Hell On Earth

Eleven:

Egypt Hoskins
November 30
6:40 pm

As I walked into the house both of my brother stopped watching tv to look at me

"Where you been?" Evan asked like he was somebody's daddy

"Mind your business"

"You still got food in that bag?" Sean pointed to the chic fil a bag in my hand. Before I could answer he grabbed it and instead of fighting him back for it, I just let him have it because I was mentally exhausted. Thanks to Christian my life has been a living hell at school between the whispers and even people being bold enough to confront me then get mad when I don't give them an answer. I mean it's not any of their business if I'm pregnant or not and plus Akira has been sick for the past two days so I've been at school by myself if I wasn't with Tremaine

As I was about to head to my room I heard my name being called from the kitchen. I walked into the kitchen seeing my sitting at the table with Vaeh, wearing her work clothes as Vaeh did her homework

"You gotta work tonight?"

"Yeah." She answered while rubbing her forehead "where you been?"

"I had a job interview at 5 so Tremaine took me"

The minute I said something about a job interview she seemed shook. Sitting up straight in her seat now she crossed her arms and Vaeh looked up from her homework

"A job interview? Where?"

"Foot locker in the mall"

"Oh really! How did it go?"

"I went good. The manager said he'll be in touch before the end of the week so I can start working as soon as possible"

"You could've just said ASAP instead of saying the whole sentence" Vaeh shrugged

"Mind your business and finish that work cause if I get another call from a teacher saying you not doing your work ima whoop your ass Nevaeh"

She muttered something before looking down at her homework again and momma focused back on me "that's good. I'm proud of you for taking initiative because with these bills, your brothers and sisters with these field trips and them cutting my hours at work.. my pockets are too tight so you gotta step up and do whatchu gotta do to prepare for when this baby comes"

"Baby?" Nevaeh's head quickly shot up again and momma closed her eyes while sighing "momma you pregnant again?"

"NEVAEH IMANI HOSKINS!" She now fussed making Vaeh shut up, resting her fist under her chin as she looked at her work again

"Go in the room and finish that damn work and if it's not finished before I leave I swear..."

She got up and grabbed her work with no hesitation and left the kitchen. Once she was gone my momma pointed to the seat Vaeh sat in informing me to sit down. Once I did she looked at the chic fil a cup in my hand

"You already ate?"

"Tremaine took me at something to eat but Sean and Evan eating the rest of it"

"Well I ordered a pizza for y'all cause I'm honestly too tired to cook. It's on the stove"

I looked at her and saw the bags under her eyes. Her hair was pulled back into a low ponytail and you could tell clear as day she was more than physically drained. It was deeper than that and I know I didn't make it any better

"I told them I could work everyday after school and on the weekends"

"That's cool and all thinking of all of those hours but I'm not about to let you work everyday like that. You still in school. You have homework and pregnancy is stressful. Work! But not too much. How much you get paid?"