Straight Out of Grove Street

Before leaving the mean streets of the number one most dangerous City in America, San andreas, sixteen year old Victoria Johnson gives her mom a kiss on the cheek before stepping off the porch of her house and hopping into her dads SUV. Her parents are sending her off to Bullworth Academy. This is first time that Victoria will be out of the eyesight of her protective father, Carl Johnson. Carl and his wife, Michelle, want their daughter to have the opportunity of attending what they believe to be a "good school" and getting away from Grove Street's dangerous street life.

"I love you mom. I'll write you and tell you how everything turns out. I'll miss you," She says as her smile slowly fades into a serious look.

"Don't worry baby, your father and I will be fine. I want you to do what you need to do...legally of course... to get off of Grove Street... OR... San Andreas for GOOD!" Michelle steps closer to her daughter and leans in to face her. "Listen here baby girl, when you leave, I don't want you to look back, alright? Don't look back for anything," she says firmly raising her arched eyebrows, with her hands on her waist.

"I won't mom. I got you!" Victoria hugs her mom one last time before packing her luggage into the back of her father's SUV and hopping into the passenger side. "And Carl, don't drive like you're in a high speed police chase like you use to back in the day. Our baby don't need to be subjected to any wild gangster shit."

"Michelle, you know I'm not living that life no more. I slowed down on that shit a long time ago baby," says Carl shrugging his arms and nodding his head. "I love you both too much. I won't do any nonsense to jeopardize your lives."

"Anyways," he says kissing his wife on the cheek, "I'll see you later."

"I'm heading to work so you two be careful," says Michelle heading to her car a few feet away from Carl's.

Carl steps into the drivers seat. The engine starts and the truck sped off down the street, passing rows of newly built homes. It has been many years since Carl has been living life as a criminal in the streets of San Andreas. Once he cheated death and left his gang, he never returned. Whoever thought he would leave the gangster life behind him once and for all, start his own Pay and Spray business with his brother Sweet, get married and start a family? Carl paid his dues to society for his dirty deeds and he now wants to live a low profile, productive life. His only child and daddy's little girl Victoria, is now at the age where peer pressure runs rampant and gang influence can easily corrupt her innocence. Despite the fact that Grove Street is on a decline as the hot spot for gang violence since the early 90's, the younger generation has yet to repeat the neighborhood's bloody history.

"I'm proud of you girl. Your mom and I want your experience at Bullworth Academy to be your first step out of the ghetto. There's nothing here for you in Los Santos. Trust me V, I know."

"Yeah I know you know dad. You don't want me growing to be the way you and Uncle Sweet were back in the day."

"You damn right. I don't want you to have any boyfriends who live the life we lived neither. Your Uncle Sweet and I are lucky to be alive right now."

"Uh huh. To be real with you dad, It's really cool not to have other kids messing with me because of your reputation," says Victoria shrugging with her arms crossed glancing at her father.

"Yeah, Its cool to you but it's not cool to me," he says glancing at Victoria with a dead serious look. "I did many bad things when I was your age. I trusted people who ended up crossing me in the process and I worked for bad people to make money. I know it sounds corny but you and your mom are the best thing that happened to me. She helped me get into the Pay and Spray business with your grandfather."

"Nice" says Victoria looking straight ahead at the road. "Nice? Thats all you have to say girl?" asked Carl, cracking a smile while looking forward. "Yeah. When I said "nice," I mean it in a sense that what Mom did for you was a good thing. I'm proud of you dad," she says patting her father on the shoulder.

"I know you are girl. I'm proud of you too. Your mom and I want you to have the life we did not have at your age, man. You should be glad to have a father who is alive to tell you about his life."

Carl's face now turns serious as he continues to face the road ahead and drives into a highway. A pause comes between the father and daughter. Victoria glances at her father and then turns to face the side window. Carl only knows Victoria as a good girl who would earn good grades in school and perform well on the girl's basketball team at school. Little does he know that she had a rebellious period that began at the age of twelve. Victoria knows that she has been lying and hiding secrets from her parents for a few years. They do not know that she joined a gang in Junior High school. They did not know that when she told them she was going out with her friends to parties or basketball practice, she was really running the streets at night to help her "homeboys" steal cars. They do not know that she shop lifted a few times. They do not know that she was given a lesson on hot wiring cars from her uncle sweet. Victoria was excited about her acceptance to Bullworth Academy because she will have space away from her parents but her guilt started to rise as she thought of them having this "good girl" image of her. Her parents thought of her as the child that other parents, especially on Grove Street, would envy.

Sitting in her car seat feeling uneasy, Victoria felt like this might be the right time to confess her crimes to her father. Alright, I might as well get this off my chest now. He'll be upset but I got to tell him now!

"Uhh...Dad..."

"Yeah V whats up?"

"I..." she takes a deep breath and exhales.

"Whats wrong?" Carl ask raising his eyebrows as he glances at his daughter.

"I'm glad you're being supportive of me going away to school" she says with sigh. "Being on my own might be boring sometimes. I'll be lonely without you and mom," she lied.

DAMN!

"Well, you'll get use to it. I know you're going to make some friends and be around good people," says Carl.

"Yeah, I know."

"Graduating from San Andreas to Bullworth is a beautiful thing for you, girl."

"Yeah, it really is dad," she says reclining into her seat with her hands folded while she turns to look at the side window.

Little does Victoria knows that her rebellious past and her father's reputation will have a great advantage at Bullworth Academy, a private high school that established itself as the worst school in America. She thinks she'll be up against straight laced students who will thumb their noses at her because she's a native of the number one dangerous city in the country(well, Mandy and most likely the Preppies will). In short, Victoria thinks that she'll be around boring, goody-two-shoe kids. She has yet to learn that she's going to a "prison" and may need to go back to what she knows.