Change Me - 2

Change Me - Chapter 2

*That Night *

Tyler's POV 💭

It's nine o'clock and I'm sitting at the dinner table with my dad and brother, anxiously checking the clock on the wall, eating as fast as I could.

"What's your deal?" My little brother, TJ, asked.

"Don't ask questions Tj, leave your sister alone ." My dad said, trying not to look at either one of us.

I looked at his face... Still slightly dripping sweat from his long day at work down at the ship-yard. He was tired and upset... Like always.

"Dad ... Have you heard from mom?" I asked slowly

He shook his head no.

See my mom is in rehab... She's been there for the last year. We try to check on her when we can but most of the time she rejects us... Which is probably what happened. She's a sensitive subject for him...

After everybody finished eating I offered to clear the table, mostly because I needed to sneak out. I cleaned the kitchen and headed straight to my room, pacing back and forth waiting for it to close to ten. But then I heard knocking on my window.

I opened it to see Derek sitting on the branch.

"Everybody ready?"

He nodded. I climbed out the window and down the tree behind him.

The whole crew walked together in silence, obviously nervous about what was possibly going to happen. The closer we got the more everybody clung to each other. When we reached the front door of the biggest house on the block I stepped up and knocking on the door. One of Big's workers opened the door and told us to go down to the basement. I could hear his vicious dogs growling and barking and the sound of his bodyguards readying their guns. I took a deep breath and stood next to my crew, trying to show no emotion just as everyone else.

Big looked at each of us up and down like he was looking for something. Then he sat back and smiled.

"My favorite kids on the block, how are you guys?"

"We good." Said Dontae

"Good, good, excellent. Any trouble with my money?" He replied with a suspicious look

"No sir." We replied in unison

"Get the payments, Roger ."

Roger did as told and collected everyone's individual money bag.

"Hmmm .... " he said while counting the money,"nice job, you kids always give me more than what I ask." Then he gave each of us one hundred dollars back. "Come back in a week to get the next stash. Until then watch your backs."

We all nodded and walked out. When we got far enough away from the house we finally took a sigh of relief.

"I was gonna pee myself for a second!" Said, Shay

"You're so overreacting," I said

"Yeah like you weren't scared," Dontae said sarcastically

"Maybe I wasn't." I shot back

"Man whatever -" then he got cut off by the sound of screaming and bullets. We all turned around to see Jr. running up the street and Big's truck following him, Roger was shooting at him. Derek dove towards the ground while I and Dontae grabbed one of the girls and dove after him.

When we heard the truck come back down the street and all the bullets had stopped, we slowly got up.

"Is anybody hurt?!" I asked rather loud and watched as everybody nodded.

I helped Kayla, who was under me, off the ground and asked her if she was ok again. She seemed in shock but that was no surprise. Kayla's always been scared of this stuff, especially since she got raped.

"Too scared to stay alone tonight?" I asked her. Mostly because her parents worked night shifts and I knew this would mess her up, so I took her to her house to get her stuff then took her to my house.

She went into the bathroom and washed her face, came out and sat on my bed.

"Are you ok?" I asked as I sat next to her. She didn't say anything, just rested her head on my shoulder and stared into space.

She eventually fell asleep so I laid her down, turned off the lights, and fell asleep on the bean bag chair in my room.

*The Next Morning*

Jessica's POV 💭

I woke up this morning with the bright sun on my face. I quickly took a shower, got dressed and headed downstairs to my mom who was already making breakfast.

"Goodmorning Darling." She greeted me.

"Hey, mom."

"Any plans after school?"

"No, why?"

"Well ... My co-worker has a son who thinks you're attractive and would like to take you out tonight. How about it?"

"No! Why do you always try to get me on dates with boys?!"

"Because I want more for you than to be with some girl!"

"That's MY decision NOT yours!" And with that, I grabbed my bag and was out the door. She's so annoying sometimes, she's tries so hard to push guys on me and it's not what I want! But it's whatever I pay my mother no attention.

When I walked into Pre-Calculus this morning I was surprised to see Tyler and her friends already here. I waved at Tyler but instead of waving back she just turned around and talked to her friends. I ignored it and sat down.

"What's wrong? New girlfriend ignoring you now?" Demi shot at me

"Shut up turd."

"Ooooh, turd! That's clever isn't it, you were always so basic."

At that moment Tyler stood up.

"Aye girl cut that shit out." She shot at Demi

"Oh yeah," she said as she was getting in Tyler's face," and what exactly are you gonna do? You're just some hood rat from around the corner."

And right then Tyler grabbed Demi and pushed her into the wall, with her shirt in a tight grip. Her friends pulled her off as our teacher yelled at them to stop. One of the girls glared at me, obviously motioning that is was my fault.

Tyler's POV 💭

I sat there and stared into space for awhile until Dontae tapped my arm.

"So you got a thing for her huh?" He asked

"Nah ..."

"Whatever. Nobody stands up for a girl like that unless they have a thing for her ."

"It's true." Kayla agreed

"Look ... She already rejected me, there were no feelings then and there's none now. She's cute or whatever but its nothing major. I was just being nice." I shot at them

"Alright, bruh..." Dontae said sitting back in his chair and turning his attention back forward.

*In Photography *

As soon as I walked in I sat next to Tyler.

"What's your deal Tyler?"

"What are you talking about?" She asked not once looking at me, while copying notes off the board.

"First you're all flirty, then you're all rejecty , then you're all protecty !"

She glanced at me then said,"You're not interested so I'm backing off. The thing this morning was just me being nice, I don't like when girls are disrespected by assholes ."

"Well ... I just wanted to thank you but also say I'm sorry ."

"For what?"

"That you went through that trouble for me."

"No problem.. Anytime."

I smiled at her and started copying my notes.

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