"Momma? " I stood there looking like I saw a ghost.
Momma?? " the girl looked between us confused. "Okay, um excuse me but what's going on here? " she looked at her momma.
"Alyssa, this is your sister atlas" she smiled while looking at me.
"So I had a sister..... This whole time... " I said more so to myself.
"Aye baybeh, whea you put ma..Watch.. " august stopped talking as soon as he seen my momma stand in the door with the girl. "Oh wazzam Mrs.Daniels" august smiled and hugged her. She hugged him back smiling even harder, but atlas stood thea lookin lost.
"Well y'all ain't gotta stand outchea come in hea" august said. They walked in and sat down while I closed the door trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
I slowly walked back to the living room and seen them all look up at me. I sat down next to august and then looked at my momma.
"So how you been? " she asked still smiling.
"Good" I kept it short, I mean I understand that's my momma but where was she when I was younger so why was she here now?
"Okay can we stop pretending something didn't happen here" atlas said obviously upset. We looked to the women who called her self a mother.
"I can explain this but you have to listen" she looked at me and I just shrugged
"Um when Alyssa was four her father was a drug dealer. He was the love of my life, and my hero. He saved me from my stepfatha. I used to get beat by him but of course my mother took his side, one day I met ya daddy at work and tried to spit game. It didn't work because I didn't know what the hell I was doin. He left and came back the next day, but this time he asked me out. we hung out and chilled from time to time,and From then we just fell Inlove. We got married and had Alyssa. We tried to have another but that just didn't fit our life. Well I kept tellin him to get out the game and I guess he finally decided to do it because when I woke up he was gone. I waited up but I had a feeling that something happend. " her voice started crack, I could tell she was about to cry so I got up and sat by her and rubbed her back.
"That morning the police knocked on my door so I went to open it thinking it was ya dad." She paused a little before sniffing. "They said he was shot, some little boy found him and tried to save him" she smiled a little. "The little boy put his hand over the wound to keep the pressure down but it was too late." She looked at august which caused me to look up at him and he had... Tears?
August stood up and walked up stairs and I looked ova at my momma and atlas confused.
"Well who was the boy? " atlas said.
"August" she said in a whisper. Everything I felt when numb. He tried to save him and he never told me? I rushed up to the nearest bathroom and locked the door. Then I started throwing up everything. It felt like everything around me was spinning august voice pulled me from my thoughts which caused me to throw up some more.
"Baybeh open tha do'" august said calmly.
I shook my head as if he could see me. I didn't want him to see me like this because let's be honest what nigga you know wants to see and smell throwup from their girlfriend?
"Baybeh open tha door please"
I thought about it for a moment and then unlocked the door but rushed back to the toilet to finish throwing up. He held my hair up and rubbed my back. After I was donei flushed the toilet and brushed my teeth, then sat down on the floor.
He closed the door and sat down behind me and wrapped his arms around me.
"Why didnt you tell me? "
