Leaving California part 1
It's dark Carlos and Henrique are drinking beers sitting out on the back patio looking at the beach. "So what was it mang?" Henrique asks. "H, I love her and it's pretty damn plain to see. So I got her this." Carlos reaches in his pocket and pulls out a jewelry box. He opens it and Henrique says "Holy shit!" "Not so loud fool, you'll wake her up." "You got her daddy's permission, right?" "Yeah, shit what makes you think I wouldn't. Dude probably have my ass if I didn't." "You sure you want to go through wit dis mang?" "I never been more sure of anything mang." Carlos says in reply. "¿Sú abuelos know?" "No, mang, they don't know I'm here or dating a white chick. They even know I'm dating?" "I ain't said nothing. Paula still hangs around the vario." "How she doing?" "Don't know. Don't speak to her, especially after she did you like that." "Like what?" "She dumped you soon as you went to that white boy school. ¡Las chicas hablas! Y Ella couldn't keep her mouth shut !" A look of shock comes over Carlos' face. "That ain't all esé. That one gangbanger, black dude you fucked up. That's who she dating." Carlos jumps up from where he's sitting and runs to the front of the house with Henrique following him. "Chill Vato!" "No mang, I got to tell her." Carlos gets to the driver side of his car and sticks the key in the lock. He unlocks the door and Henrique holds the door and says "Carlos, Chou can't do this mang." "I care for her mang. I need to tell her. Now, you can respect that or step back." Warren pulls into the driveway on a mountain bike. Carlos shuts the door and starts the car. "You'll get yourself killed." Henrique says. Warren puts the bike by the side of the house. He walks over to the passenger side of the car, reached through the open window and opens the door. Warren gets in the car and says "Here" As he places a colt 1911 on Carlos's center console. "I bought that and a Beretta. We're straight." Henrique stands back from the car. Henrique throws the car in reverse. The car goes in the direction of the old neighborhood. At a stoplight the men sit. Carlos says "We heading to my ex's house. Remember that guy who man handled Max, he's dating my ex." Warren says" "I'm going to cap his ass." Carlos pulls the car foreword. "Warren." Carlos says. "We just here to tell her." Carlos drives the car down a narrow street with cars parked in front of houses with cars parked on either side of the street. Carlos parks the car outside of the house. The get out of the car and walk up to the porch of the house where they see the front door open. Carlos turns around and faces Warren and says "Keep your hand on your gun." The two men walk into the house to find a beat up woman sitting at the kitchen table. She sits there and looks over at Carlos. "What are you doing here?" The woman says. "Paula, I heard that you were dating someone new. Did he get beat up a little while ago and then have a stomach wound?" "Yeah, how'd..." "Look, it ain't important. You need to leave his ass. He man handled a friend of mine's girlfriend." "He beat me to, but he said he never do it... Why do you care." "It's the right thing to do. You need to leave him." "Is that so?" The black says while cocking a handgun that is point at Carlos. Warren creeps behind the black man, pulls out the Barretta and slams the butt of his pistol into the back of the black man's head. The black man falls to the ground. Carlos turns around and says "Holy shit, you did it mang!" Chloe walks into the house. "How'd you get here?" Carlos asks. "H, what happened here, who is this?" She asks walking closer to Paula. Pointing a finger at Paula she asks "Who are you?"