Lee, Darrien

Seventeen-year-olds Patrice and DeMario are thrown into adulthood when their one night together leaves Patrice pregnant, and as they come to terms with impending parenthood they learn that both Patrice and their unborn child's lives are in danger.

Sixteen-year-old Denim Mitchell refuses to accept her parents' disapproval of her romantic feelings for Andr? Patterson, whom she has loved since childhood, and things are made even more complicated by a lie, a party, and a bullet.

Fifteen-year-old Kane Alexander resents having to care for her two younger siblings while her father works, and when he insists Kane put her family before her social life, Kane decides to run away.

Seventeen-year-old Brianna Baxter--or Patience--leads The Warriors, a violent gang, and when she decides to leave the gangster lifestyle, her sisters attempt to set her up as the culprit in one last crime; when Denim Mitchell hears about the plot, he decides to help Patience.

Denim Mitchell, having been selected as an after-school tutor, works with fourteen-year-old Julius Graham and tries to convince him to do that right thing after he witnesses a crime, but refuses to talk because he is concerned about his safety.

Sixteen-year-old Levar asks his friend, Denim, for help when his twelve-year-old sister, Tiffany, gives up her favorite pastime of jumping double-dutch right before a big competition and begins acting strange.