“I Know My Limits”
This is a book I wrote and have been writing for a while and I finally finished it and wanted to share it here on Newgrounds.
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This book was so big I had to make it in 2 parts
By Robert Young
Chapter 1: The War and Dance
Internet City, Nevada, February 10, 2004
As far back as I could remember I always wanted to be a gangster, I lived in Internet City, city of dreams many might say a metropolis surrounded by deserts and outskirts. It became home to gang violence, drug trafficking, stock frawders, and pretty much every other crime you could think of. My name is Robert. I lived in this city and many hated the crimes and gangs but it made me feel thrilled. Me and my friends were a group of teenagers who hung around a lot of gangsters. Some of us roamed the streets of the city, looking for trouble. We were known for our reckless behavior and disregard for the law. But I Knew My Limits. I knew when to stop and when to walk away from a situation that could potentially lead to trouble. Today I was going to a girls soccer game with my friends, Leo Lucchese, Austin, Santiago Balderas, Steven, Franklin, Mauricio and Alex. We had helped the girls practice a day prior and we wanted to see if they were gonna win. Well I was at least, Leo wanted to see his girlfriend, who was playing on the soccer team her name was Jazmine. Steven was tall, had a gray and black jacket and had blonde hair, Leo was a little short, wore a gray jacket, had a diamond kind of shape haircut that was blackish and brownish. Austin was a little tall, wore a black jacket and had his hair facing up and his hair was black. Franklin was even taller then me and I’m 5’8, he wore a yellow jacket and had hair similar to Leo’s but more brown. Santiago was short, an Edgar cut, that was brown, and wore a dark blue jacket. Alex was the shortest of us all. He had a cut similar to Austin and had black hair and also wore a black jacket. Mauricio was kinda tall, had weird hair and wore a black jacket. Now playing on the soccer team was my friends named Mariana, Jazmine, Nancy, Yoselin, Karina, Mia, Melanie, Erin, Yeliana, SaRhyia, Anizel who was Yeliana’s sister, Haylee, Sonya, Mariposa, Kaylee, Josselyn, Danixa, and Jayden and many more 12th and 11th graders. My main friends on that team were Sonya, Jazmine, Haylee, and Nancy. Anyways it was 8:00 PM at night and they were playing our rivals Google University. I went to a school called Newgrounds University, located on New Ground Road. We had beat them in football twice in October. I played those games as a tight end. Anyways the girls ended up losing 5 to nothing but afterwards at 9:00 I drove with some of the girls and Leo to pick up Sergio and we could eat at Olive Garden. Except Haylee who had some business to take care of down South. We ate at a huge booth, we went there so much the waiters knew our names and knew where we liked to sit. Nancy brought her boyfriend Johnny with us and Leo brought Jazmine, Sonya brought Sergio who was her boyfriend and I was the only one alone but it was still fun talking with all of them. Jazmine had longish red hair, was short and wore a gray jacket. Nancy was also short, wore a white and brown jacket, also had longish hair but it was brownish, blackish. Sonya was really short, had short brown hair and wore a white jacket. Sergio was tall, had an Edgar cut and had a black jacket. Johnny was tall but also kind of short and had black hair that was also like Leo’s diamond shape hair. Anyways we all talked about what we were gonna do over the weekend. “So any of y’all got plans for this weekend” Sonya asked. “Spend it with my new bae hopefully” Jazmine said while smiling at Leo. “What about you Nance?” asked Sonya again. “I gotta finish my vision board for Mr. Head’s graphics design class.” Nancy responded. “Robert what about you?” I said “The school put me in charge of producing a movie for their annual NG Movie Festival. Then Sonya asked me what the movie I was producing was gonna be about. I said “Its gonna either be a parody of Goodfellas or Catch me if you can'' Johnny said “Robert not gonna lie but its been so long since we’ve seen both those movies I don’t remember that part” Leo said “Oh hey let’s rent Jurassic Park from Blockbuster and go to Sonya’s house and watch it.” Jazmine said “Mmm thats a good idea” Sonya said “Yeah that’s fine we can do that but I’m not paying for it I’m already splitting the bill with Robert on this Olive Garden dinner.” Leo said “Alright I’ll pay to rent it” so I said “Y’all wanna roll with us to rent it or y’all want us to drop you off” the girls all agreed they wanted to be dropped off so did Sergio and Johnny. Sergio didn’t talk much because he was too busy stuffing his face with spaghetti. Anyways we got out of Olive Garden at 10:30. Johnny left to go see his parents. Then as we were leaving the place a Green Mercury Marquis drove up with four people inside it, that was when we knew we had to get down and get our guns out. It belonged to our rival gang the 4Chan Gang they shot at us right there at that Olive Garden. None of us were harmed but as they were driving off Leo chased after the car up to the Olive Garden sign. He yelled at them as they burned off, “Come back here you pussy, cock sucking pieces of shit and fight me like a man.” He came back to us and said “Coward chickens on my mama they cowards” They did a drive by because there was a major gang war happening over territory control. The Internet City Crime Families was losing its grip in this city ever since some capos were arrested in a drug scandal. See the thing is and I truly believe this, the capos were murderers, criminals, and had things to do with bank robberies in the city but the drug things they never did, I truly believe the Internet City Police Department framed them. And the 4Chan Family was growing. The leader of all five families was Keemstar the host of DramaAlert and he was in hiding ever since the other capos went away. Anyways we didn’t let it ruin our night though we continued as if it was just another day because for us getting shot at was. Anyways me and Leo dropped off the girls and Sergio then went to Blockbuster to rent Jurassic Park on DVD. It was quick and easy. I also rented Super Smash Bros Melee for the GameCube so we could play it at Sonya’s house the next day. See we didn’t live at her place but we might as well have been there so much Sonya had us start paying a small part of rent every month. Anyways then me and Leo drove to her house so we could all gather around and watch Jurassic Park. We all gathered around Sonya's tiny but cozy living room and watched the movie after a year of not watching it. It was nice watching that movie again. Goodfellas, The Patriot and Catch me if you can were my favorite movies. Then everyone went to bed except me, I went into the kitchen where Sonya’s work computer was and I booted it up on my user and played a game called RuneScape 2. It was released in 2003 and since its release I have loved that game. I’d spend hours sometimes playing from 9PM to 2AM playing games like RuneScape, Mario Strikers, GTA Vice City or Half Life on a new game launcher called Steam. Anyways at 3 or 4AM I’d pass out on Sonya’s couch watching Two and A Half Men. I’d wake up that morning at 11 and make a Cup Roman Noodle and get a Sprite or Coke to drink then I’d go home and work on something. Anyways this time when I left, everyone rode along because we had to plan for the dance our college was having that night. I arrived at around noon, I had to meet with the cheerleaders which consisted of Sonya, Kaylee, Jayden, Jazmine, Nancy, and a girl I knew named Mariposa. I had to meet with them on how they were gonna perform. Then I had to meet with the Student council which consisted of students named Kenneth, Ismenia, Yoselin, Keva, Mildre, Karina, and Mia. They managed everything that happened in the school other than the actual staff. Then I met with Mr. Head for yearbook club. I had to pay off a bunch of the people in yearbook because if they took pictures of certain people and those pictures landed back at an agents desk, like DEA, FBI, CIA or regular police. If photos of crime family guys landed on there desk the feds would be on our ass until they could do a whole raid that would put us all away. It wouldn’t be safe to discuss business at school anymore, anywhere we walked could probably have been tapped. Then I met with the DJ, now the DJ was sent down from the bosses as a show of respect for me, Leo and the girls. This DJ had all the music before it even released. He played me a song called Crazy In Love that was set to come out in May of this year by Beyonce. His name was DJ Shaw. He even had this other song that was my favorite of the whole mix called La Bachata by a Mexican group called La Pocima Norteña. Another one that was good was Dancing in the Moonlight by Kingharvest and Amor by Alta Elegancia. Most of his list I hadn’t even heard before. It was like the guy was from the future. Anyway in the middle of planning Kaylee comes to me and says “Its for you” while handing me her phone. I get her Nokia and say “Hello” it was Jailyn, a girl I knew who lived just outside the Newgrounds district. She was suppose to be here at the school with us planning but wasn’t. She said the owner at the grocery store she worked at touched her and tried to rape her. I said “Hang on I’ll be right there” I had never heard her sound so distressed I had to tell her “Woah woah woah Jailyn slow down” Then she told me what happen. I yelled “Hang on I’m on the way!!!” I dropped Kaylee’s phone and yelled “I gotta go!” I got my Air Force staff sergeant jacket on as I was running and Kaylee yelled at me and asked “What's wrong?!” I said “Its Jailyn!!!” I rushed over to the grocery store and saw her outside the store I asked if she was alright and she was crying. She said the guy she worked with for over 2 years began to touch her and when she pushed him away he slapped her with his belt. I told her to wait inside the car. I walked over inside the store and the guy just laughed at me. He could see the anger in my face, he knew why I was angry and why I was there. He told me “Who the fuck are you, Jailyn’s little boy to-” before he could finish I hit him ten times in the head with the handle of my revolver. He was lying on the floor in the store with his head bleeding and I pointed my finger right up in his face and yelled “I SWEAR ON MY FUCKIN MOTHER, IF YOU EVER TOUCH HER AGAIN YOUR DEAD!!!” then I hit him one more time. Everyone in the store just looked at me in shock. The guy had two friends that were also left in shock, I pointed my gun at them just to show I meant business. Then left, Security didn’t fuck with me, they were on the payroll. I walked back to the car with Jailyn in it. I asked her if she was alright now. She asked me to take her home. I said sure but we had to make a stop first. It was at Apple River, I stopped there and put my gun in a hole and buried it temporarily. That way there was no record I ever had a gun. I drove Jailyn back to her house and asked if she would be alright. She said yes, I then asked why she called me of all people to come save her skin. She said she thought of someone that made her feel safe and that was me. She was worried to go back to the grocery store and work I told her not to worry and that no one there was gonna fuck with her ever again. I asked if she was gonna be alright and she said yes. Then I went back to the school to help finish setting up. Kaylee asked me what had happened when I got back and I explained it to her. Then we finished and we had 20 minutes before we opened our doors for the dance. I sat with Sonya, Nancy, Jazmine, Leo, Kaylee, and our teachers, Ms. Soto who was the soccer coach, Ms. Stone and Ms. Garza and we all talked in that 20 minute window. My biology teacher Mr. Hernandez opened the doors and the dance started. Everyone started having a good time. They played a bunch of great songs that no one had even heard before. My other friends and very known gangsters, Martin Oritz, Anthoni Sellers and Jose Perez showed up. I hung around them a bunch. About an hour passed and I was already on my 6th soda for the night. I loved drinking soda. If you offered me a billion dollars not to drink soda I wouldn’t take it. Anyways I was talking with Nancy and then I saw Kaylee she was hanging around Jayden. I told Nancy about my little crush on Kaylee and she told me to ask her to dance. Ironic to the timing, my favorite song came on La Bachata. Nancy pushed me to ask Kaylee to dance but I didn’t, I was scared of what she was gonna say. I was scared of getting laughed at by her other friends next to her. I couldn’t stop thinking of her for the rest of that night. Finally I gained the courage to ask her but as I was walking towards her, I got a call from Moses and Mariposa, they said they wanted me to whack a guy in the Google District. I had whacked people before but this hit was my highest paying one yet, they promised me a hundred thousand dollars to do it. The guy was a capo in the 4Chan gangs. He had killed many of our friends before including a couple of my closest friends. Anyways they gave me a time and location, they said the guy was gonna think I’m meeting about buying his business from him. I had to change from my suit into a leather beige coat. Leo drove me to the shop, it was a small shop aligned with all the other buildings on the road. The guy was named Dally Bob. He wore a black hat with a leather black coat. He saw me get out of the car and he said “Hey are you the guy wanting to buy this place off me” I said “Yeah I am and uh-” then I pulled out my gun from my tan leather jacket and I shot him in the head three times. Then I got back in the car and Leo drove us to Sonya’s. Waiting there was Nancy, Jazmine, Sergio and Sonya of course. When I got there I saw Kaylee. I asked Sonya why she was there since she didn’t even like her and she said Nancy and her thought it’d be funny if they invited her for the night to see how awkward I’d be around her. We all just minded our own business for a while and watched or played on the computer in our own rooms. Then the power went out. No AC, no internet, all we had was water. Sonya got out the Portable DVD player and we all gathered around the couch and watched Remember The Titans, our favorite Football movie, then we put on the movie Casino and half way through it everyone fell asleep except me. The power came back at around 2 AM and I put on Two and A Half Men and watched an episode of that then I put on South Park.
Chapter 2: Drifters
A week after that dance, Tino invited me, Steven, and Mariposa to go watch Street races. We agreed. I only agreed because I wanted to place some bets to feed my gambling addiction. I drink soda like a degenerate, but I gamble like a brain surgeon I’ve been told. Anyways we watched three street races then at around 9:01 PM the races quickly escalated to drift shows. 100s of people gathered around under city lights. They all watched the cars drift in the intersection. They ran red lights and shot fireworks. “Tino why the hell are you getting so close!” Mariposa yelled at Tino as he got closer and closer to the Challenger drifting. Mariposa turned to me and Steven and said “That boy is gonna wind up getting himself killed someday watch”. Steven said to her “Ugh come on you two learn to live a little” I said “We can live a little just fine, Steven but getting closer to cars as they drift is asking for suicide.” Steven and Tino both kept getting closer to the car. One cop car showed up at 9:23. I couldn’t believe what had happened either, everyone gathered around the car and continuously pushed it back with their body and hands. The officer also kept driving backwards as more and more people gathered, people threw glass bottles at the car and one person kept shooting at the officers lights and windows. I mean I couldn’t believe it. Here is someone in a cop car and the suspects first reaction is to shoot at the officer. The entire crowd was dispersed by 9:45. We left as soon as a cop showed up. As we were driving around Tino said he got a text from one of his other friends saying that they were gonna continue the show in the North side of town. Tino asked if we wanted to tag along to watch the show go on. Steven went but me and Mariposa had them drop us off at her place a couple of miles away. We got to her place at 9:50. “I cannot believe what has gotten into Tino and Steven what are those crazy bastards thinking?” Mariposa asked me. I said to her “I don’t know but I want no part in it, especially considering our records, if a fed catches us just for participating in street racing we’re fucked” Mariposa responded with “Well whatever happens to those two hopefully they don’t get caught or worse.” I responded with “Agreed” then me and her just talked about school for a little longer. Then I got out my Macbook Air and we worked on documents for a business idea of mine. Then we watched Back To the Future. Then at 1:18 AM Tino and Steven pull up. They are distressed, “QUICK YOU GUYS GOTTA GET IN THE CAR NOW HURRY” said Steven. We didn’t know what happen but we could just hear the distress in his voice and how worried they both seemed Tino’s face said it all. Mariposa and I look at each other with an expression on our faces that says what did these two do now? Then we hopped in the car with them. “Woah it smells like ass back here” I said as soon as Mariposa closed the door. Steven responded with “Yeah that's cus Tino’s dumb ass shot a cop” Mariposa began yelling after he said that. “Wait WHAT, you killed a cop” she yelled. “Yeah he’s in the back seat” We both looked back there and saw the body of the police officer. I said “Wait wait wait, why the hell did you bring us along you know what our families will do if they find out about this” I yelled. See you were allowed to kill whoever you wanted but made men, cops, government people, DEA, or agents were all off limits. If you killed a cop or an agent and the bosses found out about it, you’d be whacked. Steven drove us to the outskirts of the city. The outskirts is all desert no cell towers, no civilization just straight desert. A lot of people were buried in the desert along with a lot of problems. The areas where the families buried there problems were out 12 miles in the desert. This time we drove 36 miles out to bury the officer. We spent 3 hours digging the hole then we put the officer in there. Then we buried him. We left a pin in the ground out there as well in case we had to come back. “Holy, I cannot believe we did that, '' said Tino. “Yeah because it was yo dumb ass who shot him” said Steven. Mariposa said to us “Listen guys lets just agree not to speak of this ever again once we get back to the city, okay?” We all agreed this was a night we’d never forget but wished we could. We drove back to Internet City and I don’t think any of us slept that night. We were all too scared of what would happen if the bosses found the body. Sure it was unlikely that they would and even if they did they wouldn’t know who did it but it still kept us up. Still we also thought of what if another cop found it and ran forensics and traced it back to all of us. We didn’t want any of that to happen. Me and Mariposa were the ones most concerned, especially considering we had nothing to do with the officer getting shot but they dragged us into it anyway. Anyways from that day we all started being a lot more on our toes then usual.
Chapter 3: Crazy Kenneth
The next day in the afternoon, I went to Sonya’s house and Sonya asked if I had heard the news. I told her “No I was very busy last night.” She told me to come in the house and when I entered I saw Nancy, a concerned looking Jazmine, and Sergio on the couch all looking at the news. Sonya boosted the volume. I heard “What is Up Def Noodles Nation, I’m your host killer Def Noodles, folks today’s top story is Leo Lucchese was arrested last night as a suspect to the murder of boss of the alleged Internet City Crime Families boss, Pyrocynical, Pyro for short. He is also being charged on a racketeering and RICO case. Furthermore, evidence that the Internet City Crime Syndicate exists folks. I’m telling you Keemstar runs it, I do not know why people refuse to accept that. Lucchese awaits trial at Banned Asylum For The Criminally Insane, his bail is currently set at 10,000 dollars.” Jazmine turned off the TV saying she couldn’t watch anymore. “I vistited him last night, he said he thinks he can beat this.” Jaz said. I said to them “Wait wait wait back up, Pyro’s dead?” I asked. Sonya said “Oh my god Robert did you sleep for the last 48 hours?” I just said “I told you I was busy last night” We continued to all chat about what we could do to help Leo out of that situation, then my phone rang. She picked it up and said “Hello” the person on the phone was our boss Moses. He said “Listen with Leo away, the bosses say they wanna meet with you on what to do about a little problem of ours, meet them at 9:30 PM tonight at the Internet Cafe downtown” I asked him “Why me, why did the bosses want me?” he said “Because you know Crazy Kenneth Garcia better then anyone” Then he hung up the phone before I could ask anymore questions, I thought what did Kenneth do now. He known by downtowners and locals as Kenneth Garcia, but most people especially the papers, called him Crazy Kenneth Garcia. He was a hit partner of mine and Leo’s, until the bosses had us stop working together. We all worked together for 3 years. See they don’t call him crazy for nothing the reason they call him that was because he once kidnapped all the under bosses of the Right Opinion Crime Family and almost killed one of them if he didn’t become a made member but he got arrested and went in to jail for 10 years the boss of the Right Opinion Crime Family went into hiding and a person named Poncho took over the family. The bosses didn’t whack him then because he was powerless when he got out. Anyways I went to the meeting and I met every boss of the Five Families including
Poncho who ran the Facebook slash Meta District. Then I met Edwin Generations who ran the Microsoft District. Then Jason Garcia, Crazy Kenneth’s father who ran the Archive.org, Wikipedia and Pirates Bay territories. Then Turkey Tom who ran Yahoo and Amazon Districts. Last but not least I met the boss of all bosses. Don “Killer” Keemstar he formed the families, he had his hand in all the other boss’s stuff and ran the Google District. The meeting began and the first words that were spoken were from Keemstar he said “Alright, Robert, I’m sure you're wondering why we called you here? That is because you and Leo knew Crazy Kenneth better than anyone, now the reason we need you here is because Crazy Kenneth is the one who whacked Pyro, well at least hired the guy to whack him. Every boss agreed Crazy Kenneth had to go except for his father, Jason Garcia, who said he’d go to war with the bosses if we killed him. “Your sons a psychopath he doesn’t know who he can and can’t kill” Keemstar yelled. “Well what about Robert, Moses’s guy, he’s killed just as many people as Garcia who’s to say he won’t kill one of us huh” I said to him “I know my limits” Then Turkey Tom said to Jason “Robert has proved his worth and knows his place and knows who to touch and who to not your son is the exact opposite” All the bosses agreed with Tom. I had never wanted to shoot someone more than when Jason tried to get the bosses to turn on me. I couldn’t shoot him then in there of course to kill a boss or a made member you have to ask permission from all five of the bosses and if they don’t give you the okay to kill them and you do it anyways your dead that’s exactly why this meeting was happening in the first place Garcia killed a made member and didn’t ask permission but then all the bosses turn to me and ask me if we should kill Garcia I thought about it and considered it but I didn’t want a war to start out of it “I think we should force Garcia to pay 100 million to us in 6 months” the bosses agreed that was a good idea so anyways me and Keem leave and Keem is just surprised that I didn’t want him dead “I mean you could have him dead why didn’t you” I replied by saying “there’s nothing to gain from war” that was the end of it no one that wasn’t in that meeting room that day on that night knew that we were considering killing Garcia not even Crazy Kenneth himself knew. A mob war though was bad for everyone, because it shines a light on all of us and has the feds breathing down all our necks. After that though me and Keem became close friends, he instantly took a shine to me.
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