Trapped

Chapter 2

"Demarcus I told you not to come home high!" My mom yelled.

"Ma I ain't high!"

"Then why do you smell like pot!"

"I was at Ms.June's and everyone was smokin up, I didn't smoke though cause I know you loose your shit when I come home high!"

"Stop fuckin swearing at me Demarcus before I knock you boy!"

"Yeah ma threaten me right infront of Shawn and Dessire! That'll comfort them! Look what you're doing to us! They're over there crying cause you're loosing your shit cause I smell like weed! Look at my eyes I'm not high!"

"Get in your room now! I don't want to deal with you anymore!"

I did as she said cause I don't feel like making her angrier.
I walk into my room, grab my basketball and lay on my bed.
I throw the ball up in the air and then catch it, over and over again. I accidentally hit the roof a few times, which got my ma yelling at me, again.

--

"Dinners here" I hear my mom yell from the kitchen.
Dinner? I haven't heard that word for a while.
I walk out of my room to see a pizza box

"Where'd you get money for this ma?"

"I found $10 on the sidewalk today, and I felt bad for giving you such a hard time so I got pizza" she smiled.

"Thanks ma, I love you" I say hugging her with one arm, holding pizza in the other hand.

"I love you too Demo, forever, don't forget that" she says before she kisses my cheek.

My ma ain't always yellin. Sometimes she chills the fuck down and is nice. But most the time she still yellin.

"Ma, can Dev come have some pizza? He hasn't eaten for 2 days, ms.june's having trouble keepin up with all the kids she's got there now"

"For sure, he can stay the night if he wants."

I text Dev and he's in my kitchen scarfing down pizza within minutes.

"So Dev, you and your mom talkin again?" My mom asks.

"Nah, we haven't talked for a month and a half Ms.Rulase. I ain't sure if we ever gonna again. She was real mad at me"

"Dev you should go home, your ma probably misses you and is worried. I can call her tonight and tell her you're here safe with me, you didn't tell her you was goin to Ms.Junes did you?"

"Nah I didn't want her coming to get me.."

"Well she gonna come get you tomorrow, but from here, not in front of all you trap friends."

"Thank you Ms.Rulase, I've been missin her a lot but I'm to scared to go home myself, I'm afraid of what she gon do to me"

"Trust me Dev, she ain't gonna lay a finger on you, only when she huggin you." -
"When Jettes left for Ms.Junes a few years ago, I let him come back himself, took him a month, but he came back. I wasn't mad, I was just happy to see my boy back in my home" my mom said.
"Now he's livin on his own uptown with his girl, doin good for himself, that could be you two. You guys gotta smarten up. " she said, looking back and forth from me and Dev.

"Ight ma we goin to bed. Where's that extra bed stuff we got?"

"Under Des's bed"

I quietly go into Dessire's room, trying not to wake her. I pull on some blankets  and get a pillow.
I walk into my room and see Dev looking on my wall.
"You still got these? Man those are from long ago.. Look how little we were. We was still trapping though look at how fly we look" Dev Says, pointing to a picture of me and him when we were 7.