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NATE

TUESDAY 7:45 AM


"Nate you're taking Cheyenne to school this morning." My dad says coming into the kitchen with Cheyenne. "Wassup Jacobs" She says not amused to be awake. "Morning kid, you want breakfast?" My mom asked her. "I'm good thanks though." Cheyenne yawns while leaning on the counter. "Do you need a ride after school too?" I asked her while eating my cereal. She shrugged. "Don't you have football?" She questioned. "You act like you don't live up the street from the school." I say in a duh voice. "I don't know" She shrugs. "Yes, your dad said you can't walk home." My dad says walking through the kitchen. "Why? What did you do this time?" I smirked while still eating my cereal. "It's none of your business Jacobs" She says flipping me off behind her hand so my mom couldn't see. "Y'all are gonna be late." My mom laughs. "Let's roll." I say grabbing my keys. "Have a good day you two." She says. "You as well mom." I say hugging her before leaving with Cheyenne.

"What did you do that you gotta ride to and from school?" I asked Cheyenne as we got in the truck. "None of your business." She repeats what she said in the house. "You're very secretive you know?" I questioned her. "You think so?" She says leaning on the arm rest. I bit my lip and nodded. "That's what I like about you" I tell her. Her face dropped. "I got caught smoking weed Nate thats all." She rolls her eyes and leans back in her seat. I clicked my tongue and started the car. "Whatever...You still grounded" I mumbled and headed to school. She laughed and playfully hit my arm and kept her hand on my arm. I glanced over at her and she wasn't looking at me. "Yeah, you're something different." I say to myself while holding her hand.

We shortly arrived at school and met up with Kat, Lexi, and Cassie. "Before any of you guys think of anything, my dad asked him to take me to school because im groundeddd." Cheyenne sings the last word. "How's that going?" Kat laughed. "I'm about this close to losing it, but only two months and three weeks left. God I feel im in a prison." Cheyenne scoffs while rubbing her face. Rue walked by and hit Cheyenne. "Imma catch up with yall after first period." Cheyenne says running off to catch up with Rue. "Looks like they're buddy buddy now."Kat laughs. "They probably do drugs together." Cassie chimes in while looking at them walk away. Everyone was looking at Cassie. "Rue did drugs, Cheyenne smokes weed. What's the problem?" Kat asked. "Are you sure?" Cassie asked. "Are you sure?" Kat asked her. Maddy walks up to us. "Hey" I say putting my arm around her. "Hey, what is she talking about?" She asked me. "Thinks Rue and Cheyenne do drugs together." I tell her. "Cheyenne smokes weed. I thought you knew that?" Maddy asked her. "Obviously I know that. I'm talking about Rue." Cassie says. "Why are we talking about Rue?" Jules stops as she was walking by. "Oh my god nevermind." Cassie yells out of frustration and walked away. "Have any of you guys seen her?" Jules asked. "Just walked that way with Cheyenne." Lexi says pointing down the hall. "Thanks." Jules smile fades  and walks away. The first bell rung. "We'll catch up with yall later." I say holding Maddy's hand and walking her to class.

***

CHEYENNE

10:45 AM

"Okay let me see if I got this clear..." Rue says rubbing the sides of her temple. "You want me to run into your house, explain that you need to come over and stay the night so we can finish a fake project, just to go to Fez' house?" Rue whisper yelled because we were in the library. "Yeah... what was so hard about that?" I scoffed. "The part of what am I getting out of this?" She says in a duh voice. "I'll pick you something up from the house?" I say holding my hands up. She thought about it for a minute. "Okay deal. What should I say?" She agrees while leaning in. "History or Science go with the human body or something from world history I dunno im drawing a blank." I say rubbing my forehead. "I'll think of something. "I knew I'd find you here." The counselor Mr. Schmidt says pulling up a chair to our table. Oh fucking great. I looked at him wondering what does he want. "I'm not gonna even ask why either of you aren't in class right now. So you both have gotten a new job today." He says with a grinning smile on his face. Rue and I looked at each other in confusion. "What are you talking about Mr. S?" Rue asked. "We have a new student and she could shadow you guys and show her around." He says. Rue looked at me. "Looks like you're not the new girl on the block anymore." Rue says smacking her lips at me. "Oh so does that mean our friendship is over?" I say while covering my mouth. She shrugged. I gave her a blank stare. "Im just kidding. But no" She says looking back at Mr. S. "You get out of classes fifteen minutes early." He tells her. "Oh, you should've started with that." Rue says joining back in. "Calloway?" He asked me. I shrugged. "Why not, I got nothing better to do." I say shrugging. "All right, she's in my office. Let's go." He says getting up.

We grabbed our backpacks and walked out the library. Mrs. Peters had her door open and I could see Kat and Cassie. They both had confused looks on their faces. "I'll tell u later" I mouthed while walking past. We got back to office and a ginger haired, green eyed girl with glasses and freckles was sitting in the office. "Aw, she's cute." I say looking at her. "I'm Cheyenne." I say scooting his action figures over for me to sit on his desk. "Really..." Mr. S sighs while sitting in his chair. "I'm Brynn" She smiles. "And im Rue." Rue says sitting in the chair. "What are your classes?" I asked while holding out my hand. She handed me her schedule.

First period - Trigonometry

Second period - Chemistry

Third period- Honors English

Fourth period - World History

B Lunch

Fifth period - Art

Six Period - Economics.

"Wow you're smart. But you have fifth and sixth period and lunch with me." I say handing the schedule to Rue. "Thank you, and cool." She smiles. She has a smiley piercing. "I like that." I say pointing at it on myself and nodding. She smiled. "We have fourth and fifth and lunch. But I know where all these classes are." Rue says handing her back her schedule. "Alright, Third just started so you guys can head there." Mr. Schmidt says handing us all an all day excuse pass. "Okay." We all say getting up. "And don't forget to swing by first and second at the end of the day." He says. "Will do." Rue says. Brynn and Rue walked out. I looked back at him. "Why us two?" I say folding my arms. "Because she didn't seem like she needed to meet the preppy side of the school" He scoffs while putting his hands in his pocket. "You're weird." I say squinting my eyes at him. "Yeah, and you move my stuff again I'll hurt you." He says moving his action figures back to where they were. I laughed and walked out of his office.

We headed down the English hall and we saw Maddy walking down the hall. "Hey, who's this?" Maddy says putting down her phone. "I'm Brynn, im new" Brynn says introducing herself. "I'm Maddy, im not new" Maddy says. She's not shy at all. Wait why didn't I get a shadow the fuck? "I don't know why he thought she was shy. She seems chill to me." Rue says in my ear. "Yeah I'm cool guys you guys don't have to show me around." Brynn says turning to me. "You can sit with us at lunch if you'd like" Maddy offers. "Cool, I appreciate it." She smiles. "Oh I love that." Maddy gasps. "Thank you, you guys seem cool." She nods. "Ehh, just met them a few weeks ago they straight." I shrugged. "You just started too?" She asked. "Like a week and a half after the school year started."I shrugged. "Dope, I'll catch yall later." Brynn says walking to the wrong class. "One door over." Rue and I yell. She looked back and gave us a thumbs up. "Where are you headed?" Rue and I asked each other. "Blonski's with Maddy" I say pointing at her. "Cramer's" She says. "All right catch you at lunch?" She coughs. "Yea forsure." I say nodding. She walked off and I looked at Maddy. "I'm not going to class any time soon I hope you know that." She says. "I was hoping you'd say that." I smile while walking with her.

***

3:20PM

I was talking with Brynn and Nate slammed his gym bag on my legs that were on my desk. "The fuck? What?" I say pushing it off my legs. "Do you need a ride home or no?" He asked me. "I can take you if you want." Brynn offers. "Damn everyone got cars but me." I say smacking my lips. "But no, I'm walking with Rue." I say shrugging. I looked at me with a kinda upset look but tryna play it off. "Is that okay?" I say confused. "Yeah that's fine." He shrugs it off. "Okay" I mouthed while nodding. "Speaking of which schools out in fifteen and you have to go to ur first two hours." I say throwing everything on my desk into my backpack. "I went during lunch, im good." She tells me. "Yeah, but Mrs. Owens doesn't know that" I whispered while walking to Mrs. Owens back. "Hey Mrs. O" I smile while slowly leaning on her desk about to sit on it. "Cheyenne you sit on my desk..." She says looking at me from the corner of her eye. "My bad..." I say stepping back. "What do you want?" She says going back to her papers. "I slid my pass over to her on her desk. "I have to take Brynn to her first two hours and they're both upstairs." I lied while pointing back at Brynn. She picked up the pass and looked at it. She then looked at me and squinted her eyes. "Alright go ahead." She says putting her initials on it and handing it back to me. "Aye, let's go Brynn Brynn" I say turning on my heels and facing the door.

I opened the door Rue and Jules were outside. Jules faces shifted. "On second thought, Brynn?" I call her. "Wassup?" She turns around but not looking up from her. "I might need a ride to the store." I tell her as I caught up to her. "You're going to the store?" Rue asks. Fuck. I turned around and nodded. "Yeah." I say putting my hands in my back pocket. "We can all ride in my dads Bronco" Brynn says holding up her keys. I looked at her and laughed. "Better than walking let's go." Rue says

We all walked out of school and Brynn pressed her key fob and a Blue Bronco lights lit up. "What store are we going to?" She asked me "Just the corner store right here." Rue answer while reaching her hand up her for the aux. I looked at Brynn as I handed her the aux. Sorry we just took over ya car. "Oh, alright bet." She says starting the car.

Rue played Forest Gump by Frank Ocean and she did not miss. "Can I pick the next song?" Jules asked. "Dang girl, the song barley played." Brynn says what I was thinking. "Yanno, just preparing." Jules says. I laughed to myself and shook my head. She's Rue's girlfriend and I have nothing to say to her. If I have nothing nice to say- I'm just kidding I always have something not nice to say. "How far is your house from here?"Brynn asked me. "Ehh about a mile." I say shaking my hand. "Who's house am I dropping you two at?" Brynn asked the two in the back as we pulled to the store. I looked back the two. I had a feeling whatever Rue says Jules is gonna think I had something to do with it. "I'm going to Cheyenne's first then mines." Rue says as my eye's widen a little. Yup, there it is. Jules had a sad/upset look on her face. Oh I know homegirl wants to beat my ass right about now. I jumped out the car and ran into the store.

"I know I haven't seen you in days come here." I say running to Fezco and embracing him in a hug behind his back. "Wow, that's all I get?" He says still not facing me. "I miss you..." I say making him dance with me. "Five days..." He says. "I know and I'm sorry." I say resting my head on his back. "Am I seeing you tonight?" He asked me. "I don't know that depends. Are you gonna fucking look at me." I say letting go and turning my head. "Don't get mad at me. Last time I checked I'm not the grounded one here." He says. "Speaking of grounding, I need new blunts my dad cut and made sure Vision peed on them." I say walking to the wall of blunts. "Am I?" He asked coming up behind me. I grinned and grabbed the ones I was looking for. "Possibly." I say turning around. His faced dropped. "If you get a text baby..." I wrapped my arms around him as I kissed him. "I'm ready." I say walking out of the store leaving Fezco starstruck at the blunt wall.

***

7:46 PM

The doorbell rung and everyone was sitting in the living room. "Nobody?" My dads looking at me and Spencyr. I didn't move from my spot. Spencyrs head was resting in my lap. The doorbell rung again. Spencyr sat up just to reach the snacks. "Dad, you better get that." Spencyr says pointing a pretzel at him. He sighed and got up. I laughed and raised my hand she high fives me. 

A few moments passed my dad came back. "Um Cheyenne... Rue's here talking about a project." My dad sounds upset while walking Rue in. She gave me a thumbs up. She was supposed to come after school but whatever. "Oh fuck, I forgot." I covered my faced with my hand. "Cheyenne isn't supposed to leave the house besides school" My dad says putting his on his hips. "Dude it's school related, Leslie is gonna make them do that project." Spencyr vouches for us. I looked at my dad. He bent down to my level on the couch. "I'm letting you go this one time. And you better get a fucking A on this project." He "whispers" to me. "Quite the pep talk sport." I grinned while resting my head on my hands. "Come on Rue, let me grab a change of clothes and we can head out." I say getting off the couch.

"Okay, not to be that person, why did you tell Jules you were coming to my house...then didn't?" I asked once we got to my room. "Well you see Jules says she's not jealous so I like to test her sometimes." Rue says walking through my room. If I was Jules, I'd rock Rue's world man. "Hmm, okay." I say grabbing random pieces of clothing from my room and throwing them into a bag. "Don't forget your backpack." Rue says putting on a pair of my sunglasses. "Oh yeah, let's go." I grabbed my backpack and headed upstairs. "Alright, we're leaving." I walked to the front door. "What project is it again Cheyenne?" My dad asked leaning on the stairwell. "World." Rue coughed. "World History." I mumbled. "Alright, be safe love you." He says. "I will." As I walked out the door. "He's still on your ass huh?" She asked me. "Oh yeah big time." I say pulling out my phone.

to fezco

me: pick me up at rue's ❤️

"Alright, now you do know the store closes at eleven right?" Rue tells me like I didn't know. "Yeah, I know." I say nodding. "What? Now I can't actually hang out with you now?" I sound fake offended. "Shut up, I didn't think about it until now." She says pushing me causing me to fly a foot or two. "Yeah, plus what are we gonna tell your mom?" I looked at her with wide eyes. "We just say we're hanging out then when Fez comes just say you're going home." She shrugs. Mmm I don't think that's gonna work but hey i'm with it. "Alright." I shrugged while walking up to her front door.

"Hey mom I'm back Cheyenne is just stopping by for a few." Rue says taking my bags and running to her room. I laughed and walked into the kitchen. "Heyyy Ms. Bennett." I smiled and hugged her. "Hey baby, how are you?" She does that hug and rub kinda thing like my mom used to do. God I miss that women so so much right now. "I'm doing good, how about yourself?" I asked her. Rue shook her head and slid her hand under her neck. "Let's go" She mouthed while pointing to her room. "I'm alright, have you eaten dinner yet?" She asked while picking up the big spoon for dinner. "I did, that looks good though can I take some to go?" I asked her. "Yeah of course, it'll be on the counter." She says grabbing Tupperware and packing it up already. "Thanks you're the best." I smiled while walking with Rue to her room. "You don't have to play nice yanno." Rue tells me. "You're moms amazing okay." I say putting a piece of hair behind my ear. "Yeah yeah when she wants to be." Rue says as she closed the door.

***

FEZCO

11:15PM

"Tell your mom thanks dude." Cheyenne says hugging Rue. "I will. Now get out." Rue dropping her bags around my arm. "I hope you have a lovely night... Ruby" Cheyenne whispers the last part but I heard her. "Yea, not allowed in my room anymore." She says behind me. "Night Rue." I laughed. "Night guys." She chuckles behind me.

I opened the passenger door for her "Thanks" She says "No problem" I say before walking to the driver side of the car "Heyyy" She smiles as I put her belongings in my backseat. "Wassup." i say starting the car. "What did you and Rue do?" I asked her"Nothing fun, drugs" she shrugged. "You aren't doing coke and shit?" i asked her. She smacked her lips "Nah baby" She says "Good" I say. "Why good?" She asked me. "Cheyenne..." I say looking forward. "What im genuinely asking?" She says "Shits not good to get hooked on" I say. I already knew where this conversation was headed. "You care about me or something?" She says biting the side of her nails. I actually don't know where this conversation is going... "I do." I say as we hit a red light. "What you ain't never had nobody care about you or something?" I say looking at her. She shook her head. I grabbed her hand and kissed it. "I'll always care for you kid" I say rubbing her hand with my thumb. Cheyenne smiled. "What time is first period?" I asked her "eight" She tells me. I gave her a thumbs up and pulled up to the house.

As we walked into the house something felt off. "Stay here right quick" I say looking at her. She nodded and sat on the last step. I walked up the stairs and Custard was here with Mouse's brother. "What's up?" I say looking around the room. "Fez, this is Montclair. Mouse's brother." Custard says. "Okay? Wassup?" I say shrugging. "My brother tells me you the best to sell shit to if you get profits to yourself." He says not making eye contact with me. "Is that true?" He says looking up at me. I looked at Custard and he looked scared as shit. "Yea, whatchu got?" I say sitting on the opposite end of the couch. Him and Custard threw 3 duffle bags on the coffee table. "First bag is weed, third bag is couple narcos, ecstasy, acid, shrooms, Fentanyl, Vicodin, and a shit ton of cocaine." He says. "What's the third bag." I say looking at the bag and then him. "You're early cut. See this all here is five hundred thousand dollars worth of shit. You misplace or get raided. I already got my money back." He says. "So he's babysitting?" Cheyenne says from the door. What the fuck Cheyenne! I got up and stood infront of her. "Who's the fuck is that?" Montclair asked. I sighed. "She's cool." I say as she pushed me to the side. "You said you got word he's the best... Why loan him such a big chunk and then say misplaced or raided you get your money back." She says with her head tilt. "Is it his money?" She asked sitting on the back of the couch. "Or is it yours?" She says spinning her feet around to the front. What the fuck is she doing man. Montclair walked over to Cheyenne.  "You right it's not his money until he sells half or all of this shit by the end of the year. If he aint make a dent in either the bags... It's gone be one hell of a New Year's." Montclair tells Cheyenne with a grin on his face. "You cool with that Fezco?" Montclair asks me while still looking at Cheyenne who had the same poker face. "Take out the Fentanyl and we cool." I say. Cheyenne looked at me. "That's fifty thousand off." He says taking it out of the bag. "Not a problem." I say looking at him. "Alright, we'll talk soon." He says stuffing the drugs in his coat. "We sure will." I sighed as he walked out. I grabbed Custard by the back of his shirt. "We gone talk real fucking soon." I say in his ear as I pushed him out. 

I walked back into the living room and I looked at Cheyenne who was looking at the duffle bag of weed. "What the fuck is wrong with you?! I told you to stay there!" I yelled. "Fezco he's trying to set you up!" She shouts back. I took a deep breath and looked at her. "I don't want you to be apart of any of this. I know what I'm doing Cheyenne please just trust me on this." I tell her. I saw the look in her eyes that she wanted to trust me but couldn't. "I want to but you can't sell half a mill worth of drugs in three months." She scoffs while shaking her head. I put my hands on her knees. "I got this." I tell her. "It's late and you have school let's go lay down." I say holding my hand out. "Gross, you sound like my dad." She gags while grabbing my hand. 

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