Category : Stories

Sub Category : Drama

My mother and I went to my mother's church for Vacation Bible Study. Real talk; I didn't even want to visit my mother's church after all these many years since I last remember going to this church. It had to be about fifteen to twenty years ago that I was last here at my mother's church. I was just 14 years old when I last was here with my mother. 
I remember it as if it were yesterday, the very last time that I had gone to my mother's church. This day is most memorable to me because what happened to me on this day. 
It was a cool, sunny Summer  morning and I was sleeping away peacefully. Suddenly, I was awakened by a rude awakening of a loud banging on my bedroom door. Half asleep still, I slowly get out of the bed and I put my Baby Doll Pink house coat on. As I'm tying up the belt of my house coat around my waste in a bow, I hear my mother's husband say very impatiently, "open up this door now, Lea before I break the door down!" 
"What the hell is wrong now at this time in the morning for heavens sake,   I'm thinking aloud?" As I'm opening up my bedroom door, my mother's husband had his foot partially raised in the air preparing to kick the door down just as he said he would do had I not opened up the door for him. I just couldn't make heads or tells just what was happening now at this time in the morning. 
My mother's husband, who I've always referred to as Billy Goat, was a very evil and mean man towards me. He always hated me and the feeling was mutual. I hated his evil ass too, very much so!
From the very day that my mother had married Billy Goat, he plotted to make my life a living hell. 
Oh did Billy Goat ever make my life miserable as all hell! My mom left the house to go to work at four o'clock in the morning Monday through Friday. Right after my mother would leave for work, Billy Goat would begin his evil plans he had especially for me. He would cut off the electric in the bathroom, living room, my bedroom, and the kitchen. This was done so I would have no heat to keep warm during the Fall and Winter months or no fans or air conditioning to keep cool during the Spring and Summer months.The electric was cut off in the kitchen and the bathrooms so that I could not eat or even drink a glass of water and so that I wouldn't be able to shower and brush my teeth  in the bathrooms either. Billy Goat went as far as placing pad locks on the refrigerator and cabinets in the kitchen to ensure that I wouldn't be able to eat anything at all! 
Just before my mother would return home from work at four pm, Billy Goat would turn back on the electric and take all the pad locks off all the cabinets and the refrigerator. He would have a seat to the kitchen table as if he never did anything at all. He threatened to kill my family had I said anything about what was happening to me so I remained silent!
Once Billy Goat saw that I finally opened up my bedroom door, he looked me in the eye with a very bitter and evil look on his face and said to me, "it's time for you to go, "Billy Goat  angrily muttered to me!"
My mother had an older daughter too who I will call Beetle Juice. Beetle Juice and Billy Goat were as thick as thieves and if you asked me, they were dumb and dumber too! My mother's daughter adored Billy Goat while I hated the ground he walked on. 
When Beetle Juice became pregnant with her baby girl, rumors spread around the church like wild fires that Billy Goat was the father of Beetle Juice's baby. Of course I wasn't a fly on the walls; however, I do know that Beetle Juice would wait until mom would leave the house for work and go get in the bed with Billy Goat on my mother's side of the bed. Disgusting and trifling but, who am I to judge, right?
It didn't take long for me to figure out what Billy Goat was talking about when he said that it was time for me to leave. He was kicking me out of the house on that very day! I was just a fourteen years old girl being put out on the streets! 
I procrastinated leaving until my mom came home from work thinking she would be able to put things right for me and therefore, I wouldn't have to leave at all. Real talk, my mother and Billy Goat argued and argued about it on and on for over half the night. When I overheard Billy Goat say that he was tired of dealing with me living in his house, I just could no longer hold back my words. "Mom and I have been tired of your old, evil, manipulative ass since day damn one, I angrily exclaimed!" All of a sudden, Billy Goat went behind the refrigerator and pulled out his sawed off shot gun and shot at me as I bolted out of the side kitchen door so fast until you would have thought that fire crackers had got to my ass! I ran and ran and I never returned to Billy Goat's house again since that unforgettable day! God looking after me protecting me was the only reason that I wasn't shot that night!
So why did I return after all these many years? After finding out years later that Beetle Juice also had plotted and planned with Billy Goat years before I was put out of the house, I knew what I had to do. I couldn't leave my mom to fight off both BillyGoat and Beetle Juice by herself! I love my mother with all my heart and I always have and I always will! 
It turns out that because of my close relationship with my mother, Billy Goat and Beetle Juice became very envious and jealous of me because my mother loved me too. To get even with me they plotted and planned my murder. By putting me out on the streets at just fourteen years old, they just knew that I would be eventually killed out on the streets all alone. Yes, I almost was killed a couple of times out on the streets alone! Although Billy Goat and Beetle Juice had plotted and planned to do me in and kill me, God had other plans for me and therefore, I am alive today!
I wish I could say more but, unfortunately, that would spoil my memoir that I wrote about the full story of my life. To Be Continued.......