The Boondocks: You Like Me Or Nah? {ON HOLD}

21) You Like Me Or Nah?

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"So what're your plans for your hair?"

"My...hair?"

Cindy looks up at Jazmine with a grossed out look. She scowls. "My hair looks fine."

"Well, yeah, of course it does..." Jazmine chooses her words carefully. "Haven't you ever thought of trying something...different?"

"Like?"

"Like...letting your hair down?"

She snorts. "Mah hair? Is. Fine."

"Cindy, please please please let me style your hair just this once." Jazmine smirks. "Who knows what Riley will think?"

Cindy presses her lips together and glares at her. "Fine."

"Yay!" She places her hands on her shoulders and gently forces her down on the stool in front of her mirror. "Let's see what we've got here..." She opens the drawer. "Hair straightener...curler..."

Cindy shivers at the words.

Jazmine begins to undo one of Cindy's braids when she hears the door bell. "Brb!" She walks out the room and rushes down the stairs, skipping two steps at a time. She opens the door and smiles. "Hi!"

Ming makes a crooked smile. "Hello, Jazmine." She holds a bag.

"Glad you made it! Come on in!" She gently takes Ming by the arm and pulls her inside. As she does, the door to the Freeman house opens up and Huey Freeman walks out, dressed in sweats, sneakers and a black tank top that shows his perfect muscles. I didn't know Huey went jogging, Jazmine thinks, trapping her lower lip between her teeth, Well. He doesn't stay fit reading in bed all day.

Noticing that he's turning, she shuts the door. Ming gives her a weird look. "Are you...all right?" Ming asks her uncertainly.

"I'm fine!" Jazmine forces a smile. "Just...fine."

Ming frowns. "Jazmine, do you really wish to attend the dance with Andrew?"

"I...yeah."

"You know..." Ming looks up thoughtfully for a moment. "One time I..had a friend in China. We got into this terrible fight." She shakes her head. "I...I had thought that I didn't need her, but...I was wrong. I still miss her to this day." She frowns sadly. "Don't make actions you know you'll regret, Jazmine."

"Ming, I'm fine. I promise."

Ming stares at her and shrugs. "If you say so."

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Murph: Come meet me outside.

Reezy: Y?

Murph: Come find out. ;-)

A wide smirk grows on Riley's face and he hops off his bed. He rushes down the stairs, leaping over the steps. He throws the door open. "You out here, C?"

Riley hears a giggle and chuckles in response. He steps out onto the porch, the moment he does, he feels a painful blow to the side of his head and is surrounded by darkness.

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Huey always took a break on his afternoon jogs. He stands on the hill in front of his tree and stretches as he looks over the city. Tonights the night, he thinks dully, Wonderful. Huey sighs and sits down on the grass, crossing his legs and burying his face in his hands.