"When do Devin and Jewel come back?"Fatima ask Tessa. Fatima was sitting at the kitchen island with her laptop while Tessa was getting an early start to dinner since her mother and father were at a speaking engagement at another church conference. Xavier was staying at a football camp for the next two weeks so she didn't have to worry about him trying to eat all the food before it reached the table.
"Sometime next week. I talked to Jewel because you know Devin doesn't answer no phone calls. She said he done made them do every excursion" Tessa says as she pulled out a cutting board. Devin and his wife Jewel we're currently on a vacation in Aruba for their wedding anniversary.
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"I could only imagine him with kids. He's a damn kid himself" Fatima says laughing
"I bet you after that trip, one is coming. He's the last one to become a parent" Tessa says
"Speaking of parents. How do you feel about what's going on with daddy's church?" Fatima ask Tessa as she looked up from her computer at Tessa.
"I don't know to be honest. That kind of money doesn't just go missing but I don't get into church business, it's too confusing. Andrew has a better brain for that crap" Tessa says laughing
"I know Daddy sent him to go request some tax documents the other day because daddy had that board meeting but when he went, they told him the request had been submitted and he had to just wait" Tessa says throwing something in the trash.
"He told daddy that?" Fatima ask
"Yeah they were talking about it and Daddy said something like he didn't even request them yet so that information was wrong. But you know how them places be, people don't ever want to do their job so they'll just say anything to get people out their office." Tessa says rinsing her hands
That triggered Fatima, she went to pick up the phone to call her father but remembered he was at the conference.
"Dammit" Fatima says putting her phone back down and looking up at the ceiling.
"What's wrong?" Tessa ask
"I just need to talk to daddy. I need more information. I can't do it with this nugget shit." Fatima says rubbing her hands through her scalp
"You in your detective bag" Tessa laughed a little to herself as she carried a pot to the stove
"I wish you could've been in that meeting. I felt so off. It's like they were all sitting there dumbfounded. There's money missing and there were six motherfuckers in the meeting sitting there- you know what"
She breathed out
"Do you know your mother wasn't even in the meeting? On top of her not being there, her damn files weren't even in order. Fuck being in order, they weren't even there. But that's y'all First Lady" Fatima says frustratedly
"T you know mommy gets frazzled and she's unorganized. Didn't she say she had another meeting somewhere? Maybe she just forgot I don't know" Tessa says shrugging her shoulders
"Tessa please" Fatima says irritated
"I hope you're not saying my mother stole from her husband" Tessa says becoming defensive
" No your mother is full of shìt. She's walking around like daddy ain't stressed about this church. She can't be no First Lady if the church is gone." Fatima says
"Listen I don't know okay. Everybody don't handle stress the same Fatima." Tessa says
"I know stress when I see it in many forms." Fatima says matter of factly.
"So since you think momma stole from daddy, where you think the money at T?" Tessa says sarcastically and nonchalantly entertaining the conversation
"I never said- see you always do that. Why do you always do that?" Fatima says
