Chapter three niggas!!


It was break and Riley was bored, he had made a few friends in the past few hours, an asian boy called Kumal, two twins named Dequan and Treshawn, a dark skinned girl named Fatima and a light skinned girl named Emily.

Kumal was the first person Riley got cool with, Riley was the first to approach him during morning time just before their first classes, it turned out that the two of them both had a hatred for Cairo and bonded over that. Kumal was your typical class clown, always cracking jokes and pissing off the teachers, he was the one kid that was always selling stuff to the other kids like calculators, stationary and the occasional snacks here and there. He wasn't exactly gangsta, but he wasn't new to knocking out a disrespectful ass nigga either, and Riley respected that.

Next onto the twins, Kumal had introduced them to Riley and Riley already knew he was gonna fuck with Treshawn a lot more than Dequan. Treshawn off the bat exhibited a reckless and playful personality, he often got into trouble for the pranks he would pull and the things he would say. Dequan however came off as his rock, he was a lot more mature and seemed to be the person who stopped Treshawn from going through with a majority of his plans. They were both cool, but if he wanted to go through the full troublemaker experience he knew that Dequan would get in the way.

Then Fatima, Riley couldn't help but be reminded of Tahiry. Even though they didn't talk much, Riley could tell that from the way she spoke and the way people spoke of her that she was smart and respected around the school, instead of sticking her nose up in disdain at Riley's personality, Fatima smiled and waved at him only to introduce herself rather formally, usually girls like Fatima didn't interest Riley but this time he decided he'd make an exception for her and become her friend.

Then Emily, LOOOORD was she annoying. Riley was reminded or Deja, except if Deja was fake hood and tried to act gangsta despite being from the suburbs. Emily was born in some suburbian white neighborhood and moved to Chicago no less than about two years ago, so she wasn't from no hood. Her attitude was horrible, she wasn't even a funny kind of ghetto she was just ghetto, he could tell that her accent was forced and fake and the girl couldn't even use 'bet' and 'cap' right in a sentence. He would have completely avoided her if it wasn't for the fact that Fatima and Emily were somehow best friends.

Overall, Riley had met a colorful group of people, but right now he wanted to talk to Deja, it felt wrong to befriend her and make banter with her only to not talk the next day. The problem was however Deja and Cairo seemed to be pretty much besties, and they did everything together, not only that but from observing it seemed like Cairo's crew were just as irritating and unlikeable as he was. Riley didn't see how Deja wasn't able to notice how silly these punk ass niggas were, maybe they switched their attitudes when they were around her? Whatever it was, it prevented Riley from talking to his newfound friend and kindred spirit, and this annoyed him.

"Sup fam, wus good?"

Riley looked from his bench to who called out to him and saw Kumal sitting beside him "sup nigga, just chillin' and shit"

Kumal messed with his scruffy black hair and huffed "ayo, I know you new but you heard of Kiren Bennet?"

Riley tilted his head "nigga who?"

"A stupid ass fuckboy that's who" Kumal answered with a scowl "he really think he run shit just cuz his gay ass daddy buy him supreme" the asian boy then looked over at Riley "ain't yo brother gettin' kinda close to Tahiry?"

"Yeah, why?"

"He better watch out, Kiren likes her" Kumal scoffed "all because when he was being clowned when he first came here, she stook up for him and said sum like 'ion care if they mock you, I think you're pretty cute' and ever since that clown been trynna get with her, he even been threatenin' dudes that like her an all that"

Riley rolled his eyes "he sound like a bitch made ass nigga"

"He is, just warnin' you about what he's like in case he tries to start with you or sum, he always tries to get with or bully the new kids"

"I hope the nigga do try me, I'll whoop his fruity ass"

Kumal snorted "you betta!"


Huey had finally met with Tahiry in the school library, when he found her, he saw her wearing what he assumed where her reading glasses, she was currently reading Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Huey let out a judgemental huff, he already wasn't a fan of fiction, let alone a story where roles are reversed and black people are oppressors and white people are the oppressed, only to tell the tragic story of an interracial couple that can't be together on some Romeo and Juliet type shit, and then the sequel has the typical brainwashed yet perfect mixed protagonist, maybe Huey was just overthinking it but he couldn't call himself a fan.

He approached her and noticed she had earbuds in, so she listened to music as she read...

Huey, not knowing the meaning of the word 'gentle', decided nudging her rather hard would be a good way to get her attention.

"AAAH!" she yelled, only to see Huey now sitting near her, Tahiry exhaled heavily and removed and earbud, pausing her music "Huey! Don't do that! You scared me!"

"I just wanted to get your attention"

"Then tap me!"

"I did tap you"

Tahiry blinked, not saying anything before shrugging it off "whatever, how were your first few lessons?"

"Trash"

"... I see" Tahiry looked down, Huey was so hard to start a conversation with! It was like trying to open a caged up metal door with passcodes for every lock! She hated initiating conversation because she often didn't know what to say, so him never saying anything made her feel rather weak.

"What you readin' that book for?" Huey suddenly said.

Tahiry perked "oh, I just like Malorie Blackman"

Huey rolled his eyes "that book is garbage"

Tahiry nervously looked at the book in her hand and sighed "the story is a little... problematic in hindsight, but it's best to always support black authors and publishers, we don't get enough credit or support as opposed to our mediocre white counterparts"

"We? You wanna be an author?"

Tahiry nodded "yeah, I wanna one day write books so young black girls like me can finally feel included in cool fantasy stories or dramatic highschool novels, instead of feeling like they're reading about the same white brunette with midlength hair in every book they pick up"

Huey nodded, even her biggest dream in life was rather endearing, Huey realized that despite having pretty much the same views, He was more for black power, such as overthrowing the white majority, rioting for rights, whilst Tahiry seemed to be more for black empowerment, wanting to make media for black kids to feel included, or having talks about the unfair treatment of black people. Funny, their goals seemed to match their personalities.

As always, Huey's mind started to wonder. Why was Tahiry so... endearing? She showed so much more confidence when she was at home with her sister and Granny, but in public she seemed much more meek and mild. He couldn't but look at her and take into account her features, Tahiry was a brown, almost dark skinned girl with a full head of large coily hair, unlike her sister (who wasn't even the type to show off when she dressed), Tahiry wore a lot more conservative clothing, he'd even go as far as to say she tried to make herself looks as cute and harmless as possible.

Huey grimaced, black girls were for whatever reason always faced with negative press from the world, they were treated as if they were crazy and violent animals, young black girls couldn't do anything remotely fashionable without being labelled as 'fast' and hypersexualized by those around them, if a black girl went missing, people were quick to say things like "she probably ran away!" or "she probably has a secret boyfriend!". When black girls were assulted, the blame was always put on them "she looks older anyway!" or "she probably started it!", if a black girl showed any sign of being confident within herself, she was mocked and told she had no reason to feel that way. It was as if they couldn't catch a break no matter what they did, the darker you were the worse you got it.

Huey then paused, what if the reason Tahiry behaved like this was to avoid being treated that way? What if she adopted a much more gentle attitude so people wouldn't label her as 'the ghetto angry black girl'? If that were the case, Huey didn't approve AT ALL, black people should not be forced to sanitize their personality and fit into what the white majority expects of them to deserve respect and their rights acknowledged, a super educated black person who spoke like a university professor as not somehow worth more and more deserving than a 'ghetto' black person from the hood, and the idea that they were and black people needed to conform to the white standard was one of the main reasons he hated Woodcrest.

You know, apart from Cindy McPhearson.

Huey had now made up his mind, similar to how he had tried so desperately hard to make her realize her self worth, he decided his next project was to break away Tahiry's passive shell and finally see the confident and abrasive activist he knew she could be, if she really was trying to conform, he needed to make her realize that she didn't need to, that her real self was the best her she could be.

Huey needed time to think of ways to do that, because unlike a certain someone Tahiry didn't deny her blackness, so he needed knew material. So instead, he asked a question that he wasn't even planning on asking "who's Kiren?"

"Kiren? Kiren Bennet?"

Huey nodded "mhm"

Tahiry smiled, Huey swore he cold see a soft glow about her "just a friend, he's really nice"

Nice? That nigga tried to threaten me "what's your relationship like?"

Tahiry squinted her eyes, which looked rather comical with her thick reading glasses "what's with this sudden interrogation?"

"Just curious" was all Huey responded with.

"Well, we're just friends, he can be a little over the top at times but he's nice once you get to know him"

Huey snorted "I'm pretty sure he likes you"

"Me? What... pffft..." Tahiry placed a hand on her cheek and looked away "naaah, he wouldn't like me, I'm not his type..."

"He has a type?"

"Yeah..."

"What's his type?"

"Oh you know..." Tahiry rubbed her arm anxiously "the type of girls who... start early..."

"Start early?"

"You know... the ones who do those kinda things..."

"You really need to be more specific"

Although he was acting oblivious, Huey knew exactly what she meant, he just found humor in how flustered she was getting and how difficult she was finding it to talk about these things.

If Tahiry was pale, she was sure she would have been red by now "the kinda girls that do things like... uh... sex and stuff..."

After about three seconds, Huey did something that many thought he hadn't the ability to do.

He laughed, extremely loudly.

"Hey! What's so funny?" Tahiry frowned.

"S-Sorry, it's just" when Huey had finally calmed down, he continued "the way you said it 'sex and stuff..." you were SO humiliated, I'm sorry but it was funny, really funny"

Despite being embarrassed, Tahiry was elated. She had managed to make Huey laugh, it may not have been on purpose, but she did! She managed to barely break that caged metal door that was Huey's personality! This was a win in her book.

"Anyway, why do you care about Kiren so much?"

Huey would have told her the truth, but he could tell that the two were probably close friends, and he wasn't up for ruining a friendship.

"No reason, just heard about him is all"


Kiren was pissed off.

When he first came to Tigerlily middle school, the other kids harped on him for being reserved and quiet, his parents had been going through a rather rough custody battle and the stress got to him so bad that he decided that he wasn't up for being open and friendly. This caused him to be harassed and tormented by the other students almost daily, that was until one day, she got involved.

Tahiry... his beautiful guardian angel. He already knew of her, she could even be labelled as popular, Tahiry was the head of both the book club and the debate club, she was often the one to help run school activities, she was known for always being nice, and also she was very pretty.

She had jumped in and kicked one of the boys off him and threatened to beat them up once, report them and beat them up a second time if they ever harassed him again. He remembered how they ran away almost instantly, and how she helped him up and when he started berating himself she said that sentence he would never forget:

"Nah don't listen to 'em" she said, her usual professional way of speaking being replaced by what he assumed was her actual accent, probably out of anger "ion care what they said about you, you're cute, much cuter than they could ever be"

Kiren took those words to heart, and from that day forward he decided that he wanted Tahiry. After that summer break he came back in designer clothing with boosted confidence, his much richer father won the custody battle and the old man was willing to get his son anything he wanted. Kiren's whole attitude changed, he started acting like hot shit because he fully believed he was hot shit, and guess what? It wasn't long until these peasants bowed down to him and treated him like the king of the school.

As Kiren grew older, his hormones began changing and so did his feelings for Tahiry.

Now, Kiren wasn't new to sex, not at all. He didn't really see the big deal in having sex young, he knew bitches who got pregnant much younger, if some chick was willing to get on her knees and suck his dick then why not let her? Plus he was fifteen now, so he wasn't even all that young.

The problem was, whenever he was with these girls he couldn't shake images of Tahiry out of his head, and she knew about his sexcapades and her only request was for him to keep himself safe and protected, other than that she seemed to not care.

His hormones wouldn't give him a break, he started seeing her differently, before he thought she was just a really cute and really nice girl, but now his eyes were wondering to other places. Maybe he was the only one who noticed (though he knew he wasn't), but Tahiry developed a little earlier than her peers, she wasn't super curvy or super womanly looking by any means, but to say she had a lot more going on for than most girls in her grade was understatement.

She was starting to go from really cute to really hot to him, whenever she was around, he couldn't help but undress her with his eyes, whenever he was with another girl or going solo he always thought of her, it was so extreme that one time he moaned her name when he was with his current girlfriend at the time, which almost started a mess that would have been impossible to come back from. He often dreamt about her, he thought of her undressing, in scantily clad clothing, saying and doing things that were very much out of her character, he LIVED whenever she wore shorts or an oddly short skirt to school.

Basically, he thought of every immoral and perverted thing you could think of another person.

Soon Kiren decided he had to have Tahiry, he not only wanted to date her and call her his, he also wanted to embrace her, he wanted to kiss her, he wanted to whisper sweet nothings into her ear and hear her moan his name, he wanted to pin her against a wall in his room and slide her clothes off and-

Yeah, you get the picture.

Was it creepy? Probably, but Kiren didn't care, half of these dudes wanted to do the same exact thing, he wasn't stupid, he knew that a lot of the guys in school thought Tahiry and Deja were cute (Tahiry more so because she SEEMED less dominating than Deja personality wise) and their names were often brought up when then discussion came to cutest girls in school or something. However, luckily the same guys didn't pursue her because Tahiry was a very solitary girl who wouldn't speak to people she didn't know, so the guys wouldn't try and get with a girl they knew nothing about.

Also, Kiren threatened them and made them feel too scared to ask her out.

Both were factors.

Kiren soon realized that even if they got together, Tahiry probably wouldn't want to sleep with him, she seemed like the type to want to wait until she's of age or even worse... until marriage. Yuck. It was all cool, once she got a taste of heaven from Kiren she'd be so addicted that she wouldn't be able to go more than a day without it.

Kiren was SURE that he and Tahiry were at that point where he could finally ask her out and finally do the things that he had always wanted to do to her when HE just had to pop into her life.

Huey Freeman.

Tahiry often spoke of him, apparently he was some black activist or whatever who made a name for himself for being pretty extremist with his views. Kiren didn't care, he was just some weird kid living in the suburbs, there was nothing for him to be intimidated by, right?

Wrong.

There he sat, at a table in the library with the love of his life, chatting and laughing with her like they had been best friends for life.

Kiren was pissed off.

He couldn't believe that he now had competition for Tahiry, this Huey bastard didn't seem fazed by Kiren's threats and was still getting close to Tahiry like it wasn't anything, he wasn't going to stand for it, he wasn't going to lose Tahiry, he wasn't going to lose the one girl he loved most.

Especially not to some fake ass nappy headed activist.


Riley and Kumal were roaming the school field when they saw Deja sitting on her own.

Deja was pretty heated, she had seen Riley around school all day and he hadn't even bothered to wave at her, she knew that him and Cairo had some kind of beef going on, but she didn't appreciate being ghosted just because of some boy drama she had nothing to do with. All day she had been talking with Cairo and Dousey and a few of her other squad members, but it got boring after a while, she wanted to talk to Riley but it was obvious that he didn't want to talk to her.

Riley, seeing that she was finally away from that Cairo nigga, approached Deja with a smile "Ayo Deezy-"

"Fuck you nigga" she spat almost instantly.

Riley reeled back, trying not to snap at Kumal whom was laughing his ass of "damn, fuck I do?"

"So you just gon' ghost a nigga all day? You ain't even wave at a nigga? Bruh, you fuckin dogged me bro!" she yelled.

"First of all, it's only recess so it ain't been all day, second of all you was hangin' with Cairo's ass! And you know ion fuck with him! Fuck was I sposed to do?"

"Ion know, maybe wave at least!?"

"Why ain't you wave?"

"CUZ YOU DIDN'T NIGGA DAMN!" she said in a rather scary tone one that, Riley couldn't lie, slightly spooked him "I thought you ain't fuck with me no more so I didn't wave"

Riley sighed, no matter how gangsta she was, Deja was still a girl so she still did that weird mood swing shit "aight aight I'm sorry, I just didn't wanna be around Cairo, I ain't know it would piss you off like that"

"Well..." Deja began, "I guess I forgive yo ass, but don't do that shit again! I really thought I lost a cool ass friend and shit..."

"Damn bitch over a wave?" Riley smirked.

"Who you callin' a bitch!?"

"You bitch!"

"Nigga shut you gay ass up, that's why you ain't got a dad!"

"Bitch you ain't got no dad neither!"

"Aight!? Yo point!?"

The two, although saying nasty things about each other, were laughing through the whole ordeal.

Kumal just watched and sighed "yup, one day they gon' end up fuckin' one day, I can tell"


me: this chapter is gonna be Riley and Deja focused

also me: heres more Huey and Tahiry exposition

Now, romance is gonna be a bit of a black sheep for me, although it seems like I'm setting it up rn, I actually dont know is I want to get both the Norwoods and the Freemans together, so other than come characters crushing on other character (for example Kiren liking Tahiry) dont you worry about romance because for now imma focus on developing their friendship, romance might come later on but with who idk

Next chapter we meet two familiar characters from the Boondocks comic series, can you guess who?

P.S: did I make Kiren creepy enough? I based him off of most of the bum ass niggas in my school and the shit they say that creeps me the fuck out lmao