[06] Miss Julia's School of Beauty by Ann B Ross

Author:Ann B Ross [Ross, Ann B]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780143036708
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

With no water in the house, except what was still seeping from the kitchen ceiling, we decided to go to Sam’s house for dinner. I’d called James to let him know we were coming, and you would’ve thought I’d given him a present.

“Y’all jus’ come right on over here,” he said. “I’ll put something on what be the best dinner you ever had. You tell Miss Lillian she don’t have to lift a hand. I’m cookin’ tonight!”

And he did give us an outstanding meal, though no better than Lillian could’ve done. I didn’t tell him that, though, just complimented him and thanked him for saving us from eating at Hazel Marie’s favorite hamburger place.

Lillian, herself, was less than gracious, sullenly letting James fill some Tupperware containers to take home for Latisha’s supper. “We ought to be mopping up that water,” she told me. “It gonna rot out the flo’boards.”

She was not happy with the way matters stood, and James’s antics didn’t help. I walked into Sam’s kitchen and caught him jiving around her, chanting, “Po’ Miss Lillian ain’t got no kitchen. Can’t do no cookin’, ’thout no kitchen.”

Lillian was so mad she didn’t see me, and I’m not sure it would’ve mattered if she had. She picked up a long wooden spoon and waved it at him. “How you like tryin’ to cook with yo’ head rollin’ down Main Street? You sorry thing you, git off from me an’ stay off.”

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