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 162Homecoming WeekThursday: 1pmBriana and Shawn: “I swear this place is so amazing and lively. It’s way more exciting being here then looking a pictures and the videos online.” Briana said as they made their way back to the Pitt for lunch. Shawn was grateful that Syn was with him because he knew that if they were alone, Briana would want to talk about them and their future, and he really didn't want to get into that right now. He frown at her mention of looking online at the school. “What made you look up the school?” Shawn asked curiously. “Oh, I am planning on going to college since the military will be paying for it, and when your mother told me where you were going to school, I decided I would look into it. While I was stranded and then held hostage, I had a lot of time to reflect on my decision, and I regretted leaving you like I did. We should have both picked a college together and started out lives. But I choose to follow in my mother’s footste
Chapter 161 The Pitt continued: Syncere and Shawn's table continued: Sharon's eyes widen at the idea, especially because she wasn't the one who came up with it. There is no way that Syncere could blame her for this. “That's sounds like fun, I have missed almost three years. It would be great to pick your brain on about who Shawn is now.” Briana said to Syncere “I don't think it's a good idea, I wouldn't want to intrude of your time with Shawn.” Syncere said, and Shawn's eyes widen at Syncere throwing him under the bus. It would be better for them to hang out as a group, so he wouldn't have to be alone with Briana. He had to admit that he was happy that she wasn't dead, he never wanted her to join the military, but she wanted to follow in her mother's footsteps. So she joined the marines and shortly after she was deployed overseas and then her plane was shot down. We were told there was no survivors, they even presented her parents with her dog tags wh
Chapter 160The Pitt: Syncere and Shawn's table:“Hey mother Jamison, I am so sorry I'm late my criminal justice class ran over today I hope you guys haven't ordered yet.” Jazz said smiling, not noticing the tension at the table. Syncere looked up at a smiling Jazz then turned to the left of him finally noticing the empty seat, then turned to his guilty looking mother. He glanced over at the table Essence and Kymoni was sitting hoping that they had left, but as soon as he looked over her way their eyes locked on each other. “Fuck!” he said to himself. “No sweetie we haven't ordered yet, you're just in time, there is an empty seat over there right next to Syncere.” Sharon said, with a smile. She had invited Jazz hoping that they would all be able to talk to find a way to fix this mess her son had made. She didn't know what Thomas's problem was, he had never talked to her in that way. He knew how important becoming Mayor was for her, she had put her career on hold at first
Chapter 159The Pitt: Continued: “Son, what are you doing, we found a table for all of us over there. Why are you disturbing these people’s breakfast, don't be rude.” Syncere's mother said shattering the moment. Syncere rolled his eyes, in anger. He already didn't want to do this breakfast and now his mom is making it worse. “I was speaking to my…my friends, yall can go ahead to the table and I will be over in a few.” Syncere said getting comfortable in the booth moving closer to Essence. “What's up Kymoni?” Shawn said, looking like he was sick, from wanting to be with Kymoni. Kymoni had her head down so low, Essence was sure she could count the grains in her grits. “I'm good, just trying to have breakfast and get to my next class.” Kymoni responded not even looking up. “Oh, I wanted to talk to you about something, after my eleven o’clock class.” “Shawn you can't meet anyone after class, you promised Briana that you would show her around campus. I'm sure that
Chapter 158Thursday Morning: 8 am Syncere and Shawn's apartment: “Mother why are you at my house so earlier, we just got back from our five-a.m. practice, we are just trying to get some sleep before our first class at eleven.” Syncere groaned answering the phone, to his mother telling him that everyone was at their apartment waiting for them to come down so they could all go to breakfast. “Oh please son when we were your age, we could work a full day party until dawn and take a two-hour nap and repeat it all again the next day. Now you and Shawn hurry so we can get the rest of our day started, we have a lot of things we have to get done for Sunday’s Luncheon for Briana and Shawn.” His mother said before hanging up. Syncere groaned and rolled his eyes, he looked at his phone to check the time and groan when he saw that it was eight o’clock. Shawn knocked on his door and stuck his head in. “I take it your mother called you to, I swear I am regretting even answeri
Chapter 157Essence's POV: Me and Kiki rode back to her dorm in silence, I know she needed the time to process her feelings. I wasn't worried, because I knew she would call me tomorrow and tell me everything that happened between her and Shawn. I was shocked myself, because I would have never thought that somebody would literally come back from the dead and be standing in Syncere and Shawn's door. That would have thrown my ass through a loop too, so I can get why Shawn was in a daze the whole time we were out there. From what I could gather was apparently Shawn and the dead girl grew up together and their parents thought they would be together and get married and start a family combining their families. I guess me being from the country I couldn't understand how all these mothers are in their kids’ lives to the point that they are literally controlling who their children is in a relationship with. I already know that Syncere's mother doesn't like me and she i
Chapter 156Shawn and Syncere's Living Room: Continued As soon as they entered the living room, everyone stopped talking to look at them. “Yea, our ride is a few minutes out, so we are just going to wait outside.” Essences said, making her way to the door, wanting to get out before Syncere's mom makes her cuss your out. Syncere hopped up blocking her way out. “What? No you’re not going to stand outside to wait for the car. You can wait in here until they get here, you have your notification on so you will get the alert when they are here.” Syncere said trying to guide her to a chair. "Syncere, son let them go if that's what they want to do. It's probably for the best, I'm sure they feel uncomfortable with Briana and Shawn's rekindling their relationship and talking about how you plan to get my future daughter-in-law back.” Syncere's mother said with a smirk. “See this is what we were trying to avoid, to say she's a politician she is way too invested in her
Chapter 155Syncere and Shawn's apartment:Syncere's Room: Syncere and Essence: “Hey, I'll book a pick up, when I get to Syncere's room.” Essence said as they walked back to the guys rooms. Essence could tell that her friend was hurting, and she didn't like it. She was tempted to go back and start checking them, but she held herself in check which took a lot of slow breathing. Essence sat down in Syncere's recliner tapping the screen of her phone so hard trying to schedule a car to pick them up, that Syncere thought it would crack. “What the hell are you doing, I am not letting you hop in a car with some stranger.” Syncere said as he took Essence's phone. “Syncere, you know we can't stay here, you already know your mom don’t like me and we can't let her know that we're together. You also know that I'm not letting Kymoni leave without me.” “Well I'll drop Kymoni off at her dorm room and we can go back to your place.” “Syncere, your parents are here as well as Shawn's paren
Chapter 155 Syncere and Shawn's apartment:A few minutes earlier:Essence and Kymoni: Syncere had gone to see who was at the door, he left Essence in his room promising that he would get rid of whoever it was and they were going to finish what he started. She thought to herself smiling at how mad he was when the door bell rung, but he has been gone for a hot minute. Essence wondered who could be out there. She went to the door and pressed her ear up to it to see if she could hear anything. She knew she was being nosey as hell, but oh well. A soft knock almost made Essence jump clean out of her skin, “Hey Essi are you in there alone?” Kymoni asked from the door. Snatching the door open, she pulled Kymoni into the room. “Bitch I damn near shitted myself, I was trying to be nosey, trying to hear what the hell is going on. Syncere said he was getting rid of whoever it was, but it's been a few minutes and he still isn't back yet.” “Shawn left too, I got tired