Hate the Player and the Game

chapter 30

Chapter 30

Cruze

            I hadn't heard from Trill since the war started with Zeus and Tokomoto started. So far Tokomoto's antique shop had been burnt to the ground, and so has his house. Tokomoto had not been doing anything back to Zeus. He went back to Japan and took the drugs with him. Zeus's boy's did catch Quannie and they cut his tongue out, hung him by his feet, and beat him with a chain as a warning to Tokomoto. Quannie died with no integrity. They left Quannie outside of the burnt down antique shop. I laughed at the whole thing. I wasn't there to witness it, but as I listened to how the boy's told the story to Zeus, it cracked me up.

              My sixteenth birthday had came and went. Trill didn't throw me a house party like I wanted, but I was cool with just chilling for the day. Uncle Ronnie had took me out to eat and quizzed me up about Zeus. I didn't want to tell him what I was getting myself into with the whole Zeus situation. I knew that Uncle Ronnie would go off on me about it so I just kept working for Zeus on the down low. I had started to go work for Zeus by myself on days where I just had nothing to do. I soon became Zeus's favorite and he started paying me hundreds of dollars to just show up at his apartment. Clothes and more clothes is what I would spend it on. I wish that I would have have never dropped out of school so I could walk up in there and be the best dressed, plus I missed everyone. I missed my boys Enrique, Orlando, and Justice. I missed Tank, Ce'lo, the twins, Brice, and Brye. I just missed being surrounded by my friends. I knew that I had friends out here in the hood, but not like the ones I had at school. My relationship with my friends at Central Queens high school seemed more real. I had been thinking about Diamond allot lately too. I wondered if she still thought about me. I kept hearing rumors about her fucking with some dude named Rashad and it just made me so angry at times. I hated the fact that she really might have moved on from me. I hated the fact that she was kissing someone else, hugging someone else, and touching someone else. Well, that someone else didn't know what me and Diamond had been through together. We have been through some ride or die shit and no matter what, I always knew that nobody would have the type of bond with her that I had.

I sat in Micheal's apartment just chilling with him and Jeremy. I had allot on my mind and I needed a break from everything. It felt good just to sit back and enjoy the amazing high that Ganja gave you. Smoking on that kush always seemed to have cured everything. Me, Micheal, and Jeremy were having the time of our lives as we devoured a whole bag of Doritos and watched 'Good Times'. As we clowned something happened that took my mind off of the boys. A girl had walked past the TV and went into the kitchen. She was amazing, she was sexy, and she was bonifide. She had light, cream skin like Micheal had, long, silky brown hair, and the prettiest face with high cheek bones, and perfect full lips. The only thing with her was that she didn't have a body. She had decent sized breast, but no ass. I starred at the pretty girl who smiled at me and walked into the kitchen. I nudged Micheal. "Bro who is that"? I asked.

"That's my sister yo". He said. "My little sister. She's sixteen".

"She taken"?

"No bro, but she's off limits". Micheal said laughing. "Sike naw, you can go ahead and holla at her if you want. You don't get into no trouble that I know of so go ahead".

"Naw, I ain't finna to talk to her now". I say. "She probably don't like me".

"Cruze, no homo, but what girl don't like you bruh? You good lookin, ain't sexier than me, but I'm just sayin".

"Man shut up Micheal". I say playfully punching him. "You ain't tell me that you had a sister, and what's her name"?

"Michelle is her name bruh". He says putting his hands on his face and laughing.

"Cruze, dudes out here try to holla at her all the time". Jeremy said cutting into the conversation. "She ain't no hoe, but she's talk to allot of dudes".

"That's gon' change once she get with me". I say laughing. I watched Michelle walk out of the kitchen and go down the hall to her room. I had no idea that Micheal had a sister, but now that I knew of her, I was determined to pull her.