Fresh. My center kilos up in my chest while I see how fresh it's, just a little rainy at the backside, love it used to be lately chucked. This shit’s certainly it. I flip, approximately to name for smart, yet he’s correct beside me, keeping out a baggie. Shit, he’s strong. On most sensible of every little thing. I drop the article in there. He’s obtained a couple of lengthy tweezers he makes use of to carry an area after which presses his palms during the plastic like a makeshift glove and unwraps it. the opposite facet is blue. We either glance shut. There’s a few bizarre writing on it, like calligraphy or a few shit. Fate’s beside us too then, urgent his face in. I say, “Is that Oriental sort? Like Korean writing? ” “Nah. no longer Korean. ” shrewdpermanent holds it as much as the sunshine. “Looks jap. those letters are all sharp. Korean is the single with circles. ” I don’t be aware of yet I nod besides. “What’s it say? ” smart unrolls it sooner than tapping his tweezers on an image of fruit within the heart. He narrows his eyes at it. “Not certain, yet doesn’t that seem like blueberries? ” “Who the fuck chews blueberry eastern gum round the following? ” “Put the note out,” titanic destiny growls. he's taking off towards the warriors. “We’re approximately to determine. everyone inform every body. ” I stroll again sluggish to Ernesto and examine the baggies smart has covered up at the chipped asphalt. Six of ’em. One holds Ernie’s pockets. I open it and money if there’s nonetheless cash in it. there's. This simply makes my burning worse. once they didn’t even hassle faking a theft, that’s should you comprehend that shit was once a message. unlike you could faux whatever if you beat anyone, drag them, after which stab all of them cold-blooded. Shit. I pull his card and photographs of me, Ray, and Ernie once we have been little, an image of Mamá too. I positioned the pockets again in his pocket and depart the cash so the sheriffs’ll are aware of it wasn’t a theft, in basic terms twenty-three greenbacks besides, yet I received to cause them to paintings for an identity. Buys us extra time. simply in case. by way of now, somebody’s known as 911. No telling how lengthy it’ll take for somebody to come back decide him up even though. My abdominal really convulses on the considered him mendacity right here for god-knows-how-long. One hour? ? I take my flannel off and canopy his face with it. I elevate his head up a bit and positioned the sleeves beneath like a pillow. My arms come again bloody. After that it’s simply shrewdpermanent grabbing baggies and me status dumb correct beside him, operating up the braveness to assert what I bought to. I lean down subsequent to Ernesto, shut adequate to the touch him. I shut my eyes and that i say, “We’ll get you buried reliable and correct, massive bro. I promise. yet we can’t simply now, ok? So please forgive me simply this something. ” I blink and shut my eyes back, yet simply after I latch directly to the one fresh half left of his uniform, a seam at the shoulder, close to the collar. I squeeze it demanding among my thumb and index finger. “We want the time a bit extra straight away is all. ” five again on the apartment, the place’s thick with homies brooding about what the fuck we’re going to do, how we’re going back on them for what they did to Ernesto. That’s the debate. infantrymen wish weapons and autos, a caravan even.