All That Drama by Tina Brooks McKinney

Author:Tina Brooks McKinney [McKinney, Tina Brooks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781416550150
Google: LfSyXMw3RGEC
Amazon: B000OZ0NMQ
Publisher: STREBOR BOOKS
Published: 2007-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I hung up the phone with Sammie feeling emotionally drained. Sammie had a way of doing that, sucking me into her drama and draining my energy. I needed an instant pick-me-up, so I called my mother. Our conversation was short but that was par for the course. The mother/daughter relationship had been strained ever since I made the decision to make my divorce final and that just didn’t sit right with me. Although Mom seemingly accepted my decision to separate from Keith, I knew that it was still a sore spot with her. Unfortunately, she did not understand that some marriages fail. She was lucky enough to find a man that was as committed to her as she was to him. Every time I tried to speak to her about my marriage we ended up fighting. She was totally against my conviction to make the separation from Keith final. As long as were separated, she felt there was still hope of us getting back together.

Mom was from the old school and she believed that no matter what, marriages were made to last. Only death should break apart two people who were joined by God. Up until my last trip home to Baltimore, I believed that as well. I decided to spend some time with her when I picked up the kids later that evening.

“Hello,” I yelled when I walked in the door of Mom’s house.

“I am downstairs,” Mom yelled from the basement. “I’m just putting their clothes up. I will be right there.”

I realized that it had been a while since I had actually come in the house and sat for a spell. She had redecorated the living room. There was new furniture and she had painted the walls a soft shade of cream. It looked really good. Mom always had a way with decorating. I tried to get her into interior designing after Dad passed away but she said she could not do it for money. She wasn’t hurting financially so I didn’t press the issue. I just thought it would be a way for her to meet more people and keep herself busy.

Mom finally came up the stairs with the childrens’ clothes in her hands. They had stayed with her over the weekend so she washed everything that I had packed for them. Mom was incredible; she even washed the clothes that they didn’t wear.

“Mom, why did you do their laundry again?” I asked. “I asked you not to do that!” I wanted to get angry with her for not listening to me, but that was the way she had always been. Even when I was little, she used to wash my clothes every night and put them back in my dresser. It got me so confused that one week I wore the same thing for three days in a row before some of my classmates started teasing me about it.

“Nonsense,” she said with a wave of her hand. I wanted to argue with her but realized that it was pointless.

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