TAG... Touch And Go, one of the most universal games in the world, where anyone with language and racial divides can gather together and play a fun game. There are many different twists you can have with tag, such as freeze tag which is one of my favorites... or the type of tag that my cousin and his friend and I play. It's not exactly tag it's something completely different, heck, its not even tag probably just a name they call it to mask up the fact that its pretty much just extreme pranks that go too far.
This is how it is played. One person is selected "it" and they are to play a prank on someone and whoever falls for it... more like falls victim to it is now "it". Pretty simple. Yes very simple and seems like an innocent game to play on eachother, but is it really? No, no it's not because cousin Stokely and his friend Jahseh go too far, like way too far. I don't even really know why I play it, my pranks never hurt people like theirs do. One time I broke my leg when I was pranked by Jahseh, and my cousin just sat there and laughed his skinny butt off. I swear sometimes I wanna kill that nigga.
" (Y/n)!!!! Could you help me prepare the ribs!!" My mom yelled from downstairs.
" Sure Ma! Hold up gimme a second!" I say as I finish unbraiding the rest of my hair creating a pretty braid out. As I hurry up downstairs I hear some familiar voices.
"Hey (Y/n)!"
"Shut up don't talk to me," I say walking toward the kitchen.
"(Y/n) stop being so mean and just say hi before I send you to your room all day." My mom said while grabbing food out of the fridge.
"Hi" I grumble out, walking over to help my mom with the thawed out meats we are to prepare.
"Haha, what yall up to today?" Ski asks.
"Nothing so you might as well just go back home," I said not bothering to look up from what I was doing.
"No, we are gonna have a barbeque, we invited some friends over but I wouldn't mind having you over nephew." My mom looked at me for my reaction after she said this. I pretended to smile but even a dumb person can tell that smile was fake as hell. Ski looked at me and smiled, shit I already know what his ass finna do.
"Hey Aunty, you mind if I bring a friend along, just one?"
"No baby you good, is it that Jahseh kid?" She said and he nodded. Yoooo I deadass wanna fight this jhit right now. He gonna real deal invite Jah knowing damn well I have a fat ass crush on him.
I walked past him to get the dishes and while I did I whispered to him "Aight I see you. Keep fuckin around I dare you." He just laughed. I grabbed the dishes and made sure that when I had walked back around I would stomp the fuck out of his foot, which I did. He cursed hella loud and my mom's head snapped back so quick, it was almost like she was possessed.
"No cussin in my house. You know this Stokely I am real tired of that shit."
"But you cussin!!" He whined.
"Yeah, but like I said no cussin in my house, I own this house, therefore, I make the rules. I can cuss I all I want. But yall kids can't, as long as I am alive yall can't cuss around me. All ya'll kids trying to be grown and shit cussin all the time. Next time I hear you doing that shit imma make yo Mama come here and beat yo ass or maybe I will just do it." I try to stifle a laugh as I look back at Ski, he stares at me all angry like, I stick my tongue out at him and continue what I'm doing.
As I continued to help my mother prep the food to be grilled I lost track of time, the sun was going down and more and more people were arriving at my house. My mom told me to walk out of the kitchen and get presentable so I can mingle with the guest. I did as instructed and went to my room to change but to my surprise two people were sitting on my bed scrolling through my laptop. I never ran so fast in my life, my legs went before my brain had the time to process what I was doing, Jahseh and Ski looked up to see me dash toward them. I attempted to take the laptop out of my cousin's lap but he grabbed it just as I was pulling it toward me. So now we were having a tug of war with my laptop, on the inside I was afraid the it would break but I had to stay calm or he would take advantage of that.
"Yo X pull her arms away." Stoke said, with ease my arms were pulled behind my back and I was pratically thrown to the floor.
"Look at the type of shit she be searchin bruh" Stokely said. Jah walked right over to the laptop and a wave of synchronised annoying laughs followed.
Ugh they annoy me so much. I get up and snatch my laptop from his hands.
"Get out of my room right now!" I point toward the door, making sure to not break I contact from the two boys so they can tell I am serious. But instead they just laughed.
"Girl shut up, we can stay in here if we want. You get out." My stupid ass cousin said while pointing at the door just like I did less than a mere minute ago.
"Noooo for real, I have to get dressed. And y'all gonna have to leave so that I can do thaaaat!" I whined. I start to push both the boys put of my room and to my pleasure they both left. Before getting dressed I lock my door and begin to find something thats presentable but also noticeable since Jah was here. I swear why do I even like this boy? I must just be stupid, like short bus stupid, to think that me dressing any kind of way could impress him, I doubt he likes me. But it's still worth the try since this hopeless crush isn't going anywhere.
Everything was going well, my mom was using my little brother to entertain her friends and my dad was in the back barbecuing and talking about sports with some random men, you know manly things. Which left me to walk around and make sure people were enjoying themselves. I was just about to enter the backyard when I tripped on something slippery and fell foward and somewhat landed on a swivel chair, and I say somewhat because I didn't quite land my butt on the part of the chair one is susposed to sit on, but rather my stomache hit one side of the armrest and as a result my upperbody flung foward and my collar hit the other armrest. The chair then rolled toward the pool in my backyard, everything was happening too fast, I couldn't comprehend what was going on until I had already splashed into the water.
I risen from the water, gasping for air, flailing my arms like a bird attempting to fly for the first time. I looked around and noticed almost everybody was staring at me, mostly concerned, some confused, and only two others were laughing, I mean dying laughing. I have never been so mad and embarrased in my life. I swam out of the water once I finally calmed down. Embarrassment settled upon me, I slowly walked to my room and told all who were asking that I was fine. Once I had made it to my room I changed my clothes and basically called it a night, even though it was about 7.
"Aye yo that was so funny! The way you fell into the water!" X yelled from the other side of the door.
"I know right haha, it was even funnier than I thought it would be!" My cousin replied. I buried my head in my pillow and groaned. I knew they had something to do with that, I am so stupid I swear!
"Open the door girl!" Stoke yelled.
"No!" I yelled back. "Leave me alone I don't want to talk to any of you, y'all really had to do that infront of company? That's so embarrasing, go away!" I pushed my face back into my pillow.
"Whatever man. You a lil crybaby. We bout to leave anyways. You it by the way!" Stoke yelled.
Yeah I know I am it. I'm gonna get them both back, but how?
Um so yeah, sorry I have been gone for a while. I had writer's block all Feburary and March and I kept writing bits and pieces but never finished. So I decided to continue cuz I felt bad lol. But here we are a new chapter and I am completely in the mood to continue writing. Please forgive me 😭😭
