Y’all, I don’t know anymore

Nothing like them orbiting the nucleus. Kind of like a cloud around the nucleus.

Without getting too deep, because this can go REALLY deep, electrons are not little balls. They don't behave like little balls. They aren't clouds, they don't behave like them either. Our best description of an electron and it's behavior at the moment is as a massive spin-1/2 fermion which carries electric charge and chirality. I know you don't know what that means, not a lot of people do, and that is kind of the point. The electron is a very unfamiliar and not very intuitive object, trying to understand it with a simple analogy is never going to work.

However, you can ask some questions about the location of an atom's electrons and can get some sort of familiar and relatable answers, though they are probably not entirely satisfying. This is where the cloud picture comes in. In quantum mechanics, you can talk about electrons as mathematical objects that represent the probability of finding an electron at any point in space at any particular moment. This mathematical object is a solution to the Schrodinger Equation, which is a fundamental equation describing the behavior of (non-relativistic, i.e. low energy) quantum particles. When you put all the right stuff into the Schrodinger Equation describing the electric potential of the nucleus, you'll find that most likely places to find an electron at any moment are described by atomic orbitals, which are the cloud like structures. Here are what they look like for hydrogen atoms...