Barely Making It

Chapter 1: How it all started..

"But if you don't go to school you won't be able to get a nice car and house for mommy and you."

He smiles and says, "okay I'll go."

"Good boy." I lift him up from the chair and puts him on the floor and he runs off into his room.

"I really do got a good kid." I smiled as I thought to myself.

A few minutes passed, "Kai you ready?" I yell from the kitchen where I had been cleaning.

"Almost, just got tie my shoe strings." He begins, "wait, I don't know how to tie my shoes." He then giggles which causes me to laugh also.

I walk into his room seeing him on the floor fiddling with his shoelaces. "I'll tie them for you." I said while kneeling beside him and tying my son's shoes.

"Thank you mommy." He says while standing up and placing a wet kiss onto my cheek.

"Your welcome." I say back while playfully wiping the kiss away. "Let's go."

He grab his spider man lunchbox and rushed outside and I followed him. He threw his self into his car seat and I buckled him in.

I got into the driver seat and took off doing sixty mph seeing we were already late. We arrived to the day care and I walked him inside.

In his classroom there were a lot of kids huddled in a circle around his teacher, Ms. Joy. The kids sing the song 'ring around the rosey' as the danced and played around her, they all seemed so happy that it caused me to smile.

"Go have fun. Mommy loves you, I'll be here to pick you up when?" I ask him repeating our everyday routine.

"At two o'clock." He smiles and I smile back.

"Good boy." I say and then high-five him. He gave me a hug and ran off to play with everyone else.

I turned around and began to leave but was bumped into by someone causing me and whoever it was to fall onto. "God, watch where you're going next time." I yell to him as I began to stand up.

The man then stood up, his frame towered over me showing he was about six feet, with me being only 5'4. "I'm sorry." He says "You are remarkingly beautiful."

"Thanks." I say sarcastically, in my mind I didn't think I was beautiful or pretty.

"What's your name?" He asks, "I'm Tom Jackson." He held his hand out and I shake it.

"I'm Leila Mitchell."

"Leila Mitchell are you employed?"

"No. Many places out there aren't trying to hire a woman like me."

"A woman like you? What are you good at?" He said while gripping the bottom of his chin and rubbing it.

"I like to dance." My number one passion in the world is dancing, well other than Kai, I used to be in a dance group back in the day, I was the lead dancer, we played in gigs and everything.

"Have you ever tried stripping?"

My eyes lit up, "Stripping?"

"Yeah, I'm the manager over there at 'Pop and Lock' and we need a woman like you over there."

"How do you know that, you've never seen me dance, and besides I can't pole dance anyway."

"That's why my ladies at the club can always teach you."

I shake my head at the offer. "No I don't think I can do it, I have a three year old to raise alone."

"What if I told you you can make $15 dollars a day, and you can even keep your tips." He says while rubbing his hands together. He had totally won me over, Kai and I needed that money if we ever wanted to move out of the hood.

"What if I said I would do it?" I ask. "When would I start?"

"The clubs open every night but you can come in when your ready. Just call me when you've found when you are." He said as he handed me a business card from his jacket and then walked away.

I grab my phone from my pocket and dial my bestfriend Tina's number.

"Hello?" Tina says into the phone.

"Girl, tell me why this black man who said he's the man of this strip club call 'Pop and Lock' came up to me and offered me a job." I say dramatically. "I don't even know where that is."

"Pop and Lock? Girl that's my favorite club, then girls in there be somethin' serious."

"For real, girl?"

"Hell yeah. I go there almost every Saturday."

"So you think I should take the job?" I ask finally.

"YESSS!!!"

"But where am I gonna keep Kai?"

"He can stay with me."

"Really, oh my god thank you T, I can really use the money that this job is going to offer. Thanks for everything, I love ya girl."

"Love you too." And with that she hung up the phone.
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Well this is my new book. I wanted to write something new because Just friends was beginning to bore everyone so I decided to make a more mature book.

And btw her name is pronounced Layla.

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- Quaan14 😍..