Detroit. •b.t.• (Completed)

9

Sage

"Have you ever seen makeup this fleeky? Slay, sis" Keisha spoke, looking into her phone screen. "That's the kind of stuff you're supposed to say to me, Nadia" She looked at her sister.

"Yeah okay, Kanye. You're full of bs. Sage's makeup looks better than yours" Nadia said.

"I'm not wearing any" I admitted.

Keisha got up and went to the water fountain, dipping her thumb into the stream before marching back over to me and running her wet thumb down my cheek.

"Oh my god, bitch how?"

"Keisha! That was so uncalled for" Nadia rolled her eyes and pulled her jacket up closer to her neck.

It was cold in here today. Colder than usual, as the heating system blew out a long time ago.

My phone vibrated and I looked to see that I had a text.

From: Bryson
Dives asinum -12:09

Rich ass.

To: Bryson
That's not any of your business, now is it? -12:10

From: Bryson
If I was you, I would be stuntin' on every bitch and nigga up in this hoe -12:11

To: Bryson
Show off? Definitely not in my character -12:12

From: Bryson
You showed off to Laura though and now you 15k in debt -12:13

To: Bryson
Haha. Because that's just hilarious -12:13

From: Bryson
Fight her. Teach her ass a lesson -12:13

To: Bryson
I definitely wasn't raised that way. That wouldn't resolve anything, anyhow -12:15

"We over here tryna have a whole conversation with you and you ignoring us so you can text your boo" Keisha said.

I ended up choking on my saliva. "No, I'm definitely single"

"Good, you too naiive. You gonna let someone get over on you"

"Jesus, Covante. Thanks"

He shrugged. "You welcome"

Ace popped him in the back of his head. "Shut up, nigga"

From: Bryson
Wassup, boo? -12:18

To: Bryson
I don't think so -12:18

From: Bryson
You my boo for the rest of the year, so get used to it -12:19

I set my phone in my pocket and frowned.

The rest of the year. It was months away.

My rest of the year contained only 24 days.

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We had a substitute in Photography class, because Mr. Donaldson was out sick.

Bryson decided that he would sit with me today.

I laughed at my phone.

I was in a group chat with Covonte, Ace, Nadia, and Keisha.

Covonte told me that Ace used to run around the house naked.

From: Spades
Covonte dumbass just being a clown, bruh. It's cool though, cause I'm ready to murk his ass -2:23

From: Vonte
So is you gone be confused when I show her the pictures? Ain't no lying, bitch -2:24

From: Keisha
If y'all don't shut y'all bitch asses up. I got a fucking quiz and I can't fucking cheat if I keep getting all of these damn notifications -2:27

From: Vonte
Watch, when I tell grandma -2:28

From: Keisha
Get cut -2:28

I put my phone away, and looked down at the paper handed to us.

Our assignment was to walk around the school and take a picture of an assigned problem area in our school.

Afterwards, we were to make like a comic strip page thingy to bring awareness to that problem.

My task was the ceiling tiles.

"What do you have to do?" I asked, looking over at Bryson.

He sucked his teeth. "I got the fuckin' rats man"

"Hey, hey. Language" Our substitute called out.

I picked up my phone.

To: Vonte, Spades, Keisha, Nadia
Who's willing to get out of class to lay under a pile of dirty ceiling tiles?

From: Nadia, Keisha, Spades, Vonte
I'm wearing black. Not tryna look ashy
Hair and make up on fleek, tf? 🖐🖑
Gotta writing ✍ assignment
Wya? Hurry up, and come with a pass. Get me out this bitch

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"Bryson that's disgusting"

"Ain't it bringing awareness?" He pushed the rat on the tray using another.

"But kids eat off those"

"Don't nobody eat off these. Lunch ladies don't clean em"

He fished a piece of chicken out the trash and put it on the tray beside the rat.

"Perfecta"

"That's hard to translate"

"How do you know Latin?"

"We took a trip there one summer, and I took an interest. What about you?"

"I learned it to insult my teachers. Write that shit onna piece of paper, and them fat fucks don't even know what I'm sayin'."

"Wow, really?"

"Yeah" He took a picture of his masterpiece and kicked it to the side. "I'm done"

"You're just gonna leave that there?"

"Everyone else leaves shit everywhere, imma do it too"

"You're not everyone else. If everyone else decides they want to jump off the MacArthur bridge into the Detroit river, you're just gonna say forget it and jump too?"

"Hell nah, but imma be there with a GoPro ready to catch the action"

"Bryson, pick it up"

"Parsley, mind your business"

"Why would you contribute to making a shit school even shittier?"

"You ain't even supposed to be here, so shut the fuck up. We ain't ya fuckin' charity project"

I rolled my eyes, and lifted up the tray, throwing it away before walking away from him and his attitude.

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