Watching from the Sidelines

Chapter 19

"Aye, T I need to talk to you real fast", Jarius said knocking on his brothers bedroom door.

"What's up baby boy?" Tony said opening the door.

"Yo, we need to ride out, it's important", he said walking away and going outside knowing Tony would follow.

After they were in the car riding, Jarius begin talking.

"You remember that bitch me and Ray was arguing about?" Jarius asked.

"Don't tell me you cheated on Raven with her", Tony said.

"Hell naw. Bitch got raped the other day, nigga left her in the alley beat up", Jarius said.

"Okay, that's fucked up. Where you going with this?" Tony asked.

"Nigga shut up and let me finish", JG said mugging him, "So it turned out that Ray nem other homegirl set her up to get raped".

"What the fuck? How old these motherfuckers is again?" Tony asked surprised.

"Exactly, but listen. We set her ass up, and I got her phone. I looked through it to figure out who the nigga was. I called the number back she been texting, and guess who answered?"

"Who nigga?" Tony asked.

"Lil' Kenny", JG said.

" You mean to tell me our little brother is alive?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, I know this nigga voice. And she have the name saved in the phone under Ken", Jarius said.

"Man what the hell is going on? Where he been all this time?" Tony asked.

"Nigga, I don't know. I ain't have a full conversation with the nigga", Jarius said.

When Jarius and Kenny were younger, Tony had gotten locked up for robbing a gas station. After Tony went to jail, the two brothers had no one to take care of them. Tony always made sure their clothes were clean, and the bills were paid. After he was gone, the two had to fend for themselves. A few weeks after he left, JG and Lil' Kenny had walked way to the north side. They wanted to break in someone's house that didn't live in the hood, and actually had something worth stealing.

They climbed through a bedroom window, and immediately begin searching drawers. Lil' Kenny had decided he wanted to look in the kitchen for something to eat. JG was still in the back, searching through rooms when he heard a gun shot and Lil' Kenny's screams. He ran to the front to check on his brother.

"Lil' Kenny!" Jarius yelled running toward the front, "What you shoot him for?" Twelve year old Jarius said with tears in his eyes as he looked up at the stranger with the gun.

The old man had come back in his home, only to find someone with a black hood in his kitchen. He grabbed his gun from beneath the coffee table in the living room. As soon as Lil' Kenny heard movement, he turned around. But it was too late. Because the man saw movement also out the corner of his eye and thought the thief was approaching him.

"You shot my little brother", JG said crying over Lil' Kenny's limp body.

"Get out of here before I call the police and you go to jail!" The man yelled at JG.

"Wait, what?" Jarius asked confused. He had no idea someone could be as cold hearted.

"Go! Now!" The man yelled waving the gun.

"You killed him motherfucker! I hate you! I hate you!" Jarius yelled running out of the house tripping over things in the process trying to get away.

Jarius kept running until he was far away from the house. He finally stopped and broke down crying. He had no one left. Tony was locked up, Kenny was dead, and his mom was a crackhead whore who didn't care if they were dead or alive.

"Yo, call my little brother back and let me speak to him!" Tony yelled excited that they finally had a chance to reunite their family.

"Yo, he ain't checking for us. That little nigga alive and ain't came by the house yet. We have the same address we been had. If he wanted us to know he was alive, he would have let us know", Jarius said.

"Well we still need to see what he got going, that's blood love. And you don't just leave your family hanging", Tony replied.

Jarius took the phone from the armrest and turned it on.

"You know what, we should just text his ass", JG said texting Lil' Kenny from Bri's phone.
JG: wya
Lil' Kenny: at da trap
JG: can you meet me at my house in
thirty min?
Lil' Kenny: yea

"Just like that", JG said sitting back.

Thirty minutes had gone past, so JG and Tony headed toward Bri's house. They didn't want to show up before Kenny so he would suspect something. When they made it, they had waited like ten minutes before he finally came. They were parked down the street from her house. When they saw him pull over in front of her house, they pulled up right beside him. Tony let down his window a little, waiting for Kenny to let his down completely.

"What's up baby boy?" Tony said smiling leaning out the window.