onenightsavage

anactualmenace

"And that about covers it" I closed my textbook.

Everyone in the tutoring session closed their notebooks and laptops to put them away.

I sprayed my whiteboard and grabbed the towel to clean it.

Afterwards, I pushed it behind the library desk.

They let me keep it there. 

By the time I got back to grab my things, everyone was gone.

I needed to go put my money and these checks in the bank.

Rah called my phone, and my head spun a bit.

"Yes?"

"Babydoll, I'm at ya fuck ass school. Hurry up and come out"

"Did you make an appointment?"

"You got five minutes to be here" He hung up.

I would take my time.

"Alicia, hold up"

I turned around and gave Corbin a look of disgust. "Don't say my name"

"What's up? Are you-"

"It don't matter what the fuck is up. You and I are not friends. We are not cool. Don't speak or step to me ever again in your life"

"Why you acting like that? What happened to you?"

"Are you insinuating that I'm pretending? Don't worry about me" I left the library, holding my head high.

Reno and his friends were in the parking lot too.

Rah sat on the hood of his Lexus, smiling at me.

It was twisted, so I knew that he wasn't feeling very nice right now.

"Keys" I held out my hand.

"You not pushing my whip" He denied.

"It's not up for debate"

"Babydoll, you got the game fucked up"

I smiled an unhappy smile and turned around. "Bye"

He pulled me back and pointed a finger in my face. "You doing the shit on purpose"

"On the account of 'no I'm not', I'm not" I pointed my finger back in his face and pushed up against his nose slightly.

He dropped the keys in my other hand.

"A pleasure doing business with you, Rah" I got in on the driver's side.

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"You never even held a gun before. Why are you so fascinated?"

"Why are you so fascinated with me?" I picked a gun off of his wall.

"Cause I held you before"

"You forcin' ass nigga. I had no choice"

"We did real good today. I can tell that we put fear in that nigga's heart. Imma see him soon."

"I am not helping you drag anymore bodies. So you can count me out. I know you got people for that, and you was just fuckin' with me"

"You gon' shoot for me?" He pulled the gun away from me and wiped my prints.

"No. What the fuck do you think this is?"

"You goin' icy, babydoll. You would shoot if you needed to" He concluded.

"Don't you got a day job?"

"Don't we get more money at our evening jobs, night savage?"

"Cable guy" I walked back upstairs.

"Tutor" He called after me.

Jahir

"You got a bitch, she got a nigga. What's the problem?" Reno said.

"You told us not to let you do no dumb shit" Nathan reminded.

"You're getting over her" Bryce finished.

"Okay, but who the fuck was that nigga? Sticking his finger in her face and shit. They arguing and shit"

"That was not arguing. They were challenging each other. Alicia wanted to drive, and she did. Won't nothing tense about their body language or nothing."

"What the fuck is she on? She don't even like driving her own damn car, now she driving other niggas shit? The fuck is wrong with her?!?"

"Alicia is not easy to understand. Just leave it at that, Jahir. Y'all both got jump-offs."

"Bye" I stood up and made sure that I had my phone and keys.

I ended up at her front door.

Her mother smiled as soon as she opened the door.

After being invited in, I looked around the house. "Can I speak to Alicia?"

Her face furrowed up in confusion. "Excuse me?"

"Is Alicia home? Or do you know when she's coming back?"

"You're not talking to her?!?"

"You don't know" I stated.

"Know what? Is she pregnant?" Her mother asked.

"No. We broke up awhile ago. You're gonna have to ask your daughter what happened. I was just dropping by to ask her something."

The shock on her face was evident.

She grabbed her phone and I guess it was to call her husband.

While dialing, she burst into tears. "Alicia hasn't been home in months. She stopped taking my calls. I thought she was with you. She's not talking to me"

As close as they were, I knew that it had to hurt.

"She still goes to class and tutors. I uh- I think I should go now"

"What happened, Jahir?"

"She got with Corbin, and I couldn't take it. He got a girlfriend and she flipped. It wasn't the same."

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