Like a brazen thief, Lynnette snuck her way ever so quietly into the second story window of her parents' house.
With her brown paper bag tucked securely underneath her right armpit, the young woman carefully closed her bedroom window before taking off her sneakers and dropping her bag onto the desk that sat next to her rocking chair.
Before anything else, Lynnette tip-toed over to the door and listened for any sounds coming from the other end. It was still the early morning and she was well aware that her mother would be stalking about preparing breakfast.
Once she felt that the coast was clear, Lynnette went back over to the desk where her bag was resting and ripped it open like a Christmas present. What spilled out onto the desk's wood grain were tiny, white rocks that Lynnette hurriedly collected into her hands before they could fall onto the floor.
From there, she sat back in her seat and pulled out a drawer from within the desk. Inside the drawer was a rubber band that she immediately snatched out.
She then pulled off her jacket and exposed her boney arms that revealed needle marks all up and down before taking the rubber band and wrapping it tightly around her right arm.
"Lynn, are you in there?" A woman's loud voice shouted from the other side of the bedroom door.
At the snap of a finger Lynnette gathered every rock from off the table and scooted them into the drawer. She then put her jacket back on before shooting up from the desk and running towards the door.
"What's up, Ma?" Lynnette huffed.
Her mother bobbed her head up and down and from side to side just trying to peek inside Lynnette's room.
"Are you just now getting home?" Her mother asked in an annoyed manner.
"Yes, Ma'am," Lynnette answered surprised.
"Why didn't you come in through the front door?"
Lynnette thought for a moment and said, "Uh...I didn't want to wake anyone."
"Let me in there!" Her mother tried to barge in.
Lynnette only slid through the door's crack on her way out of the room and into the brightly lit hallway, quickly shutting the door right behind her.
"What do you need in there?" Lynnette looked perturbed.
Lynnette's mother, clothed in a brown robe and curlers in her head, just stood and stared at her daughter as though she were looking at a total stranger.
this job of yours keep you till the morning
down the stairs, Lynnette
said, "You've been away for the past two days! What kind of job keeps their
The moment Lynnette reached the living room she immediately went for the kitchen in
dad months ago, they need me to watch over patients while they conduct tests!" Lynnette sighed as she
know that, but I've never heard of a job that keeps a person away
of eggs from the refrigerator and slammed them down
"Dad stays out all night and you
thing, your father is a night watchman, he has to be out, and second, you need to watch your tone
Lynnette asked, "Why are you on me like this? I've been coming in at this
son fell down the steps
but only for a brief instant before turning and attending to her eggs. "Is he
big ole' knot on his head," her mother raised her
well, maybe that'll teach him to keep his little butt in bed." Lynnette shrugged as she took out three eggs
"And why do you keep on wearing that jacket?
at work for the past few days! I'm doing all I can for me and my son, and you come at me with this! If I was sitting around the house like Jackie, Bernadette and Lavonia you'd be all
they live in their own place! They can do whatever they
slammed the refrigerator door before facing her mother. "Then give me till the end of the month, and I'll have
"And what
"What about him?" Lynnette screamed
at work for days? Because I'm sick and tired of taking care
daddy to watch my child! You both basically commanded me to move back
man dressed in a blue guard's uniform came in through the
tell mom to stop jumping on me?" Lynnette beseeched
running to your
"How am I out of control?"
"Lower your tone when you speak
Lynnette quickly caught herself before looking back at her father and saying, "I came in this morning, like I
I don't trust this job
onto the couch before sitting his exhausted body down beside it
The man scratched his beard and calmly said, "You're mama and I have both been questioning this job of yours for quite some
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