DIARY OF A STUDENT – CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Dear diary,

I’m so happy to have found my mother. I still can’t really believe it. I always wondered where she was, how she was like, why she had left me, … And now I know it all. I have a mother. My kids have a granny. Tina got a mother in law. Carey is so happy, he says he has everything he had always wanted: a girlfriend, a mother, a happy sister (he really said that!!), me to have a beautiful girlfriend (WTF?!) and good grades at school. Queen is very good for him, I like her to. The only thing that bothers me is that we haven’t heard from Dad. If he isn’t back tomorrow we are going to the police. I hope he is all right.

The kids are great… Johnny is still smaller that Grace but he is growing and maybe he gets bigger than his sister one day. Johnny has really curly hair but Grace is more like her mother and has lighter and straighter hair. Johnny is really dark; he has a lot of SUPER curly hair… Like his father… God I love them so much but it’s so painful to know that Tina is their real mother and I’m the second one, you know? It will go better when they can speak and tell me that they love me and call me Mama B or something, that I know they really accept me as their mother. I maybe am being silly but… It just feels that way. I will always try to be the very best mother for them and I love them so much but it is so weird. They have African-American blood, Thad’s true… But I’m so scared they once will say: you’re not my mother, you can’t tell me what to do. Legally I’m their mother but they will maybe not see that…

I need to do a lot of homework so I’m off now

Bye

Bette

Bette lay her book down on her bed and tried to concentrate on her homework but she heard the door go open, Carey was home and Queen didn’t have a key… She got scared but then she felt so relieved when she heard…