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This chapter is kinda rushed ! You've been warned . I sorta jut want to hurry yp and get this over with because I'm not feeling it anymore .

So bam ! Here's what you've been waiting for .

KIND OF SHORT :(

EXCUSE ERRORS

-Raquel-

  Raven was slowly getting on my nerves , little by little . She finished the dishes and was sitting on the floor in the corner rocking back and forth like a damn mental patient . She had her knees pulled up to her chest with her head laying on her knees but facing the peach colored walls in our living room . 

She looked like she needed a straight jacket and a fucking padded room on the eighth floor of the hospital . Fa'real .

My leg began to shake as my patience ran thinner and thinner .

Where the hell is Trey , gotdamn .

I was ready to get this situation handled , whatever it was . Why would he be nervous to the point where he felt it could have the power to ruin our friendship ?

I started to think of things that could end a friendship as tight as ours . Well , there was only a few things he could've been doing ; he could've fucked Dante but Dante would've probably been a nervous reck right now , he could've been plotting to kill me which Trey just wouldn't do , or he could be . . . . 

No , those are the only two things he could be doing that could ruin our friendship .

Right ?

The knock on the front door jolted me from my thoughts . I pulled my arm gently away from Dante and made a move to stand up when my mother yelled from the hall ,

" ill get it !" She screamed as her voice shook a little .

Damn , was everybody flipping out ?

  -    Trey-

  Garret stood next to me , he was more at ease than me . Raquel would probably say nothing about what he was doing but he would probably be ready fight about what I was doing . 

It was crazy .

I never wanted shit to get like this .

I just wanted her .

I'm sure garret felt the same way .

The door opened and Raquel and Raven's mother answered it . She smiled , said a few nice words , asked us how we were doing , led us into the living room we had been in so many times and then she went back up stairs . 

I looked at Raquel and my nerves instantly got the best of me . It wasn't that I was scared of him because though we had never actually went blow for blow , I was scared of no nigga . It was more of the fact that we were boys , had been since we were young . Shit , I didn't want to lose that . 

Raquel had this accusing look on his face , wether he knew it or not .

Dante , wrapped around the right side of Raquel's body , was looking at me curiously . I liked the fact that he was looking at me with judging eyes . Dante was good for Raquel , he helped to balance him out . And even though in a way I could believe Raquel was really gay , I was happy for him .

True love ; wasn't nothing like it .

I knew because when I saw Raven , curled up and bawling silently in the corner , everything else flew out the window , and I was by her side , on my knees with my arms wrapped around her like nobody else mattered . Because true love ; like I said , couldn't shit beat it .

-    Raquel-

  I decided to play stupid and let them tell me . So I waited , and waited , and waited . Until I got sick of waiting .

So instead of playing stupid I decided to play the angry brother roll and scare the shit out of them . I stood up slowly and took wide steps across the room . I grabbed Trey up by the back of his shirt and slammed him against the wall . I grabbed the front of his shirt and glared at him "angrily" . Trey grabbed my wrists with this guilty look on his face .

" is it something you need to tell me , nigga ?" I asked him slowly without breaking eyes contact . 

This only made Raven's crying increase .

Garett pulled on the back of my shirt " comeon man , let him go ."

" as a matter a fact , " he shoved me backward a little . " yeah . Now , look , you know I wouldn't disrespct you or no shit , man , we boys . And we been tight fa' a long time and -"

I couldn't take it . I busted out in hysterical laughing . " just get on with it ."

His eyebrows crunched up . " okay then . Me and Raven , you know , we got a thing ."

I shrugged and turned back arund , plopping my ass on the counch and refocused my attention n the tv . " nigga , is that what you wanted to tell me ?"

" well , yeah ."

" I thought it was something serious . "

" so . . . " 

" I don't care . "

It wasn't that I completely didn't give a fuck , but I saw the way they had been looking at eachoher . The whole summer I had peeped them getting closer and closer . I did think she was dating someone else but id rather he be dating someone I know and trust that jut another dude from the block .

" and she's pregnant . " 

Now that took a little more for me to swallow . But I didn't want to think about it . My baby sister ? Pregnant ? We'd talk about it latr but for not , it wasn't a thought in my mind . 

Instead I turned my attention to Garret . He couldn't say anything worse than what Trey had said , could he . 

I mean , i didn't even expect that to come out of Trey . Shit , just the thought of him . . .

I shuddered and tried to keep my attention off of them . 

" what's up with you man , i wasn't expecting you ." I said to Garret . 

He shrugged and plopped down on the couch . " i was just in the neighborhood and , you know - "

" cut the shit . " I told him plainly as i chuckled . " it's been a long day and i just want to go to bed . " 

Dante rubbed my neck gently , i guess to soothe me but it was turning me on more than soothing me . But when we went to bed we wouldnt be having sex - i still had more pent up energy or aggression or whatever the hell , but i needed to release that before anything else went down between me and him . 

" you know what ," i spoke before he could . " don't tell me . Just , let's go play some ball . " 

" what you mean don't tell you  ? Nigga i been trippin' the whole way over here for you to tell me to not tell you ? Fuck that , i'm tellin' you . I got - "

" let's play some ball down the street , and then after that i swear you can tell me whatever it is you need to tell me , man ."

Garret gave me this look like he just didn't believe me , like maybe i was playin' or trippin' but i was serious . Shit , a late night game of basketball was just what i needed . 

We got to the basketball court and you wouldn't believe who was already there shooting the ball around by himself . 

Anthony . 

We all decided a little two on two was in order , even though he still wasn't the biggest on basketball , he still was cool with it . The night air felt good . It had gotten a bit chilly for it to be ust the end of summer but that was cool with me . 

I had on my basketball shorts , A t-shirt and a black hoodie with a pair of plain black and white jordans .

Me and Anthony vs. Trey and Garret .

I was ready to play .

Wasn't no talking . It was like everybody knew that i wasn't on it right then . Damn , what was wrong with me . I couldn't figure it out . The air was thick though between me , Trey and Garret . 

Trey mustve known what Garret had to tell me because he kept shooting me these unreadable looks that i was sure had nothing to do with the situation between him and Raven . 

And as much as i hated to ask , ten minutes into the game , when me and Anthony were down by two and i was in Garret's face about to make a Jumper i finally asked him , 

" what is it ?"

And when he said it , my heart stopped . 

-Trey-

Everything got real quiet , it already was but it seemed that . . . 

I couldn't explain it . Raquel was looking at Garret like he was going to tackle him , but at the same time like he knew he couldn't , like he knew it wasn't right . 

-Garret-

" I fucked Yvonne . And now she pregnant . " 

I didn't say anything . He didn't either . 

He just shoved the ball into my chest and walked away . 

Now that , i didn't get . Was he mad , did he not care . why should he care really . He was the one who broke up with Yvonne and shoved her off . I was just there . 

-Anthony-

I jogged after Raquel since neither of those niggas seemed like they were about to do it . I fell into stride beside him . 

" what's up man ? I thought you and Yvonne had stopped ya'll whole thing a while back ."

He rolled his eyes " we did . " 

" then why you mad ?"

" i don't know . I can't explain it . It's like i shouldn't be mad but i just , can't get over the fact that . . . " He sighed . " i shouldn't be mad . If I'm not mad that Trey is fucking my own sister i shouldn't be mad about Yvonne and Garret . "

" Damn straight , man ! Look , i personally don't think that baby gon' come out looking like Garret but that's just what i think . Ain't no tellin' . After you and her stopped messin' around the girl just kinda , start sleepin' around ."

"so she became a hoe . "

I shrugged . " basically . " We reached his house . " But look , i'ma dip out . I'll link up with you later . "

We shook hands and i dribbled my ball all the way back to the now empty court .

I had the perfect time to talk to Raquel . I couldv'e went up in his crib and we couldv'e talked it all out , shit , i would have felt better . 

But was it really ever a time to talk to ya boy about being gay ? It might've semi eeasy for him but it would be different for me . I was too deep in the streets for shit like that to sudenly get around . So , i'd wait . 

-Raquel-

I got Home and i was just ready to go to bed . 

I wasn't mad , I couldn't be . Yvonne wasn't my girl and she didn't have any ties to me but -

I sighed . I needed to just get over it and grow the fuck up . 

Garret was still my nigga , and so was Trey . 

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