Washington State's campus was fuckin beautiful, I had only been here a few hours and it was already in my top three along with The University of Oregon and The University of Washington. Izaia wasn't really feeling it though he thought that I could do better on an SEC team like Alabama or LSU, it's crazy how even though we had only been together a few weeks he was already looking out for what was in my best interest helping me choose schools, studying for the ACT and SAT, just having my back..... I looked over at Izaia as he strutted through campus with his hands in his pockets, he had been pretty quiet for most of the trip and I figured it had something to do with Nayquinn and Shymal being here. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to tell him about what happened with me and Shymal.... or rather what Shymal did in my bathroom. His quietness was making me anxious and it didn't help that we were waiting outside the stadium for our tour guide and he had said anything in like twenty minutes. Finally, after I couldn't take the silence anymore, I turned to Izaia at the exact same time as he turned to me and we both tried to talk at the same time.
"Let me go first...." Izaia said picking some lint out of my hair. "So I was thinking... I'm tired of all that fighting and shyt with Nayquinn and them, that shyt is lame and eventually it's going to get one of us hurt or killed. So I'm going to talk to Denzel and Eddie and let them know that as long as them niggas don't try shyt, the beef is dead." Izaia said and from what I've seen the issue isn't really Nayquinn and Shymal, all the fights with a few exceptions usually start with Raynard and Onyx.
"Yeah because I would hate for you to get banned from the house." I said smiling and Izaia nodded slowly. "What else is on your mind because I know when you're deep in thought and you've been like that for the last hour."
"I was actually thinking about next weekend.... you know there's a gathering and I figured the first step towards peace would be to invite Shymal." Izaia said and I stood there stuck because of the million and one things that I thought was going through his head, that definitely wasn't one of them. "Look I know what it's like.... growing up around homophobic people; not so much my boys but family members, teammates, supposed friends..... maybe that nigga Shymal just needs a place to release some of the frustration he's feeling." Izaia said quietly as if he was embarrassed by the suggestion.
"I'll ask him but I think it's better if we do it together.... right now we need to table this discussion because our tour guide is here." I said nodding to the dude who I assumed was here to show us the stadium and other facilities.
Three hours later we were getting back to the hotel, I was hungry as fuck and it's not because we couldn't eat but because Marcelino wanted us to all go out together and try to have some fun as a group. I kinda wish Ka'Jai was here because it didn't feel right without him being here but I know he has the internship or whatever so he couldn't make it when we got up to the rooms shyt was weird..... Like there was this energy in the air that just felt.... I don't know how to describe it; Marcelino and Mauricio were shooting daggers at each other with their eyes, Denzel and Montello seemed intrigued by the showdown between the twins, Shymal was texting on his phone but the weirdest shyt of all was Nayquinn and Shooter.
"What's going on with y'all?" I asked Mauricio who was the closest to me and the look on his face told me that he didn't want to talk about it, so I turned to Marcelino who just walked out onto the balcony.
"Ayy I was thinking... since they're beefing we can trade rooms? Look I'm just trying to keep the peace because y'all know I'll probably get blamed for any fighting; so look Marcelino, Shymal, and Montello can switch rooms, Mauricio can go to Denzel's room, and Shooter can stay in my room since he'll be teaching me sign language all night." Nayquinn said inhaling his blunt from the patio while Shooter signed something I couldn't understand.
