prayer for player

Chapter 12

Cree opened his book bag he dumped mad clothes he lay out the night before it was Friday night
He went to school the whole week it was time to start his weekend
Javon limping into his room he slowly walking without the wheel chair
So you like older woman now I see he was watching him get ready for his night yeah why not it's Friday and I don't got nothing to do
Make sure you back by Sunday we gotta go to church
Nah you do and mama do I dont believe In pretending
He said
Javon closed his door and sat down
What do you want to be when you grown up ?
He was like 17 he been growing up
Besides chasing girls all day and giving your mama a hard time
I don't know he said
Ya can't speak he said
What do you mean by that I was a basketball player before the accident

Huh Cree said word on the street you pay a couple of guys to fake your scholarship
Yeah but I still graduated college he said I just grieving about my mama passing I graduated I just didn't go for my bachelors degree I finished high school too your grandma was seriously about grades
I don't think so mama went to high school and now going to online school
And Jeremiah he's drop out high school and went to prison so why does matter what I do
Cree your consin is in college and doing boxing
And my daughters is going to music school and the other one going for hair
You gotta be something because what happened when your parents go then you end up like me nothin to show for because I let it all go down
I don't know yet all this talk
How come you can't tell me about my father
What to tell about your father he was a drug dealer
He looked at Javon no he said I know that I'm saying why mother don't like talking about him
He raped her he was my mother's boyfriend at the time .. he said then stop talking
He get mad about it every time he remembers
Yeah but I heard from church that Jeremiah was my brother and my uncle and that satan made me you know how the church folks like to gossip .. a whole lot of mess
Javon said yeah it's true he said you and Jeremiah is brothers
Then why did he killed him he said angry I never got to know him I keep hearing stories about him I didn't get the choice to be here
Javon said nothing then Jeremiah
Came in open the door hearing the conversations
You think if he was alive he be around here Jeremiah said he was feeding your grandma drugs and raping Portia every other Saturday and beating on mama and Javon do you think you done any better knowing he was a piece of garbage
He was my father you took that for me he angry
I killed him because he try to kill me for helping a girl scream Jeremiah's
I never spoke that night because I knew aren't nobody going to listen to me he try killing me with the gun all because he found i sleeping with one of his females
If you or anyone don't believe me you better speak to Simone about it then
You should gave me a decision to hate him or not
You would had hated him Javon said it's me and him telling you even if you hear good things about that man the streets don't know what a man does behind closed door
He should went to jail let cops handled it
I sat in prison for killing him I did my time I can't keep holding your pain against me Portia giving you the best life possible Devon been good step father you worried about your dad
He's was your dad
Javon spoke he killed my father so the same pain you feel the same pain Portia or I feel too the hood will never care if Charles killed my father you don't see me blaming no one no I took that l and move on and took care of my family