-living the sweet life-

chapter 5

Xavier's p.o.v.
As I drive us to the hideout it comes to my attention that when terrel was telling the story of what happened in the restaurant he had alittle jealously stuck in his throat. I dont know maybe I'll bring it up when we go in side.

-9:56 p.m.-

"Alright sleepy heads let's go, were here. I say putting the car In park. "Marcus do you mind waking everybody up I gotta use the bathroom." I ask, he nods his head and I walk out the car.

I finish up and come out to the lobby area. Everyone is sitting in a circle and I take a seat next to tiffany.
It was quiet for a good minute.

"So let's talk about the elephant in the room." Jazmim says smirking. " what elephant?" I ask now getting involved. She looks over at damarcus and Ashley then looks back at me. I never really paid so much attention to how "close" they were.

" do I see a teacher-student relationship forming." I laugh alittle bit smirking. I knew I was testing his patience by saying that. But sometimes I forgot that this nigga marcus got anger issues lowkey tho.

"Do I see a fist to face relationship forming?" He says with a straight face cracking his knuckles. At that point his phone starting ringing. Ashley flips over his phone, I guess she has the privilege of doing that. Orrrr maybe not. "Dont touch my phone." He says taking it from her.

It's so easy to tell when marcus is pissed. His voice gets like 10x deeper. "Hello?" He says. Theres a pause. "AYO MAL!" ( it's not pronounced m-al its pronounced as m-all) He says laughing.

"Who's mal? I ask Ashley. "Hes probably talking to Jamaal the guy that we were talking to in the restaurant earlier. "I'm surprised he called him already." She says to me. "So how do yall know him again." I ask, brittany rolls her eyes. "Hes Brittany's ex-" she says but gets cut off.

"We gET It HeS BriTtAnY's Ex!" Terrel screams getting up, grabbing his beeda and walking out the lobby to his and damarcus room.

"Hold up mal, imma call you back." Damrcus says hanging up the phone. Ohhh shiiii it's about to go down.

Damarcus p.o.v

I'm trynna have a conversation with my new friend mal gang leader of TIL , ya know just getting to know each other. Then I hear a door slam. And I know for a figgy fact that anit nobody slamming doors in the house.

" imma call you back" I hang up the phone and turn around slowly. Everyone looks at me. I look at them. " oh my bad yall stay here looking pretty and I'll go figure out what's wrong with him!" I say rolling my eyes and walks away. Ashley gets up and follows me.

"Are you sure you want to go In there with me?" She nods her head. " he might not seem like one but hes a pretty dangerous man when hes mad."I say warning her.

"Trust me he seems like one." She laughs which gets me to laugh too. "Alright no more laughing this is serious, terrel is upset or whatever you wanna call it and he needs his younger bro." I say not cracking a smile. We need to figure this out.

"TERREL OPEN UP!!" I scream banging on the door. He opens the and looks at Ashley. He opens the door wider and lets us in.

" why yo girl here?" Terrel says with a straight face. "1. She anit my girl, 2. I dont know she thinks she knows why you mad or w.e" I say back. " im not mad just annoied." he says. ashleys silent. "ba- ashley whats wrong?" i say.

"terrel do you like brittany." she says in a soft voice. i look over at terrel and he mad stuck. "i um- i wouldnt say i like her." he says. was that the best he could up with. " yes you do. " ashley says. " thats why you got mad when we was with jamaal and you were mad when we mention him. " she says sounding smart. " i mean i never noticed it but yeah you may be right ash.
" 

" okay i may like her but im not dumb i know that she likes jamaal still, even if that is her ex." terrel says. ashley starts laughing. "you thinks she likes him!" she says cant even get the words out. " they dated in like 1st grade
!"

she room gets silent. " ugh i fell so dumb right now." terrel says putting his hands over his face.

ashleys p.o.v

"would you have an issue with me telling brittany this conversation?" i ask him. he gets serious and looks up. "damarcus, get yo girl."he says looking at him. " 1. she anit my girl 2. yeaaaa hes gonna have an issue with you telling her this conversation." damarcus says turning to me 

" okay but shes gonna ask what happened." 

" tell her its better that she doesnt want to know that should shut her up." terrel says getting up and leaving the room. its silent at this point. " um ashley?" damacrsus says my name in a soft tone. "yeah?" he does alittle chuckle. " never mind."

at that he gets up and im all alone, in terrels room, with nothing to do. i get caught up in my thoughts, with all of this drama happening with brittany and terrel and jamaal it makes me wonder where do i stand with damarcus. i pause and then all i hear is glass breaking. "TERREL STOP!" i hear brittany and tiffany screaming. 

i run downstairs. i see terrel head locking damarcus. i turn to jazmin. " jaz what happened." she drinks some water seeming to have no issue with what just happened. " short story, damarcus was making fun of terrel for being "jealous" of jamaal so then terrel invited damarcus ex because shes annoying but damarcus wasnt having that so he threw glass at him and now were here." she says pointing at them.

would damarcus ex being here change anything between me and him. i mean nothing really happened between us yet but something could. i hear a knock at the door. " oh my god now this girl here!" damarcus says slamming terrel getting him off of him and walks towards the door. 

"OMG DAMARCUS!!! see i knew that you missed me but when you invited me over i thought that there could still be something between us and-" the girl at the door starts saying real fast. " i didnt invited you terrel did." damacrus says cutting her off. " oh why would he do that?" she ask " i dont know call him and ask your not coming in." he says slamming the door on her face. " im sick of this shii." damrcus goes upstairs and goes into his room and calls jamaal.

" what the hell just happened. "