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told you you was too loud.”
      Jeremy, in his bathrobe, peered into the girls’ bedroom and then came on in.  “What’s going on in here this early in the morning?”
    Jules looked at Simone.  Simone exhaled.  “I was wishing Jules a happy birthday.”
    Jeremy looked at Jules and smiled.  “So my girl is eighteen today!”  He looked her up and down.  “Feel any different?” 
    Jules shook her head.
    “Why don’t you talk?” Simone angrily asked her sister.  “You always act so mousey around him!”
    Jeremy’s smile left and he looked at Simone.  “And good morning to you too, Simone.”
    Simone didn’t respond.  Jeremy laughed and then looked at Jules again.  “I’ve got a gift for you, baby,” he said to her.  “It’s on my bed.  Go get it.”
    Jules threw the covers back, revealing her short nightgown, and with a grand smile dashed from the room.  Jeremy turned and looked at Simone, and his smile quickly vanished.
    “I hate you, you know that, Simone?”
    Simone stared at him.  “You hate me?” she said, taken aback.
    “I hate you with a passion.  I wish you would curl up in a corner somewhere and do us all a favor and die.   You’re only taking up space in this world anyhow. So just end it now if you please.  For the whole world’s sake.  Then maybe me and Jules can have some peace.”
    Simone was shocked, and hurt, by the harshness of Jeremy’s words.  There was no love lost between them, she knew that.  But to hear him say that he hated her and wished her dead, stung. 
    “You heard me, girl?  Die.  Drop dead.  I’ll be so happy I’ll sing at your funeral.”
    “I’ll be singing at yours first,” Simone said, although she knew it wasn’t true.  She despised Jeremy, but she didn’t hate him or wish him harm. 
    “You’re so pathetic it turns my stomach just to look at you.  You’re like a horror movie.  That’s why your own mama couldn’t stand you.”  Jeremy could tell, by the way Simone’s eyes brightened, that he’d hit a nerve.  “Yeah, I know about that.  Jules told me all about it.”  He laughed.  “Girl, you must be something evil for your own mama to hate you.  It’s like you’re a big zero in this world.  It’s like your birth certificate isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.”
    “Get custody of Shay, Jeremy,” Simone decided to say, to change the subject, the pain too jarring for her to say anything else.
    “Will you quit with that?  I told you I wasn’t doing it.  I told you a million times!”
    “Then let Jules get custody.”
    “Jules?”
    “She’s eighteen now.  She’s legal now.  She’ll do it if you say so.”
    Jeremy smiled and shook his head.  “You’re crazy, you know that?  Jules is going to college, you hear me?  College.  She’s got a bright future ahead of her, unlike some I know, and she’s not about to take on any other responsibilities.”
    “Where is she going to college, Jeremy?  Right here in Miami, isn’t she?  She’s going to college right here in town and she’s going to stay right here with you, isn’t that right, Jeremy?”
    “What?”
    “You’ve got her right under your thumb and you aim to keep her there for the rest of her life, don’t you, Jeremy?”
    “Don’t you worry about what I’ve got with Jules.  You just watch your little black behind because I mean it; I am this close to getting rid of you for good!”
    Simone glared at Jeremy and was ready to lash back, but he instead put on a grand smile when Jules ran back into the bedroom holding a beautiful, strapless red dress in her arms.  “It’s beautiful, Jeremy,” Jules said excitedly as she reentered the room.  “I’ve never seen anything more beautiful.”  Then she reached over and hugged his neck.  “Thank-you.”
    “You’re welcome, baby,” Jeremy said, holding her around her waist.  “And you’ll going to wear it tonight, too, when I take you out on the town.”
    Jules smiled greatly