A Writing Challenge.....Out of the Mouth of Babes

What's wrong?

"I think Mommy and Daddy are splitting up"

'How do you know?'

"Because"

'Because what?'

"Because they argue all the time. Slamming doors. Mommy is always cursing alot at Daddy. Daddy said she gonna end up a lonely old... I can't say that word. You know. It starts with B."

Ahhhhhhh. I think you right. My mom and her boyfriend use them words all the time. Then they be laughing the next day. I think they go in their room, and fight it out. I hear them cursing, and mom be screaming. I be scared to go to the door, and ask if everything is ok. They be in the bed, though. I hear the bed moving. She be calling him Daddy. And he ain't even her daddy.

'You don't know what they be doing? They be having sex. Yeah, girl. They be getting it on. Sometimes, my mother be watching movies at night. Watching people with no clothes on, doing the nasty. She be naked, too. I hear her talking, like she talking to somebody, and ain't nobody in the room with her.'

"Well my Mommy and Daddy don't sleep in the same room. I sleep with Mommy. She always tells me to come get in bed with me. She tells me before we go to sleep, to be careful that when I'm old enough to get married, and have a husband, to make sure he loves me, and only me. I always say, yes Mommy. She say Daddy loves us, but he got other people that he loves, too. I be wondering who she talking about."

She be talking about his "chick on the side" girl. He be stepping out on your moms. Does he have other kids? You got more sisters, or brothers? I wonder what they look like.

"I don't know. I'm afraid to ask Mommy. She always so mad when she talk to Daddy, or about him. I just like all the attention I be getting."

'I know that's right. When my mom don't have a man, she watches TV in bed with me. She cooks all my favorite foods.

"But does she be sad? My mommy is always sad, when she isn't trying to be nice to me. I think she misses Daddy. And won't admit it. I see her looking at his picture all the time. I wonder if they will break up, or not. I hope not."

Why?

"Because I don't wanna get used to another Daddy. I like the one I got."

Child, he will always be your Daddy. No one can take his place. You only have one. No matter what happens, that's the one thing that other woman he loves, can take away from you. You know that?

'Right'

"Yeah, right! High five...."