Hollywood High by Ni-Ni Simone

Author:Ni-Ni Simone [Simone, Ni-Ni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Dating & Sex, Love & Romance, Friendship
ISBN: 9780758278951
Google: 2CCQti1t8R0C
Amazon: 0758263171
Publisher: K-Teen/Dafina
Published: 2012-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

18

Spencer

“I’m leaving now, Beautiful,” Vera, my loyal and devoted house manager, announced in her thick Trinidadian accent as she walked into my suite. Vera—or Auntie Vera as she insisted she be called—was a short, stocky woman with wide hips and full breasts that had been my resting place many nights when I needed comforting. Vera had been in my life since I was nine. And I loved her. She didn’t take piss for the cotton from anyone. But she had a platinum heart and loved me as if I were her own. “Do yuh need anyting else before me leave for de night, Sweetie? If you’re hungry, me have yuh dinner in the microwave. Me made yuh favorite. Macaroni pie, stewed chicken, stewed okra, and callaloo. And if yuh eat your veggies there’s a currants roll on the counter waiting for you.”

I looked at her and gave her a wide smile, slipping back to when I was five. “Ohmygod, I love you so much. You always know how to put a smile on my heart.”

“Who loves yuh?”

Definitely not the egg and sperm donors who created me!

“Auntie Vera does,” I said with forced enthusiasm. I knew she really cared for me. But at that very moment, I didn’t feel an itsy-bitsy spider’s web worth of love.

“That’s right.” She gave me a long stare. “What does Tanty Vera always tell yuh?”

Against my will, I smiled. “That I am beautiful. That I am talented. That I am loved. Always.”

“Always,” she said. “Now tell me chile. What’s troublin’ yuh?”

“Nothing.”

She placed a hand upon her wide hip. “Nah yuh know me know yuh like yuh was me own. And me lookin’ at chu and know sumting weighs heavy on yuh heart. Whappen?”

“Nothing happened,” I said, shifting my eyes.

“If it’s about de car, don’t vex. Yuh get another.”

“It’s not about the car, Auntie.”

“Well me hope it’s not about those fast girls. Dey fron-tish. And dey more hot than dey sweet.” She sucked her teeth long and hard. “No worry with that.”

“Please. I’m not thinking about them hooter-cooters. I know they’re always stirring stuff up. They’re nothing but hoggish pot hounds anyway.”

She chuckled at me calling them rude stray dogs. “Be nice, chile.”

“Always.”

“Uh-huh. Leh go.”

I shook my head.

“Come now. Get off ya bamsee and get ya tings. I’m takin’ yuh home wit’ me, like me used to.”

I felt a pang in my chest. “Auntie Vera, I really miss those times.”

I smiled, then quickly felt sadness sweep over me, remembering the festive holidays I’d spent with Vera and her family over the years when I wasn’t spending them in France with one of my boarding school friends’ families. And then that one time when I spent it with Rich and her family in Aspen for the winter break. And she had caught me and her brother, RJ, talking real heavy with our naked bodies. And we were having a good conversation, too, until she burst through the door with a blackmailing smile on her face. Miss Yappity-Yap couldn’t wait to go tell her parents on us and spoil all of our fun.

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