Schoolin' Em Part 1

[aDRUfan4LiFe]

Nicole had arrived at Baltimore’s Penn Station at about four o’clock. She had called her godbrother Sisqo, about 30 minutes ago, and he still hadn’t arrived. She put her shoulder bag down and looked inside to locate her cellphone. Just as she started to dial, a black 1992 chevy impala, with dark tinted windows and chrome rims pulled up in front of her.

“Another bunch of monkeys with their loud music playin’! She said as she shook her head and look the other way as to ignore them.

The window rolled down and someone yelled, “I holla!”

“What?!” She said as she looked down at the car’s passenger. It was Jazz.

“Ya’ll late!” She spat at him.

“I’m here now, big head!” Sisqo said as he leaned over so she could see his face.

“Umm.” She said and she sucked her teeth.

Jazz opened the passenger side door, and stepped out and grabbed Nicole and picked her up off the ground. She felt like he was squeezing the air out of her body!

“Dang, man! I’m losing air!” Nicole said slightly out of breath.

Jazz gave a devious laugh and put her down and proceeded to take her shoulder bag and suitcase on wheels to the back of Sisqo’s ride and he put her bags in the trunk.

Nicole went to the back passenger side of the car when she tried to open the door, she couldn’t.

“Unlock the door man!” Nicole shouted to Sisqo.

“It’s open!” Sisqo yelled back.

Nicole heard some snickering in the back seat. She tried to pull on the handle again and the door slightly opened. Somebody was trying to hold the knob, so she pulled with all her strength and the door opened.
Nokio was laying down with his arm stretched out, and he started to whine.

“Man, you was about to pull my arm out the socket!” He said as he sat up and rubbed his shoulder.

“You shouldn’t had been playin!”

“I told him not to start!” Woody said. He was sitting on the other side of Nokio in the back seat. They had scooted over so that Nicole had room to sit.

Nicole took her seat in the back as Jazz made his way to the front passenger side and sat down.

Sisqo looked down at his watch and exclaimed, “Ya’ll we gonna be late!”

“Late for what?” Nicole asked.

“The basketball tournament!” Sisqo said as he sped out of the driveway and onto the street.

“Lord help me!” Nicole whispered. Sisqo heard her.

“If you think that’s bad, you’ll definitely hate this!” Sisqo said as he hit a switch and the car started bouncing up and down.

“Oh my goodness! A California reject!” Nicole spat.

“I can’t help it!” Sisqo said as he and the guys laughed.

“I got soooo much drama in the LBC…….”Jazz started rapping and everyone started rapping along with him.

Nicole started to sing with them also, and she and the guys started laughing.

In about ten crazed minutes of Sisqo’s driving, they arrived at a huge basketball court. People were all around, inside sitting on the bleachers and outside just hanging out. She heard some loud whistles from referees,and cheers from the crowd. When they got out of the car, she noticed that Nokio, Jazz, Sisqo, and Woody had on special made jerseys. The jerseys said “Dru Hill’s Finest” on the front and had their name on the back. Sisqo had the number 1, Jazz number 2, Woody number 3 and Nokio number 4.

As they approached the entrance to the court, Nicole noticed a banner that said, “3rd Annual Slam and Jam B-Ball Tournament.

She proceeded to walk with the guys and a game was already going on. She followed them to the part of the bleachers where the playing teams were and she sat down.
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“Schoooollllaaaaaaa!” The crowd on the opposite side of the court screamed as Rufus slammed the ball over top of the opposing player’s head.
Rufus ran down the court with his hand’s raised, encouraging his fans to continue to cheer. His team was rallying back from a ten point deficit.

“Man, get on the ball!” Rufus whispered to his friend, and teammate Virgil, who was not having his greatest game that day.

“Aight, man! I’m kinda off today!” He said back to Rufus.

Rufus gave him a serious look. “I see, I see!”

Antonio, another one of the teamates, was tired and shot a look at Rufus as he started yanking on his shorts. This was the tired sign their team had.
Rufus caught the signal and called a time out.

“Man, what is up with ya’ll negroes today? Me and Jay are the only ones who are scoring, you know this is serious, It’s money at stake if we lose.”

“I don’t know. Maybe I’m just not into it today!” Virgil stated.

“We’ll N***a get yo head straight, cause I wanna win this thang.” Jay stated.

“What about you Ant?” Rufus said as he stared at Antonio.

“I’m just having a bad day.” He said nonchalantly.

“Get it together,man! We can’t do this by ourselves!” Jay huffed and he walked away.

“Times up you guys!” The referee stated as he was walking toward them.

Rufus glared at the both of them and said, “My soldiers, ya’ll need to step it up! We’re counting on ya’ll!”

Rufus held out his hand so that they could give him a pound.

Antonio and Virgil gave him pounds, and Jay gave Rufus a pound also.

They chanted, “One…Two…Three…Soldiers!”


Meanwhile on the other side of the court, Nicole started asking Sisqo about the tournament. She hadn’t noticed that the teams had started playing again. She heard “Schooooola” again and she stared out unto the court and stopped midway between her sentence.

“Who is this Schooola dude?”

“That’s Rufus! I know you have had to hear of him, he was one of the hottest high school players in B-More a couple of years ago.”

“Oh! I neva seen him play!”

“He’s the best on the west side.” Woody stated. “I can’t say too much about his teammates.”

“They’re some scrubs!” Nokio stated.
“You always have something negative to say!” Jazz said.
“I’m tellin the truth!” Nokio said nonchalanty.

Rufus’s team came back from the 10 point deficit and won the game by four. The teams were clearing out to make room for the next round of the competition.

Some kids came on the court to shoot some hoops and Sisqo had an idea.

“Nikki, you wanna shoot some hoops, and help me warm up?”

“Ok!” She responded. She always like to challenge her godbrother in a game.
Nicole didn’t have the best gear on to play ball in, she had on some semi-tight jeans and a semi-dressy white shirt. She did have her white Reebok princesses on, so she was alright.

She and Sisqo headed down to the court and Sisqo checked the ball to her. She checked it back.

“Your shot!” Sisqo said to Nicole.

She took a shot from where she was standing and she missed it.

Sisqo watched as the ball bounced off the rim and he ran to get it.

“You can definitely do better than that!” Sisqo huffed and he checked the ball back to Nicole.

“You ain’t gonna shoot?” She said to Sisqo.

“Nah, I’ll save that for the pre-game warm-up! I wanna see you shoot. I haven’t seen my lil’ godsis play live in over three years,and I know you have gotten better, just by looking at those tapes your dad sent us!”

Nicole nodded. She started dribbling the ball, and she did a fake move on Sisqo and laid the ball in off the backboard.
She caught the ball after it fell through the hoop.

“Yeah! That’s the fiyah I remember!” Sisqo said as he nodded his head and smiled.

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She checked the ball back to Sisqo and he said, “Remember that move you used to do back a few years that you had a terrible time with? The back down, turn around and fade away shot?”

“Yeah! I worked hard on that! Pops made me practice hard!”

“Sooo…you think you got it down now?”

“Yeah!”

“Show me!” Sisqo said to her and he bounce passed her the ball.

By this time the spectators had their eyes on Nicole and Sisqo. Rufus especially.

Nicole started bouncing the ball again, she started backing Sisqo down toward the hoop,while Sisqo had his left arm lightly on her back in defense. She turned around, threw the ball up as she faded away from the basket and the ball bounced off the backboard.

“D**n!” Sisqo shouted as he ran down the ball before it went into the spectators sitting near the basket.
Nicole just shook her head and smiled a nervous smile.

Some of the spectators shouted “Awwww…” to her when she missed the shot. She didn’t even notice.

“Aight! You just missed! Try it again!” Sisqo said as he walked over to her and handed her the ball.

“Concentrate!” Nicole thought to herself as she proceed to do the move again.

This time when she faded away, It was all net!
Some of the crowed lightly shouted and clapped.
Sisqo got so excited that he ran and picked her up and swung her around and ran, with her still in his arms, to where they were seated.

“Put me down, man!” Nicole stated.

“Oh, I’m sorry! I just got a little excited! My lil godsis got skills! Sisqo said as he grinned from ear to ear.

“Sho’ nuff!” Jazz said as he gave Nicole a pat on her back.

“Go baby!”Nokio said to her, and gave her a hug from behind.

“I always new you had it in you!” Woody said, as he bend down from his seat on the bleacher behind her and gave her a hug.

“Well, what can I say?” Nicole said and she laughed.

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Rufus noticed every move and he couldn’t take her eyes off of her.

“You alright man?” Jay said to Rufus, because he noticed his eyes locked on this mysterious young lady.

“Nah, man! I think I’m in love!”

“Awww…..here we go again!” Virgil interjected.

“Leave the man alone, he’s in love again! For the what, 100th time now!” Antonio joked.

“Ha-Ha-Ha!” Rufus mocked.
He noticed that after Sisqo had picked her up, he had left his ball on the court.

He proceeded to walk on the court to give Sisqo back his ball, but he had other intentions.
When Rufus’s friends noticed him making a move to get the ball, they questioned him.

“Where you going?” Virgil asked.

“To return Sisqo’s ball to him!” He said as he turned around and gave Virgil a wink.

Virgil shook his head and looked at Jay.

“Watch the mack go to work!” Jay said to Antonio and Virgil and they observed him as he walked over with ball in hand toward Sisqo and his crew.

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“ Hey ya’ll w’sup?” Rufus stated to them after he came from off the court.

“ We good!” They all stated back at them.

“Well I just came back to give you your ball…”
When Nicole and Rufus’s eyes met his breath got caught in his throat.

“Ummm…..Hi, ummm……my name is Rufus and…”
“Nicole.” She said as she presented her hand to him.

Rufus shook her hand and said, “You have some nice moves out there!”

“Yeah, thanks!” She stated as she smiled.

Sisqo cleared his throat and said to Rufus, “Can I please have my ball back?”

“Oh yeah!” Rufus handed the ball to Sisqo all the while trying to get his composure back.

“Ah well, I gotta go!” Rufus said to all of them. “Nicole, I’ll see you around?”

“Umm...hmm…sweetie!” She said as she winked her eyes at Rufus.

Rufus smiled before he turned around and walked away.

“What in the world was that?” Sisqo questioned.

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“Looks like somebody tryin’ to make a move on your sis.” Woody stated.

“I knew that dude was up to something!” Nokio stated.

“How?” Jazz said sarcastically.

Nokio just glared at him. “Because, he ain’t neva touched a ball that belonged to any one of us. I thought they considered that to be bad luck.”

“And what man would come and walk all the way over to one side of a court to another side just to give a ball back to another man?” Woody said.

“Good points!” Jazz stated.

“Nicole, how you feel about this?”

“I’m cool, he seems alright, but I’m not going there!” she said.
“Yet!” She thought to herself and laughed.

Sisqo just shook his head, he knew when his godsis laughed that laughed, she had a trick up her sleeve.

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After the next game, Dru Hill’s Finest, were up to play. They played another local Baltimore team.

As usual, Dru Hill’s Finest were on top of their game. Sisqo, was fast and full of energy. He was almost erratic at times, throwing the ball up wildly and praying that it went in. He was focused and he had good shooting skills, but he was best known for getting right in the midst of everyone a making almost impossible shots.

Nokio, the smooth one, was known for making jumpshots accurately. He was like Sisqo sometimes, driving inside and throwing up shots that seemed impossible to make. He had a smooth touch.
Jazz’s speciality was the three point shot. He will kill all opponets with his shot. He would occasionally go down low if he had an opportunity, but he would almost always look to pass it off to one of his teammates. He leaded the team with his assists.

Woody’s specialty was down low by the basket. His solid body was good for the low post. He wasn’t very good with jumpshots, but his foul shots were very accurate. He was good with scoring close to the basket. He was also known for throwing his elbows at anyone with no problem.

Well, of course they won their game.

Nicole was in awe as she looked at her brothers play. It had been three years since she had been in Baltimore.

She had moved from Baltimore, with her family, because her father’s job had transferred him to New Jersey. She didn’t like it,and despite her getting in trouble in high school and failing a year, she bounced back to graduate and even got a scholarship for basketball at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

But her high school coach, in Baltimore, got in touch with her when her school played against his new school, Coppin State, and he had talked her into an offer for a full scholarship to play for their girls team. It was a hard decision, but she decided to go back to Baltimore, because she was still hanging around those friends who were not doing right and she wanted to start over again.

Nicole was dwelling on these things as she stared out into space, she was brought back to reality when Woody nudged her.

“Yo Nikki! Wake up!”

“Oh,!” Nicole responded.

“We about to play Rufus and his crew for the last game.”

“Oh really?”

“We got ‘em today!” Nokio interjected.

“Yeah, man! Ya’ll see how poorly Virgil and Antonio played today?” Jazz said.

“Umm Hmm….!” Sisqo responded.
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The teams took their places on the court. Even though Rufus’s teammates were all taller than Dru Hill’s Finest, they gave them a run for their money. Matter of fact the game was real close. They were exchanging baskets and Rufus had many dunks.

But when it all boiled down to it, Virgil and Antonio was not on point and it ended up costing them the championship. Rufus’s team, The Westside Soldiers lost to Dru Hill’s Finest, by two points. Woody’s accurate foul shooting won them the game! They were all excited and the crowd cheered them on!

They had taken the first place trophy Rufus's team had one for the previous two years of the tournament. The first place team won five thousand dollars and a trophy and the second place team won two thousand five hundred dollars and a trophy also.

Needless to say Jay, who was on Rufus’s team was furious.

“I can’t believe ya’ll! What has gotten in to ya’ll!” Jay said angrily to Virgil and Antonio.

Rufus just glared at them, but he was calm.

“We can’t win everything!” Antonio responed.

“If all of us ain’t here, he said as he pointed to his head. “then none of us ain’t here!” Jay responded.

“We gotta work together ya’ll!” Rufus said.

Antonio and Virgil just looked at each other. They knew that what they did last night affected their play for today in more ways then one.

Dru Hill’s Finest and The Westside Soldiers took the time to shake each others hands, while Nicole made her way down to the court, and some other spectators also, to congratulate both teams. Somehow she made her way over to Rufus and she told him he had a good game.

“Thanks, sweetie.” He replied.

Sisqo saw her chatting with Rufus so he gently put his arms around her waist and pulled her away.

“See ya later!” Nicole told Rufus.

“Hopefully sooner!” He replied.

“I don’t want you messing with him! He’s a playa and he will break your heart!” Sisqo stated to Nicole.

“Umm…alright! ” She replied when she saw the serious look in his eyes.

“You are my lil god sis! I want the best for you, alright big head!”

“Ok!” Nicole answered as she and the others made their way to Sisqo’s car and headed to Sisqo’s house.

[Nina]

AWwwwww Koolllllll .That is so Bad ass.I wish sumthang like that will happen4 real.like Mon'que will be the ref(or she can play too)and the playas will be Ruff Ends,B-rich,jada,mario,jessica(from 3LW),and all of Dru Hill.The jerseys will say B-more Hottest and they'll play againest the ATLalians-haha. :POr maybe I'm jus dreamin about that one.I'm pretty sure Dru knows how to play ball.Man,that will be tight.If that does happen,i'll be there. Man,But drufan that was awsome,I know part 2 is gonna be off the wall .

[sweetgapeach]

Good skills ma ma, I'm really diggin the story and I love the concept. Can't wait for the next part!!!

this story is on FIYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

[sexysmile]

keep it comin' i love it!!

[DruAngelAKAShelle]

i'm loving it so far keep on bringing it



~Expect the UnExpected from dru hill~

[aDRUfan4LiFe]

Thanks Ya'll! I got this idea because Scola sometimes uses Basketball analogies when he describes how it felt when Dru asked him to join the group! I'll have the next part up by the weekend. ;D

[CarolinaCutie]

This is hotttt!!! ;D I am sooooo ready to read the next part!

[Drulady03]

luvin it luvin it! good work girl.

[DruDiamond]

I'm kinda late on readin it but from what I can see, it was worth the wait. Good stuff girl