“I learned to tune out Yolanda once I no longer needed her titty for nourishment. It was my grandmother who I took after. Now that there was a lady.”
“Umm, hmm, and as you know this ain’t the time or the place to be a lady.”
Secret smiled. “I know. Just do what I said. Stay by the phone and communicate with my mom. I’m going to need all the help I can get, even if it’s from her.”
“I will,” Shawndiece promised. She said her good-bye, hung up the phone, and then stood. She watched her best friend be hauled off behind a huge metal door. She then turned to leave, thanking God her lone tear had waited for Secret to be out of view before it fell.
As the guard placed Secret back in the cell, Secret turned and watched the door close. A smile crept across her face as she shook her head. “Streets of Flint, you win,” she said as she then looked down at her stomach, knowing that it was only a matter of time before she’d have to turn her seed over to its rightful parent as well: the streets of Flint.
“Well, little one,” Secret said, inhaling new life and puffing her chest out. “Game over.” She exhaled in defeat, knowing it was time to mentally prepare herself for the life she was truly destined to live. She had no idea who this new life would include. Shawndiece she knew for certain would always be her girl. Her mother was iffy, but who knew? Hearing her only child was locked up with child could soften her hard heart. Her dad was dead to her. Then there was her sister, Katherine. What was her connection to Lucky? And at the end of the day, where would Kat’s loyalty lie: with Lucky or with her blood?
Last but not least, perhaps Secret’s life would include Lucky, perhaps it wouldn’t. Maybe he’d bail her out, hire her a high-priced, fancy attorney to get her off the hook, he would explain his actions, she would forgive him and they would live happily ever after. Or maybe he would leave her there to rot like he never knew her. Who knew? She could end up serving as the State’s star witness and testifying against him so that their roles reversed and he was the one rotting away in jail. At this moment, nobody knew the answer to all that but God. It was all in His hands. The question was, could she trust Him with her life? As she stared at the door that sealed in her freedom, confining her into her jail cell, Secret knew she didn’t have a choice.
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