"Your gonna kill ‘em dead," Ladie said to herself admiring her reflection in
mirror. Suddenly, her phone rang.
 
"Where the f**k are you? Are you trying to make me late?" she screamed into the phone.
"Babe I’m right out front of your house. Come out." She hung up the phone ran
down a flight of stairs. She hopped into the green Mercedes and greeted Josh her
boyfriend. He leaned toward her with puckered lips. Ladie put her hand up in front of
Josh ‘s face.
 
"What are you thinking? You know if I kiss you my lip gloss will lose its shine,"
she said irritated. Silence fell over them for a while. Ladie put Marylin Manson’s
"Beautiful People".
 
"Yeah...mmm..." she turned it up full blast. It was the first day back to school for
Ladie and it was finally her senior year. She’d been planning and waiting for this moment
for so long she wouldn’t let anyone ruin it. There were police escorts from every angle of
the green Mercedes. Minutes later they arrived in front of Bulford High. Her beloved
friends Crystal, Diamond, and Princess greeted Ladie.
"Yo my senoritas," Ladie stood up out the sunroof top of the car. She could hear
ohh’s and ahh’s from the crowd of high schoolers. Ladie stepped out in a Gucci outfit no
one had ever seen before.
"Wow Laaadie you look spuuunky," Diamond said with attitude.
"I’m loving it," Crystal complimented.
"Go girl," Princess said. They all gathered around.
"Okay I wanna get one thing straight. No way is no one going to ruin my day,"
she said and the paused. "Now everyone say hello to my sweet, handsome, criminal-
fighting daddy. Thank you." By then all curious students had gone about their business.
"Your welcome Beautiful. Have a great day," Mr. Woodcock said.
"Don’t worry I will," she replied.
"So how my girls wanna spend their first day being upper classmen?" Ladie
screamed in excitement.
"I know how... lets go get touched up."
"What about Josh?" Crystal asked.
"What about ‘em?" Ladie shot back.
The girls skipped class at their usual spot- the spot where the smoked cigarettes
sophomore year, weed junior year, and now where they sniffed cocaine.
"This some good shit I got from this dude across town." Ladie chopped it down in
a one hundred dollar bill.
Ladie passed it to Crystal who passed it to Diamond who passed it to Princess.
"I’m cool you guys I got this breast surgery later today and they told me not..."
she was cut off by Ladie.
"Princess, Princess, Princess grow up and live a little. Stop acting like your too
scared. What’s the worst that can happen?"
"Well. I’m not sure," Princess said.
"Alrighty then what cha waiting for?"
Princess took the one hundred dollar bill from Diamond and sniffed the rest up her nose
holding one nostril closed.
"Damn, I need a ice cold corona now. Who wants a drink?" Ladie asked. No one said
anything for while.
"I know you bitches heard me! Who wants beer?"
A security guard came and heard their loud talking.
"Hey ladies time to go class,’ he yelled.
"Yeeep that’s my name," Ladie yelled eyes low and red.
The security guard walked towards them and they started to walk away slowly.
 
"So ya’ll really about to go t o class?" Ladie asked annoyed.
 
"Well… huh" Crystal started to say.
 
"Whatever I’m going to see Josh anyway. Check ya’ll later." Ladie said making
an L and eight with her fingers. She walked in a separate direction as her crew and called
Josh.
"Your call has been forward to an automatic voice…" she called back.
"I’m in class." Josh whispered.
"You could’ve told me that shit. You treat me like I don’t even exist."
"Babe I know, I know I really can’t talk about this right now I need to focus on
physics this shit is hard," he paused "I will call you at lunch… hello?" Ladie already had
hung up. That f**king asshole he gone wish he never met me Ladie said to herself while
she walked to the principle’s office. Before she walked in she adjusted her dress to have
more cleavage. She gave principle Mr. Love a finger wave while he was on the phone.
He gave her a wink in return. She locked the door, walked over to Mr. Love, and sat on
his lap.
"I have a client in, so I’ll get back at you eight pm sharp. Okay honey bye."
"Wow your wife’s such a old ass…" Ladie said.
"Why aren’t you in class learning something?" he asked.
" Because I’m supposed to be teaching you something."
"Really? I like the sound of that but I told you to keep that line between business
and P.T."
"What the f**k is P.T?"
"Private Time, Personal Time you remember?"
"Yeah uh huh. It wasn’t personal time when we were in here bumping and
grinding on this desk huh? So we can’t handle this now?" she said whispering in his ear.
"No I think you need to go… now," he said taping Ladies butt softly. "I got
important things to do."
"You saying I aint important, you too good for all of this, you saying I aint the
shit?"
"Ms. Cock, I didn’t say anything of that sort your putting words in my mouth."
"Yeah its going to be more than just words in yo’ mouth too watch." She walked
out and slammed the door. Ladie decided to go to her third period class in search for
some hot guys.
"Hello. Welcome to your third period creative writing class. I’m Mrs. Wilson
Scott. So what is your name?"
"Ms. Ladie" she replied.
"So Ladie you can partner up with Kathy in the back over by the book shelf." As
Ladie moved across the room all eyes were on her. She was eyeballing Kathy.
"Wow you look beautiful in that dress. Where did you get it from?"
"This one store. Isn’t it just sexy? I know. We can go shopping after school.
What’s your number?" They exchanged numbers and talked about the past summer and
hot guys.
"What are you doing at lunch?" Ladie asked.
"Hmm. Well just read my novel." Ladie looked disgusted.
"Oh. Well change of plans you rolling with me," Ladie pulled out her make-up kit
and mirror. She started to give Kathy a make over. "So what’s up with the name Kathy,
it’s so plain."
"Oh my real name is Kathrina" she responded.
"That’s not any better than Kathy. I’m going to call you Kat." Ladie said.
"Kat." Kathy repeated.
"Yeah Kat as in kitty cat."
Kathy began to giggle and laugh and snort.
"Yeah okay that’s enough." Ladie said. The bell rang and the girls made their way
to the snack bar. Ladie saw Josh across the room.
 
"You see him in the button up plaid shirt?" Ladie asked Kathy.
 
"Hoo yeah who’s he?" Kathy asked.
 
"My man." Ladie replied. He came over but walked right past Ladie. Josh greeted
his friends and walked away.
"Motherf**ka’ I know you did not just walk away from me?" Ladie yelled. All
the students of Bluford High turned their attention to them.
"Really Ladie I’m tired of being sick and tired of you sorry ass." Josh shot back.
 
"Oh really? So f**k you too we threw, over, and done. Yeah it’s official." Josh
stormed out of the lunchroom.
"Come on Kat." Ladie said.
"Are you okay?" Kathy asked.
"You drink?" Ladie asked.
"Well…" she began.
"Today you will. I want to go claim my nerves."
"Sounds good to me."
"Hey what the hell just happened in there?" Crystal asked as she walked up to
Kathy and Ladie with Princess and Diamond.
"Girl it wasn’t nothing I just dumped that sonofabitch Josh"
"Heeey lets go celebrate," said Crystal.
"I got to go to that appointment so ya’ll enjoy." Princess hoped in the car with her
boyfriend and went about her business.
"Hi I’m Kathy."
"We about to go shopping but first lets get some beers" said Ladie. They all
hopped in Ladie’s car and went to Safeway where Ladie flirted her stuff to get some
liquior. They put the beers in water bottles and made their way to the Great mall. Once at
the Great mall the girls were wasted. Swerving they went into Target.
"Hey where the condoms at?" Ladie asked one of the workers in a red vest.
"Past the cosmetics, to the right, by the meds" the worker replied.
"No. How about you show us?" The guy escorted them to the condoms.
"Here you are" said the worker.
"Now show us how to put it on" Ladie laughed and her crew tagged along.
"What?" the worker blushed and turned away. Ladie threw the rest of Kathys beer
at his back and threw the condoms in her purse. They ran out almost falling.
"Man, Ladie your crazy ass hell" said Kathy.
"Kat, you aint seen nothing yet. Tell her Diamond and Princess"
They gave Kathy a wide eye look like you have no idea what your getting yourself into.
They went to a store called Freak and got their freak on. The tried on dresses, lingere,
wigs, and shoes. They walked out the store and the alarm went off.
"Exsue me ladies can you come back in the store?" said a security guard and the
girls took off running. They squeezed threw crowds, jumped over babies, and eventually
they came to a harp turn to a elevator only enough for three people. Ladie, Princess, and
Diamond manged to get on board. They had left Kathy. They caught her and found all the
clothes Ladie put in her bag while the trio laughed to tears. Ladie dropped Daimond at
home and Princess at her boyfriend house. Then she made her way home. Ladie recieved
a call from Kathy in which she didn’t pick up. Once on her porch she began to cry. Her
dad hears her crying and opens the door.
"Aw baby doll come inside and talk to daddy"
"I don’t want to talk about it"
"Is it that damn boy? I told you he was no good and all your little friends.
Speaking of your wild ass friends, I caught your new so-called "friend" Kathy stealing
from the mall eariler she claimed she was with you and some other folks right before the
incedent occured. Is that true?"
 
 
"Daddy, what the f**k I’m depressed, streesed, and I feel a mess so please don’t...
I don’t even know anyone by the name of what ever her name was" Ladie lied blowing
her nose."
"Have you been drinking?" Mr. Woodcock asked.
"Yes, yes, yes okay because daddy... he dumped me" Ladie said still crying.
"Well I’m going to have a talk with that boy but for now baby girl you need to
sleep it off and everything will be fine in the morning. In the morning when Ladie woke
up she had ten voicemessages, missed calls, and text messages.
"Ladie please pick u0p the phoone there’s something that happened to
Princess...she..she...just please call back a.s.a.p."
Ladie didnt bother calling none of her crew back. She arrived at school and groups of
kids where huddled up, which was unusual to ladied because eyes were to beyond her .
Ladie walked over to crowd.
"What’s going on here?"
"Mrs. Wilson Scott is pregnant" one girl replied.
"So what?"
Lady walked to the next crowd signing a big white poster board.
"Tell me what the hell is going on?"
"Josh Becker was found dead this morning"
The loud speaker came on
"Hello students of Bluford High, this is your principal, Mr. Love. If you haven’t
heard, your fellow student of class of ‘08,Josh Becker was dead pernouned dead this
morning may all love and prayers go out to the Becker family. There is a memorial
service being held in the courtyard that you can stop by and show your respects for Josh.
Thank you for your time, have a good day , and be safe." Ladie stared at the signatures
and candles for Josh she grabbed a pin, pressed it against the paper but stopped. She
walked away. Soon as she looked up she saw her crew coming her way.
"Ladie" her crew yelled together. She heared their footsteps came faster.
"Princess is in the hospital... you need to go see her, we just dseen her" Crystal
said.
"Why didn’t you call us back you knew something was up?" Diamond asked
angry.
"Just f**king leave me alone okay I’m not having the best day"
"Well what the f**k Ladie so are we! Hello. You act like the world revolves
around you" Daimond blew up," Ladie walked away and went to "the stop", took out her
one hundred dollar bill and began to chop down cocaine.
"She’s brain dead you know, can’t speak, can’t eat, don’t even know her f**king
name. You think about that."
Before Ladie knew it the sun was going down and she hopped in her car to go home.
When she got home princple Mr. Love, some officers, and Kathy were sitting on her
living room couch.
"If this is about Josh I don’t know shit okay. So good night." Ladie said heading
to her room.
"Actually baby girl its about Princess they want to ask you some questions"
"No"
"Well you’re the only one in your crew we haven’t talked to" said Officer Forest.
"So"
"So you can’t be seen on campus or of fifty feet of Bluford High School. Until
you come to your sences that will be the time you can come back to school" said Mr.
Love.