Elenor gets married again....Part 7

The day of his release date was the day that they were planning on getting married but there was a mix up in the paperwork and he wouldn't be released for another week.  They did not want to wait so they were allowed to go ahead and get married one the day that they had originally planned.  They were married while he was still a prisoner but the day that he got out they celebrated like they were rock stars.  Reece couldn't leave Oklahoma for two years so they found a place in Oklahoma.

Elenor was not going to quit her job at one of the biggest aircraft companies in Kansas, so she visited Reece every weekend.  When I was not with my big sister Adrian I was with then in Oklahoma.  We started being in Oklahoma so much that I was getting to know my way around in Oklahoma.  I hung out with my cousin Keyana a lot and she started introducing me to everybody and I started meeting friends on my own.  I was having so much fun that one day I just decided that I was not going back to Kansas.  Reece was okay with me staying but Elenor thought that she should be there to supervise me.  Reece convinced her to leave me there when I was kicking it with Keyana.

The next day when I came back to the house she told me that I was going to stay in Oklahoma, but if I wanted to come back to Kansas she would come and get me.

Here are your discussion questions.  Thank you for your participation and your constant support.  Please feel free to leave your comments and your stories.

Are you still interested in reading?
Have you ever felt like your mother brought someone home that you didn't like? If yes, what did you do about it and how did you feel about it?
Is there anything that you would have changed? Why?

What you will do for a Rum Cake......Part 6

Shortly after that Reece had gotten himself in some trouble when he went home to visit and had been sentenced to five years in prison.  For the next five years we traveled from one side of Oklahoma to the other going to see Reece.  Elenor loved that man and no bars or space would keep her from him.  Reece called and said that he wanted a Rum cake because he had been craving it so my mother called Sheila, who makes the best Rum cake in America, to have her make him a Rum cake.  Sheila loved to make her famous Rum cake and since she knew the situation she decided she was going to put extra rum in it.  Elenor went to pick up the cake before she went to see Reece.  When she got there Elenor had a clear cake container to put the cake in.  Elenor laughed when she saw the cake.  "What are you laughing about girl?  What's wrong with the cake?"  "Nothing although it's strong as hell, I could smell the cake before I even got to the cake.  Good thing I brought this clear cake pan."  The laughed and prepared the cake to go.  Elenor got in the car and said to me, "I surely hope they don't pull off the lid."  We laughed and joked about it for a long time.  We drove to the prison and I kept her company all the way.  When we got there I got my sisters out of the car and helped Elenor get the food that we had prepared for the day.  I carried the basket with the food in it and Elenor carried the cake.  Nervously we walked in the prison.  Having to go through the check point we were starting to shake a little bit but we kept it calm.  Even though Elenor wants to be hood she is scary.  It was our turn to go through the check point; we laid the food on the counter to be searched.  The guard talked to us and told us what we could and couldn't take inside the prison.  We were allowed to take all the silverware in except for the plastic butter knife for the cake.  He got to the cake and examined it and said "glad that you have a clear lid on it that makes it easier for us to examine it without having to open it up."  When he said that, we looked at each other and did a hidden chuckle.  he let us go through and told us what table to go to and the prisoner will be there shortly.  Reece had already seen us coming in because he was sitting in the yard waiting just so he could see us when we got there.  When he came to the table the first thing he asked was, "did you have any problems getting my cake through?"  We started laughing and told him what happened he though that was the funniest thing.  We laughed, joked and ate well.  Even though it was a horrible place to be, we still made the best out of it.

Here are your discussion questions.  Please feel free to leave your comments and answer the question.  Your participation and your constant support is greatly appreciated.

Are you still interested in reading? Why?
Have you ever done anything crazy for someone in jail? If so please explain.
Would you change anything or do anything differently?
Is the character explained well in this blog? 

Bringin home Reece......Part 5

A month later Elenor came to pick us up from my grandparent's house and he was with her.  She brought him in for all of us to meet him.  The first time I saw him I thought he looked like a gremlin.  He was dark skinned, six feet tall, pointy ears and face sunk in like a gremlin but he made her happy.  His name was Reece.

For months Reece would come to see her or she would go to Oklahoma to see him but then she decided to move further south and he moved in with us.  Reece liked to drink, smoke weed and listen to his old school records.  He was a night owl so we changed our life style to accommodate his.  Reece took good care of us.  Being from a big family and having to help raise his brothers and sisters he knew how to do a lot of things.  Elenor didn't like to do much cooking plus she was really never home long enough to prepare us a hot meal, but Reece came in and made sure that we could eat good and have nice things like all the other kids.  Every Sunday after cooking us a big Sunday dinner he would take us to the ice cream parlor for ice cream.  We would play football and laugh at the other patrons in the store.  We would have so much fun.  We really liked Reece but then when he would drink he would turn into his evil twin Lester, and we would be so scared.  Elenor always said it was that Gemini coming out.

Everyone has to have a ride or die friend.....part 4

Saturday evening Elenor was with her friend Faleene.  Faleene had three kids but all her kids were older.  They use to babysit us when my mother didn't want us to be at home by ourselves.  Faleene was her crazy blond friend.  She was black but she had blond hair and loved to party.  Faleene's brother had a band name Confusion.  Where ever the band was they were right there no matter how far or close they were.  They were a good band and if you ever needed a band for a wedding or a party they were the band to have. 

Falene and Elenor were running buddies for sure they went to every hot party, every club and every concert.  They did everything together they even chased men together; they spied on their husbands and boyfriends together.  When you seen one you seen the other.  My mother always blamed Faleene for getting her in trouble.  They would laugh and joke and I would always hear my mother say "if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have gotten in this mess."  Midnight on a Wednesday night my mother and Faleene were talking on the phone and she had gotten wind that Elenor's male friend Terry was cheating and he had just been spotted going in the woman's house that lived two houses down from Faleene's sister.  Faleene could always talk Elenor into doing anything.  At first Elenor wasn't sure if she should go, but then she said "yeah girl come get me and let's ride and catch a nigga in the act."  They laughed and talked some more and then hung up the phone.  Fifteen minutes later Faleene was at Elenor's picking her up so they could ride out.  Elenor didn't want to leave us at home so she decided to wake us up so that we could go with them.  My sisters were sleep and I couldn't go back to sleep because I was so angry at her, that she would wake us up in the middle of the night to go see what some nigga was doing.  They sat down the street for hours and watched the house he was seen going in, with binoculars that Faleene always kept in her glove compartment.  No matter what they were doing or where they were at they were always ready for whatever.  About three or four o'clock in the morning they seen Terry come out the house and kiss the lady he was with that night.  Faleene was taking pictures and Elenor decided to walk up on him to let him know he was busted.  While she was walking down the street to where Terry had parked his car a thought crossed her mind.  Elenor seen the brick lying on the curb, she picked it up and when she reached the car she threw the brick through his windshield.  When she saw the window break she turned away and started walking back to the car.  Terry heard the loud bang and went to the street to see what the loud bang that he had just heard was.  At first he thought that someone had just had a car accident and then he thought well maybe someone was drunk and ran into the stop sign again.  In the hood that kind of stuff happened all the time along with all the gun shots.  Terry looked down the street and seen that he had a brick in his windshield.  He started running down the street to his car and by the time he got to his car Elenor was getting in the car.  They drove passed him waved and laughed.  Elenor had her window down and while they were driving by she laughed and said "ask the bitch you were just with to get your window fixed."  Elenor and Faleene laughed so hard at the look on his face when he realized he was busted.  They drove off laughing like they had just done their job.  They laughed and talked about what had just gone down all the way home.

Here is part 4 discussion questions.  Thank you for your participation and support.  Please leave your comments it is greatly appreciated.

Do you have that friend that is down with whatever? Please feel free to leave your story.
Do you think a mother should chase after a man when she has kids? Why?
Are you still interested in reading?
Is there anything that you would do differently? Explain your answer.

Elenor got her groove back Part 3

We moved to the South side of town and got out of the hood.  Even though Elenor grew up in the heart of the hood she was always boogie so she moved us away from all the problems of the hood, thinking that would protect us.  I was old enough to watch over my sisters so Elenor went out and partied a lot.  She felt like she was married for so long and her parents sheltered her, she never just really had the chance to party.  She decided that she would take this time to get it all out of her system.  Who would have known that it would turn out to be a Thursday-Tuesday thang?

On Thursday and Friday she would be at Mr. B's. Saturday she was at the Legion.  Sunday she was wherever the band was playing and on Monday she was wherever they were having blue Monday.  Every now a d then her and her girlfriend would change up or take a night off to do some spying.  Now on Saturday during the day she would go to bingo with her friend Sheila.

Here are your discussion questions for part 3.  Thank you for your participation and support.  Hope you have been enjoying the blogs that have been posted.

Are you still interested in reading? Why?
Do you feel like you are getting to know who Elenor is?
After you got a divorce would you start to party and let your hair down or would you do something different?  If something different what would you do?

When the abuse starts part 2

Terrell is dark and six foot tall.  Back in the day he was the man.  He worked inside the jail with all the prisoners.  Even though people knew that he worked for the Sheriff Department he was well respected by everyone even the prisoners.  He was well known in the town.

Terrell was much in love with Elenor and then one day he just decided that she wasn't enough for him so he started drinking more and messing with all kinds of women.  he started cheating and staying out all night.  One night he came home drunk and decided to beat Elenor while my sisters and I were sleep.

About four o'clock in the morning he came home drunk and woke Elenor up accusing her of cheating.  She had just got home about an hour before he did, after a night on the town with her girlfriends.  I really don't know why he was so angry.  I ran to the door because all the screaming woke me up and I could hear Elenor saying "lower your voice before you wake up the kids."  "Fuck you bitch, you better tell me who that nigga was I seen you dancing with at the club."  "I really don't know who that was, he asked me to dance and I said yes.  I don't know why you're so angry when you've been seen riding that bitch around town in our car," she yelled.  he didn't like her answer and he slapped her.  Elenor fell to the floor and yelled, "you black bastard who do you think you're hitting on?"  he slapped her again and again.  I guess that was not enough for him because he fell on top of her and started punching her and yelling at her, "you do what I tell you to do and you don't give me any lip." "Ok," she said crying softly.

The next morning she woke up and cleaned up the house, fixed us breakfast, got dressed and fixed her makeup to hide the bruises.  She woke us up to have breakfast and to get ready for the day.

Here is your discussion question for part 2.  Thank you for your participation and your support.

Have you ever been abused by someone that you loved? Did you stay or did you go?
Would you stay with someone that would beat on you? Why?
Are you still interested in reading?
Is the characters explained well?

Who is Clarence?

Clarence, who is my biological father, is 6 ft 3 dark and very muscular.  He has a great personality and loves to party.  In the seventies he used to be a DJ and of course a ladies man.  He was dating my mother and my brother's mother Dolly at the same time.  They were pregnant at the same time which means that my oldest brother and I are six months apart.

I always felt like Clarence was the reason why Elenor hated me so much.  She will never admit to that not even to this day.  My father is very classy and loves to showboat.  I think if Clarence was not such a player and he married Elenor, she would have loved me more.  Instead she abused me every chance she got.

Here are your questions for this discussion.

Are you still interested and why?
Do you feel like Clarence is explained well in this discussion and why?
Is there anything that you would do different and why?

Thank you for your participation and your support.  Please make sure you leave your honest answers.  I know some of you don't want to leave your comments but if you would so kindly put a check in the boxes at the bottom of this post I would greatly appreciate it.

Going to Kansas......

Being in Kansas was not where I really wanted to be but I knew it was my safe haven.  No one knew who I was or what I was about and I liked it like that.  No one knew who I was or what I was about and I liked it like that.  I hung out a lot with my cousins because even though my mom lived there and I had family there, I was the black sheep of the family.

My family and I didn't quite get along.  We tried so many times to get along but it just couldn't happen.

The reason I left Kansas at such an early age is because I hated my mother.  To me she was like the evil step mother from mommy dearest.  We had our differences, but that's how it was when the woman you felt like should be a mother figure only cared about the men in er life.  She loved them more than she loved her own child.  My mother's name is Elenor, she is tall, light skinned, opinionated and can be a real bitch if you get on her bad side.  She's one of those women who can be all up in your business but you better not try to be all up in hers or she will try to put you in your place.  It was never hard for my mother to get a man but it was always hard for her to keep a man although she did everything they wanted her to do.

My mother is not a whore, but she is easily controlled by the men that come into her life.

I have three sisters and two brothers.  My brothers, sisters and I are very close.  We probably should be closer than we are but none the less we are close.  My sisters and I have the same mother but different fathers, and my brothers and I have the same father different mother.

Here are your questions for this discussion.

Do you still want to keep reading and why?
Do you think this chapter will be boring?
Is there anything that you would do different and why?

Thank you for your support and your comments.