Exiled... Again

Jacobi 5

Despite how exhausted I was, I was happy as fuck to see Quran, and the fact that Naz was back just made things that much better; the only person who was missing was August if he was here things would be perfect. I walked into the dining room and started to fill up my plate, I was hungry as fuck and I wanted nothing more than to eat, go home, take a long ass shower, and the go to sleep until August got off and gave me his usual wake up call. I looked over at Quran who was joking with Tripp and he seemed so happy to be here and seeing him happy just made me happy because I knew he was miserable up in Ohio... I mean who wouldn't they don't even season their food. Then I glanced over at Nazeer who was talking quietly with Lucci, Naz was different... he definitely wasn't the same dude who left here at the end of the summer and he had started to tell me everything he had been through since he went into hiding but he didn't get to finish though I knew there would be plenty of time for us to talk later once everything settled down some.

"Yo ass ain't taking any more trips are you? I came down here to see your funny looking ass and this is the first time I've seen you since I've been here." Quran said looking at me and I smirked.

"I'm sure Semaj has kept you occupied while I was away.... besides, you're seeing me now and if I recall you and I got a rematch we need to be getting back to." I said and Quran winked, last time we were here we had a little sparring match and Quran came out on top; unlike the first time he came to visit where we were legitimately trying to hurt each other, now it was just a sort of game between us and Quran was still a shade better than me when it came to fighting.

"Are we finally going to go bare-knuckle or do your soft ass still wanna use gloves?" Quran asked smiling.

"Nah my face is too damn pretty to go bare-knuckle... but it'll have to be later today because we got a lot of shyt to do today." I said and he turned back to Tripp and DeVaugh trying to figure out how that happened and I didn't blame him because I was still trying to wrap my head around it. "You good Naz?" I asked my best friend and he nodded.... Naz's eyes were a lot colder, like everything he's been through has finally turned him into a cold-hearted person and I hated it because that's not the Naz I grew up with.

"Yeah I'm good... just tired, I gotta meet up with my dad and Leonardo a little later but I'm free to kick it for a few hours." He said quietly and I nodded. "But I want you and Semaj to stop by my place later tonight.... we got a lot to talk about and I want y'all to fill me in on everything I missed, especially what went down with Victor." Naz said and I noticed everyone at the table perk up, I knew for most of them it was still on sight whenever they saw Victor, me I was over that shyt... Victor had shown me his true colors and I just didn't fuck with him, I'd miss our friendship because at one point that was my best friend but I'm coo....

"I know there's some parties going on, I didn't come down here to be around a bunch of niggas." Ishmael.... no Ishaan.... one of them niggas said and I was actually thinking about throwing a little party at my house but I wanted to run it by August because I knew if he had to work he wouldn't want to be around all that noise.

"We can work out the details later today... but Semaj, leave Joseph's ass at home." I said and Quran smiled which told me he had done something devious.

"Y'all trying to ball?" Beaux asked and I should've known that was going to be the first thing he said, his ass was always trying to play basketball and normally I was coo with it but....

"Didn't I literally just pick you up from the basketball court?" I asked and he shrugged. "I got a court at my house, once we finish eating, I'm going home and taking a shower and taking my ass to sleep..... but you can come over and I'll bust your ass real quick in one on one." I said and Beaux nodded.

We sat around laughing and telling some crazy ass stories, of course, Tripp had some of the wildest stories to tell and I wasn't a hundred percent sure he wasn't making them up but they were still funny as fuck. However, there were two people who didn't seem to be enjoying the brunch and that was Naz and Semaj... Naz seemed annoyed by the whole thing and Semaj seemed distracted as well as a little nervous; assessing the situation I figured it would be easier to talk to Semaj first.