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together, come hell or high water you will learn to respect me.”
    I started to repeat the same things back to her, but I didn’t. I simply turned over toward the wall and within the next few minutes I heard my door slam. The tears that had been haunting me all night had returned and were now sliding down my cheeks. I thought about Ameen and wished for a moment that I could share with him the argument I had just had with my mother. So I picked up the phone to call him, only to be greeted by his voice mail…again.
    Don’t look now, but my life was hell.
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    â€œZsa-Zsa.” Hadiah knocked on my door and simultaneously tipped into my room.
    â€œWassup?” I wiped the crust from my eyes and looked at the clock: six AM . Time to get up and get ready for school. I grabbed my cell phone but there were no missed calls, which meant that Ameen didn’t think about me all night. “Yeah, Hadiah, what is it?”
    â€œMan down.” She placed her hands on her hips. “It’s about to be a man down situation.”
    Life according to my sister was always a man down situation. So instead of responding I got out of bed and walked over to my closet to pick out my clothes for today. For a moment the Gucci boots Ameen bought me and took back ran across my mind. “I want you to wear that soft pink Apple Bottoms sweat suit,” I said to Hadiah. “The one I bought you and those white and pink air force ones. I’m wearing my True Religion skinny leg jeans and pink tee with my pearl accessories and Prada heels.”
    â€œDid you hear me?” Hadiah placed her hands on her hips. “I said Mommy is shuttin’ the world down. She’s on the phone with Aunty Grier right now crying and complaining about us.”
    â€œWhat? Complaining?” Now she had my attention.
    â€œYeah.” She twisted her neck. “Said something about you being out of control and me being too grown. Can you imagine?” Her eyes bugged out. “Me being too grown? Hmph, she got me messed up.”
    â€œAre you sure she’s on the phone with Aunty Grier, in Georgia?”
    â€œListen at this.” She handed me the cordless phone she had in her hand. I pushed the talk button and my mother was complaining so much she didn’t even notice we were on the line.
    Hadiah and I placed the phone in between our ears and listened. “I just need some help,” my mother cried. “I can’t lose my girls. Derrick is already gone. He’s in the army and he never comes back home. I just don’t know what to do.”
    â€œStop crying, Jazmyn,” Aunty Grier said. “I know how you feel. When Tre left home I didn’t know what I would do, but I made it and you can, too. You want to come down to Atlanta and move in with me, Noah, Man-Man, Cousin Shake, and his wife? We would love to have you. The girls are in school and they come home every weekend. This house is huge and there is more than enough room.”
    â€œShe better not say we’re moving to Georgia,” I mouthed to Hadiah.
    â€œI will die if she does,” Hadiah whispered back.
    â€œYou know I can’t do that.” My mother sniffed.
    Thank you.
    â€œOkay, well, the only other thing I can think of is Cousin Shake and Ms. Minnie coming up there. I know they’ll be happy to help out.”
    Cousin Shake, oh, hell, no.
    â€œYou really think they won’t mind?” my mother asked.
    Why is she entertaining this?
    â€œI know they won’t. You know how he was when we were little.”
    My mother laughed. “Don’t remind me.”
    â€œWell, he hasn’t changed much, except now he has a new wife and unlike when we were young he isn’t stuck in the seventies, it’s now the eighties…. Oh, and the hearse still works.”
    The hearse?
    I couldn’t take it anymore so I clicked us off the line. Hadiah looked at me. “Don’t you have enough money