The Last Street Novel by Omar Tyree

Author:Omar Tyree
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

WHILE POLO DROVE Shareef back to his hotel room on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, not that many words were exchanged between them until they arrived out front.

“So, what do you think about all this, man?” Shareef finally asked his friend.

They sat in the jeep outside the hotel entrance.

Polo nodded and continued to look forward out of the windshield. He said, “First, I want to thank you for helping me out of my jam like you did with them five Gs, son. That’s first of all.”

He turned to Shareef and gave him a handshake for it.

“Yeah, just try to stay up above water for yourself and your family, that’s all,” Shareef advised him.

Polo joked and said, “Yeah, that’s easy for you to say.”

Shareef stared at him. He said, “You know what? A rich man actually has more to lose than a poor man, B. And if I fall behind on my shit, five Gs ain’t gon’ cut it. ’Cause see, between me and you, it takes me and my family about twelve Gs a month to live.”

He said, “And some people may say, ‘Well, you can do without this,’ and ‘You can’t do without that.’ But the reality is, I’m a goal-oriented person. The challenge of life is what I thrive on. That’s what keeps me up and going. So I can handle what I got as long as there’s a new goal in front of me. And this right here, this Harlem shit…it’s a new goal, B. A big one. I can feel it.”

Polo looked into his boy’s eyes in silence for a minute.

He said, “I just hope you not try’na bite a bigger piece of pie than you can handle right now, Shareef. Like you said, you got a lot on your plate already. I mean, my kids only see a hundred dollars a month from me, if that. But how much your kids gon’ miss each month if something happens to you?”

Shareef blew him off with a smile. “Shit, man, I got life insurance. They’ll be all right. They still gon’ see it.”

Polo didn’t budge. He said, “That shit ain’t funny, son. That ain’t nothing to joke about. The last thing in this world I would want is for you to come back home to Harlem and lose your life over some bullshit. I wouldn’t be able to take that shit right there, man. That’s word to my whole family.”

He said, “You an inspiration, B. You a shinin’ light in the dark for niggas around here. And not only that, but who else can I count on next time I fall five Gs behind the eight ball?”

They shared a laugh about it.

Polo said, “But seriously, man. You need to really think about this shit, Shareef. I mean, Trap know them street niggas better than all of us. So if he say to leave that shit alone…then leave that shit alone.”

Shareef looked away from him and stared into empty space. He said, “You can’t get nowhere in life by being afraid of it, man.

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