Under the Bridge by Michael Harmon

Author:Michael Harmon [Harmon, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-89642-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

On the way home, my mind rushed through things. We didn’t live in an insulated world. Guys I’d known living further up the hill, with a buffer of space and money, didn’t think like we did. They didn’t know what we knew. They didn’t see what we saw. There was no buffer with us because we were the buffer that kept it from other people. Our neighborhood was the zone that separated the city from the suburbs, and you dealt with what it threw you because there was nothing else to do.

I knew the drug world because I saw it every day. I skated through it. I knew the dealers and the pimps, the badasses, gangbangers, and thieves. I knew where to go and where not to go, who to talk to and who not to talk to, and how the game was played. The street was a tapestry, and we knew it. But we weren’t the street. We never had been, and we knew the difference. We also knew that if it got to you, it sucked you in. It ruined you.

Over the last couple of years, we’d seen guys sucked in by it. Dealing, doing, thieving, joining gangs, getting involved with the wrong people. Now my own brother was in it, and I didn’t know what to do. Part of me said he wasn’t in too deep and I could get him out, but another part was so pissed off I didn’t want anything to do with him. My brain boiled over with it all the way home.

Dad was sitting on the front porch when I came up the walk. It was after two in the morning. He reminded me of a great, hunch-shouldered statue of a bear—a warning to anybody crossing the doorway to his cave. I stopped five feet in front of him, far enough away that if he rushed me, I could run.

A few seconds passed; then his voice, low and soft, vibrated through the air. “Go to bed.”

I did.

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