Lucky Number Seven

Tion 1

I've done a lot of fucked up shit in my life, but hurting my right hand, my ace, my best friend , my baby brother, was by far the worst. Now I going to be far away from him. For once in my life I'm going to be on my own. This is my story, better yet this is my song........ Four months ago if you would've told me I'd be in love, I'd probably would've laughed and agreed with you. Now if you would have said in three months I'd be in love with a guy, that would have been a different story all together. But now as I look at this perfect person wrapped in my arms, face slightly pouted, and skin smooth as silk under my fingers, I understand what true love is. I look at him once again and feel a sadness weighing on my heart, because our love was forbidden. Me a nationally known football player and him a pre-law student on his way to the top of the world. How could this happen to me? This wasn't me, I wasn't that guy? I had a beautiful girlfriend, I had a lot of friends. I laid next to him and thought back to the day I was left alone and the day my world changed forever.

FOUR MONTHS EARLIER

"What can a brother do for me? He can help you up when you are down. What can a brother do for me? He can be your eyes when you can't see. What can a brother do for me? He can help me be the best man I can be............. I've made a big mistake and I'm feeling so ashamed, I don't wanna lose my friendship over it, I gotta keep the faith............." I sat in the back of Zaire's Mustang on my way to LSU, headphones in music blasting, every so often me and Zaire's eyes would meet in the rear view mirror. It had been a quiet 12 hours, my mom just sat in the front looking out the window. I felt like shit everybody in my family was pretty much pissed at me, except Tiana....... I could always count on my twin. The night I told Seven about me and Tyson, Zaire cussed me out for like three hours, me and Dallas got into a fight because despite the way he acts he was really protective of Seven, Lesha pretty much told me it was over, and my mom she just sat in the corner and cried. That was probably worse than any physical hit.

"Jordan baby, can pull over to the rest stop right there." My mom said calling Zaire by his middle name, it was so quiet but I still heard her through my headphones. Zaire pulled over and parked I watched my mom squeeze Zaire's hand and get out. As soon as she got out the car I took my headphones off.

"Tion what happened when you talked to Seven?" Zaire asked. Our eyes met in the mirror again and I could tell what he was doing because I did that shit to Seven all the time.

"He punched me in the nose twice and didn't say anything. Zai I tried but you know how stubborn that nigga is."

"Yeah he is but you should really keep trying he'll come around eventually. Give him a few weeks. But you ready to be on your own I mean this is the furthest you've been away from home by yourself." Zaire said.

"Yeah you know me. I'll always be good. Zai what's going on with ma?" I asked.

"Tion I should really let her tell you........ but you're a grown ass man you have the right to know. Tion she doesn't have long left, the doctors gave her til the end of the year. But she's trying to hold on she's determined to see Seven graduate." I felt the tears building in my eyes. I tried to wipe them away before they spilled over but they just kept coming.

"You gonna tell Seven?" I asked.

"Nah I think Zakiya and Dalisa are going too. I'm going to tell Dallas and Tiana. Don't let her know I told you though." I saw my mom walking up and put my headphones in. It's crazy because as soon as she got in Boyz II Men 'A Song For Mama' come on my Ipod, and it took everything in me not to cry right then. I was slowly watching my mom slip away from me. The rest of the car ride was spent in silence, but it wasn't uncomfortable it was more somber. We pulled up on campus and Zaire took me to my dorm.

"Tion me and ma are going to check into our hotel, we'll be back in like a hour so we can go get something to eat....... Tion try not and fall in love while we're gone." Zaire said joking. I started laughing that was a joke between me and Zaire he always said I fell in love too easily and I knew it was true, I was the dreamer, the one who believed love could conquer anything. Zaire and me would joke and say that we all had our roles. He was the leader, Dallas was the loner, I was the lover/ dreamer, and Seven was the baby.

"You ain't going to help me with my bags?" I asked laughing.

"No nigga what I look like. A bellhop you better carry your own bags." Zaire said.

"Jordan help your brother." My mom said. Zaire grabbed my bags, I handed him my key and told him my room number. "Tion wait." My mom said grabbing my hand, I looked in her eyes and felt the tears come back. "I know Zaire's big mouth ass told you. Tion I'm not going to lie I'm not doing so good, I'm tired of fighting. When all that happened with Seven, it broke my heart. I hate seeing ya'll fight like that please make things right with your brothers." She asked wiping away the tears from my eyes.

"Yes ma'am." I said looking deep into her eyes. She smiled and kissed my cheek.

"Okay let's go up here and meet your roommates." We started walking towards my room and Zaire was walking out.

"Why don't you have any bags in your hand?" Zaire asked.

"Because I told him you were going to get them Jordan." My mom said smiling at me. Zaire looked at and shook his head. We got to my room and saw three dudes sitting on the couch, playing MW3 they all look up when I walked in.

"What's up you must be Tion." This brown skinned dude wearing a Miami Dolphins hat said standing up and sticking out hand. "I'm Noah. I'm one of your roommates, was that your brother that just left outta here."

"Yeah this is my mama." Noah shook my mom's hand.

"We'll the other two dudes that are supposed to be staying here haven't got here yet, but that's Quan and Johnny they play on the football team too." Noah said pointing at them. The dude Johnny nodded and the other dude Quan looked at me with pure hate in his eyes, I started to asked him if there was a problem but Zaire walked in with my bags.

"Well I'm bout to go get settled. I'll see ya'll in an hour." I said hugging Zaire and kissing my room. I watched as they turned to walk out the door, as soon as they opened it my heart fluttered a little which caught me off guard, there was a dude standing on the other side

"Oh I'm sorry." I dude said. I not going to lie, if I had to describe this dude in one word it would be beautiful and I'm being honest he looked better that most females. Smooth skin the color of butterscotch, his eyes were green in the middle but hazel around the edges, his short jet black hair was up in a kinda mohawk, with a small amount of chin hair. What was I feeling?

"My name is Marcellus."