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Did you see what I see over there? What did you see?

I ain't never ever ever seen a body like hers Type of body that'll make it

I ain't never ever ever seen a body like hers Type of body that'll make it

It's a different world Than where you come from

It's a different world than where you come from.

Have

to

confess, Ms. Wayne, I bet $100 that you wouldn't last.

Right. But won't God do it? Yes. Yes.

There's been trials and tribulations, but by the grace of God. and good edges,

I do endure.

Unfortunately, despite all your gains, you still only have a 2.88 GPA, and you

know you have to land a 3.0 to get off of academic probation or to register for

the spring semester.

I've been studying so hard, but despite the extra tutoring, my grades have still

been a bit of a challenge for me.

Let me ask you something, Dr.

Langhorne. If someone wanted to get tested for a learning disability,

what would that look like?

That would look like you sitting in my office asking to be tested.

Me? Me? No, no, no, no. A girl in my engineering class, she brought it up

while we were discussing circuits.

And I told her I would ask you because I am so nice.

Well, there are so many resources for students with learning differences.

And just tell your friend to come see me whenever they're ready.

Okay. Okay.

Bye, Doc. Bye-bye.

Peace. Thank God for this yogurt.

Keeps me regular.

No, no, chat. I asked if a triple text is thirsty, not mathematical properties

of the number 30.

Bruh. What?

You could have just asked me and spared Jackson, Mississippi a few gallons of

water. The answer is yes, thirst bucket, even if it is to Rashida.

Don't you have a blazer or something you need to be finishing for finals?

Uh-oh, beige razor.

You all right?

Coach Cole's suspending me for the celebration bowl because of the video. I

know it was Andre snitching ass who leaked it. Yo, that's diabolical. Nah,

it's bullshit.

Bro, they can't win without me. I done led us to an undefeated season. I'm

talking about when Above and Beyond apologized to Coach, Andre, and the

team. Yo.

I'm done, bro. I can't wait to get back to Detroit and just get away from all

this, fam. Look, life is lifin' right now. I mean, my annoying ass P.O. didn't

approve my request to go home for break.

Larold thinks I need to spend time over break job hunting enrichment, like I'm

not already working my cute behind off to keep these grades in check. But

still, I rise.

Bro, if it makes you feel any better, yeah?

I'm not going anywhere.

I mean, my parents will be in Nigeria visiting them, so I'm gonna be right

here working on chop life without them in my business.

I could help you find a gig.

I appreciate you, man, but I don't even know what I'm qualified to do for real.

Parolee, the orphan, and the outcast.

Merry Christmas to us. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas indeed.

I'm thinking of baking cookies with my face on it for the final mixer.

Just another way to lick you.

Mind if I join you?

We're on a date.

I mean, you're good, but we're trying to... Damn!

Look at him over there.

Looking all fine. I can't stand it.

It's his loss. Wait, who we talking about?

Marquise. He's a writer in residence here who ended things between us when he

found out that I was a student. Even though I gave him the best sex of his

life, it's this thing I do with my time. Hey, yo, pause!

But tell me later, okay? All right.

Dougie?

Appreciate it.

I'll get over here.

Yeah, we're good. Thank you.

Girl, put those dishes down. You're not supposed to be working today.

Well, you clearly need some help around here, and I'm not going to let you deal

with this lunch rush alone.

I mean, besides, this is usually my shift anyways.

Yeah, until my budget got cut and I had to slash hours. Please, I got this. One

burnt biscuit don't ruin a whole batch.

How on earth do you manage to still be so damn fine?

Even after a long night off. I get it from my mama.

The future's bright.

So, it looks like I'll be staying on campus over winter break, and I was

thinking maybe you'd want to stay too.

Oh, wow.

Maybe we could spend the break keeping each other warm.

That could be nice.

Maybe it could bring us closer.

Real close.

I mean, it would save me a lot of money from taking a trip to L.A., so I'll

think about it.

Love to make me work.

Five, five. Name a landmark case that reshaped gender norms.

Megan Thee Stallion versus the Internet.

I can do that one.

I got a theory with your gender and mine.

Baby,

seriously, seriously, we have to stop playing. I have.

to ace my finals this week or I am screwed, okay?

Hey, you save it for the Survive and Thrive Finals Mixer I plan to get my

entire life.

Who playing, Birdie?

Look, look, you need a little motivation, and honestly, I'm not

filling my books right now, so I'll quiz you.

Look, every answer you get right, you get a kiss.

I get a kiss? You get a kiss.

Come here.

There's a credible but active bomb threat on the premises.

We need everyone to evacuate the library immediately but safely.

No, Mom, do not get on a flight. Yes, yes, yes. I'm good.

Don't call the FBI.

I know. I love them. Bye.

Hey.

You okay?

Yeah. Just shaking up. That's fine. Whatever you need.

I'm here.

Yeah.

Who that?

Um, Ellington, my tutor.

Oh, that's Ellington, huh?

Thank you.

Nice.

I can't believe this is happening. I can.

When it comes to violence, America's kind of goaded. I mean, who threatens a

college? Man, y'all should have seen the way FBI busted through the library. I'm

talking about they had agents, dogs.

Look, y'all, I'm too fine to die.

I mean, we are too fine to die. Stay calm, everyone.

Stay calm.

President Wayne is on the way. It's just a threat. We don't know if it's real or

not, bro. Yeah, we gonna be all right. We gonna be all right, bro.

Come on, we need to pray. Let's join hands and bow heads. Lord Jesus Christ

in heaven, please bring us closer to the protection of these.

Allow us to feel the comfort of your embrace in these troubled times.

Especially, Lord, when some of us have just found our soulmate.

Please, in your infinite wisdom, do not take away that which has been

illuminated. Oh, and Lord, if we make it through this, please put it on

everyone's hearts to vote for me, for Ms. Gilbert Hall.

Amen. Amen.

See, that's why I mess with you. You keep us covered.

Yo, it's hella HBCUs being hit with bomb threats right now. I mean, students is

tapping in from Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, even Pennsylvania.

This is too much, y'all. Dad.

Hey, what's going on? It's okay. It's okay. Everybody calm down. Calm down,

everybody. Brothers and sisters, for those of you who have taken my

breathwork class, this is what the work is for.

When the world takes the air out of your lungs... Professor Brooks, ain't nobody

got time to be breathing.

What we know so far is limited.

Richmond police have received a credible bomb threat on Gaines Library.

FBI are there now. They're running a full sweep of the library. They're

taking this very seriously.

as a potential hate crime. As of now, we are one of many HBCUs on lockdown

nationwide. So for now, we just gotta wait. Wait?

I should have gone Ivy.

Penn would never let you into their institution.

I've seen your grades, brother.

Don't fool yourself.

Target doesn't disappear just because you changed the address.

It's crazy how much tuition we pay for death threats.

A fool? This was the one place we could be protected from racism.

Hey, man, I don't mean to puncture the collective chakra, but context matters.

Black learning spaces have always been seen as dangerous, not just because of

what students do, but because of who you might become.

From Tulsa to the bombing of schools and churches to COINTELPRO to the

suppression of black studies, none of this is new. I hear that, but how do we

know that these threats aren't an inside job?

No, just seriously. Seriously. I mean, it's not always white people that are

responsible or trying to take us down. Black people can be their own worst

enemy. That's all I'm saying. Like you.

Like you. Like you.

Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. I know I'm supposed to say that colleges are the

best place to debate differing opinions, but we're not going to debate our own

existence. Thank you. Not today, brother. Not today. We know who's making

the threats.

I call Cap Davion. I prefer Dave.

So this assumption that the danger must have come from within, it's not just

playing devil's advocate.

That is conditioning.

Yeah, but how do we protect ourselves?

Yeah, because it feels like it's nowhere we can be safe these days. Another way

to not just keep us down, but to control us. Well, they can only control us if we

let them.

You know, I get what Shaquille is saying.

Our oppression is by design.

It is all just...

So exhausting.

We go to their institutions, they punish us. We try to build our own, they

destroy it.

We mess up, they use it against us. What is even the point of trying?

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I know it feels that way, but think

about what you do have in this moment.

The thing that's carried our people through generations.

Community.

You heard that? Yes.

Y'all seen a German Shepherd run around here?

No, ma'am.

German Shepherd?

Yeah. Boo-boo to base.

K-9 still at large.

All right, y'all. Just carry on.

Somebody find the dog!

Dog? A bomb?

This could be us.

Hugged up.

If you decided to stay over with a break.

What, do you think about anything else? Not really.

I'm just trying to distract us from all the madness. Well, I'm trying to be

distracted by my books right now.

Say less.

How do you know my RA?

Who, Candace? I mean, we bump into each other at the gym from time to time, but

that's about it.

They told me your tutor was a clown after he said you might have a learning

disability.

He's all right.

This is not I guess I've seen pretty closer Must be really good

Zero

-chill

Rashida girl, what's wrong?

I thought she was Kojo

I mean, he keeps on trying to convince me to stay on campus for break, and

all I can think about is getting through finals, going home, and going to see my

family. Gojo will just have to understand that there are bigger things

going on than hooking up. Like right now, everything just feels louder.

Well, I don't know what kind of world he's living in.

But mine went from zero to 100 real quick.

It's a lot. Oh, yes, you come in for a hug. You need a hug. I mean, you need

one though. Come here. Come here. Come here.

Wait,

did you just hug me for the second time this week? Don't start that show. We're

best friends now. We should get charm bracelets. I mean, unless, if we make it

through this, you give me that Balenciaga pinch.

Hey, stranger.

What's up?

So we're just never going to speak again?

Amir, it's not that I didn't enjoy our connection.

It's just today it really hit me that here I am with faculty trying to help

students. I can't be involved with one.

But you're not faculty, and look, your residency is up soon, so why can't we...

And that response shows me how young you really are.

Take care, man.

Come on.

Hey.

Hey.

Rashida, right?

Right. Andre.

Cyborg fan.

See,

but the thing is, you know, it's crazy.

All of this craziness reminds me of Attack on Titan.

When the Colossal Titan broke down Wall Maria, and all the people in Shiganshina

was running around... Wait, shut up. ...panicking, trying to evacuate... Shut

up, shut up. ...Shiganshina. I was thinking the exact same thing. Oh, my

God. This is total Shiganshina energy.

I'm trying to tell you. Like, wow.

What episode are you on? This is too much. This is too much. Shoot, girl, I'm

behind a little bit, but... Look,

I'm gonna, um... I'm gonna go and try to study.

Now that I got something beautiful to think about.

Andre, but what happened, bro?

I thought we squashed beef, then you go and leak the video?

Bro, I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, you don't? What I do know is

you came to me with some sad sob story, acting like you the only one that's ever

been through something.

But see, you don't know how hard I worked to become QB1.

QB1? Yeah.

You know what?

This childish, bro.

Everything that went down today,

I'm done going back and forth with you.

It's yours.

You got it, QB1.

Woo-hoo!

Bro, you stay re-nigging.

People get hurt for that, you know? Just take this whoopin' like a man. Nah, you

cheatin'. You cheatin'. Let your books do the talkin', playboy.

You feelin' like Eliante?

Yo, you good, bro?

Hell nah.

I don't do well with my life being threatened or discarded.

Nah, nah, I get it. You know, we had a bomb threat my freshman year, bro. I was

shook. Like, I thought I was gonna die before my mom got to see my first

college game. But, you know, I got used to it.

She and her child needs a hug because it's messed up.

Damn, it is.

How you always doing that, man?

Doing what?

Like, you've been lining me up all semester.

Every time you got me in that chair, you always talk me through whatever dumb

stress I got going on that week. Like, are you a barber? Are you a therapist?

Like, even now, you're the one who's anxious as hell. You talking to me about

my inner child.

Like, no, no, you got something.

You got something.

You talk a lot, but thank you.

I'm ready to go.

Man, how much longer we gotta sit here? Seriously, this is crazy.

Oh my god.

Hey.

Are they really singing about trying to holla right now?

Effective immediately, all lockdowns have been lifted, the library is

reopened, and the FBI finished their sweep, and an all-clear has been issued.

Look,

I don't feel all cleared.

Me either.

I mean, what about the other campuses?

And do we know who threatened us?

There are several alt-right groups taking credit for the threats online on

message boards, but usually in a situation like this...

rarely is a single perpetrator ever identified.

But I can assure all of you that you can safely return to academic buildings and

resume normal activities.

Now, how are we supposed to resume normal activities after our lives have

been threatened?

I need to get out of here, man.

It's crazy.

Whoo!

Damned if you do.

I want to thank you, Nellie. You really held it down today.

All right.

Mine, too.

And granddaddy will be very disappointed in you, Duane.

Slashing our budget.

Ooh.

I'm going to have to agree with Nellie.

You know, now is not a good time, friend. Oh, it's always a good time for

justice, brother.

Hey. The faculty and I are not just going to let you gut the school with

your proposed budget cuts.

Well, Professor Brooks, my proposed budget cuts are already on their way to

the board. So they're in the hands of the trustees now. The future of Hillman

is at stake.

What do you want me to do?

You want me to magically shit $100 million?

Huh?

I'm sorry.

It's not about you. It's...

I got this job. So do your job.

I'll do mine.

Do what you can, do what I want.

Yeah. Hellman, are y'all listening?

Yeah. I said, Hellman, are y'all listening?

Yeah. Okay, they tried it.

not going anywhere we are studying we are partying and we are living our best

young gifted black talented lives right here in

our space

okay so i put us in a group chat and i named it curly pops and i think that we

should try and do a facetime at least like every friday you know just to curl

it's only gonna be a month right but a lot could happen in a month i mean

somebody could fall in love in that time i'm in love with jalen

that's quite the development baby i mean this whole bomb threat situation it made

me realize that he's the one and that god clearly sent him for me right

Just be careful, girl. You only know the man five minutes. Okay, four more than I

needed. When you know, you know.

Hold up. Are those my Balenciaga pants?

Girl, when I said that you could have them, I didn't mean you could wear them.

But they look good on me, don't they?

That means you're going to stay on campus and train with the team.

Hang out with your brothers and let me style you.

Maybe trash that one outfit we discussed.

All right, look.

You're right, Joe.

I'ma stay here.

I'ma lock in. I'ma train like I never trained before, because I'm QB1. Come on

now. That's what we like to hear.

I don't know,

but the bow. Keep the bow. But I like the bow.

No, it's fine. I don't want to dwell on it. You can sleep on the floor.

I'm glad all the madness is over.

My parents would have never let me hear the end of it if I got killed.

Speaking of parents, I've decided to go home.

I have to hug them and wrestle with my brothers and remember what it feels like

to feel safe.

I hear it.

I just feel pressure all around.

Mm-hmm.

Wait, are you talking about from me?

I mean, with this whole virginity thing, you've been a lot.

Rashida, please, you don't understand. I haven't even... Kojo, please.

Okay?

Maybe... we should just take a break.

Come. What do you need?

You know,

I cannot believe we basically survived first semester.

Yeah. Not a whole bomb threat.

Yeah, and look.

Then got us back here and it's her library. Look at you. I did Some might

call it a gift Okay You have come a long way since convocation and

I want to keep going And I want to keep going with you

What are you doing here?

I thought the football team had to stay over break.

I'm just going home for a couple of days.

I need to see my family after all of this.

I feel you.

Family is important in trying times.

For sure.

Yeah. Where you headed?

Compton. Word?

Yes. I got family out there.

Look, my auntie Lovette stay right by the courthouse.

Let me find out how to pay for this.

Maybe you should.

Well, this is me.

Need a ride?

Baby, if you offering, I'm going to always say yes.

The Mental Health Center is a lifeline for so many of us, and that's why I want

to work here.

You could even say I need to work here. I'm looking for a dedicated psych major

to fill the position of the student mental health liaison.

Does that describe you, Mr. Rodale? Absolutely.

Um, there's this one thing. I'm kind of on probation for this messed-up

situation that happened back in Harlem, but I assure you, Dr. L., that I have

turned my life around. Oh, stop right there. That's the same thing my second

ex-husband said to me in 1988 that, or...

Seven o'clock tomorrow, Mr. Rodale. Wow.

Wow. Okay. Thank you so much, Dr. L. I appreciate it. You won't regret it.

Promise. I better die.

Okay. All right.

Well, well, look who made it out alive.

I was wondering about you.

Yes.

In more ways than one.

I wanted to thank you for all your help.

Even when you suggested I get tested for a learning disability.

I know it was genuine.

I'm gonna get tested.

Wow.

That's amazing.

I'm happy for you. Yeah.

I wouldn't have been able to finish this semester without you.

Thank you.

Tuber hug?

Nighttime brings promises I can't keep.

Giving in is the one thing that I don't need.

Got ahead of myself.

Gotta retrace my steps.

Cause I lost me the moment I took a piece of you.

You may never believe but I'm sorry.

I never meant for it to go this way.

Only wanted the best and I'm sticking to my story.

This was a moment.

and this was all i could