Episode 2: Confrontation






Camren sits in the living room watching television, eating BBQ potato chips. Those are his favorite. He hears the back door slide open. Caleo is home from running errands.


Cash: Who was using the fire pit? That shit stinks! I can smell it all the way from down the street.

Camren: I was burning old pictures of me and Vanessa.

Cash: I told yall about using the fire pit to burn shit. That's not what it’s for.

Camren rolls his eyes and chomps the chips loudly as to drown Caleo out.

Camren: Well Caleo, your not the only one who likes to burn shit in the pit. I didn’t think it would be an issue, but I see that it is.

Cash: Don’t get fucking smart! And stop calling me Caleo, that’s not my name!”

Camren: Denial!

Cash: Fuck you right now “Carmen”. Wheres Milla?

Camren rolls his eyes cause he knows Caleo just wants to keep her locked up in the house with no life, no friends, no anything.

Camren: She went to the mall to return some jeans that didn’t fit.

Cash: With who? When did she leave?

Camren: By herself and 15 minutes ago.

Cash: Your lying! She didn’t leave no 15 minutes ago. Why she didn’t wait for me to take her.

Camren: Caleo, that girl is 19 years old she don’t need no permission to go nowhere.

Caleo storms into the living room where camren is sitting and punches Camren in the nose breaking it and causing a bloody mess.

Cash: NEXT TIME THAT LITTLE GIRL SAYS SHE’S GOING SOMEWHERE WITHOUT ME, YOU CALL ME FIRST! YOU HEAR ME?

Camren gets up off the sofa holding his nose up trying to reduce the bleeding. He starts crying on his way to the bathroom.

Cash: YOU HEAR ME DUDE?

Camren: YOU KNOW WHAT CASH! YOU NEED TO GET OVER YOURSELF!

Camren says from the bathroom.

Cash: AYO! MIND YOUR FUCKIN BUSINESS!

Camren: GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER CASH! CAMILLA IS YOUR SISTER. NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND!

Cash: WHAT YOU SAY DUDE?

Cash charges into Camren and begins to beat him brutally. He punches and kicks him in the head. Camren keeps screaming, “Fuck you negga, fuck you, you aint shit.” 1 minute later Cash eases up off of his brother.

Cash: NEXT TIME SHE LEAVES THIS HOUSE WITHOUT ME IM BEATING YOU AND HER ASS! YOUR MOTHER AIN’T HERE TO SAVE YOU.

The back door slides open and Cory runs into the bathroom steppin in blood.

Cory: Yooo bro! What the fuck!

Cash: That’s what he gets for talking shit.

Camren: FUCK YOU!

Camren coughs up blood. Cory helps Camren up off the bathroom floor.

Cory: You good Cam?

Camren: Yea but you messing up your sneakers!

Cory: Oh shit! Fuck man! Cash you a messy ass negga on dawgs.

Cash: Shut the fuck up!

Cory: I don’t care he’s still our brother. Gay or not!

Cash: I don’t care he can leave! Ma put this house in MY name...so as far as I’m concerned whoever don’t like it...Can get the fuck out!

Camren rolls his eyes.

Cory: Everybody in this house is entitled to be here. We all put in work. All that ego shit you got, keep it to yourself. Cause if that shit get in the way of our money… it’s bad business for you, me, Shot, and Cam included. Other than that, we gucci?

Cash:Core fuck all that! I call the big shots around here! I’m the head honcho! Ya’ll just my sons...my minions...my little neggas!

Cory and Camren silently mimic Cash’s speech in the bathroom, “I’m the head honcho, yea right.”

Cory: Ight Cash.

Camren: This muthafucka.

He says under his breath to Cory.


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