Reunited

By Cheree Murray

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479712601

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Copyright © 2012 by Cheree Murray.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916534

ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4797-1259-5

Softcover 978-1-4797-1258-8

Ebook 978-1-4797-1260-1

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 1

SHE WAKES UP to the birds singing sweet nothings in her ears. She looks over to see the bold red numbers flashing in her face. 6:30am—she closed her eyes just thinking of how to avoid the whole interaction of this family reunion.

Deanna Wright—some would call her independent, and other would call her confuse little girl. She loves to be love and who can deny that?

She turn over to see her four year old ball off energy running from head to foot, as he looks over to see her awaken. Oops sorry mommy He said, while running out of the room and up the hallway. A single mother—she has always been proud that she didn’t need anyone to help but deep down she longed for it and more. She sits up to see the flier that’s hanging off the end of the table. Come join us on this Saturday. The Wright’s and the Smith’s Family Reunion—she puts the paper back while rolling her eyes. Giovanni she calls out, while he runs from room to room.

Huh he said.

Go into your room and put on your clothes.

Athens’s GA is about an hour and a half from Atlanta GA but that’s not counting staying undetected from the bounties on that side of the road and trucks on the two lane streets. When they arrive at the Classic Center she looks back to see Giovanni asleep. I don’t want to do this—saying to herself, she though it would have been better if she just stay at home. She knows her mother wouldn’t let her live that down. As she walks in, there are tables set all over and a buffet table off to the back and family everywhere you look.

Her mother Linda is standing right next to her sister Olivia—Deanna walks over and put Giovanni in a chair.

Took you long enough Linda said.

Sorry mama just trying to get Giovanni ready

Deanna sits down looking at her sister with a Yeah right look on her face. She turns and everywhere she looked people are yelling, but they call it talking, country people conversation is loud. Loud like standing next to a train that’s passing and you raise your voice so the next person can hear you. Too loud for her, to her the country had nothing on the city and she wanted to keep it that way. Uncle Mal stands with his shirt unbutton just to show you that he still works out, just because he’s almost 58 don’t mean the ex-body builder still don’t work out. He stands in the middle of the room.

Okay excuse me He said

While rubbing his bald chocolate head, and making sure the glass that draped his nose are on his face correctly.

The first thing we’re going to ask the family members or friends to introduce themselves.

He stands off to the side and one of my third or fourth cousins gets up with her new born.

This is Roxanna Angel Tiffany Smith

Oh no the hell she didn’t name that baby that, ghetto ass little girl Linda said

Deanna looks over to her mother and smile, Linda would rarely cuss or say anything harming unless you get her mad and only then you would see another side of that holy sanctified woman.

The cousin continued I had my baby almost two weeks ago and it was a horrifying experience, the shot didn’t work and I felt everything. My baby daddy wasn’t there until the last min . . . .

Before she could finish Uncle Mal walks up to her and pull the microphone way, he motion for her to sit down.

This isn’t the confession of my ghetto birth, sit down somewhere.

People laugh while she took her sit. There is the tall man with this dark blue polo shirt on with black plants and Air Forces on his feet. He slowly turns for Deanna to see his face, is this true can it be him after all this time.

Her old love from another life time, well a younger life time. She felt every old feeling she stuffed in the back of mind, the feelings start to flood her brain. Johnny Sander was her love and he loved her so. He founder her one day after she left from school. He saw her walking on Glenwood, stop working under a Ford Explore and cough up with her. He had oil on his hands and a little on his face. He runs up to her while putting his nasty hand rag in his back pocket.

Excuse me he said

She turned with a look of What you want on her face, he stopped in front of her and smiled with a school boy grin on his face. He leaned over to touch her hand and she pulled back and looked him up and down.

Yes she said

You don’t have to be mean, I just wanted to stop you and say hi

You did, now are you done, she goes and turned to walk away, he stepped back in front of her.

Can I call you sometimes?

Deanna slams her hand down on her leg just to let him know that she’s frustrated. She never wanted to talk to another boy again, because the last on promise to be there and didn’t. All she could hear in her ears is her mother voice saying "Leave them boys alone"

You don’t know me; you don’t even know how old I am.

What you about twenty something right

Well she had look a little older at the time because her dress was little above her knees and her hair was straighten all down her back so how could he know that she was almost 18 but still not quite yet. She turn and smile, just the thought of her looking a little older made him a little cute to her.

He walked away with a smile and just can’t believe that he already felt something for her, he turned just to watch her walk away. That small frame with a booty that shouldn’t be on a girl under 21! The rich caramel skin that wrap all the way down to her pretty pink toe nails. That day he thought the girl he was watching walking away from him, will be in his life forever. They started meeting up in the park and laying on the grass. Johnny wouldn’t let her go and just the thought of her brought him to his knees. The things they did together weren’t sexual but mental, so mental he forgot that she was 17 years old. He brought her to his house as he watched her look around and he stood there with a smile. She stopped and looked over to him smiling ones again and she walked up to him and kissed him. Every morning he would meet her and drive her to school, but he stayed away from her house. Knowing just two weeks before she told him that her daddy is a cop or so shall I say a sheriff in Dekalb County. He knew if her daddy found out about them he would get locked up and they would be over, Johnny looked over his shoulder every chance he got. Not this day, he was too wrapped up in Deanna’s laugh and he didn’t even notice that there is a cop car on the corner when they got out his car. Johnny goes to kiss her and not just a peck, one of them kisses, at just the site of it makes you wonder where her parents are.

She felt that heat before from him one night, the night that she lost her Virginity. The one thing she would hear is her mother in her ear, You give it away you can’t get it back but at that moment giving it away wasn’t the hard part. She gave it to him because in her mind he was the one, the one that she didn’t want to leave. The one that gave her the confidence to be her and do everything that moves her as a person, but little did they know that something was cooking up on the other side of town. Her daddy just found out from one of his close friend that his little girl was in Glenwood sobbing this older guy down.

Her daddy couldn’t take the news, he couldn’t help but to think he’s taking advantage of his little naive daughter. So that night he was going to let her out and she was going to lead him right to Johnny. Like clockwork she left and walked to meet him and she never thought to even check to see if there where anyone behind her, nothing was going to get in the way with her seeing the man she started to fall in love with. Deanna saw Johnny standing out beside his gray Impala with a black strip down the middle and she lights up and she kissed him when he walked up on her. He lifted her off the ground and spins her around and they go get into the car. Not even two blocks up the street they see lights in the review mirror. Johnny looked at Deanna while she looked like she’s just took a shit on herself. There were three cop cars behind them all lit up and they knew something wasn’t right. Lets run she said, he knew running wasn’t a good ideal, not with cops who has guns and him with the sheriff underage daughter in tow. It wouldn’t have ended well for him. He looked over to her and shakes his head, while her daddy and his friends get out the car with guns in hand. Like he was a serial killer and his daughter was next on the list. Get the fuck out the car the cop said, they slowly get out the car and Deanna’s daddy walked up on her and grabbed her arm and pulled her to him. Johnny looked over as he gets ready to move one cop walked up on him and pushed him on the car. He started to struggle with the cop and then another came and then two more. You could hear Deanna in the back ground crying and telling Johnny that’s she okay just stop its okay.

Johnny knew if they take him, he’s going to jail and he will not be here for Deanna. Just the thought of losing her, he felt getting shot didn’t sound so bad. He relaxes and they put him and hand cuffs and as they was walking to the car Deanna pulled away from her father and hugged Johnny. She kissed him before her father grabbed her again; he got in the back of the car with the smell of her on his lips and her perfume on his body. All he could do now is smell her and he felt like crying but he didn’t want her daddy to see him like that, so like the man he was, he pulled all that emotion back and locked it up. They walked him in and put him in a room.

He looked around and back at himself, there was nothing but a two way mirror and every small walls. Deanna’s daddy walked in the room, he sits down at the other end of the table. He first looked at him like he just brought in a big score, he sat back and sized up Johnny and maybe even wondered what was on Johnny’s mine.

I’m Teddy Wright, but you should know that by now he said,

Johnny didn’t say anything but looked into his eyes. Teddy continued on his rampage.

What are you doing with a 17 year old girl Mr. Sander?

I love her.

Wrong answer. You are 25 and all you have to say is you love her. You know I can put you in jail for talking to a minor?

Yes, but I would have done anything to be with her. You can do anything you want with me if I can’t see her again, I don’t care.

Teddy slammed his hand on the table and after Johnny turns his head away from him. Teddy wanted to kill him for even thinking about his daughter, but he need to know one thing.

Did you sleep with my daughter?

Johnny looked away again just thinking about the first time that they has sex, when he brought her to his house and he stood and looked at her like she was just too good for him. He couldn’t believe his eyes when she kissed him and when he picked her up and rested her back against the wall. Just the thought of it brought a smile to his face. Teddy saw him smiling and hit Johnny across the face. One of the officers busted threw the doors and pulled Teddy off Johnny, while Johnny spits the blood out of his mouth.

I want a lawyer Johnny said.

The officer sits him back up and they book him and put him in Jail.

Deanna couldn’t understand why her father hated a man he never met before, like if he would stopped and just talked to him. Her father would feel much better about her being with a man like him, only if he knew how much they meant to each other. None of this would be going on. She was in love and her father ripped them apart,