Gangsta's Paradise Part 2

[A Few Years Prior]

"Robert! Robert! Show me it again. I want to see it again. Your ghost thingy," a young Jon says.

Robert laughs, "It's called a stand and every one of them has a name."

"What's your stand name?"

"Gangsta's Paradise."

[Present Day]

"Yo Jon, want to go down to old man Javier's place," Terrell says with money in his eyes.

"No way, didn't we get caught last time," Darnell says.

"Shut up Darnell," Terrell yells punching Darnell in his arm, "If you weren't so damn loud we could have escaped easy. But nah, we had to leave all our shit behind. Our master thief should be able to get the goods this time."

"Come on Jon, do you really need the money we could just get a summer job," Nathan says. "Besides, aren't you just using him Terrell?"

"Now why would I ever do that to my best friend? Come on Jon we could just go the two of us, forget these pussies."

Darnell sat there quiet tearing up from his older brother's punch. "I'm going home," he says finally after the whole group was silent for a moment. Darnell gets up, walking toward his house right across the street from the driveway. Nathan follows, "I don't want any life in crime, thank you very much." Nathan walks inside his house, the driveway being his.

"Whatever, come on JoJo!"

Jon squints his eyes at Terrell, "My mom needs me to buy some milk anyway. Buy me the milk and I'll grab some food for you."

Jon and Terrell stand up, walking toward Javier's, while Nathan watched from his window shaking his head.

A few moments after walking Jon looked back at Terrell who had a smile on his face. "Don't call me JoJo Terrell. I don't respect you enough for you to call me that."

"Whatever negro," replied Terrell.

Once at the store, Jon checks his android smartphone, 7:09 PM, he has to be home by 8 PM. Jon then looks for the camera at the front of the store, then walks back across the street where Terrell watched with anticipation.

"You know what you have to do right? Open the door for me."

"Yeah, yeah."

Terrell walks over to the front of the store. He looks back at Jon who has mysteriously disappeared. Terrell feels a slight chill down his back, the usual signal from Jon to open the door. Terrell opened the door and took out his wallet, pretending to be checking it as Jon slipped through the door. After the chill was gone, Terrell walked in going up and down every aisle of the mini store.

From Javier, the store cashier perspective, Terrell was the only one who walked in. The cameras, and any other recording device would have known the single truth, Terrell walked into Javier's store at 7:13 PM.

HOWEVER

The real truth is that Jon and Terrell entered at roughly the same time. How you may ask, it is simple. It is due to Jon's stand.

"This is my stand, Gangsta's Paradise," Jon thinks as he walks up and down the aisles thinking about what he is going to steal.

"I've always had this stand since I was a little kid. Back then it was named Shadow Boy, since I wasn't very creative. After my brother died though, I renamed it to his stand's name. Gangsta's Paradise. I don't know much about how his stand worked, but I know that mine works differently."

Jon finally sets his sights on a liter soda bottle. He raises his right hand and swipes at it opening a hole as wide as the liter bottle. He reaches into the hole and grabs the bottle. Around this time, Terrell is walking down the same aisle and sees the whole action happen. He could only see Jon's hand reach for the bottle. Only his hand, nothing else, he then saw the bottle and his hand go backwards, disappearing from the world.

Terrell shivers, "Every time I see it, I get freaked out. Where the hell does he even go?"

The answer to that question is simple. Jon's stand, Gangsta's Paradise, allows him to bring objects and people into a world that sits on top of reality. A shadow realm, where he and his stand rule with little to no restrictions. A place that he calls a true Gangster's Paradise. In this world, nothing can be seen from the outside world, hence the disappearing of the liter soda bottle and Jon himself. Jon on the other hand can see everything that goes on the outside world, but he himself cannot interact with anything.

"This stand power would have been great, but...."

^Hey Jon! You're finally back in here. It's been a while. Over a month maybe?

"Shut up Gangsta! Jesus why does my stand have to be the one that can talk."

^Because together we are extraordinary!

"You're just some super power. I don't want you speaking around me."

^I hate it when you say that. I am you. We are one in the same!

"Shut up, just sit back and watch."

Jon continued to grab more items bringing them into his shadow realm. Bread, cheese, ham, some snacks, frozen foods, and a gallon of milk. "This should be enough for both of our families. I might as well leave some money at the counter for Javier. I do feel kind of bad for him."

Jon walked up to Terrell, touching his back in the shadow realm, Terrell in the real world got chills sent down his spine. He knew what it meant immediately and grabbed a gallon of milk and stood in line for the cashier.

After a few ladies in front of him paid for their groceries and left, Terrell and Jon were the only ones in the store beside Javier himself. Terrell was in the middle of paying for Jon's milk, when the door suddenly busted open. A man with a dark hoodie on walked in and rushed toward the cashier. He pushed Terrell out of the way.

"Who the hell do you think you pushing."

Caught in the corner of his eye, Jon could see a gleaming silver light, in the darkness that was his view in the shadow realm. The hooded man quickly took out a pistol, aimed it at Terrell. "Step back, or I'll send your black ass straight home to your mamma. In a body bag homie."