So fake. And she hated auntie using her mama's pet name for her.

"Bye."

While they drove up the hill mama asked her if she was hungry and she said no and told her mother what they'd had for dinner. Mama bobbed her head to the music playing from the eight track; Voices Inside by Donnie Hathaway. It was old but mama said that Willie Weeks on bass was the very definition of soul.

"Everything is everything," she sang when the song was over and then nodded her head ...