Tales from da Hood by Nikki Turner

Author:Nikki Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307498182
Publisher: One World Ballantine Books
Published: 2006-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

THREE

ANTWAN RODE to Watson Avenue on the back of Rah Rah's black Ninja motorcycle. Big Farook had given the sixteen-year-old two more contracts in addition to the work he'd done for him down in the Mercer Street projects. On Mercer Street, Farook had wanted a nigga shot in both legs and had given him $500 for the work. This time he wanted a nigga slumped and had given him a thousand dollars up front and another thousand was promised when he completed the work. Antwan planned to give Rah Rah, his best friend, $200 to ride him to the spot where the mark hung out and wait for him while he put his work in.

Over the last two years Rah Rah and Antwan had been inseparable. Never had Antwan allowed anyone else to get close to him, but there was something about Rah Rah that he found intriguing from the moment he saw him.

Antwan was fourteen years old when he was walking up the alley one day and an altercation between two boys caught his attention. From what he could tell, there was an older boy hemming up a smaller boy for his sneakers. After the smaller boy took a few hard blows to the mug from the older boy, he kneeled down in defeat to remove the sneakers from his feet in order to relinquish them to the older boy.

As the older boy stood directly over the smaller one waiting for him to turn over the sneakers, the smaller boy caught him off guard. As hard as he could, the smaller boy rammed his head right up into the crotch of the older boy. The older boy keeled over, grabbing his privates. That's when the smaller boy stood up and began throwing uppercuts until the older boy fell to the ground. Antwan watched intently as the smaller boy got on top of the older boy and began ramming his head into the concrete with all of his might. After the older boy's head banged against the concrete about fifteen times, his body went limp.

The smaller boy slowly got up, nudged the older one with his foot, then proceeded to walk away heartlessly. When he turned to walk away, his eyes locked with Antwan's. Antwan didn't budge as the smaller boy came toward him, not taking his eyes off him once.

The closer the boy got to Antwan, the clearer it became to Antwan that even though the boy was smaller than the one who had just tried to jack him for his sneakers, he was bigger than Antwan was. The boy was only a couple of years older than him, but bigger nonetheless. Still, Antwan could hardly wait for the boy to approach him. He wanted to look into the eyes of the person who had so callously taken someone's life. As the boy approached Antwan, he was surprised by the look he found in Antwan's eyes. It wasn't the look of fear he had expected. It was a look of admiration.

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