### chapter 4: Meet Zane

    HEY ! Enough of Riku stuff , let's talk about myself

MY NAME IS ZANE , VALENTINO ZANE RICARDO, s/o Joseph Ricardo and Mary Anna Ricardo. The RICARDO family is a military family. My dad was a top commando, and my mom was in the air force. Well, they were. I was left in a military boarding school from the age I could stand. I was trapped in a life I hated. I never met my parents except for some calls or cards. When I was 12, I got the chance to meet them, but they arrived in coffins. All they left me was a bank balance and a note that said, "BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE." Well, SCREW THAT. I hated them, and the court sent me to my retired drunk uncle who lived in this city. That's how I ended up here.

One day, my uncle (I don't even remember his name) told me to get out of the house. The first thing I was supposed to do was call the authorities. BUT I DIDN'T. INSTEAD, I SCREAMED AT MY HIGHEST VOICE, ENJOYING MY FREEDOM, AND HIT THE STREETS.

But the streets are not easy. I needed some money, and if I needed money, I had to work. But who would give a SCRAPPY LOOKING 14-year-old a job? That's when I found out there was a place where you could place bets on bikes. Well, that was new to me, but I gave it a try. I GOT SOME MONEY, SOMETIMES LOST.( If you don't know about these bets , let me tell you, even if you win a bet you have to act you didn't cause it's way harder to take the money out of the club than to win some money ) After a month or two, I was out of money and starving. That's when I met Riku. Bro was on his bike with an older dude, and he came up to me and said, "WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?" I was like, "Like what? Bro just came up to me to pick a fight?" (I had no idea who he was. The only thing I knew was this dude in front of me had no idea who I was or how much I HATED MY DAMN LIFE). That night, he found out how a punch from a military kid feels like (bro was screaming like he was a little barbie girl).

After that night, I don't have any little notch idea how this little gangster became my family and only bro. AND HOW I BECAME A  GANG MEMBER OF BLACK ROSE. And now I stand here in the park, holding an ice cream, licking it, watching RIKU AND HIS CHUPER CHWEETY GF riding a merry-go-round. I was dying inside, (not only cause the fact i hate sitting there like a scarecrow , I WAS HAVING A MINT FLAVOUR ICE CREAM CAUSE THAT WAS ONLY LEFT IN THE STORE ) and out of nowhere, a cat jumped into my ice cream and spilled it.

"You greedy son of a black cat, I am gonna make a hot dog out of you!"

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