جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 10

"Aye Quincy" Mae yelled pulling me towards a group of boys "What up shorty" the boy yelled back "that's Marie son that's all me" Mae said smiling ear to ear swaying her hips harder than before She walked past the group of boys and hugged the tallest one wrapping her arms around his waist Quincy was 5’9, skin the color of dark chocolate he was handsome in a way that you just knew he got girls but Mae had no problem putting any of the neighborhood girls in they place over him. “ Aye who yo friend.” He says finally noticing me walk up. “Oh this Ki, Stacy niece. She gone be here for the summer.” She says walking back to me “She my new best friend” she said grabbing my arm “What ever happen to Bionca “ one of the other boys say. Quincy shot him a look that let him know to kill the conversation “That bitch better not show her face or imma give her 2 more black eyes” Mae says unlocking our arms placing her hands firmly on her hips letting him know she means business.

“Come here ma” I hear as I walk onto the porch. I look up and see Tez on a bike in the middle of the street “What’s up Tez, how long you been out here” I say as I walk over to him smiling “ Long enough. Why you ain’t been outside” he says before giving me a hug “You ain’t been out when I step out so what I’m coming out for” I say with my hands on my hips and a bit of sass “I see Mae rubbing off on you” he says half smiling “So where you been? It’s been 3 days and you been M.I.A” I say pouting “Been around taking care of business” he says not looking at me “Whatever” I say pouting “You missed me ma” he says with a smile coving his entire face. “Hey Tez” I hear Mae say as she walks up to where we are standing “What’s up Mae” he says not really acknowledging her “yall popping out to netta party tonight?” He asks grabbing my hand “If Stacy say it’s cool” I say looking to Mae “You need to make that happen ma. I wanna see you tonight, and make sure you dress

Walking into the kitchen in my own little world humming Mario you should let me love you, I quickly stop as I see Marie talking to Tez while he eats a bowl of cereal. I put my head down as I take a seat in the corner waiting on Marie to tell me what she needed me to do to pay off my debt for the outfit I wanted for my birthday. “I heard yall was over there fighting a couple nights ago at that party.” She says dumping her cigarette into the full ashtray I slowly get up to dump it as I flash back to the look on Tez face when he was in that zone “Nothing to worry about Marie had to get a point across” he states giving that half smile “Yea ok.” Marie says grabbing the ashtray out of my hands smiling. “ is you and Lydia into it or something.” She asks looking at him with her eyebrow raised “Nah we good, why you ask that?” He says putting more fruit loops into his mouth “You been here a couple days now and you been in the house most of the time just making sure.” She says relax

“Fuck, come on” Mae says grabbing a bat and crow bar from behind the apartment door, before running up the stairs and out the front door. “ Here ki take the bat if they fighting just swing, and try not to hit Quincy or his guys” she says handing me the bat Looking at her while we run, I could tell this was something that shes use to. We follow the screams towards the end of the next block. There’s people every where I see Quincy grabbing someone off of someone. “Mae over there” I yell pointing in his direction as she take of running swinging the crowbar I continue looking around I see Ace and three other boys standing over Tez as one of the boys hand Ace a knife everything happened in slow motion I ran to them swinging the bat hitting Ace in the back of his head he falls beside Tez. “Bitch get away from my brother” the tallest boy says as he snatch the bat giving Tez time to jump up and tackle him as I ran for the bat the other boy punches me n the eye. As I fall I see Mae run ov