Last Comes Love: A Bittersweet Love Story by Mosley Brookelyn

Author:Mosley, Brookelyn [Mosley, Brookelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 85 Media
Published: 2019-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

LENNOX

O n a cold Monday evening, Lennox warmed the seat across from he and Rylee's parents in the living room of his Manhattan condo. The sun had set hours ago but the backdrop behind them and through his floor-to-ceiling windows resembled a field of confetti.

They'd just finished eating a catered meal and were conversing, prepared to end the night. It was the fourth of February and Lennox's 32nd birthday. Usually, he would have met up with friends to enjoy a boisterous private dinner, but tonight he had more important things to tend to.

He and Rylee glanced at each other as his parents held their own conversations.

His mother, Ivy, and her good friend, Claudia, Rylee's mother, went on and on about the new dance studio Ivy planned to open in Queens. As a former professional ballerina turned ballet teacher, the rent at her current Brooklyn studio was rising in cost and she wasn’t willing to pay the higher rent .

Beside them was Lennox’s father Cyrus and his friend and Rylee's father Gannon. The two men discussed what they loved talking about most - black political issues and Cyrus’s art. Cyrus was in the middle of planning his next gallery show scheduled for later that month and had been trying to convince Gannon to pick up spray painting again to create a graffiti piece for the show after so many years of Gannon being out of practice.

Lennox scratched the back of his head as he tried to communicate with Rylee using his eyes.

The two were three weeks away from moving into their new brownstone together and she was pregnant. Two things their parents were completely in the dark about. They both thought it was time to at least tell them Rylee was with child, their child.

"You do it," Lennox mouthed to Rylee.

"Really?" she mouthed back.

He gestured with his hands for her to take the lead.

She pursed her lips in response.

Lennox understood Rylee had the gift of gab. She loved to talk so she for sure would be a pro at knowing exactly how to break the news.

He gestured with his eyes to their parents next. The foursome were so caught up in their conversations with one another they hadn't noticed how quiet both Lennox and Rylee were in that instance.

Rylee rolled her eyes at him and cleared her throat. Lennox watched as Rylee tugged at the collar of her black wool sweater and cleared her throat a second time, getting everyone's attention.

"So, I have news," Rylee announced.

Rylee's mother stapled her eyes on Rylee giving her daughter undivided focus.

"I'm pregnant." Rylee’s face lit up. "Yay, surprise!"

Lennox blinked twice in response. He and Rylee made eye contact and his jaw slacked.

"Damn Ry," he scolded, "you're not even gonna warm up to it? Just jump right in, huh? "

Rylee shrugged. "We ain't got all night, Lenny. I'm sleepy."

"Pregnant? By who, baby?" Rylee's mother, Claudia, spoke first in her usual southern drawl. "This is random as hell. I wasn't aware you were seeing anybody." Claudia turned to Ivy.

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