veнeмence😥 (Book 1)

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Shatae's POV~

"How you is mane?" Lina and I did our handshake, I did mine with Leanay with a hug, and I gave Dallas a nod.

"Y'all ready to tear dis mall up?" Dallas smirked. Leanay and I shared a look and Lina smacked her lips. "We ain tearin shit up, and if you do- I don't know you. Ian bouta go to jail now. Now let's see where we gon go first." Lina was always sounding like somebody mama.

I already had my list of stores that I had came up with when I had rushed home to clean myself up.

I had taken a nap and I'm not gonna lie, I was half awake when I looked up stores. I told my friends (and Dallas) to wait as I went to the note section of my phone. I nearly collapsed, "Do y'all wanna go to...Men's Wearhouse?" I mentally slapped myself hard. Now what the hell was I on. I said something that wouldn't involve girly clothing but my mind must have been on imaginary crack.

Dallas burst out laughing and Lina and Leanay gave me odd looks. "Girl, you funny," Dallas said after she had brought herself back down to Earth. I started looking through my notes again, I had to have gotten something good on here and not no damn suit store.

"Ight, how about we go to Forever 21?" someone suggested.

"Nooo," I said and everyone rose an eyebrow. Okay, Leanay couldn't, she rose both, but you get what I mean. "You okay, mamas?" Leanay asked and Lina and Dallas shared another look. "Quit," I pinched Dallas and Lina frowned. Dallas smirked at me and Leanay frowned too. "How about we go to the food court, get us some drinks and plan out where we wanna go so we can have fun but be in and out. You know we always end up all over the mall by the time it closes with no damn foo- I mean clothes," I told them.

Leanay sighed, "Fine. But I wanna get me some jeans from 21." Lina nodded in agreement and Dallas said, "And I saw this girl witta fat ass there." Lina smacked Dallas on the back and we headed towards the food court. Of course we got a lot of curious glances from girls that looked like they longed to be us but were yanked away by their stern mothers or fathers.

To anyone looking at us with no inside knowledge, we all probably looked like studs. We all were...I guess. Dallas probably looked like your local drug dealer stud, Lina like your local sex toy, Leanay like your local class clown, and me like your local...stem. But I refused to take that label, because stems weren't even real. They were just confused like bisexual people, and I was a stud. I was just still too attached to my feminine side.

A side I was sure my friends wouldn't accept.

We all got smoothies and sat at the booths they tried to construct in the middle of the mall. "So, Forever 21 first since it's closer, then we can do Rue 21. Then, Victoria Secret cause one of my hoes wanted-

"Do we reallyyy gotta go to Forever 21," I whined.

"Yes," everyone else said firmly.

I sipped my banana and blueberry and green apple smoothie, thinking about how almost every store had a girly section anyways. It was doom waiting for me. I looked up, maybe my friends would be okay with my girly side. I glanced shyly around the table and Leanay and Dallas tried to get eye contact with me. I looked down and I felt a leg against mine.

I couldn't tell who's it was. Only that their pants felt really rough, or either those were my jeans that I was feeling along with theirs. I pretended to drop my napkin but Leanay accidentally kicked me. Yeah, I knew her shoes for sure. Big ass feet. Tiny ahh-

"Oh, my bad," she said with fake innocence. It was probably her ass that had did that. "Ight enough planning," she stood up and the rest of the table did too. Whoever leg it was slid away from mine and I couldn't tell which way it had slid off to. "But we didn't even plan. We only sat for a second," I argued. "Shatae, no offense, but no one obviously wants to plan."