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Saturday night and Beckman Middle School was off the hook. The Spring Fling dance was in full effect. All the girls were looking pretty. Hairstyles were the latest designs and make-up was sharp. The fellows broke out dressed in two and three-piece suits. The festivities attracted students from other schools. Everyone was having fun up in the place.

Zoe, Twon and Kay were already at the dance. Their dates were stars. Ten minutes later, Don arrived with beautiful Vanessa. All eyes were on them as they headed to the dance floor and grooved to Let’s Chill by Guy. Don wore a smile, he knew once the dance was over and they saw what he had in the parking lot, the hollering and gawking would begin. Don was too busy daydreaming to realize that he and Vanessa were the only couple still dancing. Jon and Lynette entered the gymnasium and one by one everybody froze.

“They staring cause you’re the most beautiful girl at this dance.” Jon smiled.

“Oh, so it’s only at this dance,” Lynette said pinching his arm.

Jon led her to the dance floor. Don looked up to see what the distraction was about. At first he saw Jon walking in his direction. Then out of nowhere a gorgeous girl came into his view. Don did the double take when he recognized Lynette with Jon holding her hand. He thought she couldn’t stand them. Jon and Lynette walked over to Don and Vanessa. Don smiled, hugged his brother and whispered.

“You won.”

An hour had passed since Jon, Bay Bro, and Lynette had left. Tina heard her door bell ring. She was stretched out in her bed watching The Bodyguard. She hesitantly slid her feet into her slippers and made her way to the front door. Looking out the window on her front door, she was stunned to see Bay Bro standing on her porch. Tina opened the door.

“May I help you? You must be lost,” she greeted.

“I’m not lost and actually you can help me. May I come in?”

Tina let him in then closed the door.

“So, what can I do for you?” she asked waving him to sit.

“Your boys are gone and my little girl is gone. So I thought that you’d be lonely, because I am, and I’m also hungry. I stopped by to check on you and also to see if you want to grab a quick bite to eat.”

“No thank you. I already ate and I was trying to relax a little bit.”

Bay Bro’s smile vanished.

“I’ll tell you what I can do,” Tina said getting up from the couch. “I’ll warm you up some of what I had and we can talk.”

“Deal,” Bay Bro said admiring Tina as she walked away.

A couple minutes later she returned with a plate filled with roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans and corn bread.

“I forgot to tell you, I don’t eat pork,” Bay Bro said looking at the plate.

“Boy, you gone eat my cooking,” Tina said placing the plate in Bay Bro hands. “Besides, I don’t eat pork either. Now what would you like to drink?”

“Orange juice,” he said walking to the dining room.

“You know what, you just like Jon,” Tina said smiling. “All he drinks is orange juice.”

Moments later she sat in the chair next to Bay Bro. They talked, laughed and joked for three hours. Bay Bro left and they both promised to stay in touch.

At the dance, two girls wearing the same dress but different colors got into a fight over who looked better. The fight started and ended with them pulling at each other’s dress trying to rip it off of the other. A boy vomitted all over his date’s dress. Another was caught jacking off. A girl was letting several popular boys finger her. The crew enjoyed themselves throughout. It was an hour till the dance was over. Don started to push-up hard on Vanessa.

“It’ll stay between us,” Don begged as they slow-drag.

Vanessa liked Don and knew that if they were a couple she wouldn’t have to worry about money, since he was rolling in a tricked out 5.0.

“I don’t know Don. Can we wait for another day?”

The whole school knew that she wasn’t a virgin. Her ex-best friend had dished the dirt on the whole incident.

“I can wait. But that doesn’t mean that I’ll wait. Just let me know because I can easily find somebody else.”

“Tomorrow baby,” she whispered in his ear. Don’s smile widened.

All the boys were still virgins but tonight Kay was prepared and his date was willing. Twon wasn’t prepared but his date didn’t care. Zoe was prepared but his date was still playing hard to get. He wasn’t worried because he had all the confidence in the world that he could break her. Jon and Lynette had heard all the talk about people getting it on this night. Jon eased Lynette’s fear.

“The time’s not right,” he said kissing her on the cheek. The DJ announced last dance and the couples fled back to the floor.

“They should be coming out any minute. Get in position and don’t fuck this up!” Cash said.

Pee-Wee, Doug and Darnell got out of his Chevy Blazer. The four men ran to the positions and waited. The kids started to file out the school.

“This is it.”

The crew and their dates finally made it out of the school and into the parking lot, where they went straight to their cars and hit the alarms. They opened their doors and cranked their system drawing all attention to them. They then posted up by their own shit. After a minute had passed Don, Jon, Kay and Zoe turned their radios off and all of them went to Twon’s car. Thirty seconds later gunfire broke out. The students, teachers and parents hit the ground or ran for cover.

Kay saw gunfire coming from three different directions. “Man, we surrounded.” He said reaching for his 32 and a 9mm.

“We got to come up with something.”

Jon peeked up above the car. “Let’s get our shit and bust back. Don’t waste y’all shells. Cover us, Kay.”

Kay fired a couple times. The others made their way to get their burners.

Jon had Lynette by the arm making sure that she stayed safe. Kay couldn’t believe what Twon was doing.

“This nigga done bitched up,” Kay said watching Twon sitting on his knees praying. It appeared as if he was crying.

“Nigga snap out of it. If you don’t pull yourself together you gone die. Get you shit and get ready.” Twon got his gun out of the car and started inhaling and exhaling very quickly.

“I’m sorry I got you in this mess,” Jon said to Lynette as he pulled out two baby 9mms.

“Apologize after you get us out of here,” Lynette said calmly.

“Lay down in the back on the floor. I’ll be back.”

“You better,” Lynette said crawling in the backseat.

“I love you,” he said making his way back to Twon’s car.

Jon was the last one back. Kay had his 9mm and 32, Twon had his 32, Jon had two 9mm’s, Zoe had two 38’s and Don had a 45 Desert Eagle and a Tech 22 with extended clips. Cash, Darnell and Pee-Wee kept shooting in the area the boys were at as they slowly advanced. Doug was no where to be seen or heard from because he had the AK.

“What the fuck is they shooting?” Zoe wondered aloud.

“Man we got to get the fuck up out of here,” Twon said still sounding shook.

“We’ll never make it. Just let them get a little closer,” Don said.

Pee-Wee and Darnell kept shooting their carbines while every time one of the boys would stick their heads up, Cash would fire his twin Glock 45s.

“We got to spread out. We like sitting ducks,” Jon said.

They split into two groups and made their way.

“I got one coming into my view,” Zoe said ready to bust his gun.

“Let ‘em get a little bit closer and when I give the signal we’ll shoot,” Kay said.

“Ready,” Don said.

“Let ‘em get a little closer,” Jon said.

Pee-Wee and Darnell kept letting off shots as they approached.

“Now!” Kay said letting loose his 9mm.

“Fuck it!” Twon screamed letting off his two .38’s.

Don and Jon heard the shots they looked at each other and jumped up letting their guns go. Darnell caught five from the Tec 22. Bullets ripped his chest open. The twins heard shots and started seeing leaves and branches fall around them.

Don turned in the direction of the shots and emptied the rest of his clip.

“I’m out!” He shouted to Jon who started letting his baby 9’s go until Don put in his other clip.

Pee-Wee ran out of bullets and was busy changing the magazine to his carbine when Kay, Zoe and Twon popped out from behind the car and busted off in his direction. He was stunned and ended up dropping the magazine. On his knees, he was feeling for it. A bullet ripped through his right shoulder before he could reload.

“Ah-h shit!” He cried in pain.

Another bullet hit him in the left shoulder and he dropped the carbine and clumsily tried to put the magazine into the gun. He finally gave up and pulled out the Glock 9 that he had in his back. He looked up and saw three figures running at him. He slowly raised his gun and just as he was about to shoot, a bullet caught him straight in the middle of his head, killing him instantly.

Meanwhile, the boys had made their way to Darnell and was now standing over him kicking Darnell as he lay unconscious.

“What the fuck…?”Darnell said as he opened his eyes. “Please don’t kill me.” He pleaded looking up at the barrels of the guns in the hands of the twins.

“Who the fuck are you?” Don asked.

“Where the fuck you from?” Jon asked.

“I’m from Delany,” Darnell answered his hands covering his face. “They call me Dee. Cash told me he only wanted to scare y’all. We wasn’t gone kill y’all. I’ll swear.”

Don looked at his brother and pulled out his Desert Eagle.

“That’s too bad,” He said pulling the trigger and emptying the gun. The bulletproof vest that Darnell was wearing couldn’t save him from the onslaught that came down on his head.

“Now we know,” Don said to his brother as he turned to leave.

On the way back to Twon’s car, Jon stopped at his car and opened the door to see if Lynette was alright.

“What the hell took you so long?” She smiled. Jon helped her out of the car and they made it to where the rest of the crew were standing. All their dates were shaking and crying.

“I’m telling y’all that was the dude from the gym.” Don said as Jon and Lynette joined the rest.

“We got to get out of here. Everybody meet in front of the Dungeon in an hour.” Jon said looking around.

The boys and their dates hurried to the cars.

“What the fuck! Look at my shit.” Twon shouted. The driver’s side was riddled with bullets. Both Don’s and Kay’s Mustangs had bullet holes in them. Jon’s was untouched.

“Don’t worry about that right now. Let’s get the fuck out of here,” Jon said.

“That’s easy for his ass to say.” Twon mumbled under his breath. The boys got into their cars and left in different directions to drop their dates off.

“I don’t think that you should tell my daddy,” Lynette said turning down Shai on the CD player.

“It’ll be alright Boo. We together now and I’m going to always keep you safe.” Jon said smiling at her while they waited for the red light at Van Buren Street.

Cash had seen it with his own eyes but still couldn’t believe it. The boys that he thought would be easy to eliminate ended up smashing his men and the plan. The whole scene replayed in his head like a comedy of errors. Cash struggled to the kitchen table. He sat recalling how Pee-Wee stupidly fumbled with the magazine to the carbine instead of reaching for this Glock. He tried to justify his own cowardice by telling himself he did shoot at the twins. Doug abandoned them without even firing one shot.

“If I ever see Doug again, I’ll kill him.” He swore as the ringing phone brought him away from his thoughts. “Hello,” he said.

“I know it was you.” The voice on the other end said. Then the phone went dead.

Cash hung the phone up and wondered who it could have been.

“Gots to be Bay Bro,” he said running to his bedroom.

In the bedroom Cash packed one gym bag full of clothes and grabbed all of the money that he had stashed. He ran out of his house and jumped in his truck heading to the highway.

On the expressway, Cash headed straight to Chicago. He didn’t want to go far away from Gary. Cash had several four corner hustlers he could have stayed with but chose Erica. She was average looking and wore long extensions. Most importantly, Erica stayed out of his business and didn’t sweat him. Now lying in her bed, he watched the news. Cash’s pride had him on the run.