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Sitting across from one of his new clients, Derek watched as the young boy played with his hands. It had been two weeks of this, just straight silence but Derek knew once he could get him to speak and open up he could really help him.

The boy was a young high schooler who was raised by his grandparents, and soon sent to foster homes once they got too ill to watch after him and his siblings. A few of his teachers and his foster parents noticed his change in behavior which was him ditching school and acting out in classes and they knew he needed a little guidance to get him back in order because they knew he was better than that..he just couldn't see it.

Tapping his pen against his tablet, Derek let out a small chuckle catching the boys attention. "How long are we gonna keep this up? This sitting in silence like mice, we all have a voice and I would like to hear yours."

Sighing, he finally made eye contact. "I don't know what to say," He mumbled.

"Start off by telling me something about yourself .. you play sports? Got any goals or dreams you want to achieve? You can say anything."

Scratching his head, he smiled a little at the thought of football. "I want to play football, I've always loved that sport."

"Why don't you play?"

He shrugged, "I'm not good enough, plus our team is already good enough I'll just embarrass myself."

"Have you ever tried out for the team? Or at least tried to see if you were good at the sport?"

Looking down at his shoes, he laughed. "...No, but its not that I don't want too its just that I'm scared that they'll laugh at me .. I used to play football with my grandpa all the time, and we used to talk about how once I got older he would help me try out for the team and get me ready but its like once he got so sick its like the dream became stupid and it wasn't fun anymore .. I don't know, its just different."

Derek smiled liking that he was opening up to him, "I'm sure your grandpa would love for you to try out and when you go visit him and your grandma at the nursing home you can tell them all about it and I'm sure they would be so proud."

"Well the season is almost over so I have to wait til this summer to try out but how do I get ready? I'm sure I know a little bit about football but I really want to go in at least knowing the basics and just get better over time.."

"A good friend of mine actually coaches a little league football team, but the guy is an amazing coach. I'm sure him and his other coaches could help you out. You just have to show them that you're serious about it and since you're older he will be tougher on you but its only to get you better."

The boy nodded, "Whens their next game? I'll introduce myself and tell him you recommended him to me."

"I believe their next game is this Saturday, but I'm not sure where at. I'll let you know when I find out though."

"Okay thank you,"

"This is really good Travis, I would have never known you liked football and thats the goal each meeting I want to learn something new about you. Your family and teachers just want you to do better and they believe you can. You're a good kid, you just lost your way but I'm here to help you find that path again long as you let me."

"Most of my personal issues come from losing my parents due to war. I know they were amazing people, and served this country the best they could but I hate they had to die before they could even see me grow up. I was seven when we got the news, I remember watching out the window when the car pulled up and two soldiers got out holding two folded up flags. I wasn't sure what exactly happened but when my granny opened the door and collapsed to the ground and cried I had a feeling. I grew up watching kids and their parents bond and I could never do that, my grandparents did their best to raise me and my two brothers but it was like we needed our parents at the end of the day."

"Your brothers where are they now?"

"We got separated in the system, got sent to different homes due to our ages and how alot of people didn't want to take in almost grown boys. But we remained close for the most part, but I'm closer to my oldest brother Tremaine, my other brother Tristian and I never really got along but they're older and they live on their own together in an apartment, I go over there sometimes after school but lately I haven't. Tremaine even told me once I graduated I could move in with him, he just wanted me to stay with my foster parents since they do take good care of me, and he wanted me to be able to have a good high school experience since they have more money and will be able to do more for me but in two years I'll be with my brothers."

"That's good you guys remained close after something like that, but explain to me why you and your brother Tristian don't get along?"

"He's an asshole, like he does things to mentally fuck with people. Growing up he used to always bully me, and let his friends pick on me because I was so skinny but now I'm not as skinny, I'm actually bigger than him now so he doesn't mess with me as much unless his friends are around. He even treats his girlfriend the same way too, she was always nice whenever I came around and she was there but he was so mean to her whenever his friends were over and I never understood why, he's one of those guys that do things to impress friends and its annoying."

Derek nodded knowing alot of people who are like that, "How old is he?"

"Twenty almost twenty-one,"

"Do you think your brothers would be willing to come here and have a talk all together?"

"Tremaine yeah, but Tristian no."

"Hm alright, well we're out of time today but Wednesday come here same time and we will continue to get you to open up but until then go to class, if you want to be able to play football next year your attendance, academics and behavior will help you as well."

"Yessir, but um before I go its something else I need advice on."

Derek smiled amazed at how in only twenty minutes he has seen him go from being silent to this. "What's up?"

"It's this girl that I really like .. but I don't know how to approach her. I mean we have a few classes together but I've never spoken to her."

"Describe the girl personality wise, what is she like?"

Travis smiled as he thought about her, "She's really caring and smart, she's on our debate team and she's the only freshman that has been able to compete with seniors. A lot of guys like her but she gives them like no play. She even turns down the seniors that try and get at her but I already know what they want from her, but to me she is special. She reminds me of my mom and I think that's what makes me more attracted to her. So what do I do? I don't want to get rejected."

"Okay so you said she turns down alot of guys .. how do they approach her? Which ever way they do it, you just do it different. Its clear she likes debate, so ask her a question about it spark up a conversation and let it go from there."

Standing up he nodded, "I'll try, I go to all her debates so if she were to ask me something I would be able to answer." He blushed knowing he probably sounded crazy.

"I'm sure she has noticed you if you have been to all of her debates. But try and talk to her tomorrow and see what happens and when Wednesday comes tell me all about it."

"Alright, um thanks ya know for not giving up on me .. you could have easily told Shannon and Donald to stop bringing me here but you didn't. I really appreciate it." He smiled reaching his hand out to shake it.

"You're welcome Travis, don't hesitate to use my number if you need anything. See you Wednesday."

        Later that evening Derek sped home to tell Hazel his final decision. After his session with Travis, he knew he would be able to mentor young men. He saw how fast with just him showing that he wasn't gonna give up on him that it changed him and gave him hope so he knew that and some support would be what all it would take to help these young boys.

Young men just needed to know they had somebody to call on, that they had somebody in their corner supporting them and Derek knew he could be that and more for the boys.

Getting out of his car he locked it behind him walking towards the door where Hazel was already standing waiting for him. "Hey baby, I already put Tyler to sleep and cleaned the house so you can just relax tonight." She explained letting him inside.

"Alright cool, So I listened to what you said and I made a final decision."

"Decision on what?—Are you hungry, I put your plate in the microwave."

"Yeah heat it up for me," Taking a seat at the dinner table, he loosened his tie and unbuttoned his shirt a little. ".. but what I was saying is I made my decision on mentoring young men. I told you about the first boy I was helping well he's improved alot and Travis my new client I was telling you about just opened up finally today and he thanked me for not giving up on him and he's excited to come back on Wednesday .. and that made me feel good babe, I really do think I can do this and change those boys in need lives."

Hazel smiled sitting his plate in front of him then kissed his lips, "I knew you would eventually see what I was talking about. You have a gift, you can change so many lives with just your simple words and support you show."

"Yeah, I was talking to my assistant about it and he agreed. We're gonna have a meeting tomorrow to like plan this out, I was gonna work on starting at the Boys and Girls Club and work from there and hopefully I can get to the high schools and speak to those guys and even colleges .. just wanna keep moving around and up."

"We both know when you put your mind on something you want, you'll do whatever it takes to get it so I believe you will achieve this."

Smiling, he finally took the time to admire what she was wearing. "You look good, still going out with the ladies?"

"Yeah Cali should be here soon,"

He nodded, "Be careful please, and call me if anything happens."

Bending down she kissed his lips passionately before pulling away, "I will,"

Strapping the back of her heel, Alisha stood up straight rubbing her hands down the sides of her dress then turned to the side admiring her plump backside. Flipping her hair, she applied lipstick to her lips making kissy faces at the mirror then grabbed her purse and car keys to leave just when Shaun entered the house.

"Hey daddy," She said lustfully running the best she could in her heels into his arms. Smiling small, he kissed her and hugged her tightly before sliding his hands down to her ass grabbing two handfuls of it.

"Where tha hell you think you going looking like this?"

"I told you me, Cali, Hazel and Anari going to that gay club tonight. We tryna get fucked up,"

"Only thing that is gonna get fucked up is you, keep playing with me."

Rolling her eyes, she pushed him away. "I'm not pregnant, the test was negative so I can drink all I want tonight."

"You know how you get when you're horny so don't come in here at two in the morning tryna fuck." He stated in a bored tone even though he was lowkey hoping she did.

It had been a good two weeks since they started the bet and he was ready to give in. Everyday she got finer, and he was getting hornier.

"Boy bye, I'm not finna lose this bet. If you want this, you gotta make the first move." Smacking him on the butt, she followed him to the room, mentally rolling her eyes hating that now that they weren't having sex Shaun just been looking extra fine lately. But she was not going to lose the bet, she had to do this for all her sisters across the globe.

"Whatever, did my dad call?"

"Yes, Nolan literally had a crying fit when I dropped him off had to whoop his little butt for acting out." She huffed still irritated from the way he was acting today.

"He's been real moody lately, he did that the other day."

Alisha shrugged, "Your child is crazy, but anyways have you thought about giving your mom a call? You have her number and I know its killing you to not call."

After the whole ordeal with his dad, Shaun did some serious thinking. Like he told his dad all he needed was a minute to get his mind right and thats what happened. He wasn't mad at his dad he was actually thankful that his dad stepped up and raised him.

When got back in touch with his dad, he asked for his mama number and has been debating on her hitting her up but he wasn't sure, he was honestly scared.

"I was thinking about calling her tomorrow or something,"

A loud honk caught their attention causing them both to jump, "That's Cali extra ass, but um do you want me to be there when you call her?"

"It's up to you, but I would like for you to be there though,"

Wrapping her arms around his torso, she stood on her tippy toes to kiss him. Biting his lip she slid her tongue inside his mouth as their lips moved in sync. Shaun held onto her tightly, loving at how fast she could turn him on .. only she really had that effect on him.

Pulling away, she just smiled. "I'll be there but I'm finna head out, I love you so much, and I'm gonna send you hella pics of my titties and shit so get ready."

Laughing he nodded, "A nigga highkey love you more though, and shit bet I'll have phone right next to me."

Kissing his lips one last time, she held onto his hand walking towards the front. "Be safe tonight Alisha and call me if anything happens."

"I will, enjoy your night of peace."

He fake pouted, "How can I when both my babies gon' for the night?"

Laughing she walked out the door, "That was sweet but forreal enjoy your night. I should be home around three depending on how horny we all get and race to get home."

"Alright, I love you and tell Cali to drive safe."

"I love you more daddy,"

Shaking his head, he walked back inside the house right when they all started screaming and yelling at each other. He hope Alisha actually enjoyed herself tonight, after she took the test and saw it was negative she tried to play it off like she wasn't sad but he could see it all over her face.

        Standing in line Cali, Hazel, Alisha and Anari all locked arms dancing to the beat of whatever song that was playing from the inside of the club. They had been in line a good ten minutes and the doors were finally open. "Ladies, we have to embrace this night and enjoy ourselves. Let loose have fun and get drunk." Alisha said and the girls nodded.

"Of course, soon as we get inside I'm going straight to the bar and I'm ordering shots of Henny, gotta start the night off right. Like they always say Hennything is possible." Anari said shrugging.

"I'm feeling real lesbian tonight like .. I don't know if its the two glasses of vodka I already drank just talking but the females here looking bad as hell might need to take one home for me and Ahmad.."

"You'd be down for a threesome?" Alisha just couldn't do it. Shaun was her man and her man only, threesomes seemed interesting but not interesting enough for her to want to see her man dick down another female.

"Yeah I just told him I'd have to pick the girl, if you were single and like never met Shaun .. bitch I'd pick you."

Alisha shook her head, then turned to Hazel and Anari. "What y'all think? Threesome or no threesome?"

"No threesome for me," Hazel muttered while taking a few pics to send to Derek.

"I'd be down," Anari shrugged only to earn a high-five from Cali.

"See Anari a real one, would I let Ahmad fuck the girl? Hell nah, and he damn sho' ain't eating her pussy. Bitches already be acting crazy behind his looks, don't need anymore acting crazy behind his mouth piece and what he got in his pants."

A gay couple who was standing in front of them turned around and laughed finding their conversation very amusing. "I know that's right," One spoke up earning a laugh from them all.

Finally reaching the front of the line, they all flashed their drivers licenses to the bouncers then stepped inside ready to let loose. Beyoncé's song Single Ladies was blasting through the speakers as multiple people danced along to it.

"I'ma go get us some drinks, you guys find us a section to sit in." Alisha said before walking off.

Looking around Cali saw most sections were filled. "I'm not really seeing anything available. It's really packed in here." She mumbled.

Feeling a tap on her shoulder, Cali turned to see the two guys from earlier. "We have a section reserved if you ladies want to sit with us, its pretty spacious." He offered.

Anari, Hazel and Cali looked at each other smiling then nodded their heads. Grabbing each other hands, they followed behind the guys up some stairs that lead to a lounge area where other people were sitting at in different areas. "Damn this is so nice," Hazel complimented in awe snapping pictures of the club and the colorful strobe lights flashing throughout the club.

"What brings you ladies to our neck of the woods?" The dark skin one asked grabbing the bottle of Vanilla Crown he had stuffed under his shirt.

"Well my bestfriend who just went to the bar to go get the drinks, her and I actually used to go to gay clubs all the time when were younger and before we became parents and I remember how much fun we would have so I wanted to bring my newest bestfriend and my sister in-law out to it to show them a good time."

"Well you beauties fell into the right trap, Devon and I are what people call the life of the party. If you ladies are down to get wild then feel free to join us for the night."

"I'm down, but we need some shots .. I've had two glasses of vodka already and the buzz is kicking in but I need something that will have me shaking ass on the ceiling." Cali shouted over the music that was now playing Up Down by T-Pain.

A waitress working the area was stopped by Devon and he ordered rounds of vodka shots for everybody. But until then they were passing his bottle of Crown. "Are you guys from here? Y'all don't talk like us." Anari pointed out.

"No, we're actually from San Fransico but we're following the queen bee tour, she had a show here in Houston tonight and tomorrow we're driving down to Dallas where she'll be performing next. We just go for the experience and to see the world."

"That sounds like so much fun, well us Texans have to show you how we get down then." Anari said as she twerked alittle to the beat of the song playing.

Once Alisha returned with the drinks and bottles of liquor she ordered it was on and popping from there. They were taking shots, and dirty dancing on each other, simply feeling completely free and they really loved Devon and his boyfriend Matt wild vibes and energy it clashed real well with their personalities.

Bent over the rail Devon started throwing ass better than most girls, causing them all to be shook. They were amazed at how fast and well he was moving it, he was moving cheeks separately then at the sametime, up and down and all around not once missing a beat. Cali had to put this work of art on her snap for the world to see. And when he dropped down into the splits and comtinued twerking to Circle by Lil RonnyMothaF they all got hype while Matthew just laughed to himself knowing this is how he gets once liquor is in his system, a good twerk song comes on and when he has an audience.

Cali soon joined in on the twerking, with Alisha being her hype woman. "You better, what? She better, fuck it up, fuck it up!" Stopping the video she posted it on her snap, then continued making more videos.

"Ms. Stripper, show us ya talents."

Frowning Matt looked over at Anari, "She used to be a stripper?"

The girls nodded as Anari slipped out her heels, turning around to where her backside was facing towards them then she stood up straight and started making her ass clap without moving no other part of her body. Flipping her hair, she held onto the rail and got low in a squatted position shaking her ass.

Hazel stood to side envious that she couldn't twerk for nothing, she knew Alisha couldn't twerk that well either but she at least had cakes for days to make up for it, while Hazel had nothing.

Eventually Cali, Devon and Anari all twerked effortlessly together laughing. Getting behind Devon, Alisha smacked him on the ass. "He twerks better than me and his ass is damn near as fat as mine! What is life right now?" She faked cried causing him to laugh and stand up straight.

Wrapping her arm over him she hugged him tightly, "I'm in loveee with you guys, like we forreal all need to stay in contact after this." She explained and everyone agreed.

The whole vibe in the club just felt good, it was no drama or anything just everyone was enjoying themselves. Looking over the rail Cali looked down at all the folks partying like it was no tomorrow.

Feeling her phone vibrate in her hand, Cali smiled when she saw it was Ahmad but almost fainted when she saw it was a dick picture. They had been sending freaky things to each other the whole night, and since half the folks were half naked in the club anyways what Cali was doing didn't bother anybody, plus most of em were too drunk to even care anyways.

Alisha of course blew up Shaun's phone with pictures and videos of herself completely drunk not even knowing how to make complete sentences. In most of the pictures they were blurry and she looked wasted but in her head she thought she looked good as hell.

Each picture Shaun recieved he laughed knowing he was going to use these pictures to blackmail her one day.

When My Neck, My Back by Khia came on, both Cali and Anari stopped what they were doing and got on top of a table and danced together while Matt and Devon hyped them up but also were making sure they didn't fall either.

They have traveled alot around the world but never have they ever met women like these who were geniunely cool and welcoming and down to have a good time. They were gonna cherish this moment forever and hoped the ladies indeed stayed in touch.

When they heard a glass break they looked back to see Hazel and Alisha laughing while holding a broken glass then watched how they went back to drunk dancing together and singing the lyrics of the songs at the top their lungs as if nothing happened. "I'm finna pop my pussy like this straight on Shaun's diiick," She sang before almost tripping over her own heels but Hazel caught her in time.

"You good?" She asked her and Alisha just smiled then began swaying her hips.

After a while of dancing they all sat down on the couch in their area, trying to sober up a little. They all lazily laid on each other feeling as if the room was spinning real slow. But to pass time Devon and Matthew decided to play the game, "Take it to the grave,"

"Alright so what is one thing you have done that nobody knows about that you will just have to take it to the grave with you? We'll start with you and the next person just goes next. Go."

"I once left my kid at Walmart for two hours thinking he was in my back seat the whole time. His daddy still doesn't know and he will not ever know,"

Sitting up, she cleared her throat before speaking. "I once had sex with two guys in one night together, I used to be a hoe."

"I fucked my mans bestfriend, not while we was together but before me and him had met." All the girls eyes went wide in shock, but continued the game.

Swallowing the lump in her throat, she sat up straight then looked down at her hands. "I recently had an abortion that my man doesn't know about."

And after that things fell silent and shit got deep..

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I was gonna update yesterday but I was too busy getting imaginary dick from my imaginary ass nigga 😂 #Lonerlife #WishIHadANiggaOnTheCool

But anyways Happy Belated Valentines Day!
LOVE YOU GUYS and I appreciate all the support on all of my books, it really means sooo much to me ❤️ Continue to be great guys, your love and comments never go unappreciated!

- Denise 💋