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stopping them in their
tracks just beyond the patio. “Move out the way,” Tyke
snapped as she walked around Walee. “Me and Spoonie have
something to ask momma.”
    “We have to wash our hands first.” Walee said as the
three climbed the patio stairs and walked amongst the family.
    “Okay,” Spoonie remarked as she and Tyke followed Walee
into the home. “But we’re still gonna ask momma what we
have to ask her.”
    “Spoonie? You and Tyke can’t say nothing about this to no
one. You can’t say nothing, okay?”
    “But Mister Spots was—”
    “Listen to me!” Walee said under his breath as he led his
sisters into the bathroom and closed the door. “After we play
softball tomorrow we can go pick out another calf and y’all can
keep it alive until it dies. They can live twenty years or more on
their own.”
    “And twenty years is how long?” Spoonie asked as she went
and grabbed three towels out of the spacious walk-in cabinet.
    “You two would be around twenty eight or twenty-nine years old.
Does that help you to understand how long twenty years is?”
Walee asked as he dabbed liquid soap into his sisters’ towels.
    “That is a long time,” Spoonie replied as she turned on
the water. “But I still want Mister Spots back! He was our pet,
just like you have your turtle!” she snapped.
    “And we’re still going to have ask momma if what you said
is really true.” Tyke chimed in as the three began washing
their hands and faces at the four light-grey marble sinks inside the
spacious bathroom.
    When Spoonie and Tyke left the bathroom, Walee began to get nervous.
His sisters were really hung up over Mister Spots. He never thought
they would react the way they did once he’d told them the
truth. He only wanted to get back at them for threatening to expose
him playing video games and boiling wieners at night, but things had
spun out of control all of a sudden. He tucked his hands into his
jean pockets and walked out onto the patio to await his fate because
he just knew Spoonie and Tyke were going to let everybody in the
family know what they’d learned from him.
    When Walee walked out onto the patio, he saw Spoonie and Tyke sitting
in between Koko and Kimi with Mary and Regina sitting on the opposite
side of the table.
    Martha, Bena and Tiva were sitting at another table talking with
Siloam, and Dawk was sitting at a table with his mother and father.
    Walee walked over and sat beside Mary and looked over to his sisters.
He was now sorry he’d hurt them, and whatever came of the
situation he would deal with it and accept it as he felt he deserved
it because he truly felt bad about himself. Spoonie and Tyke both had
a disheartened look on their face as they eyed some of the steaks and
ribs in the baskets sitting atop the cart near the grill pit. The
family all held hands and Naomi said prayer before getting up and
walking over to the grill.
    “They have some new chicks back there, y’all” Koko
said as she got up to help her mother and father serve dinner.
    “I knew they were going to hatch soon. Did you two separate
them and their mother from the rest of the bunch?” Naomi asked
as she wheeled a cart around the patio, Doss sitting baskets of ribs
and steaks out each table and Koko following with another cart filled
dinnerware.
    “Yes, ma’am,” Koko replied as she handed Regina a
stack of dinner plates. “And we locked the roosters up before
we left, too, momma,” she added.
    Spoonie was sitting beside Kimi with her arms folded in silence. When
Kimi placed two ribs onto a plate and handed it to her, she yelled
aloud, “I’m not eating that! You’re tryna feed me
Mister Spots!”
    “Mister who?” Kimi asked in a perplexed manner as she sat
the plate down before Spoonie.
    “Mister Spots,” Tyke said while shoving the plate away
from her and her sister.
    “Who is Mister Spots, Sinopa?” Kimi asked as she bit into
a rib. “ These ribs are really good,” she said to
herself.
    “He was our