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a
bitch,” the teenager yelled at Cannon.
    “ I’ll let you go soon as
the police get here.”
    Yasmine looked closer at the teenager
and realized she knew him. He lived in the next building over. A
police car with sirens blaring pulled into the parking lot and two
police officers stepped out and walked briskly toward them. Some of
her neighbors began to assemble outside of their apartments as
well.
    “ Ricky, why did you break
into my apartment?” Yasmine’s heart was saddened to know he’d tried
to steal from her. She was always so nice to him and his baby
sister.
    “ I didn’t,” he snapped in
anger.
    Cannon tightened his grip on the boy’s
shoulder as the boy tried to yank away when the police
arrived.
    “ You didn’t? Well explain
to me why you were rummaging through Ms. Dubose’s jewelry box, and
I found this watch in your pocket?” Cannon held up a men’s watch
that belong to her father.
    “ I ain’t got to tell you
nothing.” He jerked away, and Cannon let him go. The boy tried to
run, but one of the officers grabbed him while the other placed the
handcuffs on him.
    “ No, but you do have to
tell us,” the police officer said as he locked the cuffs on Ricky’s
wrists.
    “ And me,” a woman yelled
as she walked between Cannon and Yasmine and stood in front of
Ricky.
    “ Mom!”
    “ How dare you break into
Ms. Dubose’s home,” she snapped as he hung his head in shame. “Is
this the first time or are you a part of the group of robbers
everyone has been complaining about for the past few months, and
you finally got caught?” She jerked his head up. “Look at me when
I’m talking to you. Why, Ricky? Why?” She placed her hands on
either side of her son’s face with tears rolling down
hers.
    Yasmine’s heart broke for her. True,
Yasmine was upset that her apartment was broken into, but she knew
how hard Ricky’s mom worked to provide for him and his
sister.
    “ Do you want to go back to
juvy, because that’s where they’re taking you?” She looked at the
police officer that was holding him. “Get him out of my sight.” She
turned away with a look of disgust.
    “ Let’s go, kid,” the
officer said, taking Ricky toward the squad car. His mother
apologized to Yasmine before walking toward her apartment with a
group of women trying to comfort her.
    The other officer questioned them
about what had happened, as well as a few neighbors who thought
there might be some other boys involved. Thirty minutes later, she
sat in Cannon’s lap on her couch. His warm embrace made her feel
more protected and secure than the new locks that the on-call
maintenance guy had just changed. She rested her head on Cannon’s
chest as he rubbed her back.
    “ Thank you for being here
with me,” she whispered, resting her head on his
shoulder.
    “ Shhh … just relax. It’s
over now.”
    She sat up to look at him. “You took a
risk coming in here to look for the burglar. What if he’d had a
gun?”
    “ I wasn’t thinking about
that. I just wanted to beat the crap out of whoever had the
audacity to break into my girl’s place.”
    My girl? She smiled at his words. She’d wanted to
be his girl since
her freshman year of high school. They’d only been on one date and
experienced a surreal kiss, so she was sure he didn’t mean it like
that, but at least he wanted to protect her.
    “ Now you see why I’m ready
to move?” She slid off of his lap onto the couch.
    “ When is your lease
up?”
    “ Next summer.”
    “ A frat brother of mine is
an attorney. I’ll call him in the morning and see what he can do.
I’ll need to send him a copy of your lease. You shouldn’t have to
stay in an unsafe environment. You’ve got noisy college students
and now a group of teenagers who think it’s okay to break into
people’s home in the same area where they live.”
    “ But I still need to find
another apartment to live in if I’m even able to get out of my
lease without having to pay the fee.”
    “