Chapter 2
LiL Bruh's Thanksgiving Surprise
Lil Bruh and the Bruh Family join the neighborhood for trick-or-treating and the Halloween party at the Urban Town Community Center, but when Lil Bruh sees a strange shadow and a blinking light in an empty house along their route, he and Trixie sneak closer to investigate. Though the spooky shapes and creaky noises scare them, the mystery turns out to be friendly old Pawpaw Bruh, setting up a surprise for the children. The family laughs together, and Lil Bruh feels relieved and even more excited for the party.
The Bruh Family members all pull up to Granny Divine Bruh’s house for Thanksgiving dinner.
The kids greet Granny Bruh and quickly run to the backyard to play. My cousins,and I raced through the autumn leaves with Baby Bruh wobbling after us. We felt a cool breeze that carried the smell of Granny Bruh's divine sweet potato yams through the open kitchen window.
Lil Key "Duck, Duck, Goose!" and tagged Lil Bruh. He chased him around the circle of kids but Lil Key got to his spot too fast. "Bruh, I don't want to play this game any more." pouts Lil bruh as lil sis Fantasia ponders,
"What else can we play?"
Suddenly Trixie comes up with an idea "I know, how about red light green light?" "Ok" the kids agreed with cousin Trixie jumping around her braids and beads bounced.
Cousin Keke starts off the game "Red light" all the kids ran "Green light" they continued to play all the way to the end of the yard. Lil bruh and lil key both touch the fence at the same time then Trixie and Aaliyah. Lil key and lil bruh bicker back and forth who won; "Bruh, I won." "No, I won."
Cousin Keke "Let's be fair you both won."
"Yeah, come on guys good vibes only." Trixie voiced her opinion.
Suddenly, a huge shadow zipped over the fence. We all froze.
A giant turkey—with colorful feathers, a hat, pajamas and bunny slippers—landed right in the backyard like he was running the 100 meter hurdles. Its legs were skinny but strong, and it looked around as if it was lost.
Baby Bruh’s eyes opened big and wide.
Trixie screamed and grabbed my arm. “That’s the biggest turkey I ever saw!”
Keke, Fantasia and Aaliyah dashed for the porch.
“Run!” I yelled. We all stumbled into the kitchen, tripping over each other, yelling, “There’s a giant turkey in the backyard!”
Mommy Fefe bruh was making yams when she heard the kids and quickly peeked over her shoulder. Papa nearly dropped his glass of Cranberry lemonade. Uncle Key grinned, “A turkey, Bruh? Y’all have been watching too many cartoons.”
For real Bruh!” “It’s huge!”
Granny Divine wiped her hands on her apron and headed straight to the sliding glass door. “Let me see this giant turkey.”
We were all crowded behind her. Outside, the giant turkey stood sad and lonely in the autumn leaves.
Me, lil sis Fantasia, Lil Key and Trixie pressed our faces to the glass. “He looks sad.”
Uncle Eli leaned in "Maybe he's hungry."
“Maybe he wants to play,” Cousin Trixie stated then turned and asked her Mommy Roxie and Daddy Trill "can we play video games with Mr. Turkey?"
I felt a squeeze in my chest that made me brave. “Can we let him in? lil bruh asked his Mommy and Daddy. He could have Thanksgiving dinner with us.”
Cousin Lil Key nodded fast. “Yeah! We promise not to eat him.”
Lil sis Fantasia giggled. “We only eat fish, remember?”
The kids kept pressing their parents to let the giant Turkey in.
Mommy Fefe and Aunty Roxie traded a look. Granny Divine tapped her chin. Papa, hummed. “Well,” he chuckled, “Thanksgiving is for sharing.”
The adults decided to open the slide door. The giant Turkey looked hopeful.
“Greetings, friend,” Granny Bruh welcomes the giant Turkey.
“Would you like to join our family dinner?”
The turkey nodded his head, ruffled his feathers. “Thank you nice people." "Bruh, It talks" surprising the kids." "O, thank goodness because I was wondering if you could understand the words coming out of our mouths." Aunty Roxie replied with relief.
"Excuse me where are my manners, My name is Jive Turkey."
The Bruh family all say together "Greetings Jive Turkey!"
He continued explaining to the bruh family how he doesn't have anymore friends because they seem to disappear around this time of year.
Uncle Trill handed Jive Turkey a game controller and bruh bruh asked him if he wanted to play video games on the game console until dinner was ready.
Jive turkey grabbed the controller "Sure man, but it's been a while."
We laughed, patting his feathers as Jive Turkey wobbled on the couch.
Even Baby Bruh tried to hug his leg.
Mommy, Granny and Aunty finished making dinner, set the table and Finally, our special Thanksgiving dinner was ready.
Granny Divine bruh grabs everyone's attention, "Time to eat."
The family sat at the table "Who wants to bless the food?"
"I will said Jive Turkey" straight into prayer "I give thanks for the Bruh Family welcoming me into their home and breaking bread with me, bless this family and the food" Granny Divine let's out a soft cry
"That was beautiful and thoughtful."
"Bruh, you one of us now" lil bruh expressed with love for Jive Turkey. That night, Jive Turkey sat at the table, between me and Daddy Bruh. We all squeezed together, passing fish, yams, cornbread dressing, Mac n cheese, collard greens and rice and gravy in special bowls for our new friend. Uncle Key told funny turkey jokes. Papa told his war stories from when he was in the army and Daddy listened.
I looked around the table at all the happy faces. My heart felt as warm as Granny’s peach cobbler gobbler, with all my family and even surprise guest, thinking how every day is an adventure.
The Bruh family noticed Mr. Jive Turkey was gone. They looked around the whole house and the backyard but still no Jive Turkey he just disappeared. "Well kids looks like Mr. Jive Turkey went home already" "Aww" the kids whined.
So, the bruh family say their goodbyes to each other hop in their cars and roll out to their homes one block away from each other in their Urban Town neighborhood.
Lil bruh stared out the window hoping to see Jive Turkey again.
Out the blue He hears loud "GOBBLING" He looked closer out the window and out popped Mr. Jive Turkey's head from behind a tree, waving. "Bruh, I just saw Mr. Jive Turkey." and that made lil bruh happy again smiling all the way home.
That was lil bruh's Thanksgiving adventure.