I'LL SHOW YOU

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Sam POV

The baby shower wasn't really that fun since Sky and I were bored out of our minds. There were no other teens at that baby shower besides me and Sky.

Sharing a room ain't a problem. The problem in this house is that we share a bed. Sky sleeps like she's a pretzel and that makes me sleep in uncomfortable sleeping positions.

"There's mostly old people food in here," I said to Sky as I looked through the kitchen cabinet.

We then settled for some whole wheat cereal.

Who eats that?

"Hey nieces," Uncle Dre said as he walked in the kitchen.

"Good morning," we said in unison.

I looked at Uncle Dre and he had bags with him. Is he going somewhere?

"What's with the bags?" Sky asked.

Uncle Dre came out with an apple from the fridge. "I'm leaving," he said and we looked at him shocked. "I only came here for the baby shower and since that's over, I'm gone," he said taking his bags.

We followed him outside and there was a taxi already waiting for him. We waved him goodbye and he was off.

Damn. Besides Sky, Uncle Dre is the only one in this house that I'm willing to do stupid and fun stuff with.

We went back to finish our breakfast and we did some cleaning up in the kitchen then we went to watch TV.

"Hey Sammy and Sky," Dave said as we entered the living room. He was watching some weird channel.

"What are you watching baby bro?" I asked as I sat next to him and he shrugged. I took the remote and saw that this boy was watching the nature channel. "Why are you watching this Dave?"

"I couldn't find Disney Junior so I watch this instead," he said.

I then heard indistinct chatter in the kitchen. I'm guessing the rest of the fam was awake.

"Just the people I wanted," Grandpa Eddie said as he walked in. "You two are gonna help me clean up the attic."

What the fuck. Take me now Lord, just take a bitch now 😩😩

Grandpa Eddie came and sat on the opposite couch. "I heard through the grapevine that you too have been smoking," he said.

'Smoking hot' if that's what you mean.

"You know," he started. "I was a fireman for over twenty years and I've seen smoke kill a lot of people. You wanna know why?"

"Why?" I said.

He slightly chuckled. "Its because humans ain't got no chimneys where the smoke can escape. I've witnessed deaths of my own colleagues because of smoke. It don't matter which type of smoke it was but smoke is still smoke. The sad part is that they didn't put that smoke in their lungs deliberately, they was doing their jobs. You guys deliberately put the smoke in your lungs and that's bad for y'all. Them toxins will hurt y'all bodies and eventually y'all will kick the bucket because of it. I don't wanna lose y'all because y'all are my grandbabies and you mean a lot to Gloria and I."

I hear what he's saying. Smoke is bad for you. Sky and I should be careful on how we have fun and let loose.

"Now let's go clean that attic you chain smokers," Grandpa Eddie teased.

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"Gloria whopped that boy's behind so hard, Shawn couldn't sit for a week," Grandpa Eddie concluded his story and we all busted out laughing as we made our way out of the attic after cleaning.