THE COIN

THE COIN: PART IV

I rushed to my first class and was still in a Daze when I got out of second period but my mind went back to work when I saw one of the kids who shot at me this morning! I turned to run and he saw me! He pushed through the sea of kids toward me. I took off toward the courtyard in hope that there would be some teachers there. I bust out of the doors into the courtyard and found nothing but students! I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned around to see the kid! He lunged at me but I sidestepped and turned around. He spun around and threw a punch at me, I dodged it and pushed him away. He then did the unbelievable. He pulled his gun! He pointed it at my head and I ducked, while at the same time grabbing his wrist and squeezing it until the gun dropped to the ground. I used me other hand to twist his arm until he had his back to me. I kicked the gun away from us. I turned back to the kid, with his arm still twisted back, I brought my elbow down on his. I heard the sharp crack of his joint breaking followed by his ear splitting scream. I looked into the crowd to see two things, the first was a bunch of teachers running toward us to stop the fight and the other was two of this kids friends! I grabbed the kid by the collar and just as his friends burst through the crowd I hurled him at them! I spun on my heel and hauled ass out of there. I rushed to my locker and flung it open, I grabbed my gym bag and ran into the bathroom. I flung open one of the stalls and pulled off my shirt and jeans. I yanked on a skintight black Nike shirt and some white basketball shorts. I pulled my shoes and socks off too replacing them with some white and black vapor socks and some white  hyperdunks. I put a San Antonio spurs SnapBack on and grabbed the rest of my clothes in a bundle. I shoved them all in the bathroom trash can and walked out of the bathroom. I walked over to my locker and picked up my bookbag that I had dropped. I saw Dom and ran to catch up with him as the final bell rang. As we walked out of the school every head turned to me, a few cheers and a few boos came from the group of kids but we ignored them until we got to the street. We talked about the fight for a while until Dom stopped dead in his tracks staring at something across the street. There was a man or a woman across the street (I couldn't tell because of their hood)  He walked toward us very slowly, when he got to us he spoke in a deep voice so we knew it was a man. He asked if we had a smoke, we told him all we had was some marajuana. He said he would take it. As I turned around he pulled out a cloth and slammed it on Doms face! Dom passed out instantly and I knew I was screwed. I swung my bag and it hit him right I'm the temple. He reeled back and that was all I needed, I pulled my gun and emptied six rounds into his torso. He looked up at me as the blood dripped from his lips....... and smiled! That smile haunted me for days! I turned to Dom and he was still out cold! I picked him up wounded warrior style and carried him home.