Chapter six bitcheeees! Also, I acc an to read thru and correct the previous chapters, so they're more enjoyable to read ofc, bc the amount if mistake in em... chile...

Anyway, enjoy chapter 6!


The rest of the school week went by rather smoothly, after finding out that Deja and her friends do all the lit shit after school, Riley had sworn to be on his best behavior in school as to not get a detention. Okay, maybe not his best behavior, but good enough to avoid trouble. It was now a Thursday and they had about three school lessons left before they could finally go home, Riley's grade had gym that day, but he refused to actually partake in it, so him and both Kumal and Treshawn decided to just roam around the indoor basketball court, conversing about whatever came to their minds.

"So, that's when I found out that nigga wasn't 'bout it for real, can you believe it? Bro was pussy AND he was gay!"

"You deadass? I knew there was sum' off about that Gangstalicious nigga"

"Yuh! I did allat for nothin'! I was so mad"

The three boys soon sat by the wall, although they were in the basketball court, they weren't actually playing basketball, apparently they were playing some gay ass sport called bench ball, either way they wanted no parts in it, what was the point of coming to the indoor court if they couldn't shoot hoops? Their coach was tripping for real.

After a bit of silence between them, Kumal looked towards the two with a grin "yo, y'all know about that Tigerlily water gun fight tomorrow?"

"The what?" Riley said, stretching his arms a little bit.

"You ain't know?" the asian said with a sigh "damn, you missin' out homie, all the kids in Tigerlily gon' meet up at the local park and we gon' have this big ass water gun battle! You know, since it's hot outside and whatever"

Treshawn snorted "last time we had one, it got so crazy that the cops were called, all over some damn water!"

Now, THIS was what Riley was waiting for, something fun and exciting to happen, he was getting a little bored of Tigerlily already, because for a supposedly ghetto school nothing ever happened, you mean to say this boring week was leading up to a whole water gun fight? One that involved the entire school?

"Yo, I'm down! So it's tomorrow?"

"Yup, after school, bring a water gun and some bottles, I'm gon' try to bring my hose like last time so we can have easy refills, but that's only if that tap still works, so bring ya own water in case"

"Bet" Riley was already planning who he'd hit, first he'd go for Emily's annoying ass, then Huey just to piss him off, then Deja because real homies spray each other with water, oh, he was gonna be a whole fiend on Friday.

As the three continued to talk about the upcoming water gun fight, they didn't seem to notice a boy staring at them, it was Lucas Jordan, one of Kiren's boys. He was skipping class and decided to mess around in the indoor basketball court, the coach didn't even seem to realize that he was there, which made the process easier, he kept an eye on Riley, which was necessary, that was Huey's younger brother after all. Unlike Lucas N, Jay . was incredibly loyal to Kiren, so he was one of the main dudes that told anyone who was trying it with Tahiry to back up, that was his homies girl, so anyone out of line would be dealt with.

This Huey Freeman guy however was different, he didn't back up, and continued to pursue a friendship with Tahiry, worst of all, Tahiry looked up to him, meaning the chances of her falling for him were higher than any other guy that had ever attempted to get with her. They had to get him out of the picture as soon as possible, or he may actually swipe Tahiry away from Kiren. After doing a bit of snooping throughout the week, Jay had found out that Huey was friends with Hiro, that Japanese music nerd, and Caesar, that weird kid from Brooklyn. He also found out he was related to Riley Freeman, a first year who was friends with some girl named Fatima, Emily, those annoying ass twins, Kumal and of course, Tahiry's sister, Deja Norwood. Now that he knew everyone from school that was associated with Huey, he wasn't sure what to do with that information, so decided to keep his eye on the Freemans just in case it sparked an idea.

"Yo, you hung with Deja today?"

"Only a bit, she fucked off somewhere with that Cairo nigga"

"Ha, I know yo ass was heated!"

Jay perked up when he heard that, of course! Deja was friends with Cairo, who wouldn't shut the fuck up about how much he hated the Freeman brothers, especially Huey for whatever reason. Not only that, but Jay could have sworn Cairo knew some people from Downsent, and since there was going to be an open park water gun fight tomorrow...

Jay snorted, he knew exactly what to do, he turned around and walked out of the court, he had to alert Kiren and the others that they had to meet up after school, and he had to convince Cairo to be there too. If this plan worked, which it was going to by the way, it would be the easiest way to get rid of Huey, and get on Kiren's good side.

Who knows, maybe he'd buy him some of that designer, just as a thank you for coming up with such a full proof plan.

Over with the girls in gym, Deja and Emily were sitting together on a bench away from the rest of the girls, they were playing dodgeball, and the two had been hit rather early into the game, so they simply sat by and waited for the match to end, whilst they did that, Deja brought out her phone, she had snuck it with her earlier, and didn't feel like sitting in complete and utter silence. As she scrolled, she huffed, which caught Emily's attention.

"What's got yo ass so tight?"

"That bitch Queen, she keep talmbout 'I wanna fight!' but she's yet to pull up" Deja's scowl only deepened as she scrolled through the many unread IG stories she had missed "she keeps shading me, and for what? She gon' be a highschooler in a few months and she's beefin' with me, a first year"

"Bird behavior, imagine trynna fight a girl that's younger than you? Over some petty middle school beef, couldn't be me"

The two chuckled, soon noticing as Fatima came over to join them "I got out, they was all aimin' for me!"

Emily let out a small laugh at her best friend "damn, you let them hoes jump you in dodgeball my nigga?"

"I think I was too good, that's why they teamed up against me"

"Or yo ass just can't dodge for shit"

"I know you not talkin' Em! You was the first one out, ion wanna hear it from you!"

Deja watched as the two girls began to have a little playful argument, it was cute, but it made her think. Sure, she hung out with those Renegade kids whenever Riley was there, and she spoke to them when she was lonely, but aside from Cairo, Dousey and their boys, Deja had no other in school friends. She had no in school female friends, and although she just wanted to get through the day and do her fun stuff after school, only hanging out with only dudes gets tiring. Sure, Ellie and Jessica were cool, and she knew a few girls from downtown, but none of them went to Tigerlily. Needless to say, watching Emily and Fatima have their own cute little interaction made her feel just a tad bit jealous.

"So Tima, you goin' to that water gun fight?"

"Nah, my Granny's coming over tomorrow, so I gotta go straight home"

"For real? Man, I was lookin' forward to sprayin' yo ass!"

"Biiiiitch, on god?"

When the two began going at it again, Deja put her phone away, oh yeah, she forgot about the water gun fight. She managed to convince Tahiry to go, although the girl despised getting her hair wet, and hoped Riley and Huey were coming, that would be cool. She was glad this was happening, she needed something to take her mind off of everything.

She was soon taken out of her zoned out state, when their coach asked the girls to gather around for another round, Deja stood up, before turning to the girls with a grin.

"Yo Em, Tima?

"Yeah?"

"I'm aimin' for y'all this time"

Emily and Fatima looked at each other, before smirking and standing up "okay hoe, bring it!"


It was after school, and Cairo was standing behind the building like he was asked to, he wasn't sure why, but Kiren Bennet of all people wanted to talk, he didn't mind the boy, he was just confused as to why he wanted to talk, the two barely knew each other, other than a mutual friendship with the Norwood sisters, so what could they possibly have to talk about?

Cairo stood there, huffing as the seconds went by, he didn't want to talk to Kiren, he just wanted to go and hang out with his friends, so they had better get there quick. No sooner had he thought that, when he soon saw Kiren, Jay and Lucas walk up. Lucas looked uninterested, occasionally rolling his eyes as Kiren spoke, whilst Jay was intently listening to the pack leader. When the reached Cairo, Kiren waved, a smirk growing on his face.

"Ayo, if it isn't Cairo, wassup homie?"

"Nun, whatchu wanna talk about bruh?"

"Damn, straight to the point huh? No small talk or anythin'?" Kiren snickered, "but aye, let's get into it then, you don't fuck with them Freeman niggas, yeah?"

"Nah" Cairo simply responded, everyone knew, so he wasn't sure why Kiren was dragging this out, just get to the point so he can leave.

"Well, I don't neither, especially not that Huey bitch, you hate him too?"

"Where are you going with this?"

"I'm trynna get rid of him, and I want you to help me" when he saw his confusion, Kiren continued "you see, Huey keeps fuckin' with Ti, and sure, it seems platonic right now, but I don't wanna risk that bum ass nigga trynna take my girl, so I just wanna... get him out of the way, he didn't listen to my warning so now we gotta get his ass, you know some Downsent niggas, right?"

Cairo nodded "yeah, my cousin goes there, Deron Brown"

Kiren chuckled "perfect! So, here's the plan bro, get yo cousin and some of his homies to pull up to the water gun fight tomorrow, and tell 'em to jump Huey Freeman, we can't do it because if Ti finds out, she'll never talk to me again, but if them Downsent kids do it..."

"They'll think it was just a random attack on a Tigerlily kids from some Downsent kids! They won't know we had shit to do with it!" Jay said with excitement, causing Lucas to raise a brow.

"I still can't believe y'all wanna jump this boy over some girl" he sighed, he refused to take part in it, but at the same time he didn't care enough to try and stop it, all he knew was that everyone involved was acting incredibly childish.

Cairo shrugged "I mean, I could, but Huey can fight, are you sure this is the best plan?"

"Tell 'em to bring some weapons too then! Nothin' like a gun though, I mean like a bat or pipes or some shit" Kiren responded.

"You want him beaten with bats? Over a girl that might not like either of you?"

Kiren scoffed "shut yo ol' peaceful ass up Luke" he then looked to Cairo "ion care what y'all do, just beat his ass, he'll know it's 'cause he was hangin with Ti, but no one else will know, that should teach him to back the fuck up, plus, you get your revenge too, right?"

Cairo wasn't sure, yeah he was mad at Huey for leaving him for those whites, and mad at him for returning as if shit was all good, and he was beyond pissed that the Freemans befriended his close friend, but was he angry enough to wanna see him so heavily beaten up?

Maybe it'll teach him a lesson, the hood don't forgive easy like the suburbs.

Did that mean he deserved to be jumped though?

You know he been with them white folks, his ass prolly went soft, he needs to roughen up if he wanna survive Chicago, jumpin' him will just... teach him how to.

Cairo then sighed "aight, I'll tell Deron to pull up at the park tomorrow, but if that nigga dies or sumn' I'm snitchin' on yo ass like a rat" Downsent kids were... surprisingly rough for a private middle school with uniforms, they could really get down if they wanted to, so if they jumped Huey and caught him off guard, they could really do some damage.

That's what he gets for turnin' his back on the hood, maybe if his fake woke ass didn't leave us for them rich white folk this wouldn't be happening to him.

The mixed boy grinned "my man, good on ya! Talk to ya later!" he laughed, turning around and walking off with Jay, Lucas stayed behind, looking at Cairo for a bit before shaking his head, turning around, and walking off to go rejoin the other two.

Cairo scowled at him, why was he looking? He wasn't in the wrong, he was just... giving Huey what he deserved, yeah, it was just a consequence for leaving and not backing away from Tahiry.

He wasn't a bad person for doing this.


"Damn, I only just noticed you switched up your hair"

It was after school on Friday, and the Tigerlily middle school kids were all rushing about like busy bodies, getting ready for the water gun fight that would be taking place at the park in about an hour. Huey was currently walking side by side with Tahiry, who was planning to go straight there. Instead of her hair being just out as usual, she had her hair placed into two cornrow braids, which were rather long considering her hair length, the rest was then tied into a little knot at just the bottom of the back of her head. It made her look different, but it suited her, Huey actually began wondering how she'd look in other sort of braided styles.

Tahiry gently giggled "it's been a whole day Huey, but yeah, I put it like this so it would be easier for me to put my shower cap on" she said, soon bringing out a pastel pink cap from her pocket "this is gonna be fun, but I'm not gettin' my hair wet"

Huey shrugged, usually he wouldn't do something this juvenile, preferring to stay at home and read, but Tahiry was going, and plus he needed to let loose and have some fun every once in a while, and what better way to do that than squirting your enemies with water during a heatwave?

The two walked down the street together to the local park, but Huey couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched, most would shake it off and attribute it to paranoia, but Huey's instinct was never wrong, so why would he suddenly be paranoid? With each step they took, he swore someone was behind them, suddenly, he harshly turned around to look who was there.

He saw no one.

"Huey, you good?" Tahiry asked, surprised by his sudden motion.

The boy slowly turned back "I'm aight, thought I heard somethin', it's all good"

Tahiry wasn't quite sure if she believed him, but decided to just go with it anyway. Throughout the whole walk, this feeling of being followed didn't go away, but Huey didn't want to alarm her by suddenly claiming they were being watched, so he kept alert in case anybody tried to harm either of them in any way.

Soon enough, they arrived at the park, which was already packed to the brim with kids, the two then found Riley and Deja, along with the rest of Renegade (apart from Fatima), Cairo and Dousey, sitting by the pond in the park, Riley holding two water guns as well as Deja having two, with everyone else holding their own respective plastic weapon.

Deja soon perked up, before waving "aye, the married couple decided to finally arrive!"

"Y'all took ya sweet time, what was y'all up to, sellin' crack?" Kumal joked, receiving some giggles from the group.

Huey sighed whilst Tahiry shook her head with a small smile "sorry! Our English teacher kept the class back because some kids were talkin'!"

They joined the group and conversed for a little bit, apparently, the host of the water gun fight was going to blow a loud horn, which was signify it beginning. so for the time being, they simply fiddled with their guns and talked about random things to pass the time.

Suddenly, all they heard was a loud air horn go off, next thing you know kids were running around, spraying anything that moved. Tahiry was quick to get up and run away, she knew with the sensitivity of hair, everyone would probably gang up on her to spray her first. When she ran off, Zonnique, who had been camping around, suddenly gave chase "Imma get yo ass Ti!"

"Zonnie!? Oh, I hate yoooou!"

When those two went off, everyone else immediately got on the defensive, nobody had shot anybody yet, instead they all stood still, pointing their guns at each other like a scene from an old western cowboy movie. The seconds were tense, who was going to betray everyone's trust and shoot the first shot, who was going to get hit?

This stopped when Riley swiftly pointed his gun at Emily and sprayed her straight in the face with water.

"Haha!" he laughed before turning around and running off "that's what you get!"

"Pffft- you son of a- bring yo ass here right now!"

Deja then followed behind Emily "yo Em let's jump his ass!"

"Bet!"

Riley spluttered, attempting to get away from the rabid females "two on one!? You bitches are sick!"

"That ain't gon' stop us Esco, come 'ere real quick!"

When those three ran off somewhere, all that were left were Huey, Kumal, and the twins. Dousey and Cairo had gotten into their own mini battle somewhere, so they left the four on their own. Huey was honestly gonna spray all three and get to running, had it not been for him feeling a large splash of water hit the back of his head. When he turned around, he saw none other than Hiro and Caesar, both pointing their water guns dead at him.

"we figured ya 'fro could use some washing" Caesar snorted.

For just a split second, Huey's face adorned a playful smirk "when I catch you two-!" was all he said before running towards them, starting the chasing water spraying match.

That's how the rest of the afternoon went, many kids running around, spraying each other with water, loads of screaming, laughing and yelling could be heard. It was a fun afternoon, and for Huey and Riley, it was the most fun they'd had in a long time.

Huey was walking around, although some people had left, the water gun fight wasn't over, and he hoped to find someone who we could douse, he was having so much fun, he didn't want to go home just yet.

Just then, as if to answer his prayers in the most sinister way, instead of one of his friends standing right in front of him, it was none other than Kiren Bennet. The boy was pointing his gun dead at him, clearly planning to shoot him with it soon enough.

"Well, if it isn't the nappy headed activist himself"

"Kiren I will douse yo shit if you spray me" in a way, Huey was being mostly playful, it was a water gun fight, he wasn't going to really be mad if Kiren hit him with it.

"What if I douse you first?"

"Well then we both gon' be drippin' in this"

The two stood their in silence, simply staring at each other, before Kiren then sprayed him, and turned around to run. Without saying anything, Huey followed, the two ran all around the park, Huey had been so focused on catching him that he hadn't noticed that Kiren had actually led him out of the park. By the time they came to a pause, the two were all alone in some sort of allyway, but Huey wasn't worried, he'd just spray Kiren and leave.

"You ready to get wet?... pause" he said, pointing his gun at him.

"Depends, you ready to get whooped?"

The second he said that, the feeling he had earlier had heightened, he knew it, he was being followed. Huey immediately turned around and came face to face with a large group of boys, all sporting the same dress shirt, grey pants, black ties and black blazers. Now, he wasn't a genius, but it didn't take one to know that if you see kids in school uniforms, it was probably Downsent kids.

They looked at Huey as if he was a raw piece of meat and they were starving lions, some even holding bats, hockey sticks and metal pipes. He wasn't scared, Huey was sure he could take them, but that didn't stop him from being shocked. Did Kiren plan this? All over Tahiry? Was it really that serious?

He turned around to question him, but Kiren seemed to have slipped by and escaped when he wasn't looking, dammit. So it was just Huey and these Downsent Middle School kids, huh? He dropped his water gun, adopting a defensive stance "if you wanna fight, just attack so we can get it over with"

The supposed leader, a light brown boy with a hightop chuckled "damn, you don't care do you? That's the problem with you damn Tigerlily kids, too brave, with nothing to back it up"

"If you wanna fight, run up, stop with all the talkin' and let's get to fightin'..." Huey frowned, he wasn't in the mood for small talk, it was obvious they wanted smoke, so just attack.

The Downsent kids took that was warning enough and quickly ran towards him, pipes, bats, sticks and fists coming from every direction, but Huey was able to dodge a majority, he had spent many of his martial arts years dodging fast pace, dangerous weapons as training, this was light work. With each coming attack, the boy began slowly making his way out of the vicinity so he could run off, and it seemed to be working.

That was until, he was sprayed in the face with something, water in fact, and tripped up. He knew it was Kiren, even though he didn't get to see who it was, he just knew it was him, Huey wasn't even given the chance to get back up when the boys began beating him and stomping him with their weapons, hands and feet, but he could take it, he swore he could.

That was until he felt a particularly hard object hit the back of his head, then the boy passed out.


Ending is rushed I'm sorryyyyyyyy, not v proud of this chapter, but eh, here ya go lol