ANOTHER KIND OF DIAMOND by Gloria Obizu Page B

room unattended.
    That was kind of a trap right there! You should have guessed Carissa!
    Yeah! Like you could feel me right now! I really had my doubts about the ease with which the shit was lying there but I couldn’t resist. I didn’t wanna disappoint Silas for any reason whatsoever, so I went for it. I didn’t even care to count the money but I knew it was a whole lot, so I acted real stupid, emptied the entire dough in the wallet and left home immediately for Silas’s place. And like he knew what was coming for him, he was right there waiting for me. As soon as he noticed I had a lot of money on me, he snatched the bag off me my shoulder with such a greed I’ve never seen in anybody. And then, he just took the money, tossed me my bag and said “you’ve got to run home now kid” He has never called me kid before now but that was what he chose to call me right then. I kind of looked at him in a mean way and stormed out of his house. I never said a word to him.
    Isabel when I got home, hell broke loss. My Aunt was waiting for me in the living room ‘cause it was a set up just like I thought. A hidden camera had captured my every move and that was it. What more lies could I tell, eh?
    Wow! Sounds kind of scary!
    My Aunt was really mad with me and showed it. She wasn’t talking to me for days. I went back to Silas and told him what happened to see if he could return the money but he got real mean. “If you ever say anything to anybody about this, I’ll make sure I seek you out wherever you may be hiding and kill you and that old Aunt of yours too. And let me tell you some, I never want you near me again, bitch” That was what Silas told me.
    No! No! He did not. Isabel reacted.
    Wait! I haven’t finished. “You are a minor and should go be with guys your age ‘cause I never ever mess with minors. Now scram! Get out of my place ‘cause I got things to do, fool” And he chased me away like an animal or something.
    Are you kidding me or something? What did you do after that?
    My little heart was almost broken and I cried like I never did. My Aunt tried everything to find out what I did with the money but I never told her the truth. I simply said it was stolen from me by some guys on my way to school and good enough she didn’t go to the Police.
    See what I have been saying? Isabel said. If you give a guy that kind of a chance, he messes you up. They don’t really care about you if you don’t have what they need!
    I now know better! I guess you’ll be a fool first before you know how to act right! Carissa said.
    I still feel bad that you let the mother fucking Silas get away with all he did. Isabel said. You should have done something real bad to him to teach him a lesson.
    That sort of thing never crossed my mind! Besides, I didn’t want to do anything that will get back to my Aunt, so I played everything real cool and let it go. But I swore that kind of thing will never happen to me again and it has never happened again.
    I’m not sure about that though ‘cause you almost fucked up with Teri last night. You better start learning real fast or another Silas may not be too far away.
    No! Not again! Some day when I’m old enough to judge things for myself, I might decide to try one of those things my Aunt always talked about and see if there is anything anywhere like true love and all that. Like I said, I already figured my Aunt wasn’t wrong with all she did. After all she thought me how to cook those dishes I make and you’ll never stop eating.
    The cheese burger too? Isabel asked.
    Yeah!! Carissa confirmed. I used to watch her read all sorts of books, too. She could sew her own cloths and make all her beddings by herself. She did a lot of knitting and used to make very beautiful sweat shirts, hats, bags and all sorts. She made some beautiful patterns on Pillow cases that I couldn’t take my eyes away from. Is just that I wasn’t really cracking my brain then and trying to figure how she did all that