From Condos to the Streets 4

Prologue

"Marlene" I screamed over the loud music.

"Marlene!!" I knocked on her door.

The music stopped and the door to her room slammed open.

"YES" She said with an attitude.

My head went back, "tone that attitude down, you know better"

She sighed, "Yes mom what do you want?"

Her fingers tapped impatiently against the door frame.

I looked at her fingers then at her, "you better talk to me correctly"

She rolled her eyes, "Yes ma'am"

"That's better. Your father is coming to pick you up tomorrow so you can fly with him back to Chicago"

"Finally" She threw her hands in the air.

"So can I skip school tomorrow to pack my stuff up?"

"No" I crossed my arms.

"Why not? I'm done with all my classes and I took all my finals"

"That doesn't give you an excuse to miss the last day of class" I said leaning on my right leg.

"Mom why do you always do this" She stomped her feet.

"School is important Lenny you know this, plus your father isn't coming until the afternoon. You have plenty of time"

"When?!" She looked around with her arms open.

"Like now, instead of arguing with me"

She huffed, "ugh I swear I can't wait for dad to come"

I was shocked.

"Listen lil girl I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it. Don't play with me, now pack before I call Karen and tell her you aren't going to her 'kick back" I air quoted.

"Oh my god I swear!" She said stomping back to her bed.

"Yea you need to call Jesus and pray so I won't snatch you up" I said looking at her throwing her stuff on the bed.

I shook my head and walked downstairs to the kitchen.

I was going to start on dinner when I got a FaceTime from Misha.

"Hey sis" she said.

"Hey hunny" I said looking at her before drying my hands.

"How's everything?"

"Girrrl" I said grabbing a knife from the drawer

"Lemme guess Lenny acting up again?"

I nodded, "girl yes. I know she likes being with her dad because he's so nonchalant and let's her do whatever but sometimes it makes me look like the bad guy"

"Trust me Shawn is the same way with Mia not so much with Savage cus he's a man" I saw her roll her eyes.

"I guess girl but Lenny just has an attitude all the time with me"

"Listen she's still processing the situation she's in. It's normal you just have to talk to her and hopefully she'll understand"

"I hope so cus she don't know her momma, matter fact she ain't seen me yet"

She laughed, "lord please don't go back to them street ways"

"I found Jesus and he's made me a better person but chile it's hard with this lil girl trying me all the time" I chuckled.

"Hey auntie" Mia popped up on the screen.

"Hey baby, how you been?"

"Good, how's Lenny? Is she coming to visit?"