The Book Of Vincent. Chapter Nine.

Chapter Nine.

When he was waiting at the bus stop, he was pleasantly surprise to find that Cyri had return from the funeral. When Cyri saw Vincent, she had a smile on her face.

“Hey, see you are back.” Vincent said when she got to the bus stop. “So, how was the funeral?”

“Like most funerals, a lot of tears, a lot of praying, having to meet the priest, and all that jazz. So how did Job and his friends treat you?” she had a spark of curiosity in her voice.

“Well, like your friends, they accepted me as one of there friends. To such an extent they told me there life stories. And as I was listening, I realized how some of there stories were related to your friends life’s” they were silent for a few minutes as they tried to clear there minds. As they were clearing there minds, the bus came.

Now that Vincent had known more people in his neighbor, they greeted him with pleasant greetings versus the greetings he had received at his old schools. And to ruin it all came Tad. He sat down and gave his usual greeting (“Hi Asshole!”) and as usual Cyri would bite his hand until he said sorry.

When they got into the school, Cyri ran off to speak to her friends, leaving Vincent alone. As he was walking to his home room, the idea he had gotten from the day he spent with Job and his friends still rang in his head. He wanted to tell his idea to Cyri’s friends and Job’s friends, but did not know how. He decided he would tell Cyri’s friends at break and Job’s friends at lunch. Now, it is time for break.

As he went to the cafeteria, he saw Cyri and her friends (including Tad) sitting at there normal table. When he sat down he noticed something. One of Tad’s eyes was shut. The skin around was pitch black. It look liked some decided to beat him.

“What the hell happened to you?” he asked as his brain digested the image that was before him.

“Ratliff.” he said. It took Vincent a few seconds to remember who Ratliff was. Then he remember that Ratliff was the leader of The Children Of Ghetto.

“What did you do to them?” Now his idea was starting to make sense.

“Nothing.” he sounded pissed off. “They just beaten me up because they think I am emo. I am getting so sick of it.” then, Vincent thought he saw a tear in Tad’s eye.

“Do they beat you up often?” Tad took a deep breath

“Yes, sadly. But, I do not want to get into anymore trouble, so I just take it.” Coraline rubbed Tad’s back. Vincent could tell that Tad did not want to talk about the beating anymore.

“How did the gangs start?” now he was starving for information.

“Okay,” Cyri started talking. “Ratliff came from New York’s inner street gangs. There, he was throne in jail for numerous crimes I believe Job has told you about. Anyway, why is it that you want to know?” she had some tension in her voice.

“I just had some thought. What do you guys think of Job and his friends?” Now the attitude changed. Cyri’s friends, except for Coraline, all started talking out of control. Of all of the things they said, the only things he could capture was that Fron was a man whore and Joan was actually in love with Jack. He then asked if they were comfortable being around them, in which they all rapidly answered yes to.

“One last thing, are you guys busy on Saturday?” they all answered yes, which is what Vincent was hoping for. Then, break was over.

And lunch has started. During lunch, he was given the news that Cyri and her friends would not join him due to the fact that they were missing some work and had to stay behind to do finish. But thankfully Job was wanting to talk to him. So when he went to there table, all of they guys greeted him as is he was an old friend whom they have never meet in a few years.

“So, what had happened to you after our first meeting?” Zat asked when Vincent finally gotten settled.

“Nothing much.” he took a bit out of the chicken wrap he had gotten. On his was still his idea. “When me and Job left the his room, there was some arguing. What happened?” All of the guys exchanged looks.

“Nothing which concerns you. To put it mildly, Mr. Pervert (looks directly at Fron) here was caught again screwing around with one of Mycheal’s sluts.” Then, there was some arguing and yelling that Vincent could not decipher. Then, there was a mighty, thunderous bang. Ronnie had a bag of potato chips and clap it to explode all of the air out of it. It surprised Vincent that non of the teachers had noticed the huge bang.

“Teachers do not really care about that kind of stuff.” Ronnie reassured Vincent, as if reading his mind. They were quiet for a few minutes, until he saw why the teachers did not care about something as careless as some student exploding a bag of potato chips. Because in walks Ratliff, Snoop, Lee, and Mycheal.

They were a disgusting of men. All of there appearance’s looked the same. Pants sagging, overly huge shirts, shaved heads, and heavy jewelry. They walked over to this one guy that was sitting by himself at his table and they meet eye to eye. Then, Vincent could only make out what Ratliff’s lips were say and he said: “Motherfucker,”. Then, he launched him self at the student. Snoop nailed him to the ground by his feet. Lee and Mycheal put both of there feet on his arms. Then, Ratliff took out this glove that had golden circles on it. He sat on top of the kid, say something, then started to beat the poor kid to death. The teachers came to grab the kid. As they were dragging him, he yelled something along the lines of: “How fucking dare you fuck one of our bitches!”. Then he went and punched one of the teachers hard against the jaw, with such force that Vincent could hear the teacher’s jaw break. As they were caring Ratliff and his gang away, he saw Fron hiding under the table. When they were gone, they were all sent back to class.

In all of Vincent’s life, he was never so terrified, so scared, so filled with vengeance that he did not know what to do. The rest of the day was a bore. Everyone was talking about what had happened. It was announced that Ratliff and his gang were sentenced to two months on hospitalized suspension. Meaning they get counted for being here and automatically get good grades. This has happened because the fact that there parents were rich and therefore able to hire lawyers that were going to sue the school for sexual harassment because of the fact that the slut, Egypt, the one the boy fu-ked, happened to be Ratliff’s sister. Therefore, the school had to agree with the family about dropping all charges.

Anyway, when they got to homeroom, Vincent was told by Cyri that she was not going to ride the bus, her parents were picking her up because she need to get a vaccination shot because the school could not fin the records, therefore if she wanted to continue school she would need another shot. So, Vincent was alone on the bus. But what he did not notice was that Job and his friends, including Tad, were also on the bus. So at least he would have someone to talk to.

When they got off, he saw that Fron was not scared anymore. He was actually kind of happy. Vincent walked over to see what was up, and all he started to hear was yelling. Fron was at a trash can, emptying out his pockets. When Vincent saw what it was that Fron was emptying out, he was in shock. What he saw was used condom wrappers and used condoms. Now he understand what it was that they were yelling at him about. He could not make out what they were yelling at, but he noticed they were not aware he was right beside them.

“Listen perv,” Zat said, stopping them and turned around toward Fron. “Do you want to end up like the unlucky S.O.B? Listen, we all care about you, we just do not want you to - ” Then, just now noticed Vincent was with them. As he looked at Vincent, all of the other guys followed pursuit.

“Hey Vincent,” Job said. “How long have you been there?”

“Ever sense the bus stop.” Vincent said. “So, the swordsman could not find any other use for his sword so he decided to put it back into the saya?” After a few minutes, they all just busted out laughing. They started laughing so hard some of them fell to the floor. When they all recovered from there laughing spell, they started to get serious again.

“So, explain the whole idea about the sluts.” he was now curious. And it was Dumas who explained.

“As you know, in each gang there are the leaders and the second in commands. Well, in each group there are the bodyguards. Well, in The Children Of Ghetto, the bodyguards are called: Sluts. And I do mean that literally. One of the goals for The Children Of Ghetto is that they need money. So, Mycheal is a pimp who pimps out the girls. There are eight sluts. And there names are: Sky, Dame, Egypt, and Neferia. There are also the man-whores. They try to bang girls for money. There names are: Whitney, L.A., Case and Ban. In my opinion, it is all sick and repulsive in every sense of those words.” He took a deep breath. Then continued. “And what is sad is how much they pay. Mr. Pervert here has found a way to screw with the girls for free and he should STOP! Anyway, there you have it. One of the richest, most powerful, most disgusting gangs you will ever meet.” All Fron was doing was smiling as if he had done something good.

“What do you guys think of Cyri’s friends?” Then there was a roar of talking if there ever was one. The started talking non-stop. So after a few minutes, when they quieted down, Vincent asked his question.

“So you guys would be okay to be in a room with them?” They all agreed.

“Will you guys be busy on Saturday?” They all said no and agreed to go to his house on Saturday. Which was exactly what he wanted to here. After the guys went there separate ways, Vincent went home. As he entered the house, he smelt the strong odor of paint. When walked into the formal dining room he found out why. His mother was doing one of her paintings. Veronica was a good painter. Especially when it came to animals and scenery.

“Hi, Darling,” she said getting off of the ladder she was on. She went over and kissed on top of the head. “So, how was school?” she went off to the kitchen and came back with two cokes.

“It was good. But I was wondering if you would not mind if I have some friends over on Saturday would you?” After a couple of seconds. She responded saying yes, as long as they do not trash the house while she was gone. After making sure with Cyri and Job, he confirmed in himself that everything is going to plan.