Chapter 11Syncere POV: “Yooo! This shit is for the birds. The coach was going hard today he had us doing every play he has ever done in his entire life. Now we got to do weight training.” I said wiping the sweat off my face. “I legit thought I wasn’t going to make that last drill I feel like we did it no less than thirty times. I’m going to be doing that play in my sleep.” Shawn said shaking his head walking towards the gym. “It’s going to be an early night for me. I was going to ask Jazz to come through, but hell no I’m going to take a shower then hit the sheets.” I said opening the doors to the gym letting my teammates in first. “Oh shit that’s old girl that was supposed to be my tutor. Yall remember the girl I told you about the other night. I hope she doesn’t see my ass in here.” Trent said with a whisper. We already know who he was talking about, because we had already met the duo before he did.“ Shawn had already made a bee line heading towards the girls.
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 102The not so unknown place: “Where the hell you been, we didn't sign up to baby sit your pets. Especially when your refuse to tell us what the hell your planning, and is someone going to be looking for a missing girl from a popular college. This could expose us if her family starts searching for her. If they get on any new station making it public, we could lose everything.” Unique's second Derrick said. “Don't worry about it, I handled her family. They think she was so humiliated being accused of drugging their star player that she probably ran away. In the next hour, someone will text Kymoni saying that she needed time to deal with everything and that she was ok.” Unique said, smiling at the thought of what he did while he was at the mall. After buying Essence a ring, clothes, and sexy lingerie, he went and brought a burner phone. He got some random kid and gave him instruction on what to text Kymoni. He paid a kid a hundred dollars, the kid eagerly took the
Chapter 201Essence's apartment: “HEY! UNIQUE’S SIGNAL JUST DROPPED THAT MEANS HE HAS ENTERED HIS TERRITORY!” Martrice, yelled as soon as his alerts went off. “Alright everybody, it's show time, call in the rest of the cousins.” Big C said to Reece. “So it's more people than this?” Syncere asked looking at all the people crowding in the apartment. Big C smiled nodding his head. “Yea a lot more, my granny had ten children and that's our momma's mom. Our daddy's dad had sixteen children, and they all had children. So yea there is a lot more, it only takes one call, this dude will realize he picked the wrong girl to fuck with.” Big C said as his smile turned into something that gave Syncere goosebumps. “So how far are we away from them? Do you have a satellite visual of the neighborhood, what about civilians? Do we need to send a team to clear the area out?” Kain asked as Martrice walked to the Kitchen to lay out the map of the city. “Hey, stop acting like
Chapter 200Essence's apartment: “Oh you just making all kinds of mistakes today, I am not my sister she is entirely too nice.” Shanda said removing her earrings. Panky was being booster cables, by holding her earrings excitedly, wanting Shanda to put that bitch on the floor. Perlina grabbed Shanda snatching her back, and pushing her into the kitchen. “I will advise you to leave this house, because you can't seem to stop writing checks your behind can't cash.” Perlina said, holding Shanda in a bear hug as she cursed like a sailor. “Fine we'll leave, and since I can't get my husband and son to come willingly, I will go directly to the police to press charges on you for attacking me at the luncheon earlier. Plus I will tell them what is going on here, if my husband doesn't want to protect his wife and her career then I will have to do it for the both of us. Syncere, I know you're angry, but what I am doing is not just protecting me and my career and yours. Pl
Chapter 199Essence's Apartment: He didn't have the patience to deal with his mother right now. “Me wanting you out of here is also because I don't want anything to happen to you. Why are you doing all this, you’re putting career and your life on the line for what Syncere? Why are you doing all this, none of this is your fault, you don't have to do this.” “Mom, please just stop! I’m doing this because….I'm doing this because I love her. I love her with everything in me, and I can't lose her.” Syncere said admitting it out loud for the very first time, and it felt good to finally admit it to everyone that mattered. “So you lied to me, I asked you if you were breaking up with me because of her and you said no. Why would you lie to me? You threw everything we had away for her.” Jazz said crying from the doorway. “Jazz it wasn't like that, we had decided to take it slow, so we could make sure of what we really wanted. I never wanted to hurt you in anyw
Chapter 198Essence's Apartment: He didn't want to cause her anymore stress the audio he heard had him wanting to kill the guy. So he knew how her brothers and momma were going to react. “Auntie I don't think it's a good idea to listen, just know she’s alive.” J. R. said hoping that him telling them that much would be enough. “Nephew, please don't make me go in my pocketbook. Now I want to hear my baby's voice to hear for myself that she is still…. just play the audio.” Eula said, sitting down next to him, her sons surrounding her eager to hear their sister’s voice. Syncere went to stand on the other side of J. R. wanting to hear Essence's voice just a bad as her brothers. Thomas stood behind his son and Shawn stood beside him with Kymoni standing in front of him, he had his arms wrapped around her tightly for support. Sighing, J. R. played the audio with Essence in it. The audio was from when she was confronted by Unique's second in command. They heard when
Chapter 197 Essence's Apartment: “Lala, you didn't tell us how fine that man is, and he appreciates good cooking too.” Eula's sister said from in the kitchen as they watched Thomas eating his second plate of food. As soon as they got back her sisters had plates ready for all the boys, they wanted to make sure they were fed and rested so when they find out where Essence was, they would be ready to do what they need to do. “Why should I have told you, about how fine that married man is.” Eula said shaking her head. They all looked at her telling her, that him being married don't change the fact that that man was fine. “So how are you holding up?” her older sister Perlina asked sitting next to Eula at the table. Perlina was the oldest of the sisters, essentially like a mother to them all. “I don't know my mind and my heart are racing, she's my baby girl and she is out there all alone without any of us.” Eula said as she let her tears fall. “I know, but you have t
Chapter 196Outside the Pitt: “Why did you let him just leave like that? He was obviously taunting us. He took her I have no doubt about that now. I should have known it from the start, he was always trying to provoke me when it came to Essence. I should have been with her instead of listening to her about keeping us a secret. I should have gone to her and talked to her about those test, when the results said she had drugs in her system and cup. I should have trusted that she would never do anything to hurt me.” Syncere said as the weight of the situation crushed him. “Oh, wait we had essence tested after the meeting that same night, we got the results this morning there was no drugs in her system last night. Whoever took that swab some how tampered with the result. If you were tested by the same person, you probably never had drugs in your system either. It seems like this goes way deeper than we thought.” Kain said as he pulled out his phone and showed Syncere Essence's t
Chapter 195 “WHAT THE HELL UNIQUE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY FRIEND? OH GOD, OH GOD, OH GOD!” “Would you shut the fuck up before I do the same to you. If I were you, I would wipe my fingerprints from inside that car and get the hell out of there. I have someone coming to clean up its best you don't be there. If you’re still there you will become a part of the shit that has to be cleaned.” Unique said hanging up, turning up his music smiling. He would go to the mall and pick of some gifts and food for Essence. He knew she would be happy when she sees the gifts and food he will bring to her. His first stop was to a jeweler, he wanted to make sure he get the best engagement ring out, it had to be one of a kind. He thought as he put his car in gear and headed to his jeweler.Unknown location: Essence and the unknown man “When the hell did, I fall asleep, she knew she would never go to sleep in this place, so Unique had to have drugged her. How many times had he
Chapter 194Still out side The Pitt: “Maybe she is under some other dude now that she has lost Syn to Jazz and Unique who she dumped for a man who falls back in bed with his ex as soon as he gets mad. But it seems like everyone knew he would come crawling back to Jazz once Essence showed her true colors.” Leah said and quickly fell backwards when Kymoni punched her in the face. She spit out blood and a tooth, and began to scream. “Bitch I told you a long time ago to watch how you speak on my friend, now that empty spot in your mouth will remind you to watch what the fuck you say about my fucking friend.” Kymoni said as she tried to get her anger under control, her emotions were running high. Leah saying those things just had her cup Runneth over and what happened after that was above her at that point Unique was pissed at what Leah said about Essence. Even though she was doing a good job, he still didn't like what she said. He respected Kymoni for taking up f