I was in the sitting area with Zoey-Rose. I was looking around and there was a brown closet in the room, I checked it and found some play blocks and gave them to her. We built a tower and I thought, build a tower and make paper people.
I asked someone in the bunker for sheets of paper and they graciously gave them to me. I cut out some stick figures and even made a paper gun.
"What is the house made of?" Zoey-Rose asked. "Blocks." I said obviously. Zoey built the tower or home. She had one house of blocks the house and a second block was the garage. "Can you cut out a car?"
"Sure." And I did. We had five paper people, a car, and block house. Mr. And Mrs. Bryant, Grandma Bryant, Riley Bryant and his sister Orla Bryant.
It was a Sunday and Grandma Bryant came home from church and went straight to the kitchen.
Grandma: Boy, I need to get in this kitchen bake my famous pie!
Mr: Mama, let me help you.
Grandma: Oh no, I know you can't handle a stove. This pie has to made with special hands
Ms: But mama B, the doctor said you should stay off your feet.
Grandma: Ain't nothing wrong with me!
So Grandma Bryant baked a pie (which was also made out of paper)
Grandma: Finally, my famous pie is done.
Orla: Grandma that smell fantastic!
Grandma: Thank you my darling daughter
Then suddenly (by Zoey-Rose's own words) a kangaroo broke into the house!
"What!" I laughed in my arm. "Every story has conflict!" she said. "But why a kangaroo?"
"They scary… you don't think they scary?"
"Ok, ok, let's go on." Continuing having fun…
Grandma (played by Zoey-Rose): Lord have mercy, it's Hopsin, dastardly's ways!
Mr: Get out of here you fucked up rabbit!
Hopsin: I've come for your famous pie Lidia Bryant!
Grandma: Hopsin, I'm sick and tired of you always trying to steal from me!
Hopsin: Well, you should know why…
"And then he takes off his sunglasses…" says Zoey-Rose.
"Then what?"
Hopsin: Grandma Bryant, I am… yo son you had with Hop-a-long James!
"Wait a minute, wait a minute…" I wave my hand. "You telling me, that Hopsin is a kangaroo and the son of Grandmama Bryant?"
Zoey-Rose laid on her arm, "Vampire shit…"
"You shouldn't be knowing anything a about that."
"Well… Sabian made one of those Devil Things. He got arrested in the middle of the night. He wasn't a bad one."
"Excuse me child…" voices an old man. "You mean mangles. Did it look sown together?"
"Yes mister…" she replies. "That's a mangle like God's angels in the bible. You ever read the bible?" Zoey-Rose shakes her head. "I like reading." he looks at me. "I see what you doing and it's holy then a motherfucker. Put some knowledge in that little girl."
Zoey-Rose looks at me, "What's a mangle…?" she whispers. "Um… I can't explain without the book." I tell her.
"You wanna barrow mine. It's got all the pages." states the old man.
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Eventually I went back to my room with Zoey-Rose trailing behind me. "Shouldn't you go back to your room?" I said. "But you said, you'd make sure I wasn't alone."
I sigh, "Ok. But if you get in trouble--"
"You'll be here all the time."
She's holding it against me and I don't blame her. I should keep my word. I close the door and she hops in my bed. "Now where do I sleep?"
"With me!" she makes a spot and pats it down. "I'm six five!"
"I'm 5'6… ish"
"It's finna be cramp…"
"Me and my brother always did this! Sometimes, he would sleep on the floor with a pillow." she says.
"I only got one. We'll make it work."
As night rolled around, the hospital bed was just enough, I slept with my arm over her. Something jostled me awake. I hear Zoey-Rose grunt and moaning.
A black eyed man with his maw open wide drooping like a dog. "What the fuck!" I toss Zoey-Rose to the other side and the black eyed man reaches for her. She lands on the floor and I grab him by the throat. There's a lamp to my side.
I toss the lamp over his head, he howls. I jump out of bed and rip the curtains off the window that doesn't existence. I run into the man with speed, knocking him down with the sheet over his face. "MOKIRI!"
"HUSH!" I get up and stoimp the nigga in the face. I stomp his throat and swing at his head. I'm only human… I can't--
"Butterfly…" a hoarde of butterflies cover the man with sheet. "Lift…" I hear Zoey-Rose. "Girl, say something strong…"
"I am… this is how I always do it."
The black eyed man is lifted from the ground still snarling, I take the opportunity and kick him in the kicks. He screams.
"Why are you doing it like this?"
"I'm not Sabian. I don't know how to kill…" she says under the bed. "If they off the ground they can't do anything in the air."
"Baby…" I huff. "Bats have wings."
"Oh…"
The butterflies have the man off ground. She comes out from under the bed, "I have a room with four other people," she counts on her hands. "Do Le, Atif, Cheng--I think that's her name. And two black girls."
"You said it was four…"
"Well.. the other one got ate…" she holds her own hands. "Are you ok?"
"He ripped out her stomach and threw her against the wall. The guards said, it just happens."
My first thought was how did he get in? I look at the door and it looks closed. I go up to it and its locked. "Do you think he know magic…?"
"With the word? I don't know what word let's you come through walls…"
"Really?" her eyes get big. "What if it's a type of magic that only god can use?"
"God?"
"Yeah… like my brother told me that there is a God and he has other Gods around him. Like that picture I like."
"What picture?"
"I think he said… the last supper?"
"Zoey, the last supper tells about Jesus dying."
"He's not dead!" she gets loud. "I haven't even met him."
"Well, Jesus is dead, It says so in the bible."
"Fuck it then…" she mopes.
"Why the violence?"
"That's my daddy!"