I HAVE MY REALITY_WRITER WEDNESDAY

Today's a #writerwednesday and I'm sharing another sample, an excerpt from a previously published novel. I have been blessed to have a wonderful husband by my side as we raise our three children. Even with my husband by my side, I have had difficult moments one-on-one with my two sons as they grow to be men. On the heels of #mother'sday, I'm giving a hats off to all the single mothers out there. I applaud every single parent for the wonderful job they do and the strength they exude in their roles, both mothers and fathers alike.

In today's excerpt my character, Rayne, has to deal with her oldest son, Bryant, who definitely has his own perspectives. Their views on life crash, and she understands there is much that her son does not understand. Take a peek...

EXCERPT_IS THE GRASS REALLY GREENER?

CHAPTER_YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH


Thierry had planned a get-away for just the two of them. Brody had spent the weekend with her mother and Bryant was content to stay home alone, although he was not comfortable with her choice to go away for a weekend.
“Why you going away with that man?” he snapped when Rayne shared with him her plans to leave for the weekend.
“Bryant, I have to have a life, too. Next year you will be gone to college and Brody will grow up. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life alone and I wouldn’t think you wanted me to either,” she stated.
“Look I don’t care about you spending time with him, but I hope dude know he ain’t gon’ be my daddy or my little brother’s daddy,” he countered.
Rayne inhaled deeply and then let out a loud sigh. “Look, Bryant, no one is trying to take your father’s place and no one will ever be allowed to. It’s impossible and it hurts me to know that you feel I would ever try to do that. I love you and your father loved you very much. But my choice to date is no reflection on that love for our sons. My choice to date is because I am a full grown woman who needs to move on with her life after six years.”
“It ain’t like you ain’t been dating in those six years, Ma,” Bryant snapped.
“You’re right I have, but at the same time they were not serious. They didn’t understand the importance of my boys to me and therefore, they’re not still in my life. You and Brody are the most important people in my life and always will be. I won’t jeopardize that for anything, but I have finally met someone who not only understands that, but he respects it as well. That’s almost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and if there is a chance for me to find some more happiness in the world, I will do that.”
“Even at the risk of me and Brody being unhappy?”
“How is my dating making you guys unhappy, Bryant?” she asked.
“’Cuz it’s like dude trying to force his way into our lives, Ma,” he said, standing up from his bed and pacing his room to vent his frustrations, “and you just letting him. You don’t care what it’s doing to us or how we feel about it. You only care about how you feel about it!” he disputed, pointing a finger at her.
Rayne stood up from her son’s bed taking in deep calming breaths. She was ready to knock him on his ass, because he wouldn’t keep standing there disrespecting her and talking to her crazy. She didn’t care if he did stand 6’3 at 205 pounds. He wasn’t going to be a man in her house and if he thought so, he had another thought coming.
“Look, Bryant, I’m about all out of patience with you and this conversation. I am going away for the weekend and that’s it. I am going to date Thierry, I enjoy his company, and so does your brother. If you gave him half a chance, you’d find he is a really good guy. Let me explain something to you. I don’t have a problem with you defending your father’s memory and making sure no one takes his place. That’s not going to happen anyway. Your father and I were together for almost 18 years. In all that time we never got married; your father never settled down with just me, he lived his life. And even though it ended all too soon, he never let nothing stop him from doing what he felt he needed to do. I’m sure he would be the first one telling me to go on about my business. He would be the first one to tell me to live and enjoy my life to the fullest, he wouldn’t want---
“How do you know that, Ma? Huh? How you figure he would be telling you to date some other dude, and bring him into our house and go away for a weekend with him? Huh? How you gon’ sit here and tell me you know all that?” he argued.
And before Rayne realized what she was doing, she spoke out of turn. She had worked hard to preserve the memory of their father in their minds as being the best guy. But she could no longer take the disrespect her son was dishing out on Brandon’s behalf.She walked to her son leaving mere inches between the two of them and looked up at him in the eyes. “Because it was what he wanted before he died! You see, you have your memories and I have my reality..."



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WRITING MY DREAMS,
CHELLE RAMSEY