The Curse of 1977 (Book 2)

Chapter 5

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.

you till the morning time?" The woman asked in a

Walking down the stairs, Lynnette replied, "What do you

past two days! What kind

The moment Lynnette reached the living room she immediately went for the kitchen in the

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 for nights on in like this! You've been doing

eyes, Lynnette pulled out a carton of

all night and

watchman, he has to be out, and second, you need

around, Lynnette asked, "Why are you on me like this? I've been coming in at this time for the past three months now, and

fell down the steps yesterday morning

but only for a brief instant before turning and attending to her eggs. "Is he

knot on his head," her

"Oh well, maybe that'll teach him to keep his little butt in bed." Lynnette shrugged as she took

you keep

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 over me about that! But no, I work all the time

own place! They can do

Lynnette slammed the refrigerator door before facing her mother. "Then give me till the end of the month, and I'll have myself a brand new place to live!"Lynnette then stormed out of the kitchen with her mother following in

"And what

about him?" Lynnette screamed

and tired of taking care of all these kids

"I never asked you or daddy to watch my child! You both basically commanded me to move back in here months ago! But

earth is going on in here?" A short, bearded, black man dressed in a blue guard's uniform came

"Dad, can you please tell mom to stop jumping on

running to your dad! Your little behind is out of

"How am I out

"Lower your tone when you speak to

before looking back at her father and saying, "I came in this morning, like I always do from work,

"That's because I don't trust this job you're working at." Her mother

the couch before sitting

The man scratched his beard and calmly said, "You're mama and I have both been questioning this job of yours

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