With all the tragedy surrounding her, Reese had finally woken up to the fact that she was wasting her life. She had her mother take her down to enroll in BMCC, where she would complete her GED and study business. With a baby on the way, she needed to put together a solid game plan and finishing her education was a damn good place to start. She had made it all the way to the abortion clinic and had gotten cold feet, decided to take that stand. She would keep her baby and raise it as best she could, father or not. She was a woman, and therefore possessed the strength to do so.

Billy also resumed her education, enrolling at LIU. She had to take out an asshole full of loans and still have her mother call in a favor, but they made it happen. Regina’s faith in her daughter was slowly coming back. Marcus had remained a constant fixture in Billy’s life. Between him, work, and school, Billy kept her hands full. This suited her fine because it kept her mind off the past. She would miss the people she had lost, but she had learned her lesson about carrying around ghosts.

Jah and Yoshi had moved into her apartment together. It took a while before she was comfortable enough to sleep there again, but having Jah’s crazy ass by her side made it easier. Billy was skeptical about the move, but as it turned out, Jah and Yoshi got along famously. She had stopped stripping and gotten a job doing wardrobe for music videos. It was a gig True had hooked her up with. It was the least he could do, considering what his boys had put her through. Yoshi eventually let go of her demons and started looking forward to tomorrow.

Jah took what happened to his brother extremely hard. He had made the difficult decision to go to the police and tell them it was really his gun, that Paul had nothing to do with the murders. He couldn’t sit on the sidelines while his big brother spent the rest of his life in jail. He would get a good lawyer, turn himself in, and put it in God’s hands. A life without Yoshi was one he didn’t look forward to living, but he couldn’t sacrifice his brother like that, not even for her.