Doughboy's mother aftermath.

Instead of bitching about her I would like to think that she showed great emotion after his death. Here's a scene I would have loved to have seen happen:

One day Brenda decides to take a drive over to Doughboy's grave with flowers and when she arrives she sets the flowers next to his tombstone. Tre is home for the summer and happens to stroll by Doughboy's grave as well and he sees Brenda and she begins talking to him. She starts confiding in Tre and starts talking regretfully. She starts off by saying; "you know Tre, I loved Darren, I really did, but I didn't always show it to him, in fact, I never showed it to him." "I feel partly responsible for the way he ended up because let's face it, as a kid I constantly berated him and made him feel worthless like he would never amount to anything while I always believed Ricky would amount to something." "Ever since Darren was murdered it started eating me up that I never showed him the love that he needed as a child, because if I had, he might not have been in and out of juvi all those times where he was likely acting out and screaming for my love. Do you remember Tre when we threw him that "coming home party" and I basically asked if you could rub off your positive influnce on him? Tre responds softly "yes." Brenda then says "well, being his mother, that's what I should have done and I failed him badly, it's just that I saw too much of his father in him that I was blind to how badly I resented him just because he had a few traits that his father had (not cleaning up, a little lazy) when those are traits that are normal for any child. His father was a thug and I always worried, without justification, that he would end up like his father just because he acted a little like him. And then one day, I did the worst thing a mother could ever do, I blamed him for Ricky's death, and I'm not talking indirectly, I literally thought he murdered his brother. It was a terrible thing to do but I did it and now Darren is gone as well. You know what hurts more than the guilt of how badly I treated him? Tre asks "what?" Brenda answers "now he's gone forever and I never got to make peace with him and I will have to live with that for the rest of my life." The only thing I can do is visit grave everyday and ask for forgiveness and hope he listens but if he doesn't that's fine with me because that's not something I have always done to him. I want to tell him I love him but to me it would feel empty so instead I just ask for forgiveness and one day hope I deserve it. The end.