October...

Not an Easter month at all...

Nor is this Friday going to be a good Friday!!!

In the midst of my cursing this idiot attendance substitute out, campus security had arrived and grabbed me...

Which was about the worse thing that could have happened...

So Mama's in the hospital...

And I am on the verge of expulsion!!!

When I get to my car I am too emotional to drive...

I hear a knock on the window of my car and as I wipe the tears from my eyes I see my friend and what looks like the entire campus security...

Wash asks me what is going on...

I tell him that mom is home and that I am trying to get to the hospital to see her...

He opened the driver side door and told me to move over, then he shouted, "You're going to the hospital and maybe some of these motherfuckers are too!!!"...

He slammed my car into gear and peeled out of the parking space scattering security in his wake...

When we arrived at the hospital Wash tells me to take my time, that he will be there for me and not to worry...

I reminded him, "She's dying on us Wash, there is no miracle drug they can give her..."

I invited him up to her room...

I could tell that he didn't want to go, but she had been a part of his life for as long as she had been in mine since our mothers were close friends...

Out of respect or maybe guilt, I'd like to think for the love that he had for the both of us he came up...

Mama was happy to see both of us but really upset that we left school...

So she made us go back to school...

I had to drive back...

Wash was crying as hard as I had been on the ride there...

When we got back to campus he told me to let him out at his car and to follow him home...

I did as he had asked and dropped him off, but I told him that I was going back to be with Mama...

I am glad to this day that I did...

Mama died later that day...

At 17, I lost the most important person in my life that day....

Still 40 years later...

She has proven to be irreplaceable...

And although she died, I, we have refused to let her go as just a memory...

We have celebrated her life throughout our lives...

And her plan...

Leaving us with a virtual baby to raise...

It worked!!!

Just as she knew it would...

We had no choice...

We stay together as a unit because of my little sister...

It took Dad, my two older sisters, me, the neighbors aunts and uncles to do what she would have done...

Me, my sisters and Daddy are still a tight family unit because of Mama's  foresight...

       Not Good Friday©
        EdwinBrown9®™
                 10/7/17