Thug Cry

Street (Big Toe)

After Hannah served dinner I washed up. When I came out the shower and saw Sam digging through my bag. I cleared my throat. I couldn't take him serious since his hair was pink. I put dye in his shampoo bottle. The punishment was worth it. Two of his friends grabbed my arms. Then someone closed the door. "Ah hah" he said grinning as he pulled out the picture of my pregnant mother. "Awww is this mommy?" he said waving the picture in my face.

I tried to break free but I couldn't. He pulled a lighter from his pocket. "What would happen if I?" he said lighting the lighter. "No" I screamed as I struggled. "You think I'm gonna let you get away with humiliating me" he said as he put the corner of the picture to the flame. The flame spread rapidly as it devoured the image leaving nothing but ashes. That was my last straw. I dug my nails in one of the boys arm. He screamed and I punched the other one in the eye. Sam tried running but I grabbed his leg and he fell. I jumped on his back and started banging his head on the wooden floor. He turned around and grabbed a hand full of my hair. 

We got up and started wrestling around the room. As soon as the room door flew open we flew through the window. "Jesus" Hannah screamed as she came chasing after us. As we were falling I held him to protect my fall. Boom. I heard the sound of bone breaking. I got up and looked at Hannah holding her hand out with tears running down her cheek. I turned back to Sam who was just motionless, eyes open, and gasping for air. I heard Hannah screaming as she ran downstairs. "Jesus call 911" she screamed. I turned to see her coming and I ran. I ran for like 10 minutes straight crying not wanting to look back.

I heard some footsteps behind me and got paranoid. I was to tired to continue running so I went behind a car across the street. I looked up to see a man looking anxious. He jumped behind a bush. I let out a sigh of relief. I got up and started walking. "Aye boy you seen a nigga round here?" he asked waving a gun. I saw the guy behind the bush. I nodded no. He went back where he came from. So I continued walking. "Aye lil man" a voice said behind me. I turned to see the guy that was running from the other man.

"Yes?" I asked as I wiped my eyes. "Thanks for not snitching" he said panting. I nodded. "What are you doing out at a time like this?" he asked. "I ain't got a home" I mumbled. "What?" he said in astonishment. I heard sirens coming down the road. "Come" he said. He took me to this house which looked raggedy. He made us go around the house to the back. There was no furniture except a table and a beat up couch.

"Aye Yolanda make my little man some grub" the guy said to a lady of five in bikinis wrapping things in plastic. "Awww look at the little cutie" she said in a heavy Spanish accent. She pulled out a plate and placed it in the microwave. It was mashed potatoes with gravy, chicken, brown rice,corn, and a slice of sweet potato pie. "Thank you ma'am" I said. "No problem baby" she said putting on her pants. "Okay girls closing time" she said. The other ladies put on their clothes and placed all the brown bags in a duffle bag.

They turned off the power and headed out the back door. Yolanda played with a meter and exit through a whole in the fence. I followed to see them hop in a convertible and waved bye. "So really got no home?" a baritone voice said. "Nope" I replied watching as the ladies disappear. I turned to see the guy smoking a blunt. "Lets go lil man" he said. "What's your name?" he asked. "Maurice" I replied.

"What's yours?" I asked. "Big Toe" he replied. I chuckled at such a ridiculous name. "You think my name funny?" he asked in a serious tone. I got scared. "I'm fuckin with ya" he said releasing smoke from his nostrils. "I'm Big Tony but Big Toe for short" he said. We got in a red small two seater. "You like this car?" he asked as he put on some shades. He could tell cause I was examining it. "You can get one just like this if you stay in school" he said laughing as if he said a joke. He dropped the top and put on his hydraulics.

We pulled up in front of this nice big white house. When we got there he realized there was blood on my sneakers. "Where you get that from?" he asked. "I...." I said quietly. "I think I killed a boy" I finally said. "You for real" he said knowing I wasn't joking. He told me to take all my clothes off. "I ain't a freak just do it. I'm helping your ass" he said. He took all my clothes including my shoes and lit them on fire.

"Here" he said handing me a boxer. "They're big" I said as I put them on. He pinned it and made it fit. We went to his room and I sat on his giant bed. "You know I always wanted a son" he said changing into a robe. "Please be on the look out for this young boy named Maury who escaped from this crime scene" a voiced boomed from the flat screen. "Oh shit we gonna do something bout that" he said changing it to cartoon network.

The next morning we went to a office located near downtown. "Aye Tiff I need you to change this young man name to...."Nicholas" I said. "Nicholas?" Tony said. "Yeah" I replied. "Fine but I'll call you Nick" he said. After we paid her and got the document we went to a barber where he cut my dreads off and gave me a fade. "Your last name is Carter" he said pulling up in front of a school. "You my son now" he said grinning. "Pops" I said giving him dab. "We got to get you enrolled in school" he said as we walked up in the office.

"Hello how may I help you" a lady asked. "I need to enroll my son in school" Tony said. "Have a seat" she said. "Will do" he said walking to a seat. "The registrar will see you" the lady said looking at Tony. "Hey ma'am my son Nick needs to get into school" he said. "Near the end of the school year" she replied turning to pause at Tony. She closed her mouth. "I'm sorry....I will help in any kind of way" she said sitting on her computer.

"Birth Certificate, SSN, medical records, school records" she asked. "I only have the birth certificate. Hope it's not so much of a problem" Tony said leaning on her desk just a inch away from her lips. "I...I.....I can work with that" she said swallowing her saliva. "Thanks....Mrs. Waters" he said biting his bottom lip. "No problem....just call me Farah" she said handing him a document. "Thanks Farah" he said touching her chin.

When we got in the car he started laughing. "Dam man had that bitch wetter than a lake" he said. "She acted as if she dumb" I said. "That my man is game" Tony said with his tongue out. "You see I can read these bitches like a map..you see Nick, Farah is a middle class mixed girl who attended private school all her life. She don't know nothing bout Hood niggas. She saw me and just couldn't control herself" he said. "So when do I start school?" I asked. "Since it's finished we'll just wait til next school year, for now it's summer" he said speeding off.

For the past two months we went shopping for me, amusement parks, to the Yolanda place, etc.