I think these counts as my first day. I refused to talk to Tel. At least Nerelim wasn't mean, he just wanted food and the horse was... a horse, on two legs.
"What is your name?" I asked the horse one day. "Feophilus." he states. I look at Tel. "You hungry?"
"Bitch!"
"Starve."
Feophilus gave me a bucket of hearts and told me to cut it like an apple with a dull blade. I gave Nerelim slices of heart and couldn't really eat given I am a soul.
Though I am curious about the Harpers. I don't want to talk to fucking Tel. Davea is the mother of Jesus, Chava, and Mable. Mable gave birth to Shiloh and as stated in history. She had a twin sister; her real name was actually Delores Bessie Harper.
I almost want to ask Tel. I have decided against it.
On another note, I don't know what to do. "You wanna go play in the sandbox?" Which is completely destroyed, and I have no idea why I brought it up.
Nerelim shakes his head. I rub on his wings. "Why he gives you chicken wings like that." I'm really going to test this child. I bounce him, "Who's a baby bird?"
He doesn't do anything. "Who's a cute bird!"
Again, this teasing beneath him. "What are you doing?" asks Feophilus coming into the barn. I'm waiting for this thing to kill me. "Oh..." I thought this was a baby and I'm treating a baby like a baby despite looking like shame before a family.
"Do you know about the ghetto?"
"No." he sits on a hay bale. "Do you know Janna?"
"Yes." he blinks. "My name used to be Clayton. I don't have a body."
"What happened?" I asked. "She's avoiding me." says Tel.
"Me and Uma found out. What Janna was doing. I like you."
"Why?"
"You did what Alexis did. You burned it down. Janna went with Adonijah. HE calls the pedophile father. I can't believe it took so long for us to understand that."
Adonijah must have bodies to go to. "He does." says Clayton. "You know why names is fucked up?"
"No."
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it." he says. "We always read the bible just like Henri said. We were being saved. If you didn't know a verse, he would teach with the belt. He only raped Andre."
"Only his son."
Clayton sighed, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6."
"I'm sorry for your agony." I'm trying to keep my manners. "I wasn't raped. So, Janna fucked Raquel. Raquel is related to King Cottonmouth. And Andre would say, you should be thankful, and she hated it."
"Why?"
"Because Thankful is her sister. For years she just wanted to trade with her. She should be in this position. It's related..."
"What's related?"
"Andre was murdered by his own father after he got out of jail, he seemed sick. The man going through illness, bipolar from a terrible car accident."
"That's bullshit. Bipolar isn't going to make you kill somebody or rape your son."
"His wife thought he was misdiagnosed. Like when Shikki died, and the hospital didn't help. 'She isn't JFK or MLK', ain't that funny? If we got sick at the church, we prayed it off. He never went back to the hospital that diagnosed him."
I cut a slice of my heart and gave it to Nerelim. "Janna stays away from us. I don't how Raquel fell for that."
"Is she in love?"
"No. I remember when Alexis and I caught her giving Janna head in the barn."
I wish I had never heard that. "He was 11 but when he was alive. He had a charge on him. We assumed that Janna, Andre. Was raped by his dad to teach a lesson."
"What... what did his father go to jail for?"
"He had a stun gun and shocked a man to death at an ATM. Gata couldn't do anything."
"Why not? He could have made self-defense."
"No papers."
I roll my eyes. "So, Andre raped a child and his father found out?" I wave my hand. "Don't tell me, his daddy took the blame?"
"No. He just kept bullying Andre. I tried to overdose on him. Supposedly he was fucking his mama. The man is 36."
"Was he living with his daddy?" I cradle the baby. "At 18, yeah. But now he 36. Henri, his daddy found Gata Lyons and killed his wife and kid."
My heart can't take no more. "Because he went to jail?"
"Gata's son went missing and he and Shikki knew each other for a while. HE went back to Louisiana where they from."
"King Chere?"
"The family is connected. Like friends of another. Chere had a son, I'm sorry, HAS a son that also has company. So, two music geniuses."
"What's his name?"
"I hate to tell you. He don't talk to the family no more. Cut off."
"Damn." I take the baby to the manger and glance at Tel. "Bitch."
"Amen."