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 20 Essence’s POV:Wednesday 6:05pm “Kiki, I hate you so much right now . That last set of planks right after doing six inches damn near had my legs and stomach planning to kill me in my sleep. I’m going to be so stiff in the morning I’m so tired I want to go to sleep, but I have to tutor Syncere then afterwards I am going to hit that bed so hard it might be a crime.” I told Kymoni as we finished up changing out of our workout clothes. “Hey, you don’t think I’m hurting my damn self but we just got to keep doing it keep grinding.” Kiki said, as we both laughed. “Yea I know but I still hate your guts. I know I’m going to be walking like somebody grandma tomorrow.” I said, still laughing as we walked out of the changing room. I smiled because ever since he left my housed last night he has been texting me some random ass silly text that he thought was funny. I knew he was making sure I hadn’t changed my mind again about tutoring him. “What the hell are you
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
Chapter 209Syncere and Shawn's Apartment: Sharon, Susan, and Jasmine: “I can't believe them! I swear if I wasn't running for office, I would have showed them the old me. The entire family are nothing but a pack of wild animals, and Syncere confessing his love for that fat bitch. I can tell you right now that won't happen, I will not accept her. My husband has been acting strange since we met them. I know that thing’s mother is after him, but she doesn't know my husband like I do. He is only moved by her food and she thinks that she can feed him, then slip in and seduce my husband. Jasmine sweetie I am so sorry you had to hear that from my son, but I promise I will make sure that they don't happen. Syncere doesn't know what's good for him, he's thinking with his other head instead of the one on his shoulder. I had thought with you and him staying together last night, that it meant he came to his senses.” Sharon said as she paced the floor. “Sharon please just
Chapter 208 Kymoni did let out a sob that time and her tears fell. “It's ok, I don't think I’m getting out of this. Can you tell my momma and brother that I'm sorry I couldn't keep myself safe until they came and got me.” “Essi stop it, don't say no shit like that. You can't leave me here by myself with your brothers, you know what they will do to me. I don't want to grow my hair long just to escape the castle they will put me in.” Kymoni said jokingly. She held her sobs in when she saw Essence laugh at her joke but started coughing. “Yea, they are going to be so over protective, you won't be able to leave the house.” Essence said so weakly that they barely heard her. Shawn had to hold Kymoni up as they walked out into the hallway. “SHAWN!” Syncere yelled when he spotted Shawn coming from some hidden place in the hall. He had checked every room but there wasn't no sign of them, he was beginning to think that he was in the wrong house. Shawn looked his way with
Chapter 207 Shawn ran down the tunnel behind the wall and into an open space. He wondered just what kind of place this was Unique was running, there was three different hallways. He wondered which hall Kymoni went down. He knew he couldn't call for her because it may draw attention. Just as he decided he was just going to start with the first and keep moving, Kymoni came out of the hallways panting. She was shocked to see Shawn coming her way. She ran to Shawn and jumped into his arms. “How did you know where to find me?” Kymoni asked as Shawn hugged her tightly. “I followed you into this house, almost getting shot in the process. Remind me to spank your ass when this is over. Why did you run off like that, you could have been hurt or worse. I swear you're going to give me a heart attack in my twenties.” Shawn said as he kissed her lips. “I heard Martrice said that she was in here and wanted to find her. I couldn't just sit there and do nothing. She is
Chapter 206The battle for Essence: Continued The girls stared at the sisters in shock ,as their life left their body. “Bitch, I can't believe you thought we were going to fight yall. Shit your ass was on point when you say we were old, because I could throw my back out if I get up too fast. if I sneeze too hard, my neck cracks, hell my finger bone cracked just now when I put a bullet in your head.” Panky said laughing and her sisters joined in the laughter. “Yea, because who the fuck is fighting at our age, not fucking me.” Eula said, as her and her sisters took the dead women guns. They had to stay low so they got on their knees to search for guns and ammo. They were so focused on their task that they didn't see two men come up behind them raising their guns at the women. “EULA GET DOWN!” Thomas yelled in a panic, as he rolled like some damn action movie star, and put two bullets in the chest of the men who were about to kill the girls. “Are yall ari
Chapter 205The battle for Essence: “DAD, YOU HAVE TO LET ME GO HELP FIND ESSENCE! I DIDN'T COME HERE TO DO NOTHING WHILE EVERYONE IS FIGHTING TRYING TO GET ESSENCE BACK! I HAVE ON A VEST AND I WILL BE CAREFUL, JUST LET ME GO FIND SHAWN!” Syncere said trying to get pass his dad. When they heard Kymoni snuck off to go find Essence, in the house. He and Shawn got up immediately to go follow Kymoni, but his dad got up trying to stop them. He was able to stop Syncere, but not Shawn. Shawn did a basketball move and got pass my dad, when he tried to block the door to the van. “Son they are shooting out there, this isn't a game. You have to keep yourself safe, I can't go back to your mother and tell her something happened to you, she would never forgive me and I can't do that to her. I know you want to help Essence, but you can't do that if you're dead.” Thomas said as he held his son back behind the van. Syncere didn't say anything else because he knew, that no matter what he said,
Chapter 204 Give me my child: Continued “We need to send someone to get Essence out of the house.” Kain said as they heard bullets flying. “OH GOD! I think Kiki snuck away when she where they were taking Essence.” Perlina said, afraid for the little girl that they thought of as their gamily too. “WHAT! WHICH WAY DID SHE GO!?” Kain yelled angrily. Perlina pointed to the back of the house. “I AM GOING TO KILL HER MYSELF!” Shawn said angrily, as he jumped out of the van before Syncere's father could catch him to stop him. This isn't the first time he had seen gun fire in the street he was New Jersey and not the rich part either. “GOD DAMNIT SHAWN GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!” Thomas said as he fired his weapon at a man who up high tracking Shawn's movement. “Don't worry I got him.” Briana said, as she grabbed an AR-fifteen and ran behind Shawn. Big C was taking cover behind their SUV. “ALRIGHT ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT TAKEM OUT NOW!” Big C yelled into his ear piece, as s