Toxic Encounter

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s I could in a bid to relieve the throbbing pain I felt in the base of my neck but that does not do anything to help…if a

have not sl

I had left plugged in. I open it to see a few messages some of which are from

women to have ever graced the Earth's surface but the one thing that sh

a few minutes ago so I am sure t

back her number. She does not answer on the first ring a

my brother's three year old? When I see her name flash on my phone screen. I bra

the world have you been?" My mothe

.uhm how

oicemail! Not to mention the fact that you did not come home for the weekend nor did you leave a message to let me me know. Do you even know how worried I was?" She

did not ignore you on purpose mum. Yesterday had been a really hectic one for me so I was not able to c

late the idea that she has hung the phone up on me when I hear

real

make it up to

say the word princess. It was always some variation be it pinkcess or pwincessa. Pwincessa had been the one that had stuck though and even

my mother in bed with a cup of coffee in one hand and the other trying to adjust the cord of the house landline to a position that was barely kept the telephone from tipping over

ut home. "So…what is new? Any new fami

th another small laugh "Is that

aking her laugh again "Now spill woman, give me a

know not to make use of the word deets, jesus christ Jamarcus

nd my life on fashion news lette

ational!" My m

ressing attention." I say sarcastically and ask her to continue ou

Conrad's birthday." All happy thoughts dis

t to feign interest but end up failing beca

he end of the day no matter how much your father's name neurotic t

e but you didn't ex

her says calling m

eing. "So what did the great Conrad do on his oh

because my mother pretty muc

about eight months pregnant and she's going to pop any minute now. You should see

say…" I say

Like what would a grown adult man over the age of thirty need baloons for? The only thing that

ng "Happy birthday", no calls, no texts nothing but I think that sharing that tid

other family war

d have made it even better was if you had equally showed u

rt. You promised. I thought that

er making any s

ple

come though. Who knew you could have brought over that foxy re

of a sudden on the night that I had proposed to her to be my girlfriend she had instead broken up a relationship with me for reasons that she claimed were best know to her and disappeared shortly after. I had tried to keep in contact with her in hopes of reviving what we had once had but all to no avail. It was as

at…. we uhm didn't

m so sorry to hear abou

tly wanted different t

aybe you guys could fix it?" My mom ask

spiel that people tend to use. She did n

owledge your importance and that is truly worth worthy of you and not

de her choice and it's her loss

how dare she hurt my bab

ed venom in her words. "Mom I am in my e

emember the day I had brought you back from the hospital. You had the swee

oan "Mom please I beg y

e he had ran over stop lights just so that he could get us to the hospital in one pi

interrupting her. "There is another person on

't you dare h

ake your meds and remember, I love yo

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n this past few weeks. My previous tiredness is no where to be found as I ben

antage of the weekend

cupboard to get some cereal but I am shocked to see that there was nothing present. I guess that

the room with slight annoyance. Not that it was broken or anything but

t. This totally hinders the sleep in day that I had originally plan

ng room to get my jacket that I had left o