Code of silence

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carlotta: i guess it's onward and upward, but it ain't that easy. Not when the devil catches up to your ass.

downstairs shine was in the salon with carlotta giving her bottle since simone, star, alex, and Ariana are all upstairs in bed asleep and Rosie and Taylor were not there yet and shine had just finished her bottle and she was getting even more tired then before

shine: Ms. carlotta i'm tired i am going back to sleep ok

carlotta: ok baby be careful on those steps

shine: i will see you later carlotta

Bruce: is it just me or is everybody wondering who's that baby's father

Cotton: Bitch you so noisy if star didn't tell who's the baby daddy then evidently she didn't want anyone to know.

bruce: or doesn't know who the baby daddy is

now it's 9:35 and shine came out to drink her bottle when it was 8:00

Bruce: baby, we in there this year. We winning

they were talking about the hair show the girls were performing at and it determinds the best hair salon in Atlanta.

Cotton was on the phone

Cotton: nd dont be late

Bruce: them sisers sisters don't even know what i'ma do with them

the constomer: You said that last year an lost

Bruce: Doris, i'm need you to worry about paying for your hair on time, something you never do.

Cotton: yeah, but you did say that last year

Bruce: oh no i'm serious this year,baby. watch

Doris: where's Danielle

Carlotta: she went to ask her aunt for a favor. You know, the girls are performing a Gladys knight remix at the hair show.

Bruce: here we go with this Gladys knight stuff again. i can't ... Ya'll know good damn and well that girl ain't no kin of Gladys knight. She been saying that some lie for years.

Cotton: why do you always have something to say?

Bruce: why we never met her?

Carlotta: well, why everybody got to be a liar, Bruce? And at this point, anything will help.

Bruce: Gladys knight? uh-huh. did i ever tell you that i was once 6-months pregnant by Tyler Parry?

Carlotta: shut up, bruce.

then with that she walked away with coffee giving an interview with a man.

Carlotta: sorry about that. Where were we?

Man: uh, don't mind me. Beautiful girls you got here, Carlotta

the man said while looking at Simone's picture more that the Alex, Shine, Ariana, and Star.

Man: are the black kids yours

Carlotta: no, they ain't mine. might as well be, though.

upstairs

simone heard that man's voice from her sleep and she rememberd that man's voice was Otis her old foster dad's name. and as soon as knew she wasn't hearing things he went to get star who was cuddled up with her baby girl.

Simone: get up, he's here. get up he's here

Star: who?

Simone: Otis

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