Loyalty

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This is gonna be a long 2 weeks. I know I'm gonna catch hell. You know what imma just stay in my room.

You do that shit already.

Don't come for me bitvh.

I get out of bed. I love Saturdays. I go brush my teeth and take another shower. I put my hair into another big bun in the top of my head. I put on some shorts and a t-shirt with some socks. I look at my phone to see that it's already 9:34.

I go to cook me some food.
Once I finish eating I wash my dishes. I go sit on my couch and put my headphones on.
I zone out.

I start to think about my grandmother. Birdina Greene.

*flashback*
I walk out of middle school.
I'm in the 6th grade.

"Hi mom" I say really excited. She looks at me almost like she was trying to say she was sorry.

Her phone starts ringing and she answered it.
"Yeah..... yeah.... I'm just gonna have him tell her" she says.

I start to get this really bad feeling. I start thinking about my grandma.my dad's mom.

We go to my other grandmas house. She looks at me with the same look my mom gave me when I first got in the car. She told me to get her medicine and that's we were going to my favorite restaurant.

As I go get it I start thinking.
Why are they taking me so suddenly? And why right after school? I get the medicine and walk back outside.

"I should've known, I dreamt it last night" my grandma said.

"Dreamt about what?" I asked curiously.
"Don't worry about it. Come on" she says.

We get up and leave.
About 15 minutes later we arrive at "King's Super Buffet" my favorite Chinese buffet. We get out and go inside. The lady sits us in a booth.

I order a sprite, my grandma orders water and granddad orders a Heineken.
We eat as much as we can.

"Ouu I'm full" I say.
My grandparents share a look.

"Kayla your granddad wants to talk to you"

"There's no better way to say this but um," he begins in his thick Jamaican accent.
"Your grandma died earlier today"

I zone out and start to tear up.

*Fast forward 2 hours later*
They pull up to my grandmas house and all of the family is there. I run up to my dad. I hug him.

"Daddy what happened?" I look up at him.
"Well I came after I got off of work to bring your grandma her food like I always do. When I went in the room the lady was bathing her. Not even 5 minutes later..." my dad started tearing up," she came out and said she's gone" my dad explained.

So it's true. She's gone.
No it can't be.

I walk into her room and see my cousin laying on her bed crying her eyes out. I move her legs. I sit on the bed too.
I stay there for a good hour.

"You might wanna go check on your aunty, remember today's her birthday" he says as he entered the room.

Oh God. My aunty Theresa. I completely forgot about her birthday.

*time skip 7 days later*

We are at the graveyard.
Dressed in all black.
Crying our eyes out.

They begin to lower her casket into the ground. She wanted to buried next to my grandfather Isom Greene.

All of this happening and I forgot tomorrow was even my 13th birthday.