He remembers how he and Teo used to spend hours shoplifting in the mall stores. On Saturday, he and his mother go to the mall. The narrator passes by Teo's house, but no one is home he goes to the pool, but Teo isn't there either. In the summer, at night, they would head down to the community center and jump the fence into the pool. College had never been an option for the narrator, and now he spent most of his time dealing drugs. They used to be friends two years ago, before Teo went off to college he remembered how excited Teo had been to go. Only when his mother goes to bed, does he reluctantly swing through the neighborhood to see Teo he doesn't really want to see him. Teo is home from school, the narrator's mother tells him, but the narrator keeps on watching Spanish TV.
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