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THE CARVER RESIDENCE [DECEMBER 21ST, 11:23AM.]
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ITS BEEN A WEEK SINCE Dovani's mother woke from her coma and nobody had talked about the elephant in the room. She had been staying with the couple in their guest room but she wouldn't come out for hours, even days at a time.
Dovani felt like there was just a stranger just living with her boyfriend, as they didn't move in together all the way. She was still packing up her apartment to have everything transported.
This morning felt colder than any other days as this was the first day of winter break for the kids so MaKenna was here with them. So, the four of them were spending the day with eachother, playing board games, watching movies. Semaji's younger brother spent the night with them the night before so he was stuck with them as well.
"You landed on my property so you have to pay me!" MaKenna screamed at Sahaji who was just mean mugging her as for the last ten minutes she's been begging him to pay her for landing on her hotel owned property in Monopoly.
"Ion have to pay you. You landed on mine, I'm still waiting on my two-hunnid." He argued back. Dovani rolled her eyes at the children, going back and forth.
Dovani found it funny that her boyfriend and his brother had very similar names. It was like their parents made them sound like twins in some way. Even though Semaji was years older.
The sound of a door opening made Dovani look down the hallway, where her mother was staying. She was guessing that she would come out and try socializing with the rest of them but she was disappointed once again to her just going inside the bathroom that was just across the hall.
Sighing, she turned back to the game, Semaji noticing that she's been down since her mom moved in.
"Why don't you go talk to her? She probably feels like a burden, intruding on her daughter's life that she didn't get to see grow up." Semaji recommended.
"I don't know what to say to her. I thought she was dead, Maji."
"I understand, mama. But, how you think she feels waking up and figuring out it's been more than ten years and she missed her first and second daughter growing up," He turns to her, looking her in her face.
"And it ain't fair that you just shutting her out because you believed she was dead. She's not dead, she's here. So, I need you to go say something. Doesn't have to be a long conversation but make it known to her that you're willing to support her through anythin'."
