The Preachers Daughter

Chapter Nineteen

Some people go to graveyards to bury a loved one. To watch them be lowered into the ground and to say your goodbyes. How does one do that when they have to bury two people? Their parents at that? I tried looking to Zy'Air for strength but I wasn't allowed to see him. Something about he got into an altercation with someone else and was sent to the hole. I can just imagine the constant battle he goes through in there. People know who he is and I'm sure not everyone is from the same part of the neighborhood. He's sitting in there battling for his life for something I did. I shouldn't have let him do this. 

I placed the last rose of my mother's casket and watched as they began dropping both of them in the ground. They were no longer married, so I couldn't get the couples plot that I wanted. They were able to give me two plots that were across from each other and I felt that was good enough for them. Knowing my mother she wouldn't want to be that close to my father anyway. 

Shakera and my father hadn't yet said I do, which meant I was in control of everything that happened to him. She didn't like that too much. She felt that I skipped out on him and I had no say so in what to do with his dead body. I was in too much grief and sadness to even entertain her bull shit so she constantly got ignored. I could feel her eyes burning a hole in my face from across the field. 

The assistant pastor to my father announced that the repast will be held at the church and dismissed everyone with a prayer. I turned to walk back towards the limo and I could see Shakera and her hound dog of a daughter walking towards me. I felt Annie on the other side of me grab my hand, letting me know she was there in case some shit went south. Shakera beat me to the limo and stood in front of me. I looked at her annoyed from behind my shades.

"Can I help you?", I asked her. 

"How dare you even show up here?"

"Uh, he's my dad".

"Well you damn sure didn't act like it. Didn't even check up on him to see if he was okay. Now all of a sudden you give a damn?"

"Look-"

"You and that ratchet ass mother of yours-"

"Watch ya fuckin' mouth bitch", Miss Rhi said from beside Annie. I hadn't even realized she was there.

"And who the fuck are you?", Khimani asked.

"The bitch that'll push you and ya fat ass Momma in the hole right with James cheating ass since y'all care about him so much".

Shakera took a step towards Miss Rhi then stopped. Her attention was focused behind me so I looked. A group of at least nine men stood behind us, all looked as if they were ready for war. The one in the front loosened his tie and crossed his hands in front of him.

"Do we have a problem here, Zoyanna?"

How the fuck do they know my name? I looked back at Shakera who was now scared shitless. "Do we?", I asked her.

Khimani pushed her mother to start walking and shot me a look I will never forget. I have a feeling this won't be my last time seeing those two. I turned towards the men.  

"Thank you", I said to them.

"If you ever need anything just give us a call", the guy said.

"Us as in who? I apologize but I don't know you".

He looked at the men around him. "We used to work for your parents".

"I thought they had both given that life up".

He cleared his throat. "Not exactly. Your father gave up his spot, yes. But your mother still held onto that queen position. She didn't get involved with much but she did have the last word".