Elites

F O U R- Kevins "secret"

Kevin's pov||
It was about to be 11 pm and all I could think about was Aaliyah and how she skipped school until my phone rung and it was Tasha calling me on FaceTime, my girl bestfriend since elementary.

"Hey Tasha long time no see" I said smiling.
I looked at her over the screen and noticed how she had got a nose piercing. "Heyyy Kevin what's up how's it going so far" she asked.

"It's all good you know... dancing, playing ball, soon getting a job". I said. Then I brought up her nose piercing. and she said "I got it a few days ago".
"Don't you think it's a little bit extra?" I asked. She sighed. "You know Kevin you've been doing this for a long time already. Why is it that you're always trying to control someone or what they do with their life?"

I didn't wanna argue considering the fact that it's been a minute since we've talked. "Well-" she cut me off. "Well nothing" she nodded. "I bet you're still out here trying to control Poor Aaliyah" I stopped her right there. "Not true" i said. "Kevin I know when you're lying to me". She said and she was right.

"When is it gonna be the day that you realize the people around you are old enough to make their own decisions." It got silent. "Well Tasha you are right. I'll try n stop doing that as of tonight... especially with Aaliyah".

"Poor girl you never let her live a little not even her own father controls her as much as you do". She said. "And that's the problem. I don't want Aaliyah running around like the rest of these girls-"
She cut me off "yeah but you know She is not like any of them." The conversation went on for two hours and we bounced back and forth from different topics to talk about. Damn I can't wait to go visit queens again and see Tasha. If I hadn't had got jumped badly out there we would have never moved so deep into Brooklyn.

"Speaking of you getting jumped did you find out who did it?" She asked. "Still no clue." I lied. I knew who did it it was Phil w the rest of his gang. I got jumped badly in June. Busted lip swollen face and everything. And I knew exactly what I did to provoke them. It was a while before I met Andrea. (The girl I fell for). I wasn't gang affiliated but back in queens I was hanging out with the wrong crowd. They all did drugs, robbery's, shootings etc. I never associated myself with that. But hanging around those guys made people look at me as if I was one of them and I soon started to pick up from their habits. The more I hung out with them the more I found myself acting like them.  Long story short one night the gang and i had got into a fight (the night I got jumped) and one of the guys pulled out a knife and stabbed one of my guys and he died right there in cold blood. My mom had found out all about that and she gave me the biggest lecture about hanging out with the wrong crowd and how she wanted me away from those people. Me being me and riding for my guy I didn't listen and wanted revenge for him. One rainy night I'm walking to the bodega but I see Alex walk right out. (He the one who stabbed my guy) I put on my hoodie and cross the street so the bodega cameras couldn't catch me lacking. I see him walk up into a small trap house and how stupid of him to leave the door open. I walked up and shot that bitch up. And walked right out. No one else was there nobody saw me. I ain't even tell the guys what i had did. But after my mom heard about that shooting she decided to move deep into Brooklyn and I had to cut all ties with my guys. And I had to leave Andrea.

"If you weren't out there acting all big and bad acting as if you run shit that would have never happened to you." Mind you Tasha don't even know I was the one who shot the place up. Nobody knows and no one will find out.
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