Chapter 4

Aunt Queen told Gerald that his mother was coming tomorrow.  She told him that his mother had gone to jail for child abandonment.  She also told him she had been out of jail for a year getting her life back together.  Then she told him to go out back to the garage and bring her old sewing machine to her she said it was under the green blanket.  What he found was not a sewing machine but, a shiny, red new ten-speed bicycle.

Chapter 5

He heard voices in the kitchen when he woke up the next morning.  Aunt Queen told Gerald to wake up and get ready.  He said “Tell her to go away.”  Gerald went into the kitchen and saw his mother, and near the kitchen window he saw a man with cowboy boots.  Then he heard a little voice say “Hi.”  The little girl was wearing was an oversized clothes and black tights.  When Aunt Queen asked the man to say grace he mumbled left the kitchen to go outside and smoke a death stick.  Monique, Gerald’s mother, said to Gerald that the little girl sitting beside him was his sister and Gerald said “I have no sister.”  Monique also said that the man that had left was her husband.

Chapter 6

In chapter 6 Aunt Queen is left with the little girl named Angel and Gerald.  Aunt Queen has a heart attack.