The Marrying Kind by Monique Miller

Author:Monique Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2012-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

If Travis had looked at a calendar that Friday morning, he might have been a little bit forewarned—that is, if he were a superstitious person. Travis knew it was Friday, but hadn’t realized it was August 13th. What Travis did know was that it was payday. He’d been working at a job for the county as a maintenance technician for a month now. He got paid every two weeks. He had been delighted to get his check and go to the bank and cash it that evening.

When he checked his PO Box he found a letter in the mail from the child support office stating that they were going to start garnishing his pay for back child support. According to the letter, they were going to take $200 per pay period out of his check. Travis couldn’t believe what he was reading.

It seemed as if Beryl must have filed for child support behind his back. First she wouldn’t answer his calls and now she was going through the system to get money from him. He wondered if she had completely lost her mind. Then he thought about it, and tried not to let his temper get the best of him.

He was the one who avoided her phone calls. He was the one who hadn’t sent her a dime in months. So he wasn’t completely innocent. So how could he really blame Beryl? It wasn’t like his boys could live on air, but he really wished it wouldn’t be up to the system to make him care for his children.

At the same time it baffled him that for months Beryl called him sometimes on a daily basis, and now he had not heard a thing from her in over a month. He started to get a little worried, but remembered how she was acting the last time he saw her. The last thing on her mind was him. She was all into Urkel.

When he got home that evening from work, he still was not pleased with the child support notification he received. He was even less happy with the note that was posted on the front door of the house. It was a letter from the homeowner’s association. The letter said that he had forty-eight hours to cut his grass or he would be fined.

He’d been trying to cut the grass every other week, but had put it off for the last month. Looking at the grass he had to admit that it was long overdue to be cut. He was in no mood to cut it right then, but from the looks of it, now that he had waited so long to cut it, it was going to take him twice as much time as it normally would have.

After putting his wallet away and changing his clothing, he trudged back outside to the shed to pull out the lawn mower, and started cutting the grass. He had just cut the first strip of grass on the front lawn when he turned around to cut another strip.

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