Chapter 29: Decision


Because the truth hurts Jazmine. The world is a hard and lonely place and nobody gets anything for free. And you want to know what else? One day, you and everyone you know is gonna die.

(runs away crying)

You enjoy abusing peoples' illusions. I respect that. It's thankless work. (pauses) Do you like my sunglasses? I wear sunglasses because my idol Dr. Bill Cosby wears sunglasses all the time, and you know what they say: "Cosbiness is next to Godliness."

Who are you?

Nobody, really. Just thought you might want to talk to someone who understands.

You don't know me.

I know you better than you think, Huey Freeman.

(surprised, he turns around only to find that the man has disappeared)

Huey Freeman, Jazmine Dubios, Secret Agent

(The Real)


Author's Note: Soooo excited!

Cindy's POV:

I woke up early and silently slipped out of bed. Annie was still asleep and I didn't want to wake her up. I had stayed at Jazmine's for one night then the next day I went out to find my own apartment with the money my mom gave me. It was small and to be honest cheap. I wore a white wife beater, and a pair of blue basketball shorts. I put an orange hoodie over it and grabbed my basketball walking out the door. Basketball has always been my escape from well everything. As I approached the basketball court I took off my hoodie and put it on the bench. I picked up the basketball and started to dribble it. I shot it, nothing but net as always. I ran up to the net doing a quick lay up.

"Man I bet I can make it from the halfway line." I said to myself cockily.

I went all the way to the halfway line then shot the ball. It bounced off the basket and flew back hitting me on top of my head.

"Ah!" I said falling to the ground.

I stayed on the ground and rubbed my head. Maybe that wasn't such a smart idea. I was pretty sure that it was gonna leave a mark. I heard footsteps then saw a shadow come over me. I looked up and there was Riley standing there, basketball in hand smirking. I stood up immediately wiping myself off.

He chuckled. "Man what the freak was that?" he asked.

"I coulda made it." I lied.

He shook his head. "Naw the way you threw it was all wrong." he said.

I raised one eyebrow and crossed my arms over my chest. "Well if you know so much why don't you do it?" I asked.

He shrugged. "Iight." he shot the ball and it fly threw the net like it was nothing. He stared back at me smirking cockily.

I rolled my eyes and ran over picking up the ball. "Lucky shot." I said.

He shook his head chuckling again. "Man white people. Always gotta show them somethin twice." he shot the ball again and again it flew through the net.

I scoffed. "How?" I asked him once he came back over with the ball.

"I told you yo set up was wrong." he said.

I rolled my eyes taking the ball. "Iight then show me." I said.

He smirked and walked over to me. "One yo footing is off." he said. He bent down scooting my left foot over a little and I immediately felt a tingle run up and down my leg. I blushed sorta and he looked at me rasing one eyebrow. "Iight now show me again but don't actually shoot the ball." he said.

"Fine." I huffed. I did it and he stared at me studying me.

"See now I know what you doin wrong."

He walked over to me standing behind me and grabbing my hands. My blush deepened. He slowly brought my hands up and showed me how to shoot it. We did it twice then he backed away.

"Iight gon head and show me." he said.

I breathed in a deep breath then brought the ball up shooting it. I closed my eyes and then I heard the swish of the net. I opened and looked in shock as the ball fell through the net. I turned back to Riley smiling pleased and he looked smug, which I ignored.

"Oh my gosh thank you!" I gushed running over to him and hugging him.

He chuckled and wrapped his arms around spinning me around. I giggled and playfully shoved him away. It was a bit over reactive and to be honest I did just want to be in his arms again but whatever. That's when I noticed that his arms were still around me. I looked down at them then looked at him raising one eyebrow. He was blushing slightly and bent down resting his forehead down on mine.

"Riley I'm sorry bout what I had said. You was right, I didn't really trust ya because I was scared. But..." my voice trailed off.

"But?" he asked.

I stared up into his warm brown eyes and knew I was blushing even more. "But I'm not anymore." I said. I should've said all of this sooner but I didn't know how to. He smirked shaking his head. "What?" I asked.

He bent down kissing me. I looked at him surprised before kissing him back. Dang, I forgot how good it was kissing Riley. It wasn't a rushed one either like we used to do, this one was slow and passionate like the ones Huey gives to Jazmine. My arms wrapped around his neck and his arms wrapped tighter around my waist. The kiss lasted long and when it seemed like our lungs were about to burst we broke apart.

"So does this mean we back together?" I asked hopeful.

He smiled. "Well I mean I gotta think about that. The kiss was iight but-"

I slapped his arm chuckling. "Boy shut up!" I said.

He smiled and again pulled my towards him wrapping his arm around my waist. "But yea it does." he said.

I smiled brightly and partically leaped forward kissing him again. I was so happy! Me and Riley was FINALLY back together. We fell to the ground and he fell on top of me still not breaking from the kiss. I knew know that their wasn't anything to be afraid of, he wouldn't hurt me. I broke away from the kiss suddenly.

"What?" he asked.

"Come on!" I said jumping up, grabbing my basketball and running to the Frremans house.

"Cindy what the freak?" Riley panted once we got there.

I ignored him and ran up the stairs. Riley looked at me confused and all I could do was smile. I was ready, I really was and I didn't want to wait another minute for us to do this.

"I'm not scared anymore." I said again.

"I heard ya when we was back at the court! Why we gotta run all the way hurr for ya to tell me da same dang shi-"

I cut him off kissing him. Dang, love Riley but he really needs to learn how to shut up sometimes. I pulled apart and smirked. "Reezy I'm ready." I said softly.

He raised his eyebrows before a huge smirk crossed his face. His arms wrapped around my waist again and he bent down kissing me all over. I greedily kissed him back. We started to back up into Huey's and Riley's room not breaking from the kiss. He closed the door with his foot. I smiled against his lips happy that I had finally learned to trust the man I loved.

Ceaser's POV:

I woke up late and walked around the house noticing nobody was there. Well apparently except I'm guessing Riley and Cindy considering the loud moans coming from their room. I shook my head chuckling, I bet they always be doing it. I knew Huey must of left already and was about to walk out and find him. I opened the door and there was Sophie just about to knock on it. She wore a long sleeved blue shirt with a faded superman symbol on it. Her long black hair hung straight down her back.

"Huey's not here." I said before she could even say anything.

She rolled her eyes and stepped inside. "Great because I'm not here to see him." she said.

I raised one eyebrow. "Um, Daniel isn't here either." I said.

She gave me an annoyed look. "Ceaser if you're gonna make a jokes about me coming to see you then I'll just leave." she snapped.

I shook my head. "No I'm sorry." I said.

She waved me off. "No sorry I'm just nervous." she said.

I nodded my head. "Yea I know remember we used to date." I said.

She started to fiddle with her fingers and nervously started to finger comb her hair. "I wanted to talk about that actually." she said.

"Ok," I said walking over to the living room and sitting down. She followed me and sat next to me. "What do you have to say?" I asked turning to her.

She looked at me and just stared for a bit. I felt heat run up to my cheeks and knew I was blushing, to my surprise so was she. She cleared her throat. "Look Ceaser I know you're not happy about the whole me liking Huey thing..." she started and her voice trailed off.

I shrugged. "It does hurt a little Soph I'm gonna lie about that, but if you love him like you say you do then why would I want you to be unhappy?" I asked.

She looked at me like she was about to cry. "Ceaser I don't want this to leave a huge break in our relationship. I still want to be friends at least." she said.

I smiled and playfully nudged her. She smiled and nudged me back before reaching over and hugging me. I hugged her back tight and she buried her face into my shoulder. We broke apart and we just stared at each other. Her hazel eyes were so pretty and they pierced into mine with such hope. Before I knew it I was leaning forward and we kissed. She looked at me surprised and I quickly drew back.

"I'm sorry." I said.

She shook her head. "Ceaser I have to tell you something-"

"Hey Sophie what are you doing here?"

We both whipped our heads around. Jazmine and Huey stood next to each other. Sophie quickly hopped up and put on a forced smile.

"Yea just wanted to stop by and talk to Ceaser. Are we ready?" she asked.

Huey nodded his head. "Yea, I guess we could just all go to the tree." he said.

She nodded her head and looked over to me giving me one more hug. I hugged her back and caught a quick glance at them. Jazmine looked happy which I wasn't surprised by (if you saw your competition hugging some other guy wouldn't you be happy?) but Huey looked stone cold, letting no emotion come out. Sophie broke away.

"Thanks for being so cool about this." she said with a sad smile before walking after Huey and Jazmine.

I sat back down and Daniel entered eating a bag of chips. "Was that just Jazmine?" he asked.

"Uh huh." I mumbled.

He sat next to me. "Yea I know how you feel, seeing someone you like liking someone else." he said.

I raised one eyebrow. 'How would you know?" I asked suspiciously.

He looked around shrugging his shoulders. "I just do. Anyways I gotta go get ready me Ed and Rummy bout to go blow up some place." he said.

"Is Riley going?" I asked.

He shook is head. "I haven't seen him, but he texted me telling me he was busy." Daniel said.

I chuckled despite myself. Sneaky boy. I watched Daniel walk away and immediately felt sad again. I was happy that I did have one last kiss with Sophie before the whole decision thing went down though. If he did choose her at least I had one last kiss with her. I leaned back onto the couch sighing loudly. I shouldn't have let her walk away with him I should of told her what I felt. Still maybe that wouldn't have changed anything. Still I wondered what she had to tell me before Huey and Jazmine had walked in...

Jazmine's POV:

I was partically bouncing in every step as me Huey and Sophie all walked to the bug tree. You'd think I'd be nervous but I wasn't. The dream I had, had really given me confidence. Even though it was silly I think it was a vision, am I the only one who noticed Sophie's wearing the outfit from my dream? Well of course I am I'm the one who dreamed the dream. Anyways though I couldn't help but notice how Huey was acting towards me. Like he really wanted to say something but couldn't find the words to say it. Sophie looked forward not looking at any of us. She seemed very nervous like she wanted to say something too. Geez what was wrong with anyone? Huey looked at me smirking a bit before shaking his head and walking forward again.

I wore a short sleeved v-neck white shirt and a black mini skirt. Just for Huey I kept my hair poofy but instead of two ponytails I wore it to one side of my face hanging down (that took ALOT of bobby pins). We finally made it to the tree. I sat down and Sophie sat next to me clutching her knees to her chest. Huey looked at her concerned slightly.

"You alright?" he asked.

She nodded and pushed her hair back smiling. "Just a little nervous."

"Im not!" I exclaimed. They both gave me weird looks. "I-I mean I am...uh...like a little, no like alot." I said quickly. Again Huey smirked then his face went stone cold.

"So before I say this I just want you both to know that that is the person I'm staying with. No more playing behind each others back." he said.

Sophie nodded then looked at me. "Look Jazmine I know I say it alot but I am sorry. I didn't mean for all of this to happen but-"

I cut her off wrapping my arms around her. Truth was I wasn't mad anymore. This had to happen sooner or later and I'm glad we're getting it out of the way. She looked at me shocked and a bit uncomfortably before slowly hugging me back burying her head in my shoulder and I did the same.

"I'm not mad anymore Soph, I promise." I said.

She nodded and broke apart. Huey was staring at us awkwardly and that got both of us laughing. "Anyway..." he started. He stopped and just studied both of us slowly. His eyes traveled down each of us slowly as if taking in everything. Finally he breathed in a sharp breath and closed his eyes.

Sophie looked at me then started to finger comb her hair nervously. I smiled brightly not feeling a bit of nervousness or anything. I sat there day dreaming about everything. First I would jump up and hug and kiss him. Sophie would be totally cool with it and probably eventually try and get back with Ceez who would gladly take her back. Yes everything was going to go great. I finally opened my eyes from my day dream and Huey opened his.

He looked at Sophie reaching forward and, unlike my dream, kissed her on the lips slowly. Ok after he told her he chose me we would definetly talk about how long that kiss was taking. At first Sophie had looked surprised but of course had kissed him back. They didn't break apart and I cleared my throat impatiently. They broke apart and looked at me and I forced a smile.

"Jazmine-" Huey started.

I held up my hand. "No it's cool Huey mines well get it out of your system." I said then turned to Sophie. "Thanks for being so cool about this." I said hugging her. This time she just started at me then him confused. I looked back at Huey giggling. "I love you so much Huey!" I exclaimed.

He raised one eyebrow. "Um Jazmine-"

"What?" I asked.

He reached over taking Sophie's hand in his. " I didn't choose you." he said.

My heart started to sink low and I felt myself getting dizzy. I grabbed my head hoping I didn't comprehend those words correctly. "I'm sorry what?" I asked still a bit dizzy.

He sighed and look at me in a pained expression. Why is he looking like that? He doesn't even deserves to be mad?!

"I chose Sophie."

Author's Note: Sry gonna be quick. Cindy and Riley are back together WOO! Finally! Now to other matters Huey&Sophie fans sit down and stop screaming and cheering, Huey&Jazmine fans put down the knifes and guns and trust me. For both of you this has more meaning than you think. And that's all I'm saying...

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