The Line between Family and the Streets

Ice Can Be Thicker Than Water

Once I got home that night,  I told my cousin I wanted to learn how to Fight.  Back then when you say that you just keep getting beat up untill you learn.  so I guess you can tell what happened without me saying it,  but ill tell anyway.  soon as I said it My cousin Punched me in the Face my Lip and Nose Started bleeding on contact.  she started throwing punches so fast I couldn't keep up but I fought back.  All I was thinking was Never Stop Hitting,  No Matter what happens Never give up.  after about Three Weeks I Decided I wanted To Move On to Boxing Gloves.  With The Gloves I Learned Skills.  I learned How To Jab And I Also Learned How To Punch Somebody In There Face even If They Was blocking.  After a Month I Was Ready for Revenge.  Later on That Night Me and my Friends All went Walking We Banked My Cousins Friend Because I Felt She deserved It.  When I Saw My Cousins They Were Laughing , Yelling Out How they Banked Me And I Didn't Hit Back.  I Stopped All their Talking Once I Said I Wanted My Ones.  I Fought Both Of Them One On One And when I Was Finished I Spit On The Oldest One Because She Used To Be My Favorite.  She Disrespected Me So I Disrespected Her.  That's When I Realized I Was Gone Be good.  I Started Talking about People Just So When They Would Come Up To Me And ask about It I Could Punch Them In Their Face.  I wasn't Playing with These People Anymore I Would Always Walk Past A Person I Didn't Like And Throw Up My Sign And Yell Out " SQUAAAD " And If I didn't Get the Same response back Then To me You Was with The Opposition , And I don't Like stuff Like That.  To Me I Had Been Disrespected,  and I Had To Get You. I Eventually Learned That You Can't Just Fight Everyone Because Some People You Can't Beat and some people was behind other people's problems.  I Always Used to go home at Night and Think Man I Really Should Change My ways Before I end up Dying.  My Mom Used To Punish Me And always Punish Me.  I was the hated child and Everyone knew it.  I Grew so Far away from my mom that my Aunt Became my Mom.  Things Weren't Always Like this But The Farther apart we Grew The More I Became An Independent Person.