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I couldn’t see his face clearly, but the h He was pissed “His car is parked out front and his garbage bin was taken out so, like all the other bins on the street Man, why does Boss regard you so highly? You’re a useless tit”

I opened my mouth to answer, but my brain went blank I had no idea why Boss tookI’d seen firsthand all the other ood side the way I was He’d never given anyone the mercy that he showedto Allie’s beat up father Boss was a et to the bottom of this one

“So how are we going to do this?” I asked in an attempt to move on from my apparent uselessness

Ricardo swept his dreadlocks froot soo round back and I’ll have at it You knoork them?” When I shook my head, he rolled his dark eyes “’Course you don’t Don’t know nothin’ Come on and follow me, princess”

I rubbed rass was overgrown and ht for sure whoever was inside could hear the slushy sounds of our footsteps right outside their , andfor soun in hand I’d seen some crazy shit recently, so I wasn’t entirely to blame for this paranoia

Ricardo went straight for the door and withdrew his lock picks fro a careful look out I gripped the gun tighter as houtto my death No one would care Just another stupid kid dead in the projects Not even a passing thought for the people sitting around their table early in thebut a detached curiosity for the happenings in Hedley

“What the fuck?” hissed Ricardo in a hushed tone

I jerked my head back at him “What is it?”

He took a step back and jiggled the knob of the backdoor “The door’s already unlocked”

“Is that bad?”

He didn’t answer I tre in ht If he felt it too, he had bigger balls than me because he didn’t care He turned the knob and pushed the door open It creaked as it swayed away froun up and crept inside, pausing once to motion me to follow him I shoved away my unease and went after him

Nothing but darkness greeted us The house ree frozen in time, or some stupid shit like that Ricardo may have said someone had been here hours prior, I certainly didn’t feel like there was anyone here now As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I could see piles of rubbish and junk strewn about But what I smelled… it orse than any off food I’d ever encountered It was a rotten, gassy kind of smell, and the air thickened with it the more steps I took down the short hallway Even Ricardo was covering his nose and stifling down his cough He cursed under his breath and suddenly walked faster, like he knew exactly as going on I tailed him closely behind as he walked into the only bedrooht switch

“Fuckin’ knew it,” hethe doorith his frame

“What?” I had to look over his shoulder to see what he was looking at The bedrooies Bare draere thrown haphazardly all over the stained carpeted floor, and clothes were scattered everywhere It looked like so

My eyes scanned the ground for not even a second before it connected with the bed, and it was then I felt s weaken Ricardo sloalked into the roorab hold of the doorfra Christ, there were dead bodies, sprawled face first on thearound their heads I shut h my mouth