Darryl, Sean, Mario, and Julian were standing on the street corner in Darryl's neighborhood.


"Darryl, I dare you to shoot that old guy with this gun," Sean said to Darryl, handing him a pistol gun. "It's loaded," Sean added. Darryl looked at him warily.

"What kind of "dare" is that? Are you crazy, Sean?" he said in a shocked tone. What kind of friends do I keep? Darryl wondered internally.

"No, I just know how to have a good time." Sean said with a smirk.

Darryl firmly pushed the gun back into Sean's hands. "Take this thing out of my sight", he said in a cold, even voice.

Mario taunted in a baby voice, "What's the matter? Afraid to play with guns?'"

Darryl gave Mario a cold look. "Oh shut up, Mario. Didn't you learn not to play with guns when you were little?"

Julian said, "What a baby. We shoot people all the time now. Of course you wouldn't know that since you went to that poo-poo boarding school, Johnson."

"You guys actually shoot people as a game?" Darryl asked, shocked and disgusted.

"Yeah", Julian, Mario, and Sean said in unison.

"What the fuck is wrong with you three? Shooting people isn't a game. It's a felony", Darryl said disgusted.

Sean said, "Don't act like you're Mr. Goody Two-Shoes, Darryl", he said in a sarcastic tone. Then in a sugary sweet voice, he said, "Remember the robbed stores and the stolen cars? Remember the robbed houses? The muggings?"

"That was different. I am not like that anymore. And stealing people's belongings is a lot different than shooting them," he argued.

"Oh shut up. We just wanna have fun." Then he sang in the tune of Cyndi Lauper's song, "We just wanna have fun."

"Your kind of fun is not my kind of fun", Darryl said evenly.

Sean stared at him icily and took the gun and aimed it at the old guy, who looked to be in his 60's. "Let's resume the the game, shall we?", he said to Julian and Mario.

"Yes"! Julian said eagerly.

"Do it!" Mario said excitedly.

Sean nodded.

"Nooo!" Darryl screamed inhumanly. He lunged at Sean, trying to stop him from pulling the trigger and shooting the old man. He ended up making Sean drop the gun. Sean and he both dove for it and both got the gun. They both stood up, still holding the gun. Sean snatched the gun out of Darryl's hands. He aimed the gun at the man again. Darryl slapped Sean's hands, trying to get Sean to let go of the gun. When that didn't work, he tried to pry the gun out of Sean's hands.

Sean punched Darryl in the face, with his right hand and held the gun in his left.Then he kicked him in his shins, causing him to fall down. He reaimed the gun and shot the old man. Darryl watched helplessly from the ground as the man keeled over.

"That was fun, wasn't it," Sean said to the other two friends.

"It's how we do it," Julian said with a big smile. Mario nodded.

Darryl got up and Sean stood right in front of him. He put the pistol under Darryl's jaw. "If you tell anyone what you saw, I'll shoot you", he said in a deathly cold, quiet voice. "Remember, my baby's still loaded", he said with a cold smile.

"I won't", Darryl said, trembling with fear, but trying to hide it. He internally gulped. What kind of maniac friends do I have? I just saw him shoot a guy in cold blood. My other friends agree with him because they do this all the time! Darryl felt sick to his stomach.

"And remember D, your fingerprints are on this gun, so if you snitch, it will be your word against all three of us, and it won't look good that your prints are on this gun, now will it?" Sean said with a wicked gleam and a smile.

Darryl shook his head and said in a cold voice, "Take that gun away from my jaw."

Sean said, "You've changed, D. You used to be hardcore. Now you're just..... a wimp." He put the gun down. "It's always so heartbreaking to see someone waste so much talent". He shook his head and looked at Darryl with sad disappointment.