Free Drama Queen by La Jill Hunt

worried sick. I know you know I been calling because you got caller ID. Did you get the message I left for you last week? And don’t lie to me, either.”
    â€œYes, Ma. I told you, I’ve been working.” Kayla sighed. “Are you coming home this weekend?” her mother asked.
    â€œNo, Ma. You know my car has been acting up.” That was the truth. Her car had been acting crazy over the past couple of weeks.
    â€œI can send Anjelica to pick you up Friday night,” her mother offered.
    â€œNo! Do not do that. You know I don’t want her doing nothing for me, Mama,” Kayla told her mother.
    â€œKayla, that is your sister. Now I don’t know what has happened to cause you two to become so distant, but that fact will never change and don’t you forget it. You understand?”
    â€œYes, ma’am.” Kayla felt as if she was a little girl again the way her mother scolded her. She could not stop the tears from falling down her cheek.
    â€œKayla, what is wrong with you? Why are you crying, Baby? I know your feelings don’t get hurt that easily.”
    â€œI quit my job, Mama.” Kayla told her mother about the desk incident that had happened in her classroom.
    â€œYou’ll find something else, baby. What the Devil means for bad, God always means for good. That is with every one of your situations . There’s no point in crying about it. You know what you have to do. Get yourself together and get another job,” her mother told her. “Just know that you have our love and support.”
    When her mother said that, Kayla began to cry even harder.
    â€œKayla. Something else is going on. Tell me.” She could hear the worry in her mother’s voice and decided that telling her would be the right thing to do.
    â€œMama, I’m pregnant,” she said in barely a whisper.
    â€œOh, Kayla.” Her mother sighed.
    â€œMama, I am so sorry. I didn’t mean for it to happen, I mean, I swear, I . . .” Kayla could not go on. She was sobbing. She knew that her mother was devastated by this news. She had raised Kayla to be a respectable young woman and now look what had happened.
    â€œHow far along are you?” her mother asked her.
    â€œThree months. I’m due Thanksgiving Day.” Kayla sniffed.
    â€œSo, you are having it?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œGood, and the father? What does he have to say about this?” Her mother questioned. What little relief Kayla had begun to feel now left her. She began to whimper again.
    â€œThat’s what makes it even worse, Mama. I had a one-night stand and we really don’t even have a relationship. I am so sorry.”
    â€œStop apologizing, Kayla. You are a grown woman, not some fifteen-year-old high school student. Granted, I am sorry that this happened under the circumstances, but you’ll be okay.”
    â€œI just wanted you to be proud of me.”
    â€œYour father and I are proud of you, Kayla. Let me let you talk to him.”
    â€œMama, no. Please, not now. I can’t tell him now.”
    â€œKayla, he’s gonna find out sooner or later.”
    â€œI know. But I just need a little more time.”
    â€œSuit yourself. But please don’t dwell on us being mad or thinking that you are a failure because of this. We love you Kayla, no matter what.
    Do you need anything? You have enough money?”
    â€œYes, Mama.” Kayla laughed a little.
    â€œHow’re you feeling?”
    â€œBetter. I was really sick, but now I’m over it, I guess.”
    â€œI got a beautiful Mother’s Day bouquet from Geno. Have you talked to him lately?”
    Kayla could not believe he sent her mother flowers. “I saw him a few weeks ago,” Kayla told her. “I still love him, Mama.”
    â€œYou always will, baby. I wish I could tell you that your feelings for him will stop, but I can’t lie to you. I just don’t understand what