Chapter 2
Syncere POV:
“Yo watch out! You walking like you about to go beat somebody ass for eating your last piece of cake.” I said, as a short dark brown skin girl ran into me as I was going to the pickup line to get me and Shawn's food. “Excuse me.” The girl said stepping to look up at me. At my six feet four inches height, she was maybe five feet and some inches in height. She was barely reaching my chest.
“No problem you good.” I replied finally able to see who ran into me. She had a pretty face with slanted brown eyes that were so light it almost looked like you chould through them. For a big girl she was really pretty. “Hey, can I get by to pick up my food?” I asked, as she stared at me. Snapping out of her haze, she moved around me quickly. I smiled at how she blushed and seem embarrassed, that I caught her staring at me. “Oh yea, sorry I wasn't looking where I was going.” She responded, brushing past me like she was running from the cops. Just then my phone beeped with a text alert:
Jazz: Where are you?
Me: At the pitt getting lunch with Shawn
Jazz: smh yall always together I was trying to do lunch and spend some time with you.
Me: You should have said something earlier we have already gotten our food.
Jazz: Find I'll just swing y the pitt and chill for a few.
Me: Ok
Putting my phone back in my pocket I grabbed me and Shawn's food and started looking for him in this crowded ass place. I spotted him sitting at the table with none other then the girl who almost ran me over and another girl . She was thick and pretty too. She was a big girl with a small waist. Even though she was sitting I can tell she had a big ass and she had nice breast that she had on display for everyone to see, and I did see them, I mean they were right there. Walking up to the table I heard the shorty that ran into me gasp.
“Yo this was the only table available and these shorties said we could share it with them until another table opened up.” Shawn said as I approached and put our tray on the table. Shorty was still staring at me, I was starting to think I had something hanging out my nose. “Nah it's cool, it's the least shorty could do since she tackled me a few minutes ago.” I said with a laugh trying to break the ice, as her friend looked at her.
“So that's the dude you ran into just now?” Her friend asked. Finally snapping out of her haze. “First of all I did not tackle him, it was more like a tap.” She said with a smile. The way her face lit up when she smiled, I could tell she had a sense of humor. “A light tap my ass, that girl behind the counter had just pissed you off. So you was walking like you was about to go to your car and handle her ass. I didn't even have time to move out of your way.” I said, laughing.
“Shit I was almost on the sick and shut in list, if you would have walked any faster.” I said and we all burst out laughing. “So that's what we doing? We exaggerating now? Oh ok.” She said with a serious face but the humor was still in her eyes. “Damn Essi we haven't been in town a full day and you already committing assault and battery.” Her friend said laughing out loud. “First of all shut up, because if that were true. You just gave him ideas, I promise if I go to jail, because you giving people ideas. I would be pissed and your ass will be sleeping on somebody’s steps.” Essi said with a fake attitude.
“So where yall from?” Shawn asked. “We're from South Carolina, a town called Denmark.” Essi’s friend spoke up. It seems that she was the outspoken one of the duo. “Oh ok, I’ve never heard of Denmark. I have heard of Columbia though, is Denmark near there?” Shawn asked taking a big bite of his burger. “Yea, we’re like an hour away from there. What about yall where are yall from?” Her friend asked. “Well, I'm from York Pennsylvania.” Shawn spoke first. “I’m from Trenton new Jersey.” I said, looking at Essi, who glanced at me but quickly turned away.
“So Essi what’s your major?” I aske trying to get her to talk. “Yea, what's your major? Uh, I don't know your name.” Shawn asked her friend. “Oh my name is Kymoni, and I'm majoring is sports medicine.” Kymoni answered. “Oh ok, cool we play basketball for the school, so more then likely we will be seeing you from time to time. Your professor does hands on training sometimes, he does it as some type of project. where yall would have to work with us.” Shawn said smiling at Kymoni, which was weird because Shawn doesn't do big girls. There’s nothing wrong with them, it's just not what we were into or so I thought.
Remembering Essi didn't say what her major was, maybe they were majoring in the same thing. Turning my attention back to her. “So Essi are you a sports medicine major too?” I asked. “My name is Essence not Essi Ki-Ki is the only person who calls me that, because she couldn't say my name when we were young. But I am majoring in Business focusing on PR and Marketing.” She replied. “Oh ok, that's what's up, Essence.” I said making sure I put emphasis on her name.
“See I know already I can't deal with you and yall haven't told us your names either.” Essence said with a giggle. Her and Kimani seem to be really cool and down to earth type of chicks, unlike the majority of the girls around campus, who only care about clothes, shopping, gossiping, hair and makeup. Although Essence and Kimani were dressed nice they were comfortable, it was different then the usual females. “My name is Syncere but people call me Syn.” I answered. “And my name is Shawn.” Shawn answered.
Chapter 3 Syncere's POV: continued “Well since we're introducing ourselves, I'm Jasmine, but everyone calls me Jazz and Syn's girlfriend.” My girl Jasmine said Sarcastically, as her and her friends Leah walked to our table like they owned the place. I know how my baby attitude is, she can go from zero to a hundred real quick. I didn't want her and her dumb ass friend Leah attacking these girls for no reason. So I needed to put an end to this real quick. Getting up, my lunch forgotten at this point. “Hey bae, we had to share this table to eat, because this place is crowded as hell. Essence and Kimani were nice enough to share their table with us.” I said, quickly to defuse the situation. Jazz looked around, and sucked her teeth. “Seriously? I see three open booths, that they could have sat at.” Jazz said with an attitude, pointing at three empty booths, and damn if the crowd hadn't thinned out and they were tables available too. Here comes the bullshit, now Essence and
Chapter 4SYNCERE'S POV: "Yo! What the hell was that about? You had no reason to act the way you just did." I said sitting down in my chair to finish my lunch. "Because you never gave me a reason to." Jazz answered back. "Please tell me what I did? Because we were eating and laughing that's it." I said shaking my head. "Those chicks were clearly flirting and that's the problem; yall can't see when chicks be flirting with yall." Jazz's friend Leah chimed in. "You sound dumb, how the hell you know they were flirting? When you couldn't even hear what we were talking about." Shawn cut in. "Shut up Shawn you ain't nothing but a man whore, so you don't care that those girls were flirting. Knowing you're nasty ass I'm sure you got their number and will be hooking up with one of them before the week is out. You don't care if they're ugly, fat, and nasty looking, as long as they're easy. Which I'm sure they are, you could care less about looks or size." Jazz sai
Chapter 5Syncere's POV: Continued She gave me the kind of kiss that makes my dick jump every time and she knows it. "The movie starts at eight so come to my spot like six." She said with a devilish smile, getting into her car. "Alright bet.” I replied closing the door once she was in. "Come on let's go, before we’re late." Shawn said already crossing the street. I had to jog to catch up with him. "Damn, wait up." I said. "Shit you over there wasting time sucking up to your girl, trying not to get your ass beat for talking to those girls earlier. I'm not trying to run drills after practice." Shawn said, laughing. "Fuck you, nobody getting their ass whipped, but I will be tapping that ass later tonight, while you're lonely ass, is at home watching TV by yourself." I shot back. "Shit if I am it's by choice I don't have the money or the patience to deal with these girls. You see that shit you have to go through with your girl, we were supposed to BnD Jazz
Chapter 6 Essence POV: August 4th My alarm clock blared angrily, groaning I rolled over and peaked at the clock to see if I can get a few more minutes of sleep, but it was six forty-five a.m. which means my clock said, “if you don't get your ass up you're going to be late for class, so it's above me now I have done my job.” Then my second alarm goes off and says, “get the hell up before you're late for the very first day of college.” Whining as I got up, looked for my robe, finding it on my love seat. I went into the kitchen, turned my oven on three hundred degrees, grabbed some biscuits out of the fridge, then grabbed a cookie sheet. I place a biscuit on the sheet and put it in the oven before walking out of the kitchen. Then I headed to the shower while my biscuits baked. My cell started to ring with the sound of DMX you're gonna make me lose my mind. I answered without looking because I already know who it was. "What the hell do you want Kiki?" I asked? "Rise and shine
Chapter 7 Three weeks later: “Where the hell is this dude?” I said to myself. This tutoring session was supposed to start at six thirty and it’s nine forty-five. I still had an assignment I needed to complete for my marketing class, that was due tomorrow at eight a.m. So I already know, I'm going to be up late to finish my own assignment. Last week the dean’s secretary text me with, the dates and times of my first tutoring session. “Hey, are you Essence Nelson?" A tall, sexy, light skin guy with curly hair asked me, as he walked up to my table. Lord let me tell you, this man is fine, fine. Realizing I was still sitting with my mouth gapped open and staring, I snapped out of the lust fog I was in. "Yeah that's me.” I said in response. "I'm Trenton, but most people call me Trent. Sorry I'm late, practice went over the usual time." He said putting his books on the table with a thud. I was trying to be understanding, but he still smelled like outside, because of practice, and
Chapter 8 The Kickback at Syncere and Shawn's house:Syncere's POV: 9pm "Baby can we please hear anything other than rap. I mean damn females are in here too." Jazz said with a whine as she handed me my Henny and Coke. Me and Shawn were having a kickback at our spot for our teammates and a few friends. It was nothing major just some snacks, drinks, with the music playing, while we hung out, played spade, and Pity Pat for money of course. Right now I was kicking everybody's ass in Pity Pat at five bucks a game, my pockets will be looking right this weekend. "Damn nobody wants to listen to that soft shit, Jazz." Shawn said before I could answer. "Shut up Shawn, I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Syncere. This is not just your spot, it's his spot too, so shut the fuck up with your nasty ass." Jazz clapped back with her nose turn up in disgust. I Interrupted them before things got out of hand. "Will yall just chill out damn. Jazz, you can change the
Chapter 9The Kickback at Syncere and Shawn's house:Syncere's POV: continued After the miscarriage Jazz was an emotional wreck, so I made sure I was there for her. I didn't want to abandon her when she needed me most. I stayed around to make sure she was good and before I knew it a couple of months, turned into three years had passed by, and we were still together. Shawn had his doubts about the whole baby thing. He thinks she fake the pregnancy and miscarriage to keep me around. But I nipped that in the bud, when I told him I had seen the test myself. But he wouldn't let it go, we actually got into a heated argument about it and didn't speak for a while. A few weeks later, we squashed it because we were teammates with the same dreams of being drafted to the NBA. Shawn apologized and agreed to never bring up the pregnancy situation again. I told him that I knew he was just trying to look out for me because being on the same team makes us brothers and that was t
Chapter 10 Essence's house:POV: Sunday Afternoon "I know you fucking lying?" Kiki yelled after I told her what happened last Thursday. "The fuck if I'm lying. If I'm lying I'm flying and my ass ain't grown wings yet." I replied. "That mother fucka thought I was some flunky that lose their mind when they see him and he show them some attention." I bust that fucking bubble real fast. He was fine but NOT the I'm going to do your homework fine." I said laughing. "Why do everybody think we have low self-esteem I mean we sure don't act like we do. Hell we have been called high maintenance a time or two, Although I don't agree, but I definitely can't claim that low self-esteem bullshit. Because I'm something kinda sexy." Kiki said doing a model walk then bust out with a twerk at the end. laughing out loud I said. "You ratchet as hell boe." "I know you ain't talking with how you be rolling your hips and doing splits and all. So I'm not the only one who's ratchet. B
Chapter 226VIP waiting room: “We are going to take momma in first and give her some alone time with Essence. Next, we will come back and get the sisters, after that, the rest of you can come in.” Big C said once everyone was settled in the waiting room. Everybody noticed his voice trembled a little bit, because he didn't know what they were going to walk into. He didn't know if he was ready for it, but he knew he had to keep it together for his momma and little brothers. The family all nodded their heads a bit nervous seeing Essence themselves. “Hello everyone, I am lead nurse Nancy, before we go in I would like to go over what you will be seeing. It is better that you know what to expect, it will take the shock away when you actually go in. “So as you know there was a small piece of bone lodged in her heart, that when moved causes cardiac arrest. So in order to prevent that from happening we have strapped her down so she won't be able to move and no one
Chapter 225Parking Lot blocks away: “Debra just sent us an email, she said Essence is out of surgery and is on the VIP floor which will give us access to see her without worrying about cameras. Apparently, the cameras are no longer active because of an incident involving a celebrity getting exposed because someone sold footage of him cheating on his wife will she was giving birth in the room next to her. So the hospital makes the patients and employees sign NDA’s and the cameras were disable. She said you will have to use the secret entrance that their clients use to get into the hospital undetected. She is going to meet us at the back entrance.” Unique's tech guy said as he pulled up the plan for the hospital. “Their tech guy is far more advance than I am, so the only way I will be able to get you in undetected, is if we do it in a less than thirty second intervals for the parking lot and getting to the elevator. Anything beyond that, their tech guy will be
Chapter 224Still at the hospital: Briana was shocked that she didn't notice that she was being followed. Briana doubted that Kymoni was confronting her because of her friend. She knew that this was all about Shawn and her being insecure, knowing that Shawn was in love with her. She can tell a jealous female a mile away, and Briana can understand why Kymoni thought she was a threat to her relationship to Shawn. I mean the ex he was in love with and had plans to marry was now back into the picture. “I didn't know I had to report to you about my whereabouts, but this isn't about where I was going or what I was doing is it? I guess I should have known that we would have to talk eventually.” Briana said smiling shaking her head because she knew she was about to get the same talks that Shawn's ex-girlfriends use to give her. They would pull her aside and tell her she needs to back off. All this happened before they started dating, she was shock to see that same thing still
Chapter 223 “There better be a good damn reason that you are pulling me away from my seminar and into the stairwell Lauren.” Doctor Taylor said when he entered the stairwell. “I’m sorry to pull you out of that seminar, but we have a big problem with Jazz.” “What about my daughter is she ok?” “Yes, she is ok physically, she was brought in by Syncere's mother because she passed out. She found out she was pregnant, that isn't the worst part. Apparently Syncere's new girlfriend was kidnapped, beaten, and shot. Before her family was able to rescue her, and brought her back here.” “Ok I don't understand what that has to do with our daughter.” Doctor Taylor said getting impatient. “Well the person who kidnapped the girl was Santiago.” Judge Taylor said looking at her husband, his eyes grew wide at hearing the name of the man who had terrorized his daughter. Doctor Taylor frowned and then asked. “What does that how to do with Jazz?” “Well apparently she got rope
Chapter 222The ICU Floor: “Where the hell have you been? I’ve been looking all over this hospital for you. We need to get the hell out of here. Once everything has calm down you can talk to Syncere then.” Judge Taylor said when she found her daughter on the ICU floor in the hospital. She grabbed her daughter and pulled her towards the exit. “Mom please I can't go, if I don't do what he says he will ruin me, he will ruin all of us.” Jazz said as she tried to pull away from her mother. Judge Taylor stopped dead in her tracks hearing her words. Judge Taylor knew who she was talking about. Turning towards her daughter wide eyed, “Oh my God Jazz what have you done? I told you how dangerous that boy was. I told you to leave him alone, why don't you ever listen to me damnit.” Judge Taylor said angrily “Momma please it's too late for that, I just need to do this one last thing and then we can leave. I know you told me to stay away from him, but Syn was neglectin
Chapter 221 “Who are you talking to?” Syncere asked as he walked out of the hospital searching for jazz. He heard her calling someone a monster, he wondered who she was talking about. He remembered what Martrice told him in the conference room, that's why he questioned if he was the father. He didn't know what was true and what wasn't, but if he could find out anything that could help Essence's brother catch that bastard Unique. Jazz panicked when she heard Syncere ask her who she was talking to, she wished she would have never answered her phone. She didn't know how she was going to pull off what Unique wanted her to do. “I was actually thinking and talking to myself about how much of a monster you have become. It's like I don't even know who you are. You cheated on me, lied to my face, humiliated me in front of the entire school, and then broke up with me like I was the one who did all those things. I swear ever since those girls came to our school, it's like
Chapter 220Sharon’s Hospital Room: “How dare you say that to the mother of your child, what has gotten into you. You know we don’t go around creating broken families” Sharon said and regretted her words as she looked over at her husband who was looking at her. “Mom I'm not creating anything, Once we do a paternity test and get the results then I will handle whatever comes after that. Until then I want to focus on making sure Essence gets better and heals completely. Now I came here to check on you not talk about this again.” Syncere said, angrily. “Well you have no choice but to deal with this, even if you question if you're the father. That should be good enough for you to treat my daughter with some compassion, empathy, and care.” Judge Taylor said, scolding Syncere for his rudeness. “Syn why should I take a paternity test, you know you're the only one I have been with since the first night we met. Why are you treating me like some whore off the streets. Y
Chapter 219 Conference room in the hospital: “According to the list of names, there’s only one doctor that is apart of the team that is under that bastards thump. We can't just pull him without knowing if doing so will tip Unique off, that we are on to him. I say we call in our own someone we can trust to be a part of the team and keep an eye on the guy. Lucky for us he is in the same field so it won't look suspicious, families who have connections always call in their best people.” Martrice said as they mapped out a plan. They had been in the conference room for at least three hours, Eula's brothers were in charge of keeping their sisters safe and out of trouble. They would come and give any updates on Essence. So far there was only news that made them nervous, she had flat lined twice. They manage to get her heart started again, but if she flat lined again, they would stitch her up and go back in once her body had a chance to rest. The brothers, made sur
Chapter 218 “What the hell is going on with you Sharon!? Are you trying to ruin your campaign, you know that more than eighty percent of your voters are lower income families. If it gets out about how you have been treating the Nelson's you will lose this race.” Thomas said angrily, as they waited for a doctor to come and repair her teeth, luckily one of their friends knew a dentist that could come in and fix her teeth. “What's wrong with me? Ever since we have met those people you and our son have been drooling over them. You are allowing our son to throw away his entire life and career over some fetish. He is about to be become a father and is planning on denying his own baby. I have been the only one trying to make sure our son doesn't ruin his life. He is still young and you know very well that at his age he can make decisions that could ruin his life.” “Our son isn't me, and we raised him to be a strong, respectful, kind man. He has told you that