vengeance

home Part 12

Jaylani POV:

I woke up to a loud knock on my door. I rubbed my eyes and looked around the room disoriented. I fell asleep and didn't even realize it. I got up and walked towards the door and opened it, and there stood Jahseh. His eyes widened and he tilted his head and smiled a little. "What happened to you?" He asked. I squinted and backed up and went into the bathroom to look in the mirror. My eyes widened at the reflection I saw staring back at me. My hair was frizzy and my mascara was smeared and I even had a small pimple on my chin. "Ew." I thought to myself. Jahseh came in and stood next to me in the bathroom, staring at both of our appearances in the mirror. 

"Do you mind if I shower?" I asked, turning to face him. He turned to face me and shook his head. 

"Nah go ahead I'll just chill out," he said.

"Okay, make yourself at home," I said as he walked out. 

"Something I've done here many times before!" He yelled back. I shook my head and chuckled to myself and then headed towards the shower and turned the water on. 

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I hopped out of the shower and dried off my hair then wrapped a towel around my body. I then put lotion on and reached for my clothes, just to feel the cold hard counter. Fuck, I forgot to grab clothes. Once again I picked up my towel and wrapped it around myself and then left the bathroom. As soon as I opened the door I was greeted by Jahseh sprawled out on my bed on his phone. He looked up and his eyes widened and his phone slipped from his fingers onto my white comforter. "Close your eyes!" I squealed. He smirked and covered his eyes with his hand. I rolled my eyes and walked over to my dresser and grabbed a pair of sweatpants and an oversized t-shirt, then went back into the bathroom. Once I was in and closed the door I called ou to him; "You can open your eyes now!" I didn't get a response but I knew that his eyes were now open. 

Once I was dressed I walked out again and his eyes shot up and met mine. 

"Alright what are we doing?" I asked as I walked towards the bed. He sat up from his lying down position and scooted to the other side of the bed so there was room for me. There was no reason for him to do that because I ended up sitting at the bottom of the bed crisscrossed while he sat at the top. 

"It's just homework. You have to solve the problems and find the slope of the line and how X effects it." I nodded. He stared at me for a while, and I stared back, thinking it would make him look away but it didn't. "I can do it don't worry about it."

"No, I don't want you to do it on your o-"

"I said I'll do it," he aggressively reassured me. My eyes widened and I sat back and nodded. I grabbed my phone off the side table and started scrolling through it. After 5 minutes I heard "I'm done." I looked up at Jahseh and then down at the textbooks and papers.

"Already?" He nodded. "That was quick." He shrugged. "Well I feel bad that you had to do all the work so how about we watch a movie and I can make us popcorn and cookies." He nodded.

"Sure."

He laid back and I grabbed the ps4 controller off the side of the table and handed it to him. "I dont know how to work this so just pick a movie and I'll be fine with it."

"Alright but I'm not watching another scary movie," he said. I chuckled and walked out of the room and went downstairs.

I was met by Stokeley eating pizza at the island. "Oh hey," I said. 

"Who are you talking to up there?" He asked. I paused.

"Jahseh..."

His eyes widened and he tilted his head and put his piece of pizza down. 

"Why?"

"We're partners for a school project and I'm making us popcorn," I said heading over to the cabinet. "Where do you keep the popcorn?"  He stared at me with an unconvinced look. He got up and walked over to me and reached up and opened a high cabinet and pulled out the popcorn and handed it to me. I'm short so there's no way I would've been able to reach that. "Thanks." He nodded and sat back down. I put the popcorn in the microwave and sat down next to him and grabbed a piece of the pepperoni pizza. 

"I got to take care of something tonight so I'll be gone by 11 and wont be back until around 3."

"3 am?" I asked. He nodded. "What do you have to take care of at 3 am?" He sighed.

"Listen, I'm still... dealing on the side." My eyes widened. 

"What?! Why?" He didn't has to, he was a famous rapper. And not "Famous" he got hundreds of millions of streams on his songs, so it's not like he couldn't afford the life he was living. 

"I don't want to live that lifestyle, but once you start...you can't stop. They won't let you." Then, it hit me. Stokeley wasn't just a drug dealer, he was in a gang.