BLOOD MONEY

Chapter 3: "The Pick Up"

"Beep-Beep", a horn was honked, It was Uncle Joe. ''Well I'll see you tomorrow then ? ", Damion said, as he hopped in his Uncle's jet black auto vehicle and drove off. "Who is she?" John asked. "Oh...that's just a friend", Damion responded. "Friend huh ?" ,"My ex-wife was once my friend too ya know", John slickly commented. Uncle Joe was just messing around. Then a serious moment came by, where John said that he got a phone call from the Principal today, and wanted to know what was that all about. Damion gave a full brief explanation on how everything happened. "Fair enough, If someone tries to take advantage of you, you just show them your worth, and what you're capable of doing.",a powerful statement that John lived by. Although Damion started off his day badly, Uncle Joe still granted him with a suprise. Two tickets to go see the live action Aladdin Movie, for it's first opening in theatres. Damion was extremely excited, all that was running through his thoughts was that his uncle was the best in the world. But sadly, Uncle Joe had a business meeting out of town for 4 days, so he wouldn't be able to make it on Friday night, which was two days away. John then gave his nephew the tickets any way hoping he would offer to go with someone else. "Uncle Joe, what's up with that necklace you always keep around your neck?", Damion asked John out of curiosity. John gazed-off in a moment of silence, before he said what he had to say. "Well it's special to me actually, I like to keep it on because it brings back memories." The necklace in which he wore had a one carrot pinkish-red ruby attached to it. It must've worth a fortune Damion thought on. "Unc where did you get this necklace from?, looks pretty expensive", Damion asked. "I don't wanna talk about it right now."

"Something Fishy Is Going On"

A stop was made where Uncle Joe had to go pick up his boarding ticket. Uncle Joe received a phone call, as he was leaving the vehicle. He picked up saying ,"Yess, pero solo tengo la mitad del dinero por ahora ,I leave tomorrow, so we'll talk when I get there." Meanwhiles there was a store besides the airport, in which Damion decided to check out. He grabbed a bag of chips along with a bottled soda, and made his way to the cashing out line.
      
                Continueing on, there was a man before him, with a trolly filled with pumpkins. "You must be a fisherman ?", Damion asked. "How'd you figured ? ", the man responded. "Because of the scars and bruises on ya arms, and plus you smell like one." Other people wouldv'e taken that differently, but the man smiled instead. Damion wanted to know what would a fisherman be doing purchasing so many pumpkins. The man commented, " A good friend of mine taught my wife and I how to make this mouth-watering soup. "Really?..my mom would usually make that on special occasions", "I love it, it was my Dad's favorite, mom said.", words of Damion. The man then asked Damion about his father and with the sad story Damion told him, he was sorry to hear that. Without further a do, Damion cashed out and headed back to the car, waiting for his uncle before taking off.
As Damion sat on the passenger side of the car, he opened up the glove compartment and there before his eyes he saw a gun. Clueless whiles filled with curiosity, he asked his uncle why was he carrying an armed weapon immediately when he got back. He then replied by saying " I use it for protection, incase someone tries to attack me, you know self-defense." He asked his uncle permission to hold it, whiles it was on safety mode. His uncle agreed, and even showed him a few tricks or two, just incase Damion was ever ambushed one day.