Page 4 of Halo: Tales Of A Hitman

“Sorry daddy!” Golden and Greek shouted their apology,

“I walked mommy!” I confessed.

“Snitch!” Greek yelled from his room.

“Mommy’s favorite!” Greek yelled from his.

It waws so funny when they would get mad at how honest I was with our parents. Especially mommy because me and her were so close.

Me and Golden shared a bathroom. Greek waws lucky, he had a bathroom in his room like our parents did. Since he was the oldest, he got that room. But mine had a door that opened and I could sit outside and see the block. Golden’s room had a closet bigger than me and Greek’s. He never let us forget it either.

“How was school, boys?” Mommy asked us.

Me and my brothers were now in the kitchen at the table waiting for our snack. Mommy put plates in front of us. There was a crunchy peanut butter sandwich on it, a fruit cup and Ritz peanut butter sandwich crackers. She gave us a Capri Sun juice with it too.

“Halo finally has a girlfriend.” Greek rushed and told.

“I would have said it loose lips Billy goat!” I called him.

Golden laughed and so did Greek.

“Beat you to it!” He rubbed it in.

“Don’t start y’all.” Mommy broke up our arguing. “And I keep telling y’all how you’re too young for girlfriends. You have girls who just so happen to be your friend.”

“Stop lying to them woman.” Daddy came into the kitchen.

He walked over to us and kissed us on top of our heads. Then he went by the stove where mommy was. He kissed her and squeezed her booty. She always hit his arm in a ‘girl’ way and reminded him that we could see.

“Malik, stop telling them they have girlfriends. They are only eight.”

“I made you my girlfriend when we were six and now look. You’re my wife and we have three handsome children.” He told her then he came and sat at the head of the kitchen table. “Only thing y’all are too young for with girls is what?”

“Getting naked.” We answered together.

He looked at mommy and smiled from being pleased with our answer. She laughed and shook her head.

“Why the hell did God allow me to have three ‘copy and paste’ Malik Stones I will never understand.” She put his sandwich in front of him.

“Because God is my nigga and he knew what we needed!” He joked and took a bite of his sandwich.

Me and my brothers loved it when it was just the five of us. Our family was almost perfect except for one thing.

“Boys. Me and mommy need to go out of town to Virgina. We’ll be gone for a week.” Mommy shared with us.”

We hated it when they went out of town but at least this was not far or long like many others in the past.

Dad wiped his mouth and said, “After we get back, we will be home for a while. But uh, we leave for London on December 12th.” Dad announced just as mommy stood on the side of him. “We won’t be back until the 27th.”

“The 27th! But that’s after Christmas!” Greek reacted first.

“London! That’s so far!” I expressed and I felt myself about to cry. But daddy was here and I did not want to be a crybaby.

“Please say Ms. Latimore is not watching us. She’s old, makes us eat vegetables and farts in daddy’s chair.” Golden expressed.

His truth had daddy cracking up. Mommy tried to hide her laugh, but she failed.

“Don’t be rude Golden and no, Ms. Latimore only watches you while we go to Virgina. Not while we’ll be in London. She only babysits when we stay in the country. Auntie Imani will be staying here.” Mommy explained.