Catch a Falling Heart by J. California Cooper

Author:J. California Cooper [Cooper, J. California]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2022-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Well, bout another year went by. The first time Issy had come into town, Harriet had come over to my house to spend the night instead of staying at the hotel. Before she got that house, Issy had already started coming by to see me every time he came to town.

This time he looked worried. He frowned as he said, “Ms. Realer, I’m glad to have that room, but I don’t want to run Harriet away from her own house. Maybe I could pay you to find some little house like that for me.” We talked, but I didn’t really say nothing.

The next time Issy came in town, I suggested to him that we all go out to dinner for some Chinese food. Harriet liked Chinese food and, since I was going to be with em, she relaxed. She went to eat dinner with us. She didn’t shake. After that, she started staying at home. They went to different rooms, but they went to the same house.

After that first date, they started going out someplace, to have dinner or see a picture show, most nights he was in town. They went without me! Left me at home. (smile)

Harriet told me, “The prettiest things show up in the kitchen and the living room and my bedroom every time he comes to town. I got the most beautiful pictures on the walls. And, girl, he brings me the most beautiful material to sew things for myself with!”

I just smiled with her.

“I tell him to rest, after working all that time, but he won’t! He works that garden and is making that chicken-house a little bigger and stronger so nothing can get in it…after our chickens, you know.” (I heard that “our.”) “We got four now. Issy said that’s enough cause we don’t need but four eggs a day and we don’t always eat all of those. Besides, he likes to take me out so he can eat food he didn’t cook. I don’t let him cook for me either. Only sometimes, when he surprises me when I come home from work. But, I don’t work on the days he is in town no more. Ms. Poker takes care of things; ain’t that much to do noway.” She took a breath and brushed an invisible something off her lap. Then, “You know his name is Isaiah, and that’s why people call him Issy. When he’s in town on a Sunday, we are going to start going to church with you. I’m going to start going with you more when he isn’t here, too, Ms. Realer.”

She just couldn’t stop talkin, chile, tellin me how wonderful her life was. And I kept nodding my head, thrilled happy for her from my head all the way to my bottom sittin on that chair!

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