UnExPeCtEd--Curtis

It was a dark cold Michigan summer afternoon, there were three best friends who had grown up with each other. Their bond was unbreakable, they went to school, church, and played little league sports together. The oldest boy was Xavier, he was who the other two boys; Rodney and Jacob looked up to. However, Xavier was not the kid that your mom or dad liked you hanging around because he was always getting into some type of trouble. Rodney and Jacob were around the same age of 14, while Xavier was turning 16 later that summer. All three of the boys had just returned from football practice and had planned to all go straight home and ask their moms if it was okay for them to spend the night at Xavier’s house. Rodney’s mom had no problem with him staying the night at Xavier’s house. It was Jacob’s mom who was skeptical about letting him spend the night. Her words were “Jacob, you already know how I feel about that boy...But I’m going to let you go anyways, YOU BETTER BE ON YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR! You know right from wrong!” Jacob wasn’t really paying attention to what his mom had to say, he was just ecstatic that he was able to spend the night at Xavier’s house with Rodney. Once the boys got the okay from their mothers, Rodney’s mom went to go pick up Jacob to head over to Xavier’s house. Then, the boys were all together it was about 7:00 pm and the boys were starting to get hungry but Xavier’s mom had went to go run errands. Xavier had an older brother that was 18 with a full grown beard and shoulders that looked as if he had football shoulder pads on. The boys told Xavier to go ask his brother if he could take them to go get some food. Xavier’s brother didn’t really want to take the boys to go get food because he had something to do himself but he was heading out anyways to go take care of some “business”. The boys really didn’t know what that meant but they were just glad that they would be getting some food. They ended up having to wait an additional 15 minutes just for Xavier’s brother to get ready to go. Once the boys made it to the car, Jacob leaned forward and asked Xavier’s brother, “Why are you bringing gloves, it is not that cold out?” Xavier’s brother responded “Don’t worry about it youngin, sit back jack.” Rodney had told Jacob before that Xavier’s brother was in a gang, but Jacob did not believe him until now. Xavier’s brother tells the boys that “I gotta go pick up William before I get yall some food.” All three of the boys are sitting in the backseat together, while Xavier’s brother is going pick up William so they could go take care of their “business”. William gets in the front seat, he is very tall and Jacob noticed that he had also brought gloves with him but that wasn’t the only thing William brought. Jacob was able to tell that William had 2 pistols in his pants. Jacob tried to tell Rodney what he had saw but he was so nervous, his heart skipped a beat and he became paranoid but didn’t want to make it seem like he was scared. William made a phone call to some other guys named CJ and David who supposedly were going to be meeting them at “the spot”. The boys are still hungry and just wanted some food and to go back home to play some video games, instead they are stuck with Xavier’s brother and William. When they arrived to

“the spot”, CJ and David were already there parked across the street from this mansion. The boys did not know what was going on or what was about to happen, all they knew was that Xavier’s brother told them “Stay put, we won’t be long... keep the car running.” while he was putting on his gloves. In the meantime, which felt like forever since the boys were hungry, they were just sitting in the back of the car playing rock, paper, scissors trying to wait for Xavier’s brother and William to get back. When all of a sudden a loud BANG went off 2 times and the boys panicked and were frozen. William, CJ, and David came running out of the mansion but Xavier’s brother was nowhere to be found. William got in the driver seat and sped off, Xavier is screaming at William asking him “WHERE IS MY BROTHER? WHERE IS MY BROTHER?...WHAT HAPPENED?” Rodney and Jacob are just sitting there confused and terrified about what had just happened. As William is driving away from the mansion, sirens and flashing lights are flying by going towards the mansion. Xavier is still desperately crying out for answers while Rodney and Jacob remain shook.