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Today's Rudo's first Day at university, he’s so fucking nervous. Even though both of his siblings are already enrolled. Zanka had class earlier in the day, so he left early. Riyo is coming to campus later for her afternoon class, leaving Rudo behind, stuck with some random geek to show him around.
‘Fuck, I should have just stayed home.’ He thought as he looked around awkwardly for his campus guide or whatever this dumbass university called them.
“YOOOOOOOOO!”
Rudo turns around to see some blonde, fashionable himbo heading his way. “
Please tell me you’re fucking joking.” He looked away fast, hoping that maybe the ground could just swallow him whole so he wouldn’t have to deal with any more bullshit, or the guy wouldn’t notice him right away. Or he can just run away now; he might as well find his own damn class….eventually. Then he felt a hand on his shoulder.
Great.
“YOOO, WHAT'S UP, MY MAN-are youuuu. OH YOU MUST BE RUDO IT NICE TA MEET YA KID.” The guy shakes as he roughly rocks Rudo back and forth, as he grips on his shoulder.
He’s never trusting Riyo again when she says, ‘Oh, I know someone.’
Fuck that.
“…Yeah, it's nice to meet you, too. And you are?” He says, backing up, giving space between him and the enthusiastic blonde.
“Oh shit! Riyo didn’t tell ya my name. It’s okay, man, I’m August-August Stilza, fashion major.” He held out his hand, and Rudo nonetheless took the man's hand, giving it a firm shake.
“Rudo Surebrec-as you already know, I’m undecided…”
“Aye, no worries, man, you’re still young, no pressure to pick a major just yet. Come on, I’ll show you around campus.” Rudo lets out a sigh.
‘This is about to be a long fucking day,’ he eventually follows the older blonde.
“And here we have the art kids-very creative but weird individuals if ya catch my drift.”
‘Look who’s talking.’ Rudo thinks.
“Oh, and here our club da Cleaners!” He says, excitedly raising his hands in the air like he just did a stunning magic trick.
“The cleaners?” He knew his siblings were part of the club, but honestly, he didn’t really have the time to care or ask questions. He was too busy stressing about his 2.0 GPA in senior year of high school (which stressed his brother Zanka out further as his tutor) than some college geek club.
“Yeah, the best on the whole campus! Didn’t ya siblings tell you about us?”
Rudo shakes his head “no…not really. What do you guys do, community service or something like that?”
August let out a wheezing laugh that made Rudo scrunch up his face. “Nah, man, we’re a book club, even better.”
Rudo stared at him, for a minute blinking.
“You're for real?”
“100%”
He made himself a personal reminder to tease his siblings about their little book club later.
Then someone bumped into August, knocking him back a bit.
“Hey-watch where ya going, man-”
“Yeah, what are ya going to do about it, 4 eye, bore me to death with your lame stories.” The stranger mockingly teases.
His hair was styled up in a pointy updo, white and red strands poking out in every direction. He was dressed in Alethic gear, a black compressed shirt and some basketball shorts, with a purple hoodie on the back that read the words ‘Raider’. A girl beside him let out a low chuckle. He was also in athletic gear, a black tang top, and a tennis skirt, also wearing a similar hoodie to the boy. Her hair is styled down with headphones resting on top of her head.
“First of all, you meathead, none of my stories are bor-“
The man cut August off, making a loud snoring noise.
Okay, the guy might be over the top he he didn’t deserve such disrespect from a stranger, and said stranger who bumped into him in the first place.
“What you’re Problem, dude?” Rudo decided to speak up.
The man's attention turned to him. “And you are…?”
“Rudo.”
The boy scoffs. “Well, Rudo, tell your friend to watch where he’s going next time, and there won’t be a problem for you to solve.”
Rudo grits his teeth. “The only problem I’m seeing here is you.” The guy takes a step closer, his eyes look at Rudo with dark intentions.
“What did you say-“
“Hii, come on, Zodyl texted us.”
The boy looks up and down at Rudo one last time before turning his head. “Watch ya, self kid.”
As they walked off. Rudo gloved hand balled into a fist, ‘what the hell, who the hell does that guy think he is-Meg Thee Stallion??’
August let out a soft sigh. “Phew, thanks, man.” This snapped Rudo out of his rage, turning back to face August.
“Oh…no problem. Who were those kids?”
August lets out a long sigh. “Those are the raiders; athletes of the school.”
“Yeah, but why the hell did they pick on you. Do y’all have personal beef or something?”
“Nah, man, our beef is more than personal. You see, our club meeting space used to belong to the athletes, but since they didn’t need it anymore, our boss swept in and collected the space for us. He argued that they didn’t use the space, plus it was closer to the library, so it made sense for an actual book club to have the space for themselves. Long story short, they didn’t like that and started picking on every member when they got the chance.”
“Why don’t ya tell, I don’t know…higher up about this.”
August sucks his teeth. “The university gives less than a fuck since, honestly, the athletes bring in most of the money anyway, they would always lean in their favor.”
“Wow, that sucks.”
“Ass. For sure. Come on, let's finish our tour, yeah.” Rudo nods in agreement.
…
“So that's the end of our tour! When does your class start, Rudo?”
Rudo checks his phone. His jaw drops, “OH SHIT! LESS IN 5 MINUTES!” Rudo says as he sprints back into the science building.
“GOOD LUCK, SEE YA AROUND!” August says, giving Rudo one last thumbs up.
Rudo races through the hallway, dodging and passing people by. Then he stops- he looks at the room number 306B. He entered the room. The professor is already there in the middle of his introduction. The entire room turned to Rudo.
‘Are you kidding me right now?’
Rudo awkwardly makes his way to the first empty seat. He kept his head down focus on the floor the whole time. As he sits down, he leans to the side to put his bag next to him, causing his phone to slip out of his pocket.
“Excuse me, Amo saw you drop this.”
Rudo turns his head to see, only to be described as the most prettiest girl he later sees his eyes upon (literally, he has no game). He froze for a moment before regaining consciousness.
“Right-uh, thanks, Umm.”
“Amo,” the girl granted him a friendly smile.
“Thanks…Amo.” He says her hand, lighting brushing against his gloves, sending sparks down Rudo's neck.
“Are you gonna tell Amo your name back?”
“Oh uh yeah…shit…I’m Rudo.” Amo giggles at Rudo stumbling over his words.
“Okay, everyone, pay attention, these are the materials you’ll need for class.” The professor announces.
Begrudgingly, Rudo turns his attention back to his professor for the lecture, not without sneaking glances back to the girl.
Once class was over, Rudo started to pack up. “It was nice meeting you, Rudo. Amo hopes to see you around more.” The girl says, giving Rudo a wave goodbye, Rudo froze there like an idiot watching the girl of dream walk away. He needs to see her again.
…
After class, he met up with Riyo.
“Yo! How was your first day, lil bro?” Riyo says, wrapping her arms around her brother's shoulder.
Rudo blushes thinking of Amo, “It was fine.”
“That blush on your face says something else. Come on, you know I won’t tell Zan or Enjin. Lay it on me, man.”
“Do you know a girl named Amo?” Riyo raises a brow.
“I’ve heard of her. Why?” Rudo turns his blushing face away from his sister.
“Oh no, Rudo, don’t tell me.”
“I just think she was pretty, plus she was nice, and I want to see her around again.”
“Want to see who?” A third voice appeared. Both siblings jumped at the voice.
“SHIT TAMS! Ya scared tf outta me!” Riyo says as she puts a hand over her heart.
“Sorry, couldn’t help it. Who is this?” Tamsy asks with an eyebrow raised.
“This is my lil brother Rudo, have a crush on the Raiders' little sister.”
“RIYO,” Rudo says, his face as hot as coal.
“Hey, I said I wasn’t gonna tell Zan or Enjin. Don’t give me that face right now.” She giggles at seeing her brother's flustered reaction.
“In my honest opinion, Rudo, you're better off trying to date a hungry lion.”
Rudo raises his brow. “What's wrong with Amo?”
“Nothing, it's the people who she hangs around with. The raiders.” Tamsy clarified.
“You mean the rude athletes?” Rudo asks.
Riyo's eyes widen. “Rudo, did you-“
“When August was touring me around, I ran into 2, rude as fuck tho.”
“That's them, alright,” Tamsy said with a sad sigh.
“But I still don’t see the big issue, I can handle a bit of annoying assholes.” Rudo pressed on.
“We know you can, but Amo is the adopted sister to…Jabber.” Riyo said, whispering ‘Jabber’s name regretfully.
Rudo looks between Tamsy and Riyo, looking for a speck of an answer resting in their eyes.
“And?”
“Jabber, the same guy who's been fucking with Zan, honestly, he’s the worst outta the raiders. The man’s a fucking machine no matter what he does. And he’s super overprotective of his siblings.” Riyo explains, a frown settling on her face.
Rudo often heard his brother's complaints about a certain guy in class, how he seems to always bother Zanks or top in sone kinda way.
“How overprotective are we talkin'?” Rudo asks skeptically.
“I heard a story once, some guy tried to ask Amo out, and the next day he dropped out of school. There were some witnesses off campus spotting him with a broken leg.” Tamsy whispered.
Oh, okay fuck.
“Trust me, bro, you don’t want to get involved. Come on.” Riyo says, pulling Rudo along.
But deep in Rudo's heart, he’s not ready to let go of the possibility just yet.
…
“ZANKAAAAA,” Riyo sings as they approach their older brother's car.
“Hey, how was yer first day?” Zanka said as he greeted his siblings, Riyo coming to rest against his car.
Rudo shifted his posture. “It was alright.”
“He ran into a raider today while August was showing him around,” Riyo explained.
Zanka sucks his teeth. “Don’t let them bastard get ta ya, they have nothin ta do with their lives but cause trouble for anyone anyways.”
Rudo softly chuckled at his brother's annoyance. He glances around and sees Amo, his red eyes perked up, and gives her a soft wave. But before she can return it back, he sees someone behind her looking back. Magenta eyes stare straight into red. Rudo doesn’t get the memo tho and walks over to them. He greeted Amo with a soft wave. In return, she gives him a bright smile.
“Jabber, this is Rudo, Amo has been telling you about.” He happily explains to the man.
The guy is tall, probably about 6 feet, as he towers over Rudo. His hair styled in clean locs runs down his back, shaping his face, adorned with mad piercing. He’s wearing a purple hoodie with scorpion patterns all over it, black basketball shorts, and black Air Force Jordan’s. The boy smiled; however, his smile did not quite meet his dark eyes.
“Rudo, huh?” He speaks with a serious and dark voice.
Rudo swallows a glup. “Yeah, that's me…I just wanted to ask ya for your number…I didn’t write some of the notes down, and I was hoping to-“
“What are you trying to pull here, kid?” Jabber interrupted him.
“…just trying to get notes from a fellow classmate.”
Jabber raised a pierced eyebrow. “Yeah, if that's all ya want, how about I give ya my number, and I’ll forward the message to you.”
“Jab-“ Amo tried to protest.
“Chill, I got it.” He says back to his sister. Amo sighs, backing down a bit.
Rudo's blood ran cold, shit, he's been fucked, but he can’t give up now.
“…y-yeah sure man no problem.” He handed his phone over to the man.
The first thing that caught his attention was the jewelry on the man's hands, his fingers decorated with thick Gold metal rings. This thought ran back to Tamsy, and what he told Rudo, he is not looking for a fight.
Jabber hands Rudo his phone back, and as he looked up, a smile plastered on his face.
“AYE, Mr. Bad Attitude, fancy seein you here! Thought ya face wouldda be stuck in a book or something.”
Zanka's eyebrows furrow. “Maybe ya should give it a try once in a while. Instead of Trynna to harass ma brother.”
Jabber puts up his hands in a mock surrender. “Aye, he da one who showed up to me in the first place, I ain’t do shit.”
Rudo looks between the two of them. Irritation hangs on Zanka's features, while Jabbers is filled with playfulness and almost excitement.
Zanka scoffs, “Sure, he did, come on, Rudo, we’re going home.”
He hears Jabber let out a breathy laugh. “SEE YA, MR. BAD ATTITUDE!” He screams laughing, as Zanka's face lit up red in embarrassment and anger.
Rudo takes one last glance at Amo. Who was already staring back at him. Yeah, totally worth it.
…
Once they got back to the dorm, Zanka went up to his room to study. While Riyo cooks dinner. Rudo was watching a random streamer when a text message appeared.
Amo🧡: ya still Trynna get those notes or your gonna keep on playing dumb
No way, he was so close, Rudo refused to let the girl go now. If her brother hadn’t gotten in the way, none of this would have happened. Then Rudo gets an idea for the first time.
Me: Fine, you got me. I just want to be friends, trust.
Amo🧡: I ain’t stupid kid, I don’t got a 4.0 GPA for nothing. I suggest you delete this number and stay the hell away from my sister.
Rudo can’t lie, a chill ran down his body, but he was always known for being stubborn as fuck.
Me: How about we make a deal?
Amo🧡: Really, bruh, a deal?
Me: Yes, a deal. I pay you 100 a week if you allow me to hang out with Amo. And in return, I can set you up with Zanka.
Rudo wasn’t a total fool, he see the enjoyment in Jabber face when teasing Zanka. The guy has to have some type of interest in him with the way he was looking at his brother. Plus, he needed to get close to Amo at this point, after all this shit, and he fails and possibly ends up with a broken jaw for nothing-no way he’s taking that loss.
Amo🧡: and how long will this last
Me: No more than 3 weeks, I swear.
Rudo stares at the next nervously, as text bubbles appear and disappear. Cold sweat ran down his temple. Until.
Amo🧡: Deal.
Let’s fucking go!