SINS OF THY MOTHER 3
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“I have evidence that this girl and her siblings, along with several other children, have been the victims of abuse at the hands of Denise Lewis for years. I also know that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, they did not kill Denise on the night in question because at that time, they all were with me,” Lieutenant Black said and I turned to look at her as she winked her eye.
She produced mountains of evidence that showed four teens in hoodies that could have been us with her at an amusement parks miles away at the exact same time my grandmother’s house went up in flames. After that, her and the detectives left the room for what seemed to be an eternity, before a uniformed officer came back in to tell me I was free to go.
I got up feeling numb and walked into the hall as Terricka, Jerrod, and Buddy were also freed to go. Jerrod wrapped his arms around my shoulder and led me to the elevator, and we all got on. No one said a word as we rode down to the first floor and got off the elevator.
“Give me a minute, yawl. I have to go talk to Lieutenant Black,” I said to everyone as we stood by the door.
“Okay baby, I’ll call a cab, so we can get back to the car. I just gotta get the fuck out of here,” Jerrod said before he kissed me and he, Terricka, and Buddy left the building.
When I got to Lieutenant Black’s office, I noticed her door was open as I peered inside. She sat at her desk with tears in her eyes and her head on her head while she looked at the box of tapes on her desk. It was the tapes that MeMe had brought and she had used to save us from jail. I tapped lightly on the door after I wiped away the tear that fell from my eye and walked in as she stood up.
“Thank you for everything, Lieutenant Black. Thank you for believing me because no one else would,” I said as my tears began to flow again and she rushed over to hug me.
“No, Tisha, I’m sorry. I’m sorry it took me so long, but you have to put all of that behind you now. It’s over baby. Now go and be happy,” she said before she kissed my forehead and walked me to the door.
I left her office free of my past with nothing but hope for my future. Terricka, Jerrod, and Buddy waited in a cab in front of the jail when I came out and got in. We rode to the church in silence like usual, just relieved it was finally over. When we got out of the cab, we looked around at the empty parking lot and decided that would be the first day of the rest of our lives.
“House party with just us, like the old times. Me and Buddy going to get food and favors. You ladies, go home and get ready to have fun. I talked to Tania and she’s gonna keep A’Miracle until we’re ready. It’s time to live now yawl, we got our lives back,” Jerrod said as I ran over to kiss him before he and Buddy got into Buddy’s car.
My sister and I watched them leave before we got into our car and I cranked it up.
“This a new beginning, T. New beginning,” I said as we pulled off the lot.
Terricka and I drove towards my house still kind of numb, but happy that all of the pain was over. When we got in east Memphis, Terricka asked me to stop at the store because she wanted snacks. I sat inside the car and waited on her as I tried to figure out what the dull feeling that had just developed in my stomach meant. After about two minutes, I noticed a commotion in the store and Terricka hadn’t come out yet, so I jumped out to see what was happening.
When I approached the door of the store, I could hear my sister cussing, so I immediately burst in ready to jump with the shit. The first thing I saw was two small kids as they stood by a stroller with a baby in it, as my sister drug who had to be their mother across the floor. I watched as my sister unleashed a fury of blows on the girl as she begged her to stop and her little boy ran over to his mother’s rescue. I was just about to intervene and get the child out of harm’s way when my sister turned around and did the unexpected.
As the little boy used his tiny fists to punch my sister in her back, she yelled to the mother, “I’ll fuck yo kid up!” before she elbowed him directly in the face. His tiny body slid across the floor as he hit the counter and instantly began to scream. My sister was up in a flash as she charged towards the child, enraged enough to kill him with her bare hands. I had seen enough at that point, so I quickly jumped in the middle and grabbed my sister in a bear hug as I drug her out of the store.
Terricka screamed and yelled threats as I put her in the car and quickly pulled off the lot before the police were called. Once far enough away from the store that I felt safe, I pulled over to the side and cut over the engine to look into my sister’s eyes. She sat there as she raged and looked just like our mother, all deranged and homicidal. I almost felt afraid to talk to her, seeing her so out of her mind with rage and how she sat there full of rage as she talked to herself. Even with a little fear inside of what could happen to our relationship, I knew I had to say something.
“Terricka, what’s wrong with you? What happened? Were you really gonna hurt that kid? What’s wrong?” I asked as I felt tears well up in my eyes.
For a second, she didn’t respond to my questions, she just continued to sit there and curse and rage to herself. When suddenly, she stopped to turn and stare at me with that out of control look I had seen in my mother’s eyes all of my life.
“What’s wrong with me? Ain’t shit wrong with me. I’m finally free and living. Hell yea, I could hurt a kid. I’d kill one if I had to and go home to sleep soundly. That’s the difference between us, Tisha. I’ve been through too much for too long to just let go of my hate. This is who I am and I just don’t give a fuck anymore,” my sister said as I began to cry while I reached over to hug her and she pushed me away.
“No Tisha, it’s okay. I’m okay. Maybe it’s true. MAYBE I’M JUST LIKE MY MAMA…OR MAYBE I’M WORSE. Now let’s go,” Terricka said as she turned forward, and I wiped away my tears and drove towards home.
I hoped that happiness would stay with me as I pushed the pain and worry to the back of my mind and drove toward my place of love with my sister. However, something deep inside told me that the war had truly just begun and I, once again, would have to deal with the destruction caused by someone else’s sins!
The End… For Now!
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Sins of Thy Mother 4: Maybe I’m Just Like My Mama
Tisha
I spent my eighteenth birthday, the year my sister and I killed our mother, wrapped up in Jerrod’s arms, staring into my daughter’s eyes. Despite all we had been through and all that I had done, I was lucky to have the happiness I always dreamed of. With my mama and Lee gone, the house completely burned down destroying all evidence, and Lieutenant Black helping me out, Terricka and I were able to fade into the background as victims and begin normal lives.
A full year went by with me living happy with my family, building a life for myself and working my ass off, trying hard to forget the past. I married Jerrod in a big beautiful wedding on Christmas day and was right beside my sister to help when she had her first child. They ruled my mother and Lee’s death as a murder suicide that next year and set my weary mind at ease. By then, I was happy and back home with the Robinson’s close by and with Jerrod and A’Miracle with me, where I they belonged. I didn’t want anything to change that.
Finding out we would each gain a half of million dollars following our mother’s death was the icing on the cake, which came in the form of certified letters as we prepared to go out to celebrate my 20th birthday that next year. I can still remember the look on Terricka’s face when she got that envelop in her hands and began planning what she would do with it. Buddy was right there with her, helping her to spend money in their minds that she didn’t even have yet.
I wanted to step forward and say something, but I figured who was I to tell her anything with all of the fucked up decisions I had made. However, as I sat there besides Jerrod later at our house, and watched my now pregnant with her second child sister ignore one while drinking beer after beer, poisoning the other, I thought about how the apple never fell far from the tree. I couldn’t help but look at my sister with some of the sam
e disgust I once looked at my mother with when I heard her tell my nephew to sit his stupid ass down. A tear fell from my eye as I rushed over to pick up my crying nephew and tell him how much I loved him. I held him tightly to my chest while watching A’Miracle play with Ryan, Terricka’s first son, and Jerrod came up to rub my back.
“What’s up with Terricka?” Jerrod asked me as my sister’s drunk, belligerent voice suddenly got louder and everyone in the room turned to look at her.
For the first time in my life, I felt embarrassed to call her my sister, as I faced a fact I knew all along.
“Maybe, she’s just like our mother,” I said to my husband as I shook my head while I hugged my nephew tight, and hoped that I wouldn’t have to slay a dragon of my own…
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