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12.

the blame
arihah

"Okay. Who should we get to bless the food?" My older cousin, Myra asked.

"I'll do it," Manny volunteered.

"No," Jai, Dre, and I said at the same time.

"How about my lovely niece, Arihah does it?" Aunt Veronica suggested.

"Sure," I smirked. "Lord, thank you for blessing all of us with another day and thank you for allowing us to be on earth for your birthday. Thank you for this food and bless the hands that prepared it. Happy birthday Jesus. Amen."

"And bless the disrespectful kids," my aunt Veronica added.

"And bless the witches that act so sadity," Jared said.

"I have one question," Manny started. "You not my aunt so, Veronica did you make any of this?"

She glared at him. "Yes. I prepared the potato salad and peach cobbler."

"The only thing she good at," my cousin  Bennet mumbled. "Well she think she good at it."

I wanted to laugh so bad but the more they kept carrying on, it was prolonging my time to eat.

"Aight. So Lord please watch over us at this table while we eat the potato salad because we don't know what could be in it," Manny continued.

"Yes Lord! Cause these witches be putting some evil spells on us angels," Jared followed up.

"Y'all going to hell," Myra called out.

"Can we eat now?" I asked.

"No. I will not be disrespected at my own table," Veronica said.

"Yo table? Nah lil sis, this is my house! You must have forgot for a second," Uncle Myle jumped in.

"Why everybody got potato salad on there plate but her?" Manny asked.

"I didn't want any," Veronica retorted.

"So you don't eat your own food now? She trying to poison us."

"Manny do you want me to take you outside?" Dre gritted his teeth.

We really had to treat him like a child.

"Yes. Take this hooligan out!"

"Again. This my house.. Which means you don't call the shots," uncle Myle said.

"Hooligan? Lady you disrespecting me on a whole other level. You can't take a joke? Ian disrespect you but you disrespecting me. Unc get yo sister," Manny said.

He turned into a completely different person after she said that.

"Look at how you're dressed. Probably another drug dealer."

I gasped. "Jared. Pass me the macaroni."

Jaicyon looked at me. "You foreal already started eating?"