Chapter 1
I was running fast , faster than I've ever ran before. We was running in the streets and jumping cars. That's when I heard four shots. At that moment I knew I lost a friend.
*Flashback*
It was a quarter till two o'clock in the morning , when me and my bestfriend Jerome was leaving a friends party , see I wasn't supposed to leave the house anyway that night because I was punished for selling drugs at school , but that didn't stop me from going to that party. Around 9 o'clock I called my boy Jerome to come pick meup , he came thru around 9:45 p.m.
As he was driving he went to go pick up another one of his friends , that lived on 63rd Street. I didn't like being in that area because that area scares me. Just a year ago 300 people got killed just on that block alone. But all my friends live over there so occasionally I will chill there but I would never go past that block after 7. We finally arrived at Jerome's friends house. His name is Antoine. Antoine got kicked out of school beacuse he had a gun on campus and threatened to kill a guy. He wasn't successful doing that but if nobody snitched on him I'm pretty sure he would have. As Antoine walked up to the car and greeted Jerome and I ,I noticed he had a gun in his back pocket. I was quick to ask why did he have that , he looked at me with a grin and said to me "Don't worry about it little man" . I wanted to say something smart ,but then again I had to use my head and not say something smart to a man with a gun .
We was off , to the party . Jerome reached into the glove compartment and pulled out 40 grams of weed.
Jerome: aye man the weed is on me right now who got the light?
Antoine: Aye bro you know I got that light where the Swishers?
Me: I got the swishers right here let's rollup.
Antoine: aye Jerome who is this lil nigga right here?
Jerome: Oh this my lil nigga Ernest , they call him E for short.
Antoine: Aye E how old you is ?
Me: I'm seventeen and you ?
Antoine: shid I'm 19 . Do you go to school?
Me: yea I go to Northside High School.
Antoine: yeah I used to go there too.
Me: yeah I know I heard what happened , what you was finna kill for ?
Jerome: Aye E you don't need to know all that. aye Antoine we take the left or the right ?
Antoine: Yeah , keep up the street until you hit 85th East Avenue its over there by Capitol Heights.
Jerome: ightt Bet.
We arrived at the party and it looked like all the high school seniors were there. It was basically a night for all the young people. All the girls were there . there was loud music playing , the strobe lights were on , there was alcohol all the tables , right along with food soda and ecstasy pills. Me being high as hell , whent straight for the pizza beacuse I had the munchies , Jerome whent to start talking to some females and so did Antoine.
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A few minutes later Antoine ran up to me and Jerome while we was talking to some girls. I could tell he was drunk as hell cause, he could barely stand up. This nigga was smiling his ass off and couldn't stop laughing if his life depended on it. I looked over at Jerome and he was just laughing at him.
Antoine: Yo, I just saw this bad ass girl over there twerkin with her friends. Her ass is like DAMN!!
Jerome: Fah real dog? What she look like?
Antoine: She real short, skinny, but that ass is poking out real talk. She like a light brownskin with wavy hair. She wearing a short shirt too, so you can see her belly ring.
At first I was like Damn she sound bad as fuck. But then I started thinking about it, and he was describing my little sister. I started looking around the room to see if I could spot her but it was too many people in the way. Jerome tapped my shoulder and pointed to a corner. It was some dudes over in a corner flirting with my sister and her friends.
Antoine: Oh shit, dere she go. Man, I'd tear that shit up.
Me: Chill, that's my baby sister.
Antoine: Oh damn. How old is she?
Jerome: 15. Don't you gotta be a senior or at least 17 to get in?
Antoine: Hell yea, but she could pass for 18.
I was getting real pissed about the fact that she was here. She's too young and she don't need to be around all this. So I walked over there and pulled her away from the guy.
Me: Kelsey, why the fuck are you here.
Kelsey: You da one punished, not me. My friends invited me.
Me: But you 15.
Kelsey: And I'm friends with a bunch of seniors too. Chill out stop treating me like a baby.
The dude walked over and jumped in the middle of us.
Dude?: Say ma, you good?
Me: Man hell yea she good. Back up.
Dude?: Nigga, you better come correct.
Me: And if I don't?
After that I pushed him back into the wall and we started throwing blows. After that I saw Jerome jump in, then Antoine jumped in. After that It was just screaming and all that other shit you hear when people start fighting. Shots were fired then everybody started running. Jerome pulled me off of the guy I was fighting and then we took off.
Me: Aye where's Kelsey.
Jerome: She left. We gotta find Antoine.
Shots kept going and finally we found Antoine hiding behind a car reloading his gun.
Jerome: Say dog, let's go. We ain't got time for this bull-
*Bang Bang*
I turned around and saw one of my close boys on the ground bleeding to death. Anger, sadness, and rage took over me. But right now, there' wasn't shit I could do about it. Antoine looked over at Jerome's body and started shooting more bullets. I pulled him away to the car.
Me: C'mon, we ain't got time for this right now.
Antoine: Man fuck them dog! Fuck bruh! That's my boy they killed son!
Me: We gonna handle this later.
I drove that night and dropped Antoine at home and ran home back to my house. I jumped in through my window and headed straight to the bathroom. I took a long hot shower and then went to Kelsey's room to check up on her.
Kelsey: What do you want?
Me: I just wana lay in here tonight. Is that cool with you?
She looked at me and could see that I was upset. She went to her closet and pulled out a blanket for me. She fixed on her bed for me, then she got under her covers and cut the T.V off.
Me: I love you...
Kelsey: Love you too.
*Flashback over*
After that night I know I wasnt going to be the same , I still had the image of Jerom's body still in my head. That Morning I woke up kinda late and mama saw me in kelsey's room.
