Hot Boyz

Chapter Two:

The Hot Boyz

Mr. Longo looked at me. I looked at him. I then told him the rest of the story:

Zeke and I walked to Zeke's house and just messed around, played some Halo, then got a bite to eat at the local Burger King.

We didn't talk, and I didn't forget.

We went to the skate park, the only way we knew to blow off steam, and we started skating. Fearless Deuce (who just got out of a full body cast) came up to us and asked us if it was really true that Zeke punched out Cojo. Zeke said it was, because I couldn't talk. Deuce said Cojo went to the hospital, but he also said it was probably a rumor and that Cojo was fine, but just making a big deal out of it.

Conversation turned from Cojo to the local chapter of the CBB (Crips-Bloods Brotherhood), The Hot Boyz. Crips usually don't get along with Bloods, but in Gilroy, California, they did, and they did too in the neighboring town of Holston and another town (Holston's sister town) called Holystone.

The Hot Boyz officially broke up after a Crip gang shot 5 of the 16 members down. And guess what? They were all former Bloods members.

The CBB promoted peace and love, the Bloods supported them most of the time, that's why the Crips hated the CBB. Yes, gang violence officially moved out of Gilroy after the CBB broke up. Now the Crips moved into Holston and Holystone, where the crime rate went up 53%.

Deuce said we should make a gang. A skateboarding gang, cause skateboarders don't have a union or club or gang to cling to and to give them a sense of family. Mostly amateur skaters would join, in the hopes of getting to go pro.

I looked a Zeke, and he looked at me. We both looked at little Deuce. I looked at Zeke again and I nodded.

"We gotta do it," I said, my voice hoarse from not using it in, like, 7 hours.

"Okay, What are we gonna call it?" Zeke said, trying to find a way for this plan not to work.

"The Hot Boyz," said Deuce, piping up.

I looked at Zeke and nodded. He shrugged like, "Whatever, I can't win,"

"Hot Boyz it is," I say.

It took a few weeks, but with Deuce at the front of the campaign, we got 20 members in just a few weeks.

We had a meeting every week about stuff the skaters needed to do. We meet at the ramps, but that became too public. We built a fort in the woods by Gilroy, and we would meet in it at 9:00 p.m every Wednesday.

We had a plan:

Set up an amateur skate contest with a sponsorship by Riot Skates being the prize.

We cleared it with Riot Skates and the contest was set to begin the day before Halloween.