Second Chance

Chapter Three : "Temptation."

Tamir Bryant

I repeatedly glanced up at the girl in front of me hair, making sure I got the correct details as I sat behind her and drew the classroom. I finished off her detailed box braids and made my way to the back of her desk.

"Ace." I heard someone whisper my name while the teacher went on talking about something I wasn't interested in.

I remove my head from leaning on my right fist and removed the pencil out of my left hand since I was left handed. I licked over my bottom lip and looked over at Alexus, who was the one that whispered my name.

"Party at my house tonight. Be sure to come." She slid me an invitation before winking her eye at me. I took the invitation kindly.

Alexus was the most known girl at Murrah High School. She wasn't a hoe, she was just the popular type girl. I didn't have anything plan tonight so I thought I might slide through her party along with my homeboys, Nyck & Ty.

I grew bored of our teacher still talking about her life. I looked at the clock to realize we had a good little minute left in class.

My eyes scanned over to room until a perfect plan came to mind. All I had to do was get Nyck's attention. I ripped a piece of paper out my notebook and crumbled it up, throwing it at Nyck.

He turned around and looked at me. I pointed at the red paint on our teacher's desk. He already knew the rest of the plan.

He managed to get the paint off the desk. He grabbed some paper towels and squirted some paint on the paper towels. He put the paper towel up to Ty's nose to make it look like his nose was bleeding.

"Aye, Mrs. M. I need to take him to the nurse." Nyck stood up along with Ty, heading for the door.

"Oh yes, take him please." Mrs. M. responded before going back to her speech. She finally went over to the board which was my cue to dip out.

I put my belongings in my book bag and sat it in the back of the class before easing my way out the back door of the classroom. I slowly shut the door behind me.

That's when Nyck, Ty, and I dipped out the back door of the high school building.

"We out that motherfucker, nigga!" Nyck yelled as we started walking down campus.

"Aye, white bitch what I told you about sayin' that?" Ty eyed Nyck.

"My grandma black, bruh."

"I don't give a fuck if she was purple. You're white and you're not goin' to say nigga around me unless you want to catch this fade." Ty retaliated as we finally made it a little far away from the school.

Nyck is a last year transfer student from New York City which is where he gets his name from New York City Kid. We clicked with him his first day here and he's been the homie every since.

Ty is a who I call my brother from another mother. We grew up on the same block. We've been homies since diapers. He was more of the hard headed type and the one always trying to try something new.

"Shit man, I can't get it." Ty grumbled, trying to get his football from under a charter bus.

"You look like a roach under there." Nyck joked. I chuckled and watched as he finally got the ball.

"Look like your mama under there." He fired back which made Nyck smack his lips.

I shook my head at their foolishness and led the way to 12tH Street's home. I cut through a backyard and finally ended up there. I knocked on the door.