The Boys

We moved not long after that but Christian was at my house so much that he may as well have been living there. We were now living in the deep dirty south of St. Louis Missouri. Mama was keeping her word and I had lots more freedom. Sometimes Christian stayed the night but he had to sleep on the couch or in my brothers room. But that didn't stop him from coming in my room when everyone was sleep.

We were official now, we were a couple and even in a new hood, everybody knew it. I kept waiting for the time when somebody over here would try me. It was only right, me being new and all but anybody would have been stupid to come tripping at our house. It was pretty much the spot.

At any given time there would be at least seven guys there, strapped up, braided up, du rags out. So even though I craved to take over this hood I didn't really need to, My goons did it for me. For whatever reason my brother Charlie and Christian cant seem to get along, They are driving me nuts, it's so hard because I love my brother and if it truly came down to it Christian would be history, but it was my bad ass little brother who was always starting shit with him.

I knew what it was though, Charlie didn't think he was good enough for me.

It was summer time again, we had moved right after my eight grade year so this would be my year as a freshman. I was excited even though it would take a while to get here.

At the moment we were all sitting in the living room. Goon squad tight. We were watching a movie but I was busy throwing popcorn at my boys.

"Anna, on my mama if you don't stop throwing that popcorn it's gone be me and you, cuzz." My home boy joey said.

I just smiled and threw another one. When he made a move to come towards me I laughed and snuggled deeper into Christian who had his arms wrapped around me.

I knew Joey wouldn't hurt me. It always amazed my how my boys all turned cookie when it came to me, I got away with murder with them.

Let me introduce my boys...

There is Joey, by far my fav and closest friend.... He was tall, maybe 6'4, tan white skin, nice brown hair that he kept braided to the back, and sweet baby green eyes... yeah I said baby green. He was cocky, thick shoulders, big hands. And as nice as he was to me and respectful to mama. I had seen those hands in work and when he was mad, he was a beast.

Then there was Dale, he was shorter, heavier, darker, and had soft green eyes. He liked to Rap and him and my brother could go for hours just freestyling, They were awesome. He was the right hand guy aka get er done man bka problem solver. But he was melted chocolate to me.

Then there was Reese, two words... HOT BOY. He was tall like Joey, light skinned cocky. He was fine and between you and me he had been trying to get with me since we had met over a year ago. He hated Christian but didn't say so, but knew that now that he knew I was dating he seemed to be waiting for Christian to trip, so that he could move in. Oh well, he was gonna be waiting cause me and my babies were tight, like links in a chain. But he was fine, with them sexy ass eyes. My bad off topic.

Anyways, then there was Todo, not his real name but that's what I called him. He kind of looked like shaggy from Scooby Doo but that dude was a gun toting monster and he was the strong silent type. He could totally pull off the hit man thing if he wasn't so lanky and skinny.

Next was Montel, He was chocolate skin tones, brown eyes and he had dreads down his back. He was crazy as hell but he was also the lets save the world type. He knew about every conspiracy theory out there as a matter of fact the movie nobody was really watching was his. It was about the illuminati. He was also Hella smart and into philosophy and art. But he would kick your ass quoting Shakespeare.

Montel's little brother was also with us. HIs name was Little, just Little, and he was the survivor type. He had been shot more times than I had toes and he was still kicking. As a result he was absolutely crazy.

This was my circle and there were more of us but they were the goons and I, well I was the goonette. Every body knew them as my brothers, and even though some of us were black, some white, and Reese was Latino we dared anybody to question it.

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