The tepid 40 oz. bottle of Colt 45 got passed around as the boys grinned at each other.
"We finally did it!" Sneered Wiggles while retying his shoe laces.
The four hoodlums had just finished playing basketball. Jamaal,Tony,Tyrone, and Wiggles sat on the trash cans behind Remo's where they always met. Jamaal was the fatter one of the bunch so he was still out of breath.
Who do you think is going to be our next math teacher?" Asked Jamaal.
Wiggles stood up from the trash can to address his partners in crime.
"Who cares? What matters is we got rid of Mr.Young. Don't worry guys, we won't waste any time breaking in our next teacher. We run the class, not them." Said Wiggles
The boys threw their fists in the air to concur. Each one of them was wearing a jersey of their favorite NBA player. They all lived in the slums of downtown Baltimore but their parents always saw to it they wore nice clothes and name brand shoes.
Jamaal said, " What happens if they find out we made all of this up? Aren't we going to get in trouble?"
"They're not going to find out." Said Wiggles," That's why we're here to go over the story so we all have the same story."
Tyrone finished the last few swigs of Colt45 then threw the empty bottle against the concrete wall. The bottle smashed into little pieces and scattered all over the ground.
"Okay, we're all listening." Said Tyrone.
"The story goes like this." Said Wiggles," Mr.Young made the four of us stay after class. He made you three watch as he pulled down my pants and stuck a broomstick up my butt."
The three other boys hooted and hollered out with laughter. Jamaal spoke next.
"Hey I'll go along with that story because it's hilarious. At least the broomstick goes up your butt and not ours. What do you guys think?"
They all agreed that it made a great story. Definitely something that they would joke about when they got older. But there was something more to the story that Wiggles would never tell them. He had gotten the idea from his father because that's something that his father had already done to him.