126: Old Time Friend

L O R E N Z O

I joined at bad gang at sixteen.

I could vividly remember it like it was yesterday. It was the saddest day for me. It was the day I found out that my parents marriage wasn't the fairytale love story I always thought it was.

It was the day my mom brought in a man who she claimed was her long distance cousin, the day I walked into her bedroom not expecting to her her butt naked with her so called cousin, having sex. On my father's bed.

From that moment onwards, my life changed for the worse. The sweet little boy I had once been , was now no longer.

I watched as my father and mother divorced.

I watched as my mother tried to win my affections by buying me expensive things.

I remember wanting it to be a nightmare, I didn't want to believe it. I had ran and ran that night, hoping I would snap back into reality and find out that it was all in my head.

But, in the end I got exhausted. I sat down on a hill, crying out my eyes.

And it was then I met him. He was eighteen as at then