The four of us headed back home and by home I mean Los Santos. While we were heading there I got a phone call on my cell phone.

"Hi Carl, great job, I hope your family is okay."

"Yeah Woozie they are fine."

"Good when you get back from your vacation I'll make sure there is a marvellous pay check for you and Cesar."

"Great thanks Woozie."

"Oh and Carl tell Cesar if he needs any work don't hesitate to ask."

"Okay Woozie I'll see you next week."

"Okay bye Carl." I hung up the phone thinking about the Pay check I would be getting.

"Hey Carl guess what."

"What "

"That busta OG Loc got into the music business man." Sweet said.

"Damn we'll never hear the end of this." Sweet nodded. On the way to Los Santos the sun was beaming. The heat in the car was astounding. The drive from Cesar's blown up car shop to Grove Street took about twenty minutes. On the way people passing bye would stare in our windows as if we were new here. Litter was literally thrown anywhere and everywhere, it was the same old Santos. As I stepped out the car at Grove Street, the sun was beginning to fade, the heat drew less and the air was cool. Grove Street hadn't changed since I was away. People were still sitting out in their lawns drinking beer and smoking weed. Sweet still had that old rusty basketball ring up. Prostitutes still roamed that area every now and then you would get a "Hey big boy" from one of them.

"Hey Carl check it out, you still have you're old house, I've got mine and Cesar and Kendl have Ryder's."

"Great so now we can live peacefully." I said with a smile on my face.

"Not really holmes, some Ballas live down the street and they have been causing some trouble with the locals." Cesar said as if he was trying to warn me of something.

"Yeah well they know not to come up here and mess with us." Sweet said.

"Well I'm gonna head home, Cesar I need to talk to you later about something." I said

"Okay homes." I walked off leaving Cesar, Kendl and Sweet to talk amongst themselves while I got some beauty sleep. I walked in my house and saw everything was in the original place I left it in. It felt like home once again. I walked up to my bedroom and sprawled out on my bed.

The sound of the neighbours arguing woke me from my sleep. I looked out side and saw it was dark. The street light barely lit up the street. I looked at my clock and saw it was only 8:00am; I put my white vest top on and headed over to Cesar's. I felt something strange walking over there; the street was quieter than usual, not as many people were strolling around. I entered Cesar's garden, Footsteps led up to Cesar's front door, it must have been his, I rang his doorbell and waited, nobody answered so I rang it a couple of more times. I moved across to his window and looked inside none of the lights were on and there did seem to be any movement inside the house. The rude awakening of fear tingled down my spine. I walked away from Cesar's house thinking of where they could be so I decided to see if Sweet knew. I knocked on his door and waited again for someone to answer. But just like Cesar he didn't. I thought that lazy jackass would be asleep. I peered in his Window to see absolutely no movement what so ever. I stepped back from Sweet's house, the air went cold and everything went quiet, it was disturbing. BOOM! A gunshot from the end of the street made me jump. My heart was pounding, I felt breathless. I took a few steps backwards like I had seen a ghost and focused on Idlewood that was where some of the Ballas were living in. I saw tiny little flickers of light; I shook myself awake and sprinted down to IdleWood. As I got closer the lights got bigger until I could see some people moving about.

"Damn Ballas I would kill each one of these mother fuckers if I had the chance." Sweet said aim his 9mm at some Ballas."

"I know holmes." Cesar said ducking for cover behind a blown up car. As Sweet ducked he saw me running up and unfortunately some of the Ballas did to so they started firing at me. I dived and forward rolled until I landed beside Cesar.

"What the hell is going on?" Carl asked bewildered.

"Well one of those fools started pushing one of out home boys around so we walked right up to them and then they started firing at us." Sweet said all in one huge breath.

"Here holmes take this." Cesar gave me an Uzi. He pointed at the Ballas which meant I had to join in with the fun and games. I popped up and fired at a couple of Ballas I wounded one and missed the other. My aiming wasn't that great.

"Alright CJ on my count we move out ok." Sweet said loading his pistiol

"1….2….GO!" Sweet shouted. I rolled to the left, Cesar rolled to the right and sweet stood straight. We took out all of the Ballas in a matter of minutes.

"Hey guys look more of them are coming." Three waves of the Ballas were coming in every direction. I sighed knowing we couldn't win. But somehow Sweet had the confidence in us. We stood in a tight circle while the Ballas surrounded us. They began loading their AK-47's while we loaded our Uzi's.

"Okay listen up." Sweet whispered.

"We can win against there busta's but we gotta work together so on my count again we roll you got that?" Sweet asked

"Yeah we got that." All of us said in unison. Sweet slowly counted down to three. Every number he said struck fear but I had that much adrenaline in my body it didn't seem to care. Sweet screamed go all of us started firing and dodging bullets. Some of our guys got took down straight away. One got me in my right shin but I managed to continue. As I was getting us bullets barely missed me, Cesar took care of the ones that were aiming for me. Blood was pouring out my wound in my leg, I crawled over to a wall to pick myself up but I fell straight down again. Sweet and crew took care of the last remaining Ballas. He thought he was finished until one Ballas member aimed his gun at him, he was ready to pull the trigger but I shot him with my remaining bullets.

"Thanks Carl." Sweet said graciously to me for saving his ass.

"No problem." I said.

"Holmes you don't look to good." Cesar said looking at my wounded leg.

"Don't worry about it." I said. As I was getting helped up of the ground by Cesar a gun shot rang out behind me. Sweet's face went pale white. I thought he had been shot until II looked down. Blood was beginning to pour out my stomach like a drink was being poured. It started to stain my vest top. I fell to my knees, holding my stomach.

"You son of a bitch." Sweet shouted before shooting the guy square in the face. He fell to the ground with a thud. I started to fall to the ground. Blood began coming out of my mouth, it wasn't the prettiest thing to see in the world.

"C'mon Carl hang on man an ambulance is just coming." Sweet said with shock on his face.

"Someone…..phone….Kendl." I spluttered.

"Don't worry holmes I phoned her she is coming." Cesar said putting his phone away in his pocket. The ambulance was coming I heard it. The sirens wailed throughout Idlewood. My eyes began to close, every now and then Sweet would shake me to waken me up.

"What happened?" One of the ambulance crew asked.

"We were in a gang fight and my brother got shot." Sweet said looking at the ground. One of them began to walk over towards me.

"Carl can you hear me…..hello…..Carl are you okay." His voice began to quieten. The last thing I heard was Kendl bursting into tears.

A/N – I promised lordmasterkris that I would write 2000 words but I just couldn't. This is my longest chapter yet and to me it is my best, so I hope you guys and girls all enjoy it and THANKS FOR YOUR REVIEWS SO FAR.