1969-2001 Part 1

It was your average day at a porn shop. Same freaks, different day as it was. Dante sat at the front counter bored out of his mind. He placed his Wizard magazine down and looked at the security cameras. It was never a good idea to keep your eyes off the camera for too long in a place like this.
After a while he started to feel strange. Not a bad strange but just…different. He called for an employee to come to the front counter and asked if he could leave. He didn’t ask really. He knew that he was leaving in about an hour anyway. At this point he was done with everything he needed to do. The strange feeling he had would not leave so he headed home, conveniently located upstairs from where he worked. He walked upstairs, laid down, and fell asleep immediately.
He woke up with the phone ringing. He thought that maybe it was his job asking him to come in for an employee who had not shown up. He looked down at his pillow and saw a large ring of sweat. He answered the phone and it was his mother. She sounded worried.
“Get to the hospital” she said. “Kevin got hurt.”
“Okay” Dante said. “Which hospital is he at?” Dante checked his wallet and saw how much money he had left. Enough for a cab ride. His girlfriend was at work still so that wasn’t an option. I need to get a car he thought to himself.
“Daniel Freeman” his mother said and hung up.
Dante did not know how seriously the situation was. He figured that while working at his new job that his brother did something stupid and got hurt. Dante got dressed, called a cab, and called his girlfriend to tell her about what happened and to meet him there if she could.
In the cab ride Dante talked to the driver. He joked that his brother got hurt at work. The driver said that his brother could get a lot of money if he got hurt while working. Dante agreed and said that the money could be used to ay him back for the cab ride all the way to Inglewood.
Dante showed up and saw a few cousins he had not seen in a while. That’s weird he thought to himself. I haven’t seen her or him in a while. Dante saw his father standing outside smoking and headed to an entrance. He saw one of his cousins and said hello. He had his drawing book in his hands and figured that he’d be in the waiting room for a really long time bored.
Dante entered a room where his mother, aunt, and two people he did not know were sitting. As soon as he looked at his mother he knew something terrible had happened.
He had no idea.