Three Months later

Nahla Reese

"Hey Nana" I smiled hugging Mir's Grandma as she let me in

"Nahla what a surprise sweetie. I haven't seen you in forever. I missed you" She kissed the top of my head before closing the door

"I Missed you too"

"Now girl don't lie" She mugged me

"I'm not lying I swear" I put my right hand up in the air

"Better not be. But what you been up to? How's everything?"

"I promise Nana I'm not. I haven't really been up to nothing besides keeping my grades up. I'm signing up for a sport this this year so my grades have to be on point" I smiled at her taking a seat at the table

I'm here picking up Mir so I can take him to his surprise but I needed to catch up with Nana first and see how everything was going with her.

"What sport you thinking about joining?" She asked grabbing her cup of tea sitting across the table from me

"I was thinking about either Basketball,Track or soccer. Mir really wants me to join the basketball team though so we could both be basketball players"

"That little boy tryna be on some love and basketball" She said making me laugh

"Nana I can't take you serious" I laughed getting up walking out before she went any more into details about us dating.

His whole family wanted us to date. Telling us how we're the perfect couple but they don't seem to understand that we're nothing more than best friends

I walked into his room seeing his ass was knocked out when he was suppose to be up like two hours ago

"Wake up nigga" I yelled as I jumped on top of him causing him to groan

"Man Nahla" He pushed me off turning onto his stomach

"Mir you were suppose to be up an hour ago. I done took the train all the way over here and yo ass still not up"

"What time Is it?" He asked half a sleep

"It's going on 11"

"5 more minutes" He whined

"Jamir if you're up then I'm sorry for what comes next" I told him getting off the bed

I waited a few to see if he'll get up but he was still in bed falling back to sleep

"You made me do it" I shrugged walking out the room into the kitchen seeing if there was something I can fill up with water and ice

"It's in the closet and you better dry that damn bed up when you're done" His grandma told me smirking

She already knew her grandson was about to get drenched. I grabbed the bucket putting it on the counter as I grabbed the ice tray throwing all the ice cubes in the bucket before refilling them and putting them back in the freezer. I closed the door going over to the sink filling up the bucket. Seeing it was good I closed the faucet picking up the bucket walking back to the roon

"1,2,3" I counted before throwing the bucket of water on him watching him jump up

"What the fuck bro" He yelled getting out the bed shriving which only caused me to laugh harder than I already was "You play too fucking much" He mugged me

"If you would've been ready when you were suppose to this wouldn't have happened" I shrugged "Now hurry up and get ready while I throw the sheets in the dryer" I told him as I took off all the sheets off the bed opening the window so that the sun and cold air would dry up the mattress

I grabbed everything taking it to the laundry room. Knowing Mir he was going to take almost 2 hours to get ready so I decided to just throw everything in the washer washing it for him.

Making sure everything was good I made my way to living room taking a seat on the couch turning the tv on

"I'm going to the store so you two behave" Nana told me raising her eyebrow as she walked out

I laughed turning my attention back to the tv

Jamir Coleman(Polo G)

After my shower I walked back into the room seeing Nahla doing my bed

"You barely got done drying them?" I asked her as I slid on my Polo draws

"Nah I washed them too" She said finishing up

"Okay I see you best friend" I laughed

"Shut up and hurry up. We're late as shit" She said hopping on the bed getting on her phone

I hurried up and slid on a wife beater on then a simple white shirt with some grey Nike sweats.

"Where Nana at?" I asked her as I put my socks on

"At the store" She said smiling at her phone not even looking my way

"Who got yo ass smiling?" I raised my eyebrow tryna get a closer look

"Boy stop being nosy and hurry up" She pushed me locking her phone

"Wow ight bet" I told her sliding my slides on walking out the room towards the kitchen so I could get some to eat before we left

"Mir I'm leaving without you at this point" She said coming into the kitchen

"Man let's go cause I'm ready to knock yo complaining ass out at this point" I grabbed my shit walking out the crib with her right behind me

"About damn time" She yelled sarcastically making me push her "You mad bruh?" She laughed

"Hell yeah I'm mad. A nigga hungry"

"Here eat a snicker because you're not yourself when you're hungry"She laughed passing me a half eaten snicker bar

"You got jokes today huh?"

"I'm sorry" She pouted tryna hug me but I quickly pushed her away.

"Where we going anyways?" I asked her as we reached the train station

"You'll see" She went to buy the tickets

"You acting all secretive and shit I'm starting to believe you still mad a at nigga so you gonna kill me now"

"If I wanted to kill you Mir I would've killed you by now"She laughed rolling her eyes "Dramatic ass"

I smacked my lips walking away going to wait for the train

"Why you so sensitive? And don't say you ain't or that nothings bothering you because I know something is so wassup?" She asked me coming to stand by me

"Just everything with my OG. She's really mad at me and I don't know how to make it up to her. And I can't just tell her Ima hop out the streets cause that ain't happening so" I shrugged

My OG wasn't talking to me and it was taking a toll on me. I love that women so to know she ain't rocking with a nigga makes me feel some type of way.

"I mean can you blame her? She knows what the streets have to offer. Doing what you're doing is only going to get you either dead or in prison if you don't find an alternative. I don't even like it but I'm not about to tell you to quit because I know how that conversation is going to go. So I know that if I don't like it and my anxiety is bad when you're out there I can only imagine how she feels knowing that at anytime her phone can go off with someone telling her that her son died in the same streets she tried to protect him from" Nahla said as she got on the train heading to the back taking a seat

"I mean I understand her fear but she gotta understand that I gotta make my own decisions. She gotta let me make mistakes and learn from them"

"So god forbid something happens to you. You think that she's gonna be like oh well I let him learn on his own? No she's going to blame herself until the death of her because she could've done some. She's a mom Mir. She's not going to let you, her oldest son go down the wrong path without at least trying to intervine"

I nodded my head not knowing what else to say because I knew that she was right. No matter what my mom was going to give it her all to try and protect me from the world but the only thing with me is that I don't want to be protected. I just want her to worry about herself and not stress over me.

"Just talk to her. I'll go with you if you want me to be there" She grabbed my hand giving me a smile

"Yeah that'll be better" I laughed a bit turning to look out the window

After another 15 minutes the train came to a stop letting us know we were at out stop. We got up walking to the doors walking out

"I hate that trains gotta stop at like every damn stop. Be making a 10 minute drive into an hour one" Nahla said walking away making me laugh

"But you say I'm impatient"

"You are"She shrugged

We walked down Knox Ave.

"It should be around here" She said looking at every building then her phone

"What you looking for?"

"Found it" She jogged a little causing me to jog after her

She came to a stop in front of a building that read "Beat Box Entertainment"

"Come on"She grabbed my hand dragging me in with her.

We walked a little further before walking into a room



"Fuck is this?" I asked her looking around the studio

"I know you said that you didn't want to be a rapper and your writing is only for you to express your feelings but I booked you some time here so you can record your music"

"Nahla bro"

"I know but if writing down your emotions helps you just imagine saying it out loud. Adding emotion to it. You can add all the anger or sadness to your writing. You don't even gotta release it. You can keep them for yourself but you got potential and I don't want you to regret it later on"

sighing I shook my head pulling her into a hug because after everything this girl really believes in me enough to spend her own bread

"Thank you G. I really appreciate it. I love yo hardheaded ass" I said making her laugh

"Am in interrupting?" Some dude asked walking in

"No Jhonni. This is my friend Polo. Polo this is the producer Johnni. He's gonna handle your session"

"Wassup man?" I dapped him up

"You ready to get in there?" He asked me taking a seat at the computer

"Yeah I'm ready"

"Ight go in the booth and put the headphones on"

I gave Nahla my shit before walking into the booth.



I put my headphones on waiting for the beat to come on.

Here goes nothing

Thoughts?

Shits gonna get real pretty soon and friendships and relationships are going to get tested so let's see how these kids handle these obstacles 😌

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