The three teens continue on to school and are now pulling into the parking lot of Wunclear High School and as usual when one of Riley's favorite songs come on he starts to rap the entire thing out loud. Loudly.

Jazmine laughs at how animated Riley is and her Huey just rolls his eyes as normal, quickly pulling into a parking space, turning the car off and getting out with Riley and Jazmine following suit. They then wait for everyone else in their group to arrive and by 'they' meaning Jazmine as Riley spots some of his friends from middle school and walk with them inside the school. And as Huey begin to walk inside as well Jazmine grabs his arm stopping him.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"Inside. To get my schedule and locker."

"But we have to wait for the others."

"I don't have to do anything."

"So, you're just going to leave me here," Jazmine asks pouting at him well rather up at him considering he's about 6'3 and she's only 5'5. "To wait by myself," She continues in disbelief and Huey rolls his eyes for what's gotta be the hundredth time this morning.

"Why do you want to wait on them anyway? They're functioning and half capable people."

"Because they're our friends Huey! And we all should walk into the school on our junior year together." Huey just continues to look at the teen girl before sighing and turning back toward his car and Jazmine smiles silently cheering in her head.

They don't have to wait too long until Jazmine recognizes Caesar's car pull into the student parking lot and see's her three closest friends exit his car. She does a little high pitched scream and Cindy mimics her as they hug and interlock arms.

Huey greets everyone with a upwards flick of his chin and begins talking about whatever was on the news this morning with Caesar.

"Hey Hiro," Jazmine starts curiously as the teens walk inside the school, "where's your car?"

"Keys got confiscated."

"Why?" Jazmine asks, frowning at his predicament.

"I broke curfew last night. I went to go see this chick named Tanisha."

"Was it worth it?" Caesar asks with a smirk.

"Yeah, absolutely," Hiro replies back with his own smirk bumping fists with Caesar as Cindy nudges the dreadlocked boy roughly as they pass by them.

They head to the crowded counselor's office and wait in line for their schedules and locker number and combination and when it's finally Jazmine's turn Cindy comes right along.

"Here you go, you're all set Ms. Dubois," Jazmine and Cindy's counselor Ms. Janie says with a glowing smile as she hands her all of the things.

"Thank you," The mulatto girl smiles back and notices Ms. Janie's smile drop as she looks beside her at Cindy.

"Ms. Mcpherson, if you're looking for your schedule and locker combination you will have to wait in alphabetical order." Cindy just continues to stare at Ms. Janie with her arms crossed in front of her as she pops her gum.

Their counselor eventually sighs resignedly knowing that there is no way she's going to win this fight considering Cindy's been doing this every semester since freshman year and hands her schedule and locker things as well.

"Thanks Ms. J," the blonde says now giving Ms. Janie a bright smile that the counselor doesn't make any move to return, and the two girls finally step out of the office. The girls stare at their locker numbers and to their disappoint notice that they're in different halls this year, Jazmine quickly takes a look at her schedule to make sure they at least have one class together.

She has Ms. Aniti for homeroom again this year, Chemistry, Calculus, Lunch, Health, and Study Hall. She trades schedules with Cindy and sees that they thankfully have Calculus and Health together. The girls quickly catch up with Caesar and Hiro and trade schedules and she has Chemistry with Caesar and Calculus with Hiro and they all have lunch together.

Huey doesn't even spare Jazmine a look as he holds his schedule out and she quickly grabs it with hungry hands to see if they hopefully have any classes together this year. If it was up to Jazmine they would have the same classes, but Huey takes a lot of AP classes that give college credit or as Mr. Freeman calls it the "smart ass" classes.

She doesn't voice her disappoint at what she sees and pastes on her usual smile and hands his schedule back. Huey gives her an imploring look, but she ignores it. Jazmine can feel him stare at her for a moment before he averts his eyes elsewhere. The bell rings and Jazmine, Caesar, and Cindy head to their first class together.


As Jazmine listens to the teacher drone on and on about the syllabus and expectations she eventually zones-out, staring at the board ahead of her. She's not surprised that they don't share any classes together.

She usually makes a big deal about it because who wouldn't want to have any classes with their best friend? But what use would it be to whine every year, every semester about how she wishes they had more classes together when it seems as if he's picking more and more classes without her in it.

He knows she won't take any of his advanced classes because one-she's not that smart and two-she barely passed math last year. She only passed because Huey literally made her sit down and do her math homework with him.

The teen rests her head on her hand. It's like she never see's him anymore! Between his job, school, and everything else is there even a little time for her? She hates feeling this way, but all he did this summer was work and-

Jazmine's thoughts are interrupted by the sound of the bell ringing and she stuffs her syllabus in her notebook, exits class, and begin walking to her next class, but stops at the feel of someone touching her shoulder.

"Jazmine!"

"Yeah?" She answers looking at a worried Caesar.

"Is everything okay?"

"Yes, everything is fine. Why?"

"Because you didn't hear Cindy and I calling you. You just walked out in a hurry." At Caesar's mentioning of Cindy Jazmine looks beside him to see Cindy next to him with both of her eyebrows raised in question.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about how I'm going to arrange my locker this year." Cindy and Caesar seem to accept this and they go on as normal.

The rest of the day goes on in a similar fashion minus Jazmine thinking more into how distant she feels from Huey. When lunch comes she goes to her locker and retrieves a jumbo bag of m&ms that surprisingly did not melt and as she's about to walk into the cafeteria the large bag of candy is snatched from her hand.

"Hey, give me back my lunch!" Jazmine shouts at her offender.

Huey just holds her candy out of reach and the teen girl eventually gives up and waits for him to drop her candy...or eat it. Over the years Jazmine has noticed that Huey has a huge sweet tooth. Nobody knows because he is pretty strict about eating healthy and if questioned she knows he will deny it, but every Christmas Jazmine bakes Huey a canister full of deluxe chocolate chip cookies and brownies. She first started this little tradition when they were thirteen and would bake him a entire canister full of sweets considering that Huey does not celebrate Christmas and would not accept any gifts on the 25th.

And she swears on her future pony that one Christmas after everyone had finally left and Mr. Freeman and Riley had retired to bed that night she saw him devour that entire canister. He didn't shove them all in his mouth like she, Riley and Cindy would nor did he pick them apart like Hiro, he ate them at his normal eating pace all night.

Jazmine only knows this because she forgot her purse over the Freeman's and she came back over to get it quietly (walking in without knocking) and she saw that Huey's bedroom light was still on and slowly crept upstairs and saw him. After awhile she felt like a creep and eventually left, but the next day while hanging out in his room she saw that her canister that is decorated with pictures of Santa Claus and angels was empty.

She still bakes him his sweets on Christmas and sometimes leaves her pack of gummy worms or skittles behind in his car because she knows he likes them, but will not divulge by his own means. Jazmine is always happy to see that her candy is missing the next day or when Huey 'confiscates' her bag of jolly ranchers and mini doves chocolates because he says she'll die after attempting to eat the whole bag, but now as she looks up at him all she can feel is pressing annoyance.

Her annoyance rises just like she thought it would when he doesn't hand her back her candy and proceeds to walk down the hall and towards the parking lot. Having followed him the whole way she sees Huey get in the car and she does so as well and gets in her seat and strapping her seat-belt on. Without a word Huey pulls out of the parking lot and toward wherever.


"So, you're not going to tell me what is wrong with you," Huey says after a few minutes of weird silence between the two teens.

"There is nothing wrong with me," Jazmine says at first, but because she's irritated she can't help but continue, "what is wrong with me is that you are basically kidnapping me and taking me... wherever it is you're taking me."

"I did not kidnap you. You followed me and got in my car."

"Because you took my candy," she says accusingly.

"So," He replies not finding her excuse a valid one.

"So?" Jazmine says loudly before groaning in frustration and turning her body away from Huey. As much as she can while in his car.

Huey gives her a side glance, but doesn't say anything else and Jazmine realizes that they have stopped outside of some restaurant that she can't see the name of and Huey gets out and doesn't even invite her. Once again forgetting about her.

She sighs loudly and takes her phone out of her pocket and click on a random app which just so happen to be her phone's gallery. Jazmine looks through her pictures and smiles at all the goofy pictures of Cindy, Caeser, Hiro, and Riley.

She laughs especially hard at the picture of Cindy and her on Halloween where she dressed up as a doctor and Cindy as a witch. That night was so much fun for her especially when they showered the Freeman's house with silly string and then Huey made them clean it up after Riley 'accidently' made Caeser slip on silly string and hit his head on the back door.

Huey was so frustrated that night, but it was all worth it. Jazmine continues to slide to the next picture and it's a picture of her and Huey on her birthday. She took the picture as they sat on the hill together like usual...like they used to. He was reading and she was sitting next to him and just as the teen girl had snapped the picture he had looked at her.

She flicks through more pictures and see more and more of her and Huey until she feels warm tears pour down her face. Jazmine exits out of her gallery, turns her phone off completely, and wipes her eyes as Huey enters the car.

"Here," Huey says handing Jazmine a bag. She looks inside and her insides melt. He got her favorite-an all american roadhouse burger and steak fries from Havana's Steakhouse. She looks at Huey with tears welling up in her eyes again.

"Thank you, Huey!" She wraps her arms around his neck trying not to cry, but her voice doesn't hide it so well.

"Why are you crying?" Huey asks and Jazmine pulls away, diving into her bag of food.

"I'm not," Is all the girl says as Huey puts the car in drive. "Did you-" She starts, her mouth stuffed with fries.

"It's in the cup holder, is all the afro headed boy replies and she thanks him again because her best friend is the best. And always remembers what she likes. As they head back to school she tries not to eat all of her fries and opts to just sip on her Oreo milkshake and watch Huey drive.

You would think the teen boy would be a really safe driver, but he drives with one hand, he only uses his second when necessary, and he drapes his wrist over the steering wheel. He doesn't go over the speed limit, but he doesn't drive too slow or in the slow lane either, it's like he's been doing this his whole life, like he's... in complete control. Jazmine loves riding with her best friend because she knows that she's safe.

Whereas when she rides with Cindy she's always going above the speed limit and has major road rage, Hiro and Caeser are good drivers, but nothing compares to the way Huey drives.

Huey also plays his music at a good level unlike Riley and Hiro, but I noticed that when he is upset or frustrated he plays his music loud almost as if he's trying to drown his thoughts out.

Finally they arrive back to school and Huey smoothly pulls into his former parking space and they hop out and head into the cafeteria to eat their food.

"Damn, you couldn't hook a brother up with some Havana steak fries?" Caesar says as he see's Jazmine take out her food.

"No," Huey says before taking a bite of his plain salad.

Cindy and Riley steals a couple of Jazmine's fries much to her protest, but she lets it go."If you guys wanted some why didn't you just buy some," Jazmine asks/suggest to the teens eating her delicious fries.

"Because one-I ain't driving, two-I ain't driving," Is all Hiro says biting into his chicken wrap and popping one of Jazmine's fries in his mouth.

"Plus, I gots other shit to spend my money on," Riley comments, flicking Jazmine ear and stealing two more fries.

"Like what?" Caesar asks frowning at his chicken sandwich,

"Like my kick game , my new fit game, my new-"

"Anyway, before dis nigga started speaking, you wanna come over after school Jaz?"

"Sure," the strawberry blonde agrees, chewing her juicy burger.

"What do you girls be even doin when both of you hang out?"

"None yo business," Cindy replies pushing her finger against Riley's forehead causing the boy to grimace.

"I kno what you be doing," Riley says a smirk now curving his lips. "Y'all be invitin' niggas over."

"You know what? You're right, we be totally fuckin."

"Cindy!" Jazmine practically screams clearly appalled at the blonde. Everyone eyes turn to the mulatto even Huey's which makes her feel even more uncomfortable. Caesar drops one of Jazmine's stolen fries that he was about to drop into his mouth, Riley continues to cackle loudly, and Hiro chuckles as well.

"Didn't know you got down like that Jazmine," Hiro says feigning disappointment.

"I-I-I don't get down like anything," Jazmine says, her cheeks reddening as her embarrassment increases. She glances at Huey and sees that he's giving her a really disapproving look like she's seen him give Riley when the younger Freeman slapped one of Mr. Freeman's dates on the butt. And she doesn't even deserve it. Does he really think she's having sex?!

"Chill Jaz, they know it ain't true," Cindy finally says and squeezes her shoulder reassuringly.

"That's not funny Cindy!" Jazmine says not liking it whether it was a joke or not. Someone could have heard and got the wrong idea and it was just freaking foolish.

"It was a joke," Cindy says again, still laughing.

"Actually Cindy, I have something to do after school."

"Really Jaz?" Cindy sucks her teeth, " Like what? What could be more important than hanging out with me-thee Cindy Mcfearsome."

"She's hanging out with me."

All eyes including Jazmine's look at Huey. She is? The curly haired girl doesn't say anything.

"What 'bout them thots you got comin' over?" Riley says and Jazmine's mouth drops open in shock. What?

Riley opens his mouth to say more, but is cut off by an annoyed Huey, "Shut ya damn mouth Riley." The whole table goes silent at this point and Caesar eventually clears his throat and conversation is steered elsewhere.


After Lunch Jazmine pulls Cindy to the side away from the boys. "Cindy, what are thots?"

"Stands for That Hoe Over There." Jazmine turns her nose up at the meaning.

"Yeah, but what does Riley mean that Huey has thots?"

"It means that he's fucking with some girl."

"Huey is having sex?!" Jazmine asks scandalized and then lowers her voice not wanting anyone to hear them.

Cindy rolls her blue eyes, "Apparently so. It's not a big deal." The blonde chuckles a moment later at how wide Jazmine's eyes are.

"But who wants to have sex with Huey?"

"I don't know, maybe everybody. I hate to say it, but Mchater is fine as fuck. I wouldn't fuck with him though because Imma real one and I only fucks with real niggas. See look," Cindy points across the hall where Huey is leaned against the wall talking to Caesar and Hiro and two girls walk past and one with long black hair and caramel skin stops.

Jazmine can't hear what she says, but looking at her body language she can tell that the girl is flirting. Huey smirks, his dimples slightly poking out and replies and the girl and her friend walk away.

A few more girls do the same before the bell rings and Jazmine is officially triggered.

"No one knew," Jazmine says quietly, shocked at her realization. Of course she knew that Huey is attractive, he's really attractive, but she didn't know he was 'seeing' any girls. Feels like she doesn't know anything at all about her supposed best friend.

"Only you," Cindy replies. And the bell rings prompting everyone to go to class.

She feels like the day is going by so slow and to think she was actually excited this morning and now wants nothing more than to go home and curl up under her covers.


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