Life

Wrong Path

Early 2000's , My brother Eric Shane Johnson was born . January , 12, 2001. My mom was thinking about putting him up for adoption but i told her no please dont , she had already lost one child from a miscarriage, didnt need to loose another. His father wasnt in my moms life anymore, he left us after we got evicted, we are now staying at a shelter down the street from my aunts. My mom didnt want us staying there cause there was no place for a child to be. At the time i was 16 and i had got a job after my mom had eric, she wasnt raising him right so i left and had got us a project in a bad neighborhood. I didnt want eric living like this but it was better than what my mom had going on for us. (13 years later) it was eric's 13th birthday , i felt like i didnt have the need to tell him about our mom because she didnt want him, eric was a trouble maker growing up he had got in a gang at the age of 9 , starting carrying his gun around on him everywhere he went, fought his teacher and coming home late. Me and My wife Sarah , Who i met my senior year had got married after we graduated , she helped me raise eric but things went wrong. Im at work, i get a phone call from eric's school saying that they caught him with a gun and 2 pounds of weed in his backpack. I pick him up from school , Soon as he gets in the car i tell him your either gonna get your fuckin act together or get out of my house, i cant afford to keep taking off of work like this tryna provide for me , you and sarah . He puts his headphones in and says i hate you. We get home i tell him to do his chores and if there not done by the time i come back were gonna have a problem. (3hrs later) I come home and theres a note saying he's left to go find his mother and wont be coming back anytime soon, i didnt think no more much of it because i knew he was gonna come back like he usually does. 2 months go by and Me and Sarah are worried . I drive to memphis which is where i last seen my mom, I go to my aunts house and there he was sitting with my mom with a gun in his lap. My mom was sniffing crack and he was doing the same and there just laughing like everything is just fine . I grab him and say Eric,  Ive been worried sick about you, why would you do this, my mom was yelling let him go i am his mother , i say you were never a mother figure , you tried to kill him. He jacks away from my arm and says dont talk about mother like that , I say eric lets go now, he says no. I grab him and he reaches for his gun and shoots me.