Blood Diamonds

Jealous Much?

Blood Diamonds: Chapter 16

~Charnae P.O.V.~
~A Few Days Later~

"So what are your plans after school?" Marquez asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee. The dark roast filled my nose with such a strong scent.

"I honestly don't really know." I said with a shrug of my shoulders. The thing about Marquez was he never liked to be in anybodies business. The only time he would question me was on nights where he knew he was going to be home late. That seemed fair enough in my opinion.

"No plans with that kid Travie?" He asked with a small laugh.

"That kid, as in my boyfriend?" I rose an eyebrow to match my smirk.

"Yeah that's the one."

"He's been acting weird lately. I guess he's been focusing a lot more with his other priorities." Marquez knew about Travie, just not enough to know he was in a serious gang. That info didn't need to be brought to Marquez's attention.

"I'm letting you be a grown up and handle your relationship but just be cautious alright? I don't want to have to pick up the pieces if you're hurt." He said in a sympathetic tone just before he took a long sip of his coffee.

"I know, but thank you. I'm gonna get going to school. I'll text you if anything comes up. Otherwise I'm just gonna come straight home and chill till you get home." I went to the key hook and saw my keys weren't there. "Where are my keys?" I said before he had the chance to respond to my previous statement.

"It's in the shop. One of your back lights is out remember?" Oh shit. That's right.

"Can you give me a ride?" I asked.

"Sorry Charnae I can't. I need to get to work myself, can you get a ride from a friend?" He said in a tone that indicated he felt bad about denying me.

"I'll find one. Bye Marquez." I said with a reassuring smile as I walked out the door and gently closed it behind me. I pulled out my phone and quickly texted Travie asking for a ride.

I waited a solid 10 minutes and got no response from him. I let out a sigh before I looked through my phone. I would have asked Sonya except she can't drive and I didn't have Dontario's number so I couldn't ask him.

"Hello?" "Hey Joel, I need a huge favor." I asked with a slight gulp. "Sure thing, wassup?" "Do you think you could give me a ride to school? My car is in the shop and-" "I don't need an explanation. I'll come get you." He said with a little laugh. "Thank you so much Joel." "No prob, Imma pull up in 5." "Okay bye." I hung up and put my phone in my bag before I walked down the apartment stairs and down the drive.

As if on the dot he pulled up in his black Lamborghini that still left me in amazement.

"Morning." He said once I got in.

"Morning and thank you so much again." I said as I quickly buckled my seatbelt. I took a good look at him and saw he had a red bandana tied around his head under his black beanie.

"No problem, so since we're gonna be late, wanna just skip first and get breakfast or something?" He asked as he looked my way. I also noticed he had light freckles under his eyes. You could barely see them because they almost matched his skin tone but they were there.

"Might as well." I looked down at my phone and saw it was already 8:26. There was no way we could make it to our classes in 4 minutes. "What are those initials on your bandana?" I asked. I saw "IR" but the other letters or just letter was covered.

"It's "IRG" just my gangs initials." Those matched the initials he had tattooed behind his ear. I nodded my head and decided to stop studying Joel. There was so much about him that left you wondering. He had all kinds of symbols and acronyms, it was almost overwhelming for my curiosity.