Chapter 1. The loss
Every story has a beginning; mine is just more messed up than most. I grew up in__ the worst city in the world. We made the news 7000 times- for all the wrong reasons. In fact, when we had our own paper the ___ chronicles, our city was the top story every day. Guess who was frequently on the front page? That's right me. I wasn't on there for being a good citizen or for getting elected mayor. Nope I was on there for murders, drug dealing, and bribing cops. So if you go soft and can't handle adventure then put this book down and walk away now. If you aren't then you came to the right fireplace, but we aren't telling stories here, we are telling nonfiction stuff.
This goes back about 2 years ago, to when I first met my best friend Carlos. We were working in Burger King (B.K.), my manager was a girl named Etna who eventually became my GF, but that is later in the story let's starting here.
I sat there watching my cousin O, try or attempt to pick up chicks in the burger king where I and my homie Carlos worked. The sound of patties sizzling on the grill awoke me from my trance to make me realize that it wasn't a patty that was sizzling on the grill, but my apron. So I immediately threw it in the freezer to avoid the yells from my smoking hot manager. I had the biggest crush on her, but my fear of her over came that. Once when Carlos made a "smart remark" to her then she smashed his head into the freezer door and told him that he would have to spend the rest of his shift in the freezer. So I am afraid of what she would do to me! I walked up and told Carlos that I had to do cashier, he just shrugged his shoulders and walked back to grill to have a fire go up in his face which naturally made our hot but crazy manager yell at him. Carlos is the most understanding person I know, whenever she yelled at him he just shrugged his shoulders and said "sorry homes" and just kept on working. She never caught me so I just kept quiet took over someone else's shift. After I finished my shift me, Carlos, and O would walk back to our little crib on the corner of Clifton, and Orange Street. As we entered the house O tossed a roll of money that seemed like it held about 25000 dollars in it, towards me. "There is the pay for the month right?" O said as he walked in past me and sat down on the sofa. "Damn, Holmes" Carlos said as he entered the door last. Carlos sat there messing with the lock on the door for about 5 minutes, as I went into the bathroom to check myself out (Since O bought a lock that is almost impossible to unlock and lock from the outside, than from the inside whoever enters the house last has to lock it, which is always Carlos). "Any way I just made a new business deal with a man named MomokichiMomoi." O said as he began flipping through the channels on the small TV lined up on the nasty looking wall. "Look" Carlos said as he walked past O into the kitchen. "I appreciate all the money that you are bringing in, but I don't like the feeling of you selling drugs to big names like that… in fact I don't like you selling drugs at all" Carlos said as it sounded like he was getting a glass of water. "Don't fret man" O said as he just kept at the TV. "Whatever" Carlos said as he took his spot on the couch, when I came out the couch was full of dumb, and dumber. So I just went in the kitchen to count the paper (or money). "Man, who would give a person 30000 before the stash even arrived." I said as I finished counting the money. Well I guess by next week we will find out. By the time I was done dividing up the money, it was about 12:00 midnight, and since me and Carlos didn't have to go to work until about 1:00 in the afternoon I went into the living room. Carlos and O had gone upstairs to the two rooms they had. I didn't have a room up there I just stood guard downstairs. While sleeping on the pull-out bed/ couch we owned.
By the time I woke up it was 10:00 in the morning and I was the first person up as always. Once I got up and got dressed up in my Vans, and my shirt which actually had little Vans on it, and my long black jeans which read Vans on the side. I was naturally sagging my pants as I organized my hat over my fro that sat nice and neat on the top of my head. I kept my pick in my back pocket. As I approached O's room to awake him I walked in on his GF, Gidget. She was totally naked, and man did she look good. "You know" I said as I walked in on her, 'look at herself time' "He is the only lucky guy in this house" I said as I leaned on the door entrance looking her up and down. "And what makes you think that" she said as she clearly began to show more of her body than needed. "Well, he is the only one who gets you" I said as I walked away from the door. I am sure that she wanted to respond, but I looked at her as my relative 'by law' more than my cuz's girl so I didn't have any emotional or sexual attractions to her. I banged on the Carlos's door to let him know to get up. Then I went back down stairs and sat on the couch waiting for 12:30 to come. By the time 12:30 came everyone in our house was up and dressed. Me and Carlos bid our ado's and went down the hill on foot to the burger king as O drove his Cadillac 300c up in the other direction.
"Hey, man did you know that Gidget was up in the house?" Carlos said as we walked. "Yea" I said. "Dude, your cuz is breaking all the rules we have man" Carlos said as we began to cross the street. "Just chill, I will set him straight tonight when we get back, O.K." I said as we entered the parking lot. "Today is going to be a long day" I said as we entered the Burger King.