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7135 words. Vote and comment because these chapters be beating my ass and it bet not be for no reason. And keep an open mind the whole chapter.

𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵

"Nah I don't eve- stop!" Jade slapped her hands off of his face when she noticed a stray hair near his eyebrow and grabbed her tweezers to pluck it.

"Just let me.. move." Serenity waited for him to stop being extra and relaxed her arms.

"No. Don't touch my eyebrows that shit hurt."

"Curse too much."

"A habit." He dropped his face when he heard her throw the tweezers back in her nightstand and just looked at her, not having anything to do but stare and waste time.

"Stop staring it feels weird."

"Only if you make it weird. You want me to like you and not look at you?"

"Yes." The doorbell rang and she tried getting up to answer it but he held onto her and stood up. He liked being touchy. Serenity began panicking when she felt herself in the air and he just laughed while he walked to the door.

"Tana imma fall put me down!"

"You not that big." He noticed she was insecure about her weight but it really didn't bother him. She was cute in the face and he liked her body.

He held her up with one arm and opened the door with the other, seeing a girl in a middle school uniform and a cart full of cans.

"What?"

"Hi my names India and I was wondering if you or someone you know would be willing to donate to the can drive.." the girl spoke shyly, avoiding looking at his face while he looked directly at hers.

"Sorry nah."

"If you can't donate now you can always stop by the school and drop things off. Bye." She turned around and began leaving, making him stare curiously for a few moments.

"Close the door." Serenity tapped her his shoulder finally comfortable. He did just that and walked back to her room.

When he was quiet placing her back on the bed she raised an eyebrow.

"You know her?"

"Not really." He'd seen her with Ray's little sister Del but they never spoke directly because she was always really shy and quiet.. plus he just didn't talk to people he didn't know, especially thirteen years old girls.

"Oh. She looks young. Aside from the uniform."

"Yeah she like fourteen or thirteen. We playing the game or what? I gotta go in a hour." He looked down at his phone.

"Why?"

"Because I gotta go do something with Zeik. Imma turn my phone off so don't cry thinking I'm ignoring you." Jade sat back down on her bed and grabbed the remote controller.

"Don't use my good remote, and why I can't come?"

"Because I don't want you there? I been with you all day now you wanna cry-"

"I'm not cryingggg!"

"You deadass whining with tears coming out your eyes if you not crying then what is crying? I said I would play C.O.D with you so stop that shit is aggravating." He reached over and mushed her head, eyes still on the tv.

"I win you gotta stay."

"You win imma still leave."

"You gay I don't care. Wanna hang out with a nigga when I'm tryna have sex with you. Move." Serenity mugged him while he laughed at her and shrugged.

"Mad ass."

"Shut up. Y'all sit on FaceTime with your legs crossed, playing fortnite and flirting. Don't say nothing to me."

The more she went off the harder he laughed. To make matters worse Zeik began FaceTiming him and Serenity grabbed the phone before he could answer.

"Move. Acting like a child."

"Nah let it ring. Youn want your boyfriend to be at you?"

"Is jealous of a nigga."

"Nah that shit really got me weak though. Be on FaceTime with this nigga more than me."

"Because we be on the game, talking about bitches with fat asses, cake pops, and drill music. Fuck imma say on the phone with you? You so beautiful marry me? That's gay." He said dryly, picking the remote back up and swiping until he saw the downloaded version.

"Tha- you makin my head hurt. You talk to me like I'm a nigga anyways."

"Nah I could really wild out and forget you a girl. I be tryna be careful with my words."

"And say what?"

"You seen that video with the bitch that put her fist in her ass? The black girl with them stupid ass green contacts?"

"Why would I-"

"Exactly bro. Stick to being my fuck buddy friend you not cut like that."

Jade looked up her with a small smile on his face that was eventually ruined by the feeling of his eyebrow hair being snatched out.

"You wanna know when I realized you was really where it's at?"

"When you first saw me duh."

"Nah. When I asked if you saw that video of the bitch with the cucum-"

"That was fire. It was bigger than yours and she was tiny, like 4'11 with the whole thing in her. Shit is crazy." He didn't know if that was an insult or what.

"And guess what else? I remember meeting you when you was in eighth grade, you was doing that can drive shit. I was at Serenity house and you was being all quiet like always."

"For real? That seems so long ago."

"Not gon hold you son son you was type ug-I'm playin chill. Don't hit me." Jade sucked his teeth and put his hands up when she sat up.

"New subject then because you being rude."

"Like what?"

"Worst sexual experience?" India questioned, straddling him while she began plucking his eyebrows again.

"It wasn't even sex related because I didn't follow through but that shit was terrible."

"When?"

"Junior year. That was my hoe year. Anyways I linked this girl and.. oh god. Okay so boom we both know she about to suck my dick and get out, problem is she don't got her lashes on right, so she look different. I ignore it because I don't wanna be rude and call her a bald eyed bitch-"

"What this have to do with the st-"

"Shut up nigga let me finish. Anyways, she look younger. She's on the verge of pulling my dick out and I grab her hand just feeling real uncomfortable. I put my serious face on and go 'you said you seventeen right?' and she just start stuttering. Keep in mind I asked multiple times because I don't fuck with it."

"Whole time she was fifteen or something?"

"You interrupting me. Shut up. Anyways, she go 'nah. When I said that I was playing.' So I asked her how old she was for real and this bitch say... thirteen. I almost punched her ass in the head. I put her out wit the quickness she started crying and apologizing. Blocked her and never spoke to her again cause fuck that."

"That's.. mmm. She different.."

"I went home and damn near threw up. Seventh grade.. shit made my stomach hurt. Little ass girls really be like that though. I finally opened Instagram and it's freshmen girls in my dm saying they'd.. ion even wanna repeat it. If I end up with a daughter imma be aggravated."

"If I end up pregnant with a girl I know you'll ruin her whole life just doing the most."

"Nah it depends on how she come out. Like people know when they kids be dumb ashit they just don't wanna admit it. If she can understand and respect what I like and don't like I shouldn't have to do the most." He felt her put the tweezers down and sat up, still keeping her on top of him while he spoke.

It wasn't like he wanted to be the annoying dad that harassed every nigga that came around. He'd been the nigga coming around before and to Xander he was still the nigga coming around. Things like that just weren't necessary sometimes. It really depended on the child.

"So what do you like and dislike? Because I already know what I want for any child I have, it just can't be a baby then boom we wing it. Or we don't agree on certain stuff."

"Not rules really, just an understanding? Eli has rules because of who he is and that's what he likes but as he gets older it'll probably change, and I don't wouldn't mind. I don't really know though."

"Until eighth grade leaving without an adult or something isn't even an option. High school? Be home by eight in ninth, nine in tenth, eleven in eleventh, etc. Dating?" She looked at him for that one. She hadn't had a boyfriend until.. him. So she didn't know what to say about it.

"High school. By the time he's fourteen sex should be something I been explained, pregnancy and diseases with that. So if you know about it and you choose to date and risk any of it that's not my problem if it happens to you, you not slow." He made a face, talking like she was Eli unintentionally.

"I- you? Sir."

"Cause thinking about any child of mine getting pregnant or getting somebody pregnant just gets me tight like.. I just wouldn't understand it. You have eighteen years to do what you want, get what you want, and you wanna fuck?"

"Yeah I guess. I never understood why Del was like that but I think some people really do just enjoy it, there isn't always a big explanation behind people having high sex drives. From what I've seen there usually is though."

"From what you've seen? Gir-"

"Yes smart ass. Like me and Del both grew up poor but we adjusted differently. I shut down and she put on a front, that she was really confident and happy with herself. Del started talking to boys and going out and stuff. I wanted to but I didn't have everything she did because there were no boys that wanted to take me out, have sex with me, flirt with me, and buy me stuff. I wasn't a 'bad bitch' but I wasn't raggedy, I was just plain. People who miss out on something usually end up craving it later on." She shrugged, feeling his hands rub over the small of her back.

India didn't speak on her childhood because there was nothing to talk about. Very boring. She spent it looking outside and watching other people play. Everyone knew who she was but that didn't mean she had friends.

"I used to see you. I thought you were pretty." Jade saw her look up from her hands and at him, smiling shyly.

"I thought you were so fine when I was in middle school. First time I remember seeing
you I was in eighth grade and you were in high school, tenth grade I think. I was walking home and this girl was crying and screaming at you outside this store and you was just staring."

"It was Serenity again. Used to piss me the fuck off." He laughed sounding annoyed at the same time.

"She's half that size now. Even her face looks different."

"I told you I liked chubby girls, she a lil stick now."

"Yeah but anyways, I was fan girling thinking you was extra cute because you was tall and all pretty in the face. Whole time you was mean and stuck up." India noticed him looking off like he was getting side tracked and tapped him to ask what he was thinking about.

"Hm?"

"You looked distracted."

"I was just thinking. Nothing important though." Like always he dismissed it because it wasn't something he really felt like explaining.

"If you don't just say that shit.. stop keeping everything to yourself because I wanna hear what you have to say."

"But what if I just don't wanna say it?"

"Well you can't do that because when I let you just not say it you say nobody cares or asks how you feel, which I only avoid because I don't wanna patronize you. But I'd rather annoy you than have you saying I don't care. Now talk."

India didn't always wanna fight him to get him to open his mouth. She even distinctly remembered him telling her 'closed mouths don't get fed and I don't have time to pry yours open' so what did he think he was doing?

After a few moments of them staring each other down he began talking.

"High school. I didn't grow up struggling to eat or nothing because he was doing his shit but she was sick and I didn't really have a female role model or nothing. Nobody really directed me. My ma taught me how to take care of myself physically but that was it. She didn't give me any rules and he gave me a few.. like I couldn't be gay, Zeik's friend, a tutor, or an atheist. But she invited Zeik over anyways."

"Probably why you liked Ochean. You didn't have direction and she gave it to you, even if it was excessive and she was manipulative that's what you sought out for a while. It ended badly so you talked to girls that were push overs and kissed the ground you walked on, kind of like what you were to her." India saw him raise and eyebrow as if he was questioning her logic then it fell and he turned his mouth to the side.

"I liked you because you was so laid back. Thought you was my type then I fucked around and you ain't try to fight me, you just left, then I wanted you even more." Jade admitted, yawning while she looked at him in disgust.

"I-"

"I was like 'damn she really left me. Fuck that bitch. Quitter. I miss her though.' Was crazy. Couldn't believe it."

"You really expected me to just do whatever you wanted and I was slow enough to be that clown at first. No ma'am."

"Because I ain't ever have nobody like.. actually break up with me. But it gave me time to prioritize and shit so I don't regret it, I wouldn't have changed if we stayed together."

"When we first met I thought you just wanted to fuck. But I didn't wanna leave you alone because.. I was slow."

"I'll tell you a secret if you promise to not get mad." He said awkwardly, watching her face turn up. Before he could laugh at how annoyed she looked she had his face squeezed in her hand.

"I'm not promising shit, tell me." India felt him struggle to get loose and let go when she mumbled okay.

"I ain't realize I wanted you for real until the night I was like you my girl now. Like the idea of you being my girlfriend crossed my mind all the time but all it did was cross. It never parked before then." Jade lied, looking at her and they shared a moment of awkward silence.

It took him a few days to really find the right moment to ask, it wasn't on the spot at all and he thought about it all the time. It definitely parked. But he wanted to aggravate her.

Jade busted out laughing when her mouth dropped and felt even worse for laughing when he saw tears. She started to get up but he held her back down and ignored her telling him to move.

"Thats rude as fuck but I don't even care because-"

"Because what?"

When she stopped talking he looked at her sideways and waited for her to finish. Instead of saying anything else she continued crying quietly, making him sit back and look at her crazy wondering if she was for fake. After a few seconds of her wiping her eyes and sniffling he realized she was serious and began laughing again.

"I was just playin stop crying. Bro." When India didn't stop Jade pulled her hands off of her face and shook her shoulders.

Bout to put you in some rice.

"Bubbs you not crying for real. Awww stop crying I was just fuckin with you tighten up. I love you stop like dead as-"

"Bitch I wasn't even crying for real." India dropped her hands from her face and sniffled quietly while he looked at her strangely.

"Let's go." Jade sat up and carried her to the bathroom.

"Where?"

"Where the fuck it look like I'm going? To the moon?"

"No need to be rude. Maybe we going to the bathroom then some where else." She looked at him strange.

"You aggravating me. Take this pregnancy test so we can find out if you gotta deletus the fetus."

"I- you would kill my baby?" India picked her head up and side eyed him but he ignored her.

Jade sat her on the toilet and went in the cabinet two pull out three different pregnancies tests and the pee cup he kept in the bathroom that she'd used for this multiple times before. Even if was cleaned the idea of it sitting in the kitchen cabinet just shook him.

"Pee nigga why you acting confused."

"Because I don't want you in here while I pee."

"... India."

"Okay dang. Don't gotta look like that..."

She peed in the cup, sat the three tests in them the pulled them out, and put them on paper towels while he stood there and stared at them.

India heard the alarm go off after fifteen minutes of them staring at one another and sat up to see what they said. When she didn't respond he peered over as well and chewed on his bottom lip at the results.

"I'm fine." She cleated her throat when he hand went to her back so he took it as a sign that she didn't want to be touched.

"It's probably stress. Don't feel weird about it." He shrugged.

"I don't."

"You seem upset though."

"It's fine." India tried laughing it off while she cleaned up but he knew she felt like something was wrong with her body.

"Girls have weird shit going on all the time. Before you argue with yourself in your head use the other weird pee thing. I can tell you wanna cry."

"I won't. It's whatever. It might be a sign to pump my breaks and I might just be rushing into adulthood faster than I should. There's no medical explanation so far so like I said it might be a sign. Let's go to bed." She ignored the burning in the back of her throat and washed her hands.

Jade wanted to say something comforting but he didn't know what the comforting words were supposed to be. So he just wrapped his arms around waist and kissed her check rather than putting his foot in his mouth.

"Excuse me. I'm going to bed." India mushed his face and began walking away before stopping in the door way and looking around the bathroom.

"What?"

"It'd be nice to come back to a clean house."

"So clean it.."

"Uhm I didn't do it! So how bout you clean it!"

"Uhm no!"

"Uhm yeah cause you dirty!"

"Get the fuck out and go where you was going before you end up going no where!"

-

Veronica looked around when she noticed India wasn't around and hummed to herself. He immediately looked at her annoyed and they both stared each other down waiting for the other to speak. When she kept quiet he realized he'd have to be the bigger person.

"If you not apologizing to her for what you said don't expect her to speak to you it ain't that complicated." Jade pushed his hair out of his face wiping the counter down while Veronica sat at the dining table with her arms folded up.

It was growing but he'd never let it get past his shoulders, that was just aggravating. He'd become more fond of it recently and stopped dying it jet black. It looked black to other people but it was a dark brown that only he seemed to notice. India stressed that it wasn't a big thing but it was to him until recently.

Jade was getting older and his hair just wasn't something he cared about anymore. He didn't mean to get rid of his waves he just stopped getting haircuts honestly.

"I didn't think I was being rude. All I said was-"

"But you know it was rude now so you should apologize. If you don't

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