It's complicated

Chapter 3...

*Chresanto*

We raced to the hospital. So many things are running through my head right now.

"He'll be fine" Ashanti whispered.

"I hope you're right" I said.

We pulled up to the hospital. Craig and Jacob were sitting in the waiting room, with my moms. She was crying on Jake's shoulder until she saw me come in.

"Oh, Chres." She said.

"Ma! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! I should've been with him." She ran into my arms.

We went over and sat down.

After hours of sitting there, my mom stood up.

"I'm gonna go see what's taking them so long" she said while wiping her face.

She left.

"What the fuck happened?" I hissed, quietly.

"We went out to meet them niggas from New Yitty, they said they needed to speak with you and bro. Bro told them you weren't around, so he'd be coming with us. We went out and met them and at first it was all talk, they were saying how they wanted to run Cali and they'd do anything to do that. You know how bro's temper is and how bad his mouth is, so he pulled out his piece and started talking shit. They pulled out their's then we did too. Next thing we knew bullets were flying around, bro got shot and them niggas dipped." Craig said.

"Yeah, pussy ass niggas" Jacob said angrily.

Jacob had a cast on his arm.

"You got hit?" I asked him.

"In the shoulder, but I'm good. I wanna get the motherfuckers who did this shit" he said.

"That's what I'm talkin about." I said.

"He's alive!!!" I heard my mom yell.

She came around the corner and they all jumped up, except me. I noticed Ashanti was asleep on my shoulder.

"Can we see him? I asked.

*Ashanti*

"Yes. Y'all can go back there." I heard Ms. August say.

I lifted my head up and I noticed I'd fallen asleep on Chresanto's shoulder.

He stood up.

"You coming?" He asked.

"Uhh, yeah." I rubbed my eyes.

I stood up and followed everyone to see Chresanto's brother.

we walked in and the first thing I noticed was how much he resembled Chresanto, they looked like they could be twins. The only thing difference was that his facial features were more mature than Chresanto's.

"Bro!" Chresanto said walking over to him.

"Wassup, lil dude?" He said in a low tone.

I'm guessing it was because of the meds.

"I thought I lost you, son." Chresanto said.

"Nah. Not yet! You ain't gettin rid of me that easy" he chuckled.

Everyone else laughed along.

"We're gonna find the niggas that did this shit to you, Shad" Jacob said.

"Oh, damn right. Ain't no question" Shad said.

He looked my way.

"Who's the pretty girl by the door?" He smirked at the boys. "Who she with?" He asked.