Don’T Hate the Game

By Aleathea N. Washington

Don't Hate the Game tells the story of a woman with a life changing pass. While living with her mother and her live in boyfriend when she was young she encountered some things that will change the way she looks at life. One night her mother's boyfriend came home and began to beat on them all beacuse a hot meal wasn't waiting for him when he got there. He beat her mother to death and when he got done with her mother he then turns and rapped her and was also tyring to kill her but the groosom scene caused him to flee. so now that her mother is dead she is now grown waitng to even the score with him because he was never brought to justice. She took what she learned from him and became one of the biggest drug lords on the East Coast. He to was a drug lord but as the years pass he was getting competion from a mysterious person. He started a war with who he thought was a rival gang member. But as the game begains to get played he slowly finds out that the drug lord that he's trying to take down is the little girl he left for dead some twenty years ago. Now he raises the stakes, so high that even those who walk with her are willing to take her down for a higher position in the game. Soon she finds herself uncovering her true friends as the body count multiplies. This game of KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE..BUT YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER get reverse to KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE BUT YOUR FRIENDS CLOSER see how the game gets more and more intense in this raw and unedited twist of tale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Mar 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781426959462

Aleathea N. Washington

Aleathea Washington has written books, plays, and poems for many years. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.

Book preview

ABOUT THE BOOK

This is not about the enemies in this crime base drama. It’s about a group of friends whom loyalty to each other is tested while trying to build a drug empire. Murder, Greed and Deceit are the main ingredients for this boil over of a battle for power. They say keep your friends close but your enemies closer. In this case it’s keep your enemies close, but your friends closer.

Contents

ABOUT THE BOOK

Friendship

Acknowledgments

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Being a 9yr old growing up in this neighbor hood had some advantages and some disadvantages. Ti and her mom lived in a small apartment with her live in boyfriend. He was the sweetest guy you could ever want to meet. His name was Wes short for Wesley he was a hustler on the streets but covered it up by working at a warehouse where they shipped lumber to construction companies. He did that so if anything went down on the streets he’d have an alibi as to his where about. Wes was a cool guy he’d bring Ti and her mom gifts home almost every night they had nothing to worry about like food, clothes and the house was always warm. Wes would leave the house in the morning in dirty jeans and a t shirt, but come home well dressed in suits with a hat to match. After putting in a few hours at work he’d leave and go to his club where they sold drugs and had women doing sexual favors for men that came to the club even outside the club. This was how he earned his money by selling drugs and girls. He tried to keep it a secret from Ti and her mom, but little did he know Ti already knew. When her mom went to a neighbor’s house to play cards and visit Ti always followed him that’s when she found out that his club was few blocks away from their house. Ti’s mom on the other hand didn’t know but also didn’t care just as long as he was bring in some money to support them. And she liked the way he treated her and she was blinded by the way Wes looked. He was tall with a dark completion and a nice build to his body. This is Tiesha story known to her friends as Ti, but her mother’s boyfriend Wes called her penny he said it was because her face was brown, round and shinny and Ti’s mom name was Carmen. They both was starting to notice a change in Wes’s behavior as the years went on cause he‘s been in their lives since Tiesha was a baby but now that she‘s nine years old things were changing. His behavior was starting to get so bad that Ti would leave the house and hide at her friend Miya’s house she would sleep in her room under her bed so her mom wouldn’t catch me sleeping there. But one morning they were late for school so they left Miya’s bedroom before they could pick up the covers Tiesha used from under the bed and when her mom was cleaning she found the covers under Miya‘s bed. So that night her mom came into her room when they were sleeping and that’s when she knew for sure that Tiesha was spending nights there. Tiesha friends always tried helping her when she needed a place to sleep. Her friend LiLi use to let her sleep in her closet on the floor after Miya‘s mom caught her sleeping under her bed. They would always threaten to call her mother but some how Tiesha would talk them out of it. She was starting to spend more time home alone because Wes would beat her mom to the point she would have to stay in the hospital for days and nights at a time. And the whole time her mom was away in the hospital Wes would stay gone as well he stopped coming home when he found out that Ti’s mother had to spend almost two weeks in the hospital. He was actually running because he didn’t know weather or not if Tiesha’s mom was going to tell the police so he stayed gone and he never even check on Tiesha. So she was stuck in their apartment with no food or clean clothes to ware to school. Her friends would sneak food to Tiesha’s house and bring her clothes for school everyday. Tiesha’s hair had not been combed in about four days. The only thing that Tiesha could do was take hot baths by warming water from the sink in the microwave because the gas was turned off. Her friends tried spending as much time with her as they could before it was time for them to go home. It was scary to Tiesha at night in her building with couples arguing and fighting and with the drug addicts sleeping and doing drugs in the hallways made it difficult for Tiesha to sleep at night and come into the building after school. One day after school Tiesha was home alone when loud strong knock came upon her door she was afraid to answer it but when the man at the door stated that he was from the light company she opened the door in a hurry because if no one answers that means the utility guy was going to cut the lights off so she knew she had to think fast and do something. When she opened the door the man looked confused and while he asked for her parents. Tiesha explained to him that they weren’t home and it was only her and her mom living there. The man told her that he came to turn the lights off due to non payment. But the man also knew that Tiesha’s story wasn’t adding up. Just to keep him from asking questions and finding out that she was temporally living home alone she remembered what she had seen at Wes’s club. So she offered to do a favor for him if he forget about the lights. The man was stunned, she was nine yeas old and insinuating that if he was to leave the lights on she would do sexual favors for him. So he told her to forget about it and he’ll come back at a later date. Tiesha shut the door and double locked it and took a sigh of relief. Ti had been home alone for almost two weeks. It was a late afternoon when Ti was awaken by someone struggling with the door knob. She ran and hid under her bed and prayed for whom ever was at the door to leave. Ti heard someone calling out her name. It was a voice that was so familiar. It was her mother Ti ran from under the bed and jumped into her mother’s arms. Carmen was so happy to see her daughter and to see that she was doing okay. Carmen struggled to sit down as she squatted soft and slow to sit on the couch. She asked had Wesley been there. Ti told her mom that Wes had not been there since the day she went to the hospital. Carmen was disgraced at the fact of Tiesha being left alone for that long period of time. But Ti assured her mother that she continued to go to school and do her homework. Carmen then got up and did an inventory of the house she saw piles of dirty clothes over in the corners of her and Ti’s bedrooms. She also asked Ti what has been eating because she saw that there was no food in the refrigerator so she was wondering how was Tiesha eating. Ti had explained to her mother that her friends was bringing her food from their homes and giving her clean clothes to ware to school. Wow you have some great friends. her mother Carmen said. Meanwhile at the club where Wes worked. He was counting money sitting at his