No cards pulled - jolynna jean-pierre (web ebook reader TXT) 📗

Chapter 1 - Life at school

Chapter 2- The Fire

Chapter 3 - My graduation

Chapter 4 - The funeral

Chapter 5 — State of Georgia vs. Cynthia Ballome (part 1)

Chapter 6 - State of Georgia vs. Cynthia Ballome (part 2)

Chapter 7 — Baby Johnathan

*eyes pops open* *eyes rotates toward the clock* *clock says 6:33 a.m.* "urrrggghh" I slowly slide out of my bed, and heads for the bathroom. My little brother, joey, was sleeping right next to me. *walks inside the bathroom* *turns on the water* As I lean forward on the sink, I watched the steam turn into fog. The warm fog slowly covered the mirror, and my face. *knock knock* The knocking at the door distracted me. *heads to the door* *cracks the door open* I was so sleepy that all I saw was little baby bears. "You ready to take your bath, joey?", I mumbled while opening up the door. Joey walked inside. Joey reached out for me to carry him, but instead, I just took his pjs off of him. *joey begins to cry* I carry him into the bath tub. I quickly took him a bath. I carried him back into the room, and quickly got his clothes out of the closet. I quickly dried him off with his towel, and helped him put his clothes and shoes on. By the time i put my clothes on, and grabbed our book bags, the time was already 6:55 a.m. I quickly made joey some cereal. When he finished his cereal, I grabbed the keys. I quickly grabed joey's hand, and headed out. *exits the apartment* *locks the door* *heads downstairs* Joey and I began to walk to school. *holds joey's hand tightly* (15 minutes later) *opens classroom's door* *walks inside classroom* "Alright, joey I want you to be a good boy today, ok, i will pick you up afterschool" "Choco...please dont go" *joey starts to pout* *looks at joey* "Hold on" *joey nods* I pulled out my phone out, and called mr.lawerence, my homeroom teacher. "hello?" "Hi, mr.lawerence, it's me, chocolate" "Hi chocolate,what may I do for you?" "I was wondering if I could bring my brother to school with me today" "humph...i don't know, chocolate" "How about around lunch time?" "You have to be back before advisory" "Okay" "Okay, bye" "Bye" *hangs up the phone* *walks towards to joey's teacher* "Okay, my teacher said that around 12 p.m., I can pick up joey" "Okay, I will have his homework prepared for you to pick up" "Okay" *turns towards joey* "I'm going to pick you up early, ok" "Ok" *kisses joey on the forehead and walks out the classroom* *exits the school* *walks off the school's property* (10 minutes later) *Opens school's front door* *runs to the class before the late bell* *enters class* *heads to my seat* *late bell rings* As I walk towards my seat, timothy sling shot a pencil at my booty. *pauses* *picks up pencil from the ground* * places pencil back on timothy's desk* "I think you dropped this, tim, maybe next time, you'll be more careful" *pinches timothy's cheek* (laughter in the background) * continues back walking to my desk* *sits down* As I look around the room, I kept noticing timothy staring at me with rosy red cheeks. *enters carman, sharlene, and shaie* "Awe snap!!...who made you blush this time best friend". Timothy turned around from looking at me. *carman looks at me* "Chocolate made you blush, already?!" *carman laughs* "You know, to be real with you, you are horrible at this hard to get game" "Geesh..thanks" "Glad to be at your service" *carman chuckles*

(Far on the other side of the classroom)

"Bobby!!" "What is it, shay?" *shay walks over towards bobby, and sits on his lap* "We need to talk" "About?" "Umm...we need to talk in private" "Ok" *Mr.lawerence stands up* "Alright..settle down, class" *everyone sits down* "Since we are only three days away from graduation day..." *entire class cheers* "This is a time to what..chocolate!" I stand up and tells shay, carman, and sharlene to stand up with me. *whispers* "One..two..three" "This is time tooooo....TURN UP!!" *blast music* *eveyone starts dancing* We danced all the way to lunch time. Instead of eating school lunch, Mr.lawerence and the principle bought us lunch. When I looked at the time on my watch, it was 11:55 a.m. "oh snap" I grabbed my bag, and signaled to mr.lawerence that I was leaving to go get my brother. *mr.lawerence nods* *exits the classroom* *timothy sneeks out the classroom and follows me out the building* *timothy runs up besides me* "Hey, where you think you going?" *ignores timothy and kept walking* "Look..i'm sorry about what had happened in class today" *slightly looks at timothy* "Look...it's fine, you were only going through Jerk phase 1" *opens classroom door* Joey turns around. "Choco!!!" *joey runs and gives me great big hug* *carries joey* *walks over to the teacher's desk and signs joey out* *exits classroom* *softly places joey on the ground* Joey notices timothy standing outside. "Timmy!!" *timothy swoops joey into the air* "What's up, big man" "Put him down because we need to start walking" *timothy places joey on the ground* *joey quickly grabs my hand* *timothy walks beside me* 

(5 minutes later)

*enters classroom**heads towards mr.lawerence* Mr.lawerence hands me my lunch. Joey could smell the good food coming from my lunch bag. I headed towards a large table. *joey follows**sits down* Joey quickly jumps onto my lap. Timothy grabbed his lunch and sat next to me and joey. I looked at timothy and said, "Don't you usually sit with Carmen and Sharlene?" Timothy looks at them with disgust and said," I hate sharlene", continues,"carmen would understand" I looked at timothy, and said," understand what?!...that you had a crush on me since the 6th grade, and that you only went out with sharlene to make me jealous?" Timothy was silent. "Right.....you seriously thought that i didnt know" Timothy stared at me as i fed joey his lunch. "I...I'm sorry" I ignored him. Timothy got up from the table, and sat his desk. I refused to feel pity for him. *tugs at my shirt**looks down* "choco...i got to peepee" "Ok..lets go" *gets up**walks up to mr.lawerence**whispers* "Can you watch my stuff as i take my brother to the restroom?" *mr.lawerence nods* *exits classroom**enters ladies restroom**enters stall**Joey begins to use it.* "You done, joey?" *joey nods**opens restroom stall**stands face to face with sharlene and her sister, toshia* Toshia spits on the floor. Joey looks at toshia and screams," you are disguisting, creep!!" *joey kicks toshia**I smiles* "Let's go wash your hands, joey" *walks to sink**washes joeys hands**exits restroom**enters classroom**walks towards the table**sits down* "Come on joey ...let's get you something to do" *pulls out some paper and color pencils* "Here draw on these" *joey begins to color* *dozes off a bit* *phone vibrates* I quickly answered. "Hello?" *sobs* "Hello? whose this?" "My little angel..." "mom?" *joey quickly looks at me* "Hello darling...im soo sorry that i haven't been there for you and joey the past 3 years" "Its...its ok...its fine" "No its not fine because i should have been there for you as a mother" *baby cries in the background* "seems like you have a new child" "Yes...and its a girl...you're new baby sister" "Well, congrats on that one" "You don't sound happy, baby girl...what's wrong?" "It's because im not...you expect me to be all kool-aid smiles and screaming with joy for the new one. Let me guess...when it was born, you said she was a gift from god,right?...well guess what?! Bad news for you...its not! Joey barely remembers your name, face,and voice..matter fact, he barely remembers a thing about you, only reason why he knows that he has a mom is because i allowed him too. Other than that..he has been calling me mom, but each time i have to tell him that im his sister and that mother has died n has left you to me..*tears flow from my eyes*...n each time i cry only because the true fact is that my own mother has left us because she wanted to love a stranger rather than her own children...by the way, my graduation day is Monday at 10:00am, but whats the point of telling you when your husband wont even let you out of his sight" *hangs up**starts to cry**runs out of the classroom**joey begins to throw a tantrum**mr.lawerence runs after me*" chocolate...what's wrong...please tell me what's wrong?" *looks at mr.lawerence* "My mother just called me out of the blue" "what did she want?" "she wanted to brag about her 3 year old daughter". Joey stands in the middle of the hallway with his teddy bear. "Choco...im scared" *walks towards joey* "Mr.lawerence, i need to go now" "Okay" *heads out the school* *holds joey's hand*

(15 minutes later)

*heads up the stairs**opens the door* "Come on, joey" *joey walks inside**closes the door* "Come on joey...lets go change your clothes" Joey runs into his room, and jumps on the bed. *enters room**Joey starts to quickly take off his clothes**pulls out joey's clothes**helps joey put on his clothes* " go watch tv" *joey runs into the tv room**walks into the kitchen* "what you want to eat?" "cereal" "what kind" "fuwoot loops" *chuckles* "ok" *opens refrigerator's door**makes joey's cereal* "joey come eat your cereal" "ok" *knock..knock**walks towards the door**looks through peep hole* "gorge!!!" *opens door* "gorge!!" *jumps into his arms* *gorge smiles* "what's up, coco" *gorge walks inside**door closes* Joey was so focused on Tom & Jerry that he didnt notice that gorge came inside. As joey was watching tv, gorge and I walked to my room. *closes the door* *gorge sits on the bed* "It's been so long" "I know right" "You know i miss you, right?" "I miss you too, sis" "Now, you know that we are not real siblings...it's a title we use outside my room" " Yeah, I know, but what if we..." "Shhh....please don't doubt us. If only you knew, that the thought of you gives me strength and courage to get through life itself" *gorge softly kisses me on the lips* "What was that for, gorge?" "It's a thank you" "Well, here's my thank you" *locks the door*

(few minutes later)

*giggles* *door opens* *gorge and I exits the room* "What if the tiger jumped on me though?" "oh wow" *enters the tv room* *stops walking* "What in the world are you doing here, timothy?!!" "i should be asking you the same thing" "ummmmm....i live here?" "Not you...him?!" *gorge looks shocked* "who me?" "um..nahhh, yeah you nigga" "Well, i came..." "man, nigga, i dont care why you came...i want to know why you still here....in my girl's crib" "your...your girl?!" "That's what i said...isnt it?!" * i interrupt* " you never answered my question...how'd you get in here?" " i asked the manager for the spare key" "i...i thought my mother had the spare key" "nope...i thought so too, but he said she gave it back before she went to the airport because she wouldn't