Cont.
Symere
Shortly after talking to Robin, my phone started ringing.
I looked at the caller ID
Jillian
I clicked the green answer button.
"Hello?"
I said.
"Hey is this Symere?"
I heard a young male voice on the other end.
I looked at the screen of my phone in confusion to see if I had read the caller ID wrong but it had said Jillian.
"Yes thats me."
I replied, confused.
"Is Jillian with you? This is her son and she's not home so I'm kinda just worried."
The voice said.
"Nah, sorry Jillian isn't with me. I never really seen her either, we just talked on the phone about some business."
I said.
"Um- okay. Thanks."
He replied. I could definitely sense the anxiousness in his voice.
"Wait!"
I said before he hung up.
"I can help you look for her. You seem really worried and I could probably find her easily."
I offered.
"That would really help me."
He said with hope.
"Um.. are you home alone?"
I asked him.
"Yes."
He said.
"I can come pick you up if you want and then we can look for her."
I again, offered.
"Okay, I'll send you the address."
He said.
"Aight, imma be there in a few."
I hung up the phone and looked up seeing Brittany glaring at me.
"Who was that?"
She asked curiously.
"Mind ya fucking business."
I said without making any eye contact.
"I'm leaving and I'll be back in a few. Take care of the girls and if anything happens to either one, nobody gone know where you went and I bet nobody would care neither."
I said sternly.
"Oh yeah, and my boys supposed to come over."
I added just in case if they came before I got back home.
I walked upstairs and saw the girls playing in the room.
"Bye babies, imma be back soon. Be good for Brittany."
I said while giving both of them a hug.
They both gave me a hug and went right back to playing.
Sage
I looked around the house, to see if I could find any clues on where momma could be.
No luck.
I had texted Symere the crib address.
A couple minutes later I locked the main house door and sat outside waiting for Symere.
Symere
I put the address Jillian's son had texted me in the GPS.
I followed the GPS and it had directed me to a hood neighborhood.
Reminded me of the place where I spent my childhood at.
I stopped in front of a house and saw a boy maybe around the age of 11 or 12, sitting on the steps.
I honked the horn, trying to catch his attention since he was carried away with his phone.
He looked up and I was taken back by how much he looked like me.
He had the same skin complexion, the same eyes.
He was just as confused and shocked as I was but he kept it inside just like I did.
He walked up to the window of my car.
"Hey, I'm Sage."
He said, bringing his right hand forward.
"Symere"
I said while giving him a handshake. (a hood handshake💀)
I unlocked the car doors and he sat in the front seat.
"I didn't know Jillian lived here."
I said while stopping at the stop sign.
"Yeah, we don't want to live here though.. but we have no other option."
He said looking out the window.
"Why's that?"
I asked curiously.
"Money issues. We're broke as you can tell."
He said, while his eyes still looked out the window displaying this disappointed look.
"I never sat in such an expensive car."
He added while his eyes skimmed the interior of the car.
I scanned his fit. Nike.
"You dressed expensive though."
I chuckled.
"My mom keep me fly. Just not herself. She skips meals so I can eat. She wear the same thing to work so I can look good."
He said with the same disappointed expression on his face.
"You know.. that's exactly how my mom was."
I said.
"She was?"
He asked curiously.
"Yeah. She did the same. My parents had separated but I am still close with both."
I said.
"Well ion know my dad. I never met him."
He said.
"But I don't wanna know him. He's a bitch ass for leaving me and my mom alone. If he was here I bet we woulda been living different. I wouldn't have to see my mom struggle like this."
He added.
"Ayy you too young to be cursing!"
I chuckled trying to lighten the mood.
"Trust me, I seen everything. People round here don't care about age. I lost my innocence a while ago. Seeing people getting killed everyday, watching families getting torn apart."
He paused.
I glanced at him and he continued.
"Watching my mom struggle when she was trying to bring food to the table."
He finished.
"You know? Ya childhood is so much like mine."
I said.
"Everything you going through, I went through."
I said.
"Well not everything."
I added.
He looked up and smiled.
"Yeah.. sounds like you had a good relationship with ya pops."
He said.
"I did. I love my mom and my pops equally. Just because they split didn't mean that I was gonna hate one or the other."
I said as I pressed the garage door button from the car since we had made it to my crib.
"I wish I could say the same."
He said as he un-buckled his seat belt.
"You ever try to find out who he was?"
I asked out of curiosity.
"Not really. My mom still hurting from it and I don't wanna hurt her any more by asking who my father is."
He said.
"I'm curious though ... because when I find out.. imma go beat his ass."
He laughed.
He looked like the younger me. Brave. Ambitious. Curious. And..well.. handsome. (😭)
"Ay when you do find out, take me with you .. we'll both jump em together."
We both laughed.
"Let's go inside and I'll contact some people who can track down where your mom could be."
I said.
He nodded and walked inside.
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We were sitting at the dinner table.
The girls were hiding in the living room closet because they didn't want to be seen.
"Dajha and Anaya, you do know we can see both of you right?"
Me and Sage laughed while I typed on my computer.
I had gotten to know Sage a little more since he came over here.
He's had a rough life and most of it is blamed on his dad, but he still had a good heart, he just didn't show it. He's hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
He told me his life plans and how he wanted to make Jillian happy and proud.
I look up a number on the computer and contact it.
"Hello?"
The deep voice on the other end said.
"It's Woods, I need a favor."
I said, while getting up to go outside.
The deep voice on the other end clears his throat and starts to speak.
"Yes sir, how can I help you?"
He says, a lot more formal than how he greeted me.
"I need you to track someone down for me."
I said.
I heard shuffling in the background and after 30 seconds, I hear his voice again.
"Phone number?"
He asked.
"She don't got her phone on her."
After saying that, I realized I needed more information about her.
"I need some type of information about her."
He said, in coordinance with my thoughts.
"Yeah hold on I gotchu."
I said while walking back inside.
"Sage, you said ya mom took her car?"
I asked.
"Yeah."
He looked up from his phone as he answered.
"You got the numbers to the license plate or sum?"
I asked while scratching my head.
"Um... i don't remember them but I prolly got pictures that got the car in the background or something."
He said while focusing his attention back on his phone as he scrolled through his gallery.
"Okay."
I stood there until he pulled up a picture of him and his mom hugging with the car in the background, showing the license plate clearly.
I read the numbers from the picture to the voice on the phone.
"Okay, I'll text you the information once it loads."
The voice said before I hung up.
I looked at the picture carefully and realized Jillian looked very very familiar.
hmm.. wonder why.
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