Chasing Pavements

Krys723

A/N: If you've reached this far then CONGRATULATIONS! You have made it to the end of Chasing Pavements! Now a few things you need to know now that we're here:

1.) If you were wondering if I'm making a sequel, then the answer is YES! It will be titled Fade Into You and it will focus on many of things! You'll see more of the twins and Mikey and there might be even a few twists and turns.

2.) This will be an epilogue and it will be shorter than my usual work on this story…with my luck I'll be happy to have at least 1,000 words.

3.) Fade Into You will be longer…expect that now! I'll have a fifteen chapter knockout and with enough encouragement, I'll get even further. Thank you all for reading Chasing Pavements and now enjoy the EPILOGUE!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING BOONDOCKS RELATED THOUGH I DO HAVE ALL THREE SEASONS OF THE BOONDOCKS ON DVD AND A COPY OF PUBLIC ENEMY #2 AND RIGHT TO BE HOSTILE ON MY BOOKSHELF.

Setting: 1951 Timid Deer Lane, Woodcrest; Silver Springs, Maryland

Date: December 25TH, 2015

Time: 8:35 P.M.

Epilogue

Five Years Later

Huey Freeman…

I just pulled into the driveway in my black Dodge Ram, it was a 2012 model and it still ran beautifully. Public Enemy shut off as I turned off the truck, it was my first time seeing my family and friends since I graduated Wuncler High School, besides a few visits here and there. I ended up going to Morgan State University in Baltimore and I liked so much that I started my life there, I graduated early and now I was teaching African-American students at that same school. My students hate me, I was tough but fair.

Riley ended up taking up Art and Art History after he graduated, he left the rap game behind when he graduated as I was happy for that. He lived in D.C., making an African-American clothing line known as the Young Reezy Collection. It was the most popular clothing line in the East Coast and he was glad to know he was finally making that money and balling. He and Cindy broke up during his senior year though, their long-distance was too much to handle. They were still best friends and he told when she came down to visit, they still ball and talk shit about each other.

Caesar and Delia got engaged when she graduated college at Virginia State University and got married that following winter, that was the only other time I saw her. Caesar helped Riley with the Young Reezy Collection and he and Delia lived in D.C. with him. They were now expecting their first child.

Cindy got into Winston-Salem State University on a basketball scholarship and she now played in the WNBA (no surprises there) now played on the Los Angeles Sparks, still talking her shit when she dunked a basket and won the game for her team. I still watch her games when I get a chance…whenever I wasn't talking to Jazmine or grading papers.

Jazmine and I are still going strong, even though she left for Georgetown University that August after we spent the summer together. She took up two courses, business and cosmetology. Like me, she graduated early and moved to Richmond, VA where she opened her shop…Essentials and she catered to all types of hair of both sex, no matter the age or hair type. It was popular in the East Coast and when I visited her, she always does my hair free of charge. And no, she hasn't placed a pair of scissors to my head, no matter how much she "persuades" me. She thinking about moving Essentials to Baltimore because she wanted to be closer to her family…and me.

I fiddled with the black, velvet box in my back pocket before pulling it out and looking inside. This is what I wanted to do, I've been thinking about it ever since January and she had no idea it was coming. I was the type to never believe in marriage, and my students knew this, but everything about Jazmine changed that for me.

I heard my phone ringing beside me I picked it up from the passenger seat where it was charging and looked at the Caller ID. It was Jazmine. I grabbed the other Christmas gifts from the back.

"Hello."

"Honey, are you here yet? Everybody's expecting you," Jazmine's angelic voice said on the other end. I couldn't help but smirk.

"Yeah, I just pulled up," I said getting out. I heard her smile through the smile and told her that I'd be inside soon. Once she hung up, I got out my Dodge Ram and stepped into the snowy driveway that belonged to Timid Deer Lane. I looked across the street and saw the lights to the DuBois home turned off, I knew they were across the street… the DuBois and Freeman holiday get together still alive after all these years.

I walked up to the front door and knocked three times. Riley was the one who opened the door, a Christmas hat on his freshly corn-rowed head.

"Bout time you get here nigga! You know how Jazzy get when you aren't around her when you suppose to be!" He shouted as I walked inside the house. It was lively, everybody was here. I saw Jazmine talking to Cindy and Abby, who was beginning to look more and more like her mother.

At the tender age of nine going on ten, she was already starting to hit puberty. Alexander was beside his twin, drawing every possible thing he could think of in a brand-new sketch pad. Maybe he was the next Riley without the wanna-be gangsta side. Little Mikey was fast asleep in his mother's lap, he was only four after all.

"Huey!" Jazmine said looking over. Her emerald-green eyes shined with the roar of the fireplace. I walked over and gave her a kiss, I immediately tasted strawberries. I placed the gifts I got from everybody else under the tree and walked into the dining room where Granddad, Tom, and Rachael were enjoying eggnog. I swear, all those three do is drink.

"Hey, boy. Want some eggnog?" Granddad asked me.

"No, Granddad you know that has egg and diary in it," I said.

"Yes, but it also got the best rum in it. Sure you don't want a glass?" I shook my head as Granddad called everybody else back into the dining room for dinner.

After a very loud dinner that involved everybody catching up with each other and Alexander and Abby getting into an argument about something they heard at school, everybody gathered into the living room to open the remaining gifts that were under the Christmas tree. As everybody admired the Christmas gifts, I wrapped my arms around Jazmine's waist.

"What did you get me?" she asked me in a voice I could hear.

"Something better than I got everybody else," I told her.

"Can I see it?" she asked turning to me.

"Not yet."

"OK," she said pouting her lips together. I kissed her softly and we soon begun to make out, with her hands entering my Afro as they usually did.

"Ew…you two are disgusting," Abby said behind us.

"I think its romantic," Alex said.

"You two are really ruining the moment," Jazmine said as we stopped.

"You two need to get married already, I'll decorate your whole wedding," Alex said. Abby raised an eyebrow at her twin. I ignored them as I got down on my knee.

"Dude, you are so weird," Abby said.

"Huey, what are you doing?" Jazmine asked me finally turning around. Her emerald-green eyes grew wide as I took the small, velvet box out my pocket. The whole room suddenly went silence as I opened the box and revealed a white gold engagement ring that I had gotten in October.

"I love you Jazmine and I've loved you ever since you came back here five years ago. Sure you were a bitch the first couple of months, but the moment I kissed you…I knew that we had to be together. Jazmine Sarah DuBois, will you please marry me?"

"YES!" Jazmine shouted before wrapping her arms around my neck, making us both fall down. Everybody around us started congratulating us, but I ignored all of them as Jazmine made out with me and we were in our own world.

NOW ITS FINISHED! I HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY EXCEPT KEEP A LOOKOUT FOR FADE INTO YOU.