With these bags on my shoulders - Sparkle Riley - Bog

"What's the point of writing your number down for them? Face timing and accepting their friend requests Every last one of them is a dog. All guys lie and cheat!" according to Amarylis Scott. Miss. Bad Attitude with a chip on her shoulder all the way from South Carolina. " You got to leave them before they leave you. Just get what you need from them and leave because that's what I do! All I ever wanted was to be treated like a princess but instead I was always the Side Chick! Sis, I am tied of the games they play and waiting by the phone. I been traumatized, victimized and depressed my whole life and I am only twenty-seven years old. I am isolated and I don't have no homegirls or nobody! My Mama Birdie Scott abandoned me and my Grandma Estelle committed suicide. I came all the way from South Carolina to Baltimore City to start a new life. I've been cheated on, stood up at the alter and played like a dummy. I got evicted and kicked to the curb! I never got an apology, a reason or an explanation. Everybody I loved, ain't love me. They just left me standing there like a fool. But uh, it's all good though. All I got at the end of the day are these bags on my shoulder. That's why I'm going to take mines regardless of who don't like it. If you get your little feelings hurt while dealing with me, you better suck it up. Boy bye" said Amarylis Scott. But when Amarylis arrives in East Baltimore, her life changed. Her first stop was Baltimore Street, in a section known as the" Block". One encounter with a sexy, Street Hustler was all it took. Dante Jones with his black and white bandana and his gold teeth. Amarylis came to see the big lights in the big city but experienced something deeper. She had it all planned out on a sheet of paper. But things happen and that's just life. Relationships will come and go. You'll get caught up in stuff that you had no business doing. Quit the job before they fire you if it's stressing you out, Sis! You just got to pack your bags and toss them over your shoulder and keep it moving. It won't be your first or your last. I can promise you that!