It's night and the hood is quiet for once. Maybe a bit too quiet. I need to get my ass home quick. I'm mad tired from working a double shift at the nursing home. I really don't like walking around Roxbury at night. It's scary out here, people. Lots of psychos and gangsters walking around and all kinds of crazy shit is going on.
In case you're wondering who the heck this is, it's me, Malika. I'm a chick from the hood. I'm around five-foot-nine, chunky but funky Sistah, with a lot of everything that's good. I've got a fat ass and I'm proud of it. Yeah, big girls can be hot too, judging by how many cab drivers honk when they see me. I do love them bad boys. I work at a small nursing home in Milton. Not exactly the kind of job I love doing but it pays the bills.
It was around ten when I got to the park near my neighborhood. I was walking home when I saw two dudes walking around. Both of them looked like hoodlums. Tall, dark-skinned, with durags on and dark, urban-style Hip Hop clothing. I can't tell from a distance but I'm guessing Sean John's or Phat Pharm. Fortunately, they hadn't seen me.
Hell, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have noticed an elephant walking once I saw what they were doing. The two dudes were in a dark alley, but instead of dealing drugs like regular gangsters, they were kissing. Yeah, two black dudes kissing. I couldn't believe it. They didn't look like fags. But here they were, kissing and touching each other like there was no tomorrow.
I did something very stupid. I should have kept on walking with my head down until I got home and locked myself in. that's the basic survival code in the hood. But nope, I had to do the stupid thing. I stopped to watch them. I was watching those two black dudes kissing and for some reason, I couldn't take my eyes off them.
I leaned against a wall and watched them. Since it the moon was out that night, I could almost see their faces. I was watching them and feeling more than a bit turned on when something happened. I bumped into something in the dark. The noise alerted the two thugs.
They turned around and saw me. One of them whipped out his gun. I stood there, frozen. The dude approached me. He was tall and good-looking, with a goatee. His skin was dark brown. A fine-looking Brotha.
I recognized this dude. His name was Antoine. He was the leader of the Red Blades, one of the meanest gangs in the hood. The kind of dude who can make anyone, male or female, piss their pants. His lover came, and I recognized him too.
A tall, lean guy with light brown skin and curly hair. He wasn't completely Black. My guess is he was half Hispanic or something. His name was Jose, Antoine's second-in-command. Those dudes ruled the drug trade from Dorchester to Roxbury and all over Boston. It was rare to see them in the streets since they had so many dudes working for them. All the pimps and all the hoes in the hood paid them money. You don't pay tribute to those two, your business gets shot down. That means you disappear.