Authors' Note – I can't remember the last time I had so many people view my story all at once. So I'm going to continue this story…message or post any questions you may have for Tristan. Review, view and enjoy!
So I have been on here for two seconds and I see that people have more questions for me. That's fine with me, I rather you have the balls to ask me instead of just making assumptions. This isn't even to my face, but it's a good start.
1. How high do you normally get?
Like I said before, I don't smoke nearly as much as I used to do but I do have to have a little bit every day so that I don't go into withdraw. I can hear you guys now, "Marijuana isn't a real drug?", "You can't be addicted to it.". Well let me be the one to tell you that you can be addicted and it's a bitch to really come off of it. When you start you think, "no big deal" and I'm not going to lie it makes you feel a joy that you have never experienced before. In my case, it helped me forget things that I would never forget on my own. It helps with pain too and I'm sure that most of you guys are educated enough to add two and two together and know that I'm not going to let my mother get her ass kicked in front of me. Especially since I killed myself for a girl I have known for all of one day but back to the story. If I don't have a least one hit a day, I start to break out into sweats. It doesn't happen suddenly, it takes about two days but after that my mind starts to tell my body that it needs it; something like when you're on a diet and there is a greasy, freshly cooked hamburger in front of you. The craving is just too much and I try to fight it, especially when I'm around Yugi and Tea but sometimes I just need it.
2. How do you feel about your status about being a 'Good Hearted Bastard'?
Honestly I had no idea what that was before I researched it, but I figured it wouldn't be good if it had the word 'Bastard' in it. Apparently, we are the types of people that are either selfish, dishonest or violent but are still good people and have a good heart at the end of it. Unfortunately, I believe that is true because I was extremely (another big word) violent before I really started hanging out with Yugi and Tea. During the time Joey first befriended Yugi, I was by myself a lot. I would just hang around local gang members, low levels in comparison to Hirotani's gang, and just pick fights with people. When I would get really angry, I would want others to feel what I was feeling, you know? I would pistol whip or hit people with the butt of the gun I was carrying, metal pipes, bricks; pretty much anything that I could get my hands on. But I'm glad that they added the good heart part because it lets me know at least some people outside of my friends can see the good side of me.
3. What is the worst thing you have been through aside from your parents?
The racism that I have had to endure because I am considered to be a 'hafu'. For those of you who don't know, a hafu is a person who is mixed raced in Japan. To some people it's an empowering word, but for me it's not so much about the word it's about my treatment from others in my part of town. I mean I know I deserve some of my treatment because of my actions towards others but not if you have never met me. I was walking home from my sister's house to go back home, I got hungry and decided to stop to the mini mart on the way home. I was about three blocks from home when a squad car pulled up behind me and flashed the lights on me. I didn't think nothing of it because I was in my school uniform and I happened to be clean this day because my sister just agreed that I could live with her for a little bit while my father and our mother went to counseling. But then I hear them scream, "Freeze! This will be your only warning!" Confused, I just stopped where I was and did what they told me to do. These two men pull out their guns and rush toward me screaming, "You're under arrest!" and I had no idea why. They kicked the back of leg which caused me to hit my knee and slammed me against the concrete. I didn't know this until later but I was arrested because I fit the description of a kid they were trying to catch for robbery. Again I was not high, didn't have my gun on me, I wasn't even running the streets as often. To add insult to injury, the kid that they were looking for was light skinned, greenish hair and went to Rintama. For those who don't know, Domino uniforms are blue and Rintama uniforms are grey. So it was then that I learned that they just wanted to arrest and threaten me because I'm half black and it didn't matter what I did before, good or bad, it was just about color and there is nothing I can do to change that. Outside of family, this was the worst thing that has happened to me.