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Autobiography of My Dead Brother Chapter 18

By Walter Dean Myers

Chapter 18

It's Sunday and Jesse is still mad at his father; he doesn't go to church with his parents. He's still sulking, but he has to really work at it.
The phone rings and it's Sidney Rock, calling to let Jesse know that he's heard there's going to be a confrontation between the Counts and the Diablos.
Jesse puts on his shades and heads down to the stoop. White Clara's there, and he borrows her cell phone to call C.J. He's not home.
Jesse thinks about going to see a movie, but he doesn't have any cash, so he goes back up to his room.
The phone rings. Jesse's mom says it's Rise.
Rise tells Jesse there's going to be a meeting the next day at an antique shop—they're going to be talking to the Diablos about turf. This makes Jesse super nervous.
Jesse remembers what Sidney told him earlier that day and wonders if there's anything to it.