What Makes A Belt?

Mama grabbed Sarah in her arms and ran out of the room. The look on her face scared me. I pulled the covers up over my

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I get up from bed, grab some gray slacks and a pullover and head into the bathroom to change. Once I change I look at myself in the mirror examining my thin bone structure and the paleness of my skin. I put my dark brown hair into a ponytail while walking over to Flynn.

I haven’t been able to sleep for the past month. I hear my door creak and I look at the door. I see someone open the door very slowly before coming in. I look to see Maria tiptoeing into my room. “What are you doing?” I ask “You know your mom would kill me if she saw us.”

Kit sat in a corner chair, during one of her mother’s doctor appointments. Her mother was perched on the center exam table. Kit pointed out to the doctor that her mother was acting odd, belligerent, even though she was snippy before, her mother, was acting more childlike sticking out her tongue when the doctor tuned his back, becoming angry when she was asked questions. If the conversation wasn’t about her, she became angry and demanded they spoke only about her.

As she creeped into the room she side stepped the glass bottles on the floor and little packets of cigarettes that were thrown about and pills and packets of sugar that were scattered by the mirror that Mom put on the floor. Why did mom eat pancakes with powdered sugar without me? Did she finish breakfast? I didn’t think we even had powdered sugar left. Did she take her medicine yet? Mommy wasn’t herself without her special medicine.

Sometime, after a while, we came to a stop. We were in the railway car for about twenty-four hours. My legs were stiff from standing, but I wasn’t tired anymore. Luckily, I was able to fall asleep while standing. Daddy was right, I was able to rest. Others were not as fortunate as myself. My mother and siblings looked very tired. I looked to my mother, her face was overtaken by exhaustion, and her eyes were still red and puffy. I didn’t know my mother to be emotional, but right now that was all she

“You know you can call me mother if you would like, and I would love to tell you a tale.”

“Mom, have you eaten?” I would ask every morning and evening. The answer was always no. My heart hurt to watch her implosion but there was nothing I could do to help her beyond manage daily minutiae. My brother was always fed, the floors were clean, the laundry didn’t mold.

and brush my long brunette hair. I put some light makeup on and throw a pair of skinny jeans with a blue t-shirt.

I did my makeup on the bus, black eye shadow with mascara and eyeliner, then I outlined my lips in the new dark

I’m not averse to wearing makeup but I generally don’t. Tonight, I add some color to my cheeks and spend a good amount of time making up my eyes giving them a seductive smoky

When I heard the door slam, I opened my eyes to see my mother standing in front of me. My heart immediately dropped because I thought that she was going to say something about what Lester and I had done the other night.

The object that I chose to discuss is the Leather Belt. This object came from one of the most well-known Native American tribes in the United States, the Navajo. The Navajo tribe was, and currently is, located within the four states of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado - also known as the Four Corners of the southwestern United States. Many people in the region still speak the Navajo language, as well as English. The Leather Belt was originally made of leather and strapped with eight silver “conchas,” the Spanish word for shells.

My mom came home at 9:00 more tired than ever. She slipped into the house trying not to wake me. I could hear her, not only her trying to tiptoe and tidy up the house but