When we were last with Gerald in his hometown of New Orleans, he was kickin’ it on the streets with his friend Minew who was telling him about an opportunity with a big player, Sam Clayton, also known as Skully…
We used to go to Houston’s. Houston’s is a restaurant in the Garden District of New Orleans where they sell all soul food.
We over there at lunch time, we go sit up in that joint. All the dope boys, the killers, the whatever, they pop up in there.
And Skully had a girl called Muscles. Minew used to always tell me about her. I used to see her and damn she fine. I see why they call her Muscles.
Minew say, “Man, Gerald, man… I’m telling you, man, she trying to holler at me.”
I say, “Man, stop fakin.”
He say, “S***… You think I’m fakin? Boy, watch this…”
So Minew says, “Man, come on, we got a 5.0. Come on, you drive. Push.”
I push the car. We drive.
We get to the restaurant. He say, “Look, there she go right there.”
I was like, “Man, you messing with a heavyweight champ girl. That’s money.”
He told me, he say, “What, you scared?”
He say to her, “Where you going?”
She say, “I’m gong to eat.”
He say, “How about when I get in there, I need to talk to my man for a minute.”
She say, “You know you got that, baby.”
When I heard that, I say, “Oh my gawd”
So I say to myself, “Man…”
After a while we stood up in the joint. We ate. I got a well-done steak and potato.
I looked at Minew, I say, “What the next move?”
He say, “I might chill with her for a minute. Lay back, kick back.”
So I’m sitting in the restaurant, kicking the bobo. I’m telling Minew, I say, “Man, s***, you got a problem you got her.”
See, at the same time I had another big homie called Glen Metz. Glen was a big family dude in New Orleans. He was a big man. He like Sam Skully but he bigger than Sam.
So Glen was my man. I liked Glen. Glen was a pretty cool cat with me.
But I never knew Glen and Sam had a word, from what the street say.
To be continued. Buy Anderson’s first book, “Still Standing: How an Ex-Con Found Salvation in the Floodwaters of Katrina,” on Amazon.com.
