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October 22nd
Jackson, MS
At Kemari's house

Kemari Avani Pierson

"Who told you to get this heavy ass couch?" Pops huffed after he moved my new couch to the center of the room.

"You did?" I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Oh... well don't listen to me next time." He waved me off as I laughed at him.

"We need to talk baby." My dad sighed as he got a blue Gatorade out of my fridge.

My eyebrows furrowed at his seriousness. Pops is never serious so something must be wrong. "Is everything alright pops?"

"Yea, everything is alright on my end. I just need to talk to my baby girl." He sat on the couch and patted the spot next to him.

I plopped down next to him and rested my head on his shoulder. "You're scaring me, what's going on dad?"

Pops wrapped his arm around my shoulders and ran his fingers through my hair as I relaxed in his hold. My dad has always been my rock and safety net. He made me feel protected and loved, unlike my other parent.

"Your mom talked to me yesterday." I instantly froze at his words. "She wants to see you."

I honestly have no words. I haven't talked to my mother in 3 years. I don't want to ever talk to her again. My son died and where was she? The love of my life almost died and where was she? I was stuck in the hospital for a week after having life or death surgery, where was she?

"I told her no." Thank God. "The timing is very wrong and I know you're not comfortable around her. I know you never want to talk to her again but just hear her out this one time-"

"No" I shot up from the couch and walked to the kitchen.

"Please Avani-" My dad trailed behind me.

"No thank you" I shook my head.

"Avani please just listen to what she have to say. You don't even have to say anything, just listen." He pleaded.

"Pops I can't-"

"She wants to apologize." He cut me off. What is he talking about? "Your mother has realized all the wrongs she made and she's ready to say sorry."

"No" Fuck a sorry.

"Avani please. She was depressed for a long time baby and took it out on us. She wants to talk to you before she talks to the twins-"

"She's not going to talk to them" I cut him off this time. "I draw the line when it comes to them, she lost the right to talk them a long time ago."

I'll never forgive my mom for the things she's done to me and the twins. She treated us horribly. She used to beat the twins and say terrible, degrading things to us. My dad doesn't even know the majority of it. Luckily for me, I was strong enough to endure some of the pain but my siblings weren't. It still affects them till this day. I'll never be able to forgive her for the things that were said and done to my baby brother and sister.

My dad sighed and shook his head. "She told me about some of the things she's done to y'all and I just want to say I'm so fucking sorry Kemari." His voiced cracked before tears started pouring down.

A few tears escaped as I witnessed my dad cry for the first time in my life. Pops has always been good at hiding his emotions. Back when we were living rough, Pops made everything seem like we were okay. This man worked 12 hour shifts / 6 days a week for 3 years and he still managed to hide his sadness and tiredness. It was obvious that he wasn't truly happy but as long as his wife and kids were happy, then he didn't care about his happiness. Whatever we wanted, we got. Pops didn't care if he didn't make enough money, he always found a way to make us happy even though our happiness was fake half of the time.

I pulled him closer to comfort him. Pops tightened his grip on me and continued to cry silently onto my shoulder.

"I feel like a failure of a father for not seeing that things were wrong." He sniffed and lifted his head up. "I can't believe I didn't notice anything and I honestly don't know how I can fix this or make it better."

"Pops don't blame yourself, you can't fix something you didn't do"

"Kemari my family has broken apart and I just let it happen." He put his head in his hands as his elbows rest on his knees. "I could've did something"

There was nothing he could have done differently. My pops was the best dad in the world. He made us happy, he was there for us at all cost, that's all that matters.

"It's okay Pops" I rubbed his back. "Look at all of your kids now. Inari is in the top ten for her grade, Shamaree is in the top 30 and amazing at football, and I'm happy and successfully living on my own. You're a great dad and you did a good job pops. We hid the abuse from you because we didn't want you guys to divorce. Don't beat yourself up over this pops." I assured him. I don't want him to blame himself for my mom's doing.

"Kemari please understand that I'll go to war about y'all. I'll always, ALWAYS, put y'all first. You guys are my world and nothing will ever come before y'all. No matter what you say, I know I failed as a parent for being stupid and blind. I'll forever be sorry." He squeezed my hand.

"Plus my dumbass still ended up divorced so y'all went through all that for absolutely nothing" I laughed at him.

"Seriously, your mother doesn't come before y'all and will never. You can always come to me for literally anything. I love you baby girl and I'm sorry." He kissed my forehead.

"I love you too pops."

A week later

All of the family sat outside of Hinds County Jail waiting on Kyri to walk out. We're going to have a welcome home dinner later on for her at Sin and Zina's house. When we get to our apartment complex we'll give her time to herself to settle in and get comfortable then cook for her.

"I'm nervous" Tiz blurted out. "She was supposed to be out an hour ago. What if something happened?"

"Let's hope and pray that everything is alright" Zina lead us in a quick prayer over Kyri's safety and freedom.

"The fuck wrong with y'all?" A familiar voice asked from behind us.

"OH MY GOD" We all ran to Kyri.

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