Four beautiful African American best friends navigate their own trial and error through modern day society.

" I think I'm bad as hell I got issues, out of line." Solána a college student, with the reputation of being boujee, thinks she has everything she needs. Yet, when Destiny walks into her life, nothing will ever be the same...

so many mini-stories and scenes pop into my head & i have absolutely no time to develop them into full novels so I'm making a book of one shots. This book will feature people that I feel should be utilized more in fanfics or be casted in leading roles in novels on here more. This will also be another platform for me to showcase the multi-dimensionality of african americans. so enjoy.

"Get her"I heard them yell. I ran as fast as I could and made it to my truck. I unlocked it and got inside and then locked the door. I tried to turn on the car on but I was so scared that my hands were shaking. I heard banging and seen them. "Open the door"One of them yelled. I had finally got my key in the ignition but then one of them busted my window making glass go into my arm. I instantly groaned and held onto my now bleeding arm. They opened the door and pulled me out. The one that was holding me, I punched him in the neck making him let go of me. I tried to run but one of them caught so I kicked him in the balls making him let go of me. I tried to run again but stopped when I felt a gun to the back of my head. "Stop"He said and I instantly knew it was the one with the braids. "I want you to get into that car over there"He said gesturing to a Bugatti. "Understand"He said and I didn't say anything. "I said do you understand?"He said and I heard the gun click. "Yea I understand"I mumbled and then walked over to the car getting inside. He got in the driver seat and then drove off. What have I gotten myself into?

Even when it gets to be too much, don't jump.

2016©| Childhood memories crowed my mind when I saw her smile or trying to remember the handshake from our childhood that I never forgot. She doesn't know I remember but if acting as if I don't will keep her around longer then I don't. We could spend hours together talking about nothing or just seamlessly listening to her talk about herself. I was never listening but her voice soothed my very being. She knew me like the back of her hand and I liked it like that. She left for a summer to visit her folks and I made a one mistake. One night. One Time. Ruined my life. Everything shattered. Perfect memories of our future was ripped apart carelessly. Everything's around me was falling apart. My life was ruptured and it was my fault. Life as I knew it was over. Or was it just a new beginning? | Remade on 1/2/16 |

2015©| Damn being "ugly" and growing up in a house a gorgeous sisters its hard to be positive and have confidence especially when they got all the attention that you yearned for. Moving to Harlem just made it worst. Niggas always on the front door step chasing my sister but "me" I was duff a walkie talkie only being talked too to tell them about my sisters. Then I met Rakim. He was the same as the others and tried even harder at my sisters than them. I was going insane, trying to keep myself sane was even harder. I'm done. I can't I won't

2015©| I never really got to know "Joey". But I got to know Jo-Vaughn very well. I got to know the prodies too but my heart was completely set on Jo-Vaughn. You could say I was head over heels but always hid it while around him and the prodies. I always kept my hopes up because I was only 3 years younger than him. I listened to their cyphers without them knowing because one of them would shoo me away and the whole group would go along with it to shut him up. They were talented...very talented. In 10th grade I was alone so I began to drown myself in clothes. Although Joey graduated he was still up there everyday as if he was held back but we didn't talk much....not at all really. I became closed up and boxed in focusing strictly on fashion and school. The people that knew me were ghost that I looked right through. They acted as if I was a alien and they were the last humans on earth. I soon got use to it and cut them off just as they did me. My hopes that maybe me and Joey would be a thing was gone.

Rakim Mayers best known as Rocky on the streets finds his life being strangely rearranged when he begins to find interest in a girl named Skylar. Getting girls has never been a problem for Rocky due to his good looks, sweet charm and street wits but, Skylar isn't like the other girls and Rocky just can't to feel drawn to her. Initially Skylar wants nothing to do with Rocky but, he's a bad boy that's hard to avoid seeing that they live on the same block. The more they encounter one another, the closer they become to each other and, they soon find out that they are connected in a very peculiar way. Will Rocky be willing to adjust to change for love or will he discard his interest and continue with his life as a bachelor?

"Heard about you, heard about me?" Leah a shy insecure teen, goes through a lot in her life, from her step dad beating her every day and going though what seems like life long depression, her 6 month old daughter is the one to give her life. But when she meets Quincy, (Q) the well know drug Lord in the streets of Compton, will her life change for the better? ~likejigga- ™©