A/N: Hi everyone! I'm glad everyone is liking what they are reading so far. I just want to explain something really quick. I am sorry about the chapters not being longer because this was intended as a one-shot but it grew very quickly. Thank you to all who review it means a lot to me. And keep reading, I'll let you know when the one-shot I had written started. It just needs a bit suspense. ;)
Disclaimer: I do not own Boondocks.
Seeking
Chapter 4
Three hours to go…
"Am I reading this right?" Huey asked.
He arrived in Baltimore in the morning of June 9th, the day he was going to hate. He wanted to head back to Chicago and never look back, which he was planning to do so once everything was finished here.
He took the elevator up to the 22nd floor in a high rise building covered in windows. Most likely near the courthouse.
He easily found the firm where he needed to go. It wasn't long before he was ushered into the office of Ronald Fitch. A wooden desk covered in paperwork, a desktop and laptop. A large black leather chair sat behind it and it match the two smaller ones in front. Behind the desk stood a large book shelf filled with many law books. His degrees hanged on the walls and it had a nice view from the windows. There was not much else to look at.
"Mr. Freeman, it is good to meet you at last," he said, shaking hands before sitting down. Mr. Fitch was in small frame, pale skin, dark hair and dark eyes. But looks can be deceiving.
Huey quickly followed, sitting in one of the chairs on the other side of the desk.
"I trust you brought all the paperwork needed."
Huey handed him a folder of everything his granddad had before he passed including the will and every papered signed by himself and Riley.
Mr. Fitch explain everything. The mortgage company Huey's granddad use was defrauding their clients in millions of dollars of debt by the fine print of the company's secondary contracts the victims were forced to sign. The money ended up going to a bank account out of the country and mortgage payments were not being paid on behalf of their clients to the banks. As this was against the law, the company is now in bankruptcy and fined to pay back all of the victims. And the CEO, doing time. It took them awhile to find it in an off shore account but they were able to retrieve it back.
It was easy to review everything in a couple of hours, every line was dotted and all require signatures were signed by Huey in place of his granddad.
Two checks were presented in front of Huey and shock the hell out of him.
"Am I reading this right?" Huey asked.
The checks read 2.5 millions dollars. Each.
"Yes you are Mr. Freeman, your grandfather manage to pay close to that amount. We made sure interest was involved to the victims," he said, "since Mr. Freeman has passed, the right goes towards his living heirs, your brother and you."
Huey wanted to go to Law school but couldn't afford it nor could he get the loans needed. Now he could. Aunt Cookie could get the care she needed.
Everything was done after that and left the office.
Huey was ready to leave but the news coverage on Jazmine's wedding stood out to him. Tom gave some interview on how happy he was about this marriage and than started to promote something about being congress, to which Huey turn him out.
"I don't like that company," Mr. Fitch said suddenly.
"Why not?"
"Shady dealings on their part. I think they were involved in this dealing but no proof could be found," he said.
"It was good to meet you Mr. Freeman," he said turning back into his office.
Huey left the office but not before seeing Sarah, smiling about how happy she was about the union that was to come. Huey placed the checks into the safety place in his truck. He was ready to drive home until in an hour of the drive he realized he was in Woodcrest.
Woodcrest, oh how he hated the place his granddad force his brother and him moved to.
But if he didn't move to Woodcrest than he wouldn't have met Jazmine who moved into the same neighbourhood as him but she was from New Orleans.
He didn't like her at first but slowly, his annoying neighbour became one of his friends. That friendship turn into something more. Something he realized he needed but not that the time.
Huey Freeman fell in love with Jazmine Dubois and he wouldn't change anything about it.
He slowly stopped in front of the cemetery where his granddad laid to rest.
The day his granddad was laid to rest was one of the worst days of his life. Everything after that it became unbearable. He couldn't stay, he brother couldn't be there either. No one was there to help him. Tom Dubois was campaigning to become the next congressman and was done dealing with the boys after everything they have done for him.
But telling Jazmine not to follow him crushed him. He tried to move on, went out to dinner even paid with more women more like him. It failed like it always does. Jazmine was always in the back of his mind. In the end, he decided to stay alone and became a workaholic at the university.
He walked until he found what he was looking for. Granddad's grave.
He stood in front of the gravesite reading:
Robert Freeman
Beloved Son, Father, Husband and Grandfather.
Forever He will be missed.
Huey stand over the grave, wondering what would his granddad tell him about what to do about Jazmine.
Granddad may have been many things but listening when he and Riley had problems which sometimes he gave good advice.
Huey was torn, go to the church and stop what could be Jazmine's happiness beyond him or go back to Chicago and never look back.
The wind blew, shaking the tree not far from where he was standing.
The tree, he thought.
The wind blew again, shaking the tree harder.
If he was about to leave, he decided to visit the their tree one last time. It took him not long to be there but memories were the strongest here.
Everything from when he met her to where he had to leave her. He touch the bark, until he felt something under his hand.
Words.
He could fainting make them out.
Huey + Jazmine.
Huey couldn't remember putting that there but than a thought occurred to him.
Jazmine put it there. It must have been sometime after he left. But it told him one thing.
She loves him.
After he told her not to follow him she still loves him.
He could only imagine how long this took her to do. Jazmine wasn't very good with a knife but somehow she did it.
Huey couldn't help but give a small smile.
But she was still getting married today.
But before he did that there was one last thing to do about this tree. He headed back to the truck, driving straight to the church.
He used every memory of her to fuel him.
Only one problem: he didn't know where the church was.
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