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Change of Heart

"Tommy I've been calling and texting you." Bailey said as class was dismissed. Tommy said nothing as she tried catching up to him. "Tommy?" She asked again. "Not in the mood."

Bailey's stomach sank then she became enraged. "What's going on?" "Bye Bailey I don't wanna talk to right now." He said as he kept walking. "What does that mean? Are you ok?" "It means leave me alone." Bailey was taken aback. She was so pissed and lost for words.

Bailey stood there in the cold as Tommy walked away. She shared her bed with him, she was always there for him whenever he just wanted to chill, she was good to him.

She sat outside and tried to regain herself and not cry. She felt like an idiot and she saw Tommy in the light that everyone else did: an arrogant antisocial asshole.

"What's wrong witchu?" Crystal asked sitting next to Bailey. "I'm just...I'm pissed." "Why girl?" "Tommy." "He doesn't care about anybody but himself. He thinks because he's fine that everybody suppose to be on his dick that's why I stopped trying to talk to him a while ago."  "He's just going through some thangs and--" "girl stop making excuses for him. He doesn't care about you Bailey you just something that's around."

Bailey was beginning to think that everyone was right about Tommy. She was just something to smoke with to him. He never showed much interest in anything Bailey did and after being so good to him he dismissed her and ignored all of her calls and text.

"I let him lay in my bed and he just wakes up the next day and decides to not even talk to me anymore."  Saying that out loud it hurts Bailey so bad and deeply. She thought Tommy was different and though she wanted a world with Tommy she thought he could at least be a good friend to her and he couldn't do that.

"Meko having a party tonight and you should get cute and come through. His boy Donald been looking at you for a minute now."

"I don't know. The last party I went too a boy got killed. Plus, Donald ain't all that."

"This bitch about to have extra security and metal detectors and shit....and girl look where befriending sexy but stanky ass niggas got you."

Bailey nodded and decided Crystal was right. She felt like she was missing out on a true college life just sitting around with Tommy all day. "What time?"

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RJ scrolled through all the pictures and videos of Rio that he had. He even laughed at some of their most epic moments.

He got to the last picture he took with Rio which was taken just hours before his death. RJ could still hear his body drop to the floor and RJ could still smell that overwhelming amount of blood. He remembered Rios eyes being filled with tears before they went blank.

Lauryn came outside with a bottle of water and handed one to RJ.

"It's about to start raining again." She said as she stood by the steps and looked at the skies. The rain suddenly started to pour and her hair blew in the wind.

RJ stood behind her and gave her his jacket.

"Thank you." Lauryn said as his jacket warmed her up and wrapped nicely around her.

"Yup."

"I thought you were gone all these hours but the whole time you been on the porch."

"I can't be in my room right now." RJ said

"Any word on the nigga who shot Rio?"