Injustice: A Narrative Fiction

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“Angelica, I need to talk to you.” “About what?” “Mom is worried about you.” “Why?” “You’ve been acting strange, girl.” “Look Simone, she don’t have to worry about me, I’m fine.” “Is there anything you need to talk to me about?” “No, I told you nothing’s wrong.” “Okay, If you say so.” Simone then left her room, went back to the kitchen, Marie was still sitting at the table. Simone sat down and said, “Mom, I talked to her and she said there’s nothing wrong.” “Well, don’t worry about it.” “If you need me, I’ll be packing.” “Already.” “Yeah, I’m so excited.” she gave Marie a hug, then went to her room. Marie just sat there. Angelica came to the kitchen, sat down next to her mother and said, “Mom, you don’t have to worry about me, I’m fine.” then …show more content…
GET DOWN HERE NOW.” Angelica came from out of the kitchen. “Mom, I’m right here, What’s Wrong?” she asks. “Is it true.” ask Marie. “Is what true?” “I’ve been hearing that you belong to the neighborhood gang, I want to know, Is that true and don’t lie to me.” Angelica hesitated for a moment then she said, “Mom, I’m not stupid to be joining no gang, Who told you that?” “It doesn’t matter, you better will not be in nobody’s gang, you hear me.” Angelica hesitated. “Did you hear me girl.” “Yes Maam.” Angelica then went back to the kitchen and finished fixing her something to eat. Marie went to her room to lay down. Angelica sat down, ate her food, after she was done, she quickly went to her room, put her shoes on, got the dope out of the shoebox then left out the door. Angelica left the neighborhood headed to another neighborhood to set up a spot to sell her dope. When she got to the other neighborhood, there were other females standing on different corners, one of the girls whistle and the rest came running up to her. One said, “Is that one of the girls in the crew, we had beef with last week.” The other girl said, “Yeah.” then after Angelica formed a spot, she stood there waiting for someone to approach

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