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TARAJI
I was walking down the busy highway with Zakarye on my hips, but between all the noisy transportation I heard my name, someone called me.
I looked around to see Miss B pulled off the road waving at me,
"Taraji, come lemme holla at you baby" I don't know but that word just makes me feel a type a way
"Hey Miss b, keep it down she's sleeping" I walked up to the car
"Who's that pretty princess?"
"Oh she's one of the girls from the home, we really need to leave there"
"Oh, where were you going?"
"To be honest I was gonna carry her for some ice cream"
"Okay well.. you can come to my house I've got plenty there and Amari is cooking"
"Nah, I don't wanna intrude"
"You're not intruding if I invited you, hop in"
"Okay, appreciate you miss-"
"It's Fantasia outside of school"
"Oh okay, I just also wanted to apologize for calling your name like that in class, that was disrespectful"
"Aww don't you worry"
The car ride to the grocery store and back home was basically us talking about life and just having deep conversations in which she opened my eyes for me to see certain things.
We finally reached to her home, a big ass mansion looks like I would have to save for the rest of my life to live in something like this. It's breathtaking.
I woke Zakarye up and hopped out of the car.
"Woah, you and your family got money as fuck!"
"I live here alone."
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't know"
"It's okay, come on in Amari is gonna be upset that I took so long"
And she was right. As soon as we opened the door Amari was on the other side.
"Okay so?"
"Girl move"
She looked over to me and Zakarye
"I sent you for seasoning and you got her?"
"Okay one thing you not finna do is-"
"You ain't let me finish. HEY TARAJI!"
"Oh."
I laughed at how quickly she was humbled by Amari
"Hey Amari, heard you was cooking and I couldn't miss it"
"Well I'm glad you came, and who's this little munchkin" she asked going down to Zakarye's level
"Hi! I'm Zakarye, but TT calls me Karye, and I'm 8"
"Awww you're adorable, you guys can go ahead and sit in the living room dinner will be done in a few"
"Okay cool" I said walking off with Zakarye, I was a nervous wreck.
About 10 minutes later Amari called us and we gather by the dinner table.
"Okay damn, this looks and smells good" I complimented
"Thank youu!!"
"Miss Cummings never feed us like this" I shot Zakarye a look because why would she say that?
"Who's Miss Cummings?" Fantasia asked
"Oh uhm the lady at the home, don't worry bout that"
"Hmm."
It was quiet.
"How about we say grace?" Amari broke the silence
"Yeah I'll go" Fantasia said
"Dear Lord thank you for gathering us here today and may this food be good to our bodies, thank you for Amari's blessed hands, Amen."
I fixed a plate for Zakarye and myself, I really couldn't wait to eat.
"So Taraji? If you don't mind me asking, how did you end up in the home?"
"Yeah that's fine Miss- Fantastia. My parents left me and went to Canada to start over"
"That's messed up" Amari added
"Yea, but it is what it is? The home ain't even that bad for real but it's just Miss Cummings that be treating us like dogs and I don't want to stay there anymore and I definitely don't want Zakarye to stay there."
"Well.. you can live with me?"
Zakarye shot her eyes up to me
"That would be nice, but Miss Cummings would never let that happen."
"Not if I sign yall adoption papers?"
"No, that's a lot"
"Girl come on, Fantasia already be in this big ass house all alone it would be nice to have you here with her"
"Please TT, I don't wanna stay there anymore"
I was held aback, why was she doing this for me? It's nice.
"You know what, fuck it why not?!"
"Aye great! I'll get the process started for real"
"Would I have to call you mom?"
"No Taraji, I'm just doing this so that you can live with me legally."
