“And “And that’s th at’s all I can tell you right r ight now. “Thank “T hanks, s,”” she says, and stus stu s them in her bra. But I am not in the mood or watching her act antsy so I go ahead and reach inside my purse and hand her some olded bills I keep hidden or emergenci emergencies. “Tell me, what kind o job is it this time?” “It’s a sales position.” She can lie on a dime. I can see her collarbone, and even though she s brown like me, her skin is so thin I can see green veins running up and down her arms like branches on a winter tree. I used to think th ink people wore them because they had a sense o pride, pr ide, being black and all, but or some, like my daugh‑ ter, it’s obvious that it’s just another hairstyle. I wish w ish she would cut those damn dreadlocks o.
That’ hurr That ’s why I decide to make her ass wait. She doesn’t doesn’t sit, which means she’ she’ss either high or in a hurryy or both. “So, you got what we discussed?” She sounds just like a drug addict. “Hey, Ma,” Trinetta says, and gives me a phony kiss on the cheek. Ricky just waves, sits down on the couch, and starts looking or the t he remote between the cushions. “Hi, Grandma,” Luther says, and he almost makes me lose my balance when he gives me a long hug. Ricky’s eatures all coincide with one another but he always looks like he’s thinking about some‑ thing. Luther’s Luther’s orehead orehead is big and his head on the square squa re side, but I can tell he’s he’s going to grow into those looks one day. Both o them are cute in a peculiar peculia r way.
“Well, hello there, my little chocolate kisses,” I say, even though they’re two dierent shades o brown. Which is one o the reasons they’re over here so much. She has treated them like they were mistakes. Trinetta never put much thought into how she was going to take care ca re o her kids. I don’t don ’t trust those pills, and only time t ime will tell how long long they keep him on them. He can be a little hyper hy per sometimes, sometimes, and quiet at others. He was born bor n with slight drug‑ dr ug‑baby baby issues and he takes medication that’s supposed to help him be able to do more more o some things and less o others. I don’t know who she named Ricky ater, but since I doubt she ever slept with Rick James, I don’t think she had him in mind. Trinetta claimed she named him ater a ter Luther Vandross Vandross because she always had a crush on him.
I hear the boys running over over that shag carpet and I Lord knows I didn’t want to chance being seduced by Denzel Washington.
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