Lies. That's all anything is, a load of lies. A pretty face that hides the devil, a nice guy who beats his kids. A friend you tell everything to, only to have them tell everyone else. All lies, every last bit of it. And when it isn't a lie, someone takes it from you.
When you hold on to the one thing you have left with all your strength, it's amazing how easily people will take it from you. One shot, two shots, and everything you had is gone. Home, family, parents, a life that's grabbed from your hands while you blink…turn your back and it's gone. Forever.
But that never seems to stop them. People who had good lives, people who had real families, people selfish enough to pick up a gun and take out an old lady – the only thing I had. People who, after years in the system, hurt you in the only way that hasn't been tried before. By taking away the only thing you had left.
And that's what happened to me. In and out the system since I was small enough to remember. Bad things can happen in the system, bad things that should never happen to a little kid. So I fought back, and that put me into and out of more homes than you can count…until, finally, I was a lost cause. No one wanted me, no one would take me, not with my past, not with my attitude. And then came my angel, Evelyn Mercer. The only thing in my life that wasn't a lie, she came and she fixed me…better than anyone could've hoped. Better than anyone ever thought I could be.
Since then, I've been raised in Detroit, same old house, same old city. One big happy family. The kids against me, the business against Jerry, the husbands against Angel, the cops against Bobby, the Mercers against EVERYONE. But I loved it, loved every minute of it. Never a boring moment in my family – because that's what we were, a real family, screwed up though we may be.
And then…one shot, two shots…all gone. Snatched from our fingers, the chance at a real life, away from the violent scene, out of the things that put us in the system.
One shot, two shots…and we're not a real family anymore. We're a mob. And we're out for blood.