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I’ll never forget how excited ere the first tirinning from ear to ear as the train screeched to a halt at the Tre “Yeah Boy!” and dancing the wop because we had ed to sneak off undetected by any of our mother’s friends ere sure would just happen to be riding the train that night But neither of us wanted to adround overcroith hoodlu on the other side They were so boys I had ever seen and Saundra didn’t help quellcolors owned by the notorious Decepticons street gang I prayed their rival gang, the Autobots, wouldn’t spray the block while ere there After , Saundra and I followed a herd of equally well-dressed teens up to the fifth floor

The living roo Daddy Kane’s “Ain’t No Half-Steppin” that was blasting fro overly conscious of my hair after only two etup before Dante got a chance to appreciate it

I kneould be burning up the dance floor and that’s just where he was It was in style at the tiuys to battle in a circle and impress everybody with really cos with his body that always got the crowd going “ooh” and “aah” I was all gassed up because I had the best-looking dancer there

It wasn’t long before Dante talkedserious ga me on my hair, my clothes and my face, I felt like the Queen of Sheba

We had sex on top of T-Rock’s oing at it, another couple wandered in with the same idea in ht, I overheard Dante tel

ling his boys that it was time to quit me now that he’d hit it

Ah the stubborn crowd The strobe light st the old teeth reflecting like old chains—but it was time to leave Now

Saundra was having a ball; only fourteen years old and high as a kite off St Ides Malt liquor and doing a da a twenty-inch high-top fade and leather boedto cut in The guy pointed behind Saundra to let her knoas there She turned around and saith a face full of black tears and bloodshot eyes She excused herself and ent ho Uptown

A ular period failed to coht that I felt my body had become dehydrated

Mama always tried to be supportive but I knew she would definitely be disappointed in ry face than her I-wanted-more-for-you look

Before I told her, I had to call Dante

His sister Keisha answered the phone and yelled for him to pick up the extension