It was about 10pm on a chilly Saturday when KeyLoLo returned home. "Man it's cold" she said. She cut on the light & there sat her mother with her night clothes on & her hands folded. "Where the hell you been?" her mother asked. "Out with friends around the block". "Didn't I tell you to be in by the time the street lights were on? Get out my face before I hit you in ya throat. KeyLoLo goes to her. "Drunk ass!". "What you say?" Responds her mom. KeyLoLo writes in her journal
"Mom is a alcoholic who doesn't want to go to rehabilitation. This has been going on for 2 years now. My daddy walked out on me when I was two. He left us for a white woman. This broke my mother heart. To cope she began drinking. I never have company because she is always drunken or passed out. The shit is embarrassing yo.
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Down the Block
Teen FictionThere are three things everybody wants in the world. A group of "friends" discovers that those three things can ruin the world. Everybody lIfe Is headIng for the worse. Living In the hood ain't easy who will be effected?
