Losing It by Zaria Garrison

Author:Zaria Garrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Camille ran to Danté as soon as she saw him and hugged him tightly. “I missed you so much,” she said.

Danté smiled as he leaned down and kissed her lips. “Me too, baby. How’d you get away from the warden?”

“I asked to take my little brother and sister to visit my mom. He’s been bugging me to visit her for a while, so I knew it was a surefire way to get out of the house.”

Danté looked behind Camille and suddenly noticed Jeanna and Rodney. He cocked his head back and nodded at them. “What up?” he said.

“Weren’t you at the pool party at our house last summer?” Jeanna asked.

“Yeah, that was me.” Dante turned back to Camille. “Are they cool?” He motioned toward Rodney and Jeanna.

Camille turned and glared at them. “They had better be,” she answered.

It had been an uphill battle getting Leon to agree to another visit after the last had gone so horribly wrong. Rodney and Jeanna believed their mother had gotten sick, so they could not understand why Leon wouldn’t let them visit her again.

One night, while they were all watching television, there was a news report that Sharmaine was in the hospital. The report said Sharmaine had attempted suicide. Rodney and Jeanna begged to be allowed to visit her at the hospital, but Leon said no; however, he had called and spoken to Keisha in order to ease their worry.

After Sharmaine moved into Keisha’s apartment, Jeanna restarted her campaign to visit her mother. They would not be alone, as Keisha would be there, she reasoned. They wouldn’t stay long, because Keisha’s apartment wasn’t very big. Rodney argued that their mother was depressed and needed to be cheered up. Leon wouldn’t budge.

During this time, Camille was busy trying her best to fly under the radar, as she knew Leon was watching her every move. She still sneaked outside to the playhouse regularly in order to smoke weed, but she decided to be more discreet. Instead of sneaking out late at night, as she felt Leon expected, she switched to sneaking out in the early morning hours before dawn. By getting up at 4:30 A.M. she was able to sneak outside, leisurely smoke a joint, then come back inside and shower and brush her teeth before he and the rest of the family were awake.

That had worked successfully for a few weeks, but she’d smoked the last of her stash and needed more. Leon still had possession of her cell phone, so she realized she had to find another way to get in touch with Danté.

With that in mind, she had barged into Jeanna’s bedroom without knocking. “I need to use your cell phone,” she said.

Jeanna was lying in the middle of the floor on her stomach. She looked up from the novel she was reading. “Where’s your new phone?”

“Dad took it when he grounded me. I just need to make one quick phone call. Come on, give it to me.”

Jeanna stared at her sister, noticing she was jumpy and fidgeting.

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