The Syndicate by Brick

Author:Brick
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Jojo

My world was coming undone. I was going to let Mom down. There was no doubt about it. I was sure I’d already done so. So much shit was going on and I had nobody to tell. I couldn’t tell Javon. He would flip his shit. I knew he would. Von didn’t put up with foolish shit and if he found out half the crap I had been doing, he would put his foot in my ass.

I plopped down on my bed and sighed. Shit, man. I knew secrets that were weighing on my heart. Secrets about Inez and Cory. Secrets about Melissa. Secrets about the day Mom got killed. My heart was so heavy it ached.

“God, help me,” I said aloud. “What am I supposed to do with all this shit?”

Not everything was as perfect as Mom thought it was with her kids. The only perfect kids she had were probably Javon and Shanelle. They were actually what Mom had envisioned them to be. All the rest of us were faking it to make it. I was sick of Naveen cutting his eyes at me and looking at me like he always wanted to fight me, too. I didn’t know what I did to him besides the fact he blamed me for Mom being killed.

I was lying; I knew why he was mad today. I started the fight this time and would start the next one if I caught him snitching to Cory about Inez again. Cory could do no wrong in Naveen’s eyes. To Naveen, Cory was the fun guy while Javon was the one who got in our asses if we did something we knew wasn’t right.

I stood and grabbed my backpack. I looked inside and shook my head. Little pills the color of Skittles peeked out at me. Before Mom got killed, I’d been mixing and making these “Poppers” in my lab. It was a mixture of ecstasy and hashish. Since hashish was in the cannabis family, being that hashish was the THC-rich resinous material of the cannabis plant, it was easy to dry it then compress it into cookie-like sheets. Once compressed into that cookie-like sheet, I let it harden; then I turned it into powder. Took me a minute to get the chemical compounds in the ecstasy and the hashish to work together like I wanted it, but once I got it down, the shit started selling like hotcakes at school and around colleges. Rich white kids loved that shit.

I ran a hand down my face. Mom had no idea that, before she died, I was already what she didn’t want me to be before. I grabbed her picture from my nightstand then lay back on my full-sized bed.

“Sorry, Ma. I know you’re mad disappointed in me, especially since I know you know everything I been doing since you can see me from heaven now. I’m sorry, and I promise I’ma chill on what I’m doing. See, Ma, you didn’t tell us you

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