****Side notes: Did anybody see the pics of ol gurl who got Aug the underwear for a gift and one said “Ruptures Cervixes” or something like that lol. And another girl got Aug like a wood thing in memory of Mel and he actually kissed it and performed with that it, I thought that was so sweet of him. Anyway here goes---****
THREE MONTHS LATER
AUGUST P.O.V. –
“Uncle Aug I don’t want to go.” Kay said as she plopped on my lap.
Everybody else was sleep, except of course – Kay and me. I had moved into my one bedroom apartment in Philly. My first year of Dental School would be starting after Labor Day, and Cha and the girls had come to visit me this holiday weekend.
After graduation, I couldn’t stay in Atlanta anymore. It was too much with what Amb and I had went through. Instead I went back to NOLA with my family and just kicked it the whole summer.
Stacy and I had lost touch. She spent the summer in Cali with her fam, and I’m certain she moved up here already. But we weren’t on speaking terms, so if she had, I hadn’t seen her. When she found out I had tried to hit Amb, she basically stop fucking with me.
And it hurt me, but you know, it is what it is. I’m not about to beg nobody to be my friend.
Cha and the girls stayed in Georgia and kept my one bedroom apartment. She was doing great financially especially since she got a job as Assistant Stylist to Derek J a top Atlanta Hair stylist.
“You can always come visit.” I said as she dipped her finger in the ice-cream I was eating.
“I don’t wanna visit, I wanna stay.” She whined. “It’s not fun without you at home.”
“I’ll be back for the summer to stay with y’all.”
“Summer?” Her eyes got big. “That’s a long time.”
“You’ll see me for Thanksgiving and Christmas in Nola.”
She started crying. “Ahh Kay stop.”
“I miss you.” She wiped her eyes.
“I miss y’all too.” I kissed her forehead.
“Daddy miss you too.”
I stopped eating the ice-cream. “What you talking about daddy?”
“Me and daddy talk.”
“Daddy in the sky Kay.”
“I know but he talk to me when I close my eyes.”
“When you dream?”
She shook her head.
“What he tell you?”
“He love me Noonie, Chay and Mommy. And Grandmommy and Uncle Trav and Auntie Netia and Uncle Smoke and you.” She said really excited.
“Well next time you talk to him tell him we love him too.” I just brushed off what she was saying as youthful imagination.
“I already do.” She smiled brightly. “He said you cry a lot.”
My heart stopped beating for a second.
“I cry a lot?” I laughed unsure of what she was talking about.
“Mmm-hmm. When nobody around.”
Kay was starting to scare me. Maybe this wasn’t youthful imagination. Could she really be talking to Mel?
