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“All right mom,” Jon said grabbing Lynette’s hand and leading her towards the door. Tina hugged Jon and Lynette.
“Have a great time,” she said.
They got into the van and Bay Bro went directly to Jon’s car and stopped.
“What are you doing daddy?” Lynette asked confused.
“I’ll be driving us to the dance,” Jon said as he slid out the door and hit the remote to his car.
“What the…”
Lynette stared in surprise at the Mustang, her mouth wide open.
“Have fun,” Bay Bro said as Jon helped Lynette out of the van and then opened the passenger door to his car for her.
“We will,” Jon said smiling at Bay Bro.
4
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