You know looking back on my entire life, Diante has always been crazy; I remember when him and Genesis set a cat on fire, then there was the armed robbery, what he did to Raheim, breaking into Doonie's house to scare Elijah, and now shooting at me.... yeah that nigga was touched. That nigga really shot me, I don't think it's set in yet because I was much calmer than Doonie who looked like he was about to kill Diante and anyone protecting him... the crazy thing is that I didn't want Doonie to do shyt, it wasn't out of fear of Diante but I didn't want my oldest brother ruining his life for that nigga. Diante was lost, there was no coming back for him and I didn't want Doonie fuckin up everything he had going on. As Elijah and Doonie cleaned up my wound, thankfully it wasn't too bad, it hurt like hell but it was more of a graze than anything else, my mind raced. I wonder what my parents would have to say when they found out, knowing them they'd do what they've always done which is defend Diante and make it seem like I was the one who did something to provoke him into shooting me. Then my thoughts drifted to Raheim, I thank God he wasn't with me because something told me that Diante wouldn't hesitate to kill him and that shyt scared me..... Doonie's phone started ringing and he walked off, seconds later he was yelling at someone and from the sounds of it........
"AIGHT BET!!!!!" Doonie said grabbing his keys and walking back into the living room. "Elijah, go to your sister's to get the kids, your dad is waiting, and where the fuck is Raheim?" Duron asked as if I knew, Raheim said he was on his way, and in my opinion, I didn't really need to go to the hospital but the look on his face told me that I didn't have a choice.
"And what exactly are you going to do?" Elijah asked and for the first time since I stumbled through the door, Doonie's anger melted away and was replaced by sadness and resolve. "So you're going to kill him?" Elijah asked and to my surprise, Doonie nodded. "Alright well let me know what your cell and prisoner number is going to be so I can send all the legal documents since I'm going to have to take custody of DJ and De'Vaughn since you obviously don't give a fuck about them...." Elijah said, his voice so cold I flinched away from him.
"Elijah, they'll never be safe with Diante running around... You'll never be safe, De'Veon will never be safe...... You know my parents will bail him out as soon as he appears in court. He'll just keep coming and I'm sick of that nigga; he showed up over here to fight you, he SHOT De'Veon!!!! Who knows what else his deranged ass is going to do...." Doonie said quietly, Elijah looked like he was about to go on a tirade when the door opened and Mateo walked in followed closely by Raheim.
"You called me over here for this punk ass wound." Raheim said playfully but I could see the worry in his eyes and hear the fear in his voice. "You got me thinking you're over here looking like Ricky from 'Boyz in the Hood'..... You ready to go?" Raheim asked keeping that pained smile on his face and all I could think at that moment was Doonie may be right.... Diante already put Raheim in the hospital once and his actions made it clear he had no problem doing it again....
"I'll call you when I find him..." Doonie said without looking at me. Raheim helped me up and we started walking towards the door, there was this energy in the air... like they were just waiting until I left before they really started going at it and I didn't want them to be in here arguing because of me.
"Doonie... I should go with you." I said pulling away from Raheim who was looking at me like I was crazy but I felt like I was making the right choice, my brother shouldn't do this alone... Diante was our problem... we had to handle this together. "Rah... I'm fine, go to the house and wait for me there.... I'll call you in a bit." I said and Raheim looked like he was trying to decide between swinging on me or cussin me out, he had almost the exact same look as Elijah.
"De'Veon......" Doonie said like he was getting tired of the stupidity in the room. "Aight, when that shyt gets infected and spreads to your dick and it falls off I don't wanna hear shyt." Doonie said and I knew his ass was just trying to scare me.... "Look Whatever....." He whispered something to Mateo who nodded and walked towards the back of the house.
