Chapter 79. Alarm

VULTORIAN

I knew he couldn't afford to let me go. I stayed in Miami, laying low in the Pine Island Projects, and got to know the woman I fell deeply in love with. I was sick with a bad flu. 

I was smoking w**d with a few brothers I met in the 'hood. I sometimes played basketball with them on the park, getting into heated arguments and calling fouls that weren't warranted. I grew a bond with a couple of them, but I knew when I returned back to New York, eventually, I would never see them again, or come on this side of town. 

One of my front teeth was elbowed from my gums during one of those heated basketball games, and I beat the dude's ass. He wound up talking shit, and leaving the court. I was mad about losing my tooth, and Lauren calmed me, made sure I didn't shot the bastard.

After seeing a dentist, and paying for a fake tooth, I nearly slipped into pneumonia. Lauren made my ass go to the hospital, and she drove. She sat with me for a full week i