This story takes place in south side Chicago, Main characters, Judy the cop no one likes, Heav'n just trying to fit in. Her Best friend Sha'ona the rachet of them all, and two gang affliated home boys, Jamerion and Jay'quan. All cross paths.. This b...
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"Heav'n get the chicken out the grease girl befo it burns child." My ma yells at me through the screen door, while she sat back there in that old leaning chair of her's talking to my aunty.
"yes mama" I yell back, The house was hot, but Chicago air was even hotter. Oh when i tell you, i didnt wanna be inside or outside. The smell of steel wool pads luminated throughout the house. You know like that 'just before clean' oh yea, that's exactly what it smelled like.
Me and my mama lived in Louisiana up until my granddaddy passed. Boy oh boy was mama devastated, so we took granddaddy house and here we are living in south side of Chicago. My daddy drives trucks so hes gone almost every weekend, and even then my mama has a hard time with that.
It was the senior back to school cookout. My momma and her facebook friends threw this huge cookout. If you didn't bring yo food, you got no food. Which i understood cause folks would turn up empty handed, and still would want a plate. Like oh no, that gotta go you cant stay here.
"Hot chicken, hot chicken coming through," I chanted as I made my way through this crowded house that luminated with weed. Finally I get outside to the back. "Come get some sugar baby," I smile and place my chicken down before running to my grandma.
Anyone and everyone knew my grandma on the south side of Chicago, She was like the Michelle Obama. Always giving out to the community, housing female prostitutes during police sweeps. She even hid drugs for some of the biggest thugs,crips and blood had the upmost respect fa ha, and no one knew not to touch her. Now I've been in Chicago for about two years, and the environment we so happened to end up in was of course a very stereotypical one.
You would think i'm playing. Have you ever heard of grape flavored kool-aid encrusted watermelon. Exactly you haven't, and don't get me wrong, it's pretty damn good too. My point that i'm trying to make here is that most people think that Chicago is like New York. But when you live here, the south side is as southern as it gets.
"Hey girlieeee" "Hey Shay." My best friend, When I used to visit my granddaddy down here, this girl was my road dog from little, coincidentally her mom and my mom were Highschool best friends, so her mom ended up meeting her at one of the cook outs. And the rest is history baby.
"Heav'n, another young one got shot the other night." She pulled them high rise shorts out her ass while she grabbed a piece of chicken. "First, shay I love you, but the shi you just did, was nasty as hell." She chuckled and took big bite outta that chicken leg. "Who was he?" "I dunno" Shrugging her shoulders as she tore every piece of meat off the bone. "Like some 13 year old name anthony or sum, the mama grieving fa sho tho, she talm bout peace in the south side, like that's ever gonna happen."
We started laughing but in the back of my head, that poor women lost her kid..And more than likely he was in crossfire of gang related activities. So yea I understand that poor mama. "Soo we seniorss, give me an insight of this school." I was homeschooled since we moved here, my mama was scared of me being in the system here, more because of the fighting and she just felt like I had no protection. So it'll be weird to be the new student and coming in senior year.
"Well girl, im talking the finestttt men" Exaggerating on finest. "But this school is not for the week. Racist ass white women, Random security checks, Girls that just wanna fight you just cause you pretty, Oh girl did I say the finest men. Oh and that's another thing. Do not come this school year thinking a man is interested in you. Nine times outta ten he just tryna get sum play."
"Play?" "Yes girl like coochie, cmon now, and that's another thing. Let yo hood show, Don't let none of these bitches think they run shit over you. Be the boss bitch. We got good social status for selling shoes on the block, but hoes be jealous of the hustle." She throws her arms in the air and rolls her eyes.
"You think all of this is bad, but you'd think i'd did you wrong if I didn't tell you all of this." She smiled and grabbed the to-go box behind me. Anyways girl, I gotta get gon, I got a little date, and you know where he finna take me."
"Where?" I furrowed my eyebrows knowing it'll be something dumb. "He talm bout some applebee's" "Well hey girl its better than dairy queen dude." She laughed and hugged me once more before packing her plate and walking off.
School was next week, I mean I had enough bank from selling custom made and new released shoes, My daddy side of the family worked for like jordan. They would always sneak me through the mail almost all new inventory, which me and my best friend decided to make profit on. Especially if they wont on goat yet. Just because I sold shoes doesn't mean I didn't have shoes either, Normally the good ones i'd keep to myself and then order the shoe, custom make it, then sell it for a higher price.
Normally it'll be the bloods on the block I sell, so most of the custom made shoes were for the bloods. SInce crips also wanted fly shoes, they'd place orders through shay when she went on that side of town and we'd mail it to them. I never and will never affiliate myself as a gang member or smuggle anything for them. I just sell shoes. And Ms.Judy copeland, can't seem to understand that.
These 12's come up n here and think everytime they see someone on the block that they doing drug related things. Once it was this really sad incident that happened too, A seven year old boy lost his life to this big pot belly, donut eating, racist ass cop. The poor boy was just selling lemonade freezer flip flops joints you put in styrofoam cups. Yea, his dog started barking at the little boy because he wanted one.
Wanna know what that officer did, Beat him to a pulp, he lost his life the next hour in the hospital, and that cop was discharged never put on trial. So we have a thing against cops 'round here , especially judy. Her white ass thinks she runs shit, This little white basic ass girl. None of the black chicks really like her.
It's like she's always tryna put puzzle pieces together without half the puzzle. She has no idea what shes doing, and she thinks she one of us caused she married a waterdowned black nigga. He works for the city. Nobody fucks with his ass either. The movie get out. That's what he reminds you of, it's like he forgot his origins. Don't get me wrong it's good to see black people making a change. OR even seeing your fellow sista's and brotha's succesed. But when you have that much power and all you do with it is take down the park and add these gentrification ass buildings, and even crossbreed. It becomes a huge problem to the community.
