Chapter 2: Cori

[Him] Damn. It's raining. When I finally made it to my cousin Nicos' crib, I wasn't surprised to see him posted on his porch with a couple of bad ones. I went to a continuation school, so most of the chicks there weren't the type I'd get at; they all were either really stupid or had kids. The only reason I was there was because a year ago, my older brother got murdered and it set me back a bit.

Next to Nico, my older brother John was like my best friend. Now that he was gone, I needed to hold things down at home with moms. My father was out of the picture. He got murdered when I was four, right after moms gave birth to my younger sister Tavi. We were young at the time so I don’t remember much about him, but all moms would ever say was that he was a victim to the streets.

My mom is what some would call a "Jodie's Momma." She got pregnant with John at the young age of fifteen messin' around with my father, and then pregnant with me at eighteen. The good thing was she was part of a nursing program during high school so after she graduated, she got straight to work as an RN.

My parents got married after moms found out she was pregnant with Tavi, but about a month or so after she was born, my father got murdered. My moms' older sister Pam was nice enough to take us all in after he died so that my mom could continue working.

After staying on the eastside at my aunt Pam's house for about a year, moms finally got her own place on the northside of Long Beach in the Carmelitos.

" Wassup Cori? Bout' time you got here nigga."

"My bad man, the ride down here took forever." My eyes ran all over these two little lightskinned chicks sitting there on the porch of my cousins house. I looked over and saw Nico smirk and nod over them.

"It's all good cuh. Aye this my girl Brittney and her friend Kyra.”

Cori told me he had a new chick that went to Jordan. He was taking his girl to the prom and said that her home girl needed a date. I promised I would only take her if she was bad. Looked to me like I needed to get a tux.

"Nice to finally meet you Cori." "Nico, can we go inside? The rain is starting to come down really hard and I ain't tryin' to mess up my hair." When Kyra stood up I swear, it was like you could see her booty from the front. She had slanted hazel eyes, cute little pink lips and long curly hair; but for some reason, my mind flashed back to that girl I saw on the bus earlier that day. Quickly, I shook the thought of the mystery girl and followed Kyra inside the house.

Later that night, Kyra and I had sex in my cousin Nico's room for hours. For some reason after that, I was no longer interested. The sex was alright, but in the back of my mind I kept thinking 'is this all she's got?' We only had maybe a good twenty minutes of conversation while passing a blunt and sippin' some drink and yet I still knew nothing about the girl. She was easy as hell and to be honest, that ain’t the type of chick I’m trying to sport around. The Jordan prom was in two days, so my plan was to keep my word on taking her to prom, and then get ghost.