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You name is Roxanne Valentino- you always loved your name as it was the name of a rich brand- age 16 you come from the Bronx New York and live with your mom brother and younger sister as your dad left when you was young. But you became involved in the streets because of your brothers, your well know around the Bronx mostly for the gang your involved in, you have many rivals so you must be careful. That's it for now let's get started.
It was 9:35 Saturday, I woke up in my run down apartment ready to start the day as I walked to my kitchen greeting my mom and my little sister and my older brother. "Morning" they all say together. I couldn't see my oldest brother so I started to wonder. "Where's Diego at?" I ask "He didn't come home last night, he'll probably be back soon" Alonzo said. I didn't think much of it but then some time passes and we hear a loud banging (sounding like they were about to break it) on our run down door. I got up wondering if it was Diego but as I opened my door it was the last person I wanted to see this early in the morning. The cops. "Good morning we're looking for the family of Diego Valentino" My mom walks over to the door and replies. "Yes officer this is his family". We both waited, standing there in my cold hallway as the words that slipped from there mouths made me collapse to the floor. "I'm so sorry to inform you, but we have found your son Diego dead early this morning" My whole world started spinning as I tried to get my head around what they've just said. Alonzo ran to the door being informed by the noise and just stood there, frozen. I heard my mum crying and screaming as she's just been told that her son is dead. I could hear the pain in her voice. We were all there crying even Alonzo I haven't seen him cry in a long time. What am I going to do without my role model someone that's actually taken care of me. I started panicking not knowing what's gonna happen to me or my family it was like I could literally feel my heart ripping into 2 pieces. My world is gone.
I'm gonna go straight into the future as you know what's happened now.
A couple days later.
My heart still broken but I showed no emotion as I knew Diego would never want me to show weakness. He was found dead in a alley-way some minutes away from our block. He was shot by our rival gang at the age 17. Our whole family knows and nearly the whole of the Bronx,we are all so broken but we don't show it, we're too strong for that. I knew it wasn't safe for any of my family to stay here as now. Its War.
Some more time goes past.
Me, my mom, Alonzo and tia have all agreed we need to leave the Bronx for our safety. My mum got a job in New Jersey and we'll be moving tomorrow. I don't know how to feel right now with so much going but I have to keep moving forwards for my brother. We've had his funeral so I feel like it's time to move on it's for the best anyways.
The next day
Everything's packed and we're all ready to leave, we knew it wouldn't be hard to leave our family here as we'll be back soon after this all cools down. All these thoughts running round my head like a hyper toddler in a park. So I plugged my earphones in and looked out the window of the airplane and looked at all the lights lighting up New York, it was beautiful.
