Chapter
One
It wasn’t the Uhaul nor was it the 18 hour drive but
the smell of fresh tobacco growing in the fields and the sound of cows mooing
that made Azania realize that it was actually happening. She thought she was
prepared mentally, emotionally, and physically for this but was she saddened by
the realization that life as she had known it was now states away from her.
The life that she had become so accustom to and with
all the trails she had to overcome just so she could be comfortable. She was
conflicted by the thoughts that she had to start all over again.
“ Don’t tell me your ass is already catching feelings
about leaving ” Sina said looking over at the passenger side as Azania gazed
out the car window.
Sina being the oldest sister had been planning to
leave the hood for the past few years but her financial state never made it
possible. Both, She and Azania were products of a crack head mother and father.
Growing up neither of them knew it wasn’t normal for a grown man to feel up on
them so their momma could get her fix or she I say medicine. The years of
growing up to fast started to finally take it’s toll but Sina sacrificed
herself for her sister and moving to West Bubble Fuck, North Carolina was more
of her running away.
“Catching feeling about leaving where? Bitch, Please”!
Azania said knowing that in the back of her mind she couldn’t stop thinking
about New Jersey.
Marion danced in her head from the moment she told him
she was leaving. For the first time in the whole charade they called a
relationship he actually showed some emotion. Although, she went through so
much hell with him and deep down she really wanted it to work. Despite, the
babies he had on her and public humiliation of staying in the position of being
the side chick as he made it official with woman after woman. It was something
special about his presence that made her naïve to his deceit and she just
wanted to feel that presence for the long haul.
The Black Cadillac turned into the long Greystone
marbled drive way that lead up to a doubled black bared gate with the letter
“W” engraved in old Victorian cursive. The sister couldn’t keep from looking at
one another as they cruised through what was left to them by their grandmother
on their father’s side. A house finally appeared through the evergreen trees
and rose bushes that decorated the edges of the perimeter. The house looked
like it had a lot of history tied to it and despite being vacant for the past
10 year the bushes were trimmed, walk way was swept, and the roses. The roses
were in full bloom and glossed as if they were crystalized.
“These roses are beautiful, strange thing is we are in
the middle of fall, shouldn’t they be died by now”! Sina exclaimed before
looking puzzled.
Her phone rung for the fiftieth time that day. Causing
Azania to look at her placing her hands on her wide hips. Sina quickly popped open
the trunk removing suit-case after suit-case. She was trying to conceal the
fact that she was a nervous wreck. Just knowing that Uche was looking for her
even if he was on the stoop somewhere in Brooklyn. For years she had been involved
in what seemed like the prefect union between two people on the surface. Being
with Uche was her hell here on earth and sometimes she felt as if he was Satan
himself. Azania focused her attention from her sister knowing that in due time
she would figure out what made such an upbeat person suddenly so timid. She
started following the trail that lead to the rear side of the mini-mansion. She could almost in vision the mulatto little
girl that was once her grandmother playing on that trail with her sisters. In
some strange way for the first time in her life she felt like she was at home. The
backyard patio stretched out to what seemed to be a little oasis surrounded by
trees and more roses. Leaving the tell-tell sign that it was once filled with
party guest often as she remembered the rumors of their great-grandfather being
the town’s infamous bootlegger. Azania
was always the inquisitive sister out of the two and her eyes couldn’t lose focus of the metal bar gate that the
beautiful evergreens hid except for one small section. It was in her nature to
enter places she shouldn’t and before she could even think of it being hidden
for a reason she was pulling at the gate.
“Damn it, it’s
locked” She thought being slightly fascinated by the thought that there was
a secret passage way in her own backyard.
“Zania” ! Sina yelled running towards the back of the
house like she had just seen a ghost.
Sina stood almost pale and shaking, peering out into
the garden not being able to embrace the beauty of what she was looking at.
“Zania”! She yelled again this time walking off the
patio trembling. What she had just laid her eyes on made her fear that
something got to her baby sister.
Azania ran out the garden smiling then stopping as
Sina threw her arms around her as if she thought she would never see her again.
“Bitch, what the fuck is wrong with you” Azaina yelled
as her sister started to sob on her shoulder.
“I just saw some guy standing in our window” She
exclaimed breaking away from Zania.
“You just saw what” Azania asked in a chuckle.
Although she herself was a little frighten. Knowing that Sina had a way of
being overly dramatic when she had someone freaking out a long with her made
her play it off.
“Sina, you just need some sleep after all it has been
a long way here and you have to be tired. I’m more then positive no one is in
there.”
She knew it was the wrong time to mention the secret
gate in the garden or even the fact that she was sense a presence of something.
Something that seemed to have been welcoming them there since they arrived.
to be continued................................................
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