*Whew!* It took me long enough, didn't it?
Here are two chapters for all you folks who were patient enough to put up with me! Let's take a look at Curtis, the reformed playboy…..
(One day, Curtis turns and goes to fill up his watering can. When he's done, he turns around and sees Lateesha standing next to his tomato garden. They just start at one another.)
(Then she smiles. He does too.)
Chapter Five: Choices and Actions
She'd said she saw me down there at the garden a few times but couldn't figure out just what I was doin' there. Until I put up the sign.
The two of us had a real long talk about what's been goin' on - and, rather tentatively, we decided to give our relationship another try.
And yeah, she thought I forgot about her thing for tomatoes!
A year later we decided to marry. I was over the moon! But I came crashing down when I found out that Royce's father, in one of his usual rages, managed to land Royce in the hospital. Of course the police got involved and now that whole family's split, the two sisters being sent to different parts of the city for all I knew.
When I found that out, I cried until my eyes hurt. I felt happy that I managed to prove myself to Lateesha but I also felt like in doing so, I failed Royce, who became something of a little brother to me...However, Lateesha started listing the things I HAD done for him and that had snapped me back because they were all GOOD things.
I still continue to grow tomatoes. I hope I can teach my son - also named Royce but who we can Roy - about it too.
I also want to teach him about actions and consequences, and that if you make an honest effort, you can rebuild. Just like I did with his mom.
I apologize for the shortness that's starting to come over the chapters. Judging by the way Curtis's chapter in the book ended, it seems that he and Lateesha managed to patch up their relationship and try again. Curtis's character development there was really sweet, I think :D
I also think he and Royce started, over the course of the chapter, becoming friends and because Royce is much younger, almost like siblings. So it would hit Curtis pretty hard if Royce's father put him in the hospital.
In our next chapter, we will look at Sae Young and see how she's faring!
Staaaay tuned...