"Daddy, where are we going?" I asked. I was scared. Antoine and Anthony held me as my dad drove. Mom had come home screaming and crying. Glasses broke and the coffee table shattered to pieces. We had a lot of bags in the trunk. I had my lucky teddy bear but I didn't feel so lucky.
"Don't worry, baby girl." He simply replied. After crying silently, for about 30 minutes, I slowly dozed off.
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I woke up in a bed, with no sight of my brothers or Dad. I sat up and saw three boys on the floor and I got scared. Mommy always told me about big boys taking little girls like me. I started to whimper. "Daddy?" I called. One of the boys sat up and looked at me. "Shh, it's okay. Unc is sleeping."
"Who are you?" I asked, wiping my tears. "I'm André. I'm your big cousin. That guy right there with the big afro is Prince. That guy with the hairy face is Morris. They're like my brothers."
"How old are y'all?"
"We're all 18. Morris turns 19 in December. How old are you?"
I put up 6 fingers. "My birthday is June 3rd."
"Ooh, do you know what zodiac signs are?" I shook my heads. "Well they're like star signs, you could say. Everyone has a sign. My sign is Cancer. You and Prince are Geminis. Morris is a Sagittarius. Here, let me show you what they look like." He got up and got a notebook from a dresser. He sat back down and opened it.
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"This is your sign. You're the sign of the twins. Prince can tell you a little more about it. You're also an air sign, along with Aquarius and Libra. I'm this one." He pointed to the crab.
"Did you draw this?" I asked. He nodded. "Yeah. I draw a little bit whenever I'm not rehearsing with the band or watching basketball games. Do you draw?"
I nodded and pulled out a picture I drew and colored.
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