Nameless

Coconut Scented Curls

She snorted as she ran her fingers through my sticky curls

 

I continuously sobbed,

 

“I’m sorry.”

 

She braided my hair,

 

her eyes squinting like a cat’s as she took in my pathetically drunken state.

 

She’s like mom.

 

She raked a comb through my hair, the bristles stretching my now coconut scented curls as she soothed my scalp with her hands.

 

I hate how morbidly sarcastic she can be.

 

She giggled drunkenly.

 

The water had seeped onto my bare skin and drenched my sports bra,

 

 but wasn’t nearly as bad as her t-shirt that turned a dark grey after hunching over the tub to wash the vomit from my hair.