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I drove down the crappy neighborhood that I live in. Empty liquor bottles and all types of things littered the grass in front of each house. I drove into the driveway of a brick house with pink panels and a white door. I grabbed my duffle bag and walked up the porch steps. I unlocked the door and silently came in the house. The house belongs to my grandmother but me and my daughter, Mercedes. Not my car but my actual daughter. I love her so much.

I sat my duffle bag near the door after closing the door and sat my phone and keys on the coffee table before crossing over to the kitchen. I went to the microwave and opened it up, grabbing my dinner.
My dinner is always in the microwave. Today's dinner is mashed potatoes and chicken. I'll have to work off the calories I gained from eating the food but for now, I'll eat the foo. Once I ate my food, I got me a water bottle from the fridge and headed down the hall to my room.
But before I went to my room, I opened the door to my grandmother's room that's where my daughter and grandmother slept peacefully. 
My daughter, having her arms spread out. I smiled and closed the door gently, walking back to my room.
I open my room door and thick blanket of smoke emerged from my room.
That must have been from when I was smoking earlier before leaving for work. I walk completely in the room, leaving my door open.

I grab a long white t-shirt and my body wash as well as my poof and walk to the bathroom down the hall. I turn on the lights in the bathroom. For it to be a bathroom, it's quite huge. I sat my shirt down on the towel rack
and turn on the water in the bath tub. I waited until the mirrors fogged up before pulling the knob and the water shot out the shower nose. I peel off my clothes and step into the shower, washing off the hard day of working off my body.

After taking a warm shower, I wrap my hair inside my scarf and headed to my room. As soon as I got to my room, I immediately got under my blankets and went to sleep.

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"Mommy mommy mommy!" Mercedes yells from the other side of my door that's currently locked.

"What Mercedes?" I yell, turning to my side, the room slightly filled with light from the window, just above my queen size bed.

"Can you open the door please mommy please!" Mercedes says.

"Mercedes you're killing me" I mumble. I got out of my bed, unlocking the door to reveal my eight year old child who looks like a spitting image of me. Both of us have almond colored skin with dark brown eyes and deep dimples on the right side of our cheeks. The only difference was that her eyes were big. Big, beautiful and brown. Her hair is a dark brown color and is very hard to tame so I usually allow her to rock a bush.

"Mommy you promised a day out with me" Mercedes says. She turns her head to the side, putting her hands in her lap.

"When did I say that?"

"Monday when I was watching TV. You said we were going to go out"

I pat the side of my head, annoyed at the fact that she would wake me up for something like this.

"Mercedes it's too early in the morning!"

"Grandma said it's past five'o clock" Mercedes says. She smiles revealing that dimple. I smiled back.
"Go ahead and get ready so we can go" I say to Mercedes. She ran back to her grandmother's room, where almost all of her pretty clothing is at.
I prefer for Mercedes to not be in my room. It always smells like weed and I don't want her knowing that I smoke.
Once I see Mercedes completely out of sight I close my door and sat at the edge of my bed.