I Can Do Better All By Myself by E.N. Joy

Author:E.N. Joy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2011-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

Two weeks had gone by, and Eleanor still refused to take any of Lorain’s calls. Lorain had driven over to Eleanor’s house earlier in the day unannounced, but Eleanor had refused to answer the door. Lorain would have used her spare key to let herself inside, but the screens were locked. Fearing that something might be wrong inside, she had called the police to have them come over and check things out.

When they arrived, Eleanor didn’t hesitate to respond to their knock on the door. Lorain watched the police chat briefly with her mother. She stood in the driveway by her car, waiting for the police to come back with their report.

“Ma’am, your mother is fine,” the police officer assured Lorain after talking with Eleanor. “She says she just doesn’t want to be bothered ... by you.” The officer acted as if he hated to relay those words to Lorain. “And, uh, she also said that she’d like for you to stop calling her and coming by. And to tell you the truth, I did have to be honest with her and let her know her rights as a citizen.”

“Her rights?” Lorain questioned.

“Yes, that if you continue to do these things after you’ve been instructed not to, she can charge you with harassment.”

Lorain looked over the policemen’s shoulders at Eleanor, who was still standing in the door, watching the long arm of the law pass on instructions to her daughter. She didn’t think for one minute her mother would go that far.

“Your mother also says that she wants you off of her property... now. She says if you refuse to leave, she’ll press assault charges on you from an incident that happened the other day ...” The officer’s words trailed off. He looked at Lorain knowingly.

Lorain felt like a fool. Her mother had told this man their family business. Second, Lorain had just told herself that her mother would never go as far as pressing harassment charges against her. Now Lorain was reminded that she’d gone as far as smacking her own mother in the face. Things could go further than anyone ever meant for them to.

“You should probably leave now, Miss,” the officer suggested to a confused and emotional Lorain.

Lorain didn’t know what to do. She didn’t know if she should just pull off and leave, or if she should insist that she and her mother work this thing out.

“Ma’am, you should leave now.” The officer made the decision for her.

“Yes, sir.” Lorain looked over her shoulder again at Eleanor. “As long as she’s okay. I just wanted to make sure that she was okay.”

“She’s just fine. Oh, and she says you have spare keys to her house. She’d like them back.”

Okay, now Miss Eleanor has gone too far is the thought that popped up into Lorain’s head. The taking of keys was too final; like in a relationship where the couple have been living together. There is something about making the other person give the keys back

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