A Story Divided: Volume 1 Vis

By Dominique Jamelle

This is a story about a man with a troubled past, unclear present and out of focus future and how his life began the spiral out of control.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365363771

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A Story Divided: Volume 1 Vis

A Story Divided:

Volume 1

Vis

Copyright

Copyright 2016

ISBN 978-1-365-36377-1

Chapter 1: Catch Up

Picture this, a struggling artist full time employee with only one problem. An identical twin who is NOTHING like me. I mean, don't get me wrong that's my guy but he always doing some dirt. Like this morning, I get up do my daily exercises and he sleeps in. When I get home it's a full breakfast cooked for him. He lives with me, or in hotel rooms but he NEVER buys food. I like gold he likes silver. I like vanilla he likes chocolate. He is a heavy weed smoker I’m affected by second hand, but I just can't turn him away. That my twin!

We were born in Nowata, Oklahoma. Not too much there but it was home. Our mother had severe mental issues and met my dad at the hospital she was in after my granddad died! My dad was in housekeeping and fell in love instantly. When she was cleared for release, they got married. What my dad didn’t know is that the problems had just begun.

Two years into the marriage my mother became pregnant with us. She didn't want us to come out with brain damage so at four months she stopped taking her medications. I'm not sure what happened during the pregnancy or when we were infants, but my dad disappeared. I never put much thought into it just chopped it up to him being a deadbeat. When we were seven years old, my twin was hit by a diesel truck while we were riding home from the park. That's really why I'm so protective of him. That was the longest month of my life without my bro. I never got to go see him because mommy said to get better he needed to be alone and rest. She would go to the hospital and I would beg to go but it's not a place for kids as they said. When my brother came home everything was different. He was always upset. Over the small things, he would lose his cool anywhere. I'm the only person who can calm him down but if I'm not around I am afraid.

Back to momz, she got into drugs really heavy after the accident and started turning tricks in Texas leaving us home alone for days, weeks, hell I even remember a whole month she was gone and it was just my brother and me. One day momz got real sick and I had to call 911. Vis and I always kept the house clean and mom’s candies hidden so that day CPS came they checked and cleared the house. Momz had been drug free recently because we hid the shit and the money that month, so she pissed clean as well.

Anyway, we went home after she was released and it started again only this time it was worse. It got messy needles everywhere, niggas everywhere and Vis just got crazier. He started selling the junkies the work and if they came in with something from elsewhere he would completely lose it. I even saw him stab a junky in the throat with a fork and momma cleaned it up just to get high. That was the lowest point for us all I believe because I just sat back and watched.

When we were seventeen, I told both Vis and momma to clear the house. They weren't used to me being forceful so they ignored me. This day was different! I went to school and