Bruce was lunged forward; he knocked us both down to the floor. The gun was knocked out of mama’s hand. She had hit her head against the corner of the nightstand and was lying lifeless. I looked over and went to grab my mother when I heard another struggle.

Emma reached to pick the gun up off the floor when TaQuetta tried to get to it first. I stuck my foot out and tripped TaQuetta causing her to stumble I tried myself this time to get the gun out of these devils way because as far as I was concerned they had killed my mother. Now I was going to make them all pay a visit to their master in hell.

I was distracted by someone else coming into the room, Barry had burst in and yelling, “what is going on here.?I couldn’t think straight I just knew that someone had to die. I couldn’t get to Barry fast enough I was so grateful that someone else was there to help me defend myself.

I tried to get up but Bruce was heading for me ready to strike, I guess he figured he needed to get rid of one more Ellison woman. Things were happening so fast that when the next gunshot went off, is when everything finally slowed down as Bruce fell to the floor with a hole in his chest.

She aimed her gun at his heart and ripped a hole straight thru it. Bruce fell to the floor blood pouring out of his chest, TaQuetta was screaming and hollering crying.

Mama held that smoking gun in her shaky hands with blood trickling down the side of her face. There was a large gash on the side of her facen near her temple.

I thought he had killed her thank goodness she was still with me doing what her instincts told her to do and that was to protect her child at all cost first.

Lois looked at Bruce’s lifeless body as if she saw someone else lying there; maybe it was my daddy or her father that she tried to kill in her mind. She dropped the gun down by her side. Closed her eyes and black out.

Barry was holding me back while TaQuetta and Emma both were staring at what had happened to their lover. Barry started yelling for someone anyone to call the police.No one moved. Everything seem to have ceased as we stood watching Bruce’s body get cold.

I think it was Emma who ran out the house and next-door I was so confused and dazed from everything that I couldn’t focus.

TaQuetta just seemed to blank out staring at Bruce, Im sure thanking God she was spared another moment on this earth.

I pushed Barry away from me and went to my mother. I checked her breathing and pulse it was shallow. But she was still with us.

Mama was going in and out of consciousness she kept trying to talk telling me that he wouldn’t bother me no more. She told me again that she loved me and to forgive her.

“I have already forgiven you mama please stop talking and just hold on help is on the way.?

I cried for my mother, for I had felt her pain one to many times, Lois’s voice which was never allowed to speak, be heard or taken seriously had finally spoken. Her voice had spoken out in volumes.

Lois killed Bruce to protect her daughter but more importantly Lois killed everyone with that fatal bullet that had ever treated her and told her that she would never amount to nothing and her bastard child. Lois killed for the men and women who enjoyed toying with others emotions with lies and deceit because they felt you have to accept it, Lois killed for those that cant help things such as skin color who got treated worse than those around them because one may have been lighter or darker than the other. Lois killed for those of us who didn’t get to choose a father that would stay around to watch his children grow up. She killed for those of us struggling to be heard who lives in the ghetto with no way out or hope.

Echo’s In the Ghetto

Mama survived the hit she took to the head even though I doubt she will be the same mentally after all this. Thankfully she just ended up with a severe concussion. She stayed in the hospital for the next few days until she was ready to be released into custody to the police.

As soon as bond was posted Barry and I came up with the money to get her out. Mama was charged with 1st degree Manslaughter for the death of Bruce Ballins. Even though evidence showed she was using self-defense. I guess it didn’t help that the gun wasn’t registered so they had to make it look somewhat good for Bruce’s family.

I postponed heading back to school until the following semester; I couldn’t leave my mama like that. Of course she insisted that I go but I knew she needed me. A few months later by lots of prayer and believe it or not Emma came forward to testify on behalf of mamas defense.

Emma admitted to me Brandon was Bruce’s child. She told me how at first when her mama would send her down to his place to pick up something for them to eat when money was low, Bruce would exchange his groceries if she let him touch her. She’s dating Johnny at the time so naturally she had to go with the flow of Brandon being his; she was so ashamed from performing sexual favors just so her family could eat another day.

Bruce had been using the girls in the neighborhood for years, so honestly who’s to say how many children he may have around town. I was just grateful that he wasn’t my daddy.

Emma knew she had played a role in everything from the past including the day that Bruce was shot. Emma explained it was her way to try and make up for those things meaning Rodney that she had done to our family. I accepted her apology yet I could never see our friendship again.

Since mama didn’t have any prior criminal history her sentence was reduced. She only served 2 years and that was a suspended sentence with intense probation.

The judicial system as far as I was concerned finally served justice. They didn’t care that another black man in the ghetto was dead. That’s just another problem for them as they viewed if off the streets.

As far as TaQuetta goes, well lets just say that she hasn’t bothered us anymore. I think it was an eye opener to her that life is to short to be playing the games that she did. When she would see Barry and me together she would go off into the opposite direction in a hurry.

My grandmother still hasn’t changed much but she is trying to say the least. She actually showed Lois some support during the trial. I guess it’s just something that is instilled in her and you can’t expect a lot when folks are set in their ways.

Barry and I kept our relationship and our promises to one another going once he moved to Raleigh. I wish that I could tell you that it was a happily ever after ending to this story but I cant…life wouldn’t be that simple for me I mean it doesn’t end because you leave the ghetto. Maybe one day I’ll
tell you another story and allow you to eavesdrop from yet another voice of a Ghetto Child.

The End

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