A Better Me

Chapter 2

The party

It was 6:00 pm and the party starts at 8:00 pm. I went in my closet and picked out a pair of stack jeans, and a white graphic tee with a red and black design. I lied it on my bed and grabbed my red and white Jordans 4's. I went into the bathroom and seen a fat dude walking out the bathroom. He looked at me and made his way back to my mom's room. I went in the bathroom that now smelled like piss and turned on the shower. While the water warmed up I brushed my teeth and washed my face, I then sponged my hair and finally got in the shower.

Once I got out I dried off, wrapped the towel around my waist and walked to my room. I put lotion on and got dressed putting on the chain I stole earlier. I sprayed on my cologne that matches my shower scent grab a black hoodie in case it got real cold and headed to the door grabbing my key and phone along the way. I closed my front door and locked it with the key then walked to Harlem's house since his house is one house away from the corner boogy was picking us up from. When I got to his house he lets me in and Brandon was already there.

Harlem had on a spider hoodie, black baggie jeans on with a belt and Balenciagas on. Brandon had on black ripped jeans, a yellow hoodie and black air forces on. It was about 7:20 pm and we sat there and chilled until we got a text from boogy . " He outside" Harlem says. We all got up walked outside and got in the car we had already sent him the address so he started to drive away immediately.

Once we arrive we are about to get out of the car. " Here take this with y'all." Boogy said passing us a gun. "Y'all handled some shit earlier, you never know who in there. " I took the gun and tucked it In the waist band of my jeans. "Imma stay out here in case shit pop off."

"Ight." We got out of the car and walked in. The music was loud. There were people from different schools and some were even in high school. I made my way over to Kayla to greet her and tell her happy birthday. I felt nervous because I knew I was gonna ask her out that night. As I approached her I pulled out a hundred dollar bill to give to her as a gift.

She noticed me and walked over to me. " Hey kaykay." She always called me that I thought it was girly but I let her slide.

"Wassup, happy birthday. Here you go." I said giving her the hundred.

"Oh my gosh, thank you!" She yelled in excitement as she took the hundred "you welcome." I gave her a hug and went to go hang with other people.

After about an hour I heard arguing, it sounded like Harlem and someone arguing. "Aye cuz I heard you been hanging with bloods!" I heard a random voice say.

"Nah you got the wrong one." Harlem said trying to avoid the situation.

"What you mean? you the only nigga out here name Harlem." The unknown voice said. As I got closer I recognized the dude that was pressing Harlem. It's a boy from our school who claimed crip. The boy Pushed Harlem and Harlem started punching him causing a fight. I got closer and Harlem was on top of the boy punching him repeatedly.

Everyone was recording. I was laughing at the dude until I saw two people jump in. In a heartbeat I rushed into the fight and I saw Brandon rushing in too . After the fight the police were called and once we heard sirens we ran back to the car. "Aye you gotta hurry and drive off!" Brandon said to boogy.

"Aye what happened!?" Boogy asked driving off.

"We got in a fight and they called the police." I said.

"How it start?" He asked.

"A fool who claimed crip tried to check me. And we ended up fighting I was winning then they tried jumping me so Brandon and kayson jumped in." Harlem explained to boogy.

" Alright you still got the gun young blood." He asked me.

"Yea." I said pulling it from my waist band and giving it to him. We continued driving to the corner he picked us up from and decided to spend the night at Harlems.

The next day

We all woke up around the same time. Me and Brandon went home to get ready for the day. As I walk up to my porch I see my mom sitting outside smoking meth. "You ever gone stop that." I said to her in anger.

"Mind you business little boy and stay in a childs place. " She snapped at me.

" I would if my mom wasn't sleeping with a new man every week to get drugs And not have to pick her up and take her to her bed after I come home to her laying outside strung out on meth." I said. She got ups and slapped me across the face.

" Don't you ever talk to me like that. After all shit I've done for you. Every year you get a good Christmas, a good birthday and everything you want. You eat , have clothes on yo back and got a roof over yo head." She said angrily.

" All I want is for you to stop being stupid doing drugs and giving you body away." I said to her with the same amount of anger.

" I do what ever the fuck I want!" She yelled. I simply went in the house tired of arguing with her. I went to her room and put a hundred on her dresser, then I went to my room put some new clothes on and walked out the door past my mom and walked to el tios. I called Brandon and Harlem to make sure they remembered whent boogy said and they said they were already on their way. I go there at about 9:20 so I went inside the store and bought a few snacks to eat.

After a while I finally see Harlem, Brandon and boogy walking together. I stood up from the curb and dapped them up.

"Wassup young blood walk with me."Boogy says . We all walked down the block. As we were walking Boosie and a another dude joined us . "Y'all know what we doing today?" Boogy asked.

"No, what?" I asked and boogy, Boosie and the other guy laughed. Boosie grabbed my shoulder

"You 'bout to learn some shit." Boosie said. "So you can do things by yo'self." He said Laughing.

After a while of walking we got to a house. Boogy unlocked the door and let us in. As soon as I stepped foot it smelt like weed and other drugs. Boosie went in the kitchen drawer opened his backpack and put screwdrivers gloves and USB cords in his backpack and did the same with two others.

Boogy had went to a room in the house and brought out 4 bandanas and black hoodies.
He threw me Harlem and Brandon one of each. We put the hoodies and bandanas on. boogy took Brandon with him, the other guy took Harlem with him and me and Boosie were together.