Total pages in book: 58
Estimated words: 56328 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 282(@200wpm)___ 225(@250wpm)___ 188(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56328 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 282(@200wpm)___ 225(@250wpm)___ 188(@300wpm)
“Can I help you?” I ask her and she tries to look behind me as she hands me the baby
“Tell Simone I don’t appreciate her leaving me with the baby for so long, and to never ask me to babysit again. I mean who leaves their baby for three days, I was just about to call the cops or CPS or take her to the fire station”
“Excuse me” I ask her as the baby starts to cry and the women rolls her eyes handing me a bag
“Everything’s in there, tell Simone she owes me sixty-dollars for the formula and diapers”
“I’m sorry, who’s baby is this?” I ask as the baby screams louder and the women grabs a plastic thing and puts it in her mouth and the baby stops crying and I look at her (Simone) but her eyes are blue like mine and not green like Simone’s.
“Hello, its Simone’s baby” she says looking at me and I step back “who are you?” she asks me
“I’m Dove, Simone’s sister” I tell her and she frowns. It’s the look most people get when I say that, apart from the hair colour we really don’t look that much alike
“I didn’t know Simone had a sister, and where the hell is she?” I look down at the baby as she looks up at me and a tear comes to my eyes but I hold them back
“She’s dead” I tell the women and she shakes her head
“What? When? How?”
“On Sunday” I tell her and she shakes her head again in disbelief
“But… How?”
“Car accident” I tell her and she looks down at the baby
“Oh, god poor Wiley” she says and I look down at the baby (she named her daughter after me)
“Her names Wiley?” I ask, and the women nods
“Yeah, look I’m sorry but I have to go” I look up at her shaking my head this time and I try to hand her the baby back but she holds up her hands
“No, I’m sorry but I need to get to work, I’ve already taken two days off”
“But what am I supposed to do with her?”
“I’m sorry I have to go” she tells me hurrying off down the hall and I’m standing there left holding the preverbal baby. I look down the hall hoping that the women will come back but she doesn’t, the baby starts to squirm so I take her into the apartment and lay her on the sofa. I pace up and down as she falls asleep “God dammit Simone” I whisper to myself pulling my phone out and pulling up the last persons in this worlds number I ever wanted to talk to again and listen as the phone rings over and over, then it connects
“What?” the women on the other end yells, then starts coughing, I take a deep breath
“Mom” I say and the line goes quiet
“Which one is this?” she asks and I roll my eyes looking at the sleeping baby on the sofa
“Dove” I tell her and she does a big sigh
“Huh, what the hell do you want?”
“Mom did you know Simone had a baby?” I ask her, even though I already know, our mom has never been interested in our lives, not even when we were kids
“I got no money, go ask the idiot who knocked her up” she tells me coughing again and I pull the phone away from my ear looking back down at the baby
“Do you know who he is?”
“Probably some john”
“Mom, Simone wasn’t a prostitute”
“She was workin’ at that strip club, don’t tell me she weren’t sellin’ her body”
“Mom please”
“If you don’t want the kid just drop it off at the fire station”
“Mom! this is your granddaughter”
“I raised my kids” she tells me and I laugh, thinking about my mother’s way of raising Simone and I was making us beg on the street until early morning or shop lifting or robbing her johns. “What? your still alive ain’t ya?” I hold my anger in not wanting for her poison to disrupted my peace, it’s taken years of breathing and just dealing with my mother in small doses to cope
“So, you’re not going to help me?”
“I gave you advice, follow it or not” she says hanging up and I look around and stare at the baby again.
Chapter Four
Socket
As we pull into Sturgis I look around, the place seems to have more and more people here every year, as we find a section to park we back in slowly, people givin’ us a wide berth.
“Damn Brother, look at all this pussy” Cuff says smilin’ as a half naked women walk around everywhere and I shake my head at him as he watches two chicks gigglin’ as they walk by. “I call dibs on the blonde” he says walkin’ off after them and I sit watchin’ as bike after bike rolls past