I was scared, because it was scary, so
it made sense.
He brought a gun! I don't know why, but
he had a gun. This wasn't the kind of operation that would require a
gun, was it? I didn't think so, but then again, I've never done
anything illegal. Either had he I bet, I bet he just brought one
because he's seen movies and television.
I've never seen a gun in real life
before, either had Sharon, but she was playing cool. I guess I was
playing cool too. It's important to play cool, when someone has
brought a gun, and is playfully pointing it at your face and saying
bang bang bang.
Fuck,
I'm even laughing. Fucking Jacob. I'm so uncomfortable right now.
I
guess we need a gun in case our deal goes bad. But I thought we were
just going to pick up like a couple pounds of weed and then sell it.
What could possibly go wrong right? I mean, yeah, like, a lot. But
not like, gun worthy
shit right?
It
made me uneasy, like maybe Jacob didn't have his share. Like maybe he
was planning something else.
I told
him to put the gun away, jokingly...nicely. It worked. I said that we
were going to be late picking up our stuff.
The
three of us are roommates. We've only been living together for like,
a couple of weeks. When Jacob can't come up with rent. Either can
Sharon. I'm fine, I have a job, not a good job, but a job. I can pay
rent. That's when Sharon said that she knew some guys who wanted to
sell a fuck ton of weed, and we needed to just buy it, and then we
would sell it, and everything would be fine.
Money
is money after all. Of course I agreed.
So
yeah, now we're in a car. Jacob's I guess. Never saw it before. I'm
realizing like, half way there, that it's probably stolen. I really
wish I knew this guy better, but Sharon says he's cool. So he must be
cool right? I know Sharon pretty well.
I
fucking thought I did.
We
pull in to the back alley. We get out of the car. We wait.
We
waited for what felt like an hour. It probably wasn't, I was just
really stressed out. I couldn't get it out of my head that like,
maybe I was making a huge mistake. I know that if anyone who knew me
growing up could see me now, they wouldn't be overly impressed.
But I
had never really been that impressive.
A car
pulled up. Two guys came out. I had a brown paper bag that was
supposed to have to money in it. I walked up to them, said hello.
They didn't say anything back. I gave them the bag. They gave me a
black duffel bag. I walked away, with my back turned.
Just
head towards the car, that's all I was thinking.
But
that's when I heard the shots.
I
dropped to the ground. I peed myself.
Not
surprising.
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