The General.
Chloe walks into a living room and sits on a couch. An older Latin man sits next to her and says "So you think you can come hear and dis me. Fuck you." The man pulls out a hand gun and points it at her. Chloe wakes up in a panic. Carlos sits up and turns a lamp on. "You need to relax." C's low says with his hands on Chloe's as he gently pushes her down on the bed. "I'm just a little nervous." "Why, he's not that bad. He won't judge you. He wants to meet you. Now get some sleep." Chloe shuts her eyes
At eight o'clock. Chloe gets up from bed and gets dressed. She walks out to the kitchen where Max and Warren are sitting eating cereal and Henrique stands with his back to them as he prepares his coffee. Max and Warren look up and drop their spoons at the same time with their mouths open. Henrique turns around. He looks at Chloe and says "Good morning. You look muy Bonita." "Can you say that in English please." Warren says "He said you look very pretty. I agree." "Thank you both." Chloe says as she walks over and sits next to Max. "Hey Henrique I hope you don't mind I borrowed the heels and dress. I figured you weren't using them." "Those aren't mine..." Carlos walks in the door. He walks into the kitchen and says "Hi everyone." He walks over to Chloe and kisses her. "You ready Warren?" Henrique says. Warren stands up and says "Yeah." As he walks over to the sink and washes out his bowl. He puts it into the dishwasher. Henrique and Warren walk into the hallway. "We're going out for a little bit. I'll be back to pick you up. I'll leave you my car." Carlos pulls his car key out of his pocket and places it on the table. "In case you want it." Warren walks out with the other two men. Chloe look at Max. "So how've you been Max? I feel like we have t talked in a while." "What happened Chloe? You're not you." "What do you mean?" "The clothes, the shoes, and the make up." "I wear makeup on special occasions. The dress and heels are not my choice and I won't wear this all the time. I know you think I'm changing. I'm not, you don't need to worry. Carlos likes me the way I am." Max sits there silently. "What is it? Just say it." "Is it bad that I like these people more than the residents of Arcadia Bay?" "No, I like these people better than the Arcadia Bay asses." "Do you see yourself moving here after Bay College?" "It depends on the job offers. I can only stay where I can afford." "So what about Carlos?" "What do you mean?" "Where's he going to live?" "With me. I thought you knew that." Chloe grabs the car key and says "Hey, why don't we go for a ride in Carlos' car, you not going any where, just…" "Slight site seeing. I know what you mean."
In Carlos car the girls drive up the coast and pull off into a parking spot. Chloe turns the key. Max gets out of the car and and starts fishing through her camera bag and grabs her camera. She lines her shot of the coast up and snaps the photo. It comes out of the camera. She grabs the photo and shakes it. "Breath taking isn't it?" Chloe asks. "It's a photo wonder land." Max says. They get back in the car and drive a little further. "I got one you'll love." The car pulls into Beverly Hills and stops in front of the Hollywood sign. "The Hollywood sign. Chloe you must be out of your mind." "Nope, we're this close. You got to grab a photo of it." Chloe slides the chair back and the back of the chair down as Max lines the phot up and captures it. "You got it, because I don't think I can drive with the gangster lean." "I got it, put your seat back." Max says as Chloe adjusts her seat. They drive down a street and stop at a parking lot of a Burger King. Chloe turns the car off and looks at Max who returns her gaze and asks "what are we doing here?" "I need to grab something to drink and we could grab something to eat." The girls walk into the fast food restaurant and wait. They order, grab their food and sit down. A woman walks by Chloe and stares at her. What does she want? "Yeah?" Chloe asks. "I love your hair." The woman says. "Thank you." Chloe says in reply. "Um, I feel funny asking you this..." "Just go on with it." "Do people stare at you?" "Some times, but not to much now. You are actually the first person in a while to ask." The girl walks away and Max smirks at Chloe. "What!?" "That's the first time you talked to some one in a while." "She was nice."
After finishing their meal the girls walk out side and try to get in Carlos's car but are stopped by three black Males. Oh shit here we go again. Chloe puts her fists up and prepares to fight, one of the men sees this and pulls out a Glock m22. Henrique's 73 blue Cadiliac squeals as it pulls into the parking lot. The three men get out of the car. Carlos pulls out a Ruger Sr40, Henrique pulls out his ragging bull and Warren gets out of the car with a Smith and Wesson SW500. He walks around the car with both hands firmly on the gun. He stands two feet away from the man with the Glock and says "Drop the fucking gun!" The man says "Oh, the white boy got straps." One one the other men says "Put it down before you do something you regret." He starts to walk over to Warren. Turns and pulls the hammer back on the revolver. The man control I yes to walk toward him. He pulls the trigger and shoots the man in the waist. He turns to the two remaining men and says "Unless you way to end up like your friend over here drop your fucking gun. Henrique and Carlos walk over next to Warren and have their guns drawn. "Three on two..." Henrique says "fucks it gone be?!" The man drops the gun and they both put their hands up and slowly walk away. Warren slowly lowers the gun as they start to fade out of his sight. Max out runs over to Warren as Carlos walks over to Chloe. "So what happened today?" Chloe asks. Carlos looks at Chloe and says "went shootin', took Warren along." "How'd you guys did us?" "We saw may car and you, Henrique pulled in. We told Warren to stay in the car, but he grabbed the gun and went to it." "So happens now?" "We go and celebrate." There are sirens in the distance. Carlos and Chloe hop in the Regeale while Max, Warren and Henrique get in the Cadillac and both cars speed off.
After driving the cars park on a side walk I front of house with four 64' impala in the drive way. The group walks into the house. There is a living room table with Budweiser and Corona case on it and six people in the house. "Yo, is that the white boy who shot them." "Yeah the hoods talking bout all of you."
After a few hours of hanging out in the party house, Carlos walks out to the back yard and says "H, me and Chloe got to dip." "Yeah, yo going to go see The general?" "Yeah, he invited us to dinner." Carlos walks through the house and to the front door where Chloe is standing. He walks toward the door holding his hand out. Chloe grabs his hand and follows him out. They get in the car. Carlos looks over at Chloe and says "So how'd you like the party?" "It was cool, better than a vortex club party." "Well those folks don't party it's just a show case of privilege." Carlos turns the car on and Oberhofer's "Sea of Dreams." plays over the radio. Carlos reaches up to change the radio and Chloe pushes his hand away saying "Can we leave this on? I really like this song." "Is everything ok? It seems like something else is eating at you." "It's... It's... Just... Do you ever get the feeling you're losing who you are, or who you were?" "Yeah. I know what it was for me and I know what it is for you." Carlos says. He puts the car in drive and says "It's the culture shock. You have this underlying need to change who you are because you want to fit in and it's hard to fight that feeling. Now you also have feelings of what is right and wrong. I did, and Jefferson got me to my boiling point where I just didn't give a shit about any result. You were a little scared when Warren used that big ass revolver..." "No I wasn't!" Carlos stops the car looks at her and says "Don't lie, I saw in your eyes." "So what about Warren? Is trying to blend in?" "Yeah, but he's also seen that we just don't give a fuck. We'll hang with him till he starts acting weird." "He's a nerd he'll start acting like that soon." "Hey you should be more appreciative of him. He helped save your life." "Shit, you're right." Carlos pulls up to a house with a beautiful garden and a 49 Chevy deluxe in the drive-way. Carlos turns the car off. Chloe and Carlos get out and walk up to the front porch where an old man is sitting in a rocking chair. "I knew you would never be late, you were always a promising Chico." The man gets out of the rocking chair and walks toward the front door. The three of them walk through the door where the kitchen is on the right of them. The General walks into the kitchen and up to a Latin woman who is standing in front of a stove. "Almost ready?" He asks. "Almost, just a few more minuets." She replies as Carlos and Chloe sit at the table in the dinning room. General walks in and sits at the table. He looks at Chloe and says "So heir did you two meet each other. Carlos looks over at Chloe. She stutters a bit but manages to say "I bumped into him at Blackwell Academy putting up posters for a missing friend and we kind of been around each other since. He's helped me out through a lot and never said no." "Oh yeah?" He replies. Sonya walks in with two plates and places them I front o Chloe and Carlos. Carlos tries to get up from the table. Sonya says "Sit sit sit." She returns with two more plat and places them at the remaining spots of the table. "So, I saw something on the way news, a while back, you saved a suicidal girl after she jumped off a roof." Sonya says looking at Carlos. "Yes, that did happen but I was just at the right place and at the right time." "Hey like it or not you're a hero, even my step father said that." "Her step father is head of security." "So what is this shit I hear about a perverted teacher?" General says "Did you have him and give him one for it?" Carlos looks at Chloe then at General and says "He was a photography teacher, I was in his class and he said some weird shit. Something along the lines of 'capturing us in a dark corner at a moment of desperation.' He was also facing all the girls in the class and me. So I ask the girl next to if what I heard was true and he called me out on it. So I repeat what he said. A few days latter there's this party I was told to check out. I leave, I'm sitting in a junkyard where Chloe had taken me earlier. I see her and Max Caulfield, the girl who was sitting next to me in that class, come walking up. Then I see Max fall she yelled for Chloe, the teacher had shot Chloe and stood over max and carried her away..." "Why didn't you do anything?" The General asks. "I didn't have a fusca. I waited for him to leave. Took Chloe and her gun called a friend and we patched her up. She knew where the teacher was heading and held a student a gun point, broke in and shot him twice with a shot gun that I had found in the trunk of a car in the abandoned house." "Damn carnal you made me proud. Standing up like a man for those of your own."
AUTHORS NOTE; Sometimes the wrong thing is the right. Hope you guys like this chapter. This had some action, some moral. I hope you didn't think this was corny or preachy.