A couple days passed and Leon was already making a name for himself in The Row. He had helped Julius' friend Will, a Pimp expand his brothel in Harrowgate, while taking out rival Pimps and the Rollerz who protected them. One night Leon was awoken by the sound of his phone, it was Troy, what hell could he want at 3AM?

"Yo" Leon answered half asleep.

"Rumor is an old liquor store is being used as a Carnales hide out...why don't you go over there and check it out?"

"Ugh", Leon quickly got dressed and jumped in his car making sure not to wake his mother or Mariah.

Leon arrived at the place, it was in Athos Bay, a small neighborhood on the Southeast side of The Row.

"Damn its cold out here" Leon said taking a purple hoodie from his trunk and putting it on.

Leon then called Troy to let him know he was there Troy then filled him in on more details.

"The Carnales have been hiding out inside an old store. Until we clean that building out, there's no way we can hold down the Row."

Leon kicked the door down and quickly swept through the building taking out four LCs and grabbing an SKR-7 Spree from one of them. As he made his way to the back he saw a Carnales Lieutenant taking off in a red La Fuerza. Leon quickly chased him down firing his SKR-7 at the car killing the LC who slumped over while the car kept going eventually crashing into a light post. Leon gunned down several more Carnales then quickly sped off as he heard sirens in the distance. Leon returned home trying to be as quiet as possible as he entered the living room the lights went and there was his mother standing with her arms folded.

"Lil boy where have you been?" she asked.

Leon quickly tried to make up a lie.

"Uh..Orlando called and needed help with something..his car broke down"

"At 4 in the morning, I saw through the window, you were driving a car and putting a gun in the trunk. Where did you get the car and where the hell did you get the gun?" Leon's mother threw questions at him like a boxer throwing jabs.

"Got the car from Orlando's brother, and got the gun after some guys tried to jump me the other day" Leon lied hoping his mother would buy it"

"I'm not stupid Leon, Mrs. Johnson across the street told me you're in a gang, she saw you hanging with some thugs dressed in purple shooting guns"

Leon tried to say something but couldn't.

"So..you got nothing to say?, why would you lie to me?" his mother said.

"I'm not, I was actually almost killed because I was caught in the middle of a shootout between the Rollerz, Carnales and Vice Kings, I was about to get dropped before the Saints saved me"

"So...let me get this straight, you almost get killed by a gang so you join a gang?" his mother asked with a angry look.

"Yeah, Saints saved me and it's only fair I repay them for what they did by helping them rid the neighborhood of the other gangs" Leon confessed, he wanted to keep everything a secret but realized that was no longer a possibility.

"Fine, you got two choices. Leave the Saints, or leave my house"

"What"

"I WILL NOT LOSE MARIAH BECAUSE OF YOUR SELFISH BEHAVIOR!" Leon's mother yelled as tears began to fall from her eyes. "All these years I tried to protect you and your sister from ending up like your father and your brother, but you seem hell bent on joining them, you keep hanging in the streets with your friends and partying all night, I DON'T want Mariah picking up your bad habit's she's only 8 and doesn't need to be exposed to that environment"

"The Saint's saved me ain't no fucking way I'm turning my back on them or my friends, I'm the fucking reason why you and Mariah can walk through Mission Beach, I killed the Vice Kings slinging in the area and I just killed the Carnales in Athos bay" Leon was so angry that he didn't even care how he talked to his mother.

Leon's mother ran across the room and slapped him in the face.

"How dare you...If your father was alive to hear you curse at me like that. I can't believe what I'm hearing from you, you're just like Ricky, thinking you can justify murder as long as it's something noble"

Leon brushed his cheek and walked out slamming the door and jumping in his Compton and drove off.

Leon's mother sat on the couch crying realizing she failed to protect another child of hers.

"First Ricky, now Leon" She cried.

Leon called Orlando who agreed to let him spend the night while he worked on getting his own place.

"Damn homes, that sucks that your mom kicked you out, you know you always have a place here if anything" Orlando said.

"Thanks bro, I'll talk to my cousin, heard he's renting a place near the church"

Leon crashed out on Orlando's couch hoping the place was available.