nothing less ➸ demar derozan

nine

DeMar

"So Friendsgiving at my place?" Kevin asked the boys and I in the locker room as we finished getting ready after the mini scrimmage we had after school. We played a pretty good team, but our team just simply had too many better players to beat them.

"Yeah, that sounds like a plan," Paul nodded and picked up the rest of the sweaty jerseys and tossed them into the bins. He always picked up after the rest of us because he was a major neat freak. We didn't mind though because we knew damn well that we weren't going to do it. Out of all of us, he's the most appreciated man on the team.

"We're should have a Madden and 2k tournament," DeAndre said.

"Nah," Draymond waved off, "we need to have a blindfold race man."

Some of the boys chuckled while I shook my head, "You tryna make us all get hurt before the season even start?"

"Man, you a lame. I only ever raced in one blindfold race and that stuff was fun."

"You'd be the one to run into something while sprinting," Kyrie joked.

We abrupt into laughter and Dray shakes his head, "Nah, I ain't that dumb. I did knock some people over though."

I grabbed my bag and shook my head. Dray was something else man. I dapped up the rest of the boys and headed out. I covered my head with my windbreaker and walked towards the student parking. I noticed two people hugging up on each other. I didn't mean to stare so hard but they were right in front of me. One of them turned towards me and I realized it was Jimmy.

"You heading out?" He rose his eyebrow.

"Yeah, it's pretty late," I commented. After the game had ended, the coaches and referees would keep adding ten extra seconds to see what we would do in tough situations. It was fun but would get tiring once they kept doing it ten more times.

"True, I'll see you later though," he said and dapped me up. The hair and light complexion of this girl reminded me so much of Isabella, so I didn't look at her because I knew I would be disappointed. I didn't want my game vibes to be ruined when I saw her with Jimmy.

I entered my car and unlocked my phone. I usually turn off all of my notification and log out of every social media so I could be in the zone and just listen to music. I saw a couple notifications from my family wishing me good luck before the scrimmage, but I also saw one from Isabella. I unlocked it and it simply read:

From: Bear 🤣❤️
i know you don't need it but good luck!

I smiled at myself and decided to text her back and tell her that we won but I stopped myself. I looked up once more at Jimmy and that girl that was probably her and shook my head lightly. Instead of texting her, I decided to be petty and call her.

I watched as Jimmy wrapped his arm around her and pull her closer to him while listening to the phone ring. I waited to watch her realize that she was getting a phone call, but she never did. However, the phone did answer but the girl that Jimmy was with never picked it up; Jimmy was with some other chick that wasn't Isabella.

"Hello," she said innocently. I felt the knots in my stomach tighten and my throat close up.

I stuttered, not expecting for the call to be answered, "Hey-Hey."

"Hey, Rozan, you okay?"

"Yeah," I said and tapped the steering wheel lightly. "We won."

"Congrats! How many points did you make?"

"Thirty and nine rebounds, Dray got a triple-double," I informed.

"Dang, I see y'all two," she chuckled causing me to smile lightly.