It was a Saturday evening and the gang was coming over for our monthly game night. They all made it a habit to play a game once a month. Usually, I wouldn't want anything to do with it because they play immature games.
Last month they played 'I Am' which involves one person impersonating someone in the group. I didn't play, but somehow they included my name on the card. Not to my surprise, my brother was impersonating me.
I'm pretty sure you can imagine how that went just by the way he sees me. He called me gay and said I was a lame whiny and stuck-up virgin with a big afro. I, of course, got upset and threw something at him.
I try to be the bigger person and walk away, but he sometimes gets under my skin. It's hard not doing anything to him. I remember the first time I felt at peace in mind with Riley was when I had my katana on his face when we were little.
I love my brother, but sometimes it gets to that point with your sibling where you want to kill them. I'm pretty sure everybody has had that feeling. All the others in the group are lucky that they don't have siblings.
Well except for Caesar, but his older brother is in Jamaica attending college trying to get his degree in technology. I've only seen the guy once and that was when I went to Brooklyn with Caesar and his parents to his graduation.
He was a pretty chill guy that anybody would hang around. To put it out into simple terms, he was an older version of Caesar. They both looked alike only he had long dreadlocks.
I heard the door open and in came Caesar and Hiro. It seems he has healed from his concussion. "We're here!" I heard Hiro say.
They both walked into the living room where Riley, Cindy, and I were at. Riley and Cindy were trying to carefully open up the box without there being damage.
This month it was Riley's turn to pick a game and he said it was going to be a surprise for everybody. Whenever it was Riley's turn to pick a game I made sure to never play. His games always caused drama!
I remember they played Truth or Dare and Jazmine ended up ditching because she didn't want to do any of the dares Riley gave her.
"Where are Jazmine and Ming at?" Cindy looked up asking Hiro and Caesar. "Ming went to go get Jazmine. It looked like she was helping her parents decorate their house for Christmas," Hiro said.
"Aight!" Cindy said being assured. "I'm surprised you guys don't know this giving that she literally lives across the street from you guys," Caesar said being right.
"Yeah, but I'm surprised her high yellow ass can't be the first person to arrive on time. She literally lives across the street while the rest of you live a couple of minutes away in walking distance. It will only take 30 seconds of her time to get here," Riley fussed.
"Reezy why you so stuck-up about Jazmine being on time?" Cindy asked. "It's not that I'm stuck-up it's just frustrating. Jazmine may look and act white the majority of the time, but this shows how black she is inside. For starters her being late," Riley babbled.
"Reezy you act like you ain't late all the time," Cindy said looking at him funny. I wouldn't blame her, Riley, and sometimes the others are late to some places.
"I'm only late to places that are lame and gay," Riley said. "So those parties you show up to are lame and gay?" Hiro questioned offended.
"To a certain extent! I make sure I enjoy myself before everybody gets turnt up. And by everybody, I just mean the gay dudes. I am not fin to stay at a party and watch a bunch of guys twerk," Riley defended.
"What about school, you know school is very important for our education, you can't have poor attendance," Caesar questioned trying to be innocent.
"Oh shut up Caesar, you and I both know that yo' ass skips or shows up late on purpose. You don't even show up early for Huey's lame-ass club," Riley said calling out Caesar.
"I still show up," Caesar defended. I know he can be there early but I rather not argue with him because he shows up at the actual time the club starts.
"Hey you guys Ming and Jazmine are about to come in," Hiro said giving us a heads up. "Good, I have to give her something," Caesar said digging inside of his pockets.
"What do you have to give her?" I sternly questioned. Caesar never gives anybody anything unless something happened. "Chill dude, my family and I are giving her a thank you gift for helping me out," he said taking a pink envelope out of his pocket.
"What are your cheap parents giving Jazmine?" Riley rudely asked. "For your information, my parents are not that cheap and you have no room to talk because Mr. Freeman is cheap," Caesar rightfully defended.
We heard the door open to be met with Ming and Jazmine. The others continued with what they were doing while Caesar walked towards Ming and Jazmine who were conversing. He had given Jazmine the pink envelope and I observed closely.
She opened it to be met with a lot of cash. It looked like over a hundred dollars in that envelope along with a card. I don't blame him for giving her money. She did take time out of her day to go check on him, unlike the others who thought he needed space.
I looked over at Riley to see he had pulled his game out. It looked like a lie detector. Why the fuck would he order a lie detector, he's the main person who doesn't like to snitch on anybody even himself.
"Can they just hurry the fuck up over there?" Riley asked a bit irritated with the others socializing. "Aye get yall asses over here the game is fin to start," Cindy yelled helping him out.
The others started making their way over towards the living room. I quickly debated whether I wanted to play or not. This is Riley's game we're talking about. Riley does ask tough questions that are debatable for some of us so this could be a loophole for me to get some answers.
I decided to sit in the circle while the others soon joined.
"So how are we gonna play this?" Hiro asked. "We'll do youngest to oldest. With the questioning will spin this bottle to pick who'll ask the question," Riley instructed.
"So basically; you, Cindy, Ming, me, Jazmine, Ceasar, and Huey?" Hiro pointed youngest to oldest. "Basically!" Cindy answered his question. "Ok let's do this!" Ceasar shouted clapping his hands putting a smile on everybody's face.
Sometimes I feel like he is the comic relief of the group. He manages to make everybody smile. He even made me smile when he knocked himself out.
Riley crawled to the middle to spin the bottle. I was hoping whoever it land on would ask him an interesting question. I like to see Riley embarrassed sometimes since he does it to me all the time.
"Make it good nigga no homo," Riley said putting his hands on the print of the object. For someone who says he's not gay, he sure says the gayest things to a guy.
"Ok, Smart-ass, have you ever checked out a dude before?" Ceasar thankfully questioned. Riley scowled at him making him laugh. "Nigga you know damn well I don't check out no dudes, so no," he answered.
Sadly the detector didn't shock Riley and it was pinned at the truth. I'm surprised, I thought when he went through his gay phase he would have checked out some dudes. But now that I think about it, he was just acting and dressing gay.
"HA, IN YO' FACE CAESAR SALAD!" Riley excitedly shouted at Ceasar. Ceasar smacked his lips and rolled his eyes at Riley's outburst. I have a feeling Riley was more relieved than excited that the lie detector didn't say lie.
"Cindy your turn," Ming told her. "Ok!" she smiled as she spun the bottle. The bottle had landed on Hiro! "Ok whatchu you got my man?" she asked putting her hands on the detector.
"Have you ever kissed a girl before?" he simply asked her. "Yeah!" she answered. It pinned at the truth which made Riley look her up and down. "C you never told me you were interested in the other side," he said a bit surprised. "It was a dare," she told him.
I know my brother cannot be that dense. It was so obvious, even I noticed she liked the other side. I noticed this when I first met her. By the way, she acted and dressed her sexuality was obvious as clear as water during the day.
There was nothing wrong with Cindy being a tomboy, but the idea of her and my brother being together is hard to consume. It's weird seeing people who are exactly alike together.
"Ok Ming your turn," Jazmine said as Ming spun the bottle. It had landed on Hiro who rubbed his hands together. "Ok, am I the best kisser?" he asked her as she said: "Yes!" then her hand got shocked. She immediately took it out and Hiro stared in surprise.
They're gonna have a big fuss about this later. I know for a fact Hiro is going to make a big deal about this. They've been together for two or three years so he's going to be questioning her.
"Umm Jazmine it's your turn," Ming immediately said. I guess she was feeling awkward at the moment.
"Right!" Jazmine said spinning the bottle. As she looked at the bottle she seemed nervous. A little too nervous as if she was afraid it land on anyone of us.
When it started to slow down it surprisingly landed on me. "Ok let me think!" I said wanting some time to think about a question I wanted to ask her.
I don't want to ask her something too embarrassing or carelessness. I know Jazmine is sensitive so I want to go easy on her. Then again, I thought back to earlier with her and Caesar.
I remember I left his house and I was wondering if anything happened while I wasn't there. It's not so much as Jazmine I can't trust it's really Caesar I can't trust. He literally came downstairs and kissed Jazmine on the lips right dead in front of me.
I know Jazmine and I aren't fully official, but kissing and hugging should be off-limits with other guys. Then I found the perfect question to ask Jazmine. "Are you and Caesar dating?" I asked her.
She then had tensed at my question making me cock my eyebrow. Judging by her body language she doesn't want to answer. She looks very tongue-tied. All the others seemed a little curious about my question while Riley was snickering to himself.
"No!" she answered as I waited for what the detector was going to say. To my surprise, it was the truth. I looked over at Caesar to see he looked disappointed at her answer.
"Yeah, we aren't actually dating, we just do that to keep some of my exes away," he agreed. I don't believe him because he is just playing along at this point. His exes come up to him whether he is single or in a relationship.
Few of them have seen him and Jazmine in the halls together and they still try to get with him in private. She doesn't know this but I know it because I've seen it all happened.
"Exes...I thought it was to make Makayla jealous," I asked calling him out. "No, it was to keep some of them away and I kiss Jazmine to give them the proof," he explained. And he continues the lie, I looked over at Hiro to see he didn't even buy it.
"That explains why yo' nasty lips were on hers," Riley commented. "Shut yo' uneven edge up' ass up," Ceasar scold Riley. "Man fuck you, it's yo' turn!" Riley retorted.
"Okay!" Caesar said spinning the bottle. The ball spun and then it landed on Jazmine. This should be interesting, I wonder what type of question she is going to ask him.
"Ok Jazzy Fresh what's yo' question?" Ceasar asked putting his hand on the print. "My question is: Is Makayla crazy?" Jazmine boldly questioned. I don't know what she asked him that, it's already obvious.
Makayla envies Jazmine because she gets Caesar's attention and is probably faster than her in track. She made that sly comment towards her at Cici's Pizza.
"I ain't gonna lie: yes!" he answered. The detector didn't shock him indicating that it was the truth. See, I told you, Makayla is crazy. Or to be more realistic she is stalkerish.
"Why you ask a question like that?" Hiro asked looking at Jazmine.
"Because so I can be prepared to expect the unexpected. She always comes at me with these insults. For instance, when she saw me walking to Ceasar's house she came up to me with an evil smirk. Then she started inferring that Ceasar and I were between second and third base," she explained.
"And what did you say?" Riley asked interested. Why do I feel like she said something that pissed Makayla off? I remember I was driving towards Caesar's house and I saw Makayla angrily jogging somewhere as if someone had something to piss her off.
"I said 'I guess you can say that' because I was unsure what she meant. Then she told me not to gag. I didn't fully know what she meant by don't gag and I was like 'On what!' and then she just got even more upset with me," she clarifed.
No wonder Makayla was pissed off, Jazmine had said an innocnet comment that was dirty. Sometimes I wonder how pure Jazmine's mind is? I know that she has to have caught on to some adult jokes over the years.
"Yo' ass is way too innocent to understand what she was talking about," Riley cried out in laughter. He's not wrong. Jazmine basically told Makayla she doesn't gag on Caesar's dick.
"What was she referring to?" Jazmine asked. "Jazmine she was talking about giving head or a blow job," Caesar thankfully answered.
"Oh!" she said in realization. I'm glad Caesar put it out into simple words for her. Knowing Riley and Cindy they'll give her every detail of what a blow job is.
But if they were to explain to her how it goes, I wonder if she would think about doing it.
I felt myself hardening a little at the thought of Jazmine giving me a blow job. Her sucking my dick and hitting the back of throat would be nice. It would be even better if I released my cum in the back of her throat giving her no choice but to swallow.
I bit my bottom lip and had to cross my legs a little so nobody wouldn't notice. I didn't feel like the girls getting discussed and the guys making fun of me later on.
"Huey man it's yo' turn," Hiro told me as I spun the bottle. When it stopped it landed on none other than my little annoying wannabe gangsta brother that think he for the streets.
"Okay, I got a question I've been wanting to know for years?" Riley exclaimed. "And that is?" I asked knowing what he was about to ask. "Is you gay?" he asked surely of his question. "No!" I sternly answerd.
Of course, the detector didn't go off, which means I was telling the truth. I don't know why he keeps assuming I'm gay. What signs do I give away that I'm gay? He always seems to blame it on my attitude and how I view the world and our society.
"Now Riley can stop calling you gay," Hiro smiled. "That won't help my case," I corrected. Even though he knows the truth he is still going to keep calling me gay.
"Ok it's my turn," Riley said taking the detector away from me. He spun the bottle and placed his hands on the print. When the bottle stopped it had landed on Cindy who smirked. This should be good!
"Ok, Reezy did you like that bitch Oliva's picture that always is flirting with you right dead in front of me?" Cindy glared at him. "Depends on which pic you talking about," she sighed and simplified: "The one she recently posted with her wearing a matching set of undergarments,". "No!" he answered as his hand got shocked.
I wanted to laugh at him because he got caught. Once you're in a relationship you can't do certain things like, liking girls pictures. I found out a bunch of females get upset about that type of stuff.
One of my club members girlfriends went crazy when she found out he like some other girls picture. Apparently she went through his account and looked at his history of likes.
"Ha, I knew it!" she angrily said looking at Riley. "Why are you so upset with him liking her picture?" Ming asked her. Unlike other girlfriends, Ming didn't get upset when Hiro liked other girls pictures because she did the same thing.
"Have you not seen how that bitch looks; she got the curves and everything," Cindy exaggerated. "Yeah but she also keeps her options open so you shouldn't worry about her stealing Riley from you," Jazmine said assuring Cindy.
"Wait how are you so sure of it?" Ceasar asked. I guess he didn't believe that. I think Oliva was one of his exes.
"Because I'm friends with her and she usually tells me about all the guys she crushes on," Jazmine said. "How are you guys friends with her?" Cindy exaggerated.
Only person I would say Oliva is friends with is Jazmine. They both dance with each other so it was to be expected.
"Because she and I are both captains and once or twice a month all the captains have to go meet up at school. We got to know each other and we just became friends. Plus we're both dancers so we can co-partner on some things," she explained.
See told you, it was to be expected. Although I hate how all the captains have to meet up every month. It's really unneccesary and I don't even know why the teachers made it mandorty.
This is stuff Student Council should be in charge of. We're supposed to voice our opinons about some topics that aren't taken seriously.
"Huh, I never knew the captains meet up," Hiro said a bit surprised. "Yeah we always meet up," I sadly answered. "Wait you go?" Hiro asked shocked. "I am the president of the A.F.R.O Association so I have to go as well," I told. "Plus he's my ride!" she added in.
"Sadly that too!" I sighed. "What's so sad about it?" she angrily crossed her arms. "Because when it's all over you stay for an extended time to be social while I am ready to go," I exclaimed.
I never want to go to these stupid meetings so when we're released I'm ready to go unlike Jazmine who stays and socalize. If I wasn't a respectful guy, I would have drove off and left her at the school for someone else to take her home.
But that would be wrong for me to leave her at school. I'm sure anybody would give Jazmine a ride, but I don't trust everybody. And since we live across the street from each other it makes more sense for me to drive her home.
"Ok, umm Cindy it's your turn," she said. Cindy spun the bottle for it to land on me. "Ahh shit," she cursed. "Ok, my question is do you really like my brother's dumbass?" I asked.
I know this was a random question, but I wanted to see her get shocked. "Surprisingly yes!" she answered with no shock sadly following through.
"That's no surprise the both of you act alike," I mumbled. "Whatever McHater, here you go Ming," Cindy shrugged off.
"Ok!" she said as she spun the bottle. The bottle had then landed on Cindy. "Ok Ming, a couple of years ago during that kickball game did you secretly enjoy all of us getting hurt on the pitch?" Cindy immediately asked.
"No!" she answered as the pinpoint went halfway.
"Seems like that was a half-lie," Riley shook his head. "Ok now tell the truth," Riley crossed his arms. "Ok at the beginning it was funny but at the end, I tried to hide it until Huey somehow caught on," she answered.
"Well if you're going to try and be convincing make sure your teammates don't say shit about it," I simply said trying to contain my scowl from showing.
At first I was going to go easy on them, but I can't judge a book by its cover. A lot of them played dirty and at the end they all got what they deserved.
"I don't think you'll have to worry about it," she assured.
"Good, I hope not," I sternly said. "Ok... let's move on to Hiro!" Jazmine said trying to break the tension.
"Yeah," Hiro said agreeing. He spun the bottle which had landed on Cindy. "Ok, what year did you lose yo' virginity?" Cindy asked for some odd reason.
Why are teens at our age so interested when we lose our virginities. Is it something that special to people? I didn't care too much about losing my virginty because I didn't see the big deal in it.
If I was going to have sex I want to do it with someone who I feel more connected with. Anybody can have sex and not feel happy. I rather have sex and be comfortable with the person rather than feel empty.
Hiro looked at Ming who scowled him. "Last year!" he answered with no shame. Ming covered her face in embarrassment because of Hiro's answer.
I don't blame her for being embarrass. Most girls don't want their sex life to be shared with others. I know for a fact I wouldn't. I was glad Jazmine was able to keep it to herself.
I felt that type of stuff is supposed to be private.
"Here you go Jazmine," Hiro said sliding the detector to Jazmine. Jazmine spun the bottle which had landed on Hiro.
This is interesting, it landed on Hiro. He can't asked that bad of a question.
"Are you a virgin?" Hiro had asked Jazmine. Never mind I was wrong.
"What type of question is that you know good and well that out of all of us that Jazmine has not lost her virginity," Ceasar answered. "Yeah, Jazmine would most likely have sex when she is married," Ming agreed.
If only they knew they were all wrong. Jazmine lost her viriginty to me and I'm glad none of them know because it's none of their business. If they did know they would all be asking a bunch of questions.
I looked to my brother to see he was cracking a smirk. Out of everybody I'm surprised he didn't say anything.
Knowing him he would try to expose Jazmine and I just for his own sastification.
"I'm sorry, I just thought that since we were on the topic I ask," Hiro tried to defend himself. "Yeah, well that was a wasteful question. Jazmine just gives it to Ceasar we all know the answer," Cindy said.
Jazmine was lucky to not answer that question since everybody was in denial.
Caesar spun the bottle for it to land on Ming.
"Okay Ming hit me," Ceasar said pumped up. "Who was the last girl you were with?" she asked him. "Makayla?" he answered not getting shocked.
Since he has a crush on Jazmine, he's not trying to flirt with other girls. I'm surprised he has last thing long.
Caesar gave the detector to me and I leaned in to spin the bottle. Once again it had landed on RIley. "Ah this should be good," I sarcastically said.
"Alright, bitch, who was the girl you surprisingly lost your virginity to?" Riley evilly smirked at me. I knew that jackass wasn't up to know good.
He was being way too calm and quiet about the whole situation. But now since it's his turn he is trying to expose me and Jazmine.
"You lost your virginity, to who?" Ceasar asked a bit surprised. "Man why didn't you tell us?" Hiro asked disappointed. "Because it was none of you guys' business," I retorted.
"Nigga just answer the damn question," Riley rushed.
"Come on answer?" Ming said also rushing me.
Were they really interested with who I slept with?
"I lost my virginity to my crush!" I answered as everybody except Jazmine looked at me funny. When I looked at Jazmine she looked relieved. I didn't even notice I wasn't shocked which pins the truth.
"Nigga we wanted the name of who you fucking lost it to," Cindy angrily burst out. "Well you ain't getting a name because it's none of you guy's business," I said feeling my Chicago self about to pop out.
"This wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would be," Ming sighed. "Yeah, I thought he was going to lose his virginity at the age of 40," Riley said shaking his head.
Forty? This crackhead thought I was going to lose my virginty at forty? How uptight did he think I was to lose my virginity at 40?
"40?" I questioned.
"Yeah, have you ever noticed you didn't like nobody's ass and they didn't like you? The only thing you like was politics, bringing something to justice, and your own beliefs," Riley defended.
I don't see what's bad about that. I'm just like any regular human being that has personal interest. He's into art, music, and gang violence but you don't see me complaining about the first two.
"Ok, what's your point you're trying to get through?" I asked.
"I'm just saying you really don't like to get into your other personal interest you might have a liking for," Riley exclaimed.
"I have hobbies!" I retorted. "Yeah, but ones you relax with other than the ones that stress you out all the time," Riley shook his head.
"Only time I've seen you smile is when you held a sword on the side of my face," Riley crossed his arms as everybody had then broken out in laughter.
He's right on that part. That was a time I enjoyed myself doing something. It was wrong to hold a katana to his face, but once you have siblings you'll understand.
"Now that you can picture," Ceasar said as everybody laughed some more.
"You must have done something," Ming said wiping her tears. Or was doing something to be correct. "I didn't do shit," Riley lied. "Yes the fuck you did, you kept trying to go over to Ed and Rummy's," I argued.
He was going to try and kidnap Oprah which I could not let him achieve.
"Yeah and you was stopping a brotha from having some fun," Riley exclaimed.
"Well if I didn't you would have been a dead brotha a long time ago if I didn't stop yo' ass from hanging out with them," I exclaimed. He still till this day hangs around them and does reckless things.
Lately I haven't heard anything surprisingly. He's been leaving the house a lot but I haven't seen anybody pick him up. I'm assuming Cindy picks him up since she has her own car.
"Well you guys I gotta make my way out," Jazmine said standing up. Why would she leave now, she just got here. It's not like she can't stay longer, she lives right across the street.
"You sure you can't stay any longer Jazz?" Cindy asked her.
"No, my dad had made it clear I need to come home for dinner," she said. "Ok, see you tomorrow," "Have a nice night," "I hope you live the next day," "Good night Jazmine," we started saying our goodbyes.
"Why'd you say I hope you live the next day?" she asked catching what Riley said.
"Because yo' mamas cooking is naassty. It be looking like she just be putting stuff together like that peach cobbler she made a couple of years ago. That shit had peas in it and it looked like a dog barfed that shit up. Then I remember she put raisins in the in the potato salad like who the fucky the fuck puts raisins in potato salad and don't get me started on walnuts in that sweet potato dish she made for Thanksgiving. Then she be going a little too overboard with that mayo. That is the straight definition of white people cooking," Riley argued.
I couldn't say anything right there because it's not like he wasn't wrong. Sarah's cooking was okay on some rare occasions but other times it looked a hot mess.
That one time she bought the peach cobbler for us to all eat did look nasty. I just respectfully didn't say anything.
"Well thank you Riley for your thoughtful compliment and carefulness," Jazmine said sounding unsure.
"You're welcome Jazmine, I don't ever have a problem telling you when you're eating some nasty ass shit and wishing you the best for tomorrow," he kindly said.
That was rude, but at least he was trying to be nice about it.
"Ok..." Ceasar said looking the other way.
Jazmine was about to leave but I wanted to privately say goodbye to her: "Aye let me make sure you get home safely."
"Bitch she lives across the street," Riley said making me want to slap him upside the head, but I ignored it. I didn't feel like fighting with him tonight.
She opened the door and waited until I came out with her. We both walked over to her house in complete silence. I didn't know what to say to her at the moment.
"Well this was an interesting night," she awkwardly said.
"Hey umm thanks for not saying my name," she said.
"No problem, I'm still not telling even if we were dating," I said. I would never intentionally expose my sex life.
"Yeah, well I'll see you around tomorrow!" she said as we were at her front door. "Yeah!" I said as she just stood in place with me. I guess she was waiting on me to do something.
I just went in and kissed her on the lips. When we parted her face was pink. I'm taking that as a good thing.
"I'll see you around tomorrow," I said saying my goodbyes. "Yeah, you too!" she softly said heading inside of her house. Tonight was interesting with a lot of stuff being exposed.
Thank you for reading!