Boy Trouble by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Author:ReShonda Tate Billingsley [Tate Billingsley, ReShonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I was stretched out across my bed, trying my best to concentrate on these figures in front of me. But I noticed that on question number six, Use the limit definition to compute the derivative f‘(x). I’d written in the blank, Who gives a crap?

Yep, that meant it was time to shut it down. I would have to beg for an extension tomorrow or find someone’s paper to copy off of. I hated doing that because then people felt like you owed them something, but I didn’t have any other choice because my mind wasn’t processing any of this gibberish.

“Knock, knock.” My mother stuck her head in the door as she lightly tapped on the door. I wanted to ask her what was the purpose of her knocking if she was just going to come in before I gave her permission. But since my mother wasn’t always bougie (every now and then, she could let a little crazy slip out), I didn’t say anything.

“Hey,” I said, closing my calculus book.

“I was just letting you know that your dad is with your aunt Beverly now.”

“How’s Travis?” I said, sitting up on the side of my bed.

“He’s not doing too well,” my mom said as she sat down next to me. “They’re not thinking Beverly will make it through the week.”

“Wow,” I said. I didn’t spend a lot of time around my aunt, but she was super sweet to me. So, this news made me really sad.

My mom shook her head. “That trifling boyfriend of hers, though.”

“What about him?” I asked. I didn’t know much about the guy my aunt was dating. I just knew my dad despised him as much as Travis did.

“He’s at the hospital trying to get her to sign a will,” my mom said. “One I’m sure he threw together. Can you believe that?”

“Who is this guy?” I was surprised that Travis hadn’t told me much about him. He’d mentioned him a time or two. I knew he didn’t like the guy, but he never went into details.

“Some trifling guy she started dating before she got sick,” my mom replied.

“You don’t think he beat Aunt Beverly up, do you? I mean, could that be why she got sick?”

My mother squinted in my direction. “What? Where’d you get that from?”

I sighed and fell back against my headboard. I couldn’t believe that crazy thought had just popped in my head. “I don’t know. But are you sure?”

“Yeah, sweetie. Your aunt has cancer. Nobody beat her up.” My mother eyed me suspiciously. “Um, this wouldn’t have anything to do with your show the other day, would it?” she asked.

“No. I mean, maybe.” I shrugged. “It’s still on my mind. After the show, this girl called me and said seeing it gave her the strength to leave.”

“Wow,” my mom said. She patted my thigh as she smiled. “I love hearing stuff like that. It makes the whole gossip show worthwhile.”

“Yeah, I never thought I’d get to someone like that, but it hammered home the fact that there are a lot of people in abusive relationships.

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