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And there’s Becky’s useless behind, standing around looking like a garden gnome.
They look at you and see a poodle. They look at me and all they see is a pit bull.”
“Everyone does,” she sobs.
“Wait, you’re at the shop?” Black says. “Why the hell’d you come down to Seventh? You shoulda gone home. Didn’t you see what was happening?”
omg, he told her to come there! he is just a loser!
“What’s goin’ on?” Black’s yelling into the phone. “We under attack out here!” “Tell me you safe, baby, tell me you okay.” “I’m not hurt, but I ain’t okay, Black!” “I can hear it, queen. It’s my turn to hold you down.”
This is super whack. I must remember that this is a young adult literature novel...so this may be intentionally whack...idk
“Just need you to get to me,” he says. Get to him? I sink. My hands bang against the wall. No more.
Even with the relief of the moment, I can’t help but notice these fools look kinda roughed up. Peanut is bleeding from a cut on his face. Big Baby eyes streaming and his T-shirt is ripped.
I’m loving this protective version of Black, but he might want to back down when Marcus is concerned. My cousin only went to jail because he got caught with a little weed in his car, but don’t think because you see him preaching around the neighborhood, he won’t whoop your ass, because he will.
Marcus isn’t so lucky. He pivots, trying to see what’s coming at him, but in that same moment, a rioter lunges into the street beside him, heaving a bent-up metal bike frame over Marcus’s head—right at the cops. They jump and scatter but one’s not quick enough. The bike smashes into his shins, felling him. Another goes after the rioter. The third cop comes at us. Marcus gets caught in melee. A baton crashes down on his shoulder, bringing him to his knees. Through the black-clad legs of the officers, I see his mouth open in a scream, his arms go up, swinging wildly. The baton comes down again.
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“This what you was up to when you disappeared on us before?” “I don’t owe no explanation to you or this bitch!”
When you push people to their breaking point, and they ain’t got no power, they’ll find a way to take it. What’s so wrong with that?”
