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"Mane you is a bitch!" I yelled at my homie Ace as I whooped his behind at 2k.

"Shut up. You just cheating" he grumbled and I laughed.

"You know that ain't true". I dunked the ball in the net just as the game ended. "Kicked yo ass"

"You rigged this shit" he complained.

"Nigga it's yo game so how I rigged it?"

"Iono. But you know what yo slimy ass did". He pulled out his phone and started tapping away on it. I smacked my lips at him and turned to the others.

"Y'all tryna eat?"

"McDonald's?" Jared asked. "You got McDonald's money fatass?"

"What we gon' eat then?" Day-day asked, looking up from her phone. Her real name was Soleil but Jared started calling her day-day after he found out the meaning of her name and it kinda just stuck.

"You still got them noodle cups right Ace?". I stood up and went into the kitchen, which was connected to the living room.

"Y'know his glutton ass ain't ever out" Omar said and they all laughed, except Ace who threw a pillow at him.

I had a small group of friends. Scratch that. We was like family. There was Ace. He was the oldest by a year and our bienfaiteur. That's french for benefactor. He was the only person out the five of us who got a job that pay well. He moved out his parents crib when he was 17 so we hang at his place all the time.

Then Omar. He was my cousin and the brains in the group. He always been a smart lil nigga right from when he was in diapers. And he was steady reading too. He was determined to make it out the hood 'fore he was 22.

Next was Day-day. She was the chill one in our lil circle. She was really unproblematic and got along with everybody. Literally everybody. She could kick it witchu like a nigga or talk shit witchu like a bitch. It all just depended on the vibes she got from you. Plus she was kinda full of wisdom so she was the best person to go to for advice on sum'.

Moving on to Jared, he the goofy one. He never serious bout shit. Like at all. He always joking around. Slacking off. He came into the picture when Day-day suddenly popped up in a relationship with him. Apparently they been talking and shit and they just decided to make it official. And she didn't even tell me nun'.

Then lastly, there's me. Kenzo. My real name was McKenzie but they called me kenzo cause I was really into fashion. They dubbed me 'the mean one'. Ion see how I was mean tho. I just didn't fuck with a lotta people. At all. They was all just fake and shit. Tryna dick ride to get sum' outchu. And I wasn't with that shit at all. And I don't even like people easily. I barely like Jared. I just tolerate him cause of Day-day.

Well I wasn't the last in the group. There was Gina, Ace's girlfriend but she was so damn annoying, I refused to acknowledge her as a person. Plus she was a tag-along.

I was rummaging through Ace's cabinets when he called out to me.

"Aye kenz yo phone blowing up!"

"Prolly aunt Mae telling her to bring her ass home" Omar chimed in as I walked back into the living room. Aunt Mae was my mother and Omar's mother's sister.

"No. She at a church convention" I said, picking up my phone. I scrolled through the messages and smiled.

"Judging by how she cheesing right now, I can tell the texts from Caleb"

Caleb was this guy I was talking to. We wasn't nothing serious tho. He was just a lil.....vibe.

"Shut up". I was gonna text him later. I was about to drop my phone back on the table when a text from an unknown number came in.

I scrunched up my face and tapped on it.

(310) 235-6557

who dis?

-1:32pm

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I smacked my lips at my phone. How you text me and ask who this is?

(424) 643-2157

tf

-1:33pm

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u texted me so how u askin who dis is

-1:33pm

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The person replied almost immediately.

(310) 235-6557

iono

-1:33pm

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someone told me to text dis dam numba

-1:33pm

I found his response kinda weird. I don't know if it was a guy but it kinda felt like it was.

"Mane y'all give somebody my number again?" I asked the others. They was always tryna set me up with people and I been having to block all em. And they was a lot.

"Uh..my cousin Marquis. Why?" Jared asked.

"Well he texting me. And he being all weird bout it" I complained.

"Texting? Nah that ain't my cousin. He ain't got no phone yet" he said and I furrowed my eyebrows. "Then who this is then?"

(424) 643-2157

who told u to text it

-1:34pm

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fa what

-1:34pm

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"Who texting you?" Omar asked.

"Iono. Some weird nigga" I answered.

"Lemme see" Ace spoke up and I handed him the phone. He read through the messages and passed it round to the others. When the phone finally got back to me, he texted back.

(310) 235-6557

iono.

-1:35pm

seen

they just said to text it

-1:35pm

seen

(424) 643-2157

an ur dumbass did

-1:35pm

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(310) 235-6557

wait......dat do sound dumb

-1:36pm

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(424) 643-2157

you just now getting it?

-1:36pm

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(310) 235-6557

ight bruh my bad

-1:37pm

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so...........wyd?

-1:37pm

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I scrunched my face up and blocked him. I didn't know who it was and I wasn't really up for finding out. I slipped my phone in my jeans pocket and went into the kitchen to resume my hunt for food.

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