Out of the Shadows

Chapter 2

Bet you wondering why I walked out like that huh? Before I answer that let me introduce myself. I know you've heard somethings from Niq and her crew but I'm sure they didn't do me justice. To my people I'm Roc, to these streets I'm Gotti. Now I know you heard the girls cracking about how I think I'm a boss, but them fools know what I do and how I get down. They just like fucking with me. I'm the man to be in these streets, but I'm also the man to kill if you want to become the king. My streets love me because I give love back. I'm a king pin but I'm also a son, a brother and an uncle. My life and my fortune mean nothing without my family. Now don't get it twisted, I will kill anything in the way of my money. But my family, there's no limit to the torture you will receive for fucking with my people. These are the only people who keep me sane. Without them the streets would be dealing with a true monster. A monster that has no sense of right or wrong, no limits to the damage that he would cause. This is why I trust only the people I've been in the trenches with. No new niggas in my crew. We've all been together since baby teeth. We all got our first shot of head together from the same bitch, down from day one. Our fathers ran this shit together, and now we run it. Only on a different level. Although the drug game started this shit, it won't end there. This is some family shit, so everything is ran by family. From the streets to the legal side of things. When my father died, everyone thought that was the end of our reign. What they didn't know was my pops was training the future king, and his soldiers. And although my father was a beast in these streets, he wasn't the mastermind behind our fortune. My moms was. She was taught by the best, her mom. My mom was a Columbian princess, she was bred to be on the arms of a boss. When her father got knocked they fled to the states, yeah my grand pops serving life in a Colombian jail. Never to see freedom again. Ever! From what I hear he was a crazy mafucka too, feeding niggas to wild hogs and shit. When my pops got killed my mom and my uncles (my pops best friends) put us in rotation. My uncle Bo had a son by a white chick. She turned to drugs when my uncle wouldn't leave his wife. She ended up killing herself, so my cousins ended up with my Uncle. My aunt couldn't have kids so they took Dontae and his little brother in. Dontae was a solid nigga from the start. When we went to get him from child protective services we found out he had a little brother he had been taking care of and nobody knew. He told my uncle if his little brother couldn't go he wasn't going either, now mind you this little nigga was only 12 at the time.

"What if I can't afford to take care of him Don?" My uncle asked him. He looked at my Uncle with a straight face and told him.

"I'll do what I gotta do to make sure he eats pops. Or you know what, you take care of Pierre and I'll worry about me."

"How you gonna do that lil nigga?" My uncle asked laughing.

"Well before Lisa got to bad I actually did pretty good in school. But I can fight too." He says while smirking at his pops.

"Aw yea, you think you can fight?" My uncle said while laughing. He thought it was pretty funny that his son was doing what most niggas in the street couldn't do, earn his respect.

"I can show you. But first do we have a deal about my brother?" He asked.

"You got to talk to the boss, you know I don't make the rules. You want an answer, talk to yo Carmen about that." He told Don nodding his head towards my aunt. Dontae turned around and walked over to my aunt. This was his heart, even though my uncle cheated he kept it real with my aunt. And in turn she loved this kid like he was her own. She gave him hell for a while but she never took it out on Don. She also knew stuff that my uncle didn't know about Don. She knew he could fight, she had seen it firsthand. But it was their secret, and it would stay that way until she was ready to talk about it. He caught his first body for her just weeks before and would do it again.

"Is this something you would consider, we won't be a burden and I'll keep up with him at all times. Ma you won't have to do anything, I promise." He asked her with tears in his eyes.