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meet you. This is not a scam, I swear it.”
    â€œI’ve heard those stories too, but unlike you, I know better than to believe every rumor that I hear at a family picnic,” Wayne huffed.
    â€œAunt Sarah Mae told me everything,” Gwen said.
    â€œHow dare you bring my late mother into this!” Wayne yelled. “I don’t know what you think she told you, but I have never been married. I do not know anyone named Allison Faye Matthews, and this man is not my son.”
    â€œBut . . .” Gwen began to speak, but was interrupted.
    â€œGwen!” Semaj yelled unexpectedly. “I said, let’s go. This is a colossal waste of time.” He turned to face Wayne and looked him straight in the eye. “Mr. James, I’m sorry we bothered you. I promise it won’t happen again.”
    Without another word he stormed out of the room and rushed down to his car without waiting for Gwen. He started up the engine and was about to drive away when he saw her running through the parking lot after him.
    â€œSemaj, wait!” she yelled.
    He turned off the engine and lay his head on the steering wheel while he waited for Gwen to get into the car.
    â€œI’m so sorry about this,” she said breathlessly as she climbed into her seat. “I was positive that my research proved that you are his son. Please forgive me. I’m sorry I put you through this.”
    â€œDon’t apologize. It’s not your fault.” Semaj slowly raised his head and looked over at her. “Your research was absolutely right.”
    â€œI don’t understand. If you believe that, then why did you walk out?”
    â€œI looked into his eyes, and I saw something when I said my mother’s name. I can’t explain what it was, but I’m positive that I saw it. Then he said her whole name. I never mentioned that her middle name was Faye. He knew her, and he was married to her, but he left us. He doesn’t want me. He didn’t want me then, and he doesn’t want me now. That’s why he’s denying everything. Don’t you get it, Gwen? He doesn’t want me as his son.” Semaj lay his head on the steering wheel again and struggled to fight back tears, unwilling to cry in front of Gwen.
    â€œMaybe he just needs time to digest this new information. I tell you what, why don’t we wait a few days, and then I’ll call and talk to him about it. He’s probably just in shock and didn’t know how to react,” Gwen said. Semaj suddenly sat up and wiped the tears that had escaped and fallen onto his face. “No, don’t call him. I’m done. I wanted to know who my father is, and now I know. He’s nobody to me. Do you hear me, Gwen? He’s nobody.”

Chapter Five
    Jenise dipped a Q-tip into a bottle of peroxide, then dabbed it onto the cut just below her right eye directly on her cheekbone. Looking into her bathroom mirror, she watched silently as it bubbled and cooled the pain in her cheek. All of the other bruises from her most recent altercation with her husband had cleared up and she was hoping that if she was able to heal the cut on her face she could cover it with makeup before Ellen brought Aaliyah home the next day.
    â€œJenise, what are you doing in there?” her husband Reggie yelled.
    â€œNothing, I’ll be out in a minute,” she yelled back.
    â€œHurry up. I want you to see this. I got ten more followers on YouTube this week.”
    Jenise stepped out of the bathroom and stared at him. “I thought you got followers on Twitter, not YouTube. What are you talking about?”
    Reggie was sitting on their bed with the iPad Jenise had given him for his birthday sitting in his lap. “Dang, girl, do you ever listen when I talk? Yes, I get followers on iPad, but I put up some videos of my music on YouTube, and I have people who follow that also. If the right person sees my work online, it could be my big