Fresh

Buenos dias, Buenos dias.

You coming early today. I'm almost not finished.

But don't worry, I'm finished.

I gotta get to school.

Come in, come in.

Always with you young boys, always in a rush, always in a rush.

Marisol already leave for school.

She has not missed one day of school in three year.

Sit down, sit down.

You like some milk? Some milk and cookie?

I have some nice chocolate chip.

You like Marisol?

Marisol, she always asking about you:

"Why Michael come here? Why he don't talk to me at the school?"

You have a girlfriend?

Ahhh, you already liking somebody.

But I don't worry. You are young. Is plenty of time.

Soon you get tired of her, and then you talk to my Marisol.

And I'm always telling her, "You wait for that Michael.

"He's gonna go far, to a very far place.

So take your time. It's okay."

Because I always tell her a word about how you a boy very special...

- Half a brick means 20. - Yes, yes, of course, 20.

- It ain't 20. - Yes, yes, of course, 20.

Esteban said I gotta take this to Chillie's store. I gotta take 20.

If I don't give him 20, he gonna get mad. You want me to count 'em?

No, no, no, no. Wait, wait.

I-I-I check for you. I-I check again.

Oh, look, look. This one was stuck in back here.

I don't understand. It's my eyes, you know?

So old, not seeing so good no more.

And that's why I buy Marisol her glasses right away.

So she don't have no trouble with her eyes like me.

But Marisol is a pretty girl. Just think about my Marisol...

because I want her to have a clever boy like you, so you think about it.

I gotta pick up five bricks.

Yeah, yeah, they already called.

Then why they ain't ready yet?

Relax. It's 8:00 in the morning. We ain't hardly woke up yet.

It's almost 8:45. I'm late for school.

Oh, for joy! It's little Fresh, our messenger to the gods.

My tag is for my friends. You can call me Michael.

You know, it's embarrassing...

Esteban using this ugly little maricón for man's work.

It makes me sick.

What's embarrassing is, all the work there is to do...

Esteban got you workin' up here with the bitches, that's what's embarrassing.

Damn! Ugly spotted little motherfucker. I'll fuck you up.

I'm all over these bitches, nigger. Got me a harem here like Arabian motherfuckin' shit.

You ain't all over me, motherfucker.

You be dead before you touch this good thing, fucking monkey.

You tripping on your own shit, motherfucker.

Only harem you playin' is them five fingers on your own fuckin' hand.

- That's right. - I need five bricks. Five.

Everybody know the only reason he here...

is 'cause Esteban skied on his freakin' sister.

Don't be talkin' about my sister.

Word, Esteban clockin' out on that chocolate freak.

He doggin' her every chance he get...

and she ain't nothing but a hop-head freak riding the white horse...

Say one more word about my sister, bitch.

You know, maricón, I'm gonna fuck you right up.

Do it. Come on, bitch. Fuck me up.

You know you ain't fuckin' nobody up, Herbie...

so shut the fuck up.

I need five bricks. Five.

Chillie, man, they're all there. I already counted 'em.

You know I got to count 'em.

You don't get paid 'til they're all counted and accounted for.

What, you got ants in your pants?

Chill, homes. Esteban wants to talk to you anyway.

I gotta get to school, Chillie. I'm stupid late.

It's gonna be my second late day this week.

Man, Miss Coleman's gonna kill me.

Don't worry. I'll write you a doctor's note.

Yo, it ain't funny, man.

Esteban comin' here just to talk to me?

He's making the rounds.

But he said he wants you to wait for him 'til he gets here, okay?

Kick it, Chillie. Pay me later.

I'm crazy late. Tell him I had to get to school.

Yo, yo, Fresh. Come back here, Crimey.

Here. Here, homes.

If there's anything missing, I'll kill you later.

Well?

Did you bring a late pass or didn't you?

Boy, who's talking to you, me or that floor?

Is this a comedy act, Chuckie? You find this funny?

Then shut up and wipe that stupid-looking thing...

which you probably think is some kind of charming expression...

right off your face, boy.

Put your things away and find a seat.

Go on!

This is not over, do you hear me?

Now, what I was saying before that interruption...

was that Mr. Hill told you what the words "manifest destiny" means...

but not what it was.

So don't come into my classroom with that ignorant nonsense...

about the heroes of the Alamo and Davy Crockett...

and how bad they were...

because all they were really doing...

was robbing another people of their land...

so that they could keep opening up new territories for legal slavery.

The papers that I gave you have a series of quotes...

from some antislavery writers of that time period.

You read the first quote, Rosie.

It's from an antislavery writer by the name of David Child...

written to the Mexican government...

warning them about his own United States government.

Read it to the class.

"Dear Sirs, There is an impatient and almost ir...

"irresistible desire in the South and Southwest...

to lay hold on Texas..."

Excuse me.

Where do you think you are, the land of Oz?

You must be trippin' if you two think you're gonna sit together.

Boy, move over there. Go on, Rosie.

All right, Curtis, you're hogging the ball again. Pass it.

Power!

Power!

That's it. Yo, that shit's mine.

Not with a prayer, nigger. That's it.

- That shit's mine This is mine. - Look, look, nigger.

- Yeah, that's mine. That's right. - Shit.

Step right up, step right up.

One more, my good man. One more.

Only if you flip Willie Randolph.

- Uh-uh. Sorry, G. - Yo, forget it, then.

Yo, I gave my last Willie Randolph double to Fresh in class, man.

- I only got one left. - Flip Willie Randolph!

No! N-O spells no. No one never flips him.

And it be costing me six bucks of packs 'til I get him.

You a chump buyin' them shits, man.

I ain't never bought me no baseball card.

- Been stealin' them shits all day. - Stealin' them shits all day.

Yo, shut up, Tarleak. You ain't never stole shit, so shut up!

- Yes, I did. - Why you ain't got nothin'? Show me your cards.

I ain't bring 'em with me. Niggers be always jumpin' me for my baseball cards.

- Yo, shut up, retard. - My old man got every series of baseball cards since 1900.

He got Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, all of them.

They didn't even have baseball cards back then, stupid.

- Uh-huh, I seen 'em. - Yeah, where?

At my old man's. He got all them cards where he at.

Where he be keepin' 'em at? In his, like, how many limos?

Six. Nigger got six limos.

Word, six of 'em. Stupid big limos.

You haven't even met your father, motherfucker.

- I did! - You haven't even seen the motherfucker...

so shut the fuck up before I kick your bucktooth, nappy-head ass!

- Look at this. - He be lookin' at her like this.

- Shut up, nigger. - I don't be likin' them bitches.

Always be trippin'. Walkin' with their nose up, like they all that.

Word, always hittin' me and shit.

- Like that girl Shanice. She don't stop 'til I smack her. - Word, right.

They be hittin' you 'til you smack 'em.

Then they cry, but they like that shit.

Word, they think they all that, but they just want you to smack they head.

Oh.

Where you goin', man? Watchin 'girls.

- That's cold, man. - Leavin' his best friend for a girl, man.

Yo, Rosie, stop looking at me, all right? Why you always lookin' at me?

- 'Cause you look at me so much, I can't help it. - I don't look at you.

- You do. You're always lookin' at me. - You trippin'.

You drag all your friends into our cheerleading practice like it's all their idea...

but you bring 'em so you can look at me.

- You stupid trippin'. - It's all right. I think it's cute.

Girls always be sayin', "Mikey got them spotty white spots on him."

But I think it's cute, I do. I think it's real cute.

- Damn, you be lookin' almost white yourself. - I am.

- Damn, why you buggin' out? - My mother is white.

- Get outta here. - She is. Straight up white.

Why she never come to school, then?

She don't want you 'cause you're black, right?

- Why don't you live with your mother? - I do.

You live with your aunt, with Hilary and Jewel and all them others...

- so you can stop fronting any time now. - Shut up.

My mother's married to a millionaire.

Word, she live with Tarleak's old man, with all them limos and shit.

She lives in Scarsdale. She's got a big house.

Near as big as this whole school.

You gotta go through a gate and drive through a whole forest just to get to it.

- What kind of car she drive? - A sports car.

- What kind of sports car? - I don't know. A Jaguar.

If I had me a million dollars, I'd get me a Porsche 959.

I'd get me a sports car. A Jaguar.

Damn, I'd get me a Ferrari Testarosa, V-12 engine...

get me a Porsche 930, straight six turbo engine...

get me a Vector B-12, twin turbo...

go from zero to 60 in 7.8 seconds, so don't even talk.

Yeah, well, who cares, 'cause you ain't never gonna have a million dollars anyway.

- I will too! - Who's trippin' now?

Ain't nobody trippin'. I'm gonna have it.

Someday, I'm gonna have it.

Hi, Grandma.

Yo, what up?

Why is everybody out here?

We just here.

What a place to spend our last night on earth.

What up, y'all?

Hey.