Chapter 1: the begenning
Life living in LA is easy, growing up as a rich kid, a big spacious 6-bedroom house with security guards, loving family, going to a nice school, hanging out with friends, and going to the beach. Everything is right in the world, right?
Well, get that fucking fantasy out your head, sure that may be true to people living in Los Angeles.. but L.A. is truly different, back in the 80's and 90's, shit even the 70's, the killing were a common thing, shootings, gang violence, kidnapping, robberies, that's the stuff deep within Los Angeles, being covered by Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Bel air, even hidden hills.. and sure the violence, shootings and killings have calmed down a bit to the outside eye who's not local to LA, reasoning behind that has to due to the fact that we're not mainstream.. Hollywood is, Beverly Hills is, the rich white girl lifestyle is, waking up getting pumpkin spice lattes and matcha is, going to the beach and going shopping on the weekends seeing celebrities is. civilians used to die in the crossfire due to gang all the time, as the saying goes "wrong place, wrong time" and the deaths of these civilians would only be popular in the city itself, it was either police brutality or us taking eachother out along with the innocents.. all of this once happened when newspapers was still popular and if you were lucky you had a box tv's, truth be told the gang violence never truly ended.. it just.. grew quiet, staying in the LAnd, now the only people to die was the people in gangs and no one cared about the people dying, and the white people sure as shit didnt give a fuck about them dying, but sadly theres a cycle. The gangs would, homies would, the younger brother, cousins, they all would care.. a lot, they get revenge for their deceased loved one causing another to die which leads to more and more killings.. this cycle would continue to present time, and the people that were once little homie then became big homies and the big homies became the OG's ready to tell the future generations what's up, the generations that would be the ones doing shit today.
"School boring as fuck, yo." ??? Says.
"On god nigga, ay you tryna dip outta school and see if Jaice and Amari tryna leave wit us?" ??? Responds
"Bet foo, we out.." ??? says
They walk out of class with the teacher asking where are they going, and class just started, but he gets ignored as the classroom door shuts
They begin walking until they make it to a classroom with the door opened and they peep their heads in the class to see a substitute teacher, an old man, who gave up trying to restore order within the class room minutes ago and the two boys turn their heads to the students which is quite the scene as there's two boys in the back of the class slap boxing, students isn't in seats, talking, some boys blasting music, rapping the lyrics getting hyped while they do so as they're in sync, hot chips being devoured by the ghetto girls as they talking and occasionally give niggas or other girls the stank face, but the two boys finally spot who they want as they walk in class without a care, and they walk to one of the boys slap boxing
"Damn Amari, you gettin yo ass beat twin?" ??? Says
"Shut yo bitch ass up, Rio.." Amari says as he weaves a slap and he slaps his opponent twice, both sides of his face, and his opponent steps back holding his face clearly done play fighting, and Amari turns to Rio and Naz
"Anyways, what y'all niggas want?" Amari says.
"Our class was boring as fuck, so we decided to come find you and Jaice so we can leave school and do our own shi feel me.." Naz says
"Hell, yuh.. anyways you down?" says Rio as he reaches his hand out for a dap, which Amari does dap him up
"Hell yeah," says Amari before dapping him up
"Anyways, you know where Jaice at, Mari?" Rio Says
"Shii, he left the class like 15 minutes ago or sum" Amari reply's.
Let's go catch up. Amari says already walking, and the 3 leave the classroom to find Jaice, and as they walk, Rio looks at Naz
"Ay foo, do you even have a plan on what we gon do once we leave?" says Rio
"Hell nah nigga but shii we gon do sum nigga dead homies.." Naz Reply's
Amari shakes his head and says "Ion even know why you'd ask Naz that, Rio, you know damn well dis nigga ain't have no plan"
Naz shakes his head back "Yuh and fuck both of y'all niggas.. anyways, damn where da fuck is Jaice at?"
Rio sees a girl named Ashley who's a mutual with all of gang and nem, so he walks up to her "Damn, ash, ass lookin fatter than ever, ay but look tho, have you seen Jaice?"
Ashley rolls her eyes. "Boy bye, but yeah, I have seen him, he's in the cafeteria."
Rio nods his head "ight bet, that makes our jobs way easier cuz we finna dip outta here dead homies.. preciate it tho ash" he says before walking away dappin her up
"So what she say?" says Amari
Rio responds, "Jaice in the cafeteria."
"Bet that makes our job so much easier," Naz adds
"Dat's what I said, twin.. anyways we out" says Rio as they keep walking until finally they reach the cafeteria, and they see Jaice boo'd up wit two girls as they on his both of his sides but legs on his lap, very close to him
And the 3 approach "Yo twin."says Naz to get Jaice's attention as he is not paying attention cuz he way to lost in da sauce
Jaice looks at them "Yo, what's good?" says Jaice
"We tryna dip outta here, and we were tryna see if you wanted to leave wit us." says Rio
Mm fasho.. Jaice says as the girls get off him and he stands up "we out?"
The boys nod and they just walk straight up out of school
Where we goin? Jaice asks
"No fuckin clue.." Naz responds
"Fuckin idiot.." Jaice says shaking is head
"Ay let's just go to the swap meet, only a bus ride away we jus need to take da 1 0 8." says Amari
"Bet." Naz replies
Shortly after getting on the bus from Los Angeles Academy Middle School to Slauson Super Mall, and they walk to the mall
"Ay, what high schools are y'all going to, schools ending in like two weeks feel me." says Rio
"I mean.. the closest options are Hawkins, manual arts, Crenshaw, George Washington.. and shii prolly morning side", Naz replies.
"Hol up, ain't Morning Side closed down, and it's just Inglewood high niggas there usin the campus and shi cuz Inglewood is getting remodeled, so really.. can you call it Morning Side?" Says Amari
"Shii guess not" Rio replies
The boys walk around the swap meet, walking past shoe stores, jewelry stores, etc and they hear a lady shout "Somebody stop him!" and then they turn their head to see a guy booking it out the mega mall. Naz can't help but give a slight chuckle, home sweet home in South Central
The boys continue their walk around the swap meet, and Naz and a random Hispanic who was with 2 others, other teens, probably older in highschool
"Watch where you goin nigga" says the Hispanic
"Nah nigga YOU watch where you goin nigga, all dis space and you right up on me nigga, dead homies move around.." Naz replies
"Ion know who the fuck you think you talkin to"
"Ese, don't get yo ass smoked out here." He turns to one of his homies behind him and says "Esa estúpida perra no está metida en nada." And his homie chuckle
"You ain't gon smoke no one nigga dead homies what's up" Naz say getting very close which the Hispanic push him but big mistake as Amari was already on that, moment he pushed Naz, Amari socked him hard hitting him with a major right hook and to make it worst Naz was finna swing after getting pushed but after he seen Amari punch him he takes the initiative to pick the Hispanic up by his legs, and slam him on the ground and he starts punching him on the ground.
civilians calling for security as all they are seeing is 3 groups fighting, a one v one clearly in Jaice's favor, a boy on the floor getting brutally punched over and over and stomped and a two v one as Rio and Amari is punching up on the other Hispanic who's blocking his face with his back up against a bin of socks and underwear as they were near the middle and they eventually get him in the ground and stomp him out but then the 4 boys hear radio, and jiggling, sounds like cops or security and the boys take no chance as they collectively get up and run out of a door and once they make it to the parking lot in-front of Wingstop
"I was on that niggas ass bro. dead homies, his face all bleedin and shi, fuck that nigga on me." Jaice says, annoyed.
About 3 days later and they back in school but luckily it's a Friday, school went a lil bit of the same, after school the boys decide to hang out so they take the bus and they go all the way down to van ness park where they chill, laugh, joke around, stole a few drinks from a liquor store and now we chilling but then as we sittin on a bench we hear
"Ay!" We turn our heads and see 4 niggas walking towards us
"Ay where y'all from?" One of them shouts, and if you from L.A, you know where you from is not what it regularly means, they don't care where you're actually from, they want to know what gang and set you from
"Shii nigga we don't bang. Who you?" Rio replies
"This Rollin 60 crip nigga call me joker cuhh, how old y'all is, y'all looking kind of young.
"We 8th graders, why what's up tho?" Naz ask
"Oh ight yall lil niggas lucky cuh, was finna rob yall stupid ass."
"Shii nigga you wasnt bout to rob me nigga, on god nigga I'll die behind mine" Amari responds
"Ay y'all lil niggas got sum spark to y'all.. talkin that shi lookin at me wit no fear, I fucc wit that shi cuh, ay one of you lil niggas take my instagram if y'all ever need me y'all got me, need sum more lil homies anyways nigga, on da set"
"Shii bet" Rio says, taking his Instagram, and they follow each other, and they walk away
"Guys.. I think blue is my new favorite color," Naz says before he gets smacked in the back of the head by all 3 boys "shut yo dumb ass up"
A few days pass, and Amari is with his older brother, cruising down the street to Chesterfield Park
"Ay where we goin again? When you asked I was half sleep type shit" says Amari
"We goin to my homies gender reveal party. we just finna stay until they cut the cake or whatever the fuck they doin, then we dippin.. ight." says Aron (Ay~ron)
"Fasho" Amari replies
They arrive and it's pretty boring to say the least, at least for Amari, for Aron it's different, he actually knew everybody so he havin a good time suddenly, when a black car pulls into the parking lot near where everyone is and they don't pull into a parking space they just stay there, we eventually forget about them but sometime later we hear shouting and once Amari looks he see's Aron and his friend by the car and as he tries to focus to hear what the shouting was and what he heard was
"FUCK 40 CRIP NIGGA!" then 6 loud consecutively pops, then after the 6, we hear about 13 more and Amari instinctively dunked and is behind cover as hes near the bathrooms and he hear a car skirt off shouting "VNG did it to you nigga!!" and once the dust settles everyone realizes what it was.. two bodies on the floor.. Aron's homie who was having the gender reveal and.. Aron, wait what.. Aron?
Amari's eyes widen as he immediately run to his older brother's body as he's laying on his back, gun in hand, seems like he saw his boy drop and immediately pulled out his gun to shoot back
Amari lifts his shirt and see 2 bullet wounds in his chest and then one in his thigh hes assuming since hes bleeding there and then Amari lifts his body to see if there's an exit wound while quietly panicking as Aron is laying those, choking on his own blood and Amari turns his brother to his sides, by now sirens is in the distance, women still screaming, baby's still crying, people screaming for 9/11 and Amari sits there next to his brother tears rolling down his race
"I- I need you.. d-don't go.." his words breaking
Since he rolled Aron on his side he was able to cough out the blood he was choking on, and Aron looks at him and he was able to muster out a few words
"Y-yyyou" he tried to speak despite his weak breathing "d-don't neeed me.." his weak breathing continues "y-you never did." m-my room.. he says as his weak breathing continues.. 3rd drawer.." he rolls onto his back and Amari grabs the gun in his hand as the ambulance arrives which he runs and put it in his older brothers car and by the time amari comes out his brother is already being taken in the paramedics as he just helplessly watch them drive away and after he stands there he gets in his older brothers car, never drove before but he damn sure did it, he safely drives home and by now amari's mom was alerted as she was at work and she left and authorities called her and told her that her son is currently deceased.
Amari walks into his house. Instantly, in a fury of rage as that pain and sadness turned into as he start knocking furniture over, punching holes in the wall as theres blood on the walls, Amari's, mixed with Aron's, and he looks at the bloodstain as he remembers the car pulling off, shouting VNG, and Amari puts two and two together
VNG.. Van Ness.. .. gangster? he pulls out his phone and opens and call rio
Rio picks up
"Yoo what's good twin.. where you at, me and Jaice at a house party wit some high schoolers, Jaice is missing tho he prolly upstairs crackin shit" he chuckles
"Give me Joker's Instagram.." Amari says
"Bet I gotchu foo one sec" Rio says after hanging up
Amari walks into Aron's room opening the 3rd drawer seeing a shoe box and he sees a Glock 19, extended clip, and about 30-40 bullets in boxes and all items is on top of a fat stack of money, 1 grand each and doing quick math it's about 10 bands maybe more, which Amari brings to his room putting it under his bed, then he gets a notification and rio sent the Instagram and he opens it follow him and then once he was accepted he dm'd Joker
He tells Joker that hes his homie that was at the park one day and he ask who is VNG, and the response is van ness gangsters which is a blood set who is a rival with most neighborhood crips set and from that day Amari would start hanging out with people from R40NHC, R60NHC which Amari would find himself being apart of that set- R90NHC, R30NHC and even R100NHC but even during all of that he still found time to keep hanging around his boys, they didn't realize until 2 weeks later his brothers funeral service which they attended and it's the after party at his moms house and Amari, rio, Naz and Jaice is all outside, in the front leaning on Aron car but now Amari's car
"I know who did it too.. it was some bloods.. and I'm going to get revenge. on crip y'all better not stop me.."
Rio scoffs and laughs
"Gango, I don't know who you think we are, but nigga we aint gon stop you. matter o fact. when you do it let me be there, I'll put some rounds in a niggas chest dead homies" Rio says after laughing
"Bet that foo" Amari nods
Jaice looks up pulls a baggy out of his pocket and in the baggy was a blunt "forgot to tell y'all." he nonchalantly says
"NIGGA YOU HAD DAT THE WHOLE TIME?!" Naz shouts
"ON GOD NIGGA, WE COULDA BEEN SPARKED UP AND YOU OVER HERE HIDING IT!" Rio adds
"Whatever, nigga." he says, lighting it, and they smoke, passing the blunt around just having a genuine conversation
"So.. where we goin for highschool?" Jaice says nonchalantly
Amari looks up from his phone
"School huh.. well, let's go to...
