Life As an Afterschool Special

I had the craziest “boys from the hood” experience this weekend.

My sister and I were supposed to go to the movies with some guys we know from the neighborhood.

Erica and I show up at their house to see the guys and they are fuming mad. Apparently someone stole their “rims” and they thought they knew who did. They drove to the house where the men they think stole their rims live, and sure enough, there they were with the stolen rims.

Chris gets mad and punches the guy who stole his rims in the face. Then all these guys come running out of the house and jump on chris and lil bill gets out and goes after the guys. One of the guys who stole the rims picks up a brick and throws it through chris’s van window.

the boys jump in the van and take off towards lil bills house. and that was just the beginning. because they are followed by the boys who stole the rims.

from this moment on I will refer to them as the bad men.

so the bad men get to lil bills house and start yelling at lil bill and Chris from their truck . They put their car in reverse and smash into lil Bills Caddy, and then they drive through the grass and try to run Chris over.

Screaming that they are going to kill Chris and Lil Bill. by that time the neighbors have called the police, so the police come and the bad men take off. the police take a report and try to go find the bad men but the drama still isnt over.

Erica and I just want to go to the movies but Lil Bill gets on the phone with Anthony and tells him what happened. So Anthony shows up at the house with a freaking 22, and then chris and Lil Bill get their guns too.

are you freaking kidding me.

We are sitting in the house and these cars keep circling the block and all of a sudden lil bill hits the lights and yells get down.

So my sister and I run to the hallway and duck while the boys go outside with their guns. We are crouched in the dark they come back inside and Erica and I decide its time to get the hell out of Dodge.

and I am so thinking that I am going to get shot on the way to the car.

Erica and I leave and get gas and talk about what to do and decide we are going to the movies and the boys are gonna with us.

Because this is just stupid. why wait at the house to get shot.

so we drive back to the boys and pull up as Terry pulls up. Its Terrys house and everyone just stays there. He is like a Kingpin. I mean what he says goes.

He is big guy and walks in wearing a fubu jump suit and carrying a 25.

The gun was actually really cute (if you can describe a gun as cute) and silver plated, and if I ever have a gun I want it to be like terrys.

But I digress So terry sits in this big recliner and says “tell me what happened.”

I say “Terry you need to end all this. Its just stupid” and he says “I need to protect whats mine”

It was like a scene out of the God father. I am so not kidding.

Lil Bill and Chris and Anthony start telling him what happened. Lil Bill says “And they hit my f*ing car” Terry looks at him and says “you’ll have that” Then they try to tell Terry something else that he doesn’t need to hear and he just waves his hand to quiet them.

They start talking about who these guys are and what kind of weapons they have and I am on the verge of tears. Mainly because I am frustrated.

My sister is trying to explain why everyone should just leave the house and I get mad and I tell Terry that he is stupid if he sits in his house and waits to have a shootout and that hes better than this. And this is just stupid and he should come with my sister and I because we are freaking going to the movies and if he had any sense in his head he would leave too.

And he actually listened. And agreed. And even though Lil bill was yelling about about it terry said everyone had to leave the house and go to the movies. We saw cookout which is the dumbest movie ever.

and that my friends, is yet another day in my life as an afterschool special