"Play time is over." I bounce the ball as me and Kyler watches the team condition. We just got back from Thanksgiving break and all of a sudden, these idiots don't know how to perform.

"When you walk through those gym doors, we want your minds clear and focused." I speak as we walk down the line of our fellow teammates.

"Leave all the bullshit at the door." Abel spoke from the sidelines.

"Keep your heads in the fucking game."Dominic placed his foot on Rocky's back." The form is shit, fix it."

Rocky struggled a little bit due to half of Dom's weight pressing on his back. Dom looked up with a satisfied grin on his face.

I chuckled as I shook my head and looked away.

Fucking asshole.

"This is our year, our season."Marcus kicked a rookie's leg signaling for him to get right."There will be no slacking, no off days, and no distractions. We are a winning team, so act like one."

"Alright."I look down at my watch."Get your stank asses to the locker rooms."

When the team clears out of the gym and towards the locker room, the boys start passing the ball back and fourth.

"So you walked in on what now?"Abel asked in disbelief, passing the ball to Dom.

"Those two macking on my damn kitchen counter like they don't have an ounce of home training." Dominic should be the last person talking about home training.

"Pot. kettle. black." I cough as the guys laugh.

"Up your ass, Addams."

"Guys!"Haze looked up from his phone from his spot on the bench. "Edwards got injured at UCLA's game last night."

Well ain't Karma a bitch.

"For real?" Kyler dropped the ball as we walked over to the bench. Haze showed us the article and playback.

It was a nasty fall resulting in a sprained wrist. With physical therapy and possibly surgery, he would be out for a while.

"Can't say I feel bad for the guy." Marcus shrugged wiping the sweat off his body with his shirt. "Me neither." We all agreed as we got up and walked towards the locker rooms.

"Maybe he'll learn how to shut his fucking mouth."

"I highly doubt that." I responded to Dominic's comment."That dude thinks that he has the balls the size of Texas."

We entered the locker room and headed for the showers. Fog steamed up the bathroom from the amount of hot water being used and the different aromas of body wash wafted together making one musky scent.

After we got dressed, we headed towards my G-wagon. I usually drove us to and from practice everyday resulting in me to have the truck and sports car.

I loved the G- wagon though— it was my baby.

We picked up lunch for the hungry shits at the house. Today was an early morning practice, later we had plans to go to a party that was thrown in the hills.

"I'm about to knock the fuck out." Marcus announced as we sat down at the table.

"Party tonight," Xander enters the kitchen behind Rookie. The rest of our housemates enter a little later. "yesssirrr!"he hoots as he jumps on his best friends back.

Xander was a sophomore like Haze and a damn good player. I could see him and Haze creating some major damage on the court when the rest of us went away.

Xander was 6'5, brown skin, curly hair and a nice smile. He acted like he was stupid but he was hella smart. He was also good at coming up with plays. Xander and Haze became stuck at the hip within a few hours of meeting each other.

They were like our little brothers and we had to show them the way of life. We liked to call them Dom and Carson 2.0 behind their backs.

"Get off of me you rat." Rookie jokes, swatting Xander blindly on the head. "Stop playing around and come eat." Kyler scolds as if they were five year old children.

"Yes father."Xander sticks his tongue out at Kyler before picking out his choice of meal.

We all sat down in the living room watching some old movie that was playing on cable Some of us were eating while others were knocked out cold. Practice was gruesome today but only because half the team didn't come in with their A-game mentality.

Just because we were gone for a week, and half of them were nursing food coma's, does not give them an excuse to slack off.

A few hours later I woke up to Kings loud snores. I looked at the time to see that it was eight o'clock.

Shit... we slept that long.

One by one we all started to wake up and head to our rooms.

I hopped into the shower again, basking in the feeling of the hot water running down my body. I stretched my hands onto the wall, moaning as I felt the soreness in my body getting stretched out. After a few minutes I started to lather my body with soap and continued on with my shower.

I wrapped a towel around my waist and ran a hand through my wet hair. Walking to my closet, I picked out a plain black shirt that showed the out line of my abs, a pair of slightly baggy denim jeans, and a pair of air max.

I grabbed my beanie and flannel, spritzed on some cologne and walked downstairs.

"Put this on for me please." I handed the silver chain to Abel. Abel fixed his red snapback over his braids before turning around and clasping the chain around my neck.

"Thanks buddy." I cheese at him as he nods his head."You're welcome friend." He gives me a goofy grin in return before we start cracking up.

Marcus and Kyler come down stairs a few seconds later. Marcus adjusting his beanie on his head, while Kyler rolled up the sleeve of his long sleeve.

We walked into the kitchen to see Dom, Rookie, and Xandy-cakes pouring a round of shots. We downed them before grabbing out respective car keys and heading outside.

I take Abel, Rookie, Dom, Kyler, and Marcus, while Rocky takes Xander and the others.

We drove through the streets of L.A before we drive through the hills and arrived at the party. When we pulled into the drive way filled with Cars, I noticed Elizabeth's black range rover parked a few cars up.

"Girls are here." I motion to the car.

We walk into the house, the smell of sweat, alcohol, vomit and weed wafted up our noises.

"It is rank as fuck in here." Xander scrunched his face up in disgust as we pushed through the crowd. We originally planned on making our way to the kitchen but then Kyler turned his head and stopped.

We all turned our attention to see Jora, Sade, and Ayanna crouched down, each holding onto the other's waist as their hips, knees and ass moved while bouncing up and down to the song.

Talk about Megan knees.

"God dayum."Kyler mumbled.

I didn't even have to look to know that he was staring at Jora. Ever since the white party he'd been acting weird around her.

Jora swung her head to the side and spotted us. She gave us a little smile in greeting before swinging her head side to side to the beat as she danced.

Kyler stayed frozen in his spot before two girls passed by him. "Hey Kyler," They purred, snapping him out of his trance. Kyler nodded towards them in greeting. You would think that Micheal B. Jordan smiled at them the way they swooned.

"Getting bitches just comes easy at this point."Just like that the fuckboy mentality was back and he was off.

For now at least.

My gaze returned to Ayanna seeing that she was now standing straight. Rhegan popped up behind her and placed her hands on Ayanna's waist. Ayanna rotated her ass as Rhegan pressed into her.

They both had bright smiles on their faces, not a care in the world as they danced to an old Rae Sremmurd song that featured Nicki Minaj.

I looked across the room to see Edwards watching her closely. "You'd think he was her keeper the way he's staring at her." Dominic said as we all spotted Edwards.

"Maybe it's time to show him that he isn't" Rookie mused into my ear giving me a little shove forward.

Rhegan saw me coming and made herself scarce. I placed on hand on Ayanna's waist, the other snaking up to grasp her neck. "Your ex has a staring problem." I whisper into her ear.

Ayanna let's out a sultry chuckle and wrapped a hand around my neck, "Then let's give him something to stare at."

Ayanna leaned her head onto my shoulder and began to trail kisses up my jawline. I looked up to see Edwards glaring at us as he crushed the cup in his good hand, alcohol spilling over.

I smirked, bringing my lips down to Ayanna's. Our lips moved in sync while I squeezed her neck lightly. I could feel her lips curve up into a smile as I let my lips linger on hers a little longer before pulling back.

She rubbed her nose against mine when I let my hand drop from around her neck to her hip. When we pulled away, she grabbed my hand and led me to the Kitchen.

I took this time to take in Ayanna, she was wearing black jeans, a black crop top with no bra. I knew this because it showed under boob and the back crossed, showing no signs of a bra strap.

Everyone else was already in there when we made our way to the drinks.

"If looks could kill," Abel started as he rubbed Elizabeth's hip bone."You two would be dead."

"Edwards won't do shit." Skylar said handing Ayanna a drink. I looked over to Marcus who had kept stealing glances at her here and there.

He talked to his parents but we had been so busy with practice that I don't think he's had time to talk to Sky. She'd been ignoring him all night, despite the little looks she would send him when she thought no one was watching.

Jora and Sade were hugging each other when Kyler walked into the kitchen, a freshly done hickey on his neck. He paused when he spotted Jora, shook his head slightly as if he was scolding himself and walked next to Dom.

A small frown appeared on Jora's face before she masked it with a smile.

"He's all bark and no bite anyways." Rhegan agreed. "Remember that time he got into it with Jackson fields when you guys were on that break and he chickened out. He used him being on the basketball team as an excuse to why he couldn't fight."

"I mean that's kind of a valid reason." Rookie spoke hesitantly as if he was afraid to say the wrong thing.

Rhegan swallowed her drink and shook her head. "That's the thing," She paused and let out a small burp."Excuse me." Her cheeks heated up in embarrassment before she went on.

"Basketball season was over when it happened."

Now that I can believe, he probably instigated that situation knowing him.

"Oh, then he's just a pussy." Rookie crossed his arms." Really," Sade drawled."I couldn't tell."

Rookie pouted as Xander patted his shoulder slowly. Rookie and Sade were like annoying little siblings to each other, always bickering back and fourth.

Everything was going good. The girls asked about how practice was going and we asked them about their week and breaks in return. But then a dark cloud waltzed it's way into the kitchen. His goons following close behind him.

Ayanna was on the other side of the room while I conversed with the guys. I was quick to push off of the counter when I saw him walk over to her.

"This dude has a lot of balls." Marcus chuckled darkly as they moved behind me.

"If it isn't my sloppy seconds." He spoke down on her as she stared over his shoulder, ignoring his presence. "Are you having fun with her, Carson?" He peered over his shoulder at me.

"I mean she was a cute little slut begging for me to dick her down. But I guess she's taken to get ran through by the enemy instead."

Ayanna was quick to slap him across the face as I made my way over to him. The smack was so loud that everyone in the vicinity of the kitchen quieted down. A few gasps were heard as whispers went around the room.

"Fuck you Edwards!"Ayanna growled pushing him away. "What? I'm only speaking facts." He grinned before turning around.

"Everyone,"he stood on top of a table."Ayanna Heart is a ran through slut. If you ask nicely i'm sure she'll spread wide open for you."

"Isn't that right Carson?" A sick smirk appeared on his face as hot, angry tears ran down Ayanna's face. The girls grabbed her and took her away from the kitchen.

I was going to wipe that stupid ass smirk right off of his face.

The team was quick to walk up to my sides as Edwards stepped down. His "friends" slowly walked up behind him.

"You're such a punk ass bitch Edwards." I spat at him.

"What are you going to do about it?" He taunted." Wouldn't want you to get suspended before those scouts come to check you out."

Of course he would pull this shit. He's injured— he's probably pulling this stunt thinking that we won't beat his ass.

"Don't worry about it Carson."Dominic whispered into my ear."We'll get this little bitch when he least expects it."

"You're a fucking coward." Kyler glowered at Edwards. "You would pull this shit knowing you have nothing left to lose."

Oh he still does, he may be injured but i'm pretty sure that after tonight, Ayanna won't be feeling too nice anymore.

"You know—" Rookie stepped up,"they might have scouts coming to look at them, but not me."

Oh shit!

Just like that, Rookie was on him, throwing punch after punch.

"Get your runt off of me!"Edwards shouted as we sat back and let Rookie get his hits in. We heard a crack as Rookie brought his fist down on Edwards face.

Red dripped from his fist as he brought it up in the air.

We eventually walked over and pulled Rookie off of Edwards.

"Keep yapping that fucking mouth of yours and there'll be more where that came from. That was just a preview, baby."

Sure as hell was because i'm the main event. He hasn't seen shit yet.

"Damn rook," Abel looked at the damage that was done to Edwards face."You fucked him up good."

"Let's go Rocky Balboa." Dominic howled as they led him out of the kitchen.

"You got knocked the fuck out." Xander stepped over a laid out Edwards. "BITCH!"

I pulled Xander away as I let out a booming laugh and headed to the bathroom after Rookie.

"No more Friday for you."

"I'm going to fucking kill him."Sade paced back in fourth as Elizabeth rubbed my back up and down in a soothing method.

"Who the fuck does he think he is calling you ran through? If anything he's for the fucking airstrip with the amount of STD infested coochie his been buried deep inside of." I let out a tired chuckle as Sade threw insult after insult towards Edwards.

"Ayanna babe," Jora pushed off of the wall and walked towards me. She placed her hands on my knees, her emerald almond shaped nails digging into my skin lightly. "This is the last fucking straw. We're not going to sit by and let that bitch made asshole continue to disrespect you like this."

Skylar hummer her agreements as Jora went on.

"I love you, and you know that i'll respect whatever decision you make, but you need to end this shit."

Just as I was about to respond the door creeped open. Kyler poked his head and then turned around whispering. The boys all piled into the massive ass bathroom and took spots on the floor.

Elizabeth pulled away from me as Carson made his way to me. His jaw tensed as he studied my face. He reached out and held my hands and dried my tears.

He took Elizabeth's spot behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"So,"Rhegan stepped forward."Are we doing this or what Yaya?" I look at the girls and their answer was written plain as day in their faces. They wanted blood and there was only one way to get it.

"Ok." I say as sexy little wicked grins begin to form on their faces."But we're doing this my way. I want to make him sweat, I want him to wait in agony for the ball to drop."

"Whatever you want baby girl." Jora kissed my forehead."This is your game, we'll play by the rules."

"I'm sorry."Xander, a sophomore raises his pointer finger in confusion."What game are we playing here."

It was then that I made the boys promise to keep this information inside of the bathroom. My plan wasn't about to go to shit before it even started.

I told them about Edwards abuse with steroids and drugs. Some tried to contain their anger when they found out about him squeezing me a little too hard when he was on a bender.

Elizabeth has the evidence on her phone to prove it.

I know it was stupid of me to stay but he needed help and I thought that I could help him. I really tried my best and it wasn't until I threatened to leave him that he got his shit together. That was stupid of me because instead of turning to drugs he turned to other women.

"So to answer your question Xander." I smile sweetly."We're playing the game that a women disrespected will always win."

"And what will the be?"

"The sweet game of revenge."

Somehow we all ended up back at Rhegan's house. It was much safer for us to go to there considering half of us got black out drunk after the bathroom.

Everyone got guest rooms but i'm pretty sure a two or three of the guys snuck into someone's room last night.

Although, I did invite Carson to my room, and this time he did not sleep at the foot of the bed.

I woke up to him holding me nice and firm against his chest— his bare chest.

This man was shredded as fuck... and the tattoos.

He had them everywhere. They were all intricately designed and carefully thought out. Some seemed to have sentiment while others seemed like they were done just for the hell of it. His were colorful, unlike mine that were just black.

I had tattoos here and there on my body. Butterflies, flowers, writing, they were dainty but they all had meaning behind them.

I traced the ones on his chest as he stirred awake. His hands started to trail up and down my sides as I continued my actions. "Hey." I grumble out, my voice coming out hoarse.

"Hey." Carson's voice in the morning was, panty soaking deep. I mean it was naturally deep but it was just something about men and their morning voices.

"I'm hungry." I announce after a few minutes of silence.