When I left from Keondre's house this morning I went to school, work, and then church. My mom had just gotten home and I don't know but some way Le'Ron managed to clean the whole house, air it out and everything so it was like he didn't have a party all weekend.
"Hey ma I'm home", I said coming in putting my stuff down.
"Hey I'm in the kitchen mija", I walked in the kitchen and my mom was cooking a bunch of Mexican food. Enchiladas. chicken and beef Quesadilla, rice, beans, tacos, fajitas everything and I couldn't wait to eat.
"So how was the trip?", I asked hugging her and washing my hands so I could help her finish cooking.
"It went well. Where are you brothers and sisters at?"
"Lily and Kayla were over aunt Rachaels but they might be back now and Le'Ron is probably in his room"
"What did I tell all of you LaLa? Y'all need to always know where your siblings are. I'm serious you need to know their every move. Like right now your aunt Carol is going to abuela's house. And I bet if you call her right now she'll tell you", I called her and she was exactly where she said she would be.
"How did you know that?"
"Because I have to. You might not understand why now but in certain situations it's going to be important", before I could respond Kayla and Lily came in the kitchen.
Kayla: "Mommy!!", she ran over to her nearly knocking her down
Mom: "Hey baby. How are you? I missed you"
Lily: "Hey ma", she walked over to her and hugged her and sat down at the bar
Mom: "Awe my beautiful daughters. Where is y'all's brother?"
Le'Ron: "I'm right here. Hey mom", he came in giving her a hug pulling his pants up.
Mom: "Hey baby. Now that everyone is here everybody can help me take the food to the table and talk", we grabbed all the dishes and sat them at the table. When we set the table we sat down, said grace and dug in.
Me: "So ma what did you want to talk about?"
Mom: "I want to talk about everything. I feel like we're not as close as we used to be. Every since y'alls father left we haven't been as close"
Le'Ron: "Don't talk about him at the dinner table. He a no good, dead beat, motha--"
Lily: "Heeeyyy", she said yelling before he could finish his sentence. "We all know what happened we were all there but let's not talk about that right now"
Mom: "No we're going to talk about everything and if somebody think they gone get up from this table before I say you can I'm going to hurt you. We have unresolved issues as a family and we need to get it all out. Le'Ron since you have the most hostility you start talking"
Le'Ron: "Aight. I'm 24 and I almost faced 20 years of my life because he wasn't there as a father. You tried your best to raise a man but I know you could only do so much. When Roger left yeah our whole family fell apart and we sort of separated. My relationship with all of y'all fell off and I went out and started doing me. I don't have nothing against any of y'all but I do against Roger"
Me: "Okay what about you Lily?"
Lily: "Yeah after dad left we stopped communicating and honestly I feel like if it wasn't for you and LaLa we wouldn't be as close as we are right now. Umm I've been slipping in my religion and I've been living a double life. At night when everybody is sleep I leave and go to parties, I go get drunk with friends and everything. Le'Ron and Kayla's caught me but they promised they would let me tell you my own way. I just feel like that's the only way I can just resolve my problems, I drink until I can't drink anymore and then go to church the next day like everything is okay. I'm tired of it though. Why did he have to do you and us like that mom? What did we do?", she was crying and Kayla was holding her rocking her.
