"Cleo", I can do all things through Christ who strenghten's me

It was Friday night in Brooklyn, and on 6th. Avenue & 178th Street things were live into the wee hours of the morning. The air of the street was filled with many folks leaving the nightclubs, and filtering to there homes, or the lifting laughter in there cars. The moon was high, and the routing sound of traffic in the distance even at this hour was a normal setting for this Brooklyn neighborhood at this horrid hour. As the laughter and music softly filled the night air there there came a sudden "Bang, Bang"..."Bang", as heads turned a block away many saw a body lying in the street, and were highly astonished, because they were not accustomed to seeing anything like that in that neighborhood. As the silhouette of a body laid there in the distance, groups of people moved toward it to see who it was, and help the person. Johnny B yelled, "Hey, it's Cleo, from the Hoaggie Shop around the corner", "somebody call 911". Johnny B held her head as she mumbled "Car-Car...los, Carlos, he shot me. The NYPD pushed everybody back to make way for the Medic. Cleo was conscious, and mumbling a little in spurts. Cleo spurts out that her and Carlos were fighting over his car, and a girl who was riding in it. Cleo had never seen the girl, and wanted to know who it was, and Carlos told her, "none of your fricken business". That is when the argument and Carlos pulled out the gun and shot Cleo. The officers put out an APB for a navy blue "69 Cadillac Eldorado", with NY tags VGD-601. Later the sun was rising, and 6th. Avenue was returning to normal as many were starting to retreat to home after a busy partying night. Hours later Cleo was released from the hospital, and went home reeling the Doctors orders for care of her injury. Two days later Carlos was apprehended in Newark, New Jersey in a bar on Orange Street. She had to go to the 22nd. Precinct in Brooklyn on Flatbush Avenue to file charges on Carlos. The day went on and Cleo went back home to recover her non-life threatening wound. As the days went on, she returned to "Soul to Soul Hoaggie Shop" and received many well wishes on her back to work journey. Later about 2 months later Carlos was sentenced to 48 month in prison for his 3rd. strike, and will remain at "Riker's Island" the NYC Corrections Facility. It was hard for Cleo, because she and Carlos had been together for a long time, but Cleo has learned to move on with life. The next week Cleo started going to Church to thank God for sparing her life. She started attending "New Direction Gospel" in Brooklyn, and even took her girlfriend Lisa. They both attended for a while and both joined the Church. Life had changed for Cleo, and Lisa that they opened there own Soul Food Restaurant, "The Simmering Pot". The business became so prosperous that they became tithing members of the Church, and had enough to buy new cars, and houses. They both had reaped the benefits of there hard work, and believing and trusting in God. The message to there friends was to "leave it to God, and he will work it out, have faith, trust, and believe.