Life

Brothers Keepers

Im on the floor, begging for my life as my brother standing over me in tears. he shot me in my hip 4 times , I hurry up and try to exit, as im walking out my moms boyfriend and his friends jumped me and starting kicking me in my hip. I beg them to stop but they wouldnt. I get up and hurdle to my car and drive my self to the hospital, cops ask me who did this to you sir? I say i dont know i was in a bad neighborhood and everything just broke loose. Yeah i know your wondering why i didnt snitch. I sound stupid and you hate it but i love my brother even though he did what he did i couldn't let him go i technically raised him as if he were my own. I go home, Sarah is highly upset and just worried , you can tell by her face. We prayed to god for better days and a good life and went on about our day. (3years later) my brother calls me crying, he just got out of rehab and has no place to go and he doesnt know where mom went and at the time i lost everything besides my home and sarah. I lost my job and my car. He's apologizing for what he did to me a few years back, i tell him its all good bro. Eric is 16 now , he comes to stay with us and he gets a job his 2nd week here. Im surprised but im proud of him, 2 months go by and his job laid him off , he didnt pass his drug test. I told him to do better he says he will . The next day is my day off and i leave home. I come back around 11pm , The house is a wreck ! Trash is everywhere, and music is blastling loud as ever. I see eric laying there with a girl , i tell him to get up and get out of my house and take his hoe with him. He looked at me as if he were frightned and grabbed his things . The last thing he says to me is " I got something for you" i tell him to go, he leaves. 2 days later , sarah calls me saying come quick yo brother is trying to hurt me. I rush to the house as fast as i can, i finally get there after an hour of sitting through traffic, i walk in , i see sarah with her shirt ripped off her pants on the floor and all beaten up, she said that eric had raped her . I said he did what!! I was angry with myself and i call the police. They find eric and take him in for questioning he said he didnt do it but he did! he had faced 5 years in prison. He gets out on his birthday and calls me to come get him so we can talk. We talk things out ( he's 21 now) i get him a hotel and a job application walked back to my car and asked god why do i let people take advantage of me, I hear a voice saying because you love to hard, It was sarahs ex. I say hey man what you been up to so we start to chat . I get home from work and had a good day.