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Janel was running late to her next class due to a meeting she had with the principal and counselor. Apparently Stephanie told them about what happened and that she and Louis might miss a couple of days. Janel would probably be mad at the fact that someone else knew, but now she didn't care. Maybe this will help her with all during all this shit.

While walking to her class, she gets pulled into a hallway that nobody ever really goes on, unless they need privacy.

"What the hell- Israel?!" When Janel looked at Israel, he looked rough. He had bags under his eyes and paler than usual. You could even still see bruises from the fight him and Philly had.

"You told someone. They wanna take this to court." Israel said.

"I-I gotta go to class, Israel." Janel tried to walk away, but Israel caught ahold of her and held a tight grip.

"My dad is really fucking mad at me, you know?" Israel said. "I told you that I was sorry."

Janel looked at like he lost his mind, which he clearly has, "you fucking raped me, and you expect me to accept that shit ass apology?"

A tear rolled down his eye, "what if I told you that I love you?" Israel said.

"Let me go," Janel said while shaking her head. Israel held that same tight grip, "let me go, you crazy mothafucka!"

"No, Janel. I'm sorry I hurt you." Israel said with his face flooding with tears.

"Israel, I swear to God I'll scream so fucking loud if you don't get your bitch ass hands off of me!" After that Israel got scared and let her go. No one knew he was here, he's missed school since Zen's birthday. Half of the school was at that party, they knew what he did. Israel wasn't trying to be criticized by the school.

Janel ran out into the main hallway, she bumped into someone, knocking her down. "Nelly, are you okay?" The person asked helping her up.

Janel looked to see Mr. Adams, "he's crazy," Janel said crying into his chest.

"Who is, babygirl?" Mr. Adams asked with concern. Mr. Adams then remembered what Louis told him had happened at homecoming. Mr. Adam escorted her to his class room. He had a free class period at the moment. Janel sat down on stool close to his desk.

"I guessing Louis told you what happened?" Janel asked.

"Yeah... I'm sorry about everything." He said with a sad smile sitting at his desk.

"It's not your fault. Thanks for helping me back there." 

"Of course. So Israel is here? He hasn't been here for couple days, almost two weeks now." Mr. Adams said.

"Yeah, but he probably already left the building." Janel couldn't stand talking about Israel, "I should get to class. Thank you helping me, again." She rushed out before he could even reply.

~Later That Day~

Louis was getting ready to leave school and drop off Janel and Zen at home so he could get ready for his shift at Target. When they made their way to Louis and Janel's apartment Louis got a call from a unknown number.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Louis?" The person on the other side said.

"Yeah. Who is this?"

"Um..." the person took a long pause, "it's Sofia." His mom said.

Louis hasn't thought about her since he first seen her at the mall. Louis hasn't thought about that day at all. So much shit happened that he didn't want to remember.

"How did you get my number?" Louis asked. Zen walked in his room at the same time and sat on his bed.

"I asked around. Louis I know I'm not your favorite person right now-"

"I have to go to work." Louis cut her off.

"Wait!" Sofia said just before he could hang up, "could we meet up? You and Janel, I just really need to talk to you guys."

"I have to talk Janel first." Louis said, "she has a lot of shit going on right now. I gotta go." He hung up.

"Is everything okay?" Zen asked.

"That was my mom. She said she wanna meet up with us." Louis said referring to him and Janel.

Zen's eyes got wide, "how did she even get your number?" Zen asked. Louis shrugged, "whatchu gon do?" Zen asked.

Louis shrugged again, "I don't know. I'll talk to Janel, but I don't want this to interfere with the court shit that's coming up."

Zen got up and walked behind, "I can see your stressed, don't worry about her right now. Focus on Janel." Zen said, massaging his shoulders.

"You right." He turned around to kiss her, "thanks amor."

"You welcome. You know I'm here for you always." Zen said.

As Louis and Zen got more and more serious, Louis found himself ranting to her about all his life problems. Zen was just always so understanding and just willing to listening to him. She gave the best advice, and the best part of all of this is she didn't judge. Louis felt like Zen never open up to him because it's always about him. She hasn't really opened up to him except for that time about her mother.

"Thank you, amor. I'm for you too, you know?" Louis said.

Zen smiled, "I know, babe." She kissed him.

"I should get going now. I'll see you later." They shared one more kiss before Louis left. He went to say bye to his sister.

Louis has been at for a hour or two, and was now on break. He was sitting in the car on the phone with Janel. "What time do you get off again?" Janel asked.

"8 o'clock. Why?" Louis responded.

"Just asking. Are you eating?" Janel asked knowing that Louis never eat on his breaks.

"No, but can I talk to you about something?"

"What is it? You sound serious." Janel asked getting scared.

"How would you feel if we went met up with Sofia?" Louis asked slowly. He decided not not to keep it a secret from her.

"Sofia as in our mom?" Janel asked in confusion.

"Yeah. She called me earlier today asking for us. I told her I would talk to you first."

"I wanna see her." Janel said with a hint of excitement in her voice, "when are we going to see her?"

"Calm down... I have to call her back first." Louis said. "Are you sure you want to see her?"

"Yes, I'm sure. We haven't seen her in forever." Janel said.

"Okay I'll call her." Louis said. After they talked for a little more. They hung up, Louis went to the number that called him earlier. His thumb hovered over the number for a bit longer then it should have. Louis presses the number...

"Hello... Louis?" Sofia answered.

"Yeah it's me. Janel she wants to see you." Louis said.

"That's great." Sofia said.

"So.... when we meeting up?"

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