by Doris Miller
The next day, Christine, David, Grandpa Mike, Aunt Jean, Aunt Celeste, Uncle Willie, Uncle Kevin, Alan and Christine’s other relatives from Jamaica are all outside the airport surrounding Patricia, literally holding on to Patricia pulling her towards the airport terminal as they carry and pull her luggage. Patricia angrily shouts to them, “Why are you all sending me back to Jamaica, I‘m not ready to go back there right now! I want to stay here, with the rest of you!”
Grandpa Mike stops in his tracks, angrily turns towards Patricia and shouts, “Patricia, we had enough of you and Diane going at it!” Everyone else stop in their tracks, turns towards Mike as he shouts to Patricia, “I had enough of you and Diane disrupting the family and disrespecting my household!”
“But Diane is the one who started this whole entire thing by grabbing my shopping bag! That was MY belongings that she grabbed! She had no right to grab something that belongs to me!”
“Patricia!” Christine shouts. “We also had enough of you treating Dana like she’s some cow or some milk machine, collecting breast milk from her, just so that YOU can make money off it! You did that to Dana when she had an abortion before, and now you’re doing that to her again! You went right behind our backs and completely went against our wishes!”
“But I was only trying to help Dana, Christine! I hardly made any money for myself at all! I only kept part of the money for myself at first and bought some jewelry with it! I left most of the money for Dana on her dresser! Didn’t you all see the money I left on her dresser? It was all to help Dana after the abortion ordeal she went through. I was only trying to help her.”
“And help yourself too.”
“How can it be to help myself Christine, Dana said she didn’t want any of the money! I kept trying to give the money to her, but she kept telling me she doesn’t want anything to do with the money! When I tried to give Dana some money again, she got angry and snapped at me!”
“She did?”
“Yes she did! She shouted to me ‘I told you to just keep the damn money Aunt Patricia!’, then she shouted to me that if I don want the money, to just share it with the rest of the family, then told me not to bother her about the money anymore!”
“She told you that too?”
“Yes she did! So I had no choice but to respect her wishes! So I decided to just keep my mouth shut because I didn’t want her to snap at me again! I just continued to collect the milk from her and never said anything else to her about the money again! I decided to just keep all the money for myself since SHE didn‘t want any of it!”
“That still doesn’t make it right for you to treat your niece as a cow or milk machine Patricia!” David says.
“But I don‘t understand! Why is Dana the only one NOT complaining about what I‘m doing with her?!”
“Because Patricia, you‘re Dana‘s aunt and she loves you!” Christine shouts. “She sees the fact that you making money off this is making you happy and that‘s all she cares about is seeing her family members happy and you’re part of her family, so therefore, she won’t say anything or complain or try to stop you! She’ll just put up with it if she sees that making money off of it is making you happy!”
“That’s right Patricia!” David shouts. “Even though Dana is not complaining about you collecting milk from her or stopping you from collecting milk from her, it doesn’t give you the right to take advantage of her! But since she’s not stopping you, we’re going to be the ones to stop you, that‘s why we‘re sending you away! When you’re ready to stop treating Dana as a cow or a milk machine, and when you and Diane are ready to stop fighting over Dana, we’ll let you come back here.”
“But it’s not fair that you all are sending me away when Diane is the one who started it!” Patricia shouts. “She was trying to grab something from me, I wasn’t trying to grab anything from her!”
“Oh don’t worry about Diane Patricia, because after we put you on the plane, she’s next!”
“What! She’s next? What do mean ‘she’s next‘?”
“We’re sending Diane to the Dominican Republic!”
“What! You’re sending Diane to the Dominican Republic?”
“Yes we are Patricia!” Mike shouts. “We’re sending Diane down to the Dominican Republic for a month or two to stay with her other relatives down there!”
“You are?”
“Yes we are! Mary, Barry, Margarita, Tomas and Gracy are getting her luggage ready for the airport right now!”
“They are?”
“Yes! You and Diane have totally disrespected my household going at it, fighting inside my house, and it’s all over Dana! I mean it’s ridiculous how you two are fighting over Dana! You keep collecting breast milk from her making money off of it while Diane literally tries to stop you, and whenever Diane allegedly hears that her husband accidentally gets Dana pregnant, she somehow snaps and allegedly tries to abort the unborn baby out of Dana herself! I think Dana needs a serious break from both you and Diane! I‘m literally banning both you and Diane from Dana!”
“What! What do you mean ‘you’re banning me and Diane from Dana‘?!”
“I’m not allowing any of you near Dana for a while!”
“What! You’re not allowing any of us near Dana for a while?! You can‘t mean that Mike!”
“Oh I absolutely mean that Patricia.”
“Really. How are you going to do that Mike, Dana is my niece! You can’t stop me from being around my own niece!”
“Oh yes I can stop you, if you’re causing disruption around her environment! Why the hell you think I‘m sending both you and Diane away?!”
“I didn’t mean to cause any problems Mike!”
“But you have Patricia! You AND Diane have.”
“This is exactly what I was afraid of Patricia,” Christine says, “when I spoke to Landa on the phone and she told me that Diane came in the house with a lot of Chinese food, and I knew you were on your way back to Dana with new milk storage bottles and Diane would possibly run into you and see you holding the milk storage bottles. I was afraid of this!”
“Now we don’t want you to miss your flight Patricia,” David says. “So let’s hurry and get you to that gate. We are going to make sure you get on that plane.”
“But please,” Patricia says. “Let me stay a little while longer!”
“Why?! So you can continue to collect breast milk from Dana and continue to make money off it, then you and Diane wind up going at it again?! Not a chance!”
“I promise, I won’t do anything!”
“It’s too late Patricia!“ Christine shouts. “You have been warned!”
“But Christine!”
“Let’s go Patricia!” Grandpa Mike shouts. “Move!” Christine, David, Alan and the rest of the family start to pull Patricia towards the airport terminal again as Grandpa Mike and the rest of their family follow them with the luggage.
Around two hours later, Grandpa Mike, Gracy, David, Barry and Willie have Michael cornered inside Mike and Gracy house as Grandpa Mike says to Michael, “We want to know the truth Michael! Did you confess to Diane at the hospital, that you accidentally impregnated Dana, which caused Diane to somehow snap and want to try to abort the unborn baby out of Dana herself?!”
“No I didn’t make any confession like that to Diane,” Michael nervously says.
“Was it your unborn child that Dana had the abortion with?” David asks.
“No it wasn’t my child.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes I’m sure!”
“So why is this rumor going around the hospital, saying that you made this shocking confession to Diane, that you slept with Dana and you think you might have accidentally impregnated her?” Barry asks.
“I don’t know. It’s just a rumor going around that hospital, you know how rumors are.”
“Are you sure you didn’t impregnate one of my granddaughters while you are legally married to my other granddaug
hter?” Mike asks.
“Yes I’m sure.”
“Well we can’t be too sure Michael, that’s why we’re sending you to the Dominican Republic with Diane so you can be with her. We can’t have you separated from your wife and we can’t risk you being where Dana is while Diane is away or else the same thing might allegedly happen between you and Dana again. We want to be on the safe side.”
“Yeah Michael,” David says. “Because it seems that neither you, Diane nor Patricia have any problem with coming in here, going right up to Dana while she’s asleep, then waking her up when y‘all want something from her.”
“Waking her up when we want something from her?” Michael asks.
“That’s right.”
“What do you mean?”
“First of all, you allegedly came here, went to Dana, woke Dana out of her sleep to have sex with her, second of all, Diane came here right in the middle of the night, went to Dana, woke Dana out of her sleep and brought Dana right into the bathroom to give Dana a pregnancy test, and Patricia came here, went to Dana, woke Dana out of her sleep a few times to collect breast milk from her! Neither one of you believe in allowing Dana to sleep at all! You all seem to just wake her up whenever y‘all want! We think Dana needs a break from all three of you!”
“But I never slept with Dana.”
“Michael, rumors just don’t start out of nowhere,” Gracy says. “They came from somewhere. Now you have to go to the Dominican Republic so you can be with your wife.”
“Okay, I have no problem with that Grandma. I have no problem with that.”
“Let’s go Michael,” Grandpa Mike says, “your luggage is waiting.” Grandpa Mike, Gracy, David, Barry and Willie take Michael away.
It is two hours later. At the airport, Mary, Barry, Grandpa Mike, Gracy, Margarita, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Aunt Jean, Aunt Celeste, Uncle Willie, Uncle Kevin, Nicolas and Mickey are all surrounding Diane D and Michael literally holding and pulling Diane D and Michael towards the airport terminal as they carry and pull Diane D and Michael’s luggage. Diane D then shouts, “I don‘t want to go to the Dominican Republic right now! I still have things to do here!”
“Things like what Diane?!” Margarita shouts.
Diane D and everyone else stops as Diane D says, “I still have my job at the hospital! I still have to teach my health and fitness class and I still have to do some personal training for my clients!”
“Diane!” Mary shouts, “you should have thought about all of that before you decided to disrupt the family and disrespect your grandparents’ household! How dare you and your Aunt Patricia, fight inside your grandparents’ house!”
“Now wait a second Mom, I wasn’t fighting Aunt Patricia at all! I was just trying to grab the shopping bags that had the milk storage bottles in them from out of her hands, so I can keep her from treating Dana like a cow! I never once hit Aunt Patricia! I didn‘t hit her at all, she hit me! She kneed me right in the stomach and hit me right on the head with that soda bottle!”
“I’m not condoning your Aunt Patricia hitting you Diane!” Barry shouts. “But you caused your Aunt Patricia to get angry when you grabbed and pulled on her bags, that’s why your grandpa Mike is banning you and your Aunt Patricia from Dana and not allowing any of you near Dana for a while!”
Diane D looks at Grandpa Mike and says, “Grandpa Mike, you don’t have to ban me and Aunt Patricia from Dana! Aunt Patricia and I learned our lesson! We won’t do anything like that anymore! We didn’t mean to cause this!”
“But you have caused this Diane,” Grandpa Mike says. “Your Aunt Patricia is already on her way back to Jamaica! Now we have to get you and Michael on your way to the Dominican Republic! Your relatives down there are already waiting for you!”
“That’s right Diane,” Tomas says. “We don’t want you to miss your flight to them, so let’s hurry and get you to that gate. We are not gonna have you miss that plane.”
“But what about my job at the hospital Grandpa Tomas?” Diane D asks.
“We already made arrangements with the hospital for you to have an entire month off.”
“You what?”
“Yes we did. The hospital agreed with us to give you an entire month off because they said they need a vacation from you.”
“What? The hospital said they need a vacation from me?”
“They sure did Diane.”
“Why do they think they need a vacation from me?”
“Because they said they can certainly use a break from you and we told them we are going to give them, a break from you.”
“Is that right?”
“Yes indeed Diane. Not only that. The hospital wants to make arrangements with us to give you, a permanent vacation.”
“What! The hospital wants to make arrangements with you to give me a permanent vacation?!”
“That’s right.”
“And what does that supposed to mean Grandpa Tomas? The hospital is not planning on firing me from there, are they?”
“No the hospital is not planning on firing you from there Diane, we are!”
“You are?! What is that supposed to mean Grandpa Tomas?!”
“The employees at the hospital are afraid to work around you Diane.”
“The employees at the hospital are afraid to work around me?!”
“Yes they are.”
“Why? Why are they afraid to work around me?”
“Ever since they all heard about you allegedly kung fu kicking that storage room door wide open, they’re afraid that you might go off on them and attack them next!”
“Attack them next?!”
“Yes!”
“But I never kung fu kicked that storage room door Grandpa Tomas! When I went into the stairwell after I heard that tray dropped, I never even went down the stairs! I was about to go down the stairs, but I started feeling like I was about to pass out, so I never even went down the stairs, so therefore, I was never down in the lower level of the clinic area that night at all, so therefore, I never kung fu kicked that door! Those two witnesses Cody and Shane are lying!”
“Cody and Shane?!” Margarita puzzled asks. Everyone else puzzled looks at Diane D as Margarita says, “How do you know it was Cody and Shane who were the witnesses Diane?! Nobody ever told you who the witnesses were! We got strict orders not to tell you who the two witnesses are?”
“Yeah Diane,” Barry says. “How did you know it was Cody and Shane?! They claim you never saw them in that back clinic hallway at all because by the time you got to where the tray fell, they were already gone. You didn’t see anybody when you got to where the tray fell, did you?”
“No Dad, I didn’t see anybody. Nobody was there when I got there.”
“So how do you know Cody and Shane are the witnesses? How do you know, it was them in that back clinic hallway?!”
“I don’t know how I know it was them Dad,” Diane D says. “A strong intuition and feeling came over me and told me it was them.”
“A strong intuition and feeling came over you and told you?” Mary asks.
“Yeah Mom, it did.”
“What strong intuition and feeling?”
“I don’t know. It’s hard to explain. It just told me. Besides, I don’t know why those other hospital employees are afraid to work around me, I’m not even thinking about attacking them!”
“You might not be thinking about attacking them Diane,” Tomas says, ’but THEY’RE thinking about it! They don‘t know the next time you go off and kung fu kick something, that something might be them instead of a door. They don‘t want to risk the chance of you going off and kung fu kicking them if you continue to work in the hospital! They claim they don‘t want to be the next security guards or the next Marcus.”
“The next security guards or the next Marcus?!”
“That’s right. They don‘t want history to repeat itself by you going off and kung fu kicking them, then wind up not remembering it!
”
“But I don’t remember kung fu kicking those security guards or that kid Marcus!”
“But they all said you DID kung fu kicked them Diane!”
“They’re all lying! And I’m telling you, I never kung fu kicked that storage room door!”
“But the two eye witnesses said you did!”
“But I don’t remember kung fu kicking that storage room door Grandpa Tomas! Honestly I don‘t!”
“See? That’s what the hospital employees are all afraid of Diane, that you might go off someday in the future and attack and kung fu kick them and not remember it! Then if the hospital employees get hurt by you and decide to take the hospital to court, the first thing the court is going to ask the hospital is, if they knew you had a history of attacking and kung fu kicking people or objects, then wind up not remembering it, then why did the hospital allow you to continue to work there risking the safety of the other employees there or risking destroying property doing property damage! Then what is the hospital going to say? I’m sorry Diane, but the hospital employees just don’t feel safe around you.”
“But I’m not going to attack or kung fu kick any of those hospital employees Grandpa Tomas!”
“They’re not so sure about that Diane! Now let’s go. We’ll talk about your resignation from the hospital on our way to the gate!”
“Resignation from the hospital?!”
“That’s right.”
“I don’t want to resign from the hospital Grandpa Tomas!”
“But you have to resign Diane!”
“Why?!”
“We don’t have time to discuss it right now, time is running out! We don‘t want you to miss that flight!”
“But Grandpa Tomas….”
“Aaah, no more questions Diane!” Grandpa Mike shouts. “Get on that plane!”
“But Grandpa Mike….”
“Estar tranquilo Diane!” Margarita shouts. Diane D worriedly looks at Margarita as Margarita shouts to her, “Vamos!”
Diane D looks forward as Grandpa Mike shouts, “Okay everybody! Let’s get Diane and Michael to the plane!” Mary, Barry, Margarita, Tomas, Tonio, Marilyn, Gracy and the rest of the family continue to pull Diane D and Michael towards the airport terminal as the rest of their family follow them pulling and carrying their luggage.
The following day, Junior, Zaviar and Gwendolyn are sitting inside the control room of the TV Station again looking at an article in the newspaper with a headline that reads: DIANE D‘S FAMILY SENDS HER, HER HUSBAND MICHAEL AND HER COUSIN DANA’S AUNT PATRICIA PACKING! DIANE D’S GRANDFATHER MIKE BANS HER, HER HUSBAND MICHAEL AND HER COUSIN DANA‘S AUNT PATRICIA FROM BEING AROUND DANA! “Yo,” Zaviar says. “This article says that Diane D’s family sent her, her husband Michael and her cousin Dana’s Aunt Patricia packing yesterday!”
“Oh yeah?” Junior asks.
“Yeah! First the family sent her cousin Dana’s Aunt Patricia packing back to Jamaica yesterday, then after that, the family sent Diane D and her husband Michael packing to the Dominican Republic!”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah! This article says that Diane D’s family drove her cousin Dana’s Aunt Patricia to the airport and stayed there until Dana’s Aunt Patricia got on that plane! They made sure she got on that flight back to Jamaica, then after that, they drove Diane D and her husband Michael to the airport and stayed there until Diane D and her husband Michael got on that plane to the Dominican Republic!”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah!”
“Why did Diane D’s family send her cousin Dana’s Aunt Patricia packing back to Jamaica,” Gwendolyn asks. “And why did they send Diane D and her husband Michael packing to the Dominican Republic?”
“Because of all this scandal of Diane D’s husband getting horny when he saw Dana laying on the bed sleeping, then woke her up and had sex with her and accidentally knocks her up, getting her pregnant! According to this police report and rumors at the hospital where Diane D works at, Diane D flips out when she allegedly finds out, that her own husband accidentally gets her own cousin pregnant a second time, then allegedly tries to abort the unborn baby out of her own cousin herself a second time, then later gets arrested for it! Later on, Dana winds up getting an abortion by a real doctor, then Dana’s Aunt Patricia down in Jamaica hears about the abortion and comes all the way up from Jamaica, she later comes along with breast pumps and milk storage bottles planning to collect breast milk from Dana so she can sell it to a milk bank, but Diane D stops her, then Dana’s Aunt Patricia and Diane D wind up going at it getting into a physical altercation inside the grandparents‘ house, then Dana’s Aunt Patricia goes behind her family’s back with the breast pumps and milk storage bottles and collects breast milk from Dana anyway and winds up succeeding in selling it to a milk bank and actually gets paid for it, then later comes in the house with shopping bags of new milk storage bottles and runs right into Diane D inside the house. Diane D sees the milk storage bottles inside the shopping bags realizing, that Dana’s Aunt Patricia is planning to collect breast milk from Dana, then Diane D and Dana’s Aunt Patricia go at it again getting into another physical altercation! The rest of the family burst into the house and try to break Diane D and Dana’s Aunt Patricia apart causing the shopping bags to rip apart, causing everything inside the bags including a soda bottle to fall and drop on the floor! Then Dana’s Aunt Patricia picks the soda bottle off the floor and clobbers Diane D right on the head with the soda bottle causing Diane D to fall out on the floor!”
“Oh my God!”
“Diane D winds up in the ambulance then taken to the hospital. So after all of this, Diane D’s grandfather Mike decides to ban Diane D, her husband Michael and her cousin Dana’s Aunt Patricia from being around Dana, sending Dana’s Aunt Patricia away back to Jamaica, then sending Diane D and her husband Michael away to the Dominican Republic.”
“Wow. It sounds like Diane D’s grandfather Mike kicked Diane D, her husband Michael and her cousin Dana’s Aunt Patricia out of the country just to keep them away from Dana.”
“It certainly seems that way. You don’t mess with Grandpa Mike. I heard he wants to keep all three of them away from Dana for a while, especially Diane D’s husband.”
“Oh yeah? Why especially Diane D’s husband?”
“Because Diane D’s husband is the one who started this whole entire thing by allegedly having sex with Dana and getting her pregnant. If he never had sex with Dana and got her pregnant, none of this would be happening, but since he allegedly did have sex with Dana, I consider him a very lucky guy.”
“You consider him a lucky guy too?”
“I sure do.”
“It seems like a lot of men are considering him a lucky guy.”
“Because he’s having sex with both his wife Diane D and her cousin Dana as well. Diane D and her cousin Dana are both gorgeous! I would like to have sex with both of them myself just like Diane D‘s husband is doing.”
“Yeah me too,” Junior says. “To tell you the truth, if Dana needed to get rid of that breast milk, her Aunt Patricia didn’t have to come all the way from Jamaica to get rid of the breast milk for her, I would have gladly gotten rid of the breast milk for Dana, she could have breast fed me! I wouldn’t mind her breast feeding me, she can breast feed me anytime.”
“She can breast feed me too,” Zaviar says. “If Diane D had any breast milk, she can breast feed me too!”
“Oh Diane D is too busy playing doctor,” Junior laughs and says. “First of all, she allegedly tried to make herself a doctor by trying to give her cousin Dana an abortion herself, when that didn’t work out, she allegedly tried to make herself a doctor by trying to give her husband a vasectomy!”
“Wow. I wouldn’t mind playing doctor with Diane D. I would love to become HER personal doctor. I would love to become Dana’s personal doctor too.”
“Yeah me too. They both can call me Doctor Feel Good.” Junior and Zavi
ar throw their fists in the air and shout, “Woo woo, woo woo!” Gwendolyn looks at Junior and Zaviar as she nods her head.
Around three weeks later, there is Caribbean Festival going on inside a park. There is a big crowd of people there. Caribbean music is playing. There is Caribbean food laying on tables being served to the people. Christine and some members of her family are preparing some food.
Several yards away, Dana appears dressed in dark leggings, thick black shoes, a short dark blazer and her pony tail at the bottom of her head all loosed around her back and shoulders. She is surrounded by a lot of her Jamaican relatives, Tony, Aunt Celeste, Aunt Jean, Aunt Laura, Missy, Landa, Londa, Linda, Judy, Teresa and Joseph.
Several yards away, a woman in the crowd looks towards Dana. She says, “Hey! There goes Diane D’s cousin Dana.” People in the crowd turn to look. They are surprised to Dana.
“Where’s she been?” a man in the crowd asks. “We haven’t seen or heard from her since the scandal about Diane D trying to abort her unborn baby.”
“No we haven’t.” The crowd continues to look towards Dana.
Dana turns from her Jamaican relatives, Tony, Aunt Celeste, Aunt Jean, Aunt Laura, Missy, Landa, Londa, Linda, Judy, Teresa and Joseph and starts to walk towards Christine’s direction. Tony, Aunt Celeste, Aunt Jean, Aunt Laura, Missy, Landa, Londa, Linda, Judy, Teresa and Joseph turn and follow Dana. They continue to surround Dana and walk with her as she continues to walk towards Christine.
Dana approaches Christine. Christine turns around towards Dana. She and Dana give each other a warm hug and kiss. Christine then says to Dana, “How’re you feeling baby? You feeling alright?”
“I’m okay Mom,” Dana says.
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, I’m sure.”
“Good.”
Missy, Landa, Londa, Linda and Judy approach Christine. Several Jamaican female friends of Christine’s excitingly approach Dana and shout, “Dana!” One of the women gives Dana a hug. She then lets go of Dana and says, “Hey Dana. So how you feeling? Are you okay baby?”
“Yeah I’m okay Miss Francis,” Dana says.
“You are?”
“Yeah. I’m alright.”
“You sure?”
“I’m sure Miss Francis.”
“That’s good baby.” The woman hugs Dana again.
Another woman says, “Don’t be so stingy Francis. I want to give Dana a hug too.” The woman says to Dana, “Hey Miss Green Eyes!” Everyone laughs. The woman gives Dana a big hug as the rest of the crowd approach near Dana looking on. The woman then lets go of Dana and says, “Aauuh Dana. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” Dana says.
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah I’m sure.”
“Good.”
More of Christine’s friends hug Dana and say, “Aauuh.” One of the women lets go of Dana and says, “How you feeling baby?”
“I’m okay,” Dana says.”
“That’s good.”
“Wow,” a fourth Jamaican woman says. “You look good Dana.”
“She always looks good, and sexy too.”
“You got that right.” The women laugh.
Some Jamaican male friends of Christine’s approach Dana and give her hugs too. They, Christine’s female friends, Tony, Aunt Celeste, Aunt Jean, Aunt Laura, Missy, Landa, Londa, Linda, Judy, Teresa and Joseph and the rest of the crowd all surround Dana looking on at her. A fifth Jamaican woman asks Dana, “So Dana, how’s Diane doing?”
“She’s okay,” Dana says.
“She is?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good. Is she still in the Dominican Republic?”
“Yeah.”
“When was the last time you spoke with her?” the other woman asks.
“This morning. I spoke to her on the phone.”
“You did?”
“Yeah.”
“How long did y’all talk on the phone for?”
“We spoke on the phone for around two hours.”
“Two hours?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good.”
“Who’s in the Dominican Republic with her besides her husband?” the third woman asks.
“Her mom and dad are down their with her.”
“They are?”
“Yeah. So are her brothers.”
“Her brothers are down their too?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s nice.”
“What about Diane’s other grandparents Margarita and Tomas?” Francis asks. “Where are they?”
“They’re still here.”
“They are?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh, okay.”
“So when are Diane and her family coming back?”
“They were supposed to come back next week, but my grandpa is not allowing Diane to come back next week.”
“Who, your grandfather Mike?”
“Yeah.”
“He’s not letting Diane come back?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“He told Diane she has to stay down there for two extra weeks.”
“He told her she has to stay down there for two extra weeks?”
“Yeah. He told her relatives down there not to send her back here yet.”
“He did?”
“Yeah.”
“How come?”
“I don’t know, ask my mom.”
“Okay.” The woman turns to Christine and asks, “Hey Christine. How come your father in-law Mike told Diane’s relatives down in the Dominican Republic not to send her back here yet?”
“Oh he’s still mad at Diane because she and my sister Patricia were fighting,” Christine says. “Especially they were fighting right inside his house, not only once, but twice!”
“Yeah we all heard. So he send them away because of it.”
“He sure did.”
“I see. So instead of Diane coming back next week, your father in-law added an extra two weeks behind that and now Diane is coming back in three weeks, right?”
“Yeah.”
“How does she feel about it?”
“She’s not happy about it. She got on the phone and started fussing and complaining to her grandfather about him adding an extra two weeks to her stay down there.”
“She did?”
“Yeah. She told him it’s not right or fair that he’s keeping her from her health and fitness class and from her personal training clients.”
“She told your father in-law that?“
“Yeah.“
“Then what did your father in-law say or do?”
“He told Diane if she keeps popping that lip, he’s going to add another two weeks on top of the two extra weeks he already added.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“Then what did Diane say or do?”
“She started fussing and complaining even more.”
“She did?”
“Yeah.”
“Then what did your father in-law say or do?”
“He told Diane does she want to try for an extra three weeks instead of an extra two?”
“Oh no. Then what did Diane say or do?”
“Oh she shut up then.”
“She did?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow, I bet she did,” the third woman says as she and the other women laugh a little.
“But my father in-law constantly calls down to the Dominican Republic to check on Diane to make sure she’s alright, to make sure she’s taking her medication and to see if she needs anything.”
“He does?”
“He sure does. He also calls down to Jamaica to check on my sister Patricia to make sure she’s okay and to see if she needs anything.”
“He does that for your sister too?”
“He sure does.”
“Wow that’s nice of him. I better your sister P
atricia tells your father in-law that she needs everything under the sun.”
“No, my father in-law knows what not to give her.”
“Wow. But it’s still nice of him to check on both your sister and Diane.”
“It is.” Christine smiles and turns away to Missy, Landa, Londa and Linda as the first woman turns back to Dana and asks, “Hey Dana. What about your Aunt Patricia? Is she still in Jamaica?”
“Yeah she’s still down there,” Dana says.
“Oh yeah? How‘s she doing?”
“She doing okay.”
“That’s good. When she coming back?”
“I don’t know, ask my mom.”
“Okay.” The woman turns back to Christine and asks, “Hey Christine. When’s your sister Patricia coming back from Jamaica?”
“When’s Patricia coming back?”
“Yeah.”
“No time soon I hope!”
“You hope no time soon?!”
“That‘s riiight! Please! Let’s just leave Patricia, right where she is for now!” The women laugh a little.
Another Jamaican woman holding a little dark skinned 1-year old boy approaches Dana and says, “Hey Dana. You remember my nephew Bertrude right?”
Dana frowns as she looks at the little boy and says, “Yeah I remember him.”
“He still likes your green eye color. Can he take a picture with you?”
“I guess.”
“Thanks. Can you hold him while he and you take a picture together.” The lady hands Dana her nephew Bertrude. Dana holds and carries Bertrude. She looks at Bertrude. She then turns him away from herself and faces him towards the woman as the woman stands several feet from them reaching into her pocket.
The woman pulls her camera out of her pocket.
Dana looks at the camera as the woman holds the camera up towards her and Bertrude.
The woman is about to snap a picture of Dana and Bertrude and shouts, “You ready?!”
“Yeah,” Dana says. Suddenly Bertrude turns his head around and looks right at Dana‘s face.
The woman calls out, “Over here Bertrude! Look over here!”
Bertrude turns his head towards the woman.
As the woman gets ready to snap a picture, Bertrude turns his head and looks back at Dana’s face again.
The woman calls out again and says, “Look this way Bertrude! Look over here!”
Bertrude does not turn to look at the woman. He continues to stare at Dana’s face, especially her eyes. Dana frustratingly looks down at Bertrude as she continues to hold him. She then shouts to him, “Come on baby, stop looking at me! Look that way at the camera!” as she points to the woman. Bertrude turns his head back towards the woman. He suddenly turns his head back towards Dana. He continues to stare at Dana’s face. He suddenly reaches for Dana’s face and tries to touch her eyes, but his hands accidentally touches her face and puts a little powder mess on her face. Dana frustrating removes Bertrude’s hand from off her face.
“I’m sorry Dana!” the woman shouts. “He’s still trying to figure out if your green eye color is real!” Dana frustratingly looks down at Bertrude again as everyone laughs a little.
Judy approaches Dana and says, “Aauuhh, he messed up your face Dana. It looks like you got some kind of powder mess on your face. Here’s a mirror?” Judy takes a small mirror out of her bag. She holds the mirror up to Dana’s face. Dana looks in the mirror as she taps the powder off her face.
“You need to wipe it off good Dana,” Aunt Laura says. Aunt Laura and the rest of the family approach Dana and are about to help her wipe her face, but Dana continues to look in the mirror tapping the powder off her face as she continues to hold Bertrude. Dana finishes tapping the powder off her face. Everybody then steps back from her. Dana looks back down at Bertrude.
The lady holding the camera shouts, “You need a tissue?!”
Dana looks up towards the lady and shouts, “No! Just hurry up and take the picture!”
“Alright alright.” The woman holds the camera out to Bertrude and Dana and tries to snap a picture of them again as the crowd looks on.
Bertrude does not look at the woman. He continues to look at Dana admiring her face. Dana continues to tap the powder off her face as she looks towards the camera.
“Over here Bertrude!” the woman shouts. “Over here!”
Bertrude turns his head and looks at the woman again as Dana looks towards the camera continuing to tap the powder off her face. Suddenly Bertrude turns his head and looks back at Dana’s face again. Dana frustrating looks back down at Bertrude.
“This is not going to work!” the woman shouts. “He’s more interested in looking at your green eyes than getting a picture taken!”
“So you’re not gonna snap the picture?!” Dana shouts.
“No, he won‘t look this way! He keeps looking at you!”
“Okay come get him!” Dana frustratingly shouts as the crowd laughs a little.
“Okay!” The woman starts to walk towards Dana.
The woman approaches Dana as Dana frustratingly looks down at Bertrude again then hands Bertrude back to the woman. Dana then turns towards Christine as she and Christine quietly talk with each other. Missy, Landa, Londa and Linda then talk with Dana and Christine. Dana then turns away from Christine and back towards Tony, Aunt Celeste, Aunt Jean, Aunt Laura, Judy, Teresa, Joseph and her Jamaican relatives and shouts, “Okay guys! We’re out!” Dana turns and walks away with Tony, Aunt Celeste, Aunt Jean, Aunt Laura, Missy, Landa, Londa, Linda, Judy, her other Jamaican relatives, Teresa and Joseph as the rest of the crowd continues to look on towards her.
Chapter 31
Diane D Returns From The Dominican Republic
