Brittany Hills Chronicles: Act 1

Valentino 49

Every single one of us had a reason to hate Collins but him putting his hands on Jace was the thing that set all of us off; I've been wanting to beat Collins ass since Jace told me that Collins had been smelling and stealing my boxers, I knew Carter and Dejon were just biding there time for the shyt he did to Ronnie and the perfect moment came when we got back to the house and Mrs. Williams the Executive Director had called and basically told Collins that his shyt would be mailed to him. I guess that nigga Devin came through though we were ecstatic the moment was short lived because in a fit of rage Collins punched Jace in the nose and for an old dude he hit Jace pretty hard but he instantly regretted that decision because the rest of us were on his ass. I'm not going to lie Collins got a good shot on me though it was completely by accident, he was flailing around and his elbow connected with my eye which enraged me, even more, I was about to channel my inner Shawn Michaels and Sweet Chin Music his ass but then I noticed Jace walking out of the kitchen with a large butcher knife.

"YO JACE CHILL!!!!" Ronnie said going to stop Jace because I've never seen Jace this mad before, he was looking down right murderous. "That dude isn't worth it, just put the knife down." Ronnie said standing in front of Jace and for a second I though that he was getting through to him but then Jace saw his reflection in the mirror and broke down.

"I LOOK LIKE FUCKIN HAZEL E BEFORE THE NOSE JOB SO DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN RONDELL!!!!" Jace said trying to get passed Ronnie and Antwan but it was too late Collins had already run out the house, jumped in his beat up ass car and sped off. After the police came and did their report we were all way too wired to go to sleep. "I'm not going to school tomorrow.... I refuse to walk around with my nose looking like this." Jace said touching his swollen nose.

"Well at least none of y'all got arrested but you should really let me take you to the hospital, Jace." Big Mike said and I looked at him wondering why he didn't stop us from beating Collins' ass, actually now that I think about it, he seemed to be enjoying the show more than anybody.

"I don't need to go to a fuckin hospital, what I need is a Vicodin and a shot of tequila. You need to worry about Valentino because his eye looks worse than my nose.... Valentino come with me I need to talk to you really quick." Jace said pulling me into the kitchen. "I need a favor." Jace said touching his nose.

"No.... I already know what you're going to ask and I'm staying out of it, whatever you and Kameron got going on is between y'all and I don't like spreading people's business so any questions you got for me should be directed at him." I said looking in his eyes.

"Ugh you are so shady..... here I was helping you with Jasmine and you can't dig up a little information on Kameron for me? Matter fact it's your fault I'm in this situation now, all I need for you to do it call your brother and see if Kameron's mom is really sick. If anyone should know it would be your brother since they were friends." Jace said.

"Man aight..... I'll call Vince and see what he knows, but I really think you and Kameron should discuss this without you going around his back. I would hope he wouldn't lie about something like that but niggas lie about any and everything." I said shrugging.

"I don't lie about shyt if I see anything I don't......" Jace didn't get to finish because Tay walked in looking pissed.

"Where is that nigga at?" Tay asked looking like he was about to go hunting for Collins. I decided to give them some space while I went to go check on my bro Carter, I know he's been going through a lot this week and I wanted to make sure that he was good. I walked into his room and he was pacing around.

"You good bro?" I asked sitting on his bed. "You were trying to break that nigga's face." I said laughing and he smirked a little.

"I was actually trying to kill that nigga, I swear to god I've been wanting to do that for a while.... to be honest, I was probably going to steal on his ass whether he hit Jace or not. But whatever I'm just trying to burn off some energy......" Carter said and I knew exactly what he was talking about.

"You better call that nigga Josiah, shyt that nigga Tay is down there I know he got some nigga lined up. But I know what you're going through, I think this is the longest I've gone without sex." I said shaking my head. "We haven't even kissed yet.... but I'm really feeling her so I'm willing to be patient." I said looking out the window, I spent about an hour talking to Carter before taking my ass to sleep.

The next day we were at school and it seemed like everyone knew about Devin coming to the house and the ensuing fight with Collins afterward. Most people were under the mistaken assumption that I had got signed by Devin but that wasn't true, I wish it was but I couldn't even speak around that nigga. He was..... it was hard to describe, he just had this confidence that I've never felt and I was around Carter who was until yesterday the most confident person I've ever met; I just really hoped that nigga Devin checked out my song because I was ready to get the fuck outta Brittany Hills......

"AHH WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!" I asked as Jasmine walked up to me, grabbed my face and started examining my face. "Damn you are really rough...." I said smiling a little bit. "It's not as bad as it looks...." I said and Jasmine just stood there looking at me.

"It doesn't look too bad.... I guess I can deal with it, if it had been worse I'm not sure if I would've been able to come to the game with you Friday night." Jasmine said smirking and I couldn't think of anything to say I had been begging her to come with me and now I was finally getting an answer. "Just have Furby cover it up a little and you should be fine, I'll be ready an hour before the game starts." Jasmine said kissing me, then smiling as she walked over to her friends who started giggling. The rest of the day I couldn't stop smiling and everything seemed to be going well, me and Carter skipped last period and were chilling in the back parking lot when Montez showed up.... I really didn't know why he was here and I had no intention of speaking to him.

"So you're just going to ignore me like a little bitch?" Montez said and I swung on him which he dodged easily. "Look punk the only reason I'm here is because your sister was worried about you and since I love her I told her I would check on you....." Montez said and I rolled my eyes. "Quit rolling your eyes, men don't roll their eyes....."

"Bitch ass nigga I don't like you and you don't like me, it's also clear that Victoria doesn't give damn about me or Vince so what is the real reason why you're here?" I asked looking to his eyes as Carter shifted ever so slightly moving to Montez's side and I knew he was waiting for the signal to punch his ass.

"Valentino you have no idea what Victoria thinks about you and Vince.... but since I see that you're okay I'll go and let your sister know so she can get some peace of mind and stop stressing because that's not good for my baby." Montez said glancing at Carter and walking off.

"We should've jumped his ass....." Carter said watching Montez walk off.

"I know but something about that seemed off to me, it's no secret that Montez doesn't like me and after he shot up the house and sent his cousins to jump me...... I don't know man it just seems fishy. You don't think it has anything to do with that nigga Devin do you?" I asked and Carter shrugged. "How does everybody even know about that shyt anyways?" I asked.

"My money is on that nigga Antwan, he was the only person there who could've said something. Dejon wouldn't say anything, Ronnie wouldn't say anything and neither one of us said it, Jace isn't here so who else could it be?" Carter said and though he had a point I highly doubted that Antwan would do some shyt like that, whatever I had more important stuff to worry about like Jasmine and Montez.

"Ayy I kinda need your help with something though...... it's kinda personal and I don't want anyone else knowing, so if I tell you what it is you gotta swear never to talk about it with anyone; not Dejon, not Jace, not Jasmine and especially not Ronnie." Carter said and I could tell that whatever he was about to tell me was extremely serious and potentially life changing.

"Aight you have my word I won't say anything......" I said and he nodded.

"Okay here's the thing I kinda found out some shyt about..........................................