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Takari Evans

I heard htstand in the five-star hotel where I was staying, but I ay too tired to roll over and answer it I’d had a long day When I was offered the business advisor position, of course, I are of the fact that sometimes this job would requirewould be so soon On top of that, I didn’t think theI, along with a feorkers arrived in Atlanta early yesterday , and since then, we’d been on the , as soon as the plane landed, all we really had tie into whatever clothes ere planning to wear to the s

Meeting afteris what h, when the day finally looked like it was at least half over, the owner of the company decided that he would like to take everyone out to dinner By then, it ell after nine at night, and my body was in competition with my feet because I didn’t knohich one hurt the most I was new to the co myself from everyone else, so as tired as I was, I still accepted the free meal with everyone else to Ruth Chris Steak House

Because the day was so long and tiring, I ended up ordering a couple of drinks, along with everyone else, just to wind down so the restaurant until a little bit after one in the , and by the time I gage was packed for the early flight that I had in thein the bed until a little bit after three o’clock thislike er than thirtymy phone back to back

As selfish as I wanted to be, and as deaf as I wanted to play to the sound ofon the counter, I had to remember that I had three kids at ho could have happened to theht of that was the only reason I removed the sleepexactly like a worily snatched the phone off the charger As soon as I did, the phone stopped ringing

It wasIn fact, the call that I’d justwith her nonstop calls, she’d sent two text ency and that I needed to call her back Immediately, I started to think the worst For one, look at the ti and texting about an eood, so before I even knehat the hell was going on, I’d already ju on the clothes that I had laid out on the back of the chair that faced the computer desk in the room as I dialed my sister back at the same time

“Shrimppp!” she cried into the phone the second the call connected

Hearing my sister sound all weak and emotional had me frozen in place The phone was on speaker, and I stared at it with confused eyes as one leg was insidewas out Anyone who knew my sister, Sky, you knew that her ass didn’t cry for shit I used to tell her all the tier that she should have been a boy, because, at times, I felt like her ass was so ruthless and like she wasn’t in touch with her feelings

Growing up, I was always the one crying because of the absence of our father, but Sky was the complete opposite I never saw her shed one tear over our father not being there or over any other proble up for that th, because, at times, I would feel like a cry baby or as if I eak for showing some type of emotion

“Sky, what’s going on? Everything alright? Where’soff question after question

I was asking the ilike so had to have been alright I’d talked to all three of ht before, and they all were tucked in their beds at their grando to sleep I told them howand take theht My babies had to have been alright

“Shrimp, no! I don’t want to tell you over the phone… I can’tttt… buttt… you gotta come home You have to,” she said, and for whatever reason, a tear fell from my eyes

I kneas bad; I could hear it in Sky’s voice that whatever she was trying to keep fro to break me down to my core It was to the point that I almost didn’t want to know Like, I almost wished that I never answered the phone because then I wouldn’t have to face this reality With shaky hands and with a heart that was beating out of this world, I took a seat at the foot of the bed as I tried e and ask what needed to be asked I had to ask It was the only way I would knohat the hell was going on back home

“Did so happen to one of my babies? Tellthe most vulnerable that I’ve ever sounded in my entire life

I was so fucking scared Tears were falling nonstop, but I didn’t have the slightest clue as to as going on right now It was just a ht now I could feel it in ht with one of my kids

“It’s Jaden, Shriuished cry

I looked down at the phone and noticed that the call had ended I sat there for fivethe phone My ownher cell phone I was a concerned mother, and at thison with o Literally, I had just finished telling hiet hi, so what the fuck could have possibly happened that fast?

In that ry that I was et to my son as quickly as I wanted to As I ran around the roo my best to reht, I would lose that confidence because the piercing cry that I heard Sky release over the phone proved to ht

I was finally out of the roo the elevator down to the lobby, so I could quickly get into the Uber that I’d requested Once I was inside the car, I got ready to call Sky one last tie came in from her She let me know that they were at Me to me once I arrived As much as I wanted to curse her ass out because I felt like she was playing with my emotions, I didn’t because I knewon was only to protect s