Hi guys! I'm sorry I wasnt able to update. I had summer school and I needed to re-do the story with my ideas. After you read, I was wondering if you guys could review: Do I need more description? I'm a hater when it comes to describing things and such. Anyways, enjoy the second chapter!
PS. All the character's personalities have been fixed into MY book, the way their personalities are are supposed to fit the book. Please don't come at me about accuracy, thank you.
You're my right hand, you're my go to
Told me everything about you
That's a bold move
I know that you're out here
And there's things you gotta go through
Just knows these streets just don't love you like I do
And they never will
- Drake, Right Hand
CHAPTER TWO - NEW BEGINNINGS
HIS eyes strained to open as he felt the light off his torso. Groaning, Huey tried to fully sit up from his bed and opened his eyes. The sounds of conversations and baby's cries could be heard through his ears, the odor of antiseptics filled up his senses. Huey glanced around, finally, he took in where he was.
He was in a hospital room.
The last thing Huey remembered was falling off the school roof and floating in the air as a beautiful... Beautiful girl stood in front of his eyes. He could remember her clearly. Her bright forest eyes looked upon him. The girls' butterscotch skin was defined with a black dress that contrasted her, her strawberry curls flowed down her clothes.
Huey wasn't the type to really be interested in any girl (as he was too busy straining to be a revolutionist that is), but the strong connection that they had was not to be forgotten. But there was one thing that was weird about the beauty.
She had two big wings. The black wings hung around her back, and they flickered. He scratched the tiny hairs along his chin while his eyebrows rose, why would she have wings?
"Ahhh..." A small yawn shook Huey out of his thoughts and glanced beside him.
It's her.
His eyes watched as she moved her eyelids back and forth adjusting to the light, her body shifted against the hospital bed, and he noticed that she didn't have her wings anymore.
As Huey continued to stare, Jazmine finally was able to open her eyes. She scanned across the room straining to comprehend where she is.
Oh my god..." Jazmine finally registers in her head while she patted her curls. Glancing beside her, she catches a boy looking at her.
"Wait… aah!" Jazmine screamed and leapt off the bed, landing flat on the floor. Huey responded quickly and tried to assist her up. Jazmine was so frightened that she took Huey's arm and bite him.
"Ow, fuck! What did you do that for?!"
Jazmine touched her body and gasped. Turning her head to Huey, she gave him an uneasy gaze.
"Of course I can, what makes you think I can't?" She gasps and stares into her hands, smiling.
"I'm actually human…" Jazmine whispered in shock. Unexpectedly, she groped her breasts and pinching them. Huey jumps from his bed standing in his defense stance. Huey doesn't understand what who this light skinned young lady was, but he ain't going to die today.
"I have boobs, human boobs!" Jazmine said in amazement. She wiggled her toes and leapt off her bed to walk round the room, Huey follows her carefully encase she did something.
Jazmine couldn't believe she was human, sometimes being an angel was boring. She never really experienced 'feelings,' it wrong in the angel guide. Halting to a stop, a beat was found in her chest. She brought up her hand touching her skin near the heart.
Thump, Thump, Thump.
Jazmine smiled at the beat of her heart. Her stomach fluttered with butterflies as she listened to the heartbeat.
Thump Thump Thump.
Huey watched her in fascination and curiosity, not knowing how something so obvious to him can be so breathtaking to another soul. Never had he felt like this before, Huey wanted to get to know who she was, and why the connection between them was so strong.
Feeling excited as ever, Jazmine opens her eyes in excitement and ran to Huey, standing in front of his body. She takes his hand and places it directly above her heart. Looking up at him with her glowing eyes, she threw him an unbreakable smile.
"Do you feel it too?" Jazmine says and Huey nods at her, not taking a look off of her.
Thump, Thump, Thump.
His eyes stared at her face breathtakingly, he couldn't believe he was so fascinated with her, let alone her heartbeat. Using his hands, he gently placed them on her cheeks and caressed them. She looked upwards at him in surprise, giving him an oblivious smile.
Huey glanced at her again before whispering; "Who are you?" Jazmine eyes widened and avoided his gaze. Before being able to speak, the sound of the curtain opened, revealing a middle aged nurse in her scrub gleaming at them. The angel broke away to Huey as quickly as she could and stepped backwards.
"I see that you guys look okay the moment," the woman sang in a cheerful voice. Huey and Jazmine felt their cheeks redden and glanced round the room looking at everywhere, but each other.
"So, when can we leave?" Huey asked.
"You guys are free to go, we checked you guys out and there's nothing wrong with you both, seems like exhaustion or something," she says and he sighs in relief. Huey softly takes Jazmine's hands, leading them out of the infirmary.
"Thank you!" Jazmine said and feels a hard tug from Huey's hand.
"Young love," the lady ponders as they exited the hospital.
"Alright, before we can go anywhere, I'm going to need to know where you came from," Huey says while handing the ice cream man four dollars. Jazmine looked up to him while she had ice cream splashed over her face.
"If I told you where I was from… you wouldn't believe me." Huey sighs and folds his arms close to his chest.
"Tell me." With her non-sticky hand, Jazmine used her pointer finger and shoot her fingers upward to the sky.
"You're from… the sky?" Huey said and she nodded her head.
Well, she wasn't lying.
Too bad Huey couldn't believe the accusation Jazmine told him.
"Let's cut the ol'bullshit, where are you really from?" He alleged in a stern voice. Shifting uncomfortably under his stare, she felt a tad annoyed that he didn't believe her. Pouting her face, she stays with the same answer.
"I'm really from the sky, you kno-" Jazmine looks around to see her Angel leader, Cairo, leading another soul away.
"CAIRO!" She yelled and Cairo turned his head to see Jazmine. Huey looked at where she's talking about, but saw no one.
"I don't see anybo- hey!" The revolutionist screams as he roughly grabs her before she hit an automobile. "You can't simply run across the fucking street like that!" Cairo crosses the street to meet Jazmine and sees that she has sandals on, and not her normal angel flats.
"What happened?" He whispered while scanning her up and downwards.
"I don't know, but i'm human now," she said and Cairo's face turned angry. Huey stood right beside her, not seeing anything at all.
She's crazy as hell, he thought.
"Well… do you at least have your golden book?" The realization came to Jazmine's head and she gasps, covering her mouth.
"N-no, I don't know where it is," she muttered while biting her lip.
"Oh my god, did I fuck up her brain or something? Maybe she has schizophrenia now... " Huey ponders while scratching his chin.
"So you're telling me that you're human trying to save this little boy's life?" Cairo shouts at Jazmine. She nods his head while looking at him.
"Oh screw this," Huey says and grabs Jazmine's hand, pulling her away.
"Let's go to the police station, they have to figure out what the hell happened," he says and keeps tugging her away.
"Find out how to get me back to the way I was!" Jazmine shouts and Cairo nods his head.
Oh, I will.
Huey, Jazmine, and Detective Cesar stood in his bureau as he prepared to ask questions to her.
"So… what's your name?" She wrinkled her eyebrows in confusion.
"Jazmine."
"And your date of birth?"
"Date of birth?"
"Sorry I forgot to note the fact that this girl pretty much lost all of her memory (not to forget her goddamn mind) except for her name, I think she's from different planets," Huey explained with a serious look, making Detective Cesar chuckle.
"Oh, don't be ridiculous..."
"Sir, she told me she was from the fucking sky—
"That's because I am!"
"See, i'm not making up some ol'bullshit!" he threw his hands in the air.
"Speaking of some news... weren't you the guy that saved that girl in your class from committing suicide? What's your name… what's your name… oh! Huey Freeman" Huey nodded his head without a care. Cesar sighed and turned to his partner, Minho.
"Can you find any information about this girl whatsoever?" Minho continues to search but sighed in defeat. "No."
"Alright, so the next thing we could do is ask her some questions, maybe that could link some more information for her memory." Jazmine frantically shook her head, but Huey laid his hands on his shoulder, rubbing it gently. She was surprised at the sudden touch, but even he was still more shocked himself.
Suddenly, Huey's phone blared out.
How you no see the whip, left scars pon' me back
But now we have a big whip, parked pon' the block
All them say we doomed from the start, cah' we black
Remember this, every race start from the block, just remember that
Grandad popped onto his screen.
"Hello?"
"BOY! WHY THE HELL YOU IN THE HOSPITAL!" Grandad screamed and Huey pulled back his phone, sighing.
"Grandad, i'm fine, right now i'm the police stat-
"Did they finally catch yo'black ass? I can't go down with you Huey, you just gonna have to deal with the CIA yourself."
"No Grandad, they didn't capture me. Besides, i'm a retired domestic terrorist." Well, that's what people like to think. "I found another girl named Jazmine and we're trying to find out her identity at the moment, but we can't seem to track anything, and she doesn't remember nothin."
"Of course your ass did this… of course your ass did this…" Grandad whispered angrily through the phone. "Imma beat yo' ass when you come home. Now I gotta cancel my date to make sure you didn't do nothin stupid!" Grandad blared and hung up the phone.
"Well… it seems like she still can't remember anything Huey, and I don't know what you do. Is there any way she can stay with you for the mean time?" Cesar suggested and Huey's face deadpanned.
This psychotic, mulatto-looking ass girl who perceives that she is from the sky, in his house?
Oh hell to the no.
"No."
"But Huey, she has no where to go whatsoever, and didn't she save your life if I recall?" Cesar says and Huey shifted shutting his eyes.
"Yeah… I guess." Huey turned to witness all three of them looking at him with a pleading look, but all he could focus on is Jazmine.
Hm… maybe he could use her as an experiment or something.
"Fine. I'm just wondering how Grandad will take this." Jazmine jumped on lap and gave him a hug, causing Huey to gag out of discomfort.
"Oh, I'm sure he doesn't mind!" Detective Cesar said with a smile.
"What!" Granddad stood up from his chair and shouted. Grandad, Jazmine, and the boys sat near the coffee table discussing about Jazmine staying here.
"Huey, she cute n'all but we can't afford to go and have a room with three beds my nigga, how am I going to jack off! It's already hard enough wit your ass there." Riley said and Huey cringed while Jazmine sat across, confused by what jack off means.
"What is that?"
"Don't worry about it sweetpie, Riley," Grandad smiled as he turned to Riley and smacked his head hard. "Shut the fuck up boy! This angel here does not need to hear your devil temptations." Huey sighed and attempted to convince granddad again
"Grandad, she has no where to go, and doesn't remember anything about herself. This is technically my fault."
Granddad pondered about it before finally agreeing, "Fine, I could always use her to lure some dates in anyways," he threw up and sat down in his chair, "But, she does not live here for free, she is going to work at our restaurant till she can find a home herself. I think this will be good because you have no friends."
"Thanks Grandad," Huey said while rolling his eyes. Grandad turned to Jazmine and smiled.
"Did you hear that cutie pie?" She nodded her head and Robert clapped his hands.
"Okay, let's get your room set up."
Afterward a few hours, Grandad, Riley, Jazmine, and Huey were able to get her room set up. To the boy's surprise, Grandad allowed Jazmine to stay in the guest room. They showed her the restaurant called Finger Lickin Chicken, in which Robert created because he realized that he could not longer pay the bills. With the boys help, they were able to keep he house up float and even have extra money.
As of right now, the four sat in the dining room as Grandad passed out the food. Riley handed out the utensils as well (since Huey always does it). Jazmine picked up her utensil and stared at it. She remembers watching it on a drama as the characters picked up their food with this.
"What is this called, Huey?" Huey gave her a 'what the hell look.'
"The oval shaped utensil is called a spoon, the pointy one is known as a fork." She nodded her head curiously and watched Grandad placed the food in front her. There was a slice of chicken, along with mash potatoes and corn. Plastered against the mash potatoes was gravy, with vegetables on the side.
"You shouldn't be eating that," Huey interrogated while having his full vegan plate.
"Why not?"
"Because, these types of foods can give you all sorts of stuff. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes—
"Nigga shut the fuck up. Don't listen to him Jazmine, he gay." Huey smacked Riley across the head.
"Boy, don't be telling our guest how this food is! I don't want her to turn into you, self hating ass vegan."
"Gee, thanks Grandad." Jazmine watched carefully as the boys bickered back and forth, but then focused back onto her food. Using the spoon, she picked up her mashed potatoes carefully and places the food into her mouth. As the food soaked in, Jazmine could feel the gravy melting onto her tongue, giving her the feeling as if she was on cloud 9.
"Mr. Freeman, this is really good!" She exclaimed, they all stopped bickering and looked at her.
"Glad you like it, sweet-pie!" Huey sighed in defeat and they all started to eat their food.
"Huey, Riley."
"What Grandad" Robert took out two boxes from under his desk and gave it to them, "It's from your dad." Simultaneously, they both rolled their eyes and opened their gifts. Riley had gotten a LeBron James jersey while Huey got Walking with the Wind memoir by John Lewis and Mike D'Orso.
"I don't want this," Huey said while he dumped the book onto the table.
"Me neither," Riley agrees and folds his arms across his chest, "Why couldn't he give us money or somethin?"
Grandad sighed, "You know how your father is."
"Oh, we know, and that's why we don't want to accept shit from him." Huey grabbed the book and passed it to Jazmine.
"You can have it." Jazmine grabbed the book in delight and smiled.
"Thank you! Where does your dad live?"
"In Europe."
"Then where's your mother?" Everyone in the room stiffened as Jazmine asked that question.
The air turned thick, no one wanted to answer. Jazmine noticed that Huey had a death grip on his fork.
"None of your godamn business." She could sense how angry he was. Cowering back in fear, she attempted to apologize.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to kn—
"I'm going for a walk." He stood up and left the table. The last thing they could hear was the door slamming.
She felt herself starting to tear up, she didn't know how bad the situation was, Jazmine just wanted to get to know them better. Riley sighs and give her a side squeeze.
"Don't worry about it. It's just… Huey has a hard time dealing with that subject, so just try not to bring it up again." Jazmine nodded her head and proceeded to eat her food, but she couldn't help but think; what made him react so badly?
After everyone finished, Grandad and Riley prepared to go upstairs and sleep, but Jazmine had other plans. Slipping on her shoes, she opens the door till Grandad catches her.
"Where are you going?"
"To find Huey." Before he could say anything, she shut the door. As she walked, footprints from Huey were implemented from the ground. With a determined face, Jazmine followed the paths.
"I'm coming for you Huey!" She whispered and ran through the gloomy clouds.
After 30 minutes, Jazmine was about to give up till she saw an Afro poke up from a hill. Running at full speed, it took her two minutes till she discovered him leaning against a tree, breathing heavily. Timidly, Jazmine took small steps towards Huey, her fingers fumbled against each other as her mind was trying to determine what to say. She didn't know how to approach this, because if she sustained to be truthful, Huey scared the hell out of her. Taking a deep breath, her figure finally landed in front of Huey.
"I'm sorry—
"Ever since you've entered my life in the past twenty-four hours, you've already made things hectic." Before Jazmine could speak again, Huey interrupted her.
"You are interfering in my life with things that are none of your fucking business. You are literally a waste of space in the house, and I can't wait for you to leave. All you have been doing is causing chaos when my life used to be peaceful. Hell, You're no help to our family whatsoever and just are going to make things more difficult for us, we don't even know any information about you. So please, get lost. Go back to where you came from, because you are not needed anymore." Jazmine didn't even notice the tears dropping from her eyes. Her heart felt every bit if it broke into two.
"B-but you're the only one I know."
"I don't give a shit," Huey turned to her, his wine eyes sharply at her. "Goodbye." He leaves her standing under the tree, crying her eyes out, the tears that she has discovered in humans. She never imagined it would be on her. Not only did she feel sad, but abounded. Huey didn't want her, Grandad and Riley probably didn't want her either, and she has no where to live.
Hiccuping, Jazmine strode across the hill onto the pavement, looking around to see if she could find someplace to stay. Drops of rain turned into a rainy storm, causing Jazmine to shiver as she had no proper layers on.
While walking around, she spots a convenience store and leaned on it to take a break. As she looked on her left, Jazmine saw a boy with a dark olive skin tone which complimented his black dreads. His silver piercing hung across his plump lips, giving Jazmine a fearful aura of him. The boy's oval head was cut off by a dark green headband, which blocked his dreads from blocking his face. He held a blue umbrella in his head while standing in the rain while he waited for the bus to arrive. Timidly, she tapped his shoulder.
"Um, do you think I could stand u-under t-that umbrella with y-you?" She said while shaking. Much to her surprise, the boy looked at her with a glare, which turned into a little smile.
"Of course." Jazmine shuffled her feet to go under his umbrella. Jazmine patted her thighs as tension was filled between the two, she decided to ask him a question.
"W-what's your name?"
"Michael, Michael Caesar." He talked with an optimistic voice, "What's your name?"
"Jazmine."
"Well, nice to meet you Jazmine, but my bus is here." Jazmine glanced up to watch a large ZOOM bus stop right in front of them. Caesar grabbed her hand and stuck the umbrella within it. He walked up to the bus and turned his head to her before climbing on.
"You need the umbrella more than I do. I hope to see you again, bye, angel." He winked before entering the bus. As the bus began to move, Caesar waved his hand through the window, making Jazmine's heart flutter a little.
"Well, it was nice knowing him, but I hate living here… I need to find a way to leave this earth," she whispered to herself as she glanced around her. Jazmine thought there was no point of her being here anymore. The only person that she imagined would help her, left her in the dark, what else could she do to leave? A light bulb suddenly went off in her head as she observed the cars speed pass her.
Dropping her umbrella, she took a deep breath and waited for a car to come by. Seconds later, a truck race down the road at a speeding rate, Jazmine walked into the center of the road, waiting for the car to come.
The last thing she remembered is the loud blare of the truck and the lights blinding her vision.