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a smile that Hammer had seen often over the course of the last fourteen years. So naturally, he knew what was to follow…

 –—Chapter Three–—
     
    When Providence High School let out, a sea of students emerged from the building to get on the school buses. The ones who were fortunate and old enough to drive, pulled off in their fancy cars that their wealthy parents had bought them.
    Cataya had had her driver’s license for well over a year now, bud didn’t own a car due to the fact that her father wasn’t comfortable with her operating one. This was another mater that she had challenged her father on and lost.
    She was walking towards her bus when she heard Ching calling her.
    “Cataya, come. I drive today.”
    “Cool. You think you can take me to the mall? I want to pick up some shoes.”
    “Sure.”
    She followed him to a late model Lexus 460. “You never cease to amaze me.”
    “What?”
    “I thought that you wasn’t going to accept anything from your dad until he accepts who you are.”
    “That before crazy man chase me.”
    “Who chased you?!”
    “Crazy man at your house last night.”
    “Ron? When?”
    Ching filled her in about last night’s event, as G-Unit’s Beg for Mercy played softly through the speakers.
    Cataya was close to tears when he finished.
    “I’m so sorry, Ching. I didn’t mean to pull you into this mess.”
    “That’s okay. I run fast and disappeared in woods.”
    “No, it’s not okay. I’m so sick of this mess!”
    “Please, no cry.” He said, wishing he would have kept it to himself.
    “You don’t understand. That man has been like a nightmare my whole life. I just want to…” she let her words trail off.
    Just hearing her vent about the man that she despised reminded Ching of something that he had noticed last night. It was something that baffled him greatly.
    “I saw you timid last night when he come. That’s no like you, you no scare of nobody. Tell me what he did to make you like that.”
    It took her a long time to respond because it wasn’t a subject that she discussed lightly. The matter was held so close to her heart, that she had never discussed it with her grandmother. Her father did no wrong in Granny’s eyes.
    It wasn’t until they got on the highway that she decided to open up to Ching. “I consider you my best friend,” she began, oblivious to his chest swelling with pride,
“and I want you to now the potential danger that you could be in by knowing what I’m about to tell you.”
    “Okay.”
    “Do you still want to know?”
    Ching nodded ‘yes’ like she had been insane to question his courage.
    “Okay, here we go. My dad is a control freak. It’s either his way or no way. That’s why he’s in prison; he killed a man that would not let him control him. Anyway, he controlled my mom the same way until he got locked up. She saw his incarceration as an opportunity to break free from him, and start a new life. But when she told him that she was moving away, he threaten to kill her. I know that you’ll probably wondering how could he do that from prison, but that’s where Ron comes in at. He’s my dad’s flunkie; does anything my dad tells him to do.”
    Ching sat there nodding, processing everything she said.
    “When my mom finally built up the courage to break away from him is when I turned five. Keep in mind that he had already been in prison for two years. She was that scared of him. But anyway, we moved to Durham, where my mom’s boyfriend was from. I remember one night, my mom telling her boyfriend that Ron was sitting out in front of the house. She begged him let her call the police, but I guess his pride wouldn’t allow him to do it. That was his biggest mistake because they both was dead the next morning. I woke up to a house full of cops.”
    Ching was shocked. He had known that her mother was deceased, but he had never asked the cause of it. It was all too clear to him now why Cataya was so terrified of Ron, and he