"That T.V. is too loud TWIN!" I heard my daddy shout over the cartoons and the spoon clanking against my cereal bowl. I shout back "OKAY DAD" and I turned ' Thunder Cats ' down from 50 to 45. The year was 1987 and I was at the time 7 years of age with the intellegance of a 30 year old. With a IQ of 199.9 I was gifted a real child prodigy born a identical twin. Back then it was just me my identical twin sister and our father. Another slow starting Saturday I guessed as I finished my 'Frooty Pebbles' on the rocks. I heard " HELP por fa vor'' someone a man from outside somewhere out on the street in front of our house was yelling.Now looking out of the big bay window that took up the entire wall ceiling to floor i was able to see what all that noise was and as I'm looking out the window I noticed a fat Spanish man running down the street he was running for his life. and my eyes naturally turned to look and see what he was fleeing from and I'll be damned it was my uncle 12's van and it was burling up the street nothing was moving but him and the fat Spanish dude. As he got closer to the house I began jumping and waving my hands in the window yelling "Uncle 12 Uncle 12". You see my uncle's name is 12 because when he was born he was born 12 lbs on the 12th day of the 12th month of the year December isn't that crazy. So my grandma just named him 12.Hands down he was my favorite uncle he was huge like a giant. Now almost right in front of the house the fat Spanish dude fell and some onlookers stopped to watch this as the van swerved coming to a screeching hault 12 jumped out of his still running vehicle and something black and heavy flew off his lap and slid underneath the van. 12 immediately dropped into a push up position and looked under the van. Must've went clear across ,because quizlck as he dropped quicker he came up. Next thing I know he's headed round his van over to where the Spanish dude was standing." I'll be damned " Uncle 12 that fat Spanish man has your stuff." I yelled out but my uncle didn't react all he did was continue moving towards the Spanish dude who is now holding the heavy black object in the air pointed directly in uncle 12s face. My throat was dry and getting tight I felt like I couldn't breath Omy gosh what was this I was seeing. And in that same moment the man closed his grip around the object and there was a loud bang and something sparked and then there was some smoke ,everybody that was standing there fled in a quick fashion I couldn't see much the crowd had stired up so much dust I couldn't make out what had just happenedor what was still happening.Was it all over what had that loud noise com from.I began to process this scene in my brilliant lil mind, why'd I do that...now I'm starting to sweat,that lil voice in my head was chanting 'first rule don't panic'. I was. As the dust got settled I saw him and a tiny lil cry came out when I let go of the air I had been holding in for the last minute and a half.12 was still standing and looks like he was now punching the fat Spanish dude over and over again. Then exhibiting his super strength he hoisted the Spanish dude up into the air over his own hight of about 7 feet 5-6 give or take and did the the wildest thing he slammed the Spanish dude down on to the top of a rod iron fence spikes pierced the Spanish dudes body just like a hot knife through cold butter poking through and through his entire body. I thought I was going to loose my Frooty Pebbles right then and there. Surprisingly I did not nor had I moved from where I was standing and my lil brown eyes never left my uncle 12. He is now parking his van in the garage and soon he'll be in the house...." Hi baby" his voice called out to me . I turned away from the window for the first time still not having blinked in about 10 minutes, I looked at 12 in the eye and the I robotically repeated "Hi baby "." You the only one in the house woke right now " he asked as he moved and sat down on the arm of the dark brown leather loveseat. " Ummhun yup" I replied . He motioned for me to come and sit next to him his hand covering one of the cushions entirely. After a brief moment of silence he said " Did you see me did you see everything baby" I simply nodded my head up and down.He cracked a small sly smile and said " So you don't you want to know what I did that for ". Hell yes I do in fact I thought to my self. Again however I only responded by nodding. Looking like we were having a starring contest. Eyes locked I still ain't blinked for now at least 20 or so minutes. He began to explain to me how he had met a lady down the street from me who needed help raising her children she had no money and no man he explained how he tried to help the lady by helping her help him can't tell you the details but he left something at the lady's house for her to come up with and she sold it for him and gave him the money and in return he gave her a cut helping her to take care of her children to keep money and food and clothes in her house and everything they had it made thanks to him and his product. Just think about it this 1980 we're talking about the crack cocaine era it was booming everybody was rich or smoked out. So he went on to tell me how this lady after becoming so popular in the neighborhood gained the interest of a man the fat Spanish dude.Then he explained to me how the man had been beating the woman stealing the money smoking the drugs and molesting her two children.She had two small girls who went to school with me. 12 explained how this man was so disgusting so violent towards these two little girls and their mommy it made him so angry that he had to do that to him plus the fat Spanish dude started the fight. And as he spoke he painted a very vivid picture that I understood very clearly I was a child genius I had no problem understanding what he was saying and I felt very very bad for those two children and I was also very excited that they had no longer needed to worry about the fat Spanish dude bothering them. EVER. Now we just sat looking at each other in silence listening to the sirens approach. There was police and paramedics everywhere do you know they had to cut this fool off the damn fence and they did too they just cut and took him bars and all. Id overheard one of the people saying DOA I wonder what that meant. *( the end of chapter 1)
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