Temptation (August Alsina) (Editing Process)

21. Friends

(Marylin's P.O.V.)

I sat down on my sofa feeling exhausted as ever.

I had just ran a lot of errands that involved mostly my mom and her health.

It was crazy how much money you could spend over one treatment.

But I knew that this would all blow over soon especially since I was moving the rest of her treatments up here to Los Angeles.

I couldn't watch my mom suffer any longer and I didn't like the fact that we were so far apart.

So I took Augusts advice and decided to move her up here.

My mom and my aunt agreed that their stay here would only be temporary and who knows how long that meant. All I know is that my mom would try to get better here and then move back to New Orleans.

"Marylin are you in there?"

I looked towards my front door knowing that it had to be my little sister, Genesis.

She was of course all about her self and wanted no part in this whole "taking care of mommy" thing. All she ever did was put in money for anything that involved her fair share and then go back to her life.

The last time she even checked up on her own mother was about few weeks ago, basically since we found out she was diagnose with breast cancer.

I got up from my sofa to open the door.

"Finally." She mumbled walking right pass me into our condo.

Two grown women, who both have good paying jobs, live in the same place together?

Yea well my sister is only 20 and I'm 23 and to be honest she still doesn't know what she wants to do with her life.

Yea she models but we both promised our mom we would make more of ourselves and make her proud.

That's the only reason I've been considering on quitting but I'm still lost on where I should start and what I should do.

So my sister and I been saving money for two reasons.

•My moms treatment.

•And for anything that we plan to invest the rest of our future in.

It's a little thing we came up with it's not great but it's a start.

"So how's she doing?"

"Why would you care? You don't even want to see her." She kissed her teeth going into the kitchen.

"I don't understand why you getting mad. You know it's true stop acting like that."

"Dammit' Marylin! Can't you just answer my question without all that extra bullshit?" She hissed

"Whatever Genesis. If you wanted to know how she was doing then you would go see her. For crying out loud that's our mother and that so called "beef" you have or had with her is in the past! So it would be nice if yo' ass would fuckin' leave it there."

She stared at me for a moment before grabbing her stuff and walking towards her room.

She slammed the door making me jump a little. There were times I wanted to side with my sister but at the same thats my mother and she was the only biological one I was ever gonna have.

So I was gonna have to also push everything I had against her and help her.

You see my mother was no saint she sold us out on those cold streets in New Orleans just so she could get by.