Through The Eyes Of Ron
Chapter Seven
Runaway
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Please Read: There may be some offensive material in this chapter and the next few to come. I'm not in a gang, I go to a school for not so good kids and know of a few people who are in gangs, but I'm a goody-goody two shoes, and have no involvement whatsoever in gangs, or drugs, or anything of the sort. I told y'all I have no life, and if I did it would be clear of the following situations.
To reassure Michael that Ron wouldn't be at home all of the time, Elizabeth enrolled Ron in school the next day, rather than waiting until Monday.
For some reason that Ron couldn't explain, he didn't like Michael at all, and he could see what Josh meant by him being fake. Michael obviously didn't want Josh in the house, and with Ron staying there as well, Ron was sure he'd get up and leave. But that didn't happen. Instead, Michael made Ron feel very unwelcome, and only on the first night. He kept going on about how it was a burden on him that Ron had to stay at his house for two years, but he was quiet with his complaints whenever Ron went near Elizabeth.
Ron knew what Josh meant now, when he had said he couldn't let him stay at home alone every evening, with Michael there, Ron didn't want to be around.
Ron was in all of his cousin's classes, and he found the teachers to be more of disciplinarians than teachers. They were to read out of their books for homework and in class they were to perform spells that had to do with their subjects, as they weren't allowed to do magic out of school. Ron found the Salem Institute of learning boring, but he didn't get beat up, so that was something good. Still, Ron didn't feel a sense of belonging. He felt like an outsider, and nobody but Josh seemed to care.
They took a bus home, and on their walk from the bus stop to Josh's house, Josh stopped.
"Give me your bag." Josh said.
Ron handed Josh his bag, which had his books, and robes in it.
"I got to run home and drop these off so we don't look too suspicious." Josh said.
"I can run home too, and I saw muggles carrying bags like yours." Ron said.
"Just wait here, all right? Don't go anywhere." Josh said.
"All right, just hurry up, or I'll look suspicious for loitering." Ron said.
Josh hadn't even been gone ten minutes, when Tony came out of an alleyway across the street.
"Yo, Ronnie, over here." Tony said looking around suspiciously.
"J, told me to wait here for him, he'll be back in a minute." Ron said.
"Wait for him here, he'll know where you are. Just c'mere." Tony said.
Ron followed Tony across the street and back into the alleyway. They jumped over a wall to the next street and Ron found the rest of the people he had seen yesterday.
"This is Andre, Day-day, and Ray-ray." Tony introduced Ron to the Crips.
Day-day and Ray-ray were identical big black twins. Andre was black and an inch shorter than Ron and skinnier than Harry. Tony next pointed to the skinny, white, blonde boy with glasses before finally introducing the other Hispanic boy, who had tan skin, and was built with good muscles. "That's R.J. and this kid right here, is my brother Trey."
"You know about us, so we have to make sure you won't say anything." Tony said.
"I heard you yesterday, and Josh said the same thing. I'm not going to say anything. And Josh will be here soon, he just had to run to the house real quick." Ron said.
"Well, we need to test you on a few things." Tony said grabbing a lead pipe from the ground.
Ron started backing up against the wall as the gang moved towards him. Day-day walked up to Ron and slammed him against the wall so he couldn't move. Then he pulled back his hand, and brought it down hard against Ron's face. Tears raced to Ron's eyes. Day-day had a chain wrapped around his knuckles. He was sure his jaw was broken, and all of the skin on the side of his face had been ripped off! Before he could check, or cover his face, Ray-ray ran up to Ron and punched Ron exactly how his twin had, with as much power and with a chain wrapped around his knuckles. Ron covered his face with his hands.
Ron fell to his knees and Andre, R.J., and Trey started kicking him and punching him simultaneously in different spots. Ron had to gasp to breathe, but somebody kicked him in the face, and Ray-ray and Day-day were punching Ron with their knuckles wrapped in chains on Ron's back and neck and chest. Ron yelled in pain. Everyone backed away from him and Ron looked up to see Tony raising the lead pipe. Ron cried out in pain as it came down upon his back. He lay down on the ground and covered his face with pain. He was sure his back was broken, but he wasn't paralyzed because he could feel the kicks and punches at his back. Trey pulled Ron up by the hair and punched him in the face. He kicked Ron in the chest, and Ron was sure he was dying.
Then… it stopped.
Ron looked up expecting another blow from the lead pipe. His vision was blurry, but he could see the Crips nodding.
"Well, Ronnie… you're officially a Crip." Tony said as he threw the pipe down on the cement.
"I'm officially in pain too." Ron said not lifting his face from the cement.
The Crips laughed. Ray-ray and Day-day helped Ron off of the ground. "Thanks." Ron muttered as the ground spun beneath him.
"Whoa, sit down." Andre said pointing to a wooden crate.
Ron sat down and put his head in his hands, spitting on the ground.
"You want something to kill the pain?" Tony asked.
"I don't know that you have such a thing." Ron muttered looking up at Trey.
"You ever heard of weed, Ronnie?" Trey asked.
"What?" Ron asked.
"Weed, pot?" Andre asked.
"No." Ron asked.
"Well, it's guaranteed to make everything feel all better." Trey said handing Ron a joint.
"A rolled up piece of paper is going to make me feel all better?" Ron asked.
"Not the paper, what's inside is." Day-day said holding a lighter to the end of it.
"Watch me. Inhale…" Ray-ray said and he inhaled and blew the smoke out.
Ron inhaled just as Ray-ray had done and coughed. He coughed the smoke out and put his head, which was spinning now more than ever, in his hands.
Josh had finally managed to leave the house, but he could only leave to retrieve Ron. Michael had insisted that both boys go home and clean, and Josh had cleaned half of the house, but his mother had come home and made him go find Ron.
Ron wasn't in the same place as Josh told him to wait. Josh wrinkled his eyebrows together with confusion. Then a thought hit him. Josh ran around the block and found a severely beaten Ron, laughing and smoking weed with the rest of the Crips. The other Crips were laughing at seeing Ron high. Josh was looking in horror. Not only was he jumped when Josh had told his mother that Ron had had a good first day, but his eyes were bloodshot, and Ron was high.
"What in the hell? Are you guys' crazy? My mom is going to kill me and then she's going to kill him!" Josh said with disbelief taking the joint from Ron and handing it to R.J.
"Josh, calm down. Everything's better now." Ron said.
"No, Ron, you just made everything worse now, you idiot!" Josh said. "You're on your own now, I can't help you. I told you to wait for me, since I didn't come back, you should've came home."
Josh started walking away.
"Yo, J…" Tony called slamming Josh against the wall. "You're one of us. You're a Crip, and we all got each other's backs here. You don't leave your cousin to take a fall by himself."
"You don't understand he's high as hell! He'll be sent back to England, and I have my mom and her angry boyfriend waiting for us at home. I am a Crip, but I don't do drugs, because I don't need to be caught. Look at him, you don't see all the shit we're going to have to take because of some stupid weed!" Josh yelled.
"Don't take the shit then." Tony said.
"What do you mean?" Josh asked.
"How does L.A. sound to everybody?" Tony asked seriously with a smile on his face as he looked at the gang members.
"What?" Ron asked.
"We leave at nine A.M. tomorrow morning." Tony said. "We all go, or we all fight. If y'all don't meet me at the station tomorrow, whoever doesn't show…"
"We'll be there." Josh said.
Later that night Ron and Josh walked home. Ron's eyes were less red now, because R.J. had given Ron some eye drops. They walked into the house.
"Joshua, is that you?" Michael's voice asked from the kitchen.
Josh and Ron entered the kitchen, Josh looking nervous and Ron looking tired.
"Joshua, your mom said find Ron and come home. That was hours ago. Why can't you just follow directions?" Michael asked.
"I couldn't find Ron, some muggles jumped him, and I only found him now, and he finally woke up." Josh lied.
"It was my fault sir, when Josh didn't come back, I thought I could find my way here, and I took a wrong road, sir. I'm sorry." Ron said.
"You're going to be sorry." Michael said.
"Are you threatening me?" Ron asked with disbelief.
"Who do you think you're talking to with that tone?" Michael asked.
"Where's my aunt?" Ron asked.
"She's at work, which means I'm in charge." Michael said.
"Then I'm leaving." Ron said.
"The door's wide open, I'm not stopping you." Michael said.
"I'll go get my things." Ron said and went up the stairs.
Josh followed Ron.
Both boys emptied their school bags and started tossing shirts in them. Ron left a note for his aunt, and the two boys had climbed out the window. Michael wouldn't have let Josh leave. "What exactly is L.A.? Louisiana?" Ron asked.
"Los Angeles, California. Hollywood." Josh answered as they ran down the street.
"Do we know anybody there?" Ron asked.
"Nope." Josh said.
"Do we want to know anybody there?" Ron asked.
"Nope." Josh answered.
"Wait!" Ron said.
"What?" Josh asked.
"I forgot my wand." Ron said.
"Good, we won't get caught then." Josh said. "Nobody will be able to trace us."
Day-day and Ray-ray had paid for the trip from Boston to Los Angeles. They had to stop at Chicago and get on a different bus, but Ron thought muggle busses were nice compared to the Knight Bus anyway. Ron had time to think, and with everything Ron had done, he didn't want to think right now, but he couldn't help it.
What would his parents say or do when they found out Ron had left after only twenty-four hours of being in the states? Ron knew if he was ever found, he'd get sent to Bridgeton, and he knew that unless he went to Bridgeton, he couldn't perform magic legally. What would his aunt say when she found the note, if she found the note. Ron was sure Michael would destroy it. Ron wondered if anybody would care that he was missing. He reasoned they probably wouldn't, as they didn't care that he was a world away already.
They got off of the bus and after a good walk they found an abandoned warehouse that they settled down at.
"First thing in the morning, we're off to find a friend of mine. He'll give us whatever we want. If we want drugs to sell or for personal use, he's got everything we need. Only thing is, we're all poor as shit. So, we might need to run a few errands for him. Anything he asks for, somebody's going to volunteer, all right? No hesitations." Tony explained.
Everybody agreed. They spent the night in the warehouse and woke up early the next morning.
They walked from five until noon, and Ray-ray stopped. "Yo, somebody needs to grab us breakfast." Ray-ray said.
"As soon as we get to Jerry's, we'll have stuff to sell, once we sell the dope, we get our breakfast. So the idea is to keep walking." Trey said.
"Yo, I'm hungry too." Day-day said.
"I could eat." Ron added.
"We all are hungry, but I already explained our situation. We don't have any money; we need to keep walking to get the money. So quit bitching and keep walking." Tony said.
"Yo, there's a store up here, I bet there's food." Andre said wistfully.
"There probably is. The next person who mentions their hunger isn't going to have to worry about it, because they're going to get shot, all right? So shut the hell up." Trey said.
"We don't have any money?" Ron asked.
"I got some quarters." Ray-ray said.
"I got a dollar and some change." Day-day said.
"I think I got fifty cents." Andre said.
"I have a dollar." R.J. said.
They all pulled out their change.
"Four dollars. That's not going to get us a whole lot." Josh said.
"I can't believe this crap." Trey said.
"You white boys haven't lived on the streets long enough to know what is to be truly hungry. And Ray and Day, you're stomach can eat some of your fat and feed you for a week." Tony said.
"Hey!" Ray-ray started.
"Fine, if you're going to be babies, Ray, Day, Ronnie, and Dre, keep walking with me and Trey. Josh, you get us a box of cereal, and distract the clerk, you know just flirt. R.J. go with him, and get as much as you can fit into your pockets. Don't be a fool and make yourself look anymore suspicious than you already do. Just grab a few items, nothing you gotta mix or nothing in a can like last time. Nobody brought any can openers." Tony said rolling his eyes at a memory.
"Get soda." Andre said.
"Just be quick about it. Let us pass the window first." Trey said.
Trey, Tony, Ray-ray, Day-day, Andre, and Ron ran to the next intersection.
"I don't understand, why didn't one of you go and distract the clerk?" Ron asked.
"People get suspicious when they see the color of our skin." Tony said.
Ron followed his seven friends into a small apartment. Jerry was an older Hispanic man in his early twenties. Tony and Jerry embraced, then let go.
"These are my boys, Trey, Ray-ray, Day-day, Andre, R.J., J, and Ronnie. Ronnie, as you can see is new. We can trust him though, he's a cousin of J, and he came back after we beat his ass, as you can see." Tony explained.
"All right, you don't have any money?" Jerry asked.
"Not at the moment." Tony said.
"Are y'all from Boston?" Jerry asked.
"Ronnie's from England." Tony said.
"No shit?" Jerry asked.
"He only came over here like three days ago." Tony said.
"I need a few errands done. I want him to do them. If he's trustworthy, he's perfect." Jerry said.
"He's trustworthy." Tony said.
"Can you run? You're no use to me if you get shot." Jerry said.
Josh cleared his throat.
"Josh, shut up." Tony said. "That's Ronnie's cousin. You can run, can't you Ronnie?"
"Yes, pretty fast too." Ron said.
"Perfect. They'll never know what hit them."
Ron found his way to the docks; he dressed in all black with a black sports hat to match. The person was there and waiting for him also dressed in black. Ron saw from docks away that there wasn't a red article of clothing on the person, and Ron looked for anybody else who might be wearing red, but saw nobody.
Jerry had sent Ron out to the docks to make a trade, some dope for some cash, but he wanted Ron to make sure he wasn't selling any of his good dope to any members of a gang called the bloods. The bloods could easily dress up as a Crip, and as long as there weren't any other bloods around, and the disguised Crip wasn't wearing anything red or with a B in it, Ron could make a safe trade, and he could get the money back to Jerry without getting shot.
Ron walked past the teenager waiting for him. He wanted to walk past the person first to make sure there wasn't anybody on the other side waiting for them, and if there was, he wanted to make sure they weren't bloods.
"Ah, man, what is it with you Americans always tripping me. You don't even know me, and you attack me." Ron said standing up.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were somebody else." A girl said.
Ron looked up and found the teenager to be a girl. The back of the hat had hid her hair. Ron was sure she wasn't in a gang, but that was until she helped Ron up. Ron saw a belt buckle with the letter B on the center. It was just as Jerry had shown him. The girl looked at him suspiciously.
"What are you looking at?"
"I'm sorry, I just couldn't help notice, your stomach, it's got an earring in it." Ron said grateful for the girl's belly button piercing. He spotted it just above the belt buckle.
"I'm a bit of a rebel." The girl said.
"Oh, well we don't have many rebels in England, we have strict parents who would kill us first." Ron said.
"Well, I'm kind of waiting for somebody, right now. How long are you in Los Angeles for?" The girl asked.
"Not long." Ron said.
"Well my name's Becky. I hope I see you soon." Becky said.
"So do I." Ron said. Ron left.
Ron ran to Jerry's house.
"She's a blood. I saw her belt buckle." Ron said.
"She? Did she notice?" Jerry asked.
Josh and the rest of the Crips looked up at Ron. They were all eating pizza.
"Yea, she asked what I was looking at, but I saw a piercing on her belly button, and I told her that I thought it fascinating, and we had a brief conversation before she said she was waiting for somebody, and I had to leave." Ron said.
"This could not have worked out better. Ronnie, is it? You are my official runner." Jerry said, and then he tossed four bags of different drugs to Tony. "Tony, go get rich."