The G Story
Stay awake! Stay awake Peter!.......
The last words I heard as I choked in the back seat of the car that was set on fire to burn with me in it; he banged the door over and over asking me to keep breathing, but the smoke had taken over, I couldn't even feel a thing. And then I saw her.... That precious woman, She laying down on the ground with blood spilling from her head, I remembered as I panted fighting for air to breathe..... That she was the reason I'm in this story, the reason I'm in here choking; but you see, this was not how it was supposed to be; it's different, the way the story begins...
Eight years ago when I was twelve, I moved with my mother and sister from surulere to Bariga, I wasn't happy about that, I had a great life back in surulere, had a best friend named Frank but my mother didn't like him, said he loved trouble too much; never wanted me with him, said he was a bad influence. Well I couldn't do anything about that, we had a new life over here ; my sister Priss was my twin, we always played around, walked and talked together, we attended a new school, I met new friends; Ray, Temi, Nonso and Jamal but I was closer to Jamal, there has to be that one person right? Who gets you more than the rest. We all loved football, we played in school every day; Priss comes around too. And then six years later, we're teenagers in our final year of high school, we boys had gotten closer than before and my sister, she had become the queen of the school, she was beautiful, talented and smart and I knew Jamal had a crush on her, he wouldn't tell me even if I asked. But you see, this town is weird; two streets had been at rival for generations and they had their gangs too, they always...