To Live & To Love - Danielle Jones (inspiring books for teens txt) 📗

little girl I felt responsible for taking care of her because it was my fault her mother was murdered in the first place. While I was in the room the doctor asked me if I was going to name the baby and if I could write it down. I wrote down the name Amaya Ann Johnson, I figured my sisters name should live on with her daughter. The cops said that they had a guy in custody that told them that David the leader of the 57th Crips had a hit out for me and Darrell and when they saw me in the park he called some of his gang members up there and started shooting at us, the cop also said the only reason why he told them what was going on was because he was soo young and was really scared. He told me that since he was in a gang and all that they had to place him in protective care after he finishes his jail time. A total of 4 people ended up getting shot 2 of them survived but r in critical condition. I was just so overwhelmed by everything that happened I didn’t know what to do or how to tell my family and Tyrek. I went outside to tell Darrell about what the cop had told me in the hospital because he wouldn’t come in due to warrants he has. He said “ok here’s the deal when your niece gets out of the hospital I’m going to take you up to Centralia since all of our stuff is pretty much out there and then I’m going to come back and take care of this once and for all” “baby please just let it go its caused my sister to die and who knows what else it’ll cause just come up there with me and put this behind us please baby” I said numb to the whole situation “I wish I could but he killed my family and raped my girl there’s no way in hell ima let him slide this time mark my words that nigga is a dead man walking.” “I don’t wanna lose you too baby your all I have I just can’t lose you” “I know but I’m a big boy I can handle my own” he kissed me on the forehead said I love you and walked back to his car. I regrouped and prepared myself for the phone calls that I had to make. I called Tyrek first and told him what happened and that his daughter was still alive. He was distraught I never heard a man cry like that but of course I haven’t told dad yet. Once I got back in the hospital I finally called my parents. That was the worst phone call I ever made and I hoped I never have to do it again. They were so hurt and so sad they just cried and cried all they could ask was “why, why did someone have to murder her she never did anything to anyone.” As I was in the waiting room Tyrek showed up and then 45mins later my parents came I felt so horrible and like everything was my fault I really just wanted to curl up and kill myself but I knew I had to take care of Lil Amaya.
After Lil Amaya was released from the hospital we all headed up to Centralia except for Darrell my dad already knew why he wasn’t coming today and was actually ok with it when he was outside the hospital smoking he seen Darrell and told him “Listen I know why you aren’t stayin and why your not coming back with us I want you to know I really appreciate you sticking up for my family and making sure whoever did this gets what they have coming to em I want you to be safe though because I don’t know what my daughter would do if she lost you too so please be careful and take out that son of a bitch, I know we’ve had our problems but please, please, get revenge for my daughters sake I would go out and help you but I have to take care of my wife and daughter cause they are taking this really hard please just do that for me.” “You got it them niggas is goin down I’ll be in Centralia hopefully in two days if not sooner.” Darrell replied

***Darrel’s POV***
As I pulled up to the park I seen cop cars everywhere and an ambulance then I saw the Crime scene tape at that point I realized this wasn’t good and my heart stopped. As I approached I seen Aaliyah laid across a body, when the EMT pulled her away I could tell it was Amaya because of the big bump on her belly from being pregnant I was stunned why did such an innocent person like her have to get shot why I thought to myself. After comforting Aaliyah i followed the ambulance to the hospital and waited outside for Aaliyah to give me the update on what was going on. When she walked outside I could see some relief in her eyes she told me about how Lil Amaya would be ok and could go home in a couple of days and then explained to me what the cop said the person in custody told him as soon as she told me and walked back inside I started making phone calls to my homies getting everything set up for what was gonna happen the next night since it was already pretty late. I went home for quick second to get some things for Aaliyah because she was going to stay in the hospital until her parents got there. When I got back I saw her parents where already there her dad was outside pacing back and forth smoking a cigarette, which he never smoked before so you could tell how this was getting to him. I walked up to him and asked if he could take the bag up to Aaliyah because I couldn’t stay “Listen I know why you aren’t stayin and why your not coming back with us I want you to know I really appreciate sticking up for my family and making sure whoever did this gets what they have coming I want you to be safe because I don’t know what my daughter would do if she lost you so please be careful and take out that son of a bitch” he then walked back into the hospital as I walked back to the car. I went and stayed with Derrick that night since all of our stuff was already in Centralia.
After preparing all day long we went out that night in search for that nigga after about 4 hours of looking we finally saw his blue old school Chevy parked outside a house so we sat in our car waiting for him to come out. When we saw the front door of the house open we stepped out of the car and started shooting and he shot back. Bullets were flying in both directions of the street there were at least 20+ shots fired that night. He had 8 people with him and I had 4 with me. “Oh shit nigga I think I got hit” Derrick screamed at me “get in the car” I yelled back Derrick only got hit in the leg it scrapped him it didn’t go all the way through so he ended up being ok but after the gun battle ended you could see 5 bodies lying in front of the house including the gang leader David. “now who fucked wit the wrong set motha fucka you don’t fuck wit my fam blood” I said as I got into the car I looked back to check on Derrick to make sure he was ok and didn’t need to go to the hospital but he was straight, Derrick was defiantly a strong dude and was loyal as hell. After all that time we finally got him we were excited so we went back to Derrick’s house where we smoked and drank till we passed out. The next day I was on my way to Centralia to be with my girl and my new family.

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Text: Danielle Jones
Publication Date: 05-20-2012

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