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up!”
    â€œNaw, niggah! You let her up and then I’ll back up!”
    Big Ant slowly raised his hands in the air and climbed his big ass off of me. Sparkle kept the pistol pointed at him as he backed his way out of the apartment. She followed him into the hallway until he got on the elevator and went down. She ran back into the apartment and screamed at me to move quickly.
    â€œLet’s go! Now !”
    Sparkle snatched a bag that was already packed and ready to go. It was as if she knew someday she would have to make an emergency exit. I ran to the elevator and pushed the button, but Sparkle grabbed my hand and pulled me toward the stairs.
    â€œNo! The stairs! Come on!”
    â€œThat’s sixteen flights!”
    â€œCOME ON!” Sparkle screamed.
    Sparkle was in great shape because she ran down all sixteen flights without stopping once. I had to take a couple of breathers aroundthe eleventh and third floors. Sparkle cursed me every time I stopped.
    â€œ Come on! ” Sparkle yelled at me while she was standing at the bottom of the stair. “ Get your ass down these stairs! ”
    â€œI’m trying!” I yelled back as I leaned on the rail for support.
    â€œIf you get us killed, I swear I’m gon’ kick your ass, girl!“
    When we reached the first floor, Sparkle pulled out her gun and slowly opened the door to the lobby area. We could see Big Ant and Mr. Harry standing near the elevator. Sparkle tapped me on the shoulder and I followed her through a rear door, which led to the parking lot. We slipped into her car quietly and unseen, but once she started the car, she put the pedal to the metal! She burned rubber speeding out of that driveway.
    â€œI got to find you a place to stay.”
    â€œI have money, Ida. We can go stay at a hotel.”
    â€œThat’s not safe, baby. Mr. Harry and his goons will finds us in no time.”
    â€œWell, what we are we going to do?”
    â€œI don’t know, but we have to do something quick.”
    Sparkle pulled into the parking lot of a Waffle House restaurant and cut the car off. “I have to take you to DFACS!”
    â€œNo! I’m not going back there. I’ll only end up in a foster home.”
    â€œI’m sorry, Shante, but what else can I do? I have to get out of town for a while, and I can’t leave you behind living on the streets.”
    â€œI’ll be okay.”
    â€œLike you’re okay now?” Sparkle looked at me sarcastically. “You’re sixteen years old trying to survive in a world where most adults can’t even make it.”
    â€œI have to do what I have to do.”
    â€œ Stop saying that !” Sparkle screamed. “Living on the street is not what you have to do! There are people who can help you, but you have to want them to help you.”
    â€œThose people don’t care nothing about me!”
    â€œWell, you have no choice, baby.”
    â€œI’m sixteen now and I can make my own decisions on where I want to live.”
    â€œOkay, you’re sixteen. You think you’re grown, so where are you going to live?”
    I tried my best to think of an adult answer to Sparkle’s question before she hit me with her follow-up response, but I couldn’t.
    â€œThat’s what I thought! So, this is what we’re going to do. I’m going to take you to some close friends of mine and they’ll take good care of you.”
    â€œPlease, Ida, I know you’re trying to help me, but I don’t want to live with anybody else. I’m too big. They’re only going to kick me out.”
    â€œNot these people. They’re good people.”
    â€œThat’s what they always say.”
    â€œI know these people and they will take good care of you. I promise.”
    â€œHow do you know they will let me live with them?”
    â€œBecause I just know, that’s how.”
    â€œShoot,” I sighed, “I’m going to