Ascension

Chapter 28

~Tionne~

Thanks for coming. You know you my sis and anything you need you got it. I know I just... I feel like I can't shake her. I can still feel her, its been almost a year. Are you trying to shake her? I don't know, Vin its hard. It's really hard. No one said it would be easy. Relationships are hard work Tionne, especially the kind of relationship that yall have. You aren't going to be able to shake her the same way she can't shake you. She hasn't shaken me I said looking at him? What do you think, you know how she is? I know all too well how she is. I stayed out yall's business because I wanted her to grow up. We had some um we had some physical disputes. You hit her! In all fairness she hit me back. He chuckled a little bit before looking up at me I said she needed self-confidence I never said she couldn't defend herself. You tell me that now. What's her story, for real? He sniffed and looked around before speaking. Justice is special. Tell me something I don't know. No, you don't get it. My father was big into the 88's and he did some things that weren't the right to my mother. I don't get what you're saying. Justice is what they would call a heroin baby. A heroin baby! Her mother, her birth mother was heavy into drugs when she started messing with my father. He was to my knowledge trying to help her get clean when she got pregnant with Justice. Wait...wait your mother isn't her mother? Yes and No. No, she isn't her biological mother, yes, she is her mother. She's the only mother that Justice has ever known and will know. Wow she doesn't know at all. Nope she doesn't and it was his wishes that she never know, we don't even know the woman's name.

What happened to her birthmother? She died from an overdose 2 weeks after Justice was born. She didn't even know that her baby had survived. Survived? She had her in of the trap houses and left her there. One of the other girls found the baby and told my father. Oh my god I said covering my mouth. He took her to the hospital, and they cleaned her up and checked her out. Justice was very lucky that she didn't come out with the same developmental and physical issues that most babies who were exposed to crack do. She did get a few issues, that we spent years correcting and redirecting her into the way she is now. No one has ever told her this? No, my father was doing what he was doing, and my mother was shocked, but she was happy because she'd wanted another baby but couldn't have any more kids after Cierra. I don't even know what to say Vin, she raised someone else baby! Yeah, she did, and she made sure that we all knew that Justice was no different than any of us Regardless of what my father did or how he treated her. Treated her, how did he treat her? Let's just say of all of us kids, she got the short end of the stick with him. She was his mirror, the mistakes you make when you treat on your wife.

What side effects did she get from being exposed to heroin? Physically she appears fine but you know she has issues with her eating. She has to maintain a certain weight, or she'll get or worse pass out. Also, you may not have noticed it but she has a slight twitch, sometimes she'll shake or she'll blink repeatedly. As she's gotten older, she's learned to control it and it's not as much of a problem as when she was younger. Mentally Justice is okay as long as she takes the pills, if she stops taking the pills, she can go from zero to 100 and back to zero just like that. She's bipolar? Oh yeah big time, but that wasn't a result of her mother's drug abuse. Your father I said looking at him. Mhm he would have these out bursts all the time and flip out. It's part of the reason why my mom let him do what he did with the 88's because when he went to 100 it was better for him to be out the house then there trying to kill her or us. She was the only one out of all the kids that got that trait from him. That mixed with the heroin he said shaking his head.

The doctors told my mom and dad that if she even lived past 10 years old, she'd have serve mental problems and she'd never be normal. Of course, you know my mom wasn't having that she put in extra work even quit her drop as a teacher to make sure that Justice got the best care and that she would always feel loved. And you know what that little baby that they said wouldn't live past 10 years old is now 23 years old. She's healthy, she's thriving, and Yeah, she still requires the help of a doctor, she can function with out being hooked up to a machine.