Gang Leader for a Day #5

Sudhir has been hanging around the projects with J.T. for 6 years now.  It is 1996 and Sudhir is realizing that he is not going to have much more time to spend with his friends from the projects and thoroughly enjoys the last year he will spend with J.T.
Sudhir is relaxing at a small get together outside the Robert Taylor Homes, talking with an old man who has lived in the projects his whole life.  Out of nowhere, a car flies by with two men in the back firing machine guns blindly at the gang members.  Everyone outside hits the deck and the few gang members try to run inside for cover.  However one of J.T.'s closest friends, Price, gets shot in the leg.  Without thinking Sudhir runs over to Price and drags him in the lobby. J.T. says that he needs to use Sudhir's car to drive to the hospital because if he pulls up in a nice sports car the hospital won't want anything to do with them.  Not to mention if they called an ambulance, it most likely wouldn't come.  J.T. is thrilled with Sudhir's bravery and his offer to let them use his car.
Later that week, J.T. threw a party for the local leaders for their success.  While they were celebrating, four men with masks on break the door down, rob the place and all of the people there.  J.T. knew that they were cops, jealous of the fact that gang leaders make a lot more money than them.
After a few months, J.T. invites Sudhir to attend a meeting between all of the head bosses of the Black Kings.  The bosses are interested with Sudhir and even want Sudhir to interview them.  After a few meetings, which are simply men going to get drunk and high with each other without discussing the well-being of the gang, Sudhir is offered a job teaching Sociology at Colombia University.  He has trouble breaking the news to J.T. but he knew it was coming.
    Meanwhile, J.T. is having a lot of trouble with the gang because the Robert Taylor Homes scheduled to be demolished which would cause a large decrease in the amount of customers.  After the projects are demolished, J.T. manages a dry-cleaning store, opens a barbershop and other various things but the money he earned as a gang leader is still plentiful.
         After Sudhir moved he visited Chicago a couple times a year to see J.T. but their relationship was never as strong and they couldn't converse about the same things anymore.