She Said, She Said by Celeste Norfleet

Author:Celeste Norfleet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2008-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Tamika

After breakfast with her mother, Tamika staggered back to her bedroom window and watched her mother drive off down the street. The top was down and she could tell that it was already hot outside. She stood at the screened window hoping for a breeze. None came so she went back over and plopped back down on the bed. The ceiling fan spun around but only blew warm air around the room. She grabbed a pillow and held it over her face, then fell back and screamed. There was no way she was going to survive here for much longer.

Later, as per the conversation with her aunt and then with her mother, Tamika decided to go up to the attic and get started going through some of the boxes. It was dusty and old and smelly, but it was also kind of cool up there, though she’d never openly admit it.

She spent the morning and afternoon in the attic. Digging through decades-and sometimes centuries-old memories was more exciting than she had thought.

She sat at an old rolltop desk and started going through the drawers. She found a pair of wire-rimmed eyeglasses and put them on. She could barely see. “Dang, they must have been half-blind,” she said, then took them off and continued rummaging through the drawers. In the next drawer she found some old stamps and a few coins dating back to the twenties and thirties. She found letters wrapped with a white ribbon and two fountain pens. The next few drawers were filled with lots of books with copyrights from the last two centuries. She also found more letters, a few journals and some old leather-bound ledgers that dated back over one hundred and fifty years ago or more.

Opening and flipping through the pages and reading the written notations, she was amazed by the historical references. Within the ledger were more letters. She read them, then held them aside.

Selecting some of the more interesting letters and ledgers, she decided that she’d talk to her mother about taking them to be appraised. She set them aside to take pictures of everything just in case.

Continuing, she found a crystal and pewter inkwell and silver makeup and cigarette case with an engraving dating back to the twenties. She also found a couple of small beaded purses and some hair combs and a jewelry box containing dozens of colorful trinkets that looked like new.

After thoroughly checking out the attic and going through all of the boxes and relabeling them, she decided to do something different and check out the basement. It definitely wasn’t as interesting as the attic. There was mostly old furniture and a few paintings, rugs and lots of old books. She took a few photos, but not finding much of interest she grabbed her hoard of booty from the attic and went to her bedroom to her laptop.

Curiously she went online and tried to do some research on some of the things she found. Unable to get much information, she decided to try again later.

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