Fatima walked in, sat her keys down, and looked at Zac!
Zac, "How was your run?"
Fatima, "Interesting!"
Zac, "How so?"
Fatima, "Well for starters I met your brother and some of his friends!"
Zac sat his water down and walked over to Fatima, "Are you okay? Did he touch you? Did they touch you? I'll kill him!"
Fatima rubbed Zac's earlobe to calm him down and he looked at her, "They never got close enough to! Koa was on watch, plus I had my gun!"
Zac sighed in relief, "What did he say?"
Fatima, "Something about you always getting what you want!"
Zac, "Hell I should say the same thing about him!"
Fatima, "What do you mean?"
Zac sat down at his bar and Fatima joined him, "Growing up my mom gave Jeremiah her all! Some people even thought she had only child! She didn't care too much for me because my dad left her! Jeremiah's dad was the love of her life he went to prison and then she met my dad! He was a noble and honorable man, he didn't drink and he didn't do drugs! When he noticed my mom slipping back into her addiction he left! He then returned and got me! Of course he found me alone, cold, and starving in a house that had no lights and barely had ventilation! My mom didn't come looking for me! Honestly she didn't care where I was! A couple years later my mom and Jeremiah's dad Jeremy were back together! Smoking, drinking and cutting a damn fool! They ended up having Jream and Jermias and the hospital kept them because they were born with drugs in their system, since my dad was listed as the next of kin he adopted them! He raised them like they were his and we were a big happy family! I got drafted and my dad got sick! With my first check, I made sure he got all his treatments and things were going good for the next couple of years! That's until he came out of remission and it was worse this time! There was nothing I could do to save him and Lord knows I tried! He knew his time here was almost up so we went up to the courthouse and he signed over all his rights to me! He didn't want my mom to get Jream or Jerm! My Dad passed away shortly after I received my custody papers! It's like he held on for us! He wanted to make sure we all were safe and he did just that! I made sure I kept this house, because it was his! I wanted to keep everything as normal as possible for them! Even his room is still the same! Although we miss him daily, we know he's still here! I started slowly allowing my mom to have visitation! Once she showed she was clean! She kept relapsing and then she would just drop them off and take off! They love her and want that relationship with her but she keeps failing and since they're older I let them decide if they want to go with her or not because I'm still their custodial parent and I can refuse all visits especially when she's back doing drugs! The thing is she does most of her drugs with Jeremiah because he is a dealer! It just hurts that even after not giving me shit, they still expect the world from me!"
