Chapter 12Essence pov: 6:25pm “You sure you don’t want me to stick around just in case it’s another asshole that you have to deal with?” Kiki asks. “Absolutely not you have work you need to do and I can handle myself, you already know.” I answered. “Okay, but you better call me as soon as you get home.” Kiki said, getting up from our table at the pit. After the gym we decided to head over here for a smoothie, and chill until my session started. “You already know I’m going to call your ass.” I said rolling my eyes at her. “Yeah I know, alright I’ll talk to you later.” Kiki said walking to the exit. It's now six thirty p.m. glancing at my cell, it was starting to look like I had another Trent who will show up late and think I’m supposed to be doing his work while he does nothing. I was getting mad all over again. “What are you doing here?" Syncere asked from behind me. Smiling, I turned to face him, damn if he ain’t fine. Did I tell yall he had dreads, sm
Chapter 13 Syncere POV: Monday 10pm “Damn I still can’t believe Essence is tutoring you. You’re lucky because it could have been somebody that you couldn’t get along with.” Shawn said as he passed me a beer. We were watching a game on TV, when I told him about Essence being my tutor this semester. “She was skeptical at first, she didn’t want to have any run-ins with jazz and Leah, because of how they acted when they met them. Which didn’t end well, but I told her Jazz was cool and she didn’t have to worry about her because she knows my situation. Jazz knows what I need to do to keep my full ride and get drafted, so she won't fuck it up for me.” I said, taking a swag of my beer. “Ha, do you really believe that about jazz? You know damn well Jazz is going to flip the fuck out, when she finds out. Like you said they already had a run-in with them, so she is going to make you find another tutor.” Shawn says seriously. “I’m not doing that, Essie knows what she’s do
Chapter 14Essence POV: 6:20 p.m. Looking at the time I still had ten to fifteen minutes before Syncere got here, he may be late just like he was yesterday. I thought to myself smiling at the memory on us debating, on whether he was late or not. Luckily I found a parking spot that was close to the entrance, “it must be my lucky day, boom!” I said to myself. Now if I can order me a quick bite without having to stand in line than that would be awesome. Walking into the Pit looking around there were only like three people waiting so that wasn’t so bad I would just get a cold cut hoagie and a drink. Placing my order I turn around trying to see if the table in the back was empty, because it was less noisy in the back. “Damnit,” I whispered, rolling my eyes. Well, so much for my lucky day, that shit didn't even last twenty minutes. I swear lady luck, be iffy as hell. She gives you luck, then crushes your dreams, all in less than fifteen minutes . I said to myself, beca
Chapter 15Syncere POV: 6:58pm Damn I know Essence is Big mad, but I couldn’t help it, my car wouldn’t start. I must have left my lights on last night, and me neither Shawn had booster cables. Shawn couldn’t drop me off because he had a date. So, I finally get my neighbor to give me a boost and now I’m twenty-five minutes late. Opening the door to The Pit, I looked at the table we were at yesterday to see if she was still at the same table, but she wasn't. I frowned, looking around, and realized that she wasn’t there. Still looking around thinking I must have just looked over her because she was super short, but she wasn’t at any of the tables. Why would she leave? I know I was late, but I think she would have at least waited, maybe something similar had happened to her. Pulling out my cell, I scroll until I find her number, but before I could hit the dial button. Jazz came over to me and jumped in my arms wrapping herself around me. I looked at her wondering why she was ev
Chapter 16Syncere's POV: Continued “Jazz, I told you how important this was to me. But all you can think about is yourself, not to mention not liking a girl that has done nothing to you. I have to go and fix this shit, before it gets back to the coach that I dropped a tutor that he helped me get. You better hope I can fix this Jazz, you were out of line. Look I’ll hit you up later.” I said, getting up to leave. Jazz grabbed me by the arm. “I’m sorry I just don’t trust that girl, I didn’t think it would matter who tutored you as long as you had one. As for the money, I would have helped you cover it. Why don’t you just call your coach and tell him you got somebody who is better and smarter than that girl, Tracy has a three point five gpa.” Jazz said, trying to get me to see things her way. “Jazz I’m not going to do that. I will not be paying somebody one hundred seventy-five a week when I have a tutor that I pay zero dollars to. You have no excuse, Jazz;
Chapter 17Essence POV: “What the hell is going on? Why is Syncere in my apartment.” I said to myself. I will be calling Kiki as soon as Syncere leaves. I had some fresh cuss words just for her ass. She called me right before Syncere knocked on my door, so I didn't have time to cuss her ass out, but I will make sure I call her ass when Syncere leaves. But somehow, he talked his way into my apartment, wanting to talk so here we are. "So, what's up? Like I said you got five minutes and it started when you walked in. I'm still not understanding the pop-up. I already said I wasn't mad, we’re cool. So, I'm not sure what else we need to talk about. I hope like hell your crazy girlfriend and her sidekick didn't follow you, because I promise it will not end well if they came to my door." I said, shaking my head, because I didn't feel like going to the Florida jail house tonight. Hell, I didn’t want to go to no jail house for that matter. But that's where I would end up
Chapter 18Essence's POV: Continued "Well, I will let you get back to whatever you were doing when I came. Again, I'm sorry about earlier and I will see you tomorrow at the pit at six thirty sharp." He said finishing the rest of his water. "I told you we're cool I wasn't upset, I felt like you didn't take me seriously about that no drama, but we will see how this plays out." "Okay so I'll see you tomorrow. He said opening the door, he turned around and smile. "Can I get a hug I want to make sure you're not mad and I promise I will make sure we can work in peace." "Seriously, you’re gonna need more than a hug to perform that miracle." I said with a laugh. "Whatever, come here and hug me girl." Syncere said pulling me into a bear hug that lasted longer than the average. "You can let me go anytime now" I said getting a little light-headed because his smell was hypnotic and enticing. He had his head buried in my neck; he waited another few long ass seconds bef
Chapter 19 Syncere’s POV: continued. After my shower I was still in deep thought about everything Shawn said. He headed to the kitchen to get a bottle of water. I didn’t even notice Shawn was sitting at the table eating a bowl of cereal. “I see you’re still thinking about what I said, about your girl’s future plans after graduation? Don’t even hurt yourself. How about the next time yall talk just bring it up. When we first met them they wanted to be paralegals at a law firm in New York. So just find out if she has been trying to at least start interning or anything. We already know she didn't intern this summer because she wanted to be with you.” Shawn said as matter of fact. I have been so focus on getting better stats this season, that I didn’t think anything of the fact that Jazz only went home for a week this summer. I pop the cap of my water and down it quickly before grabbing another one. I walked to my room not even responding to what Shawn was saying. I will
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
Chapter 217 A farm on the outskirts of town: “So what did the doc say about Essence?” Unique asked derrick who walked into the room he was resting in, his shoulder was killing him, but his nerves were shot wondering if he had killed Essence. He wanted to go himself, but the vet told him he needed to rest. He knew it as well, he knew he couldn't do anything until his shoulder is slightly healed. But he refuse to leave the state and be that far away from Essence. If she is alive, she will need to heal just like him, but he decided that he will be the one to nurse her back to health. It was his fault she was fighting for her life, so it was his job to heal what he broke. He will deal with the pain in his shoulder as punishment for what he did. Looking at Derrick not knowing that once he has Essence back and he found new people, he was going to die. Derrick had proven that he poses a threat to Essence, and Unique couldn't afford to keep him alive. “The Doc said it was
Chapter 216The conference Room: Continued “Did this heifer just low-key call us poor broke ass hoes?” Shanda whispered to her sisters. “That's what the fuck I just heard too. Do we look like broke ass bitches and don't even know it? What about us is giving broke bitch vibes?” Panky said, looking at her sisters checking to see what they had on. “Ma’am please just tell us the cost, you don't have to list all the things that we have already been told. Tell us what isn't covered and the total cost.” Big C said, crossing his arms over his chest. He didn't like the way she was speaking as if she already knew that we couldn't afford the cost of Essence's medical bill. The woman glared at Big C and opened her folder to view the cost and smirked. “Well after your insurance is filed you will be responsible for the remaining balance of four hundred thousand dollars. But understand that balance can change at any time during her treatment.” Mrs. Hart said smugly. “Just how are y
Chapter 215 The Emergency room: “I’m not talking about the baby you lost, I'm talking about the baby she’s carrying now. She just found out she was pregnant with your child again. You have been giving a second chance to do right that that young lady and that's what you will do, we will not be a family of broken homes.” Sharon said looking her son in the eyes. Syncere took a step back like he had been physically hit in the gut, his chest burned and ached his breathing became harder to do as he tried to process what his mother just told him. “I can't be, how is that even possible.” Syncere was saying to himself. “THE FAMILY OF ESSENCE NELSON!” A man came out of the double doors where they had taken Essence. Syncere completely forgot about Jazz being pregnant when he heard Essence's name. “Syn where are you going? Didn't you just hear what I said, Jazz is pregnant, you’re going to be a dad. There is so much we need to talk about, especially about how we're go
Chapter 214 The Emergency Room: Thomas on the other hand wasn't too excited, but before he could respond their conversation was interrupted by loud noises and shouting. “What the hell is happening now.” Thomas said as he raced towards the waiting area. He stopped in his tracks when he saw an angry Kymoni trying her best to get to Jasmine, who was shielding herself behind her parents who looked equally pissed. “SAY IT AGAIN BITCH! SAY THAT SHIT AGAIN! I PROMISE I WILL GO TO JAIL TONIGHT AND SLEEP PEACEFULLY AFTER PLAYING DOMINO’S WITH YOUR FUCKING TEETH BITCH!” Kymoni yelled as she squirmed and wiggled trying to get by Shawn. “Baby please just calm down, you can't go to jail right now. Essence is going to want to see you once she wakes up.” Shawn said hugging a crying Kymoni who was struggling to break free so she could beat the bricks off Jazz. Syncere had just rounded the corner so he didn't hear Jazz’s comment. So he was wondering why she was there in the first
IChapter 213 The Emergency Room: “You care to tell me what the hell is going on here, Thomas? Why are you all cuddled up with that woman, her and her sisters have physically assaulted your wife more then one time. The same woman who has been throwing herself at you since you met her? And where is our son?” Sharon asked as she charged towards her husband. Thomas looked up in shock seeing his wife in the hospital, he could see she was angry and wanted to stop her before she crossed the line. So he let go of Eula and went to block his wife, before she could reach the group. “Calm down Sharon, please you have to calm down and let me tell you what's going on.” Thomas said as he approached his wife. Sharon stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the blood on his shirt. She began to hyperventilate not knowing what her husband was about to say. “Thomas what happened who's blood is that, and where’s our son?” Sharon said barely able to get the question out, beca
Chapter 212On a farm in the outskirts of the city: Unique and Derrick: We need to leave town until things calm down, we can use the tickets you brought to Bora Bora. We can stay there for a while so we can heal and regroup. We need to figure out how we are going to recover from this.” Derrick said between groans of pain as the vet they had on their pay roll check his work. When they got there the doctor immediately took Derrick to reattach his arm, now he was working on removing the bullet from Unique's shoulder. Unique didn't want any pain pills the vet offered, wanting to feel everything. He was still in shock and replying the moment Essence looked him in the eyes right before she jumped in front of Kymoni. “Give Sam the ticket information so he can change the date and time.” Derrick said to Unique. Unique looked at Derrick just now noticing that he was saying something about Bora Bora. “What did you say?” Unique asked Derrick. “I said give Sam the ticket
Chapter 211Emergency room: Jasmine and Sharon: “Your mother and father will be here shortly, just lay back and try to rest.” Sharon said as she sat down next to Jazz. Jazz didn't want to be at the hospital, because she didn't want to have to answer any of their questions about Leah and how she ended up in a coma. She knew she couldn't say anything until she knew for sure that she couldn't be linked to any of Unique’s plans. The doctor walked in, with his head in Jazz's file. “Hello my name is Dr. Brown, my nurses told me about why you're here tonight. Before I came here I had them run some routine test to make sure everything is normal, sometimes we get those symptoms you had today from normal things that don't require anything invasive. So with that said all your test came back pretty normal for someone like you.” “What do you mean pretty normal for someone like me" Jazz asked narrowing her eyes. “Oh, you're about two weeks pregnant so congratulations.” T
Chapter 210Mission get to Essence: When they saw their sister jump in front of Kymoni as Unique pulled the trigger all thoughts of taken cover was forgotten. They needed to get to their sister, they put their backs together in order to make sure no one could sneak up on them. They were killing everything, as they made their way to their sister. The brothers were stuck between pain and anger. They looked over at their sister’s pale face and saw her friends surrounding her, protecting her from any more harm. “That motha fucka shot her Kain, he shot our baby sister in the fucking back. I am going to kill him slow I promise, he is going to wish for death.” Kristian yelled as he aimed and shot at the men still trying to get to Essence, following Unique's command. “Martrice, I need you to alert the hospital that we are in bound with a woman with a…. With a gunshot wound to the back, we don't know if she's breathing or not.” Big C struggled to say into his ear piec