I couldn’t fucking believe it. Just a few weeks ago I was in my mother’s kitchen reading all the long lost journals from my ancestors. I read about all the drugs, all the gambling, all the women, but most importantly about all the shootings. Sheesh. I spent so many nights fantasizing about how I’d have all the broads selling their souls for me! But here I was. In Downtow L.A. And you wouldn’t believe what I was doing on this hot ass California day. You guessed it! Mowing the fucking lawn! While I wanted to be out there shooting shit like your neighborhood comic book, I couldn’t tell the owner of The Hounds Of Justice’s HQ that. He’d give me another 24 hour speech about how this was his yard & how this lawnmower was passed down from him to me. First of all, the guy had a Jewish haircut & it looked like he rarely ever slept. But he had a big suit & everything I wanted to be in life. I’d do whatever it took to hopefully one day get like him. You know, minus the haircut. Anyways, I guess this is where the story begins....

ShoNuff was listening to Boogie rant a little.

Boogie you’re a good man.  I know exactly where you are coming from for I have mowed that fucking yard several times myself.  But you will go from mowing it to protecting it in no time.  You see my brother, there’s a bigger picture.  You have to look at what the yard surrounds. It surrounds an establishment which RomanReigns has made a great investment.  He has the integrity and respect. It’s a place where the doors are open for us, where he shares the knowledge as to how to survive in this thing of ours. He will do anything necessary to keep us safe enabling us to grow and prosper.

He takes a lot of pride in his yard and the environment he has created for us, which makes us proud to protect it and keep it looking beautiful. 

Take your time brother man, the drugs, gambling, and women will become secondary once you realize the bigger picture.   My Dad once told me a man is only as good as his reputation.

Bebe sat quite a ways away from the conversation that was taking place between Boogie and Sho_Nuff. She groaned a bit, then sighed, then wiped the sweat from her brow. She couldn't believe how hot it was outside, or how lucky Boogie was to be using a lawn mower. 

RomanReigns had told her to go outside and pick weeds. With her hands! Her damn hands! She had just put moisturizer on and he approached her telling her to go pick weeds. How demeaning..

She picked each weed, tossing it angrily to the side, hoping deep down that it planted itself again and regrew into a new weed, and that she wasn't the person that had to come out and pick it the next time.

Standing up, she brushed the dirt and grass off her butt and walked over to Boogie and Sho_Nuff, saying, "Guess it's lawn care day, huh? Just be glad you're not me. I'm over there picking weeds by hand. Wanna' swap or no? No? Okay.."

She grudgingly walked back over to where she had been sitting in the grass, plopping down and continuing to pick weeds.

ShoNuff looks over at Bebe.  Poor baby girl on weed duty.  He walks over to give her a hand.

Bebe looks up and smiles as Sho_Nuff walks over and plops down next to her.

She wipes off a bead of sweat that was about to go in her eye before saying, "Thanks. I appreciate you helping. I wonder what everyone else is doing honestly. Probably inside having a big party!"

As I sat down next to Bebe and started pulling up some weeds.

Nah, they are probably on clean up duty from the jailing party RomanReigns hosted yesterday.  What a good time, the little that I enjoyed, kind of passed out from the moonshine, ShawHustle  's koolaid and the blunts.

She giggled a little, remembering the drunken ramblings she could hear from her room the night before.

"Yeah," she said. "I did recall a bunch of drunk people around the headquarters. So you're right. That's probably what they're doing."

Oh and by the way these weeds are really called "home grown"

"Home grown?" She asked him. "Not sure quite what you mean by that but.. Okay."

"Home Grown?!?", Roman yelled as he pulled a weed from Sho_nuffs ear."I don't think either of us hear you right?"

Roman looked around as his family was tending to the yard. This was something he had always dreamed of. The sleepless nights were over, the sun shined down in Downtown and the yard needed to be up kept more then ever. Looking over to Bebe, I picked her up by her overalls and placed her on her feet.

"This is my yard", is what I said to her as I put some dirt into her overall pocket as I turned and headed into the headquarters.

Bebe looked at RomanReigns as he walked away. The muscles sure were nice but DAMN that attitude. She scoffed at him and mumbled under her breath, “Just gonna’ call it my yard...” 

She dipped her fingers in her pocket to get the dirt out then decided to just leave it there so she wouldn’t get anymore dirt under her fingernails. She stormed off into the headquarters and over to the family bar, pouring herself a much-needed drink. 

ShoNuff walked in behind Bebe, poured him a drink too and pulled her to the side. This might be his yard but someone is trying to pull the wool over RomanReigns eyes.  He pulled two different weeds from his pocket.  Look baby girl he showed her the first weeds.  This is a weed; it’s used to camouflage this one.  He showed her the other one.  This is a bud.  He held up the first weeds, this weed you throw away, held up the second one, this one the bud is the kind that you smoke.  Get my drift? Why do you think its hidden so far back in the yard?   Maybe we need to get all that bud out of there.  Don’t want the Feds looking around.

She gasped and looked at the bud, taking a sip of her drink before saying, "You're right. We probably should get that out of there. Then you guys can have a hayday with it. Or sell it or something. Who knows!"

ShoNuff shakes his head in agreement with Bebe.

But before we clean it all out we need to find out who has planted it here.  The people who planted it will be coming back to reap the benefits.  What we need to do first is set up some type of surveillance to see if we can catch the culprits. We can hook up with ShawHustle I know he is familiar with that kind of stuff.   I think they might be entering the property through that back fence. We have to inform the crew. We can get some of the ladies, Novia, Shelley and @ ReaganNorden to help monitor the surveillance.  Then we will have Boogie, Foo, @The_Legend, ShawHustle and some of the other crew on stand-by to apprehend the culprits.

She took a few sips of her drink, pondering the proposition Sho_Nuff had brought up. She wondered how they could go about surveillance. They would have to have people on watch, like he had said, at all times.

"I think we could definitely accomplish this and figure out what's going on," she said. "It's important to figure out who did this, that's for sure."