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Nice! Can't wait to read the rest of it.

FAMILY TIES

“Where were you last night?” the question stopped me in my tracks. I knew I couldn’t escape it but I didn’t think it would come this soon. I turned to find Mama standing behind me; She didn’t look angry, she looked like she had since The Letter arrived three weeks ago. . . sad. She knew where I was, no use lying to her.

“Mama. . .”

“Go wash up” She simply said and started toward the kitchen “Father Mike will be here soon” Father Mike is my mama’s older brother and he always had breakfast with us.

“Mama …”

“Adanna you are not a child anymore, I have to remember that” she smiled sadly “You are a woman now and you have a mind of you own. I just never thought it would be different from mine”

“But it isn’t Mama! It isn’t! Me going there last night. . . it wasn’t about you! It was about me Mama, Me!”

“Oh Ada, so grown but still a child”

“Mama I had to see for myself! I had to”

“See what?”

“To look into the eyes of the man who brought me to the world, only to abandon me. I had to know the man powerful enough to take a young spirited girl and break her and now she is a shadow of her former self” I was crying now “Father Mike tells me stories of you when you were young. . . “

“He shouldn’t have”

“I begged him to. He told me how happy and lively you used to be. He said. . . he said you sang like a choir of a thousand angels”

“My brother is biased” she tried to smile but only tears fell from her eyes.

“You were happy Mama. . . until he came along” I sniffed “until I came along. We ruined your life” I added quietly.

Mama’s head snapped up, her eyes hot as fire “Don’t you ever say that Ada. . . don’t you ever say that. You gave me life. I almost died when he left me. I thought I had nothing to live for until I felt you move in me. You gave me a reason to live, you gave me strength to walk with my held up high when the world mocked. You are the light of my world, Ada and I have never once regretted having you. Do you hear me?” she pulled me to her bosom, both of us crying.

“Why don’t you sing anymore mama? Father Mike says you sang when you were happy, he said it was what you did best. . . but I’ve never heard you sing”

“Oh my baby, you are what I did best and I sang to make myself happy but I don’t need to anymore. . . I have you” she pulled back and held my face in her hands “you are my best song . . . a song that never stops” and hugged me again.

I believe her. . . which is why I’ll never take him up on his offer for us to get to know each other.

nanaboi:
@Sisikill
I'm not doing too badly under the sun or in the rain because that's what I signed up for when I joined the Youth Service scheme. It's part of the anthem and thankfully, it will soon be over - September @ the most.

Hmm, I guess that makes you sort of sexy. T[b]he type that would fight for her love after falling into it with a loud thud.[/b]

Hmmm, a brave and romantic man! Be still my heart!

I'm happy to hear you are going toe to toe with our bad weather up north. Trust me, once you come out of this. . . you can face anything in the world.

StephenP
Darn it! we're not supposed to feel sorry for the possessive partner! LOL. It was sweet and sad!


Onyinye2
That was wrong! Why can't she have her happily ever after with Nnamdi without. . . freaking Paul ruining it. So many funny moments but this is my favorite part I'm damn tired of all these fake chain, noise making, no good sex giving, want to be hustlas type of brothas. LMAO.


LadyT
Lol,this was funny and real. Something similar happened to my older brother, his girlfriend. . . we called her Crazy Tracy (sshhhh) mistook my older sister for his girlfriend and went. . . well crazy. It was the perfect excuse he needed to break up with her. . . like slashing his tires wasn't enough. oops, I said too much