On the Come Up
“The baby getting big inside, her days filled with clinic visits and Ida B. schooling. Chasing down Darius who was out more than in. She hadn’t told him about the tryouts. She’d kept quiet after she heard Teisha say to Nadette, Why they want to cast a girl who got a baby on the way. That baby doing flips and turns, bumping around in there. Sometimes she could see it, an imprint of a fist or a elbow, hard and bony, poking through her skin. But the movie people kept calling.
She’d practice the lin...es, trying them out different ways. Her mother looking at her outta her good eye. What you doing? Nothing, Ma. Nothing. Each time they call, she’d pick up the phone. She’d say, Did I get the part? Did I get it? But they’d say, We need to see you again.
So she went. Got herself up, put something nice on, took the train all the way into the city. She didn’t always have money for the fare so twice she stood by the emergency gate, waiting for someone to come off the platform. Slip through when no one was looking.MoreLess
She’d practice the lin...es, trying them out different ways. Her mother looking at her outta her good eye. What you doing? Nothing, Ma. Nothing. Each time they call, she’d pick up the phone. She’d say, Did I get the part? Did I get it? But they’d say, We need to see you again.
So she went. Got herself up, put something nice on, took the train all the way into the city. She didn’t always have money for the fare so twice she stood by the emergency gate, waiting for someone to come off the platform. Slip through when no one was looking.MoreLess
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