Loyalty V/S Love Reloaded

chapter 1

Chapter 1 - My push to power

"Prencess that's it!"

From the room I could hear my grandpa and mom arguing yet again. This was a regular for them. Since we were born my mom, I and my brother have been staying with my Nana and Paw Paw. They both moved here to Chicago from Columbia in the late seventies to provide a better life for my mom who was an only child. My paw paw opened up a chain of Laundromats after moving here and my nana was a stay at home mom. My paw paw and my mom stayed into it because mama would go out all night partying and leaving us with my grandparents.

"Prencess you have two bastard kids, no job, no plans of college, and at the age of twenty-seven your favorite pastime is still drinking and partying."

"Dad it was just one night it won't happen again. It ain't like they babies no more they don't have to be watched every minute."

By this time I was ten and J was twelve, we shared my mom's childhood bedroom with her. Cramped wasn't the word for how we lived. My mom had a full size bed, while my brother and I had two twin size air mattresses on the floor. We could pretty much roll into the hall way right out of bed. Now don't get it twisted my grandparents loved us but they never skipped a chance to mention our fathers weren't around. J and I had different dads both black. From what my nana used to say J's dad he was a drug dealer that was locked up for murder. He killed his other baby mama and the twins she was pregnant with because he didn't want any more kids. He also killed her mother that was home so there were no witnesses. I didn't hear much about my dad except he was no good. I didn't even know his name. Frankly, I didn't care.

My paw paw was mad because it was now six thirty on a Sunday evening, my mom had original left for her night out Saturday at one in the afternoon. She was supposed to be running to the store real quick.

"Prencess, me and your mother can't do this anymore. You can't expect us to raise your kids, its past time for you to become a REAL parent to them."

"Dad I am, but I still have a life too."

See my mom was one of those types that had kids too young and still wanted to live her own life. She acted like we was a burden to her but hey we ain't ask to be here struggling with her ass either.

"Prencess you have to pack up you and the kids up and move out and you need to do it by tonight before we go to bed!"

"But what am I supposed to do about a place to stay for me and the kids!?"

"Don't you have a boyfriend with a place? I don't know what you are going to do but you have to be gone end of discussion!"

My grandpa went into the den and slammed the door.

"Honey don't you think your being a bit harsh?"

"No mi amor she has to learn, we can't continue to baby her."

"But, she's are only daughter. And where will she take China and Japan? How do we know they'll be safe?"

"We have to pray for the best but providing shelter is part of being a mother. I told her I didn't approve of the kids she hung around and not listening got her two kids. Now it's time to deal with the consequences."

When my mom came in the room she rolled her eyes at the door and told us to get our coats and shoes on while she called her boyfriend Tyree. She got our suitcases out of the basement and threw all the clothes we had in our dresser in. By the time my shoes were tied she'd packed all the personal items of ours she could fit in the suitcases and was headed towards the door. Within thirty minutes we were leaving my paw paw's house in a quiet community in Schaumburg north of Chicago to Tyree's house in Maywood, totally different life.

My mom had a habit of linking herself to the up and coming hustler at the present time and staying around until he went to jail or his pockets were dry. Tyree was no different. He was the newest but not the first or last. Tyree and my mom were together for about six months at the time. She was his main chick, mama knew she wasn't the only one but as long as she was getting the most out of him she didn't care. She knew her place. He was from Detroit and moved his hustling down here because he had a sickly grandmother here he wanted to be close to.

"Wassup ma?" When Tyree opened the door he saw us dragging behind her.

His smile quickly turned to a frowned when he noticed we all had luggage.

"What's going on Prencess?"

"My dad trippin hard this time, he put me and the kids out."

"So what I'm supposed to do with yo two kids Prencess?"

"Bae you won't even know they here, I promise."

An hour later mama had us settled into the guest room with one queen bed. "Yal be good and don't be roaming around this house it's nice enough for him to let us stay but it's just for a little while."