Kameela by Tamario Pettigrew
Author:Tamario Pettigrew [Pettigrew, Tamario]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 562 Publishing
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IN THE BEGINNING I ainât blame the Robinsonsâ. I thought they was good people. I surely didnât blame Mr. Robinson. I thought he was broken up, too. I thought he ainât know nothing that happened, but the more I looked at it the more it seemed like if he wasnât part of what happened to Kameela, he allowed it. Thatâs what I kept thinking. He was different than I used to see him. Mr. Robinson never helped her like he should have. He only intervened to keep the peace. He turned a blind eye to what was going on in his house or he was complicit.
In the beginning I used to see Mr. Robinson the way I saw Pops. Pops was oblivious sometimes. Sometimes he was just making sure I was eating and alive but he wasnât taking no active role in my life like how Mama used to. He wasnât trying to manage my life like Mama. He was helping me grow and see things but only if I had a problem or if there was something he wanted me to understand. He knew I was alive and he knew I was eating and thatâs all that mattered to him. Pops was straightforward and honest. He was working or he was sleeping. He was shopping at Super Duper or he was watching TV. It was simple. I understood him. He had a routine. Heâd usually sleep all day, only waking to go to work. Sometimes heâd forget to cook and Iâd eat whatever I could. Pops would have salami, bologna, or ham and cheese in the fridge for his lunch. Iâd make a sandwich if I got hungry. Sometimes he wouldnât cook me nothinâ and before he left for work, heâd stick his head in my door and say, âDid you eat?â Heâd tell me to eat a can of spaghetti or ravioli, or some leftovers he cooked earlier in the week, or a bowl of cereal before he left.
The weekends was different. Pops always cooked on the weekends. On Sunday heâd cook a big Sunday meal and heâd stay on the couch all day watching television on his day off from the plant he worked at down in the Southtowns.
On the weekend, I stayed out past midnight. I was out like usual, just hanging around. Playing. Talking smack. Enjoying my summer. I was hoping Iâd see Kameela. She didnât come out today.
In the burned-out house Altron, Salina, and the rest of them was in there playing spades at the water-damaged kitchen table. Everyone was in there playing spades or waiting their turn to play spades. I didnât stick around. They tried to make fun of me not wanting to play spades. Salina said I looked sad. It wasnât the same when Kameela wasnât around. It was like I was by myself when she wasnât there. Junior kept asking me to be his partner because he had next. I tried but I was bored. It wasnât fun. I wasnât laughing or being myself.
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