“At least he’s raising us!” Spice slammed their bedroom door.
Logic didn’t even bother chastising his sisters because he was on the same tip, only he was ready to knock the birds out of Sage’s chest.
“Um, hi.” Scottie stepped from behind Logic. “I’m Sc-
“Aye, go get your shit and bounce,” Logic cut her off.
“I was only-
“I don’t care what you were doing. This is family shit and you ain’t family... bounce,” he reiterated.
“Wow.” Scottie clamped her mouth closed. “I’m not family, but good enough to be in here cooking, cleaning, and everything else.”
“I’m not about to repeat myself.” Logic pinched the bridge of his nose.
“Fine, Logic. You're such an asshole.” She stormed past him.
“He get it from his daddy,” Pepper chuckled. “Lionel was a mean old man.”
“And you can go sit outside.” Logic turned his attention to his deadbeat mother.
“Excuse me? I am your mot-
“Don’t even finish that statement.” He glared at her. Logic hadn’t seen their mother in almost eight years and there she was looking like she hadn’t aged a day. Like she didn’t have any worries. Like she wasn’t visiting kids that she had long ago abandoned.
“Bro, please. I told you she was coming,” Sage spoke up.
“And I told your hardheaded ass that I didn’t give a fuck.”
"Oh, he’s just mad because you’re handsome. You look just like your father.” Pepper waved her oldest son off.
“For real?” Sage grinned, basking in the compliment.
“Yes, and you have a lil mustache.” She touched the hairs that tinted his top lip. “You better not be doing grown people things to get that lil shadow.”
“Don’t say no shit like that to him,” Logic frowned.
“Yep, still got your daddy attitude,” Pepper chuckled. “Don’t be mad at him.” She put her arm around Sage. “I just missed yall, it’s been a minute.”
“A minute, huh?” Logic angrily repeated. “Eight years is a minute?”
“I came to visit that one time,” she tried to explain. “And I call a lot.”
Logic gave her a blank stare, and before he could tell Sage to take his mother outside, Scottie stormed from the back of the house carrying her overnight bag. She didn’t bother saying anything to the dismantled family. Scottie walked right out of the screen door and slammed it behind her.
“Your little girlfriend is mad,” Pepper said, breaking Logic's stare. He wanted to go snatch Scottie by the back of her shirt and make her close his door properly, but there was other shit to deal with.
“You gotta go too.” Logic glared at her.
“But bro,” Sage pouted.
“But what nigga? I told you she wasn’t welcome and you went behind my back and asked her to come here?!”
“She’s our mom.”
“And she fucking left you in a house that we couldn’t fucking afford,” Logic barked. “She left you without food, water, and all the other shit you needed to fucking survive.”
“Look, I’ll just leave.” Pepper backed up toward the door.
