Apartment 30.

Chapter 1.

            X.😍😩

Theo's POV.

So....I've just said goodbye to my old life. No more small town Theo. I'm moving to a city that I honestly don't really know anything about, but I'm ready for it. I'm kind of excited though because before I left for Martinelli's, the school board contacted me about early graduation so I have every credit I need to start out at a college. But the thing is...I have zero information about good schools in Chicago so 🙃🙃.

"Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up pull up, pull up, yeaaaaahh." Summerella's sultry voice booms through the sound system of what I believe is Xander's SUV. The currently 24 hour car ride has been full of smiles and a hint of sadness when we recalled what happened to us after....you know. Xander said he was detained and almost booked, but Gatts came through and helped him out. He truly didn't care about any of that though, he was only worried about what was happening to me and I love him so much for that because God knows, all I could think about was my fat boy.

I looked over at Xander and found myself unnecessarily smiling. Opening the snapchat app, I leaned over to his side of the car and started recording us. He looked down at the camera quickly and then at me with a look of complete fascination before grabbing my cheeks and sticking his tongue out in hopes for me to stick mine out so that they could touch. Of course I didn't oblige but rolled my eyes and he just started giving me sloppy wet kisses while his eyes occasionally darted back to the road before the video ended.

"You hungry?" X asks as he gets off an exit in the state I believe is Iowa. We've honestly been driving for so long that I can't even remember I just know that we have 7 hours until we're in Chicago and I couldn't be more excited.

"Yeah, what is there in the nearby area?" I ask and he pulls out his phone and Siri pulls up the nearby restaurants. He hands me his phone and I scroll through the list. Popeyes? Nah. Burger King? Hell no. McDonald's? No. All of this sounds eh to me right now. Just as I'm about to hand over his phone we pass a Publix and I swear I almost screeched.

"OH MY FUCKING GOSH STOP BY PUBLIX LET'S GET SOME CHICKEN!" I scream making him look at me crazily making a quick U-turn. You don't know just how crazy I am about Publix chicken.

(for my followers who don't know what PUBLIX is, it's a grocery store that's only in southern states and has the best chicken in the world and every black family has had their chicken with some hawaiian rolls and sweet tea/juice 😭💀 at least in the south.)

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After eating my chicken and taking a few more naps, it was night time and we were entering Chicago. I started to get little knots in my stomach because of the fact that I was about to have to start all the way over in a new city. New school. New home. All I have in this big ass city is Xander, which makes me feel more than safe but what am I gonna do while he's working and I'm not in school? Bitch take up knitting? It's just a lot to think about.

"What you over there thinking about The?" X asks abruptly and I quickly try to come up with something.

"It's nothing, just school. I'm pretty nervous. What if I don't get accepted into any of the schools near here?" I half lie. I am truly nervous about school, but that's not mainly what I was thinking about.