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China sighed banging her fist on the table catching Michael and Chris' attention, "I'm really worried about her, I think I'm gonna leave school early and check on her."

China began gathering her things, throwing her pen and notebook in her bag. Despite the falling out her and Trinity are having, she still finds herself worrying about her friend.

"There's no reason for that," Chris said staring off in the direction where Michael and China had their backs turned to.

"What, why?" China asked confused turning around in her seat to look at what Chris is looking at.

Michael eyes widened as he turned around also, "What is she doing here?"

Trinity wore a baggy navy blue velour sweatsuit, and a pair of Bailey Button Ugg boots, with her hair in a messy bun. She had a huge grin on her face as she made her way over to her friends.

"Hey guys, why yall look so depressed?" She took a seat next to Chris and snuggled up next to him.

They all looked at her surprised and confused, Chris thought she was pissed at him, she must've gotten over him accidentally calling her Chelsea.

"Girl, what the hell," Micael said eyeing her up and down.

She seemed like a completely different person from when he saw her this morning, so seeing her so perky threw him off. Trinity is never this happy, her main emotions are paranoia when she smokes, anger when she's pissed, and her normal self that he's used to.

She laughed loudly clapping her hands, "Whats the problem?"

Chris cleared his throat giving his girlfriend a long look. "Babe, why'd you even come to school today? We get out of school in a few minutes."

Trinity furrowed her brows scooting away from Chris, "What, I can't come see my friends at school or something? I have to pick up my car anyways." She mumbled playing with her car keys.

China quickly perked up grabbing Trinity's hands, "No hun, it's not like that. We just thought you weren't feeling well today, that's all."

"I feel great!" Trinity exclaimed getting up from the lunch table, "Let's do something spontaneous today, let's go swimming!"

"Trinity, it's February. We live in New York, what are you doing?" Michael stated staring at her.

"Okay, Indoors pool exist Michael." Trinity giggled eating a fry from Chris' tray.

Michael, China, and Chris' face mirrored each other. They were all worried and scared for Trinity's safety. Chris scratched his head not knowing how to go on from this.

The bell signaling the period was over as students piled out of the lunchroom and staff walked around with garbage cans cleaning up after the messy students, while the four of them remained in their same spots looking at each other.

"Trin, let's get you home and we'll talk more about going to an indoor pool," China said getting up from her seat and linking her arms with Trinity.

Michael and Chris cleaned up their table then followed China and Trinity out of the lunchroom.

'''

"What are we going to do about her?" Chris asked looking at his sleeping girlfriend through the rearview mirror.

He made a turn and went through the Burger King drive-through.

"We're gonna stay at her house until her father comes home and go on from there," China answered from the backseat. "We can't afford to go another day without trying to get Trinity some help. We don't know shit about her Bipolar disorder but I'm sure her father does if her mother is Bipolar too." She had Trinity's head resting in her lap as she played in her hair.

"This is some different shit, I've never seen anyone go through something like this before," Michael added from the passenger's seat.

None of them has ever witnessed someone with a Bipolar disorder. They were all scared but didn't want to admit it to avoid worrying each other.

"She'll be okay," China said trying to convince herself than anyone, "We just need her to get help."

"Welcome to Burger King, what would you like today?"

'''

The gang all piled up in Trinity's living room, doing homework and eating their food since neither of them really eat the school's lunch.

"Yo Chris, your ass be paying attention in math class. Let me get the answers to questions one through fifteen on the homework."

"Nigga, that's all the questions on the homework." Chris kissed his teeth passing his homework over to Michael anyway, "Don't copy everything." He added taking a bite of his chicken sandwich.

"Good looks," Michael said taking the paper and began copying every single answer down.

China groaned spreading out on Trinity's living room floor, "When does her father come home from work, Chris?"

"I think around five." He answered looking over at Trinity, who's sound asleep on the couch.

"China, you finished the American studies homework yet?" Michael asked going through her bag.

"Michael I'm telling your grandmother you're not doing your homework anymore," China teased kicking Michael in his side as he held a tampon in the air.

Michael mustered up a face of disgust, "Ew China, what the fuck!"

He quickly threw the tampon at Chris, rubbing his hands on Trinity's velour sweat bottoms, causing her to stir in her sleep.

"Aye nigga!" Chris yelped throwing the tampon at China's head.

"Yall mad fucking annoying, it's in a wrapper," China snatched her bag from Michael's grip. "And shut the fuck up before yall wake up Trinity." She hissed.

Chris chuckled shaking his head going back to homework, Michael and China did the same as they all laughed to themselves. It felt good to have each other, they were a family and wouldn't let anything come between them. They loved each other, no doubt about it.

About a half an hour later, the gang decided to take a break watching Netflix.

China jumped with her eyes glued to her phone, catching Michael and Chris off guard, "Wait, Chris turn off Netflix and go on the news."

"Nigga, why? Who watches the news?"

She got up snatching the remote out of his hand "Bitch, it's about the shooting!"

China exited out of the Netflix app, going straight to Channel One news. The three of them sat quietly as the news reporter stood in front of the venue where the mixtape release party was held.

Seeing the venue caused chills to run up Chris' spine. China glanced at Chris, giving him a look of pity as all the color in his face disappeared.

"We're reporting live in Queens, New York where a drive-by shooting took place less than a month ago in this exact spot. The main suspect, an eighteen-year-old girl Lauryn Mosen, who was later found guilty has committed suicide in her Brooklyn apartment. Report states her hanging body was found by her fathe—."

"Man, turn this shit off," Chris growled snatching the remote from China's hand, going back to Netflix.

"That bitch really took the easy way out," China mumbled shaking her head.

"Damn, we should've let Trinity kill her ass in the hospital parking lot," Michael mumbled nudging China. "It's your fault, you made us break it up." He said cutting his eyes at her.

She kissed her teeth pushing Michael away from her, "Michael, shut your stupid ass up. Chris, I'm so sorry."

"Wait, what are yall talking about?"

"Oop," Michael said scratching his head.

China rolled her eyes moving her bangs from her face, "The day they took us in to watch the security tapes at the venue, we were going to visit you when you were still in the hospital but we spotted Lauryn's ass in the parking lot."

"Long story short, Trinity yolked her ass up and beat that bitch down. I even got it on video, you wanna see?" Michael pulled his phone out, going straight to his camera roll with a huge grin on his face.

Michael pressed play on the video as China and Chris crowded around him.

"Spank that bitch, Trinity!"

"I know you had something to do with Chris getting shot, bitch," Trinity said through gritted teeth.

"Let go of my hair!" Lauryn cried out scratching at Trinity's hands.

"Shut up!" Trinity growled punching her in the head.

"Aight Trinity, sis, listen to me. I see white people looking over here and you know what that means. The police gonna be here in two minutes and I'm on my second strike already." Kae said resting her hands on top of Trinity's.

"Kae's right Trin, we can get her another time, or just leave her for the cops."

"Chris could've been killed! I'm not letting this bitch go." Trinity cried.

"Michael." China snapped her fingers pointing at Trinity.

"On it." He responded.

"Michael, you're a damn fool." China chuckled mushing his head as the video then came to an end.

"Damn China, you and Kae couldn't let Trinity fuck her up one time?" Chris joked taking his seat on the floor. "At least we know for sure who did it and her crazy ass can't do shit anymore."

China began to argue back, that was until she got interrupted by a knock at the door.

"Is it five o' clock yet?" China asked looking at her phone.

They all looked at their phones, it was only three o' clock. They all looked each other than at Trinity, then back at each other.

"One, two, three, not it!" Michael Yelled

"Not it!" China followed.

"Yall niggas shit outta luck, I'm handicapped," Chris said shrugging and pressing play on the controller.

"I'm not getting the door, I don't live here. You better wake Trinity's ass up." He argued.

"Michael, get your ass up and answer the door before I swing Chris' crutches across your face," China said motioning her head towards the front door.

"I hate the both of yall." He groaned getting up from the floor, walking over to the front door. "Who is it?"He peeked through the window but couldn't make out the figure who stood on the other side of the door.

"It's Maxine! Tristian, is that you?"

"Who the hell is Maxine!?" Michael whisper yelled to Chris and China.

They both shrugged cluelessly.

"Maxine who?" China asked as she walked towards the front door.

"Maxine James, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me in so I wouldn't have to yell through this wooden door."

"James?" Chris repeated looking at Trinity as she began to wake up. "Oh shit."

'''

"I don't remember Trinity having many friends. I only really knew Jasmine but seeing you young people in her life brings me joy." She cooed.

Maxine is a splitting image of Trinity. Her skin is as rich as mocha and free of any aging or wrinkles, that's where Trinity gets her blemish free face from. Her dark brown natural hair sat on her shoulders, framing her face perfectly. She has pouty pink lips and long eyelashes with hazel eyes, she's gorgeous and she uses her beauty as an advantage to get what she wants.

China, Michael, and Chris sat in the living room going through baby pictures of Trinity that Maxine had in her bag. It pissed Trinity off, does she think she can just waltz in here and try to win her friends over? Her friends were falling for her little game, but she sees right through it. She already knows how this is going to end therefor her guard will always be up when she's around.

"Notice how she only has pictures of me from when I was like eight, where were you the other ten years, Maxine?" Trinity challenged scrutinizing her mother.

"Trin," China said slightly elbowing her.

"Now Trinity, you know there were some complications when you were younger, darling. Don't let that cloud your mind, no need to dwell on the past."

Trinity's eyes never left her mother as she walked around examining every single picture in the house, which she wasn't in any of them. Most of the framed pictures consist of Trinity and Jasmine. She probably doesn't even know what happened to Jasmine, Trinity thought as Maxine picked up a picture of the two.

"So, why are you here again?" Trinity asked with her hands folded across her chest.

"Babe," Chris said catching Trinity's attention.

Trinity cut her eyes at him, "What Chris? You don't understand, I haven't seen or heard from this lady since she emptied my father's pockets out." She gave her mother a hard stare, "We don't have any more money for you to take, so you can go back to where ever the hell you came from." Trinity got up and stormed over to the front door, opening it widely.

China got up from her seat and walked over to Trinity, closing the front door. "Trinity, relax and hear your mother out for a moment, maybe she had a change of heart. She seems cool."

Maxine took her hazel eyes off of her daughter, looking right at Chris, "Did I hear you call her babe, are you her boyfriend?"

"Yes, ma'am," Chris answered nodding his head with a small smile.

Maxine's face lit up, "I've never met any of Trinity's boyfriends, this is exciting!"

Trinity stared at everyone as their undivided attention is fixated on her mother. They just don't understand, and it irritated her. She's manipulating each and every one of them to get them on her side, then she's going to to take advantage of them somehow and then disappear. That's how it always goes.

'''

"Stink, did you enjoy your birthday party?"

"Yes!" She exclaimed sitting on the floor of her princess room.

Her father got the most expensive interior decorators to design his baby girl's bedroom. It was costly, but seeing the look on his daughter's face after surprising her for her sixth birthday made it all worth it.

"This was the best birthday yet!"

Trinity was surrounded by birthday presents that piled on each other and stood as tall as her. She only opened a quarter of them and has a whole lot to go.

"Here baby girl, these are your birthday cards your family sent who lives in Compton."

He gave her a bunch of pink glittery birthday cards that had money inside of them, but she was mainly focused on the toys she got instead.

Her father chuckled, "I'll just leave them on your table, don't stay up too late opening gifts, okay?"

"Okay, daddy." She nodded brushing her American Girl Doll's hair.

"Give me some sugar." He crouched down with his arms opened.

She got up running into her father's arm, giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"I love you, stink."

"I love you too, daddy."

Her father walked out of the room with a smile on his face, closing the door behind him. After Trinity got tired of opening presents, she got up from the floor and headed for bed. Before turning off the lights, she turned her night light on then got into bed.

Maxine peeked her head through the door, "Hey baby girl, how are you feeling?"

"I'm fine, momma."

"Good, good." She nodded her head coming into the room. Maxine paused looking at her daughter. "Where did these come from?" She picked up the birthday cards examining them.

"Daddy said family from Compton sent them," Trinity replied.

Maxine opened them revealing money, way too much money for a six-year-old she thought. She smiled crouching at her daughter's height. "Can you do mommy a big favor?"

"Okay."

"Don't tell daddy I took your birthday cards okay? I'll give them back, Mommy just has to go through them, okay?"

"OKay.

"Okay, go to sleep baby. Goodnight."

"Goodnight mommy."