Happy Veteran's Day!! Yeah, I'm kind of late but better late than never. Anyway...
Today I wrote 1721 words. If the kids did not get the same off day I could have easily written over 3000, maybe. As of now, my total word count is 18577. I can't believe I am so close to the mid point but I guess that's about right. Almost time for the climax of the story. Got a couple ideas for it but I'm sure I will be able to choose by the time I make it to 25000.
Enough gibberish, give the people what they want--Excerpt please.
It was raining Jews and Gentiles Saturday morning. I didn’t even go to Jerry’s funeral last year, I just
couldn’t deal with all of the sad faces. So Mrs. Long’s funeral was just like I imagined Jerry’s had been, if not
worse. Jason asked if I wanted him to go
and I told him no. Mrs. Alma demanded to
go so I had no choice unless I wanted to start filing my own paperwork again.
We sat in the back of the church. I felt like running out the door but I held
my composure because I didn’t want to leave without checking on Danny.
When the service was over, it looked as if Cruela attempted
to put her arms around Danny, but he backed away. Black beard, Craig according to the obituary,
grabbed Danny’s arm and said something that didn’t sit very well with my young
friend. I wasn’t surprised to see Danny immediately walk my way.
“Thank
you for coming. I’ve got to get out of
here before someone else ends up in a box.”
“I
understand how you feel. Do you need
anything?”
“Just
do what I asked you to do. That’s all I
need.”
Danny hugged me and walked out. I caught Craig’s eye, he tapped his mom’s
shoulder and gestured towards me. Mrs.
Alma waved and I blew them a kiss. I
think I saw fire and smoke coming out of their heads. Mrs. Alma grabbed my hand, “Come on let’s get
out of here. White folks crazy.”
Unlike my secretary, I did not think all Caucasian people
were crazy. Mrs. Long was very sweet and Mr. Hammer senior seemed to have had a
good heart to look after his illegitimate child. And Johnny Depp was beautiful, but I digress.
When I dropped Mrs. Alma off she asked if I wanted to come
in for a while. I was tempted until saw
her daughter Paris walking down the porch steps. I had already said we would get together in a
couple of days to work on the bridesmaid dress; I still was psyching myself up
for that meeting.
“No
thanks. I think I need to be alone for a while.” She looked at me and I already
knew what that look meant before she said anything.
“It
wasn’t your fault. I know it’s hard but
you’re gonna have to move on.”
“Yes ma’am,
I’m trying to.”
“That
young man needs to step his game up.” I
burst out laughing.
My apartment was nice and cool when I walked in. I was happy that I had forgotten to turn the
air off before I left. I kicked off the
heels, and the other lady like garments followed.
I sat on the side of my bed, naked as the day I was born, and began to
cry. That was my second time crying in
two weeks and it was really getting on my nerves but I couldn’t make it
stop. I took a quick shower and put on a
muu muu. The green light on my phone
blinked continuously. Jason wanted to
know if I was okay. Aunt Essie wanted to know when I was coming to see her.
Mother wanted to know why I didn’t buy her anything at the mall. Melodye wanted to know why I never wanted to
go on shopping sprees when she was around.
Marcus had called to see what I needed help with. I laughed to myself. All those people were vying for my attention
but the one person I wanted was dead and gone and he got more attention than
any of them. I wondered if I needed to
see a therapist.
“Ha,
that’s for crazy folks,” I said heading to the fridge to see what the drink of
the night would be. I chose the oldie
but goodie—Crown and Coke.
I didn’t feel like cooking so I made a bologna sandwich with
two slices of meat, mustard, lettuce, tomato and a few slices of pickle. I poured myself a big cup of water as well. Since I planned to go to bed soon, I took my
goodies to my room and put them on the night stand. After a couple of hours of
eating, drinking and watching the Oxygen channel I was too through.
No headache Sunday morning but I definitely had a crick in
my neck from sleeping sitting up instead of lying down like I had some
sense. I had forgotten to call everyone
back but Mrs. Alma called before I could decide who to contact first.
“I was
getting ready for church so I decided that I would check on the sick and
shut-in.”
“I’m
good, thanks for caring.”
“I was
gonna ask have you been drinking but I don’t believe in asking stupid
questions. Have a blessed day.”
She hung up before I could respond, so I texted Jason to let him know I was fine and
that he could come over whenever he got time.
Then I texted Melodye and told her the shopping was spur of the moment
but that we could hang out whenever she wanted.
She could even bring her boo. I
also told her to remind Mother that I had bought her all kind of stuff for
Mother’s Day. Jason texted saying that
he would be over in an hour, so I knew I didn’t have long to get rid of my
funkiness. I decided that I would wait
until Monday to call Marcus back. I
would see if Jason wanted to meet my aunt before I called Aunt Essie.
I was squeaky clean when Jason knocked on the door. He looked at me up and down and smiled. I guess he liked the outfit that I had
on. With everything that had been going
on I had just gotten around to wearing some of the things Harmonye helped me
pick out.
“You
look good.”
“Thanks. What did you want to do today?”
“No
plans, do you have something in mind?”
“Would
you like to meet my aunt? If it weren’t
for her we would have never met.”
“I
would love to meet her but does this mean…”
“One
day at a time sweetie.”
“Yes,
ma’am,” he saluted me. I laughed and
punched him in the shoulder and he howled like a sick dog. One of my neighbors looked out to see what
was going on. I waved at her before
Jason and I headed down the stairs.
I called Auntie Essie before we headed her way just in case
she was gone.
“Hello
darling. It’s about time I heard from
you. How is everything?”
“I’m
good Professor. If you’re up for some
company, I’m headed your way.”
“You’re
always welcomed darling, you know that.”
“There’s
someone I want you to meet. You kind of
fixed us up.”
“Fixed
you up? Darling you know I detest blind dates and I would never set you up on
one.”
“He was
my computer repair guy. He’s awesome.”
“I
would imagine he would have to be to have gotten your attention. Well, he’s quite welcomed as well darling.”
“See
you in a few.”
I put up a thumbs up to Jason and he smiled, then he grabbed
my hand and put one of my fingers in his mouth. “Tasty.”
“Boy
don’t you start nothing.”
