hallway and glared at the transgender girl. She lifted her head and retorted ," I like to see you try , nerd. Come on. Bring it. I bet you go back fast."

Luci sighed. She wanted to be nice to this girl. She really did. Uncle D had told her that they were related as cousins because Cousin Bullet was Nicole and her brothers' father. She understood what it was like to feel alone and angry at the world but damn this girl took it to a whole new level. Every time she showed Nicole anything at the school she just made a snotty joke. And yeah she hadn't forgotten the crack about her being a boy. She wasn't a fucking boy. She was a girl who just happened to have a damn dick and Nicole Duncan would have to get used to it. " Girl , why you so mean ? ," Luci snapped with her hands on her hips. " Nobody has done anything to you here. Or in the family. "

Nicole bit her lip hard. She knew she was being an ass. She just didn't want to be there at the bougie ass school where everyone from the teachers to the students probably just saw her as some thug street kid who had flipped out and shot a White rich man at the courthouse. She wanted to go back to her old school with her friends Roni and Tasha. She wanted her favorite big brother Jamal to be back home and in school. She wanted him enjoying his senior year and boring everyone with all his college acceptance letters. Not him sitting in some fancy nursing home place forgetting people's names and not being able to read as much as he liked and all that shit because some stupid rich White bitch ran him down in the street. Ran him down and got away with it.

Like you got away with shooting the man in the courthouse? , a little voice told her ironically as she pursed her lips tightly.

Luci kept looking at her. " You ok ? "

No , Nicole wanted to say. No. She wasn't ok. And neither was her family. But , wasn't nothing she could do about that.

" I'm fire. Let's finish this dumb ass tour Doc wanted you to do. "

Then she turned around just as the library door opened and out came a tall burly looking White boy with dark hair and eyes who ran right into her, knocking her off balance. She would have fallen if Luci hadn't grabbed her by her arm.

Luci shook her head and said," Franco Angeletti , watch where you going for once ! "

Nicole straightened up and pulled away from Luci with narrowed eyes on the boy who didn't even look like he cared about bumping her.

Nicole blurted out with distaste in her voice," Angeletti ! Like Dodie Angeletti ! "

Franco narrowed his eyes back at her. "Yeah. That's my mother. What's it to you? "