Davion's Way: Chapter 1

"ITS THE  FIRST OF THE MONTHHHH" Bone Thugs rapped in my ear. June 1,2013. My official first day of summer. How the hell am I gonna spend it? I know my boys probably gotta work, and today's my day off. The fuck is up in Charleston? There's never a damn thing to do here but talk and listen. And I try to keep myself away from both. "Davi?" My little brother DaSean poked his head in my room. "What Sean?" "You goin anywhere today?" He let him self in my room and plopped on my bed. "Yo, get off my bed." I nudged him. "I'm not goin anywhere...why wassup?" Sean always asks if Im going anywhere whenever he wants a ride somewhere. "Can you take me to the rec?" Anything to get you the fuck outta my face, "yeah,gimme 30 minutes."

"Aye, thanks bro. Ima call you whenever Im done here." DeSean grabbed his Nike bag and hopped out the car. A lot of the time I catch myself looking at Sean like damn he reminds me of myself when I was 14. All I ever wanted to do was shoot hoops at the rec with my boys. I just hope Sean doesn't turn out like me. Not saying I'm a bad son or brother, I just hope he grows up to do better than me. My iPhone started to ring. Ray was calling me. "Ayo" My dude Ray. He's been my boy since I moved to West Virginia from Chicago. "Where you?" "I'm by the rec, wassup?" "Come scoop me. We need to head to the mall. Corey said there was some bad bitches there." Ray still act like a boy who seen a girl with big titties for the first time. 'Aight, be outside I'm pullin' up in about 5 minutes." Ray didn't live too far from the rec, just a couple turns and shit and you'll be right at his house. One thing about Charleston is you'll never get lost cause everything is easy to find.

"Davion, my nigga." We dapped as soon as Ray got in the car. "Wassup joe?" "Same ol' shit, Moms still bitchin, you know aint shit change." Ms.Williams a fool, but we all like her. Ray know his moms woulda busted his ass if she heard how he was talking. She one of those moms you dont mess with. "So Cory at the mall?" I made a left onto east Washington street. "Yeah, he said Tasha and all them hoes there." "Man, why they gotta be hoes?" "Shit, cause hoes got a ring to it." I wouldn't put it past Cory that these girls were hoes. Cory the type of dude that dont like to wait for nothing, that's gonna hurt his ass in the long run. I like my ladies with style and class, but who cares ? I'm not checking for no females right now, cause all of them in Charleston get around. Well not all of them, but the majority of them do. I can't and won't wife up a chick who been ran through, nah Davion Parker don't play that hoe shit joe.

Walking into the mall I spotted Cory and some chicks off bat. They were chillin by the Pretzel Twister. "Cory, wassup joe?" We dapped up, as all of us do. "Nothing man, just chillin." He eyed one of the chicks. Hinting that he was tryin to scoop that. I looked at all the chicks. They aight lookin, nothing too special. "Hey." One of the chicks said. She's short, I say about 5'4 with black hair and milk chocolate skin. "Wassup?" I looked down at her. She makin me feel like a damn giant. "Nothing. Wassup wit'chu?" She popped her gum and poked her hip out. Her accent hinted she wasn't from Charleston. "Where you from?" I asked her. "Why? You not gonna ask me my name first?' Nah, shawty gotta chill. Im not even tryin to get at her like that. "My bad joe, whats your name?" She extended her hand and said "Shanai...like Shanaya without the ya." I shook her hand. "I'm Davion." She smiled, showing a perfect set of teeth. "Thats a cute name." "Thank you, so where you from?" "Memphis." That southern twang. I looked down at my phone. Damn its only 12:34? Time aint goin no fuckin where. Her almond shaped eyes scanned me up and down. "Am I borin' you or somethin'?" Shanai pulled out her phone and started scrolling through it.  "Nah , its just too damn early to be at the mall. I'd rather be at home chillin." "I feel you...you wanna walk with me to the food court? I would ask Tasha but she all up in ya boys face." She rolled her eyes at Tasha. Tasha Daniels, I dont know her like that I just know she graduated with us. "Aight." "What kinda places they got here?" Walking past Kay and SweetFrog , I told her we got a whole bunch of bullshit ass stores in this mall. Aint shit in here for me but Footlocker and sometimes Champs. Town Center wack ass hell joe. Thats what makes me miss Chicago so much. Chicks out here be wearin the samething , only a couple of them got their own swag. "So what brought you out here?" We sat down in the food court after ordering from Taco Bell. "School. I got a scholarship to go to college so I took it. The only reason I took it is because my aunt and cousin Tasha live out here." "Aw thats wassup. I tell you don't make ya self too comfortable down here.." "Why?' "People move too funny for me. I just stick to my boys and thats it." I remember when I first moved down here so many people tried to claim they was from Chicago but couldn't even tell me where certain shit was. Thats how I knew they was lyin'. People down here love to lie just to fit in. I don't see the fun in that.

Shanai and I talked for about a good hour until Tasha came lookin' for her, sayin' they had to bounce. Before she left I got her number, not on no I want a relationship type shit either. Shanai's real cool, I can see myself chillin' with her. "Yo, I'm bout to go home and sleep. I hope some shit is jumpin when I get up." Cory and Ray looked at me like I was crazy. "Davion you betta hit Shanai up, she got the mean bubble." Ray a damn dog. "Nah its not even like that, I dont know her. She cute and all but nah." "You WEAK" Cory and Ray always tryna get on me when I dont wanna bag no chick, shit Im not the type of dude to fuck a female I dont know. Hell nah, bitches be having STD's and shit. I'd rather be safe than sorry anyday.