"I don't even know." She signs. "Can you help me out?" She asks. I shake my head no. "I done been helping you duck and doge ever since seventh grade. You spreaded your legs, you suffer the consequences this time." I tell her.
"What? Why?!" She semi-yells. "Because Grace. Ever since I helped you in seventh grade, you've did fast and fucked up shit and turned to me expecting me to clean up your dirty work so you don't get caught. I thought me helping you would help you learn your lesson but I guess not, so here ya go..lesson learned" I say. She looks down crying hard.
"Are you going to tell him?" I ask raising my eyebrow. She nods her head. "I can't believe you were this irresponsible" I say shaking my head, with my arms crossed across my chest.
I just wanna ice her the cold truth for once. "I know" She sniffles. "Damn!" I mumble sitting back biting on my finger nail. I look at Kaylee as she slowly falls asleep. I slowly take the tablet out her small hands and put it in the bag behind the stroller.
We are headed home in silence. "Was the movie good?" Ms.Grace asks lighting my mood by her warm voice. "Yea it was great we're just..sleepy" I say. She nods.
I get out the car as she stops in front of the yard. I grab Kaylee and her stuff and go into the house. "Jerry who's car is that?" I ask referring to that gray Lexus RX 350 in the drive way as he sits on the couch smiling with Ken and Joesph.
"Yours" he says tossing me the keys. My mouth drops. I sprint out the door. "Your lying" I scream smiling. I unlock the doors and hop in it as they walk out. "You like it? It's all yours" he says laughing. "Yes I love it! Thank you!" I say getting out and hugging him. "You welcome" he says laughing.
I'm in the house right now watching Jack and Kaylee play. He lays down and she gets on his back and start rubbing him. While mumbling something.
I look out my window and see it's dark outside. Ken walks in my room. "When you gone give yo new truck a drive?" He asks sitting on the bed. "What do you want? You never come in here" I say narrowing my eyes at him.
"Nothing. But when you get ready to drive it lemme now I wanna see how smooth it rides" he says standing up. "Doesn't matter of it rides smooth or not. Cause your not riding it" I say looking at him. He walks over to the door and leaves out. I hear the downstairs door close.
He comes back in. "Jerry just left." He says coming back in and closing the door. "What are you doing?" I ask. "Look listen to me close. I think Jerry got feelings for you." He says growing serious. "What? Shut up. Look I know it's hard for you to adjust to Jerry and all, but Jerry liking me is far from what is going on." I snap.
"Look just watch out aight. I'm boutta go run a train ona bitch I'll be back shortly." He says. I sign. "Okay" I say nodding. "Keep your door locked" he says before walking out and closing it. Ken is out his mind. He think just because Jerry let him and Joseph join his gang.
Yup, Jerry got a gang and that's where he gets all this money from. But I'm boutta write in this journal and get Kaylee to sleep then I'm going to sleep myself because Monday is tomorrow. And I have school.
"Kayla wake up!" Jerry yells shaking me. "What?" I yell jumping up out my sleep. "A girl called and said that Ken spent the night with her lastnight and said he didn't wake up when she was shaking him this morning. They at the hospital come on!" He says running out the room.
I hop up and pull some joggers over my sleeping pants and put a oversized t-shirt on and run out the room. I run down the stairs and see my mom at the door like nothing is happening.
We're in the waiting room waiting on someone to tell us something. We don't know if he's dead or alive, nor do we know if he's in surgery or not. A doctor comes out. "Ken Watson" The doctor calls. We all stand as me and Jerry rush to him. Where is Joseph?
"He didn't exactly make it, he had no pulse nor heartbeat." The doctor says. "What?" I scream in tears. He has a baby on the way and he didn't even know. "You mean this whole time it took that long to figure out he ain't have no pulse nigga!" Jerry yells.
"Sir, we wanted to give you an explanation of why he died. Cause we know at such young age it didn't make since to die of natural causes, so we saw what was going on. And one of the nurses mentioned him coming to her for one appointment. And it turned out he had incurable aids" The doctor says. "So you telling me he died from aids?" My mom asks as she lightly pushes Kaylee out the way as she tries to climb onto her.
The doctor nods. My mom shakes her head. "Told his hoe ass to stop fucking around" She says shaking her head and rolling her eyes.
"What you mean you told him!? You don't talk to us anymore! All you do is sit in your room and watch tv or go on dates with Jerry! He talk to us more than you do! I can't believe you just said that about your own dead son! Your just like daddy except you don't beat us!" I yell before grabbing Kaylee and leaving out with tears roaming all over my face.
Now I have no brother, and Grace is going to have to raise my niece/nephew alone because Ken is dead.
When we got to the house my mom beat the crap out of me, but I didn't care. I didn't wanna write in my journal, I didn't wanna go anywhere, I didn't wanna play or talk to Kaylee or Jack. I just wanted to be alone.
My brother wasn't always the most caring person, but I still loved him. And now he's gone. I feel hurt. Real bad!
Nothing good ever happens for me. I why can't I just have a happy life. I have my moments but they don't last long. I just wanna lay down and die.
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Ups and Downs: Can't Run From Pain
General FictionWhen Kayla's mom gets fed up with her dad's abusing, and cheating she escapes his traps with 2 children on her hands. Once Kayla, her mom, and sibling move to Cali to get away from Detroit, Michigan which held her dad they began to live with their A...
