I'd Do Anything

Chapter 5

I sat at the table with Big Mama, watching Pumpkin eat.

"Since when did she learn to eat with a spoon that good?" I asked. Big Mama looked at her smiling. She was really growing up on us.

"I was thinking maybe I should sell my house Hope."

"Why? I can afford for you to keep it, we're pretty finanically stable. You should keep it."

"You're my only piece of family; I don't want the house or the memories in it; I don't want the pictures, the clothes or any piece of my old life in it."

"Well Ma, if that's how you feel then we'll call a relator about it." I said, "But you know that your daughter did call..."

"You shouldn't have answered, and I know that you did."

"She said that she just wanted to talk to you"

"Stay out of it Hope. Stay out of it" she said before getting up to clean Patience, "I'm going to get her ready for her day, we have things to do. See you later on tonight."

"See you later." I replied.

A couple of hours later, I was walking into Craze Café  with Storm.

"I'll have a mocha cappuccino and a BLT sandwich with light mustard."she said

"And I'll have a mango pineapple smoothie and a cheese burger light mayo with sweet potato fries." I said after her.

Our waitress nodded and walked off. When she came back I decided to stir up the conversation.

"You said we'd talk over coffee, and you got your coffee so can you tell me how you got here? Like stripping. I don't wanna be nosey, but I'm really curious .... You were the smartest in our class" I said

She sipped her coffee slow, "I had a desire to be bad, got tired of living in a box" she started saying, "I met Rock, and we were only supposed to be a fling, just so I could say that I messed with a thug. I don't know how it happened but I fell in love with him, and Rockell came along and I lost it all, all but him" She drifted off into space....

"Talino what the fuck is this?" Her mother waved the pregnancy box in the air. Her father just stood behind his wife looking pale.

She just looked at them blankly, "I'm sorry."

"So what? You want to keep this baby?"

"Mommy... I don't have a choice" she cried to her mother

"You do! What will my friends think back home? Their children are graduating early and leading good lives, and look at mine... All I have to offer is my child with a 3.8 GPA and a bastard baby!" My mother screamed, I just held my head down.

"I can keep up with my grades, I can have my 4.0 and be a good mom! I can do it, I know I can."  she said, "Plus he'll help."

"Shut up! Shut your mouth, you sound so naive! Do they ever help? Do you think he is any different?" her mother shouted

"Mom, I'm in love with him"

"What do you know about love? What about your love for me?"

"I do love you.. A lot" she said honestly

"Well love me enough to stop your whoring and get rid of that child! Nang, where did we go wrong with her?" she asked my father, but he didn't answer, he just looked at her.