Two months has been since my daddy died and I been picking up all the slack around the house. I came home and cooked and cleaned. I paid the bills with all the money I got from the shop and doing lashes and hair. I tried to get my mom up but she wasn't going. She use to be at work so much that I didn't even see her and now she was waisting away and here I was expected to pick up her slack. I was tired as fuck. Nobody knew what happened they knew my dad passed but nobody knew he was on drugs so I went about my day as usual. I did all my after school activities and worked my jobs and still managed to be in the top 5 percentage at school.
Now here I was trying to get my mom to eat and she threw the plate at me. I ducked and started cleaning up. Then she started yelling at me.
"You were suppose to watch him but you out here chasing that boy. You think I don't know. Oh I know. The boy don't want you so why are you chasing him. You were suppose to watch him." She repeated.
"When do I get to be a child? I been watching him for years kill himself needle after needle. I cooked and cleaned after him. I felt with him being dope sick and even had me buy his drugs for him. You weren't here you stayed working but you wanna blame me. I'm to blame." I snapped at her.
"Zari Star I didn't mean that." She said.
"No you did and that's fine wither away like you plan on doing." I said leaving her room and I grabbed my hoodie. I walked outside and just kept walking. I needed air to breathe.
I don't know how long I been walking but next think I know I hear Malik voice.
"Zari get in the car man don't make me get out and drag you in here." He said and I stopped walking and got in. He drove to this spot that you could see the city skyline. I didn't have much to say so I just stayed quiet.
"You walk around like you have nothing to cry about and whole time you been dealing with an addict dad." He said.
"What am I supposed to say hi my name is Zari and my dad been shooting up for years and my mom's barely there so I had to step up. For years I tried to get him to stop I was 13 when he started sent me in to buy his dope. Would steal my money to get his shit and my mom she just didn't deal with shit. At school I'm not this girl who has to take care of her addict dad I'm just Azaria star student that everyone loves." I said.
"Maybe it's time for you to take care of you. Did anyone know about your dad?" He asked.
"Machi did. We were at the game lounge and I told him. He's the first person who I ever let know about it. Told me to come over anytime I needed a break." I said. Malik didn't say anything just nodded his head.
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