That Girl Is Poison by Tia Hines

Author:Tia Hines
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2012-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I got home tutoring for the remainder of the school year. I progressed well too. I made it to the ninth grade, thank God. It was looking like summer school, but I got the job done. So for the summer, I was school-free. I was indoors all day every day. My father didn’t want me to go anywhere as my due date was slowly but surely approaching.

Jen and I kept in touch. He allowed her to visit here and there. I didn’t speak to my aunt or uncle. It was like they never existed. Oh well. At that time, that’s what it needed to be, I guess. I was a little disappointed that my uncle didn’t call and check up on me.

Now that I think about it, it was probably a good idea that he didn’t. He would have asked what I had been up to. Then what was I going to say? Oh nothing, just sitting around waiting to have my baby. Yeah, right. He didn’t know I was pregnant, and he wasn’t going to know.

Staying with my dad was like hideout season for me. No school, a tutor, no friends except Jen. No family except him. I’m grateful he took me in and all, but that’s all it was. He provided me with food, shelter, and an education. We hardly talked. Shoot, we barely uttered a word to each other, unless necessary. So much for building a relationship with him.

By my eighth month in July, he got rid of me. He shipped me down South in the care of other family, his sister to be exact. He wanted her to deliver the baby at what he claimed was the best hospital in South Carolina. I couldn’t complain or say no.

The day before I left for Greenville, South Carolina, I snuck out and decided to pay my baby’s daddy, Malik, a visit. I hadn’t heard, spoke to or even mentioned him since the day I had gone to confess my pregnancy to him. I’d heard through the grapevine that he had been accepted to Alabama State down in Montgomery, Alabama. He was due to leave for school in the next month or so, and I wanted to catch him before he left.

I should have probably not even bothered though. The thought of visiting him should have remained just that, a thought. My girl Jen tagged along with me over to his house.

“Well, if it isn’t Prego and Flo-Jo!”

“Well, if it isn’t the already deadbeat baby daddy,” Jen responded.

“I don’t recall having any kids,” he said.

Jen pointed to my stomach to remind him.

“Man, I don’t have time for this bullshit.”

“You created the problem,” I said.

“You let me.”

“Actually, she’s too young to let you. You took advantage of her. There is something called statutory rape.”

“Bitch, please!”

“Who you calling a bitch? You disease-infested muthafucka! I ain’t Desire. I don’t bite my tongue for nobody. I’ll—”

I put my hand over Jen’s mouth. “I just want to know if you’re going to have something to do with the baby.

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