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Fall - 1998

"Got shot down again?" Avery asked unable to conceal his smirk

"Shut up… I wasn't serious 'bout her no way; I just wanted to see if I could hit it" Jayden griped as he made his way back to his lunch table in the cafeteria He carried his tray that had a cheeseburger, curly fries and a drink on it

"Man what's wrong with us… We've got the money, the brand name clothes and fresh sneakers…"

"Yea but we don't have the ride… These chicken-heads want dudes with cars" Jayden co down "Man that's so as he stuffed hisfries

"Itto their classmate Bryant Bryant could barely walk over to a table to sit down and eat his lunch for all of the girls waving and winking at hiirls…" Avery observed enviously "And why is that?"

"Red Pontiac 1995" Jayden answered thinking about Bryant's cool red Grand AM Pontiac car with the drop-top "Dude we need a car…" Jayden added taking another bite of his burger

"Yea but he's got that Wal-Mart job on lock" Avery said reiant super store

"Man we've got to get us some steady real jobs too…" Jayden noted

"Have you been applying?"

"Everywhere I can… Horeens, K-Mart, UPS… whatever…" He replied being annoyed a little about never hearing frouess this is what they mean when they say this econoetting downsized"

"Tell me about it… What does TLC say?" Avery asked as they watched Bryant getting all of the play fro a popular line fro's lyrics

"Hey what about that car your mom promised?" Avery asked hopefully

"Remember I have to come up with my half?" Jayden reminded him

"Oh yea… Damn…"

"Yea Howard… I knoas a business decision but still" Jacob sat behind his desk looking haggardly at the growing pile of bills It had taken soed to pay raduate tuition and loans off by borrowing against his 401k pension plan He felt good that they only owed 40,000 dollars towards it Now that Markus had been accepted to DePaul's School of Law and Dinah was Pre-Med at Loyola University this year he would have to be evena new source ofback his workload at the law firm