I followed Romario out the restaurant,"Romario hold up lemmi talk to you" he didn't stop "nah follow me" he looked back for a second. I followed him into this high rise building. We took the elevator to the 20th floor it was a roof top dat was decked out! We laid down on dis bed swing thing that was hanging from a pergola . At first we was silent and finally he spoke " so whats life like for you?" "I live in Jersey, and i use to sell drugs when i was 13 but i dont do that no more. Now I sell skin products and cologne out a abandoned apartment in my complex moms a hair dresser/ entrepreneur she make ends meet by selling skin products, food, hair products, hand bags clothes you name it. She pretty much a beauty supply store for the projects. I help sell with her and you have a sisterthat also does hair too her name Tyeisha Romira Brown,she 14. We brung down two of our cousins too. I write poems n shit, I like to swim, dance, eat, oh and i like shoppin hands down. whats yuh life like?" "I work at our tios restaurante, the one we jus came from. I like to swim and play baseball, I like to dance too, im good at building stuff I guess. Ever since I could remember, I always prayed to know what my parents look like Marcelona told me my parents died" his face said it all it was a combination of confusion and anger. " Early this morning my tio tells me I have a twin brother. I was pissed that whole day because he never told me anything about my dador family even when I cried to him about how a wish I could no about them before. Tonight I go to the bathroom the wash my hands and there you are" he smiled a lil but was now tearin up. I didn't have a solution this time I didn't kno what to say he was living in lies his whole life I . Not knowing his mother was alive or that he had a brother and sister. "Just know that u got a brother, a twin dats always goin be there wit you through thick n thin. I love you already and I aint even read you out yet. You ma blood and no matter what I promise you this truth wont be a regret." he hugged me "I love you too bro". I loved it when he hugged me cause I could feel something in my soul feel connected "I know this sound wierd but I feel like I knew you for years" he said to me. I felt the same way, I got a text from Drew: you ok? Me:yea I'm talkin wit my brother wat my mom doin? Drew: what yuh think Tye? she bawlin huh heart out sayin she went her sons! she think yall ran away! yall needa hurry back! tell yo bruda he gotta momma dat love him out chea! Hurry back wit yo bro!" "Romario our mother is waiting for us she only did what she did cause she was 17and scared and we barely made ends meet I remember when I use to steal food from my friends jus so me and my sis could eat. Our life wasn't easy, I dont know what yours was like but I could tell you this when she was drunk or sad she always called me Romario and cried for hours I use to wonder why, now I know she was thinking about you." "I gotta see her again" he replied. We headed to his house it was a nice 4 bed room house, it was one floor and a bright yellowish tan color with a spanish tile roof we could hear my mom bawling as soon as we approched the house gate "I need my sons!" She bawled out we went in the house she was on her knees we kneeled down and hugged her every one around us was crying it was so intence "I promise im neva leavin you again, neva! I love you Romario you my son,"i love you too mom, I thought you was dead all my life. My mom Cocked her her head back and had a serious face "who told you dat? "Marcelona told me my fother was her ex and he left her and went to you and had me. She said you dumped me off on her and told her you didnt want anything to do with my fother or me. She said you was a Ungrateful whore and she should of had my fothers kids, she told me she had a miscarriage." My mom explained to him that my name and his name were connected because his name was my middle name and his middle name was Thomas which meant twin."I always had a plan to come back fuh you what happened to all the money i sent to yuh Tio?? thats why I came down hear I gave you to Marcelona because you could be watched by your aunt and uncle and I would be sure to get you back, I sent yuh uncle over 1000 dollars every month since you was 1! Lemmi seeyuh closet!" She went to his closet he had 4 pants and 6shirts that were fairly old. Mom was livid! The lies had her heart racing "she wanna make me look like a monster and lie to my son? Yuh fuckin blood uncle wanna steal from you? Say no more".she this in a calm and scary way. Romario continued "my aunt and uncle told me that you loved me I just didn't believe until now" she hugged and kissed him on his cheeks I never stopped lovin you. when I was homeless for 3 months afta I had yall I cried and worried about you everyday."she was full of rage she put on her tie head, tights and put on her sneakers. Marcelona wasnt here so who was she gonna beat? I thought. Then she called over aunt Leecey "what we doin ride uh die?" My mom went in her pocket book and got the deed and rest of the paper work for the house. "Not only did I give her my child to take care of but I allowed her to live in a paid off and renovated house that yah daddy left me until yall reach 18. So Leecy, we clearin all dis bitch shit out" we all pitched in on throwin her shit out the house. The neighbors was pretty confused. By 12am the house was empty except for Romarios stuff and the furniture my dad left in spacific which was really nice by the way. Marcelona came home. "You fuking piece of shit! Dis es all your fault, mira! Your fuking madre kicked us out! I shoulda threw your half blood ass away when I got you!" She spit in front of him "que feo, que feo maricón sucia!" She was so loud she drew a crowd with her insults. Before Romario could reply my mom stormed out the house "come hea bitch!" Marcelona ran my mom ran her down, tripping her causeing her to make a violent fall my mom dragged her from her hair to the grass and was brutally woopin her ass it was kinda scary. we all broke it up after a good 20 minutes, Marcelona's face was bloody I've seen my mother beat up grown men up. And this was still surprising to me. We heard a neirbor say "its about time somebody beat dat stupid puta she been treatin Romario like a dog since he was a little baby, one time the bitch locked him out when he was like three during the hurricane." My mom beat her ass some more after that then walked off walked off with a couple scratches. Marcelona was on the ground calling the police and holding her face in pain. We where all in the house everyone was staring at us Teetee walked up "I'm yuh sister Tyeisha. She reached in and hugged him my mom started crying again" Rayquan and Quincey introduced themselves and also hugged him. Followed by every one else even lil Drevon. Except Drew, Drew didn't say anything he jus sat there looking concerned. I guess he jus a lil overwelmed by the situation. The police came and tried to arrest my mom for tresspassing and robbery but she showed them the deed and will of my fother and told them "Marcelona has been living here rent free for 16 years with my son but she been abusing him so I kicked her ass out." One of the officers replied "oh I know Romario I just didnt know he had a twin or a mother, with a New York accent" "I'm from Jersey and how you know him?" "Marcelona got called on for abuse and negect many times before . You know how much times dis boy done got kicked out da house? beatin by Marcelona inda middle a da street, you name it. He aint deserve it, none of it.you have a very respectful and determine son. Aslong as you get this stuff gone by tomorrow we aint got no problems hea. Oh and we was spoce to arrest you fuh battery but i know Marcelona so imma drop dat too. Congradulations Rome " they left as she closed the door."come hear" she ordered Romario he went to her she brung him to a room I guess they went for a talk. Everyone was still uneasy. Aunt Leecey broke the silence alright so come on yall anty Dym tired so we gon finish cleanin out da house, Tye go in dea wit yo momma dem. They where sitting down on the floor I locked the room door and joined them "this is crazy yah two jus alike, da only one diffrence is Tye gay" my mom blurted out. His eyes widened and I looked away not wanting to get criticizd "mom I'm bi-sexual and I got a girl pregnant" I was so suprised "well damn i guess I have some adventurous twins. And shit to be honest iwas hoping one of yah give me some grandkids did you meet Drew? He yuh brothas boyfriend" "oh I saw him he seem cool" Romario answered then looked at me I liked that he knew Drew aint say shit to him but aint want no extra drama so didn't mention it. "I got some news fuh you ,well both a you. We all goin back to Jersey but we movin down here at da end a august me and Leecey is gonna open a store here. Drew, Drevon and da twins all livin here wit us in dis house I dont know how we gon fit but we gonna make it work." I was happy acell I was gonna miss Ray for sure but I was gonna get to live wit Drew I mean we practically did already. He been actin funny since he fainted I don't know why. "we stayin down here for two weeks long enough to celebrate Drew and da twins birthdays. The twins birthday was tommarow and Drew's is next week monday" we talked until 2a.m. when we came out the room everyone was sleeping, aunt Leecey bought 5 airbeds. It was Reema Teetee and Cree on one ,Ray and Quincy on another,the twins on one, Dre was sleeping in Drews arms. And aunt Leecey was by herself. My mom slept next to her "cmon u could sleep wit me"Ramario told me we walked to his room it was everything I wanted in a room, it was dream catchers, dimed lights, maps, and it smelled like my room a slight muck and cologne smell. He got in the bed "you wanna travel the world too?" I asked him. "Yea any job where I get to travel is my dream. It was getting wierd, I remembered telling Drew that same answer. I decided to not ask anymore questions but he had one more for me. "So we identical twinns right? So does it mean we have the same size dick?" He asked me, shit I wanted to know too. I pulled off his pants off without asking then he pulled of mine. We lined up face to face. Like the rest of our bodies were identical in dick sizes too. We put our dicks away and went to bed I had a crazy dream that night.In the dream my brother was sitting under a giant banyon tree. These women were dancing around him I fealt a sharp pain in my chest Romario called for me to the tree I walked towards them. A big black snake slithered out a hole and was heading for me I was sweating but was cold the snake was in my way and I was barefoot I fell to the ground the snake started coiling around me Romario was crying the ladies turned around and saw me the started calling the snake over by dancing and making hand gesters calling it over. I could hear African drums but I didnt see anyone playing, it slithered to them I was still in alot of pain. I magically appered next to Romario the ladies where wearing traditional cuban dresses and head wraps. The oldest one was black and beautiful. She held both our hands and gazed in our eyes she looked possesed "Doy mis hijos visión del futuro!" They started dancing again they pulled her off of us she screamed out in rage she didnt want to let go but when she finally did we woke up in cold sweats and breathing heavy. We looked at each other and now nothing could suprise me cause we both reached for our notebooks that we aways use to record our dream. We realized that it was the same dream "wjhat did the old lady say?" I knew it was spansh "she said she gave us the power to see the future."we went back to bed.
