I Can Do Bad All By Myself Page #6

And they had tigers.

They had two tigers,

two bears, two lions.

You know, the male and the female.

Well, Siegfried and Roy was there,

and they had the two lions.

And them lions jumped out

and scratched Eve.

That's how Eve get them

two paws right there.

You ever see Eve with the paws?

She got two paws right there.

Read your Bible some time, honey.

Read your Bible.

This is a mess, April.

I mean, you don't care?

I don't know. I mean, Tanya...

...you know I can't help them kids.

I mean, I didn't ask for none of this.

I ain't never seen

a more selfish person in my life.

Okay, what do you

mean by that, Tanya?

I mean, April, you gotta care

about somebody other than yourself.

You don't know me, man.

-Oh, I know you.

-No, you don't.

-That's the problem.

-Tanya, look, l--

Look, I didn't come here

for that, okay?

Honey, I love you,

so I can say this, okay?

Girl, you always drunk. Always.

There's not a day

that I have not seen you drunk.

You just care about alcohol

and "Where's Randy?"

I mean, I'm sick of hearing that.

You got a bigger problem

on your hands right now.

If I wasn't your friend,

if I didn't love you...

...I wouldn't bring it to you real

just like I'm giving it to you right now.

You don't care about nobody

but yourself.

I mean, you sleeping

with a married man.

You know why? Because you don't

want him around all the time.

You got that big old house,

and you only want you in it.

You won't even give a bum

on the street 50 cents.

I mean, you don't sound shallow,

you just sound damn selfish.

Oh, so I'm just a bad person, huh?

I'm just evil.

You know what?

Ain't nothing wrong with what you do.

But as long as it works for you,

that's all good, right?

You need to get

your life together fast.

Ladies and gentlemen,

give it up for Miss Tanya.

Tanya.

Bravo.

Do it.

What's wrong with him?

His blood sugar went up,

so I gave him his insulin shot.

Don't worry about it, I got it.

He'll be fine.

I can't keep y'all.

You don't owe us nothing.

I think we can find you

a great foster home.

When I grow up,

I'm gonna be just like you.

Ain't gonna give a damn

about nobody but myself.

That's the only way to be.

What the hell do I look like...

...sitting over here

worried looking after him, huh?

I'm 16.

When my life gonna start, huh?

I'm not ready for kids, Jennifer,

I'm not. I can't do this.

Just leave us alone.

Just leave us alone, just....

You don't need to be

hearing about all this.

-Wow, you're up already. It's early.

-Yeah.

That's a good thing.

You're sleeping your life away.

-Am l?

-Yeah.

Hey, come with me.

I have something for you.

Where are we going?

It's a surprise. Come on.

I don't play that getting my hair wet,

so don't....

-You got a shower cap?

-No, sorry.

You didn't tell me

I was gonna be working out.

-Have fun.

-Why do you sleep all day, huh?

Why not?

Why not? I don't know,

and that's not an answer.

Well, since you're asking

all the questions...

...why did you hold me

the way you did...

...when I told you my mother died?

Because you needed to be held.

Yeah, but it was the way

you held me.

I mean, you held me like....

Like you care.

You don't know that I care by now?

Why?

You know,

if you have to ask that question...

...then you just don't know yourself,

I guess.

That's still not an answer.

April, I think that you are a very warm

and sensitive...

...and loving person.

And you are funny.

You are very funny.

I'm not that funny. Cut it out.

But you hide it.

You hide it all away.

I don't understand. You put up

this wall so that nobody sees it.

But I see through it.

I don't understand you and him.

-Talking about Randy again?

-Yes.

He's not so bad.

He's not so good either.

It doesn't make sense to me.

Do you love him?

He helps me out. He pays the bills.

That's not what I asked.

April, do you love him?

In a way.

I guess.

That is not love, April.

Loving a married man,

sharing him with his wife.

Love is not having somebody

to pay your bills.

It's not having to work all night.

That is not love.

Love is....

Love is being too tired

from the night before...

...to even go to work the next day.

Whatever.

April, we're all looking for love,

one way or another.

Love is having someone there

in the morning when you wake up...

...that is gonna be there with you,

thick or thin, right or wrong.

Let's go.

Oh, my God, I can't believe

I let you talk me into getting on a boat.

Be glad I didn't get my hair wet.

You know black girls don't like

getting their hair wet. Thirsty?

Yes, I would like something

to drink, please.

-Hi.

-Hi, kids.

-How was school?

-Fine.

-Good. You okay?

-Yeah.

He's all right.

Okay, good. I have a surprise

for everybody, okay?

Come on, April. I want you to see.

-You're gonna love it. Come on.

-You and your surprises.

Keep your eyes closed, okay?

It's a big surprise, come on.

Come on, Manny, Byron.

Come here.

Come here. Stand right here.

Jennifer, come on.

Right there.

-Okay, you ready?

-Yeah.

Open your eyes.

-ls this our room?

-This is your room.

-Thanks.

-No, it's not.

-But it looks like it's for us.

-lt is.

It's not.

Where you steal all this stuff from?

I did not steal any of this stuff.

The church gave it to me.

It was in the basement.

Right.

My bed.

-My bed.

-Yes, Byron, that's your bed.

I'd never heard him speak before.

My bed.

-My bed.

-This is the bomb, Sandino.

Why you gotta get their hopes up for?

You know she don't want us here.

Hey, that could change.

"Could" is not definite.

She definitely don't want us here.

Listen, how about you stay in this

room for as long as you're here, okay?

I made it for you.

Thank you, but we good.

We stay downstairs.

Come on, y'all.

Manny, Byron, I said come on.

-Do we have to go?

-Yes, we have to go.

Why didn't you tell me

you were doing this, huh?

-Now they're upset.

-What difference does it make, April?

You made it very clear to them

that you don't care.

April, come on, we're going.

What the hell are you knocking

on this door for, Mexico?

-I'm trying to wake up April.

-For what?

Because we're supposed

to be going to church.

Well, April ain't going to no church.

Hear this real good, houseboy.

Knock on this door again, I'm sending

you back to Mexico in a pine box.

Ain't a damn thing for you in here.

This morning, our subject comes

from the text found in Luke 15 and 8.

It reads, "Either what woman

having 10 pieces of silver...

...if she lose one,

does not light a candle...

...and sweep the house

and seek diligently until she find it?

And when she hath found it,

she calleth her friends and says:

'Come rejoice with me...

...for I have found the piece

which I had lost."'

-Where the hell are you going?

-To church.

Church? No, you ain't.

Randy, I'm going to church.

We can talk about this later.

April.

Hey, come here now.

I said you ain't going, all right?

-Who's gonna stop me?

-And what is all this?

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