SHE WAS WORTH IT ALL 85 was waiting right there for her to enter so he could tell on Lacy for teasing him and about Shirley. Marcel was speaking a mile a minute so the Abba Zabba woman told him to wait until she got in and to slow down. He couldn’t slow down because he started crying all over again. The Abba Zabba woman said, “Marcel, wait! I have to go to the bath- room so come with me and tell me what you have to say.” “Uh, huh, uh, huh, uh, O, O, okay,” Marcel said in his crying voice with tears running down his face. As they headed for the bathroom, Randy and Horace began their quiet comments toward Lacy. They spoke softly because they knew the Abba Zabba woman would come out of the bathroom quite angry after listening to her most favorite children tell her how they were wronged. If she heard Randy and Hor- ace joking about the situation she would yell frantically at the top of her lungs, not at anyone in particular, but as a way to release her frustra- tions. Randy, Horace, and Marcel could never handle her indiscrimi- nate yelling without breaking down. As Randy and Horace told Lacy how he was going to get it, they could all hear the Abba Zabba woman sounding like a hissing snake as she peed while Marcel was trying to gain his composure and tell his version of the story a mile a minute. Alexandra and Odessa stood next to Lacy and told him to stay calm and not to worry because they would explain what happened and how wrong Shirley was. Just then, the toilet flushed. They never knew what the Abba Zabba woman’s mood would be when she came out from the bathroom after working all day, but silence was never good, especially after someone complained like Marcel did. “Where’s Lacy?” she asked, as she approached the living room from the hallway. “In here,” Odessa said, as she looked at Lacy with concern. As the Abba Zabba woman entered the living room, she saw Lacy and put her hands on her hips and before she could say anything, Odessa said, “We found out that Shirley encouraged Lacy to do what he did and she’s old enough to know better. Shirley said it’s all her fault and they were just playing.” The Abba Zabba woman said, “You call that playing?”
86 LACY WESTON Odessa said, “No, I don’t, but that’s what Shirley said they were doing and she made it into a game so Lacy thought he was playing a game.” “He thought rubbing Shirley’s ass was a game?” the Abba Zabba woman asked. Alexandra said, “Lacy likes playing games more than any of us, so if Shirley called it a game, I could see how Lacy would have thought it was a game.” “Is that what you thought Lacy? That it was a game?” the Abba Zabba woman asked him. “Yes,” Lacy said. The Abba Zabba woman said, “Since you thought it was a game, why don’t you tell me how the game was played?” Lacy looked at the sisters, and the Abba Zabba woman looked at him with her hands on her hips and said, “I didn’t ask you to look to them for answers, I asked you to tell me what happened.” Lacy fixed his glasses and as he was about to speak, Marcel said, “Yeah, tell her how you played with Shirley’s panties.” “Yeah,” Horace said, “we all want to hear this.” Randy just played with his yoyo while staring at Lacy with a huge grin on his face. “You boys hush up,” the Abba Zabba woman said, “now go on Lacy.” Lacy said, “Shirley and I were folding her clothes like we do when- ever I go to her house.” “What? Folding clothes at her house? You don’t fold clothes here, so what are you doing folding clothes at their house?” she asked. “Yes. That’s why I was doing.” Lacy said. “I know what you were doing dummy, I’m asking why you were do- ing it.” “Shirley washes clothes all the time and she asked if I wanted to help her fold them after they dried and I said sure.” Just then, the Abba Zabba woman let out a big HUUHH! “Go on,” she said. “When we folded the clothes, I saw her panties and…” “STOP!” she said. “How do you know what panties are?”
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