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Jazmine's POV

I had every intention of sitting near Huey during math since I knew for a fact that we were going to be working in groups today but, a gym mishap had made me almost late so I had to sit with Jake. Our classes weren't that big so a lot of us had the same classes together. I can admit that it was weird that Jake, Huey, and I had two of the same classes together.

When I sat down it appeared that Jake was taking a nap but, when I put my things on the table he looked up at me.

"Sweet, I got Jazmine on packet day." He put his head back down and went back to his nap.

I rolled my eyes and looked for Huey. It took me a second but Huey was hard to miss with his large afro. Jake and I were sitting in the back left corner and Huey was sitting in the front right by the door.

I guess I had been so focused on getting in the class and finding a seat before the bell rang that I had walked right past him… or he had simply come in after I had.

"Good Afternoon class, it's Monday and you know what that means…"

We all groaned simultaneously. I groaned too, even though I didn't mind the packets because I was good at math they were still long and tedious.

"Oh, hush now," she said smiling, "you all know this is coming. Now the packet I have for you today can be worked on in groups of two and I don't want any moving around so you just work with the person you are sitting next to today. At the end of class I will ask you about a few select answers from the packet."

Ms. Oswald started to hand out the packets starting at the front and heading to the back. When she got back to my table she slammed the packet in the middle of the table causing a few heads to turn and Jake to sit straight up in his chair.

"Jacob, sweetheart, you know you can't sleep in my class. I fail to understand why you even try," she smiled in a sickly sweet way that everyone could tell was fake. She turned to me with a normal, genuine smile, "Jazmine, you and I both know you are capable of doing this packet by yourself but, make sure Jake gets at least some of it done."

"Sure thing, Ms. Oswald."

She smiled at me and gave Jake a stern look before heading back to her desk.

"Gosh, who peed in her cheerios," he scoffed and turned to me as if expecting an answer from me. I shrugged and opened the packet putting both of our names at the top. I slid the paper across the desktop to him so he could start while I grabbed my calculator and pencil.

While I was in my bag I noticed that I had a few missed texts. I looked up to make sure Ms. Oswald wasn't paying attention and once I saw that she wasn't I pulled my phone out to see who had messaged me.

I had two texts from Cindy, one from Riley, Manny and… Huey.

I opened the two from Cindy first, she just wanted to know what I was going to do about Huey and Emmanuel. I then opened the one from Riley he was just demanding, not asking, me to do his hair tonight.

I was deciding whether I wanted to open Huey's or Emmanuel's text first when Jacob leaned over into my personal space to peer at my phone.

"Are you texting Freeman or E? Because if you're going to choose between them like everyone says you are then I think you should pick my man E. He's much cooler than Freeman plus he had to have spent a fortune on what he did to your locker this morning."

I raised my eyebrow at him in a very Huey way and he threw his hands up and leaned back to his side of the desk.

"First of all, I don't think it's yours or anybody else's business in this school who I choose to have business with. Second of all, I look past actions to see intent so until I speak to Manny face to face and can see how he really feels that was just for show."

"Manny? You have a nickname for him," he laughed, "Oh yeah, you're definitely picking him."

I sighed at the fact that he had missed everything I had just said and only heard me call Emmanuel by my nickname for him. I would have felt bad for snapping at him if I had thought it had had any effect on him at all. But, Jake knew me pretty well anyway, we had been the closest thing to friends that he could possibly get to with a female.

Back when Huey first stopped talking to me I had assumed it was because he had through the grapevine that I liked him and wanted to keep things from getting awkward. In an effort to savage our friendship I started to look at other guys in order to get my mind off Huey… and in a way to make him jealous. The first guy that caught my attention was Jake.

We were in eighth grade and by that time everyone was getting over puberty and coming into their looks. My friends had told me I had come into mine overnight. It seemed as though my hips had spread, my butt got a little bigger, and my A cup chest had stretched to a D over the course of a week.

When I came back to school the week after everything had grown I had clothes to show off the new body that puberty had blessed me with and the first boy to say anything to me had been Jake.

Jake had always been a good-looking guy with his sun kissed blonde hair and eyes as blue as the deep ocean (and that wasn't even an exaggeration) but, I guess I never really noticed him until he hit on me in the way that all pre-teen boys do. He pulled my hair or smacked my butt in the hallway every time he would pass me.

At some point, I had just gotten used to it but, one day Huey saw him do it. Huey had stopped me in the hallway after Jake had turned a corner and asked me was I okay. It had felt like the first time he had spoken to me an eternity so all I did was nod.

Now I couldn't prove it even if I wanted but, when Jake had come into school the next day with a black eye ready to apologize for objectifying me I had a sneaking suspicion that Huey was behind it. One reason being because when Huey talked to me I could feel anger radiating through his concern for me and the other reason was because I was almost sure that Jake had no idea that he was objectifying me with his action because I was confident that he couldn't even spell the word.

From that day on Jake would actually stop to talk to me and would even protect me from other guys who would try to do the same thing he would have done before. He still was a major womanizer he just wasn't that way towards or even around me. Eventually we became friends, not close friends, but friends nonetheless.

So, when I snapped on him the way I just had he just shrugged his shoulders and continued on looking at the packet. I looked to see how much he had done and he had actually gotten through half of it by his self.

"Let me see the packet for a second."

He handed it to me and I checked over his answers. He had missed a couple so I explained those to him up until Ms. Oswald decided it was time to address the class again.

"Okay guys, we have about ten minutes left so I'm just going to pick people give me answers to some of the problems to ensure that everyone was on the right track. So," she looked down at her answer key presumably to see what question she wanted to ask first, "Susan, what was number five?

"Sixteen."

"Correct! Beth, what was number ten?

"Four."

"Right again. Huey what was the answer to number twenty-four and please just answer the question."

Huey smirked and Ms. Oswald sighed.

"The black panther party was established October of 1966 and that while most people refer to it as "the black KKK" they were actually relatively peaceful. They only used weapons for self-defense and they stood and sill stand for the advancement of women and black people and he equal treatment of all people."

The whole class, including Ms. Oswald just looked at him.

"Oh, and the answer to your question is three and a half. Since the school refuses to give us black history facts I'm going to do it. I don't give a f- "

Fortunately, the bell had cut him off before he could get himself into even more trouble. This is how I knew he was upset about something today. He usually spat out black history facts like that only in our African-American history class and he usually had to be provoked. The last time he went into a speech like that was when he found out that he was no longer number one in the class.

"Okay… so that took us to the end of class. If you didn't finish your packet please take it home and complete it and have it ready to be turned in by next class. Huey please come see me before you leave, everyone else you are dismissed.

So much for talking to him before this class ended.

I had made the conscious decision to not wait for him before heading to lunch when I noticed that Ms. Oswald was waiting on everyone to leave before she started talking to Huey.

"Jazmine, be a dear and close the door on your way out."
Yup, she's going to yell at him.

I closed the door gently and made my way towards the cafeteria.

When I passed my locker, I smiled at the flowers before turning the corner to continue my journey. I was serious about what I had told Jake about not being swayed by gifts but it was still a really sweet thing to do.

When I got to the cafeteria Cindy called my name and waved me over to our usual table which was being occupied by her, Caesar and Riley. Instead of heading to the line I headed straight for them.

"Jazmine, girl, what did you do to Manny. You have another gift, now these two were trying to eat it but I had them wait until you got here at least."

I sat down in front of the glorious sight that had been set out for me. I guess at some point I had told Emmanuel about my obsession with food because this was almost enough to make me swallow any pride I may have had and go talk to him. It was a heart shaped box full of Chik-Fil-A chicken nuggets Chik-Fil-A sauce in the middle in the shape of a smaller heart. Beside the box there was a little toy cow with a note stapled to its' stomach.

Jazmine,

I'm over the moooon for you.

Manny

Everybody at the table had already read the note and had, as a group, decided Emmanuel was the corniest dude alive. When I gave them the go ahead that they could help me enjoy my Chik-Fil-A they started to dig in while I grabbed my phone from my bag to read my unread messages.

Manny's was just him saying that he had another surprise for me at lunch and to not get in the lunch line. But, it was Huey's text that made me gasp quietly as to not draw attention to myself.

Meet me on the hill after school.

A/N: A few things I was going over the chapters to see whether or not Huey and Jazmine stopped talking in the sixth or eighth grade (it was the eighth btw) and saw that I had said that Manny was a Basketball player so just to clarify if I hadn't already Manny is a Basketball and Football player. I had just finished watching a show and was listening to music so a bit of the show and a bit of the music and show are in this chapter if you find it tell me in a review. This was supposed to be connected to the last chapter so if this is too short just imagine it's connected to the last one.

Also, the next chapter I will be trying something new and I want you guys to let me know if you like it and I will write my next story like that. PLEASE REVIEW!