The next morning, the sisters wake to shouting. Supreme shoves Chanel in the back. The children start to cry as their father packs. Dasani’s stepsiblings—Nana and Khaliq—go quiet when this happens, as if their silence might erase them from view. They know that if Supreme leaves, he will take them along. The last time they left, Nana was just five years old, and Khaliq six. Supreme stops packing. “I’m staying,” he says.
