Born A Gangster

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Nya

"I cannot believe this!"I say pacing infront of Teresa in my bedroom.

"First they kiddnap me and I have to escape from them!Why didn't they take a hint?Like seriously, I can't stand them."

"I can't believe they kiddnaped you."

"Yeah and the sad fact is that I still haven't told anyone it was them."

"Why not?"

"Becuase!I ain't no snitch!And I never will be one eitha' Got that?"

"Yeah."She says quietly.

I sit down with my head in my hands."I'm sorry.There's never been a time in which I thought you had to agree with everything I do and say."

"It's okay and I know."

"Then why do you do it?"

"A wise person once said'Follow who you want and be loyal to them, I'd rather be rolling with the biggies than someone wiht rocks for brains...' Your smart and my friend and I think your right about most everything you do.Your no ordinairy kid for sure and I like that about you."

"Thanks."I say brightening a bit.

"I gotta go home.See you later."

"Ight."

I sit in silence after she leaves for a bit.

I mean I should have expected this I guess.Me not snitching went as their go ahead.Now I have to go to court with Marco and the works..

My parents.Do I want to know them?What I saw.That picture of us altogether when I was a baby.It was legitement.So what now?I mean I'll be going to court to choose between my real parents and Marco.They'll grill me and try and prove thereselves better than the other.Do I want that?

Maybe they really are sorry?But can I forgive them?I mean they chose 'The Life' over their own flesh and blood.Now they come back years later expecting me to be thrilled by their reappearence.Where were they, six months after getting busted.That's all it would have took to get me back being clean for six months and then they could have gone back to 'The Life' after I was back home.Drugs and alchol and all that.

"You up?"Someone asks knocking on my door.

"Yeah.Come in."

It's Marco.

I lay back on the bed and look up at the top of the inside of my four-poster bed Marco bought for me like two weeks ago.I gaze at the twinkling electronic star I put up yesterday and sigh.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just thinking."

"About?"

"Take a guess."

"Oh, that.I see now.You know you shouldn't be worrying about that."He comes and props hisself up on the pillows next to me.

"Nice touch."He says looking at the stars with me.

"Thanks."I say not looking at him, my earlier thoughts of maybe leaving him and being with my parents hoovering in my mind.

"What would you do if they won the case?"I ask still not looking at him.

"I would fight it.Take it to the white house if I had to.I definitely wouldn't just hand you over or let them take you away from me."

"What if I chose to go with them?What if I wanted to?"

He's silent.I finally look him right in the eyes.His eyes are the deepest brown mirroring mine.Right now there burning with unsaid words, love, hate, confusion and hurt.Thats one of his features I love.The most common eye color in the world yet he himself makes them unique like no other.