| From The Hood To The 'Burbs: The History of Jamar Jackson | ||||||
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| "It all started when I was lil, I was born to a good family, middle class, nothin' rich, but I wouldn't have to worry about anything financially. But then, suddenly, new machines rolled in at my father's job and he, the main income, well he got laid off and we seemed to be on the downward spiral. You know welfare, smaller house, living from check-to-check, tryna make a dollar outta fifteen cents. Then some illegal experimentation offered money for babies to test this new product on, supposedly fail-proof. Desperate for money, my parents admitted me...I can't say I blame 'em all that much, but a little time after that I started mutatin', all these forms I have would randomly happen, my mutations were blamed strictly on the experiment, but my peeps never took it public for fear of alienating us from normal people. "Four years later the mutations seemed to happen more frequently, but by then my parents had given birth to my lil' sister, Yoyo, to compensate for my misfortunes. Then suspicions surfaced of me bein' a mutant and my parents shipped me off to Philly, they initially wanted to put me up for adoption...somethin' that's hurt me for years. But either way, I ended up in Philly with my aunt Angela to help her through the death of her husband, months after I arrived Yoyo followed, supposedly she didn't stop cryin' after my hasty lil' departure. "As I grew up, several things happened to me, first and foremost my Aunt Angela got me involved in church, something that is still very important to me today. Wit God on my side, I felt I could anythin', still do, despite my wife's beliefs. Anyway, second was a maternal love for Aunt Angela, she didn't have a lot either, we were in the ghetto, but did all she could and I think we were happiest like that. 3rd, well 3rd is basket---well I guess you could say my sister, me and her became pretty close, but anyway, 'nuff bout her, fourth was basketball, I just loved to be on the court, and I ain't tryna sound vain, but damn I was good, at one point I was going to be the next Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett...High school to the pros. "And speaking of that, throughout all this time I had kept my mutations hidden outside my family, one way or another someone saw something, a story slipped out, and I admitted it, I mean, church taught me not to lie, and Mutants weren't allowed in the league so my dream was over...at that point, It didn't help that Yolonda had a baby already by then, she was raped, and excuse the language, but when I find the nigga that did this, he ain't gonna die, he's just gonna feel like hell on earth..but hey, my niece, Shayla came out of somethin' so bad, so I can't be that mad, I love her. "I ended High School with a 3.5 GPA, but I mean it wasn't worth anythin', I was a known mutant and most of those classes were ones I was put in so I could play ball, they took me for stupid. Oh well, I was a little down on my luck until I heard about a school that helped with mutants, some man named Charles Xavier lead it, so I went, I figured I could form something positive out of my life there. I learned to harness my powers and more important I met the greatest woman of my life, at that point. Her name was Delilah Blackfyre...beautiful, I don't even know enough big words to describe her...voloptous? But you get it, we clicked like no girl I've clicked with before, and I wanted to marry her. We were good until one day I was abducted by those same people who did the experiments, by the tame I came back new powers had manifested but Del...she was with Even, that was the biggest misfortune of my life. I used to look at being a mutant as a gift and a curse, but she made me look at it as just a gift, and now because of me not being able to get back, she rode down the wrong path and I got Even killed when it all comes down to it. "After I did come back and got over the Del situation, she 'died' the day I returned, I found a lil' wild child with wings flyin'around, her name was Maxi, I took her to her mom...Steena, the craziest woman I ever met, but hey, she's my boo now, not just that my wife. She's cheated, thrown a weight set, and went crazy, but I stayed, she don't admit it but I think I represent some consistency in her life. Oh yeah she had twins when I met her, Maxi and Girard, she had them with some Warren Worthington guy, supposed to be rich, and she's the heir to somethin' too, money isn't too important to me, long as I have enough to get by. And like I was sayin', she had two kids, now she has seven, four wit me-Donovan and the triplets Makan, Demetrius, and Soyala, and we adopted this girl at the school named Zoey, she's wonderful. "And this summer, I got my dream...The NBA, and a nice lil' contract for the New York Kicks, it's all good except from the frustration of losing, and ontop of that I became a member of the x-men, Steena put me on, but I swear the team is like a buncha kids, that's why I'ma work to improve it, but on the real, that pretty much covers it...oh wait, like when Yolonda started coming to the school, yeah she's a mutant too, my aunt was alone and someone murdered her...I'ma put that nigga through hell too" "My second entry, a LOT of shit's happened since then...most notably my Sister died..but before that, the same month, Steena called for a divorce and got it, now she says she never loved me or just had to marry cause of the kid, it's sorta fucked up when she gave up so much to turn around and pull some stuff like that, I still love her, and I know she loves me, even if she never speaks to me again. Anyway, I got the kids most the time, I don't completely trust her with them...but like I was sayin...the Sentinels killed my sister, they were loose on the city after the school got attacked, that was real hard...but at her funeral I finally squashed the beef with my mother, it's unfortunate if came so late...the thing that made me the most sick is that Shayla never knew her father and now has no mother either, she's a sweet and beautiful little girl it ain't even fair what's happened to her...Then more death occured, Lazurus, the X-Men leader was killed by some devil...then Steena's brother killed himself, just a lot of death. I kept my head high, but of course Ex-wifey critisized me for that, sayin' I didn't care about Yoyo or anyone...: "I got a new love of my live, a fine little Italian hot tomalie...her name is Sophie, she's great, red hair, thick wit it, and very sweet, I apprieciete everything she's done especially bonding with Shayla, they both lost their mother so Sophie has sorta picked up where my sister left off, not saying that she's Yolonda, but she's provided that maternal love...and a love for me that could satisfy me for the rest of my life, but don't tell anyone I'm hearin' weddin' bells in my head" |
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