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Chapter 31 – Consorting with the Enemy
Huey sat in his car tapping his steering wheel nervously. It was another cold day and he had the roof up. He had parked his car outside Jazmine's house and was waiting for her. Checking the car's clock he groaned, he had been waiting fifteen minutes already when he had told her to be ready for when he got there.
When she finally appeared outside her door, Huey turned his car's engine back on and threw open the passenger door. Blowing into her hands Jazmine climbed into the car in a heavy jacket and a fancy top and skinny jeans. She looked like she was going somewhere fancy not Caesar's house. Her hair was straightened and glossy and Huey knew that was what took her so long. She had probably spent hours trying to tame her African hair.
"Only you would get dressed to go to meet this girl," Huey said as he pulled away from the DuBois house. He did not know what to think of her hair. He liked it puffy as it was one of the few reminders of her black heritage, but her straightened hair showed off the exotic look of her mixed races so he did not mind.
"I want to look my best, is that a problem," Jazmine asked slouching in her seat and giving Huey a hateful look.
Huey looked at her from the corner of his eye. He could not say she was not beautiful, but it seemed out of place. "Not at all. I just couldn't fathom why you were getting dressed up all fancy to go to Caesar's it makes no sense. You'll just end up feeling over dressed."
"I'm not dressed up to go to Caesar's," Jazmine said.
"What you got another date after or something? Because if you do we might have a problem," Huey said jokingly.
Jazmine's split a smile unable to stay mad and nudged him a little with her hand. "I got dressed up because I saw that bag in your room this morning."
"What bag?" Huey feigned ignorance.
"You know what bag," Jazmine said looking at him expectantly. "When are you going to give it to me?"
"I don't know maybe after the final game," Huey said pulling his car up beside Caesar's house.
"No," Jazmine cried over dramatically. She pouted out her bottom lip and gave him puppy dog eyes. "Please Huey."
Under the eyes Huey folded again. "Alright here," he said fishing the long blue box out of his pocket and handing it to her. "It's a little something Jay and Caesar helped me pick out.
Jazmine's eyes opened wide when she saw the box. Even though she had seen the bag in Huey's room earlier that day he was known to be on the cheap side and anything from that store would be quite expensive. She opened the box and though Huey would have thought it impossible her sparkling eyes widened even more.
"Huey it's beautiful," she cried tears welling in her eyes as she pulled out the locket. Suddenly' she jumped the distance between them wrapping him in a hug from the side and turning his face so she could lay a big kiss on him. "Thank you. Thank you."
"No problem," Huey said with a rather big smile, a very rare smile for him. The emotions radiating from her were infectious and Huey could not help but give a big smile.
"Can you help me?" She asked holding out the opened necklace and Huey simply took and fastened it around her neck as she held up her hair. She turned back to Huey. "How does it look?"
"Absolutely beautiful," Huey said memorized.
He would have stayed there hypnotized by her beauty if Jason has not come walking passed the car and rapped his fist against his window. Huey shaken from his stupor looked out his window into the snow covered world outside. He shook his head at his star receiver who was standing outside his car in his Windsor Spitfires jersey and a typical pair of long orange shorts. Even in the snow he still wore summer clothes.
Huey opened his door and stepped out of his car before going to open Jazmine's door. "What are you doing out here?"
"I was sent to get the movies," Jason said holing up a bag of DVDs.
"You went like that on your bike," Huey asked incredulously looking at his bare legs that were going blue, but he did not seem to notice.
"Cindy wouldn't let me bring my bike," Jason said holding up the keys to the Beamer. "She said it was too dangerous in this weather."
"She's right you know," Jazmine said still beaming as she crossed the front of the car. "You can barely see out here. You'd be killed."
"Nah this is nothing. A light sprinkle," Jason said holding his hand up to catch snowflakes in his hand which melted against his skin.
"Whatever can we just go inside before we freeze? We all weren't born in frozen pond," Huey grumbled rubbing his arms to ward away the cold.
"Lead the way," Jason smirked.
As they walked up to Caesar's door he noticed Jason bend over in mid stride and scoop up a pile of snow. "That better not hit me," he warned.
"It's won't," Jason promised passing the bag of movies to him while he crafted his pile into a ball. As they walked in the house he hid the snowball behind his back. They took off their boots and coats just inside the door and announced their arrival. When they entered the living room Riley was lounging on a recliner while Hiro and Cindy were sitting on one extension of the couch that dominated the room in an 'L' shape playing Soulcalibur IV and Hiro was winning.
Caesar sat on the other arm of the couch that faced the door with the blonde and black haired Stacy. On the floor sat two more teens that looked Hispanic chatting in low tones over a magazine.
"Finally," Cindy said tossing her controller to one of the Hispanic twins and jumping to her feet. "What took ya so long JJ?" Jason just looked at her with a sly smile and pulled out his snowball. "Ya ain't gonna throw dat at me."
Cindy jumped the couch scrambling for the back sliding glass door but before she could get there Jason hit her smack in the back of the head with the melting snowball. She stopped scrambling and reached back to feel the slush mixed in her hair. Touching the cold substance she suddenly jerked around staring daggers at Jason. "Ya gonna pay."
"Yeah, yeah," Jason laughed along with Riley and the twins.
Cindy cursed and threw open the back door letting in a gust of cold air. She ran outside and scooped up some snow of her own and fashioned it into a ball before running back inside and hurling it as Jason. Jason simply moved out of the way of the snowball that hit the wall with a splatter.
"Hey if you're gonna be throwing snowballs go outside," Caesar shouted watching the snow ball slide down his wall.
"Ya just gonna stand in dere chicken," Cindy taunted Jason from outside in the blowing snow.
"Yeah right," Jason said back leaping clear over the couch and running outside narrowly avoiding another snowball that hit the glass door with a splat.
"Those two aside I think introductions are in order," Huey said looking down at the twins who were engaged in the game against Hiro. "I'm Huey Freeman Quarterback and this is Jazmine DuBois our kicker."
"Stacy Wright also at quarterback," Stacy said smiling warmly as she gave Jazmine a short wave. "These two hooligans are Rico and Zana de Guerra my safety and defensive end respectively."
"Yo," Rico said keeping his eyes on the game the Hiro was winning.
"Do you have the movies?" Caesar asked looking down at the bag.
"Yeah," Huey said throwing the bag of DVDs over to his best friend.
"Let's go outside instead," Zana suggested watching Jason and Cindy outside.
"I'm in nigga," Riley said standing up.
"Me too," Stacy added. "What about you Caesar?"
"I guess," Caesar added.
"A snowball fight it is," Stacy said happily grabbing Caesar's hand and pulling him up to his feet.
"Into the cold again," Huey groaned as they all went to the front door to grab their coats and boots.
Outside Jason and Cindy saw everyone get up and head for the door. Jason put his hands up to call a truce. "We should get them," he said with his smirk.
"Agreed," Cindy said falling to her knees and beginning to make snowballs. By the time the glass door opened again they both had pile of snowballs in front of them.
Huey was the first out the door and he saw the pair just in time to duck out of the way and Caesar got two snowballs in the face. "Ah Huey that's cold," he shouted at Huey as he quickly jumped away from the doorway as more snowballs came flying toward it.
Stacy was the next out and she took those snowballs the chest falling back into the house where Zana caught her and pushed her out. "What the hell Ceez?" Stacy shouted angrily at the Brooklyn native. "I hate you."
Caesar looked up at her surprise on his face. "Really?"
"No," Stacy said her smile returning before quickly disappearing again. "But don't ever do that again or I'll never speak to you again."
"Alright," Caesar said slowly and cautiously as another snowball hit him in the back of the head.
"I got dat nigga," Riley shouted throwing another snowball at Caesar but this time he dodged it as Huey it Riley in the shoulder.
"Where's Rico?" Jason asked from behind a small snow drift he and Cindy had taken cover behind while lobbing snowballs across the back yard.
"I'm not sure. He never came out the back door," Cindy said before a snowball hit Jason in the side of the face.
Another snowball came down from the pool deck around the pool hitting Cindy. "He's on the deck," Jason shouted tossing his next snowball at Rico on the pool deck. A Spanish curse told them he had scored a hit. "We have to move."
"Right," Cindy said following Jason as he skirted their drift looking for somewhere else to hide. As he peaked his head up both Huey and Riley took advantage of the opportunity to hurl snowballs at him, narrowly missing as he quickly ducked back under.
Jason grabbed two snowballs from their almost depleted piles before running into the open accepting hits from Caesar and Jazmine before throwing his snowballs at Zana and the smiling Stacy hitting both of them in the chest. Using her boyfriend as a distraction Cindy followed also hitting Zana and Stacy who were the most visible of their targets as everyone else had found some kind of cover, from a small bush like Huey or a foam board from the pool like Riley.
"Jesus Christ," Stacy swore wiping snowballs from her face. "I'll kill all of you."
"Woo mood change much," Hiro said to Stacy who turned on him with a scowl and whipped a snowball at him.
"Don't make fun of me," she shouted.
Using Stacy's outburst a as a distraction Huey vacated his bush to skirt the backyard and slide scuttle up beside Caesar who was hiding behind a patio set. "She's got one hell of a short fuse," he said to his best friend. "One moment she's all friendly and clam and the next she is throwing threats and being hysterical."
"I think she might be a bit crazy," Caesar said shielding his head from an incoming snowball.
"So can I assume you don't like her," Huey said lobbing a snowball at Jason and Cindy's new position while the two were targeting Jazmine who had moved immediately to occupy Huey's vacated bush.
"Quite the opposite," Caesar said watching Stacy who had once again cooled off and was laughing as she threw snowballs up at Rico on the pool deck. "She's quite interesting. But her dual personalities might play havoc on our game plan."
"I was thinking the same thing. Depending on her mood her play calls could change rapidly," Huey agreed.
"Enough football talk," Jason said running by them and planting snowballs in their face.
"I've had enough of him," Huey said scooping up a handful of snow and chasing after his star receiver.
An hour later they began drifting back inside to escape the cold until only Jason and Cindy remained outside in the snow, neither willing to allow the other to be the last one braving the cold. They both laid on the far end of the original snow drift they had been hiding behind at the beginning of the snowball fight.
"How come every time we all end up outside at Caesar's house the two of us end up outside alone?" Jason asked enjoying how the cold bit into his bare calves.
"Because dere all suckas dat's how," Cindy smiled quietly collecting snow at her side and forming it into a ball.
"Then shouldn't you be inside too," Jason smirked.
"I ain't no sucka," Cindy said suddenly smashing the snow she had gathered in her hand into his face and rubbing the cold half frozen water in his face.
Jason coughed and sputtered through his face full of snow. "I thought we had a truce."
"Truce over," Cindy said smacking him with another snowball in the face.
"Have it your way," he said quickly grabbing her around the waist and lifting her up and over him so she was resting on top of him.
"Let go," Cindy struggled under his grip around her waist.
"Not until you get rid of this snow," Jason replied through the melting slush on his face.
"Aight," Cindy said breathing on his face and the snow melted slowly. "Now will ya let go of me JJ."
"Not yet," Jason smirked. "You said you waited a gift."
"Ya got me one. I thought ya didn't since Jazzy already got hers and I got nothing. I wuz gonna chew ya out," Cindy said looking at him expectedly as Jason let her go but she did not slide off him but waited for whatever was coming.
Jason fished around in his deep short pocket pulling out a long blue box similar to the one Huey had given Jazmine. He had been careful throughout the snowball fight to make sure the box had not fallen out of his pocket and got lost in the snow. He held up the box in front of her face. "Here."
Cindy took the box rolling off him as she did landing back in the snow beside him. She opened the box and her eyes went as wide as Jazmine's did earlier. She pulled out the gold and silver intertwined chain bracelet and put it on her wrist. "Oh mah god it's amazing," she squealed while holding her hand up against the moon. She grabbed his head and turned his head toward her. "Thank you," she whispered before giving him a deep kiss and jumping to her feet to go show Jazmine.
Jason remained outside staying up at the sky and sighed. What was he doing? He only had two weeks left before he had to return to Windsor and his hockey career. Even knowing this he still could not help himself and he could see the end result of his actions and it most likely ended in some form of heartbreak.
Inside the house everyone else sat around Caesar's TV watching the opening credits of Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Sitting beside Caesar Stacy turned to the Brooklyn native. "Are those a couple or something?"
"Which two?" Caesar whispered.
"The two outside because I thought she was with Riley," Stacy whispered with her smile.
"No Cindy and Riley are just friends or as they call it ride or die homies," Caesar replied. "She's with Jay, why?"
"I don't know I just like you guys and want to get to know more about you," she said.
"An odd thing for opponent's to say only days away from the game," Caesar noted.
"How said opponents can't be friends. It makes the game more enjoyable when you're not trying to rip your opponent's heads off and you're competing simply to compete and have fun."
"Tell that to our last two opponents," Caesar said with a small laugh.
"Our league used to never be like they are now. But last year and this year more and more of the varsity's unwanted players came to our league and the results are guys like Kyle Quilin and Alex Smith," Stacy explained. 'I know my team is not like that and I hope your team is not like that. I've seen that Cross Cleave move as they are calling it."
"We're not and I'm not we want the same thing as your team. As for the Cross Cleave it is a reaction to those other teams. I would be surprised if you saw it in our game," Caesar said.
"Then I look forward to the completion on Saturday," Stacy said as the movie finally got underway.
"Me too," Caesar agreed as they turned their attention to the movie.
