Excerpt From Story Of Melvin Book

Melvin is at the house upstairs in his bedroom looking at the ceiling. Looking for inspiration of daily life. It’s about nightfall. Winter in fact, but it’s warm kinda. Melvin is about 18 about to be 19 but has a mind of his own. This book you are reading is not your cookie cutter, formatted and perfected with chapters listed. This goes straight to the point of interest and descriptive nature. Walking outside with a blue hoodie on covering his afro covering his face full of insecurity. Still trying to find himself but doesn’t have an outlet. Filled with much denial that he did before but actually it’s just a piece. Down in michigan where the great lakes flow. Full of harsh winters full of lakeffect and high cold winds. A star is born! But doesn’t even know it yet! Or does he? Goes back inside the house, opening the door with his head down with much guilt and shame of not having a job and no money in his pocket. But not even understanding, that doesn’t even matter! Walking back to the room, grabs his phone with his headphones. Surfing the web and comes in contact with “Meek Mill’s”, “Championships”, Album. Starts to listen from the first track to the end and it becomes theraputic. What a lot of you don’t know is that Melvin is suffering from the death of his mother. And at the sametime being a college dropout. Trying to figure out what to do when everything seems like theres no hope! For the last few days Melvin has been doing the same routine. Eat, sleep, watch youtube, shower repeat! With the exception of using the bathroom. His father became a drunk after his moms passing, and has became very angry and negative lately. Rather grouchy, I should say that urks Melvin to the highest degree. Melvin always loved music, he would sit in class in 5th grade and right raps. He would have many ideas ahead of his time. He never liked to rely on people for help because they didn’t take him seriously. They would often quit on him from rap groups that he made. Melvin

was always an outcast! He was never liked! Always picked on and never really respected. Melvin lays back in the bed just watching youtube. He looks and see’s an ad for some new macbook pro computers. Wondering why is this add showing up, he starts to think about in highschool when he would try to make beats using garageband on the mac desktops. He never mastered the program but he liked it for what it offered. He starts surfing on the web for a mac desktop. He already doesn’t have any money so he starts to give up. Then all of a sudden he finds on ebay an older macbook pro for $100 in los Angelos! Instantly Melvin Got excited! He goes downstairs and yells, “Dad!”

“What!” his dad says. In the room laying in the bed “Can I have some money?”

“GET A JOB BOY!” his dad says.

“I just need $100”, Melvin says.

“ Go get it yourself!” his dad says.

His dad rolls over in the bed and is irritated from the conversation with Melvin. Melvin

walks out through the front door.With his hoodie down he walks to the local thrift store scanning away at the different items window shopping with happiness. Looking at an old woman struggling to carry her items out the door he approaches her.

“Ma’am I can Help you”, Melvin grabs her bags.

“where’s your car?”, he asks.

“Right there in the front.”

Melvin puts the bags for the lady in her car and she smiles.

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“You are a sweet young man! Here ya go!” She pulls out a $100 bill out of her pocket. “Ohh Wow! Thank you!”

“Your welcome sugar!”, The lady says.