ONE SHOT

"Walking home, I didn't have a clue that soon I would have to commit a robbery at gunpoint in order to prove myself even further. I would have to get jumped on by multiple homies that were already in the gang, or that I would get brutally beaten twice for at least thirteen seconds-once for induction into the South Side like any other Southern gang from California, the other time to get into an actual gang. I didn't know that I would soon be selling drugs, stealing and learning how a drive-by shooting is done. I didn't know that I was going to come face-to-face with death and almost get killed only one hundred feet from my own apartment." - Brayan Hernandez