New York

By Dais’jah McCurty
Grade 5
IDDS

“Are we there yet?”

When they arrived in Chicago they got a room.  Jasmine and her mom were sitting their bag down.  Jasmine yelled, “Spiders!”  She was panicking so much that the neighbors in the room next door called downstairs. They said that there was screaming next door.  The manager said they had to leave.  The mom was so sleepy they slept in the Pontiac .  The baby Tamel kept on crying so the mom couldn’t sleep.  She had started the car up and then drove down the block to the Grand Lodge.  They had wanted too much for the room.  The mom said, “Did you lose your mind?  You want 500.00 for the room?”

She had calmed down.  “Well, I will give you half today and half tomorrow.”  Well, they got in bed.  Tamel kept crying.  “Shh. Shh.” The mom woke up, made a bottle, changed his diaper and then wrapped him up in a blanket.  Soon it was 9:28 AM.  The maid came knocking on the door.  The mom said we have to get back on the road.  They were two hours from New York .

The went to see their family they haven’t seen them in a long time.  Well, as they was on the road they stopped because Jazmine had to use the bathroom.  The toilets was nasty.  They had doogie all on the toilet.  

I have been divorced for one year, three months, two days and five hours.  I have two kids by my husband, Chris.  We are not married no more.  Well, I was on my way to New York to see my little sister Christal’s wedding.  It’s me and my kids on our way to New York .  My daughter Jazmine keeps asking are we there yet.

“Mom, can we drive fast?  I want to see my family,” said Jazmine.  “If we drive faster than it won’t take us eight hours, it will be six and a half hours.”

I could buy me and my kids some outfits and new shoes and go to the shop.  Then Jazmine said flies was flying in the toilet. 

They arrived in New York .  The sister Christal was getting married.  The mom was married for three years and then she got a divorce.  She had been alone for one year now. 

After the wedding she had took family pictures.  They danced and had cake, then the limo came and pick them up and took them and the two twins and Porsha to the hotel. 

Two years later Christal and Tiffany’s mom died.  They didn’t have no money so they had to call a place called Saint Mary’s Place.  She had a check.  The check had $1500.00 on it.  They had said that was good enough for some money.  Her granddaughter Jazmine and Porsha cried and said, “Why Grandma?  Why not me?”

Porsha said, “Grandma was all my mom had.  She can’t do this all by herself.  When I was little, I used to walk to the corner store so I could get her some candy.  I was about three years old, going to the store.  I had disobeyed my mom, auntie and the doctor.  The said Grandma can’t have no candy. Now that I’m old, she died because I stopped going to the store for her.  It’s all my fault that she died, Lord, please bring my grandma back to life.”

She heard a person say “Sorry, sorry, young lady.  I can’t do that.”

She said, “Are you talking to me?  You can bring my grandma back life?”

She prayed everyday.

The same sound of the person said, “I can’t help you.”

She cried and cried.  She didn’t want to eat candy or her grandma’s favorite food. 

Three and a half years later, she got back with her husband and had a child and moved to Atlanta .  She had a little boy.  She said that she wasn’t going out of town with this baby.  She knew what happened last time.