white-passing- jamal turner

eleven

Our next spot was the library. On the plaque was a Sherlock Holmes quote, so we pulled off every Sherlock Holmes book we could find on the shelves. 

"I found the tip!!" Ruby said. We lifted our heads, only for him to show us a huge dick someone drew in one of the books, "And the balls and the shaft."

"Now's not a time for dick jokes," Monse said.

"There's always time for dick jokes."

"Cesar needs us. Stop dicking around," Monse said.

"You do realize that was another dick joke?" Ruby said. 

I snapped my fingers at Ruby, "Back to work!"

I grabbed one of the books, opened it, and saw a Santos cross on it with the elements Promethium, Phosphorous, Lanthium, and Neon. 

"Guys!"

We found a periodic table and tried to figure out what those four had to do with each other. Monse grabbed a Post-it and wrote the symbol for each.

"It's a compound!"

Pm P La Ne. 

"Pimp Lane!" I said.

"It's Pimp Lane!"  Ruby said, "This shit's real. Oh, we gotta go. The game's afoot, bitches."

We biked to Pimp Lane, and I made sure to lock my bike so no one would take it. As we walked by, we saw a couple getting freaky, and Jamal somehow got a weird recording of it.

"Trying to figure out if that's a boob or a butt," Ruby said, making me roll my eyes.

"It's a boob," Jamal said.

"No boobs! Let's go!"

We looked everywhere we could, but we found nothing. Absolutely nothing. We were all tired and defeated. All I wanted to do was go home and jump in bed, but I couldn't. Not until we found this goddamn money. 

"We could go back to the library!" Monse said, sitting on a couch next to the couple who were still making out.

"Oooo, I wouldn't sit there," Jamal said.

"Library's closed," Ruby said.

Monse and Ruby started arguing while I followed Jamal because he said he saw a path. I pulled out my phone flashlight and started walking until I saw something.

"It's a Santos cross," I said as Ruby and Monse walked over, "En las sombras del tiempo. In the shadows of time. Ok, but what's 6479?"

"It's a sundial!" Jamal said, "Chivo said Lil Ricky loved 'em."

"What do we do with it?" Monse said, "There's no sun!"

Jamal laughed, "Watch and learn, my crab-infested friends."

He took out a pen and phone flashlight, positioning the pen over the light and casting a shadow onto the letters. 

P O O L

"Pool! But where's the pool?"

"The community pool!" We all said.

"Lil Ricky, you can suck it! Because nothing gets past us!" Jamal said.

We went back to our bikes, only for Ruby and Monse's bikes to get stolen, so we hitched a ride from Abuelita. If I told Izabel where I was, she'd rat me out. 

"What are you doing at Pimp Lane?" She asked.

"What do you know about Pimp Lane?" Ruby said.

"Mijo, I wasn't always old! I was once what they call a sure thing!"