DISCLAMER: I do not own Stomp the Yard.
AN: I have decided to rewrite this story since it was so short! Hope you enjoy!
Jazz watched her brother, and hus friends, battle it out on the dance floor with another dance crew. People all around her where cheering on thier favorite team. Jazz just crossed her arms and watched in silence. It was Marrice's idea. He said he missed hanging out with his little step sister.
"What are you doin here?" Jazz heard a familiar voice from behind her. She turned around and gave the younger boy a hug. She stood up on her tiptoes to give him a kiss, but he took a step back. She knew then that his brother was there as well.
"I can't believe we are still hiddin this from him." Jazz said shaking her head. Duron opened his mouth to say something but Jazz inturupted him. "I know, my idea."
"Hey J! Didn't know you were going to be here." DJ said walking up behind his younger brother. He gave her a hug and a kiss on the forehead.
"Yeah well, me either." Jazz said pulling away. "This was Marrice's...oh i mean Sphere's idea."
The boys looked towards the dance floor and scowled. They hadn't gotten along with Jazz's step brother since the day they met.
"so what are you all doing here?" Jazz asked then the thought came ti her. "Oh hell no, DJ! I told you boys to stay away from this place. Damn it D. You just don listen. Marrice isn't some fool you wanna mess with."
"Cool it J... Damn." DJ said shaking his head. She was always concerned about him and his brother. "We got this."
"Yeah well, i sure the hell aint stickin around." Jazz said as she put her hands on her hips. "You are asking for shit you dont wanna mess with."
Jazz walked past the boys and heard Duron call after her. But she didnt stop and he didnt follow. Jazz stepped outside and lit a cigarette. She saw some girls giving her odd looks and she knew why. Jazz looked like an Asian girl who was obsessed with tanning. But actually her skin was naturally that color. Caramel Latte, Duron called her. Most people didnt believe her when she told them she was mixed. Her father was Japanese and her mother was African American. Jazz took after her father in most looks. She had his beautiful silky black hair and dark almond shaped eyes. She even had his dainty nose. Her skin was the only indication that she was mixed.
Jazz smiled at the memory of meeting the boys for the first time. Jazz had been living with her mother on the other side of the town when she mer Marrice's dad and moved into his place. It happened to be the same building where Jazz's father lived. After a huge fight between her parents, Jazz went out side and sat down on the steps. She could still hear her father cussing in Japanese while her mother threw things at him. DJ and Duron walked up the street and sat down next to her. No one said a word till the yelling had stopped.
"Jasmine." Jazz said quietly. DJ smiled.
"Darrnell and Duron." DJ said then lead Jazz inside. Jazz and DJ were only six then. Now they were the best of friends. Jazz was about to light up another cigarette when she heard DJ's voice.
"Goon Squad! That's right its the Goon Squad." DJ said as he led the others out of the building. Jazz smiled and jumped on Duron's back when he past.
"Damn J, I dont remember you weighing this light." Duron said and Jazz jumped down and shrugged. She had lost a lot of weight but wasnt going to tell him that. He already gave her a hard time for being so skinny.
"So i guess you won." Jazz said taking DJ's hat off his head and placing it on her own.
"Yeah. We schooled them twice." DJ said proudly. Jazz shook her head, but said nothing. Marrice wasn't going to be happy about that. She just hoped they got out of his side of town before he caught up with them. As the group passed an advertisement for a college, Duron got out a can of white spray paint. Jazz wasnt sure where he got it from, but knowing him, he hahd it the whole time. He walked up to the sign and sprayed over one of the letters so the sign read: The future is ours.
After he was done he smiled over at Jazz and winked. She smirked back knowing what he really meant, but refused to give herself away. She knew it would crush DJ. If he found out she and Duron were seeing each other, he'd never forgive them. Especially if he found out it started a month before they broke up.
Jazz walked between DJ and Duron as the rest of the group teased Vice about his mother. Every one on thier block knew Vice's mom just because she was very pretty. She was only sixteen when she had Vice and she still looked not a day past 25. Duron made a crude remark about her and Jazz pushed him forward teasingly. What she didnt expect was to see Marrice jump out behing the dumpster and jump him.
"Marrice! Stop it!" Jazz demanded. She went to pull her brother of Duron, but DJ pushed her behind him and jumped Marrice himself. Two of Marrice's friends grabbed her and held her down so she wouldn't get in on the fight. DJ picked up a brick and hit one of the guys who was holding Jazz down. Jazz got free from the other one and tried her hardest to pull Duron away from the guy he was fighting, but acidently smacked her in the mouth. Duron pushed her behind him like DJ had done earlier. Jazz let out a small cry when she felt some one pull her by her hair.
"Leave her. Its Sphere's sister." the guy fighting Duron demanded and the girl who had grabbed Jazz's hair let her go and went to fight some one else. Duron knocked the other guy out, then quickly helped Jazz to her feet. He held her close as he looked around to find DJ. It didnt take him long to find him up against a trash can. Duron told Jazz to stay put as he rushed to help his brother. As soon as he left one of Marrice's friends grabbed her.
"You need to stay out of this, or your gunna get hurt. He said holding her tight around the middle as she struggled to get free. Jazz watched as Duron pulled Marrice off of DJ. Marrice pushed Duron to the ground ans as he started to get up Marrice pulled out a gun and shot him.
"No!" Jazz screamed as her body went limp in her holders arms. "Marrice you son of a bitch."
Marrice walked up to her and shook his head. "I told you they were no good Jasmine. Let her go."
The guy dropped her where she was. Marrice and his friends took off, knowing that the cops where going to be there soon. Jazz watched as DJ leaned over Duron. He tried to wake his brother but it was no use. Jazz got to her feet and walked up to DJ. She dropped to her knees on the other side of Duron. She could barely make out his face from her tears. She bent over him and balled as DJ held on to him. It must have been a sight when the cops rolled up to see such a scene. DJ holding on to his brother's lifeless body, but also trying to calm. Down Jazz as he petted her hair. And Jazz crying into Duron's chest pleading for him not to leave her.
When the cops finally got them from Duron's body they took them both into custody.
In the police station Jazz's dad entered first and not far behind him was DJ's mother. Jazz stoof up and her dad froze. His heart seemed to stop at the sight of blood all over her silver top. DJ's mom raced over to her and sat her down.
"Jazz, oh baby, you ok?" She asked and Jazz began to cry. "Baby where are my boys? Where are Darnell and Duron?"
At the sound of Duron's name, Jazz started to cry harder and shookher head. DJ came out from interrogation room in hand cuffs. When he saw his mother he called out to her. She looked up and when she saw that he too was covered in blood, she knew what happened.
"Oh god! Not my baby boy!" She cried and Jazz's dad hugged her close. DJ struggled against the cuffs, wanting to comfort his mother, but thr cop wouldnt let him.
"This way son." he said leading him in the other direction.
"Where you taking him?" Jazz demanded. When the officer didnt reply she asked again but this time much harsher. "Where are you taking him?"
"Its ok J." DJ said trying to smile. "I'll be ok. You just go home and take care of my mom for me."
"He didn't do nothin!" Jazz demanded but the cop took him away any way. Jazz couldnt believe it. She has lost her boyfriend and was now losing her best friend. All in the same night.
At Duron's funeral Jazz held on to DJ's arm the entire time. She could here him crying but couldn't make herself look up at him, knowing she wouldn't be able to be strong for him and the rest of his family. The rest of the dance crew was there as well showing their battle scars sadly. Jazz was the only one that had come out of the fight with out a scratch. She knew it was only because both sides were protecting her. She couldn't even make herself look up at her father and the baby who cuddled up to Jazz's fathers shoulder.
As the funeral came to an end the cops standing back in the back took DJ away from Jazz and placed him in hand cuffs. She couldn't believe DJ was convicted and Marrice had gotten of scott free. Jazz fell to her knees as she watched her best friend get taken away once again it just didn't seem right.
She felt some one come up beside her and help her to her feet. She turned to see that it was DJ's aunt. She smiled sweetly at the young girl and held her close.
"Jasmine, we'd like you to come and stay with us for a year." Jackie said calmly. "We talked to your father and he thinks it would be best for you to get out of this town till you feel you can return. We're hoping next year when DJ is out he can go to college at Truth. Now your more than welcome to go as well if you'd like."
"Thank you." Jazz said giving the woman a hug. It was the best thing she could do. The last thing she wanted was to stay around Marrice, like her mother had wanted. There was no way she was going to go live with her mother. Staying with Jackie and her husband was the best idea.