Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine Father's Day Issue | Page 63

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. www.angeliavernonmenchan.com