After contacting his grandmother and Toure’, Steve’s next call was to his mother.
KiKi is in the small storeroom of the Laurent Department store. It is one of the few rooms pretty close to being finished. She can hear the contruction going on around her outside of the storeroom. She hears her phone ring! Here ringtone is I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan. KiKi thinks to herself-It’s my first call on my new Smartphone!
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Talking to herself--Oh boy, now how do I get whose calling to appear? That right I push here. Oh, it is Euphea! She puts him on speaker.
Steven: Hi mom! Guest what! I got a promotion!
KiKi : Oh honey, that is so nice! I’m so proud of you! Knock, Knock, knock! Just then there was a knock at the door. Come in!
It is Cabe with a delivery. Cabe: Hello Mrs. Laurent! You have a package.
KiKi talks into the phone… Honey can you hold on? Yes! Ok, I need to sign for some packages.
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KiKi: Hi Cabe. How are you!
Cabe: Just fine and really busy now that so many new businesses are opening up! The store looks like it is coming along!
KiKi: Thanks! So, I sign on the board and then the machine.
Cabe: Yes, that is right. I put the package on the chair to make it easier for you.
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Steven: Any packages for the Gallery?
Cabe: No, not today!
Steven: Alright, take it light man!
Cabe: You too!
Steven: Any packages for the Gallery?
Cabe: No, not today!
Steven: Alright, take it light man!
Cabe: You too!
KiKi: Thanks Cabe! I’m expecting some large packages to come every Friday for the next 6 Fridays. It is diplay items. They are going to be heavy so my son will be around to help you with them! She makes sure Steven heard that. Right Steven! Steven: Right mom! Cabe just smiles, says goodbye and leaves.
KiKi returns to her phone conversation. KiKi: Hi, I’m back. So what will you be doing?
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KiKi returns to her phone conversation.KiKi: Hi, I’m back. So what will you be doing?
Steven: I will have my own show! I’ll get to pick my own team! I will be doing interviews, expanded reports and new pieces. I might do a little traveling.
Wow! That sounds really wonderful! As KiKi said it, she realized that he didn’t have the wardrobe he needed for this job. He did need a dressier wardrobe than the one he had in college. Things were changing for her son. Hmmm! She and Camille had given him dress shirts for graduation last year and a suit at Christmas but even working part-time at the station he needed more things. I guess you have to stop wearing your father’s shirts. There is a lot of sharing that goes on in the Laurent household but that is another story!
Steven realized that he would need more things to wear on camera, in meetings and maybe at the gallery. He had spent most of his reserves on getting the Gallery ready. Hmmm!
KiKi : Come by the store. I am just unpacking the things for the men’s department. We can work out a discount and layaway for airtime promotion of the store.
Steven smiled. He would never think about taking a handout. Laurent’s don’t do that! It was his mom business but it is a business and he understood that. A discount and layaway he could do.
KiKi: I be in the storeroom all day, stop by and we can see what we can do.
Steven: Thanks mom!
KiKi: You are welcome honey!
