Lil Mama Got Me Drunk: An Urban Romance

“With the streets come consequences. How you handle the consequences determines whether you will be the predator or the prey.” That’s what I tell myself every time I step out into these streets. Nobody really cares about me other than my mama, which makes me no different from the next man. My girl stays with her hand out for herself and her family, my brothers have their own agendas and now I lose the one person who really understood me. Nothing in my life has ever been easy, but this is becoming impossible. That light they say is at the end of every tunnel must have just gone out on me. That was until I ran into Lexus Ellison; beautiful, classy and intelligent, all in one perfect package. I know I am not even close to deserving her, so what right do I have to come into her life interrupting her greatness if I can’t add to it?
Although he is tall, dark and chocolate like I prefer them, I know that Kesi Compton will be trouble for me. After all, his mother did raise my brother, and everybody that came out of that house is a beast in one way or another. Under any other circumstances, I would have never given him a second thought, but there is something about tragedy that causes the most unlikely bonds, which is exactly what this is. I have my eyes set on college while his mindset is on the next come-up. Will I have to lose myself in him to get the love I have craved my entire life, or will I be able to show him a future that’s not limited by his past?