Nasir knee if her mom wouldn't make ends meet , then she would no matter the cost. Stealing , setting , selling anything worth a little change.

Whatever she could to make sure that house her mom got could at least be kept up with. And even though she was doing all this , it was still hard.

Not everything always fell through , but best believe when it did...she knew it could have never happened without her.

" Just stupid ! Am I the only thinking of how we gone survive! " Nasir yelled out as she started to walk through the alley near their apartment buildings.

Letting out a few curse words under her breathe , she tighten the straps of her black Jansport backpack and kept walking.

She knew to make it quick walking down this alley , because anybody would pop out or drive though. Looking around and behind herself , she checked her surrounding constantly before coming towards the ends.

Once she went to turn out of the alley , she was stopped by a tall figure bumping right into her.

" Watch outtt." She dragged out before smacking her lips and pushed the person back slightly.

" Yo' lil ass ran into me the hell." The male voice caught her attention making her look up only to see Markeyvius.

" Move Markeyvius. I don't got time for this shit." She snapped at him sighing and pushing her hair out of her face.

" Fuck wrong with you Simmons." He laughed calling her by her last name just as everyone else at their school did.

Everybody knew ' Simmons '. The girl who lived in the projects , same pair of shoes , same few pairs of jeans...The poor girl.

You'd think that people would humble themselves and take a look at the situation around them. But if you didn't have the nicest of the nicest...kids around here seen right past that'.

Looking up at Markeyvius , Nasir stuffed her hands into her jean pockets. Everyone knew about Markeyvius...he was the most popular senior at their school.

Although he was a senior and she was a junior she still knew who he was. And with no doubt in her mind Nasir knew he knew her situation.

" Can you help me ?" She blurted out making Markeyvius make a face at her.

" Help yo' ass with what ? You want some weed or sum ? " He asked her pulling out a 8th of weed from his pocket ?

" No I wanna sell some weed..." She mumbled out making Markeyvius bust out laughing.

" Simmons , the fuck your tryna sell weed for ? " He laughed and shook his head stuffing it back into his pocket.

" Yo' ass wouldn't know what to do with the shit anyways." He chuckle making another comment and hiked up his sagging pants.

" Please." She asked again , this time around you could hear her voice cracking making him soften up on her a little bit.

Nasir wasn't the type to just break down and cry in front of anybody so if she did it was serious. The tears hadn't even started to form in her eyes and she couldn't even find the words to say what she wanted to.

" I need to try and pay the rent...and keep the lights on. Please just help me out." She pleaded out still having the same cracking voice.

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