Blood Diamonds

Secrets

Blood Diamonds: Chapter 9

~3 Weeks Later~

~Travie P.O.V.~

These three weeks took forever to pass by. Luckily this was the last Friday we had and then it was Spring break for a whole week. I needed a break from school and was looking forward to downtime.

I was in 6th period with Dontario and he was acting a little different. I can't really describe how he was acting different, but he just felt different to be around. Maybe its just me? I could just be hella tired.

"How's Charnae been? Her pops say anything?" Dontario asked as he leaned back in his chair. Dontario and Sonya knew about Charnae's incident. I didn't tell em, but I guess Charnae did. That was her business, so I'm not trippin over it.

"She never talks about it. I don't blame her and I'm not surprised. She said her Dad wouldn't stop calling so she got a new phone and new number." She said she was completely done with her Dad. If I was Charnae I would have killed my Dad if he allowed that to happen to me. That's straight up fucked. "Its really setting in of what happened." I said with a sigh

"What chu mean?"

"She flinches when I touch her, she's real hesitant when I hug or try to kiss her." I feel awful for her so naturally I want to hold her, kiss her, just shower her with love and affection to show she doesn't need to be scared, especially around me.

"Give her time, if she's a chick that is too much for you, then move on." Harsh huh? Well Dontario keeps it real. He doesn't sugar coat shit.

"Yeah I guess." I shouldn't have let her go home that night. I should have persuaded her to stay just a little longer to wait for Sonya, but no. "You haven't been with your usual 2 hook ups, whats up with that?" I asked to change the subject

"They've done been used up. I need new rebounds." He laughed

"You hooked up with them that much?"

"I have needs that need to be tended to." Life of a Thug can be summed up into one word; Dontario. "After a while, you need new rebounds. That's just the fact of life."

"The fuck you mean, fact of life? Talkin on some preacher shit." The fuck he know about life? He just realized each season is divided into 3 months and he talkin about life.

"Dontario knows everything. Not only do I know where every hoe I ever been with at, but I'm in advanced classes, a nigga got brains." He was in advanced culinary because the regular culinary was filled.

"So fuckin dumb D." I shook my head and decided to focus on our teacher. She never really taught, she would just stand at the podium and text her boyfriend all of class.

On the bright side, Yvette calmed herself and we've been friends like before. Of course we tease but don't go past certain lines. I bring her up because she just hit me up tellin me to meet up with her by the locker rooms to just chill and joke around. Its something we usually did, so I was down.

"I'm out D. Imma chill with Yvette." I said as I stood up and fixed my jeans.

"Aight, be back in like 10 cause then we gotta do the partner annotating shit." I nodded my head and sneaked out of the classroom before heading out to the locker rooms.

I saw Yvette sitting on the bench with her legs crossed and eyes sucked into her phone.

"We were only in class for 10 minutes and already you were bored?" I laughed as I sat down next to her.

"I was bored as fuck and needed a good laugh. Who better than to hit up than my best buddy" she laughed

"We ain't best buddies girl. We the bestest" I felt a slight push but that didn't do shit. "Nah but how's life for you?"