Its Diffrent Lemarcus

Of course, this mess would happen two weeks before that Valentine's day party and I haven't even gotten my grades up even one notch, still can't I was an "A" student in Elementary. Well, at least till I moved to Northside High School, the place is “Hell” If it was a school.

Let me just say the facts so far: My name Lemarcus, born and raised in Dallas TX(Moved to Chicago when I turned 4), I have two older siblings and my life is mid for no good reason, at all. So basically all of this started this morning when my homie Jacorey came to me about some bull crap about my now ex-girlfriend Julie. Saying some crazy stuff like “Lil dude had airdropped a pic of yo girl and Jaywan together at the game on Friday” I mean, I had the picture and everything cause I was airdropped too but at the time I aint want to believe that she did that.

Knowing damn well that It was true if it came from Jacorey, him being the realist one out there now. That was all this morning, but it's 2pm sum right now, and I'm sitting in the back of my math class beside Jacorey and Christinna talking the hell out of him, Jacorey knowing good and well she like him.

Me and Jacorey had been friends since the 2nd grade and sometimes we go over to each other's house so we can Hang out but a good 65% of the time when he comes over to my house, he and my older brother be gaming, and stuff, I don't know they got going on but none of my business.

”So you going to the Black-out mask party on Thurs?”Christinna still running her mouth to him

“I'll think about it” he was scrolling on Instagram, and I know he aint gonna go with her cause he said “I'll think about it”, for him, thats a no.

I’ve been scrolling on Tiktok for the past 30 minutes waiting for class to end at 3:15 and time seems to be moving on its own time right now and it's taking its time even more when Tremaine had to switch his seat to sit beside me, he's a little kid, I looked over to Jacorey and saw that he had put his Airpods in, probably trying to ignore what Christi was rumbling on and on about.

Tremaine's side profile was turned to me but I was still irritated about what he was doing, but this guy Is a giant. He is on our football team, and he's been on our team as halfback for the past few years(He used to do Theatre and still does but I guess he figured out that a guy like him is just too mad fit to just do theatre), but I think he's a selfish, mean and a obnoxious little kid, I don't even know why people like that boy to be honest. I haven't always thought of Tremaine like this,we used to be friends in 5th till 7th grade, It all started in 8th grade when Tremaine had tackled me when I was about to make a touchdown for our team at a game, we didn't have a scrimmage or nothing at the warmups, and he ended up damaging my left triceps, the thing that made it crazier is that the nigga was laughing and posting about it for no reason, which basically was my recap of 8th grade. I mean, me and Tremaine met in 4th and Ive always known I had a feeling for him but I dont know if thats what im really feeling for the guy, why am I even thinking about him so damn hard right now?

“Yo Marcus!”Nathaniel was standing in the classroom doorway calling me “Yo, Nathan”I had packed my bag up and Nathaniel dabbed me up. Nathaniel and Jacorey headed to the field while I went to the locker room to change.Tremaine had came in a few minutes after, I just took off my shirt and folded it into my locker and changed into my gear, Tremaine’s pants we’re already changed but he was taking his shirt off too. I had glanced over and damn did he have abs, I mean, I do too but, what was he doing to get them that toned?Dude looked like he was some kind of guy out of those “Finest in our school”Instagram pages I guess my glancing turned into staring because next thing I know Tremaine asked me

“Yo, you good?” and turned towards me

“Ye”I mumbled, slamming my locker closed.

he smirked and kept sneaking peeks at me. But when I say mans a giant, this guy has to be 6’6 or sum cause im 6’1and ¼. I looked from my locker to looking up at his reeling eyes, they locked for a second, which makes me look away from him, makes my eyes want to break away but they dont, we had of stared at each other for a good minute before Jose (One of my brothers friends)called us to the field before our coach got there cause if he did, we would be running laps and doing push-ups till the whole season was over.Football practice was normal, practicing touchdowns and tackling, line ups and the regulars. “Alright boys, we got practice tomorrow same time and its going to continue on Friday, so no practice on Thursday.”The coach was tossing water bottles to different people “Good Work today,yall better keep this shit up,we dont want to get whooped by the other teams”Jose was packing his stuff into his car and taking a few of our team members with him, classic caring Jose.

I went back to the locker room to change and pack my stuff up as usual, I aint feel like packing my football helmet and pads into my bag so I just left them. Jacorey had just got his driver's license a week after the month he turned 18 so we planned to go to the Chick-fil-A by my house then he’ll drop me off but lil Tremaine Hannes had to tag along cause Jose’s truck was full and Tremaine's car was getting fixed apparently till Thursday, All of these things canceling and starting out of coincidence on Thursday feels, doesn't feel real, but hey, frees me up even more.

Tremaine had sat in the backseat since Jacorey had his stuff in the passenger seat, where I usually sit.I live like, a good 20 minutes away from my school so I knew this would be the longest fucking car drive of my life with Tremaine in the car, knowing Jacorey, he’s blasting Young boy and Nardo Wick while I look over and see Tremaine with his pro’s in scrolling on some

Jacorey pulled up to the drive thru “what yall want”He started to roll his window down “Ill take number 3” Me and Tremaine said unexpectedly at the same time, we looked at each other for a second and I ended up making a groaning noise “Okay, 2 number 3’s please, and drinks?”Jacorey looked like he was low-key fed up with our shit “Sprite”I was texting my brother if he wanted anything “Just a Lemonade” Tremaine being so damn basic, not even looking up from his phone “And my brother said just get him what you getting, Corey”I knew that was the way my brother worked when it comes to Jacorey Jay Wright“Ight”Jacorey was starting to pull up to pay and get our food.

We pulled up to my house driveway and I grabbed our food and drinks “Alright man, thanks, I owe it to you next”I had dabbed Jacorey up

“You welcome, tell yo brother to text me” Jacorey was starting to roll up his window, I grabbed my bag and keys from the back seat until Tremaine had said

“Tell your family I said Hey, and stay safe Lemar”Tremaine had actually looked up from his phone this time and had a faint smile, I swear I felt my face get hot

“sure,you too”I mumbled and went up to my doorstep.

I’ve always hated the nickname “Lemar”, at least when he started calling me that, and he knows I hate that name, I prefer “Marcus”. Lamaria was sitting in the living room watching something on Netflix and I could hear my brother gaming upstairs in his room either playing GTA or Call Of Duty. “How did practice go?”She had paused whatever she was watching and turned to look at me “It went good, scored some touchdowns and ran some laps”I started to take the drinks out of the holder“Corey had dropped me off again so, how was your day”

“My day was fine, Mr.Banners is the most boring class ever though”

“Glad I ain't got him for Lecture”I had eaten some of my nuggets

“Oh, and mom said that she had to cover a game tonight so she’ll be back about 9” Lamaria had pulled out her phone

“Alright, you’ve eaten right?”

“Yep, mom had ordered a pizza here earlier”

“When Dante comes downstairs, tell him that his food is in the fridge please, oh and"I pause "Tremaine said hey, and uh tell mom he said that too”

We had chatted a little more then I had threw away my box and trash and put his food in the fridge and headed up the stairs with my drink.I had knocked on my brothers door then opened it up to him gaming

“Yo hey,your food is downstairs and text- I ment call Corey”He was starting to pause his game and take off his headset

“Ight, appreciate it, is ma back yet?”he was starting to get up and stretch “Nah, she gonna be out till 9, she had a game”I went down the hall to my room, turned my LED’s on and threw myself on the bed. Getting home and staring at the ceiling like it did something to me isint my normal thing to do but its gonna be today.

Talking about doing things, we got that Masquerade party on Thursday starting to think about it.

The party is supposed to be at 10pm and it's one of Dante’s friend's father’s spot down on the strip of the city and you are highly recommended to wear tux’s and some of them masks that cover your face so they don't know who you are.

I know that Jose is going which means my brother going so Corey going and lil Miss. Jones gonna go everywhere Mr.Hannes goes, and some other people that I know probably gonna go too. Me and Jacorey are supposed to go and get some tuxedos tomorrow at a Taylor somewhere in the city, he was going to wear black and people saying that I’ll look hella good if I picked a dark red tux cause it would go with my “Golden brown” skin.

I ended up watching Netflix till 11 something pm before going out to check on everybody else, My brother was still up gaming and stuff until I noticed that his phone was propped up toward him with Jacorey on a Facetime with him,if you really knew Jacorey Hannes, he really isn't the type of guy to have late-night FaceTime.They must be on an online game together or something.

“Hey, could you get a Fanta for me please? And thank you for getting me sum from Chick-fil-A’’He was starting to take off one side of his headset off his ear “Sure, and Hey Corey”I had waved into the camera before going downstairs to check on mom and my sis.

“Hey honey,how are you?”Mom was in the kitchen preparing something and smiled with her arms out, indicating she wanted a hug

“Good, how was the game?”I had hugged her, she was always a warm person

“Oh the game was fine,their coach was getting pretty stressed though, glad I only have one more game to cover”

“Another game?This week?”

“Yea, the teams have changed their schedules to two games every 3 weeks, reminds me of how you used to play football in elementary”

“We’ll at least the season didn't last this long”I opened the fridge

“Lemarcus, You’ve been doing great this season, im proud of you. But when are we going to get them grades up young man”she turned to me with a glass of water in her hand and something boiling on the stove

“Listen, Im trying my best and i’ve obviously gotta try harder”I had grabbed the soda and was about to head upstairs

“Well, bad things are going to stay bad until you decide to change them.”She said while lifting up her glass and taking a sip.

I just silently groaned to myself cause she be sounding like one of those Dhar-Man people or something, I gave my brother his soda and went ahead and took a shower, looking at myself in the mirror seeing the scar on my left shoulder still there from the surgery, fuck Tremaine Hannes. I know that I hate Tremaine with all that i’ve got but there still something there in me about him hoping if its rage or I just want to dominate him in general, of course, the way to end my day is thinking about the first person I don't give a shit about.

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