Alijah woke up to the sun beaming in her face. She looked around at her surrounding and noticed she wasn't home. She also noticed she only had a t-shirt and underwear on.

August came out of the bathroom brushing his teeth.

"Finally you woke." He said.

Alijah looked at the clock and it said 1:43 p.m.

"Did we um...?" Alijah said pointing between them.

"Nah you were drunk and you started vomiting then you passed out." He said.

"Where everybody else?"

"Jay left earlier this morning." He said.

Alijah looked August up and down taking in his figure and he only had some sweatpants on with showed his dick print and she was shocked but she kept that shock to herself.

"Hea' ya go." August said handing her some asprin and water.

"Thank you." She said taking the medicine.

"You hungry? I'm pretty sure we got food aroun' hea'." He said. "Throw 'dese on."

Alijah took the boxers sliding them on as she got up following him out of his room. They went into the kitchen.

"We got Cap' n Crunch, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch....watchu like?" He asked her.

"Um I'll take some Cinnamon Toast Crunch." Alijah said.

"A'ight."

While August fixed the cereal it was really quiet.

"I bet I was just embarrassing myself last night." Alijah said.

"Sawry ta' burst ya' bubble but yea' ya did." August said laughing.

"What did I do then?" She said taking the cereal bowl away from him.

He went to fridge and got some orange juice fixing him some.

"You got white girl drunk."

"I remember that." She said.

"Ok you told me you liked me."

Alijah started choking on her cereal and August started laughing.

"Ya' good?" August asked her before leaning on the island.

"Yeah....I...I..I just...it just went down the wrong pipe." She said looking up at August.

"I bet." He chuckled.

"Where's my clothes?" Alijah asked him.

"In da' dryer. You had vomit all ova' them."

Alijah's faced flustered with a color of red from embarrassment.

"It's okay lah' baybeh no need ta' be embarrassed." August said.

Alijah finished her cereal and August washed up the few dishes in the sink.

"Do y'all have an extra toothbrush anywhere?" Alijah said walking back in August's room.

"Yeah lemme check." He said.

After Alijah brushed her teeth she slipped back on her outfit from last night.

"Imma look like a hoe walking out of here." Alijah laughed.

"Nah ya' won't my neighbors ain't nosey." He said.

August opened the front door for Alijah.

"I had fun. Well the parts I remember." She said.

"Me too. Even tho' I rememba' alla what happened."

Alijah gave him a hug. "Thank you for taking care of me last night."

August hugged her back. He thought for minute before pulling away about maybe sliding a kiss in, but that thought quickly went away. "Ya' welcome." He said.

Alijah walked out the door to her car. He watched ae she walked away slowly when she got in her car he closed the front door.

He looked down and saw his dick was hard.

"Ya' gotta learn how to control ya'self." He said rushing to his room.

Alijah walked in the house greeted by nobody.

"Heelllloooooo?" Alijah sung as she walked through the house.

Jay came out of the kitchen eating a sub.

"Mhmmmm wild ass." Jay said walking into the living room.

"What you mean?" Alijah asked him.

"You know what I mean. You dry humping on my friend last night." Jay said.

Alijah started laughing. "Whatever I was drunk and you could've woke me up this morning." She said pushing him.

"Aye man you was sleeping peacefully and Dad and Mama left this morning for New York." Jay said.

Alijah rolled her eyes. "For what?"

"Some business they going to be gone for 3 weeks so we got the house to ourselves." He said before doing a lil dance.

"They always traveling somewhere." Alijah said getting pissed off.

"What you talking about?"

"Nothing I'm just tired." She said before going upstairs.

She went into her room and plugged her phone up to the charger. She got out a pair of her pajamas. She wasn't planning on going anywhere with nobody unless it had something to with food.

Alijah took her a good shower and got in her bed and decided to watch a movie. Until her mind drifted off to August. She shook that thought from her mind and decided to just take a nap.

Ming looked around the lunchroom she was irritated with anybody who came her way.

Laila, Di'anna and Marie sat down at the table.

"Hey Ming." Laila spoke.

"Hey." She said dryly.

"What's wrong with you?" Di'anna asked her.

"Nothing just got a headache don't feel like being bothered." She said.

August sat at the table with Vonte and Lucas since the other niggas couldn't show up to school on time.

"Do they know first hour about to start?" Vonte said.

"Nah 'dem niggas neva' on time." August said. He looked up from eating his waffle to seeing Jay and Alijah walk in.

"Aye nigga!" Lucas said snapping in August's face.

"What 'chu want?" August said with an attitude.

"Nothing." Lucas said.

The bell for first hour rung and everybody got up to go to class.

"Lemme talk ta' you fa' a minute." August said to Lucas.

August threw his arm around Lucas.

"Wassup?" Lucas said.

"Ion kno' what kinda game you tryna' play but Lord knows what you doin' so you betta' stop I really don't wanna lose a friend let alone kill him so please think befo' you decide." August said before walking away leaving Lucas standing there.

Alijah stood in the bathroom mirror admiring herself and applying some more lipgloss to her lips.

One of the bathroom stall doors opened and Delilah walked out. When she saw Alijah she started laughing.

"What's the joke?" Di'anna said.

"Your friend." Delilah said.

"Which one?" Di'anna said.

"This one."

Alijah snickered shaking her head.

"You got problem with me because?" Alijah said.

"You know why I got a problem with you." Delilah said.

"I'm not a magician it just can't pop up out of nowhere. Soooo you gonna tell me or not?" Alijah said.

Di'anna walked up to the two of them.

"A hoe would have a problem with a non-hoe." Di'anna said.

"That's my man not my dick appointment." Delilah said referring to August.

"Well you ain't got to worry about nothing I don't want him." Alijah said.

"Good." Delilah said walking out of the bathroom.

"I never liked her." Di'anna said.

Alijah looked in the mirror with all type of thoughts going through her head. She was thinking about August of course. She mind as well leave him alone she didn't have time for any drama.

Keith and Ming sat in Panera Bread enjoying some good food.

"So where you plan on going to school at?" Keith asked Ming.

"I really don't know yet. My friends and I talked about UCLA then again I might go to Juilliard." She said.

"What kind of talent do you have?"

"I dance in my spare time." She said.

Keith nodded. "Like ballet?"

"Yeah." Ming said before taking a bite of her sandwich.

"Maybe you can show me what you got one day. I would love to see."

Ming smiled and took a sip of her drink.

Ming and Keith walked in the house laughing and play fighting with each other.

"Stop it!" Ming playfully yelled.

"Nah you hit me first." Keith said laughing.

Ming backed into a wall. Keith hovered over her. The laughing stopped. Ming slowly wrapped her arms around Keith's neck. Keith leaned in kissing her.

Keith quickly pulled away.

"What you doing? You my boss' daughter." Keith said.

"I'm sorry." Ming said looking down at the floor.

"I kissed you first. I'm sorry." Keith said before grabbing her waist pulling her in for another kiss.

This is what you called mixed signals people.

Ming took her shirt off. Keith took his off. They both landed on the couch kissing each other. Keith gripped onto Ming's ass slowly rubbing it.

"No no no." Keith said sitting up pushing Ming off him.

Ming took a deep breath. "When you make up your mind I'll be in my room." She said grabbing her shirt and rushing upstairs leaving him sitting there.

Laila

"I'm dat bitch!" Laila sung while she strutted around her room.

Laila's door busted opened. She turned around to see her stepdad in nothing but boxers.

"Hey babygirl." He smiled.

"Where's my...my..my mama?" She asked him.

He walked closer to her. "Gone to the store with your brothers so we got enough time."

Laila almost threw up in her mouth. The smell of cigarettes and alcohol disgusted her and that's exactly what he smelled like.

She pushed him off of her and before she could run he pulled her hair making her fall back.

"Please leave me alone." She cried.

He picked her up placing her on the bed.

"Now babygirl you know what happens when you disrespect me." He whispered in her ear slowly slipping his hand in her shorts.

"Please." Laila cried.

The more she cried the worse it would be so she just kept her mouth shut. This had been going on ever since she was 11. Laila hated him and her mother for not believing her when she first told her.

20 minutes later.

Laila watched her bedroom door close and she got up and went to her closet grabbing the wipes she had cleaning herself off.

Laila cried as she saw blood trickling down her leg. With him forcing himself on her caused the blood.

Everybody thought Laila was the pretty girl that was a hoe. Fucked anybody and anything but in the real world Laila was broken.

Laila's brother Tahim walked in her room.

He gave her hug. "It's okay sis. You'll be leaving soon."

Tahim is the only one who knew it happened because one day he caught him raping her. Their mother was desperate that's why she never listened.

Laila cried on her brother's shoulder. "I want it to stop." She said.

"I know." He said.

Laila always dreamed of being the girl to never go through any of this. Last year around this time she got pregnant with his baby but she lost it. She was thankful for that but she was also sad.

"You want me to lay here and make sure he doesn't come in tonight?" Tahim asked.

"Nah imma go to Di'anna tonight." Laila said getting her overnight bag.

"A'ight."

.

August woke up in sweat. He looked around his room and saw Delilah laying next to him. "It was all a dream." He said to himself.

When he noticed Delilah laying next to him he wanted that shit to be a dream too but it wasn't.

"Damn." He said getting out of the bed.