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The Good Kid
by Drae Walsh
Dejuan lives in Rexdale. His mother doesn’t understand why he doesn’t want to move to
Finch, their new home where the family received a transfer to. After a lot of resistance, many
arguments, and staying at friends house’s, Dejuan gave up and went with his mom.
Living in Finch wasn’t as bad as he thought, he was playing basketball, making new friends,
people liked him. Until a girl from his old block came to visit one of the “Badmen” from Finch.
When she said “hi” to Dejaun, the bad manz who were in a street war with the gang from Rex’s
moved in closer and asked where she knew Dejuan from? She said “ he from my old neighborhood
Rex” . The “Badmen” didn’t like the sound of that and felt like Dejuan was an enemy.
They began to trying to intimidate and plot against him.
Leading up to this, Dejuan was on a good track, going to school, playing sports; he wanted to
get a athletic scholarship. One day on his way home from basketball practice he was suddenly
cornered, surrounded and stabbed in his back.
Dejaun’s time spent in the hospital kicked off a war in his neighborhood. When Dejuan came
out of the hospital he was afraid for his safety, so he went to the friend who he was trying to
stay away from but he knew he would help him. His big homey gave him a gun and a ounce of
crack and said “you can’t go to war with out money”. All Dejuan wanted was to be safe, but if
that’s what it had to be then that’s what he was going to do.
About 3 months later, Dejuan was making money , he had not gone back to school since
the attack and was carrying a Glock 40mm. There on the strip he saw the guys that stabbed
him but they saw him too and pulled out their guns to finish the job they began with the first
attack. Little did they know they underestimated Dejuan who was too quick for all three of
them. Dejuan was on the run! But soon after he was caught, not by the enemies, but by the
cops. He was then arrested.----------
The good kid!
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