Dymonta

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Dymonta had just begun his final year in high school. He was ready for all the fun that he would have in his senior year. What he failed to realize was that the time would soon come for him to start applying to college. One of his teachers asked him if he knew what college he wanted to go to. He answered no and said that he had not thought about it much. Later that day, he meets up with his girlfriend and asks her the same question his teacher had asked him. She told him that she was going to Dickinson State University. Realizing that he liked the college and wanted to stay with Lia, he decided to apply to it.
However, this did not sit with well with Dymonta’s mother. She did not want her son to go out of state. She felt like he was not ready to be on his own. He tells him mom that he wanted to go to the same college as Lia. Dymonta tried to get his mom to see that was his
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Lia could not believe that his mother would say anything like that to him. She told Dymonta maybe his mom felt like she would be losing him if he went out state He said that she wouldn’t be trying to stop him from following his dreams. While they were talking, Hakiem, Dymonta’s best friend, came over and asked if they were going to the party. While Lia said no because she had too much homework to do, Dymonta said that he was going.
Later that night, Lia gets a text from a friend saying that Dymonta is cheating on her at the party. She was completely heart broken. She could not believe that he would do this after everything they had been through. She called him to ask if it was true and he said yes, but did not mean for it to happen. Dymonta told her that he only had love for her and wanted to be together. Lia said that she did not believe him and if he did, he would have never hurt her. She breaks up with him and hangs the phone. She spends the rest of the night crying her eyes out about the boy she was stupid enough to

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