Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Page #4

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What is that? A nickname?

She got Down's syndr ome.

How you doing, Precious?

My grandmother Toosie

bring little Mongo over to our house

on days when the social worker come,

so it look like she live with us.

Answer the f***ing door.

Do you see what you did? God damn it.

Then my mother gets money

and the food stamps for me and Mongo.

Who is it?

It's Ms. Turner.

Social worker's here.

Why didn't you tell me that b*tch

was comi ng so f***ing early?

My f***ing wig . Come get my wig !

Come up!

Where's my lipstick?

Thank you, thank you.

-Get off of me.

-Leave that chi ld alone, please.

Mind your goddam n business.

-H i , Precious.

-Hey.

-Hello, Ms. Turner. How you doing?

-H i , Mary. How are you?

Please excuse that.

My sweet grandbaby just knocked it over.

please, have a seat. Excuse the mess.

-Thank you.

-Than ks.

How are you, Mary?

l'm doi ng really good, Ms. Turner.

Thank you .

When was the last time

you've taken her to the doctor?

Precious, when. . .

When did we take her? The baby?

Last month.

Yeah. . . On the 1 6th.

On the 1 6th . Yes, yes, ma'am.

Okay, and what did the doctor say?

They said

that she's progressing really good.

She's doing really good.

-That's good .

-Yes, ma'am.

And have you been looking for a job?

I have, Ms. Turner. l am.

But they've all been saying the same thing.

You know, they'll call me back.

They'll get back to me.

When did you go looking for the job?

l went last week

and l filled out several appl ications.

And they all said the same thing,

that they would call me.

Mommy!

No ! No!

ls that a new microwave oven?

A. . . A microwave?

No, ma'am.

We warm our things up in the oven.

-l see. lt's a toaster oven.

-Yes. Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

l wi ll be seeing and speaking with you

in a week or so.

-l n a week or so?

-Yes.

Okay, do you know what time you'll be. . .

You'l l be comi ng?

-I'l l let you know.

-Okay.

-l'l l let you know.

-Thank you so much.

Precious, any questions for me?

How are you, Precious?

l'm doi ng good . How you doing?

l'm good, thank you.

Ladies, thank you for your time.

Thank you so much, Ms. Turner.

Have a great day.

-And you . Bye, Sheila.

-Bye.

Come get this motherfucking . . . Get her.

Moving all around and sh*t

while l'm trying to talk to this b*tch.

Makes me f***ing itch.

She done threw her f***ing candy

on the floor.

Goddamn animal.

And now you gonna give it to her?

put the f***ing candy back on the floor!

Then you go and pick it u p

and let her have it.

You're so fucki ng stupid.

Just like her dumb ass.

That b*tch gon na come up i n here

and l gotta f***ing make pretend?

l'm so sick of it.

l don't know what the f***

you shaking your head for.

You didn't do no goddamn better.

You know what?

Let's tal k about your father.

Tel l me about your relationshi p with him.

I don't know much more

than you do, Ms. White.

lt's Ms. Weiss.

Talk to me about

the little you do know about your father,

'cause it is im portant,

whether you know it or not.

He give me this baby

and my one before it, but l. . .

What did you say he gave you?

-Noth ing .

-No, Claireece, you just said

your father gave you something.

-l heard you just say. . .

-You didn't hear sh*t.

-l heard you say your father. . .

-l ain't say nothing . I ai n't say sh*t like it.

-l don't care, honey.

-l d idn't say nothing like that.

-l need to know this.

-Let's move on .

l need to know th is to help you.

-B*tch , can we change the subject?

-Okay.

Well , l'll see you next time, then.

Or maybe you'll see someone else.

But you're gonna have to talk to somebody

if you want you r check, sweetie.

l see vampires, too.

They come at night.

They tel l me l'm one of them.

They say, ''Precious, you belong with us.''

And then they go downstai rs

th roug h the floor.

The people that live under us,

they is vampi res,

so that's where they should go.

They be so nasty, though,

leaving thei r di rty tampons and sh*t

in the garbage.

Don't even offer to take it out.

They got no f***ing home training.

l been going to the doctor, too. lt's nice.

Ms. Rain fall out when she fou nd out

l ain't never been to no doctor before.

Don't know how l had my first baby

on the kitchen floor

with my momma kicking me

u pside my head .

Them the kind of things

you're talking about

when you say,

say whatever come to my mind?

That's the end of them welfare checks.

l just couIdn 't lie no more.

I shouIdn't have said none of that.

Momma gonna kIll me.

Motherfuckers!

Are we done?

l'm not doing this with you today.

At night, we went out on a field trip.

These girls is crazy.

Ain 't nobody ever grabbed my hand

like that before.

...as a candidate

for the Democratic nomination

for the presIdency

of the United States of America.

...and by havIng destroyed it,

now we don 't know. . .

...and the testimony you're about to give

wilI be the truth, the whole truth. . .

I stiIl have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted

in the American dream.

l have a dream that one day

this nation will rise up

and live out the true meaning of. . .

l'm gonna teach my baby all of this.

''We hold these truths to be seIf-evident,

''that all men are created equal. ''

No fear. That's bullshit. That's bu llshit.

You mean , write a whole new one?

No, girl , if I need to explain myself to you. . .

-You'll figure it out.

-You think that l'm stupid?

Oh , my God . That l believe in you?

That l think you're incredible?

Yes, but l don't know what to do.

All rig ht, pull it together. Okay.

Who's next?

l'm happy to be writing.

-Go ahead , Rhonda.

-I'm happy to be In school, too.

Ms. Rain say we gonna write

every day in our notebook.

She gonna wrlte back to us every day, too.

''Yesterday l went to church for

the first time since l come to this country.

''l got all the way to Brooklyn.

''The church was up the block and around

the corner upon the 3 trai n .

''The preacher preached

two and a half hours

-''about Jehovah .

-Rhonda ! Rhonda!

''And how Lord Jesus, Son of God, Messiah,

Jehovah delivers.''

ls that a fairytale?

Sit down.

Did anybody do this assign ment?

Momma say this school ain 't sh*t.

She say you can 't Iearn nothing

writing in no book.

-This is a fai rytale called ''Enchanted.''

-She wrong about that. l is learning.

''Once upon a time, i n a faraway land,

''there lived a beautiful princess

named Joan n-a.

''She was very, very fly and extra, extra tall,

''and every single boy loved her,

big and small .

''Except for one idiot boy

who was so stupid and dumb.

''And out of all the cute boys who loved her,

he was the cutest one.''

-That's all l got so far.

-That's a good beginning.

Thinking about littIe Mongo, too. l miss her.

That's how you start a fairytale.

l'm happy my baby coming up.

I'm gonna read to this baby, too,

and hang coIors on its wall.

Listen, baby. Mother not dumb.

Mother Iove you. Listen.

''Once upon a time,

there was a mag ical princess

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