Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris

Author:E. Lynn Harris [Harris, E. Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780752846118
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

27

YANCEY’S EYES jerked open in a panic. At first she didn’t realize where she was and then she recognized Derrick sitting on the edge of the bed with a paper cup in his hand. He was reading a newspaper that lay open on the bed.

The night before, after Yancey had fainted, Derrick suggested she see a doctor immediately. Derrick even asked the stage manager, Talbert, if he could help locate a doctor. Yancey drank a couple of glasses of water and rested with a cold towel on her forehead for about an hour. She told Derrick and Talbert she would be fine with a good night’s rest. After Talbert left, Derrick insisted that he should spend the night in Yancey’s suite to make sure she was alright. Yancey was exhausted and still in shock, so she agreed to let him stay, but made it clear to Derrick that he would sleep on the sofa.

“How are you feeling?” he asked as he stood up.

“I bet I look terrible,” Yancey said. She patted her hair with her hands and looked around the room for a mirror. Then she looked closely at Derrick. He looked the same as he had when he had helped her move her boxes in a rented U-Haul from the dorm when they moved into their first apartment about a mile from Howard’s campus. Derrick was tall, with a solid-looking body, like a sprinter. His coarse brown hair was trimmed to military shortness and his skin was an oatmeal brown. His features were too plain for him to be considered handsome like Basil, but he had beautiful hazel-brown eyes and a boyish vulnerability that Yancey found hard to resist.

“Do you ever think about Madison?” Derrick asked.

“Madison? Who’s Madison?” Yancey asked. What is he talking about, Yancey wondered as she pulled the sheets and comforter up close to her neck as if she were covering some horrible skin problem. She sank back to enjoy the comfort of the down pillows.

“Aw, I forgot. You didn’t name her,” Derrick said.

“Derrick, you’re tripping. Didn’t name who? Who is Madison?”

There was a heavy silence in the room as Derrick reached for Yancey’s hand and rubbed it gently, then said, “Madison is our daughter.”

“Our daughter?” Yancey screamed. “What are you talking about? We gave our baby up for adoption!” Suddenly Yancey was thinking back to the day when she told Derrick she was pregnant and he had firmly said, “I’m not ready for a child. I’m not ready to get married. I want to be on my feet financially before I start a family.”

“You gave her up,” Derrick corrected.

Yancey leaned toward Derrick. “We gave her up— where were you? But tell me what you’re talking about. I don’t know any Madison,” Yancey said as she began shaking her head from side to side in disbelief.

Her mind wandered back to those college days in Washington, D.C. She had discovered she was pregnant a month after Derrick started to waver about their future. Yancey’s first reaction was to have an abortion.

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