fool 4 love

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fool 4 love

parker "pk" sinclair
baton rouge, la

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"Where is my son!? We've been here for hours and y'all ain't told us nothing!" my mama shouted to the lady at the hospital's reception desk.

"Ma'am if you could just calm d—"

"Don't tell me to calm down! That's my son in there!" my mama continued.

She then turned away and walked back to the waiting room where my family and I were sitting.

"These people here are all so useless!" she continued to complain as she sat down.

"Oh my god," I groaned loudly. "Can you shut the fuck up and wait?" I added.

All of my family's heads turned to me.

I'm the one who gon' say what everybody else too scared to say.

"Who you talking to? Don't play with my mama," Larielle started to get loud and sat up all high and mighty.

"Tell your mama stop acting like she really care bout my brother! She ain't did shit for him nor me our entire lives! Momo was our mother figure!"

"I don't care, don't play with my mama!" Larielle yelled back and stood up.

"Lil girl, sit the fuck down talking to me before I beat your lil ass," I snapped.

She just rolled her eyes and sat back down next to mama.

Everybody in the waiting room was quiet. People were staring and my other family members looked at us embarrassed.

I was starting to get irritated so I put my airpods in and turned my music on, putting it on full blast.

Only fifteen seconds into the first song, a doctor that was walking out of the doors to the hospital rooms eyed my family and made his way over to us.

I paused the music and took my airpods back out.

"Family of Mekhi Sinclaire?"

We all stood up immediately. My grandma made sure to get in front.

As he explained what happened to Mekhi, I paid close attention to his facial expressions.

He was giving that same fake 'sincere' doctor look.

I knew it was coming.

And sure enough, it did.

"I'm sorry. We did everything that we could."

Everything that they could. Of course.