Born a Crime
afternoon Tom and I were at the house. Tom was telling Abel about my date, and Abel decided to be generous. He said I could take ...
“Please. This is the greatest moment in my life. Please. I’m begging you.” “No.” “Please.” “No. You can take the Mazda.” Tom, al ...
Abel thought about it. “Okay. Deal.” We went to Babiki’s flat, told her my parents wanted to meet her, and brought her back to m ...
me. “Is that the girl?” “Yes.” “You can take the BMW.” Once I had the car, I desperately needed something to wear. I was taking ...
to find something to wear. At the time I had no clue about clothes. My idea of fashion was a brand of clothing called Powerhouse ...
thought Powerhouse was the baddest thing in the world, I can’t even front. I had no friends, I loved dogs, and muscles were cool ...
sake, not yours. Let’s go shopping.” I went to my mom and begged her to give me money to buy something to wear for the dance. Sh ...
In my mind nothing was cooler than the leather coats everybody wore in The Matrix. The Matrix came out while I was in high schoo ...
wore, the ankle-length black one. Bongani shut that down. “No, that’s not practical. It’s cool, but you’ll never be able to wear ...
Jackson Afro. What I had was more Buckwheat: unruly and impossible to comb, like stabbing a pitchfork into a bed of crabgrass. “ ...
The girls looked me over. “He has so much,” one of them said. “Why doesn’t he cornrow it?” “Shit, yeah,” they said. “That’s grea ...
“You have to relax it. I don’t do that here.” “Okay.” Bongani dragged me to a second salon. I sat down in the chair, and the wom ...
we’ll rinse it out. But the longer you can handle it, the straighter your hair will become.” I wanted to do it right, so I sat i ...
relaxer out. What I didn’t know is that the chemical doesn’t really start to burn until it’s being rinsed out. I felt like someo ...
Bongani then dragged me back to the first salon, and the woman agreed to cornrow my hair. She worked slowly. It took six hours. ...
could. The hair was good. My skin wasn’t perfect, but it was getting better; the pustules had receded into regular pimples. I lo ...
“No, Mom. I’m not gay.” Everyone in my family loved it. They all thought it looked great. My mom did tease the shit out of me, t ...
moment the whole night started to go wrong. It was a Saturday night, end of the week, which meant Abel was drinking with his wor ...
“The keys to what?” “To the car.” “What car?” “The BMW. You promised I could drive the BMW to the dance.” “First go buy me some ...
tonight.” “But you promised. You said I could take it.” “Yeah, but I need the car.” I was crushed. I sat there with Tom and begg ...
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