Dreams of Love: Three P's in a Pod

By E.K. Cooper

Patrick and Panene taught their three daughtersPrincess, Pretty, and Preciousvery important life values as they were growing up. In fact, the three sisters vowed to remain celibate until their wedding days. This collection of ten short romance stories follows the adult lives of the three women as they experience dating, love, and marriage.

Dreams of Love centers on Precious, the youngest sister, who constantly seeks love. In her quest for love, she dreams and then writes her intimate thoughts on paper. Her poetic stories affect those around her as they find love while she continues her search. The story A Dream of Love shares Princesss experiences on her wedding night with her new husband, King Malech. Did Pretty Meet Her Match? narrates how Pretty meets a man who exceeds her expectations. Will Precious find the love she so desperately desires?

Based on real-life situations, Dreams of Love reflects everyday issues and thoughts of intimacy that young women experience while trying to uphold their values. It vividly illustrates a passion-packed journey into the lives of three sisters and their wants, needs, and desires that leads down a sensual path of love, lust, and intimacy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Dec 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462069002

E.K. Cooper

E.K. Cooper was born in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked with youth and troubled youth and adults most of her life; Summer Youth Programs, NYC Dept of Corrections, Division for Youth and teachings and mentoring in religious and educational settings for over 30 years. Her most rewarding employment was as an airline agent, which she did for fifteen years and retire May 2011, to start her own business. All of this, working two sometimes three jobs while raising her four successful sons. E.K. has been writing for years, poems plays etc... Two special people in her life who would call and encourage her to write by always asking her to write a poem, play openings or endings, obituary's etc.. Her late mother, Joan Cooper, who she dedicated this book to, and her best friend Delores Hill who passed away before her book was out. Her "Dreams of Love Part Two" will be dedicated to Delores. This book was written after her mom’s passing, it was the way she coped with the sudden lost and did not realize it until it was finished. The first two years after her mom’s passing she did an entire book of poetry and greeting cards. Instead of publishing the book of poems she decided to do the ten short love stories. The poetry and greeting cards will be published in the near future. Looking at the lives of the young women she mentored as well as others has also inspired her to write this book, hopefully, young men and women will get the message.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Three Peas in a Pod

1. A Dream of Love

(Precious, a P in the Pod)

2. Princess

(A P in a New Pod)

3. Patrick and Penene

(Two P’s That Made the Pod)

4. An Afternoon of Intimacy

(A P in a Pod)

5. A Secret Love Affair

(A P from a Pod)

6. Did Pretty Meet Her Match?

(A P in the Pod)

Part One

7. Did Pretty Meet Her Match?

(A P in a Pod)

Part Two

8. Tricks of Love

(A P in a Pod)

Part One

9. Tricks of Love … This Is Not a Dream

Part Two

10. Precious’s Confession and Pretty’s Honeymoon

(Two Ps in a Pod)

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER

JOAN C. RILEY-COOPER

August 31, 1938 – April 12, 2002

I dedicate this book to the most magnificent woman I have ever known, my mother, whose death inspired me to start putting my thoughts in writing and to compile my previous writings into one or several things.

I have been writing poetry since I was in elementary school. Writing poems, speeches, and opening and closing remarks for school plays had become somewhat of a hobby over the years. However, I never thought or took the time to put the writings all together. Devastated after my mom’s sudden death, my inner thoughts merged with my creative writing and collectively went down on paper.

I picked up my pen about thirty days after her death and have not put it down since. It was approximately four years later that I realized I had found a way to cope with my loss. Each personal poem, greeting card, or short story I write reminds me of my inspiration and how blessed I am to have had a mother like mine. Completing this book is a major accomplishment and a wonderful way to honor the memory of my rock, the matriarch of my family, my mother.

A Daughter’s Love

Although we are apart

You’re always in my heart

And if grief makes me write

Then this I will not fight

I’ll always want you proud of me

Even if you’re not here to see

For my love for you will forever last

Even until the minute I pass

Written by E. K.

1/09

Acknowledgments

My humble gratitude to the Creator of the Universe

for all things

Gratitude and love to my only brother, James E. Cooper, the only person who really understood and stuck very close to me after our mother’s death. We cried many tears through my first four years of consistent writing; every poem I wrote was about our mother. He was the first person to e-mail my poetry to family members. I was not pleased in the beginning; he was sharing my personal feelings about our mother with others. I eventually got over it and started compiling all of my poetry into one book. Then came the ten short love stories. I realized completing this book would be a wonderful honor and a great tribute to our mother’s memory.

Special thanks and love to my daughter-in-law Ahavia, who read every story as it was finished. She gave me the encouragement to continue writing and complete this book.

Special thanks and respect to my friend and co-worker Sabrina, who critiqued my stories and gave me feedback from the perspective of a mother of a teenage daughter.

Extra special thanks to one of my girls, Tzuriyah, who was the only young person out of five, who made the time between school and her high school graduation preparations, to read my book. It was an even better feeling when she informed me that she had gotten the message and really enjoyed the book.

Love and thanks to my four sons and other two daughters-in-law; three grandsons, Lifnaiyah, Shamayah, and Khaziel; four beautiful granddaughters, Zimriyah Kai, Nakaliah, Yaviayl and Yaphiah; and to my only sister-in-law, Hilton Cooper. They all continuously inspired me and gave me the confidence and support to complete this book and share my stories.

I truly love you all.

Introduction

Dreams of Love: Three P’s in the Pod is ten short love stories about the lives and the family of three sisters whose names all begin with the letter P. The stories are based on the personal values that Princess, Pretty, and Precious were taught by their parents. In growing up, the sisters made a pact to save their virginity for their husbands. If a man was willing to stick around to marry them, then he was worthy to receive their treasure. They were taught that their treasure was something special; and it was one thing that they had control over, besides their reputations.

The short stories reflect everyday issues and thoughts of intimacy that young women experience while trying to uphold their values. The fictional reflections are based on real situations that many young women experience and are too embarrassed to speak about, oftentimes. Some situations become a struggle, especially when feelings of lust, intimacy, and confusion begin to manifest.

Dreams of Love is centered on Precious, the youngest sister, who is constantly seeking love … sensual, romantic, storybook love. In her quest for love, she dreams and puts her intimate thoughts on paper. In her dreams it is as if she has loved before, somewhere, somehow. Every time Precious closes her eyes, she sees and feels love. Amazingly, her poetic stories of love seem to affect everyone around her. Ironically, everyone around her seems to find love as she continues her search. The question is, will Precious ever really find the love that she so desperately desires?

As you explore the three Ps in a pod and Precious’s dreams of love, you will find that you can relate to a story or two. You’ll find them funny, hot, sensuous, intimate, romantic, and sometimes very real … so real you may find yourself having a dream.

Three Peas in a Pod

Three Ps in a pod, what will they do

Green as the shell they all cling to

Now Princess, the eldest, will get to experience it first

While Pretty is hastily trying to quench her sexual thirst

And poor naïve Precious, running around gleaming

Always looking for true love and constantly dreaming

That pact they made is so hard to keep

With their lustful desires that burn so deep

But their feelings are real and their movements are bold

And nothing stands firmer than the values they hold

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1. A Dream of Love

(Precious, a P in the Pod)

Just as any other warm summer morning, I awoke a bit early to the sound of birds singing their love songs and the sun shining ever so brightly through my bedroom window. Instead of getting out of bed, I turned sideways, facing the window, just to feel the warm sun on my cheeks. The sound of the birds chirping was so sweet that I closed my eyes just to try to understand the songs they were singing back and forth. It sounded like a series of love songs, and I was so eager to know the words. It was a heavenly sound to my ears. As I opened my eyes for a moment and gazed out at the trees, suddenly a colorful bird flew close by and landed on a branch full of leaves near my window; there the sun just glistened on the bird, a beautiful rainbow of colors. In that instant the songs became so loud that I drifted off into a deep sleep.

It was a warm day in May, and I found myself sitting outside on the grass, listening to my two older sisters talking, as usual, about men. My eldest sister, Princess, was planning her wedding, which was scheduled for August of the next year. All she spoke of was her upcoming wedding and her honeymoon. She and her future husband had planned to go to some fancy honeymoon suite in Hawaii. Princess talked and talked about her honeymoon, but she had no clue whatsoever what any kind of intimacy with a man meant.

Our parents had given us the names Princess, Pretty, and Precious, the three Ps, and they had an explanation for all three names. It was Future Princess, Simply Pretty, and My Precious. Every one of us fit our names to a tee. Princess had a royal attitude and a regal look. She always dressed like royalty; she even walked like a future queen. Believe it, the man in her life had to treat her like one, and she had found him. Ironically, his name was King Malech, and yes, we teased her often; we always had a good laugh. Princess had always planned to marry a man that had money, a good job, etc. … she never wanted to want for anything. I use to think her name was a curse only because it suited her so well.

Now Pretty was different; she was a little rough and tough. No one messed with her growing up. She would fool the average man because she was so pretty, yet so strong willed and strong bodied. As for me, My Precious, I was just that … precious. I was the baby, so everyone held me a bit closer; they were overprotective and, yes, they spoiled me. I attracted mates that would be very protective of me; if they weren’t they wouldn’t really appeal to me much. As time passed I’ve come to realize we all really live up to our names.

As my sisters’ conversation about men and love intensified, I was just daydreaming, letting the warm sun hit my face, laughing at them quietly. Out of the three of us, I thought I knew the most when it came to intimate issues only because I read, wrote, and dreamed more about it. Love and intimacy were always on my mind in one way or another. Princess spoke only about what a man could buy or do for her and how she would look. Pretty just didn’t want a wimp or a soft man. She wanted someone challenging, firm, and often