Dinah's POV

"Yo Dj!"

I hear my nickname yelled from down the hallway just as the song I was listening to ended. Talk about perfect timing. I pause my music and turn around as they finally reach me.

"Sup guys", I say as I greet my teammates with handshakes and hugs.

"Yo D, you going to the pep rally tonight?"

"The one for the team? Yeah the captain kinda has to go." The rally in question is for the girls basketball team making it all the way to the championship game and winning in overtime. The principal wanted to honor us since we're the first girl's team in the school's history to do that.

"Damn I was kinda hoping you weren't going then we all could skip it."

"Rey why don't you wanna go?"

"I don't want to be reminded that I rode the bench most of the game because of my damn knee."

"Oh come on Reyes, you know damn well no one's cares about your knee. Tell her Z!" I turn my attention to my best friend and co-captain Zendaya Coleman to back me up on my statement, but then I look in her direction when she didn't speak right away, I see her texting. I roll my eyes before taking off my hat and hitting her with it.

"Ow! Hey what was that for!?"

"For not paying attention," I say as I fix the cap back on my head. "Now tell Raven that no one will care about her knee injury at the pep rally later."

"Rae the pep rally is to celebrate us for bringing spirit back to the school, no one is gonna bring up that you got hurt."

Raven looks down at her crutches before I make her look up at me. "Rae look you kinda have to go, your girl is gonna be there, and coach said it was mandatory yesterday."

"Dammit Kane! Fine I'll see you there. I gotta go to the lab, see you at lunch." She hugs Zendaya and I before slowly walking away. Zendaya looks like she wants to say something, but waits until Raven is out of earshot to speak.

"Why did you just lie to her like that?"

"What do you mean?" I say knowing exactly what she is referring too.

"Kane didn't say it was mandatory to go the the pep rally."

"Oh I know but one little text to Sinclair and Jackson and he said whatever I told Raven he said." I smirk devilishly while pulling out my phone.

"Dinah what are you gonna do?" Zendaya says looking nervously between my phone and the smirk on my face.

"Oh don't be so nervous I'm just gonna send a little text to Coach Sinclair to tell Raven if he sees her that Principal Kane said the pep rally is mandatory. That's all." I send the text when I finish talking and put my phone away in the same breath. Turning back around to my locker I grab my books and shut it tight.

"Ready for class Z?" She shakes her head as soon as I turned to her.

"Come on goof, I wanna see my girlfriend."

Normani's POV

"So anyway you told Z you weren't ready to have sex and then what happened?" "She was quiet for a moment and then said that she wasn't ready either. She kissed me on the cheek and after that we watched the rest if the movie until she had to go home."

I slam my locker closed, stopping the conversation my two best friends are having around me.

"Are you two done?"

"Aww is someone jealous of our little Tori getting some action, Mani?" Lauren says smirking at me, mischief visible in her eyes.

Shaking my head I reply, "No, I just don't get it. How did shy little Tori get ballplayer with a heart of gold Zendaya? I never thought Zendaya would ever know you even existed. No offense T."

"Well thanks for that Manz." Tori says with a slight chuckle, making a joke to show that she's not hurt by my comments.

"Ugh you know what I mean T! I'm still kinda stuck on how she asked you out without anyone saying anything to her beforehand. I mean it's kinda stumping me a little bit."

"She said she remembered when we sang the national anthem for the last home game they had, and meant to ask me out after the game but then playoffs happened and forgot."

Lauren chimes in with the rest of the story almost as soon as Tori stops. "Yeah if it wasn't for Kehlani's birthday party, which you should have came to, Zendaya wouldn't've had a chance to talk to Tori outside of school."

"Let me guess she was smitten as soon as she was those dimples up close? You make it sound so easy." I say gripping my books to my chest tighter.

"Well it could be that easy if you would go out with us every once in awhile." Lauren says and I roll my eyes knowing she was gonna say that. I push off the locker I'm leaning on and make my way to our shared first class.

"We're not having this conversation again Lauren." I say walking ahead making her jog to catch up with me.

"Well if you went to at least one party with me we can never have this conversation again." Lauren says as she makes her way to my right said and looping her arm with mine, Tori silently doing the same on my left.

"How many time do I have to tell you that I'm not a party person? I just end up feeling awkward and out of place there."

"You sound like Alessia." Tori says making us both chuckle before Lauren brings our attention back to her.

"Well what about tonight?"

"What's tonight?" I say confused about where she's going with this new train of thought.

"The girl's basketball team is having their celebration party for winning the championship. You have to come with us!"

"Why would I go to that party? Even if I did like parties I wouldn't know anyone at that party."

Lauren gives me one of the most sarcastic looks in the world before speaking. "Uhm well your two best friends and their really nice girlfriends and going to be there. Also the entire choir was invited so you have to come."

"Why wasn't I informed that the choir was invited?" I stop in the middle on the hallway and turn to Lauren and Tori.

"Um because Zendaya asked me last night when she was leaving my house. She's having the party at her place so I said we would be there."

I think about it and even though that would make sense, I would have rather had Zendaya ask us at school.

"Have Zendaya ask the entire group at lunch. You can't answer for everyone, now come on we're going to be late for first period."

We surprisingly didn't end up being late to class, in fact when we get in the classroom people are still coming in after us. I take my seat towards the middle and pull out my notes from last class and start going over them. Right before the bell rings I hear the loud voice I was NOT looking forward to hearing today. Lo and behold in walks Dinah-Jane Loudmouth Hansen in all her annoying glory. Her less annoying best friends Zendaya and Kehlani walk in behind her with amused smirks while Dinah laughs her face off at something I will never want to know about. Zendaya and Kehlani slink away to their seats while Dinah continues to laugh over the bell ringing.

"Ms. Hansen. Care to share with the class what was so funny in the hallway?"

"Teach, buddy you know that clumsy kid Cabello? Well she was in the hallway carrying like half the library in her arms and some asshole bumped into her. She spun around like three tines, before dropping everything she had and falling to the ground. We all ran over to help her up and when she saw who it was that was trying to help, she snatched all of her books and ran away from us. She made it like halfway down the hallway before she ran into an open locker and the process started all over again."

I raise my eyebrow at my immature classmates, all of whom are laughing at Camila falling and possibly hurting herself. The teacher has the same expression on her face as I do which is unimpressed by Dinah and my classmates' actions.

"So what you're telling me that you're laughing at a fellow student falling and possibly hurting herself?"

"No I'm laughing at the facial expression she had on her face when she saw it was us who stopped and helped her. It was like she saw a ghost."

"Ms. Coleman, Ms. Parrish is she telling the truth?"

"Yes sir. Dinah only laughed at Camila's facial expression when she saw us. She even wanted to help her to the nurse's office, but the kid who's locker she ran into did it instead."

I look over at Zendaya and she doesn't look to be lying so I turn back to my notes.

"Okay Ms. Hansen you're just lucky you weren't late. Please take your seat."

"Thank you Mr. Jaha."

"Alright class let's begin today's lesson", Mr. Jaha says turning to the board while Dinah makes her way to her seat, which is unfortunately near mine. She flops ungracefully in her seat and before long she's asleep in her chair. How she's passing this class I'll never know. Probably some deal the basketball coach has with all the teachers to pass his star players so they can win a few games. Whatever the case I block Slacker Jane Hansen out of my mind and focus on my notes.

Dinah's POV *Lunch Time*

The bell rings meaning it's lunch time. I jump up from my desk and take my art assignment up to the teacher, my sketch already finished ten minutes ago, and hand it in.

"Here you go Ms. Gilles. Another masterpiece just for you."

"If you didn't have the talent to back it up, I would call you incredibly self-centered," Ms. Gilles says shaking her head but with a smile on her face.

"Good thing I got the talent then huh?" Smirking, I hand her the finished sketch so I can get her opinion on my work.

Today's assignment was to draw something we thought was beautiful. I caught a glimpse of Zendaya's and instantly rolled my eyes at the drawing of her girlfriend on the page. Whipped motherfucker, smh! I think the most beautiful thing in the world is a woman, so that's what I drew.

"Dinah this is a beautiful sketch. Is it finished?"

"Um yeah of course it is, why do you ask?" I reply confused at my teacher's statement. Why would I hand her an unfinished work? I only do that in English class.

"Dinah I think your piece, while perfect to hand in for a grade, isn't finished yet. Your muse is trying to tell you something and I think you need to listen to it."

"Well what is my muse trying to tell me, Ms. G?" Fixing the brim of my hat out of the way of my eyes to give my teacher my undivided attention.

"I can't tell you that Ms. Hansen only your muse can. In order to finish the picture you have to find the girl you're drawing inspiration from."

"But I'm not drawing inspiration from one girl, that was supposed to be a generic girl."

She takes another look at the sketch, like she has a specific person in mind, and hands it back to me.

"Keep it. For inspiration. Turn in the finished work on Monday. Have a good lunch Dinah-Jane."

I take my paper even more confused than I was before. I shake my head and walk out the room where Zendaya is waiting for me. She pushes off the locker and walks in step with me silently while she texts.

She finally puts her phone away when we walk in the lunch room.

"Hey come with me? I got to talk to Tori real quick."

"Why do you need me to talk to your girlfriend?"

"Because I need someone charming to convince her friends to come to the party tonight."

"While I am charming. Can't she convince them herself?"

"She tried earlier, but Tori said her friends wanted to talk to me and Normani scares me."

"How does some choir nerd scare you? But fine if you need me to protect you from big bad Normani, I got your back."

"You have never met Normani, but thank you so much DJ I owe you one!"

"Yeah you do owe me. And you're welcome but let's go over there after we eat. No way I'm doing that on an empty stomach."

Normani's POV

"Hey T, looks like your girl is coming this way."

I look up at the same time Tori does after Lauren spoke and Zendaya is walking towards us. I start to smile but then it's wiped off my face when I see who's walking with her. Dinah-Jane Hansen is walking right behind her. I hope that she's just on the way to the bathroom and will walk past us but I am not that lucky, because as soon as Zendaya sits at one of the open seats next to Tori, Dinah sits too. Oh great it's a dream come true Dinah-Jane sitting at my lunch table.

"Hey songbird. Ladies"

"Hey Zendaya. What's up?" I keep my eye on Dinah as Lauren talks to Zendaya, just waiting for her to do or say something out of line so I can make her leave.

"Nothing much Lauren, I just wanted to invite you all to a party tonight. I realized it was rude to have Tori ask you for me and decided to do it myself. After some major convincing of course."

"Tori told us something about a party earlier and that we could come if we wanted too." Lauren answers not waiting for me to formulate a reply to the ball player, besides I'm still keeping an eye on Dinah who is still texting.

"Uh yeah, yeah the party is an open invitation to the whole school just as long as no one brings alcohol. I'm not trying to get arrested and end up in a holding cell. You know what they do to black teens in holding cells, they don't make it long enough to make their one phone call." Zendaya ends her reply with an awkward chuckle telling me she's nervous about this conversation.

"Hmm I don't know, I don't really do parties especially the ones it sounds like your planning." I say, finally entering the conversation making my thoughts known.

Zendaya looks over at Dinah for a quick second before turning back to me.

"Well Normani, what would make you comfortable at my party?"

"Not calling it a party or inviting the whole school."

Dinah finally put her phone down and looks dead at me. I don't cower away from her gaze and we stare at each other until she speaks.

"Fine we aren't inviting the whole school. You are no longer invited. That way you don't have to worry about going at all. Not like you wanted too anyway."

Oh no she didn't. "Um excuse me? What did you just say to me?"

"Look it's simple, you don't want to go but your friends do. By cutting out the obstacle in this equation, you, I solved the problem. Now everyone gets what they want," Dinah finishes her little statement with a condescending smile that I do not take kindly too at all.

"Oh really, and what do you get out of this solution? Being as rude as you can be to a girl you hardly even know?"

"Look sweetheart I'm not trying to be rude, I was only returning what you were putting out there. If anyone was being rude it was you towards Zendaya and I for even coming over to your table. You wanna call me rude? Look in the mirror sweetheart."

Dinah gets up to leaves with a pat to Zendaya's shoulder. She leans down to whisper in her ear before walking away without looking back. Zendaya stays for a few minutes before kissing Tori on the cheek and leaving as well. Tori watches her leave before turning to me with an angry frown.

"Did you have to be so rude to them?"

"What?! Me being rude to them? Dinah was the one being rude!"

"No Mani you were being rude as soon as they sat down. They came over here to ask you to come to the party tonight. Not anyone else, you. Z was clearly nervous and Dinah was just here for backup, which she ended up needing because of what you said."

"Okay fine I'll just go and apologize right now."

"No that won't solve anything. You're going to come to the party with us and apologize there."

Tori nods in agreement at Lauren's words and I already know I'm going to dread tonight.

Dinah's POV

I'm sitting in the empty lunch room with my team waiting for our queue to enter the gym for the pep rally. Luckily Kehlani brought her Bluetooth speaker so we at least have some music to listen to while we wait. I'm kinda nervous about this pep rally because I have to give a speech thanking the school for supporting the team, and I hate public speaking. Luckily Zendaya, as my co-captain, will have to be up there with me so it won't be too bad.

I hear a door open and see Ally walk in with the mascot costume. Why they chose the smallest girl on the pep squad to be the team mascot I will never know. Probably because our mascot is low to the ground like her.

"Hey Ally."

She looks up suddenly at the sound of someone calling her name. She was in such a shock she dropped the mascot head when she jumped. I pick up the badger head and walk over to give it back to her.

"Oh, hey Dinah."

"I believe you dropped this. Sorry for scaring you and making you drop it by the way."

"Thanks."

She takes it and puts it on the chair next to her before she starts putting her hair up.

"You guys waiting for the gym to fill up?"

"Yeah. Coach just herded us in here and told us to wait until he got back."

"Well at least you don't have to run around the gym in a sweaty honey badger costume."

"Yeah but that sounds like a lot more fun, plus I don't think the costume would fit me too well." I chuckle and she giggles at my statement before turning back to her costume.

I help her get it zipped up and she smiles in thanks.

"Well I better get in there."

"Don't forget your head."

Ally turns around almost as quickly as she did the first time and blushes at the fact that she almost went out there without her head on. She quickly puts it on and jogs out of the lunch room towards the gym. Not even 15 minutes later Coach Sinclair walks in the room with a wheelchair in front of him.

"Alright ladies I need you to line up. Just make sure DJ and Z are in the back."

"I'm guessing that the wheelchair is for me?"

"You guessed right Reyes. They're really set on you guys running in and having the two captains in the back. Don't worry though, Kehlani will take care of your crutches and I'll be the one wheeling you in. "

Raven sighs before moving over and sitting in the chair. "Great just what I wanted, more attention on my injury. Here Lani. You break them you buy them."

Kehlani takes the crutches before holding them over her head long ways, the girls behind her catching on and grabbing ahold of them too, before smirking.

"Don't worry Reys. If they break while in my possession you can have Octavia beat me up."

Raven laughs, "I'll hold you to that KP! Alright coach, let's roll out."

We walk out to into the hall and from there we can hear Principal Kane announce us.

"Ladies and gents please welcome your champion Lady Honey Badgers!"

We run through the double doors and see the entire school packed in the gym. The cheerleaders and the pep squad cheer for us as we rush in but then again so is the whole gym. There is a row of chairs that say reserved directly behind us so we sit in them.

Principal Kane starts going on about how our team brought school spirit back after a tough year. He speaks for so long I start to drown him out. He calls Coach up and he speaks about proud of us he is and that he couldn't have got the team into shape if it wasn't for his two captains. Z shoulders me jokingly and I return it as coach praises his team.

At this point I think it's time for Zendaya and I to get up and speak, but apparently the cheerleaders and pep squad have a cheer to perform for us. They have a little chant for each member of the team and a special combined one for Z and I. When it's over I pull the team up and we give them a standing ovation.

After the cheerleaders Kane calls in the choir to sing the school song, which I didn't even know we had.

As they sing I see Zendaya and Kehlani recording their girlfriends from their seats, while I can't seem to keep my eyes off of Normani. For someone who was so nasty to me earlier, she has a beautiful voice. It's kinda weird that I can't stop looking at her. I mean I know I have classes with her, but I've never seem to really notice her before today. There's no denying that she's my type, but then again I'm not very picky when it comes to beautiful women. Man I wish she was coming to the party tonight, it would have been a perfect place to show her the "D-Mac charm".

The song ends and we stand for another standing ovation before Kane takes the floor again.

"Now we've spent this entire pep rally thanking and praising them, let's give them a chance to speak. Zendaya, Dinah come on up."

We walk to the middle of the floor to Principal Kane. He hands us two mics and sits down next to Vice principal Holiday. Z gives me a look that says "you're captain you speak first", so I suck it up and go for it.

"Sup guys, yall feeling okay? *pause for cheering* Well they told us we were supposed to speak in like third period, and everyone else had time to prepare so bare with us for a bit. I'm also kind of mad we had to go after that dance routine and the choir, because they were incredible, so can we give them one more round of applause?" *crowd cheers again*

Normani's POV

Zendaya and Dinah are currently trying to give a speech on the fly to the entire student body. I don't know why the principal or their coach didn't give them more time. I mean this pep rally has been planned for at least a week they could have gave them more notice than third period today. I mean the most those two are doing is stalling time until school let's out, or Principal Kane takes the mics from them

"Before they take these mics from us, I want to thank everyone who has come to even one of our games. I know Coach handed out extra credit if you showed up, but it doesn't matter. Support is support. This team would not be as good without you guys showing up for us. We showed up because you showed up.

I'm proud to be a part of a team of fighters, who even after losing three games in a row, never gave up. I'm proud of Raven, who fought through knee pain after almost every game but kept going. I'm proud of Kehlani, her first year playing ball and now she's one of our best players. Of Coach Sinclair, who kept us motivated through the rough times when we didn't even feel like a team. I'm proud of us, of this team and this school. Because just like our mascot, the honey badger, we are a group who won't give up without a fight."

Dinah takes a huge breath before continuing her speech.

"I know that this rally is the celebrate the basketball team, but I know that there is another club at this school who has more trophies than us. The school choir has won their competition every year for the past five years so can we give then another round of applause?"

The whole gym starts to stand and give the choir a standing ovation. I was not expecting that from Ms. popularity, Zendaya maybe but not Dinah. Maybe there's more to her than she let's on. Maybe I've been wrong about her this whole time. She wraps up the speech with the school's war cry, before Principal Kane walks over to them.

Dinah's POV

I feel a tap on my shoulder and I know it's Principal Kane, so I just hand him the mic in my hand. I move next to Zendaya and she bumps my shoulder with hers making me chuckle.

"That was an excellent speech you two, especially for such short notice. Before we end this celebration of your achievements, the school would like to give you something to say thank you. Ms. Holiday if you please?"

Ms. Holiday opens the door and one of the security guards starts rolling in a dolly with boxes on it. The whole gym goes silent as he wheels the dolly up to us in the middle of the floor.

"Thank you Rob. Ladies in honor of you wining the championship and uniting this school we got you a gift."

He hands me the mic to open one of the boxes. He pulls out a varsity jacket with our school colors and when he turns it around it has my name, number, the school's name, and and a big C on it for captain.

I'm in awe of the jacket, it's beautiful, and I just know there's one for each of my teammates in those boxes.

"We had the idea for these when you made the playoffs and put the order in when you went downstate for the final four. One for each member of the varsity team, including the team manager, with your name, number and in some cases rank on the team."

I wordlessly take the jacket and look at it up close, just to make sure it's real, then put it on. It fits perfectly. I run my arms down the sides to cement this moment to my memory, just to remind myself that this is really real.

"This is proof to all of you that hard work pays off. Congratulations ladies."

Coach tells us to stay in the gym, so we can take a photo for the year book in our jackets. I look over to my friends and teammates as they slip on their jackets.

"This feels....." Zendaya starts to say but trails off, searching for the right word.

"How about amazing?" Kehlani offers to her.

"No, not good enough."

"Incredible?"

"No, but closer."

"Well deserved." I cut in and they both nod slowly at my words

"Perfect."

"Yo, I'm definitely wearing this to the party tonight. Imma be too fresh!" Zendaya and I laugh at Kehlani as she dances to a song in her head.

"I think we all should wear our jackets tonight. Show our school pride."

"Good idea Z, Lani text-"

"Already on it captain, and sent to the team group chat."

I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket so I know she sent it without even checking it. Coach calls us over for the picture and afterwards we all leave. We hop in Zendaya's car and go to her house to help set up a party. After a few hours I leave to get ready for the party, saying goodbye to the two sisters. Thank God I don't live far. I hop in the shower and wash off the feeling and smell of public school from my person. After I get dressed I eat dinner with my family where I show my parents the jacket. My mom insists on taking pictures of me in it so after dinner that's what happens. By the time I get out the house it's a little after 8 and the party's already started. Thank GOD I don't live far.

AN: Hi me again. So this is a little treat for some twitter friends would wanted Fuckboi Dinah. This is only part one of the first chapter, I cut it in half because I felt like it was getting way too long. The party will be it's own chapter because a lot goes on at the party. As always all I ask of you is to Vote comment and share if you are so kind to do so. I'll be around so

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Meags