WHAT THEY SEE

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WHAT THEY SEE

DESIRE POWELL
SEPTEMBER 16th, 2023.
SATURDAY 3:52 pm

Four months ago.

THE DAY THAT desire found out she had two other siblings she'd never known about, she felt as if her life had been flipped upside down.

In her mind, she never had to question anything about her paternity, she knew her mother, and her father even though he was deceased.

Since he in fact had passed, she knew nothing about his side of the family, like the fact that her father was a twin, or the biggest fact of them all which was that her father had cheated on her mother and created sincere and honesty.

She could remember it like it was yesterday.

"Momma, I wanna learn more about my daddy." Desire waltzed into her mothers room, eating out of her box of cheeze its. They were her favorite things to eat, the regular ones, and the cheddar ones as well.

Ashanti, her mother looked up from her work MacBook. Disgust covering her face at the thought of Greg. "Girl fuck your daddy." She spat, ready to dismiss desire.

"Momma please...I just wanna know anything about him." Desire tapped her hand on her thigh impatiently.

Ashanti eyed her daughter, thinking it over with herself. She felt as if her bitterness towards him didn't permit desire not to know about him, so she would put her feelings aside. "Well, he was cool I guess." She shrugged.

"He was a good father to you I can't lie, a good father in general." She muttered scratching the side of her head. "I don't know what I can tell you about him, but I can tell you, he has two other kids. They're twins." She sighed.

"Your fathers' brother identifies as their father, so maybe if you find them and then him he could tell you anything you wanna know." She offered, but desire felt hopeless and stuck. Confused at most.

"Wait, so I have siblings. My uncle claims them, and you knew." She listed watching ashanti nod with no remorse. "How will I find them? Do you know their name? Where they live?" Desire kept shooting questions out.

"Girl, they had me fooled. I thought he was your uncle kids but it turned out your ain't shit daddy fucked his girl. They names was some verbs or something." She grew quiet trying to rack her mind, "I think it was...sincere...and something else."

Ashanti snapped her fingers repeatedly. "Fuck, what was dat girl name." She muttered thinking about it hardly. "Oh! Sincere and honesty." She nodded her head as it clicked for her.

"Yeah child, that's all I know about them. They like one year apart from you, so maybe they have social media. Do that lil stalking shit you be doing maybe you can find them." Ashanti suggested, "I don't have no pictures of them, but I remember they had this smooth dark skin like dark chocolate. Thats all I remember." Ashanti told her all the information she knew.

Desire racked her brain. She wasn't dark, she was more of a caramelized color. She wondered if they took after their father, or if their mother was also dark.

Her mother had told her to look her up, and that was exactly was desire did.

Unfortunately, nothing popped up. Their names werent that unique but they weren't too common either, so she was sure it shouldn't have been that hard to find them, but it appeared to be after all.