"So baby how's school been?" My mom's asked me reaching out to touch my hands.
Central Park's women's correctional facility had to be one of the top menacing prisons in New York. From what my Mom's told me, all the gaurds were petty rapists and every other day someone was either dead or close to it.
It took me a while to get used to the fact that my Mother would be spending the rest of her life in this hell but it was her own doing.
"No touching!" The visitational officer yelled banging on the see through glass.
Slowly sliding my hands in my lap clenching my jaw I stared at my Mom's wondering how they could keep her in here like this. How she could ever get herself in here.
"School is school ma" I replied in a nonchalant tone. I ain't tried to be rude, it was just something about this place that put me in a bad mood.
From the rustiness of their equipment to the new bruises I see on her face everytime I visited.
"Shaun don't do that" She whispered quietly patting at her black eye that filled with warm tears careful not to disturb it too much.
"Ma what I'm supposed to do! You took a fall for that nigga and he don't even give a fuck about you!" I yelled banging my fists on the metal table.
"Lower your voice!" She snapped back rising from her seat. "I ain't take the fall for that bastard I took the fall for you" She lied.
"I'm not tryna' hear this bullshit Kali I'm late for class" I mumbled pulling my hoodie over my head roughly sliding my chair back.
"Shaun!" She called after me. I didn't hesitate to not turn or even look back at my moms.
She used to be beautiful, she used to have these brown eyes that sparkled when she talked, a soft but raspy tone and glowing brown skin.
Truth was she started smoking and doing hard drugs after my Pops killed himself, after that she met a some nigga that was rough on the corners causing her to go rough too.
Anger was the only emotion I had space for in my head as of yet. I ain't have no room to feel nothing else, anger was how I moved forward.
Especially now that everybody was depending on me to pull weight.
Since it was six in the morning and I didn't have to be to school until Seven I had time to dick around.
Taking my daily bus ride back to the three bedroom apartment I shared with my younger sisters Kesai and Katari I decided on stopping at McDonald's to get them breakfast.
Ordering two sausage biscuits and hash browns was enough to keep them going before I dropped them off at daycare.
"Shauney!" Katari yelled watching me walk past a few cars in the parking lot with the food hanging in my mouth and drinks in my hands stepping wide to keep my sagging pants from falling.
"Wassup baby? When y'all got up?" I asked entering the apartment.
"I heard you leave then Tari woke up" Kesai spoke up rubbing her puffy eyes.
Kesai and Katari were four year old twins, they had the weirdest rich golden hair I managed to tie in two loose buns and the brightest hazel eyes anybody could fall in love with.
