Afterward, Lisa and Maverick go to her house and decide to have sex, even though they don’t have a condom. All of the King Lords come to the funeral-and Lisa comes too. When Maverick runs into the house to check on Seven, someone shoots and kills Dre. One night, Dre comes over to hang out with Maverick.

Maverick doesn’t think the roses will grow, but he figures they deserve a chance. Wyatt tells Maverick he only has three chances before he gets fired and instructs Maverick in how to plant roses in the Wyatts’ garden.

Later that afternoon, Maverick shows up late to his first day of work. The two find Red (a hustler who sold Maverick a pair of fake sneakers) and destroy his merchandise.

Maverick skips school that afternoon to hang out with King. On the first day of school, a kid from the rival Garden Disciples gang, Ant, tells Maverick that Dre should watch his back. He has no idea when Iesha plans to return for her son, whom Maverick renames Seven. The next few weeks are incredibly difficult for Maverick. He also tells King he’s done selling drugs, which confuses and angers King. Maverick tells Lisa about his son and she breaks up with him. To help him in this endeavor, Dre pressures Maverick into accepting a job working for Mr. Dre insists that Maverick is a father now, so he needs to step up and be the father his son deserves. (whom Maverick has begun to call “Li’l Man”) and to tell Maverick to stop selling hard drugs behind the gang’s back.

He stops by several times to help Maverick with King Jr. His older cousin Dre, one of the leaders of the King Lords, already has a three-year-old daughter. It’s the messiest, most exhausting weekend of Maverick’s life. home, expecting to have him for the weekend. After getting the results at the local clinic, Iesha abandons the baby with Maverick and his Ma. after King, who was previously believed to be the father. But Maverick’s life turns upside-down when, a few weeks before he starts 12th grade, a DNA test reveals that he fathered a baby with King’s girlfriend, Iesha when he and Lisa were briefly broken up. He also has a beautiful girlfriend named Lisa. Maverick has been a member of the King Lords gang since he was 12 in addition to selling cannabis for the gang, he and his best friend King sell hard drugs on the side.

Concrete rose angie thomas