Partners in Crime |Heejake| FF

Jake's past (2)

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I was maybe 11 or 12 when my parents sent me and my sister to our uncles. We weren't living with them, but when our families financial situation got worse than it already was. We would get sent from uncle to uncle until it got better for our family.

Before that. my father, who was a farmer just like most of the other grown adults, Was always sick. He always had a fever, or always had the chills. That didn't make it easier for me and my siblings. Who had to help on the farm 90% of the time.

The best feeling around those times, was when my sister could scrape up a few dollars to take us to the movies. That's where my fascination with criminals came from.

One time, my sister took me and another sibling of mine to a movie about a bandit. I don't know why, but it was so interesting to my young mind.

After that I would always want to play cops and robbers. Me always being the robber. I would even verbally fight with my siblings. Since they wanted to be the robbers sometimes too. But, I always got to be the robber anyways.

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If you saw me around those times, as I got older. You wouldn't realize how much of a bad kid I was.

The first uncle I would be sent to, was very laid back. He didn't make us go to school if we didn't want to. Once we got sent to other uncles, they weren't so happy that me and my siblings skipped so much school. He was overall very cool. I liked this kind of behavior from adults. I never went to school, and when I said I would. I was in town window shopping. Looking at all the nice clothes in the windows I could never afford.

Guess what happens next. If you guessed 'he stole some clothes' you were right. I really cared about my appearance, hoping I would reel in lots of women. Well.. that's before I met him.. but we'll talk about him later. Soon we moved to a city, which still didn't help with my criminal side.

The older I got, I started dating a young woman named Yuju. I even got a tattoo of her name on my arm! Yeah, dumb mistake since we broke up a littler while later. The next significant others name was Sunghoon. Also got a tattoo of his name on that same arm. He made me very happy. But he was always asking for things.

He always wanted new clothes I couldn't afford. Or a new car if mine wasn't nice enough. We broke up soon after all of that. I also wanted to go serve my country in the military. But.. they rejected me. If you guessed I got a tattoo of a Navy shield, then your absolutely correct. Luckily I learned how to hide them easily.

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As you probably remember, I stole cars. But the more time passed, the more cars I stole. I even drove over state lines to sell these cars to people. That's when other city law enforcers started bringing me in for questioning.

The best thing was, they never had enough proof to put me behind bars. However, being the stupid teenager I was. I met someone else, who was a very bad influence on me.

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"Jeongseong!" I whispered, gaining his attention quickly. We were in the middle of our first ever real robbery. Jeongseong picked up a handful of jewelry from the woman's nightstand, putting it into a bag. "What is it?" he whispered back. "Let's go so they don't wake up.." I replied as I headed for the front door.

We left, hopping into our stolen truck and heading to a different part of the city. We sped down the highways and stole whatever we felt like that night.

Soon, we had stopped at an auto shop, seeing a safe and immediately trying to open it. After about 30 tries, we couldn't crack it. "Throw it in the back of the truck." Jeongseong lifted the safe, handing it to me as he stole some other things. I put it in the back of the truck, seeing the lights of cop cars heading our way.

"Crap! Jeongseong!" I yelled, him hearing the sirens. We hopped into the truck once again, speeding away as the cop cars came closer. This time, they started shooting at us. "Get down Jake!" My brother yelled, turning very sharply at an intersection.

We suddenly felt one of the tires pop and one of the rims looked completely bent. "Run for it!" Jeongseong got out of the car, me following closely behind him as we ran. The cop cars turned down the same road as us at that moment, Jeongseong pulling me in front of him as we kept running.

Shots kept getting fired, one of them hitting Jeongseong in the leg. "Jeongseong!" I froze for a second, seeing him tell me to keep running. I did as he said, hiding underneath a house, where there was an opening under their porch.

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Having all of that take place when I was still young, under 18. Made me realize I needed to change my ways.

I didn't know if my brother was dead or alive.. which made me feel even more guilty for letting him go rob some place with me.

But I'm happy I decided on this... because then I met him.

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To be continued

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