Chapter 8
Dionne walked up the steps to Ice's house reluctantly. Jordan had called and told her to get her ass over to the house ASAP. But unfortunately her ass didn't feel like it, but since they hadn't spent time together in awhile, she'd figured it wasn't a big deal. She just hoped Ice wasn't home, because then she would feel awkward.
Seeing that the door was slightly ajar. She pushed at it gently, "Jordan you in here?" Getting no answer she walked into the air-conditioned house. She could hear people talking in the living room. Putting her bag down on a near by table, she sauntered into the room. As she walked in she was startled to see Ice, Dom, Leon, Jesse and Jordan, all laughing at some movie they were watching. Which also had some very very weird grunting sounds coming out of it.
Jordan looked up and noticed Dee walk in, a little surprised. He guessed it was at all the guys being there. He had called her over cause Leon kept talking about how fine she was and wanted to talk to her. Now he looked at what they were watching, and hoped to God she didn't turn her head a fraction of an inch. Leaping out of his seat, he grabbed the remote out of Jesse's hands and pressed stop.
"Oh wassup Dee?? You got here quick." He walked up to her and kissed her on the cheek, then turned to Jesse and motioned to him to take the porno out of the VCR and put in a different video.
Dionne looked suspiciously at Jordan. Why the hell had he called her over?? "Yeah well . . ." Glancing over his shoulder she saw everyone looking at her.
Jordan felt a little guilty about doing this to her, but he wouldn't have if he didn't think it would be good for her to start playin the field. He just hoped that Leon and Dee hit it off, or else someone might be real pissed at him.
Turning around to face the guys, he lifted his eyebrows at Leon. "A yo shit I'm hungry ya'll wanna go get some grub at Popeye's?" He saw Ice raise his eyebrows, and Dom and Jesse nod. Good, they would be gone for a grip if they went to eat at Popeye's.
Leon smirked at Jordan's stupid way of getting rid of everyone. "Know what bro? Why don't ya'll bring something back for me, I'll stay."
Everyone got up except for Leon, and Dionne stood still where she was. Her eyebrow raised and a suspicious look directed at Jordan graced her face. She turned toward Jordan, who was walking out the door. "Well . . . what did you call me over here for Jordan?" Her hand now resting annoyed on her hip.
Jordan flashed her a gorgeous smile, walking out the door with the guys behind him. "Relax Dee. . . I'll be right back," he said over his shoulder.
Dwayne followed behind Dom outside. He was pretty sure that Jordan had meant to leave, but he wasn't really sure why. Scratching his chin as he trotted down the front steps, he wondered why all of a sudden he didn't think he wanted to leave the house with the guys, but rather wanted to stay with Leon and Dee. He must be even hungrier than he thought.
Dionne narrowed her eyes and swore under her breath. Dammit she could have been at home relaxing, and now she was left with some guy that she hardly knew. Turning towards Leon, she gave him an annoyed smile. "Sorry he gets on my last nerve sometimes." She stood awkwardly as Leon watched her.
Leon continued to look at Dionne. Holy Shit, she was fucking hot. He was damned lucky she wasn't seeing anyone. "So we weren't introduced real well huh?"
Standing up he went over to her and held out his hand. "I'm Leon."
Dionne shook his hand a little nervously. Not used to being in big ass house alone with only one other guy, who definitely wasn't on the small or ugly side. "Hi I'm Dionne but everyone calls me Dee." Seeing that he was going to sit at the small table in the corner of the living room she followed and sat opposite him.
Leon watched as she nervously tapped the table. But damn, she was shy huh? It was weird, he didn't thin he'd ever met anyone like her before. Didn't think anyone like her still existed. Good Lord, she was making him nervous too. Reaching out he stopped her tapping fingers. "So you from here originally?"
Dionne looked down at his hand covering hers, "Uh yeah . . . my sister and I moved here from Jersey awhile back."
Leon briefly remembered Dom mentioning that Dionne's sister was Carla's mom. "Oh yeah, that's coo. Yeah I was born and bred in Cali."
"Yeah, did you grow up with Letty and Dwayne too?"
Leon shook his head. "Nah, I met Dom and the crew a little while after Ice left LA."
Dionne nodded. She still felt a little awkward; she sucked at making small talk. "Wha-"
Leon interrupted her, seeing the convo was getting a little weird. "What are you doing in 2 days??"
Dionne was a little startled. "Um . . . Friday right? Oh probably nothing why?"
"Wanna come to a party with me??" Leon wasn't gonna give her the chance to say no. "Everyone's going, it won't be just us . . ."
Dionne was a little taken aback. He was inviting her to go to the party with him. Maybe he had been drinking? "Uh, yeah Jordan told me about it. But me?" she squeaked.
Leon grinned. "Yep, you. So will you come??"
Dionne hadn't originally planned to go and told Jordan that. But now, she kinda liked the way Leon was looking at her, as if he wouldn't go with anyone else. No one rarely if ever, looked at her that way. She grinned back. "Yeah I'll go with you."
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Kia walked shakily out of the hospital. She got to her car and climbed in. Resting her head on the wheel, she tried to keep her tears at bay. FUCK! She slammed her hand against the wheel. Lifting her head she stared blindly out the window. If only she hadn't come. The doctor had said the harsh stomach pains were probably a flu of some sort. But he'd lied. GOD! What was she going to tell Flex?? What would he do if he knew??
She moved her hand down to her stomach rubbing it gently. She began to rock back and forth, not even knowing she was crying until she felt her shirt getting wet. She couldn't tell him. She just couldn't, there had to be another way to deal with this. Removing her hand from her stomach she started her car, and wiped her eyes.
She'd find another way to deal with it. She had to. Quickly she pulled out of the hospital parking lot, pushing her thoughts to the back of her head for the time being.
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Letty sat lounging in a chair reading a magazine while she waited for Mia to finish getting her hair highlighted. Yawning, she wished to God she could go home.
Fuck! The team didn't really have a home at the moment. Dom was still working on finding them a place. Mia was working at "Coast 2 Coast" with Kia, and the rest of the team hadn't found jobs yet. They had been in Miami for almost a month. To be honest none of them really felt like working. In fact, she just missed working on cars. They had all painted their cars over, Dom's was now black, Leon's was blue, Mia's was green, Jessi's was silver but she hadn't really wanted to change hers; so it was only a dark shade of purple.
Looking up she saw a robust woman walking toward her. Rolling her eyes, she hoped she wasn't coming to harass her. Looking over the fat woman's shoulder Letty could see Mia walking to her with light brown streaks, that actually looked kinda good. Standing up, Letty pulled her black leather pants up.
The fat woman stopped in front of Letty, eyeing her up and down. "You waiting for someone or here to get your hair done?"
Letty glanced at the woman, under her hooded eyes. "I'm waitin'." She folded her arms over her chest and returned to looking at Mia paying the woman.
The fat woman reached over to touch Letty's hair. "Looks like you need to get yours done too, look at these split ends."
Letty grabbed the woman's hand. "Don't touch me, and if I wanted to get my hair done I would." Letting the woman's hand go, she raised her eyebrow impatiently as Mia finally reached her.
Mia walked up to Letty, looking at her expectantly. "So whaddya think?" Noticing a fat woman walking away from Letty in a huff.
Letty's mouth curved into a smile. "It's tight gurl, now can we go??"
Mia laughed, but was happy with her response. "Okay, okay"
Walking out of the store to the parking lot, they got to the car and loaded the bags in the trunk.
Mia turned to Letty after they pulled out of the parking lot. "So you gonna wear that outfit you bought to the party?? You should, you know you'd attract a lot of attention."
Letty glanced out the side window, her hands on the wheel. "Yea, maybe I will. I'm kinda excited about the party now too." Pulling her sunglasses down low on her nose, she leaned back in her seat.
Mia leaned back too. She wondered if Dom had found any luck with the house. She was getting sick of the hotel, not that it wasn't nice. It just wasn't a home. Sighing, she thought about how much she missed LA. She rolled her head over to look at Letty, "Do you miss it??"
Letty nodded, knowing what Mia was referring to. "Yeah I miss it, but once Dom gets the house. It'll be a'ight."
Mia didn't respond. She still hadn't gotten Letty to open up about her and Dom. She guessed she'd just have to wait. Thank God, the party was in 2 days. There'd be some time to just . . .. chill. She couldn't wait.
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D.A. opened her locker glad school was finally done. Pulling out her agenda, she checked off all the homework she had to lug home. Groaning, she remembered she had Chem. homework, which meant carrying that big ass textbook home. Sighing she zipped her bag up, and closed her locker.
Moving through the highschool, she heard someone call her name. Turning around she saw her friend Lina. Stopping she waited for Lina to catch up.
Lina hugged D.A. "Wassup gurl. Dang it's been a minute since I seen yo scrawny ass huh??"
D.A. laughed and moved to the side when she realized they were holding people up. "Yeah I know for real huh?? Dang so what...u still in college?? Why are you back here??"
Lina flung her dark blonde hair over her shoulder. " Oh I had to pick up my transcripts and pick up my lil' sis, and yeah I'm still in college." She looked D.A. up and down, well she had grown up that's for sure.
"So how come you're in summer school gurl?? What class did you fail??"
D.A. smiled. "Nah gurl, I'm taking extra courses. I'm graduating early."
Lina was surprised. Was this the same gurl that when she first got here, never went to class? "Fo real?? Shiiiitttttt, you go gurl." Looking around she turned back to D.A. " My lil sis left with one of her friends, that punk. But you want a ride home??"
D.A. smiled and was relieved she didn't have to walk with all her books. "Yea gurl thanks. So what's up wit you?" Lina had graduated 2 years ago, so she must be around 20. She had grown her blonde hair out and it was down to the middle of her back, but she was still 2 inches shorter than D.A. D.A. motioned for them to start walking.
Lina wondered about a question that was in the back of her mind. "Oh you know, I been livin' it up. So does Jordan still live with you??"
D.A. glanced at Lina and frowned. Why the hell had she asked that? "Yeah, why?
Lina felt her heart start beating normally again. "Oh no reason." Walking out of the doors, she led D.A. to her black Toyota Celica.
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"Oh shit, are you for real??" Dionne wiped her eyes. She couldn't stop laughing. Shit! She hadn't laughed like this in a long ass time.
Leon grinned. She was beautiful when she laughed. "Yep, you should have seen Jessi's face. It was priceless."
Dionne put her hand over her mouth, to stop herself from starting another laughing fit again. At first she had thought it would be awkward going with him to the party on Saturday, but now it seemed as if she'd known him forever. He made her laugh and feel really good about herself. They had been talking for almost an hour. Somehow along the way, she'd realized that her best friend probably planned all this. Surprisingly, she was glad.
They both turned their heads towards the sound of the door. The guys were back.
Dionne stood up followed by Leon. She folded her arms over her chest when she saw Jordan come in.
Jordan looked from Dee to Leon and could see that everything had worked out ok. Grinning he handed Leon his food. "Sorry we took so long, you know how it is."
Dionne rolled her eyes at Jordan. He knew damn well why he'd taken so long. She hit him lightly on the shoulder. "You're a jerk you know that right?"
Jordan nodded, unashamedly. "Yep, but you still love me." He moved out of the way as Dom and Jessi walked past him to sit on the couch.
Dwayne stopped behind Jordan. Looking at Dionne, and seeing that she was grinning like an idiot. An hour alone with Leon and she was beaming. An hour alone with him would have been pure torture for her. Narrowing his eyes he noticed Leon slip his arm around Dee. What the fuck?
Turning to Dom, who was sitting on the couch, he growled for Dom to follow him into the kitchen.
Dom raised an eye at Dwayne's all of a sudden, pissy attitude. "What's up bro?"
Dwayne walked into the kitchen and reached into the drawer where he pulled out some papers and threw them on the table.
Dom looked down and saw pictures and details of some houses. "Dope, dang that was quick nigga, I only asked you for some help 2 days ago."
Dwayne shrugged still a little grumpy. He pulled out a chair and straddled it. "Yeah well, just pick one."
Dom lifted his eyebrows at Dwayne, giving him a silent warning not to take out his shit on Dom.
Dwayne leaned back in the chair, nodding in apology for his tone.
"What's up your ass?? A minute ago you were fine."
Dwayne shrugged and sighed. "Nothing. Are you coming to the party this Saturday??"
Dom nodded, and leaned back against the wall, still looking down at the properties. "Yeah the team is comin'. Where's it at again?"
"Oh ya'll can just follow us."
Dom nodded. He glanced up and looked at Dwayne who was staring at the table. Dang, this nigga didn't tell nobody shit. Shaking his head, he returned his eyes to the houses on the paper in front of him.
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Lina pulled up outside D.A.'s house. Parking on the curb, because the driveway was filled with cars. Sliding out of the car, she followed D.A. to the door.
"What are you guys having a party or some shit??"
D.A. laughed. "Uh uh, nah gurl. My cousin has some friends here from Cali. Wait till you meet Letty, ooh that gurl's such a bitch." She opened the door with her key.
Walking inside she set her keys on the rack just inside the door and closed it behind her. Her ears perked up as she heard voices in the living room. Taking off her shoes and dropping her back on the stairs, she walked into the living room.
Lina copied D.A. and followed her.
D.A. was surprised that Dionne was over. Walking into the doorway, with Lina right behind her, she waited for everyone to acknowledge her.
Dionne looked past Jordan and saw D.A. standing there with a familiar girl behind her. "Hey D.A. How was school??"
D.A. smiled genuinely at Dionne. But raised her eyebrow at the hand around Dee's shoulder. Dang, all the good stuff happened when she wasn't home. "Yeah it was a'ight, same shit." She nodded at everyone in the room in greeting.
Jordan turned around to look at D.A. but wished he hadn't. He was struck speechless when he saw who was with her. Fuck! This was just fucking great.
D.A. motioned behind her and moved slightly out of the way. "This is Lina, she's an old friend from school. She gave me a ride home."
Lina stepped forward and waved at everyone. Noting that she didn't know two of the people in the room. "Hey Dionne, long time no see." She turned to Jordan, not surprised that he had gotten even better lookin. She sucked in a breath. Damn, he looked real good.
Dionne smiled and said hello. Suddenly she remembered who she was. Her eyes widened a little. She looked at Jordan, wondering if he'd recalled her. By the look on his face he had.
D.A. looked suspiciously at the look on Jordan's face. She frowned. He hadn't even said hi, the jerk. "What you can't say hi asshole??"
Jordan snapped out of his daze, and shot an annoyed look at D.A. "Why don't you gimme a fuckin chance."
Lina waited to see if he'd acknowledge her.
Jordan faced Lina. "Hi nice to meet you Lina," he said in a toneless and distant voice.
Lina's face fell. So he wasn't even going to acknowledge who she was? Well what did she expect?
Dionne felt bad for the girl. She motioned in the direction of Leon at her shoulder. "This is Leon and the guy on the couch is Jessi."
Lina waved. She turned to D.A., who was watching her openly. "Yeah well, it was nice seeing you girl. I think I'm gonna bounce now." She waved at everyone again and headed for the door.
D.A. frowned. Remembering what she wanted to ask her she followed Lina out to the door. "Hey there's this party on Saturday. You wanna come??" Lina seemed as if she was gonna say no. "See the thing is, Ice probably won't let me go, but I'm going anyways. Everyone's gonna be there . . ."
Lina's green eyes lighted up at the prospect of seeing Jordan again. "Well...okay...."
"Dope. K come by the house at 7pm on Saturday ok. Be ready."
Lina nodded and hugged D.A. bye.
D.A. closed the door behind her and clapped her hands together. Oooh, she was going to have hella fun at the party. Grabbing her book bag she ran up the stairs.
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Dionne walked up the steps to Ice's house reluctantly. Jordan had called and told her to get her ass over to the house ASAP. But unfortunately her ass didn't feel like it, but since they hadn't spent time together in awhile, she'd figured it wasn't a big deal. She just hoped Ice wasn't home, because then she would feel awkward.
Seeing that the door was slightly ajar. She pushed at it gently, "Jordan you in here?" Getting no answer she walked into the air-conditioned house. She could hear people talking in the living room. Putting her bag down on a near by table, she sauntered into the room. As she walked in she was startled to see Ice, Dom, Leon, Jesse and Jordan, all laughing at some movie they were watching. Which also had some very very weird grunting sounds coming out of it.
Jordan looked up and noticed Dee walk in, a little surprised. He guessed it was at all the guys being there. He had called her over cause Leon kept talking about how fine she was and wanted to talk to her. Now he looked at what they were watching, and hoped to God she didn't turn her head a fraction of an inch. Leaping out of his seat, he grabbed the remote out of Jesse's hands and pressed stop.
"Oh wassup Dee?? You got here quick." He walked up to her and kissed her on the cheek, then turned to Jesse and motioned to him to take the porno out of the VCR and put in a different video.
Dionne looked suspiciously at Jordan. Why the hell had he called her over?? "Yeah well . . ." Glancing over his shoulder she saw everyone looking at her.
Jordan felt a little guilty about doing this to her, but he wouldn't have if he didn't think it would be good for her to start playin the field. He just hoped that Leon and Dee hit it off, or else someone might be real pissed at him.
Turning around to face the guys, he lifted his eyebrows at Leon. "A yo shit I'm hungry ya'll wanna go get some grub at Popeye's?" He saw Ice raise his eyebrows, and Dom and Jesse nod. Good, they would be gone for a grip if they went to eat at Popeye's.
Leon smirked at Jordan's stupid way of getting rid of everyone. "Know what bro? Why don't ya'll bring something back for me, I'll stay."
Everyone got up except for Leon, and Dionne stood still where she was. Her eyebrow raised and a suspicious look directed at Jordan graced her face. She turned toward Jordan, who was walking out the door. "Well . . . what did you call me over here for Jordan?" Her hand now resting annoyed on her hip.
Jordan flashed her a gorgeous smile, walking out the door with the guys behind him. "Relax Dee. . . I'll be right back," he said over his shoulder.
Dwayne followed behind Dom outside. He was pretty sure that Jordan had meant to leave, but he wasn't really sure why. Scratching his chin as he trotted down the front steps, he wondered why all of a sudden he didn't think he wanted to leave the house with the guys, but rather wanted to stay with Leon and Dee. He must be even hungrier than he thought.
Dionne narrowed her eyes and swore under her breath. Dammit she could have been at home relaxing, and now she was left with some guy that she hardly knew. Turning towards Leon, she gave him an annoyed smile. "Sorry he gets on my last nerve sometimes." She stood awkwardly as Leon watched her.
Leon continued to look at Dionne. Holy Shit, she was fucking hot. He was damned lucky she wasn't seeing anyone. "So we weren't introduced real well huh?"
Standing up he went over to her and held out his hand. "I'm Leon."
Dionne shook his hand a little nervously. Not used to being in big ass house alone with only one other guy, who definitely wasn't on the small or ugly side. "Hi I'm Dionne but everyone calls me Dee." Seeing that he was going to sit at the small table in the corner of the living room she followed and sat opposite him.
Leon watched as she nervously tapped the table. But damn, she was shy huh? It was weird, he didn't thin he'd ever met anyone like her before. Didn't think anyone like her still existed. Good Lord, she was making him nervous too. Reaching out he stopped her tapping fingers. "So you from here originally?"
Dionne looked down at his hand covering hers, "Uh yeah . . . my sister and I moved here from Jersey awhile back."
Leon briefly remembered Dom mentioning that Dionne's sister was Carla's mom. "Oh yeah, that's coo. Yeah I was born and bred in Cali."
"Yeah, did you grow up with Letty and Dwayne too?"
Leon shook his head. "Nah, I met Dom and the crew a little while after Ice left LA."
Dionne nodded. She still felt a little awkward; she sucked at making small talk. "Wha-"
Leon interrupted her, seeing the convo was getting a little weird. "What are you doing in 2 days??"
Dionne was a little startled. "Um . . . Friday right? Oh probably nothing why?"
"Wanna come to a party with me??" Leon wasn't gonna give her the chance to say no. "Everyone's going, it won't be just us . . ."
Dionne was a little taken aback. He was inviting her to go to the party with him. Maybe he had been drinking? "Uh, yeah Jordan told me about it. But me?" she squeaked.
Leon grinned. "Yep, you. So will you come??"
Dionne hadn't originally planned to go and told Jordan that. But now, she kinda liked the way Leon was looking at her, as if he wouldn't go with anyone else. No one rarely if ever, looked at her that way. She grinned back. "Yeah I'll go with you."
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Kia walked shakily out of the hospital. She got to her car and climbed in. Resting her head on the wheel, she tried to keep her tears at bay. FUCK! She slammed her hand against the wheel. Lifting her head she stared blindly out the window. If only she hadn't come. The doctor had said the harsh stomach pains were probably a flu of some sort. But he'd lied. GOD! What was she going to tell Flex?? What would he do if he knew??
She moved her hand down to her stomach rubbing it gently. She began to rock back and forth, not even knowing she was crying until she felt her shirt getting wet. She couldn't tell him. She just couldn't, there had to be another way to deal with this. Removing her hand from her stomach she started her car, and wiped her eyes.
She'd find another way to deal with it. She had to. Quickly she pulled out of the hospital parking lot, pushing her thoughts to the back of her head for the time being.
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Letty sat lounging in a chair reading a magazine while she waited for Mia to finish getting her hair highlighted. Yawning, she wished to God she could go home.
Fuck! The team didn't really have a home at the moment. Dom was still working on finding them a place. Mia was working at "Coast 2 Coast" with Kia, and the rest of the team hadn't found jobs yet. They had been in Miami for almost a month. To be honest none of them really felt like working. In fact, she just missed working on cars. They had all painted their cars over, Dom's was now black, Leon's was blue, Mia's was green, Jessi's was silver but she hadn't really wanted to change hers; so it was only a dark shade of purple.
Looking up she saw a robust woman walking toward her. Rolling her eyes, she hoped she wasn't coming to harass her. Looking over the fat woman's shoulder Letty could see Mia walking to her with light brown streaks, that actually looked kinda good. Standing up, Letty pulled her black leather pants up.
The fat woman stopped in front of Letty, eyeing her up and down. "You waiting for someone or here to get your hair done?"
Letty glanced at the woman, under her hooded eyes. "I'm waitin'." She folded her arms over her chest and returned to looking at Mia paying the woman.
The fat woman reached over to touch Letty's hair. "Looks like you need to get yours done too, look at these split ends."
Letty grabbed the woman's hand. "Don't touch me, and if I wanted to get my hair done I would." Letting the woman's hand go, she raised her eyebrow impatiently as Mia finally reached her.
Mia walked up to Letty, looking at her expectantly. "So whaddya think?" Noticing a fat woman walking away from Letty in a huff.
Letty's mouth curved into a smile. "It's tight gurl, now can we go??"
Mia laughed, but was happy with her response. "Okay, okay"
Walking out of the store to the parking lot, they got to the car and loaded the bags in the trunk.
Mia turned to Letty after they pulled out of the parking lot. "So you gonna wear that outfit you bought to the party?? You should, you know you'd attract a lot of attention."
Letty glanced out the side window, her hands on the wheel. "Yea, maybe I will. I'm kinda excited about the party now too." Pulling her sunglasses down low on her nose, she leaned back in her seat.
Mia leaned back too. She wondered if Dom had found any luck with the house. She was getting sick of the hotel, not that it wasn't nice. It just wasn't a home. Sighing, she thought about how much she missed LA. She rolled her head over to look at Letty, "Do you miss it??"
Letty nodded, knowing what Mia was referring to. "Yeah I miss it, but once Dom gets the house. It'll be a'ight."
Mia didn't respond. She still hadn't gotten Letty to open up about her and Dom. She guessed she'd just have to wait. Thank God, the party was in 2 days. There'd be some time to just . . .. chill. She couldn't wait.
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D.A. opened her locker glad school was finally done. Pulling out her agenda, she checked off all the homework she had to lug home. Groaning, she remembered she had Chem. homework, which meant carrying that big ass textbook home. Sighing she zipped her bag up, and closed her locker.
Moving through the highschool, she heard someone call her name. Turning around she saw her friend Lina. Stopping she waited for Lina to catch up.
Lina hugged D.A. "Wassup gurl. Dang it's been a minute since I seen yo scrawny ass huh??"
D.A. laughed and moved to the side when she realized they were holding people up. "Yeah I know for real huh?? Dang so what...u still in college?? Why are you back here??"
Lina flung her dark blonde hair over her shoulder. " Oh I had to pick up my transcripts and pick up my lil' sis, and yeah I'm still in college." She looked D.A. up and down, well she had grown up that's for sure.
"So how come you're in summer school gurl?? What class did you fail??"
D.A. smiled. "Nah gurl, I'm taking extra courses. I'm graduating early."
Lina was surprised. Was this the same gurl that when she first got here, never went to class? "Fo real?? Shiiiitttttt, you go gurl." Looking around she turned back to D.A. " My lil sis left with one of her friends, that punk. But you want a ride home??"
D.A. smiled and was relieved she didn't have to walk with all her books. "Yea gurl thanks. So what's up wit you?" Lina had graduated 2 years ago, so she must be around 20. She had grown her blonde hair out and it was down to the middle of her back, but she was still 2 inches shorter than D.A. D.A. motioned for them to start walking.
Lina wondered about a question that was in the back of her mind. "Oh you know, I been livin' it up. So does Jordan still live with you??"
D.A. glanced at Lina and frowned. Why the hell had she asked that? "Yeah, why?
Lina felt her heart start beating normally again. "Oh no reason." Walking out of the doors, she led D.A. to her black Toyota Celica.
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"Oh shit, are you for real??" Dionne wiped her eyes. She couldn't stop laughing. Shit! She hadn't laughed like this in a long ass time.
Leon grinned. She was beautiful when she laughed. "Yep, you should have seen Jessi's face. It was priceless."
Dionne put her hand over her mouth, to stop herself from starting another laughing fit again. At first she had thought it would be awkward going with him to the party on Saturday, but now it seemed as if she'd known him forever. He made her laugh and feel really good about herself. They had been talking for almost an hour. Somehow along the way, she'd realized that her best friend probably planned all this. Surprisingly, she was glad.
They both turned their heads towards the sound of the door. The guys were back.
Dionne stood up followed by Leon. She folded her arms over her chest when she saw Jordan come in.
Jordan looked from Dee to Leon and could see that everything had worked out ok. Grinning he handed Leon his food. "Sorry we took so long, you know how it is."
Dionne rolled her eyes at Jordan. He knew damn well why he'd taken so long. She hit him lightly on the shoulder. "You're a jerk you know that right?"
Jordan nodded, unashamedly. "Yep, but you still love me." He moved out of the way as Dom and Jessi walked past him to sit on the couch.
Dwayne stopped behind Jordan. Looking at Dionne, and seeing that she was grinning like an idiot. An hour alone with Leon and she was beaming. An hour alone with him would have been pure torture for her. Narrowing his eyes he noticed Leon slip his arm around Dee. What the fuck?
Turning to Dom, who was sitting on the couch, he growled for Dom to follow him into the kitchen.
Dom raised an eye at Dwayne's all of a sudden, pissy attitude. "What's up bro?"
Dwayne walked into the kitchen and reached into the drawer where he pulled out some papers and threw them on the table.
Dom looked down and saw pictures and details of some houses. "Dope, dang that was quick nigga, I only asked you for some help 2 days ago."
Dwayne shrugged still a little grumpy. He pulled out a chair and straddled it. "Yeah well, just pick one."
Dom lifted his eyebrows at Dwayne, giving him a silent warning not to take out his shit on Dom.
Dwayne leaned back in the chair, nodding in apology for his tone.
"What's up your ass?? A minute ago you were fine."
Dwayne shrugged and sighed. "Nothing. Are you coming to the party this Saturday??"
Dom nodded, and leaned back against the wall, still looking down at the properties. "Yeah the team is comin'. Where's it at again?"
"Oh ya'll can just follow us."
Dom nodded. He glanced up and looked at Dwayne who was staring at the table. Dang, this nigga didn't tell nobody shit. Shaking his head, he returned his eyes to the houses on the paper in front of him.
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Lina pulled up outside D.A.'s house. Parking on the curb, because the driveway was filled with cars. Sliding out of the car, she followed D.A. to the door.
"What are you guys having a party or some shit??"
D.A. laughed. "Uh uh, nah gurl. My cousin has some friends here from Cali. Wait till you meet Letty, ooh that gurl's such a bitch." She opened the door with her key.
Walking inside she set her keys on the rack just inside the door and closed it behind her. Her ears perked up as she heard voices in the living room. Taking off her shoes and dropping her back on the stairs, she walked into the living room.
Lina copied D.A. and followed her.
D.A. was surprised that Dionne was over. Walking into the doorway, with Lina right behind her, she waited for everyone to acknowledge her.
Dionne looked past Jordan and saw D.A. standing there with a familiar girl behind her. "Hey D.A. How was school??"
D.A. smiled genuinely at Dionne. But raised her eyebrow at the hand around Dee's shoulder. Dang, all the good stuff happened when she wasn't home. "Yeah it was a'ight, same shit." She nodded at everyone in the room in greeting.
Jordan turned around to look at D.A. but wished he hadn't. He was struck speechless when he saw who was with her. Fuck! This was just fucking great.
D.A. motioned behind her and moved slightly out of the way. "This is Lina, she's an old friend from school. She gave me a ride home."
Lina stepped forward and waved at everyone. Noting that she didn't know two of the people in the room. "Hey Dionne, long time no see." She turned to Jordan, not surprised that he had gotten even better lookin. She sucked in a breath. Damn, he looked real good.
Dionne smiled and said hello. Suddenly she remembered who she was. Her eyes widened a little. She looked at Jordan, wondering if he'd recalled her. By the look on his face he had.
D.A. looked suspiciously at the look on Jordan's face. She frowned. He hadn't even said hi, the jerk. "What you can't say hi asshole??"
Jordan snapped out of his daze, and shot an annoyed look at D.A. "Why don't you gimme a fuckin chance."
Lina waited to see if he'd acknowledge her.
Jordan faced Lina. "Hi nice to meet you Lina," he said in a toneless and distant voice.
Lina's face fell. So he wasn't even going to acknowledge who she was? Well what did she expect?
Dionne felt bad for the girl. She motioned in the direction of Leon at her shoulder. "This is Leon and the guy on the couch is Jessi."
Lina waved. She turned to D.A., who was watching her openly. "Yeah well, it was nice seeing you girl. I think I'm gonna bounce now." She waved at everyone again and headed for the door.
D.A. frowned. Remembering what she wanted to ask her she followed Lina out to the door. "Hey there's this party on Saturday. You wanna come??" Lina seemed as if she was gonna say no. "See the thing is, Ice probably won't let me go, but I'm going anyways. Everyone's gonna be there . . ."
Lina's green eyes lighted up at the prospect of seeing Jordan again. "Well...okay...."
"Dope. K come by the house at 7pm on Saturday ok. Be ready."
Lina nodded and hugged D.A. bye.
D.A. closed the door behind her and clapped her hands together. Oooh, she was going to have hella fun at the party. Grabbing her book bag she ran up the stairs.
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