Travenna State University

Chapter 6: Timing

I couldn't sleep that night at all. I still had the gruesome images of Zaveon's hands in my head. I wanted to know if he was really "okay." Zaveon and I got into only 1 fight and that was in middle school over a girl that was playing both of us. I didn't understand him and why he was letting Nu Nu Psi Punish him like that. I think he's still seeking acceptance from his father. Even though he and his father were close, they were still very distant. Zaveon wanted to sing and preform, but his father insisted on living his dreams through Zaveon. His father was into sports and he joined Nu Nu Psi during undergrad. Zaveon wasn't anything like his father. I don't even think Zaveon knows that.
The next morning, I got out of bed and headed to the records building to pick up my transcript. One thing I can say about the student records building is that your time doesn't matter to them. They process things when they want. The lady at the desk was rude of course and caught an attitude with me, but I let it slide because I was ready to turn my whole packet in today. I had just enough to cover my membership fees from my savings account. I was extremely happy I didn't have to ask my father for anything. He didn't even know I dropped out of Nu Nu Psi and I was not ready to tell him. I sent a text message to Zaveon telling him to call me when he got a chance. I didn't want to be that friend who wasn't there or didn't have his back during this time period in his life. After leaving the records building, I decided to hit Bryan and Kenny up.
Bryan and Kenny didn't live on campus. Their parent's rented them a little pent house in Summerville by the lake for the semester. The twins had money and I mean money. Correction, their parents had money. I tried calling them both, but no one answered, so I went to the cafe alone. In the cafe, I saw Tyrese Walker. This was the first time I've ever seen dude on campus. He had on gray fitted jeans, a New York Yankee fitted cap, and a checkerboard hoodie with vans.
I yelled out, "Yo Tyrese, what's good my nigga?"
He dapped me up, "Nothing much my dude, coolin'." He exclaimed as he pulled his headphones from his ear.

I asked if he was going to sit down and eat and he said yeah. I told him I'll go upstairs to find us a table since all the tables down stairs of the cafe were taken. Tyrese nodded and went into the pizza line. I grabbed a sandwich upstairs. I found an empty table and put my stuff down so I could go downstairs to get me an orange soda. As I went downstairs I saw my old roommate, Tyrone, coming upstairs. He was with a few guys that were on line with him for Nu Nu Psi. I maintained tunnel vision as if he wasn't there. He, of course, stopped and looked at me like he wanted to say something. "I hate that nigga! Ha ha ha!" Tyrone said to one of his LBs as I walked passed them. I wasn't in the mood today to sneak that fool in the cafe. I was more focused on school and making it through this MIP process. I went to the soda line and by my surprise Ryan came over and dapped me up. "Where y'all table?" He asked with two plates in his hand. It was obvious that he met Tyrese in here also.
I told him, "Upstairs to the far right, next to the stairs. I have a sandwich and my gray back pack up there as well." He went upstairs to find the table, meanwhile, Tyrese was behind me getting a soda. I looked at his plate and was like, "Damn nigga! When was the last time you ate?!"
He smiled and said, "Chill the fuck out nigga."
We both walked upstairs. As we got towards our table, I noticed Tyrone and his brothers pointing and talking about us. It didn't bother me at all. These lame ass niggas need validation and I had no time to play games with Tyrone's sensitive ass. At the table, I noticed Ryan eating extremely fast.
"You good?" I said smirking. While he tried to stuff a spoon full of rice down his throat, he kept saying, "I'ma be late." He had a 3:00 class and it was 3:10. He was already late for his freshman seminar class.
"Dude you're late as hell." I said looking at him.
He jumped up quick with a mouth full of food, muffling. "I'll holla at y'all later." Then he left. I could hear loud talking approaching the upstairs area and I knew it was girls. I saw Britney Lace and Ashley Michaels making their way upstairs. I didn't want to speak to Ashley because she was a complete bitch, but of course she came over to bother me.