Book excerpt: Bell came running down the street because she seen that I was about to fight, she told me get back because I was pregnant. So she ran to keep Hattie and Debra from Hazel I felt like it all was my fault because they were trying to protect my dumb ass. When will I get a backbone to stand up for myself, that’s when you know love is truly blind. Being a teenager really sucked back then to me, you did and allowed and thing for your so call boyfriend. During the time Marcus worked for in the coco cola company in their warehouse. Everything just keeps getting worst. Marcus was in the army before he meets me; he had a grant from the military to use.