Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine NK Literary Cafe 2018 Mother's Day Issue | Page 67

climbed off the bed and grabbed her clothes and he handed her a ten-dollar bill
and gave me two dollars. I know what her ten was for, mine was hush money,
I suppose. She took my hand and led me through the kitchen to the back porch
and the bathroom that was there. I watched her wash up and put on her clothes.
“Come on let’s go to Dairy Queen.” She said.
Dairy Queen was a about a block away and since I had two dollars I was
glad to go. I am not sure where my sister was but she wasn’t there.
“Don’t tell anyone what you saw. Okay, nobody.” She said to me.
“Why, was it wrong?” She looked at me and I can still see her old eyes.
“Some people think so but Blue has money and I don’t and I am getting
some of it. It ain’t a big deal. My sisters did it with him too. A lot of girls do
and he gives us money. His thing isn’t that big, so it don’t even hurt. Besides I
do it with boys for free.”
The look on my face must have been one of pure disgust. I was known even
then for making faces.
“He’s not doing that to me. He kissed me in my mouth but he ain’t doing
that!”
“He won’t do it to you because you are a soft girl. Your mama and them
will be mad at him. He don’t think kissing is nothing but sex is and he knows
who to f*ck.”
My mouth flew open because she actually used the four-letter word and
that was the first time I heard that word. I had heard my share of damns and
hells but she went all the way. We got our ice cream, she went home, and I
went back to Ms. Eva’s house. I was sipping on my pineapple milkshake and
thinking of what my friend said. Ms. Eva was sitting on the porch with some
of her friends.
“Girl where you get that milkshake from?”
“Blue bought it.” A funny look came over her face. “He gave me and XYZ
money.” Oops.
“Go put it in the freezer. That is going to ruin your dinner.”
I took a few more huge sips as I walked slowly to the kitchen to do as I was
told. I never saw that milkshake again though I looked.
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