The “midnight lights”4 years ago this little boy named Jay was a very young boy but he was used to the neighborhood he stayed in. The place he stayed was always violent. It was a place where no outsiders were allowed. Jay was the son of a big time drug dealer. He had always been around these drugs. He always saw things a 13 year old should never see. His dad was never really home and his mom was always working; and his big sister and brother were always leaving him. This young boy was forced to hang at the neighborhood store called “Ross” a place no outsider would ever stop, not they that should be in this place any way. This store was where all the thugs hung; the drug dealers and gang members and crack heads. Jay was always with his big cousin they called him “Block Boy Criss”. Every day after school he would go

to the hang out with Criss. He had no friends , and he never liked being home alone. Jay was always the kid with the temper and the kid every body thought would never be any thing .

Jay was on the corner with his cousin Criss one day and the day was going good, it was a sunny day. Criss was selling his drugs and getting his money. Just a normal day in the hood people fussing, cussing and fighting all day. Well around this time his dad has came home and his brother and his sister were home; and his momma has came home. But, Jay was still on the corner with his cousin Criss at 9:30 PM and Jay has school but he still on the corner. Well, his cousin Criss told him he had to go handle some business and told him not to move. Jay did as he was told, but Jay sat there for 2 hours and Criss still hadn’t come back yet. So now 5 minutes passed buy and Criss pull up fussing with somebody on the phone. Jay grew worried about what they are talking about. He never saw his cousin this mad. His cousin Criss always had a gun on him, so Jay sat there and hoped he didn’t get caught up in whatever was about to happen, but at the same time he didn’t want to leave his cousin Criss at night time all alone. Well now its 10:55 at night and his cousin Criss is still getting his money. Jay is getting sleepy but he doesn’t want to go home. He tell himself in his head he is just going to stay for a little while longer just to make sure Criss is ok. Well now, he has sat there until 11:45 Criss turned around and looked at Jay and told him “aye you need to go home I don’t want Unc to be mad at me for having you out late”. So Jay being the hard-headed kid he is he said “nahh not yet” I am going to stay for 10 more minutes.” So his cousin Criss gets a phone call and he starts to argue on the phone with a lady. Cris’s voice is getting loud and his face was red. He gets so mad he tells the lady he will “kill her”! So now Criss said “you no where I am. I am about to pull up. Send who you want”! Criss wanted Jay to go home. Jay finally got home and at Criss left right behind him. When Jay got home it was 11:56. He called criss to make sure he was ok. he called,criss picked and he told him he was ok and not to worry he was just bout to walk in this house well right before he hung up jay heard gun shots threw the phone he called Criss’s name 100 times! Criss never answered him. Now its 12:00 midnight, he ran to Criss’s house just to find out he was dead.