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 in agreement. Vanessa rested her head against the door and yawned.
"What does that mean?"
"Everything is everything? It means that it is what it is."
Vanessa giggled. "And what does that mean?"
Leelah smiled. "It means that what you see is what you get."
Vanessa smiled warmly. "But what does it mean?"
Her mother thought fo
