Change Me

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Change Me - Chapter 1

Jessica's POV 💭

It was the first day of my Senior Year and as you would expect .. I'm excited. It's another year closer to graduation! Not to mention I already have a few scholarships lined up. One for softball and two or three for academics.

When I walked into the school on this sunny day, I went straight to the front office to get my schedule. Pre-Calculus, Physics, American Literature, AP U.S History, Photography, and Physical Education in that order. I would have lunch during U.S History.

I wandered around the halls looking for my friends, but mostly my girlfriend Demi. We scarcely saw each other this summer. She worked at a summer camp and I worked at Foot Locker. But we made time when we could and in three weeks it'll be our one year anniversary.

After I found my friends and we compared schedules the bell rang and I headed to Pre-Calculus with my best friend Shelley. To my surprise when we walked in my girlfriend was there! How much better can this get?!

I hugged her, gave her a kiss, and claimed the seat next to her. She looked at me with a very sad look on her face... It totally killed my mood and worried me.

"Demi, what's wrong?" I finally asked her

She looked down at her hands avoiding further eye contact with me. "I messed up ..." She said

"What do you mean you messed up? Babe, what did you do?"

"Well .. Over the summer... At the summer camp, I was working at I met another girl... One of the other counselors and I hooked up with her throughout the summer and ...."

"And what?!" I said obviously upset

"She's my girlfriend now .."

"Wow ... How low could you be?! I'm so done with you! Don't talk to me anymore ." I said as I stood up to move my seat

Demi grabbed my hand,"I'm sorry! I didn't mean for any of this to happen it just happened! "

"You lied to me for the whole summer... You made your choice. And I'm done with you ."

I pulled my hand away from her and moved towards the back with Shelley. A few tears escaped my eyes and I quickly wiped them away when the late bell rang. Our teacher, Mr.Murphy, stood up and started his introduction but was interrupted but Tyler Jackson and her little "gang" running into the room and when I say gang I mean an actual gang. Guns, drugs, bandanas, rivalries, everything.

"Nice of you to join us Ms.Jackson and friends. Late passes?" The whole class laughed a little, even me. But Tyler only noticed me.

"What's so funny white girl?" She said with a little smirk on her face.

"I have a name ." I shot back quickly

She looked back at her friends then said,"Alright... That's fair. What's your name white girl?"

"Jessica." At that moment Demi looked at me with a "what are you doing?!" face... But I ignored it

Tyler nodded and smiled,"Jessica... Jessica .. Ok Jessica . " she took her seat in the next row, a couple of desks back.

*In Photography Class*

All of my classes went by pretty fast today. But it's only the first day and I still have one class to go. I was examining work on the wall when a familiar voice came up behind me.

"We meet again white girl .." She whispered slowly in my ear.

I jumped a little bit but I tried not to show it.

"What do you want delinquent?" I was trying to be funny

"Delinquent? Ouch ... That hurts. Why delinquent?"

"Aren't you in a gang? Drug dealing and all?" I said putting my back against the wall

"Gang is such a harsh sounding word... I prefer family cause that's what we are." She said still smirking.

We went back and forth on the subject, the whole time I examined her. The backward NY SnapBack, the plain white t-shirt, the purple and blue long-sleeve plaid shirt, her black skinny jeans that sagged a little and showed her Calvin Klein boxers, down to her white Air Force 1's... Her blue braces ... Tyler was cute. But her flirting skills were weak and she wasn't my type.

"Look Tyler -"

"You can call me Ty, Teddy, TJ .. Anything my friends call me ."

"Right ... So Tyler, I see what you're trying to do and it's not gonna. work."

"Explain?"

"You're trying to run the same game on me that you run on all these other girls... But I'm not interested. So just save yourself the trouble and don't try ok? I have higher standards." I said slowly trying to walk away.

"So what you only have a thing for other white girls ?"

Its true a majority of girls I have dated are my race. But that has nothing to do with anything. Tyler was African American & Puerto Rican ... And that's cute as hell. But it didn't change the fact that I wasn't interested.

"I'm not that shallow, just not interested. No hard feelings ok?"

She nodded and sat far away from me on the other side of the room. After an hour of discussing the parts of the camera, it was time for gym and the first day or not we had to dress out. I glanced around the locker room just to see who was in my class .. I saw Shelley, Mariah, Shayla and Dominique, all my close friends. Then I saw Demi. And a few people away from her was Tyler and her friends. I've seen a lot of her today. Tyler was shirtless at the time, her body was pretty toned... It made her a little cuter. But it didn't matter because I'd never go down that road.

Since it was the first day we got to do whatever we wanted. So I and my friends sat in the bleachers and watched back and forth between the boys and girls playing basketball. And soon enough school was over.

Tyler's POV 💭

After school I grabbed my stuff and headed outside, eventually meeting up with my crew .. Everybody standing by their own motorcycle. Mines was the light blue Suzuki on the end. I wasn't in the mood to talk so I hopped on and left the school.

When I got home I threw my bag down and went upstairs. I looked in my dad's room and he wasn't there. Probably off to work. Then I looked in my little brother's room and he was gone too. He was probably outside with his friends.

When I walked into my room I immediately headed for my stash. I had an hour to sell half of it or my ass was grass. At school, I may be a ringleader but in the neighborhood ... I was just like everybody else, just trying to survive.

I put the stash in my back pocket and headed down the street with the rest of my friends. As usual, we just sat on the corner talking trash and passing the blunt back and forth, just waiting for someone to come. Eventually one of my usuals came dude named Jason from down on the next block. Everybody calls him Lil Jay, mostly because he's 18 and he's still pushing 5'5.

"Wassup Ty? You got me today?"

"Well, that depends Jay ... You got my payment?"

"Don't I always?" He said as he pulled the money out of his pocket.

"Alright .. " I took his money and gave him the rest of the stash.

"Soo....," he said looking at all of us,"Y'all checking in with Big tonight?"

Big was one of the oldest guys in the neighborhood. He ran the whole chain and the only way to get out is to graduate, never get sucked into it, or die. I and my friend's goal is to graduate and get outta here, But for now, this is us.

"Yeah we going..," said Dontae, glaring at Jay.

Dontae was the only guy that hung out with me and my friends Shay and Kayla. Unless you wanna count his quiet ass a mouse brother, Derek. But anyway .. Dontae has some hate towards Jay . See .. Jay got sucked into this when we did. We were all only about 12 at the time, young and stupid, he was going on 15. He looked out for us .. Kept us out of trouble .. And he promised us he'd never leave us. But then he graduated... Up and left out of the neighborhood. He comes back every once in awhile to help us out... But after he left everything changed. Dontae and Derek got jumped on a run. I got stabbed in my leg. Shay and Kayla got raped ... Nobody was there anymore. We had no one.

Jay nodded and said," Well I hope everything goes well. I'm out tho I'll hit y'all later. Call if you need anything ."

When he started to walk away Dontae jumped up and yelled,"Man we don't need shit from you!"

I grabbed his hand motioning him to sit down and chill. Jay kept walking and never turned back once.

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