Hood Mentality 2

Jacob woke the next day rubbing his head as he shakes off the long bad dream he had. He walks into the kitchen and gets a cup of orange juice. Mya walks in after him and smiles.

"How did you sleep?" Mya asked.

"Horrible....I had this weird ass dream where I was possessed by a demon." He scrunched his eyes. "And my whole family was murdered."

"How do you know it was a dream?" Mya questioned. "How did you get that scratch on your face? She touched his face.

"Shit, I dont know." Jacob laughed. "Want some orange juice?"

"Nah, I think I'm gonna go take a shower."

"Okay, cool...I'm gonna go buy some medicine." Jacob gulps down the last of his orange juice.

Jacob walks back into his room and gets dressed. He grabs his wallet and walks down to the corner store and grabs the medicine for his daughter. He pays for it and leaves and on his way home he runs into JC.

"Aye man wassup?" JC says stopping him from walking any further.

"What?" Jacob said in an irritated tone.

"Who the fuck you gettin' an attitude with? Last time I checked you weren't the one who was kicked out of school because some bitch ass goth kid snitched on yo' ass!" Tyrone says in a stern tone.

"Last time I checked y'all ain't two niggas with a couple of punk ass on his back while trying to raise a kid and two brothers. Y'all ain't the ones that got yall ass kicked the other day for trying to protect himself." Jacob says in Tyrone face.

"Protection? Nigga we in the hood! Ain't no protection here! Maybe if a bitch nigga would've listened to us we wouldn't be in this bullshit situation!" JC says.

Jacob sighs and looks at them in frustration.

"Y'all niggas a bunch of babies...I'll get yall back in school if y'all muthafuckas leave me alone!" Jacob says in a serious tone.

"Alright, deal." JC smiled.

Jacob walked away putting his hands in his pockets. When he got back home his little brothers were on the couch watching TV while their mom got dressed for work. Tracy was in his room feeding their daughter.

"What to you so long?" Mya asked looking up at him.

"I ran into a person who needed my help." He lied.

"Oh okay..." She says going back to feeding.

Monday Jacob woke up and got in the shower. He brushed his teeth and got dressed and walked to school. He went straight into Mr. Rogers class and stood in front of his desk. Mr. Rogers took off his glasses and looked up at him.

"Need help with something Jacob?" Mr. Rogers asks.

"Can you get JC and Tyrone back in? They've been on my back since they've been expelled." Jacob says in a blank tone.

"Yeah, I can do that..." Mr. Rogers says. "Remember Jacob, I'm always here for you."

"Yeah, thanks." Jacob smiled before leaving his classroom.

Jacob walks into the office and looks at the lady at the desk.

"Yes?" She asks in an annoyed tone.

"Yeah, I'm here to get my schedule changed." Jacob says in a calm tone.

"Why do you wanna change your schedule?" She says in an annoyed tone.

"Because I need to!" Jacob snaps. "I just need my hours switched around!"

The woman rolls her eyes and begins typing.

"Name?"

"Jacob Perez..."

The lady types a little longer before walking into the back and walking back out with a piece of paper. She hands Jacob the paper and goes back to typing.

A boy a little taller than Jacob walks in and walks up to the lady at the desk.

"Yo' I'm here to enroll..." He says in his deep voice.

The lady once again deeply sighs and rolls her eyes. She takes out a clipboard with some papers on it and hands it to him.

"Fill this out..." She rolls her eyes.

"May I get a pen?" He asks looking at her.

The lady rolls her eyes and looks at him.

"Why did you come to school if you're not even prepared!" The lady raises her voice at him.

"Bitc-" He begins. He sighs and leans over. "How the fuck you gonna come to work and have a funk ass attitude? Never mind yo' pen!" He yells turning around to Jacob. "Yo' you gotta pen?"

"Yeah." Jacob says reaching into his pocket and handing him the pen.

"Thanks man! That counselor is trippin'" He shakes his head.

Jacob chuckles and walks out the office. He walks down the hall to his new first hour which is art class. He sits in there drawing and sketching. He goes through 3 hours before the kid from the office walks into one of his classes.

"Hey Mr. Rogers!" He smiles in excitement as he walks through the door.

"Hey! Go ahead and sit in the back next to Leslie." Mr. Rogers says before handing out more papers.

The boy sits behind Jacob and taps on his shoulder. Jacob turns around and looks at the boy.

"You want yo' pen back?" He asks.

"Nah, go ahead and keep it." Jacob says about to turn back around.

"Thanks man, I don't know why that lady was complaining." He shook his head.

"Yeah man, Lady was givin' me attitude when I was tryin' to change my schedule." Jacob said.

"Can I see it?" He asks.

Jacob nods his head and takes the wrinkled paper out of his pocket and hands it back to the dude.

"Crazy, We got the same classes except first hour and last hour." He says holding up the paper. "Jacob...Jacob Perez..." He says aloud.

"Yeah man..." Jacob says in a blank tone.

"Yo' man! Corey bro! From 2 years ago!" He says with a smile on his face.

"Yo' I thought you looked familiar!" Jacob says.

"Gentleman....Work!" Mr. Rogers says from his desk.