"Getting you out of the gang." Monse said.
Cesar laughed thinking it was a joke. The five of us made a plan to get Cesar out if the gang but obviously he wasn't taking it seriously.
"You're serious?" He asked and we all nodded. "Oh, my gosh. No! No, no, no, no. There is no out. You guys are being naive. Once you're jumped in, you can't get out. Unless, you get jumped out, and that's not, you know, an option." Cesar told us.
"Why not?" Asked Jamal
"They beat you till you die." Cesar said softly
"Oh I see your dilemma." Said Jamal
"Death isn't the only option. Ruby?" Monse said
Ruby started explaining the "all great things come in threes. I was trying to follow along since I've been sick for a while and wasn't there to hear the whole plan until now.
"I call them the three M's. Money, murder, manipulation. Ruby said and started handing out binders. Jamal started going on about RollerWorld when Ruby and Monse said that money wasn't an ideal option. If I'm being honest, I think it's real. If no one found the money, then it's probably still out there, somewhere.
"And they weren't even––"
"Brown. We're brown. Only white kids find treasure. Monse cut Jamal off.
"True" Jamal mumbled
"What are you looking for" Ruby asked his gg
"Baby Jesus. He's missing. The special one blessed by the Bishop. I put him in here before I started to move into my room." she answered
"Dude, you're holding it." Ruby said to Jamal
"No, this is Toddler Jesus. Babies don't stand. This Jesus is probably already potty trained. And this didn't a diaper, these are booty shorts." Jamal countered back before he gave it to gg
"Sit down. Sit" Ruby whisper yelled at Jamal
"All right, I'm out." Said Cesar
"We haven't even pitch the final M." Said monse
"don't need to." He said
"Manipulation" She said as she pushed him to sit back down
"Through negotiation" Jamal said
"With cogent, well-articulated arguments." Said Ruby
"You're gonna get me out of the gang with cogent, well-articulated arguments?" Asked Cesar
"Yes." We all said
"Never gonna happen. Good talk." He said
Ruby, Jamal and Monse started arguing about everything that went wrong in the conversation. While Tori was trying to calm them down, I went to catch up with Cesar.
"Cesar, wait up" I kinda yelled as I did a little jog towards him.
"Hermosa, why were you so quiet?" He asked me
"I just didn't feel like talking, that's all."
"Is anything wrong?" He asked with worry clear in his voice
"Nothings wrong Cesar. I'm fine. I promise" I said with a slight laugh
"Okay. What do you wanna do?"
"My sister won't be home until tomorrow" I said with a smirk
"Then let's hurry up" he said with excitement
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I woke up and saw a text from Cesar saying that he had to go since he heard my sister come home early this morning and didn't wanna get me in trouble. It was 6:25am, five minutes before my alarm would go off. I decided to just lay in bed and cool off for those five minutes, thinking about my night with Cesar. It was amazing and I loved every second of it. The smile on my face was evident and expressed my mood so well, but of course, five minutes go by really fast when you feel happy. I got up, turned off my alarm and started to get ready. I took a quick shower since I didn't do that last night, did my hair in a bun, my everyday makeup and wore
