Promise Boys

by Nick Brooks

All these boys talk tough. Give them a little love and watch them melt. They’re children. Everyone seems to always forget that. No matter their size. No matter their skin color. No matter their attitude.

Cops jump out of all the cars; some of them even have guns. I don’t think people know how terrifying it is to have a gun pointed at you. It’s even worse when it’s a cop because unlike a robbery or something, you know that the person in the uniform can do whatever they want and nobody will say anything. When that gun is pointed at you, it’s scarier because that gun isn’t bound by the same rules.

I know a bunch of girls who have brothers, boyfriends, and cousins at Promise. And girls are the ones who know everything. People act like it’s just because of gossip, which is bullshit. Everybody knows dudes are the biggest gossipers in the world