𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 | 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝕳𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊𝖗

Chapter 9

Man I don't know if I got the guts for this type of task.. Ralph walked around in circles around his room, nervous, his heart beating fast, his mind racing with every possible scenario that could be the outcome of what he does. Calm down, all you need to do is kill a new kingpin slowing down YOUR sales. All of this effort failed to keep Ralph calm unfortunately, and his heart was still beating out of his chest. A honk from a vehicle outside of Ralph's home made him jump up, and it made his heart race. Please don't be-... It was what Ralph didn't want the most, to see Kendrich outside of his house.

"Aye dap me up lil' man," Prince said as Ralph nervously entered the lowrider. Ralph couldn't leave Kendrich hanging so he shyly dapped him up (shook his hand) and hid his hands in his pockets shortly after. "I haven't spoken to none of my friends, Blaze, Cristofer, they haven't heard a single word from me yesterday or today.." Ralph said, trying to break the silence in the car, "well you better kill this fool so you actually can speak to them," Prince said daringly, as if Ralph wouldn't get to see another day on planet earth, but this scared him even more instead of motivate him to fire at a man.

The brakes lightly screeched as Kendrich arrived a block away from the street, "go down this way, then you should see a dude in yellow and some busted ass shoes on, he's really difficult to not notice." Ralph got out of the car, quietly closing the door behind him, and nervously walked down the block, making his way to the street. Every step that he took made him want to turn back more and more, his legs felt like they were locked, like they were complete stone. Unmovable. Ralph kept on pushing through it all though. You need to do this or you will be the one with a bullet in your head, come on Ralph. No matter how hard Ralph tried, his imagination barely motivated him, but it was already too late to turn back, a couple of people threw glances in Ralph's direction, he was in enemy territory, he actually had to fire on the guy now.

A couple of ruffling sounds came from Ralph's waistband, the jeans folding back and forth as he reached for his pistol. Ralph hid beside a plastic trash can, hoping that whatever trash was inside would keep him safe from any bullets fired in retaliation. There was a soft click when Ralph cocked the gun back. All he had to do was search the street for the guy he was after now. One bullet is all it takes. Ralph finally found his guy, he made sure nobody was looking at him, despite him being super suspicious. After a couple of seconds of hesitating, Ralph took aim at the guy and quickly pulled the trigger twice, one shot fired, another just made a click, and the gun refused to fire. The mission was done. The kingpin was on the ground, dead, Ralph needed to flee the scene now. His gun was jammed and he could not defend himself, he could only rely on his adrenaline to keep him running as fast as he could back to the lowrider. It felt like Ralph was running past millions of blocks, but finally, Ralph found the lowrider. Quickly and smoothly, Ralph jumped in the lowrider and started tapping on the dashboard, indicating for Kendrich to start driving. Ralph was gasping and couldn't make out any words from his mouth. "Y-Y-Your gun.." Kendrich finally looked over at Ralph, "your gun is j-j-j-jammed.." Ralph said while throwing the Glock 43 on the ground, and leaning back into the seat, gasping for his breath, trying to keep his heart from flying out of his chest. Sweat dripped from Ralph's forehead, he was in panic, he couldn't believe what he had just done.

"Well done, Ralph.." Kendrich said while finally driving, and laughing, "you just took out my biggest problem on the streets!" Prince seemed to be proud of Ralph, "go home, I'll take care of this gun, but once I unjam it, this gun is yours, hide it from your moms, and ONLY bring it with you when I tell you to, don't take it nowhere except for when you're with me."

*SLAM!* Ralph ran into the doors of his house, his mother left a note for him on the counter, "Won't be home until 12 PM tonight, behave! And don't go to juvie again." Those rules weren't too hard to follow, Ralph will have to behave for the next couple of nights, or else he's going to get caught and arrested.

With nothing else to do, Ralph pulled out his phone and rang both Cris and Blaze, "yo, come over to my house, I gotta discuss some shit real quick," both of the boys were surprised to know that Ralph was out of juvie already. 

After a couple of minutes there were two bikes in the front yard, and there was a ring from the doorbell, the boys arrived. Ralph let the boys in and he brought them over to the couch. "So that guy Kendrich.. he made me kill a man." Cris and Blaze looked at each other, then back at Ralph, "yo bro you're not serious, are you?" Blaze said while covering his mouth with a fist, Cris following after him, and even laughing at Ralph. "Nah I'm serious.. like I just shot a dude clean in the skull." Cris and Blaze's faces went back to serious, they now felt intimidated by Ralph. "I didn't wanna do it, but if I didn't agree then my life would be the one that gets taken." All three boys looked at each other in an awkward silence. "Shit.. you think he's gonna make us do this too?" Cristofer asked while looking a little scared, his face pale. "Probably, if I have to be honest.." Ralph stared at the ground, playing with his fingers. Blaze ran his hands through his braids, "well shit that means me too.." Blaze added on.

"I honestly feel like he's taking advantage of us.." Ralph now started a new topic, "like at first he was all sweet and shit to us, and now he's tellin' me to kill a man, bailed me out of juvie to do it too." The boys agreed, and they now began to stare at the ground with Ralph. "So do we drop him and just live our lives normally?" Cristofer asked. "Sadly, it's not that easy. If we try leaving this business we'll probably end up dead," Ralph now had an even more serious tone in his voice, his voice was also lightly trembling from the fear of getting shot dead for leaving this drug business. "We've already done too much to just leave Kendrich with his men to do all the work. I went to juvie for the weed selling life, you guys also nearly got taken away with me too, we sold dope in school, sold it at a party, we have our names well-known by all these people at school too now.. like it just simply won't be so easy to drop this entire life and resume a regular happy life. And I'm on the run from the police too now." Blaze had thought of something, "well what if we just shot.. him?" Ralph looked up from the ground and his eyes widened as he looked at Blaze, "man his men will come after us, and once they find us, they'll probably cut us up limb after limb and have us watch it happen!" Ralph's head slowly fell back down to the ground.