Hello, fellow members. I know it's been awhile, since I've updated any of my stories, and I'm sorry about that, but I haven't been slacking. I have a good excuse. I'm in the process of editing, updating and extending a book that's I'm going to publish, and it has taken all my attention. This story is being updated because Sabella and Malcolm got up in my face and demanded my attention (these two can be such spoil brats sometimes). So here for your enjoyment is Chapter 13, please read, comment, vote and enjoy. Oh, and please over look my mistakes. I'm trying to get better, but I don't always succeed.
Sabella stood in Malcolm's living room, holding the phone up to her ear listening as Carolyn spoke.
"I was hoping you would answer the phone," Carolyn said the tone of her vice sending a chill through Sabella.
"What do you want?" Sabella asked knowing that whatever this heifer wanted to say wouldn't bode well for her or the twins.
"I just wanted to let you know that Malcolm is on his way home with some news for you," Carolyn said wishing she was talking face to face with RaeLynn (Sabella) so that she could see the look on her face when she told her about her and Malcolm getting married. "Actually what he has to tell you is going to affect you and the twins."
"Thank you for calling," Sabella said about to hang up the phone because she didn't want to hear anything Carolyn had to say to her.
"Don't hang up," Carolyn said. "Because I don't trust Malcolm to come right out and tell you our news, I'm going to tell you myself."
"Okay," Sabella said anxious to get off the phone.
The calmness of Sabella's voice irked Carolyn.
"Malcolm and I are getting married," Carolyn said waiting to hear Sabella's reaction.
Sabella's reaction wasn't what she expected. Instead of getting angry and calling Carolyn a liar, Sabella started laughing uncontrollably.
"Stop it," Carolyn said her temper rising. "Stop, laughing right now!"
"I'm sorry," Sabella said, "but you can't call, here say something that outrageous and funny and not expect me to laugh. There's no way in the world Malcolm would marry you."
Sabella threw her head back as another bout of laughter rose up through her chest, out her mouth.
"Oh, he's going to marry me," Carolyn said. "He'll marry me or he goes to jail."
That statement got Sabella's attention and she was no longer laughing.
"Why would Malcolm be sent to jail?" she asked.
"For raping me," Carolyn replied, "when I came over to his house for a visit."
"You lying bit..," Sabella said stopping herself before she called Carolyn a female dog. "How can you fix your mouth to tell such a disgusting lie?"
"I'm not lying," Carolyn said innocently. "At least that's what I'm going to tell the Sheriff. I'm sure he'll believe me, especially with my father backing me up by telling him how distraught I was when Malcolm brought me home."
"You're forgetting that Mabel and I were here when you came over to Malcolm's house," Sabella said.
"We can tell the Sheriff how you showed up over here drunk, naked and screaming about how much you love Malcolm."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Carolyn said the sugary sweetness seeping through her voice making Sabella want to pull her through the phone and beat the hell out of her. "I haven't been drinking, which my father can attest to and as far as you and Mabel being witnesses, I'm afraid Mabel's word isn't going to carry too much weight, not when everyone knows that she loves Malcolm like a son, and if she thought that it would help him get out of trouble that she would lie for him. And, as for you, RaeLynn (Sabella), you have to know that no one would take the word of, you, a colored woman over me, a white woman."
Sabella couldn't argue neither point because Carolyn was right on both points. No one would believe Mabel because of her close relationship with Malcolm, and they wouldn't believe her because of the color of her skin.
Carolyn had Malcolm right where she wanted him, because of the sensibilities of the time, he had no way out. The only choice he had was to marry the bitch, if he wanted to stay out of jail.
"I've given Malcolm two weeks to make up his mind," Carolyn said snidely to Sabella. "But, he really has no choice, I know he's going to fight me to the end, but eventually he'll see that marrying me is the only choice he has. He'll make that choice a lot sooner if you and those babies aren't around."
"Why would you want to be married to a man who doesn't want you?" Sabella asked.
"How do you know that Malcolm doesn't want me?" Carolyn said her voice filled with anger. "Who, the hell are you to make such a statement? I didn't call you to discuss Malcolm's feelings for me. I called you to tell you that Malcolm is going to jail if he and I aren't married with the next two weeks. As, I said before he'll make his decision a lot quicker if you and those brats aren't around to get in our way. I suggest for your own good and for the good, of those two little pick-a-nannies that you take them and get out of town. If you don't you'll, wound up in jail too and there's no telling what'll happen to the brats."
"Why are you..."
"No, more questions, you stupid nigger!" Carolyn shouted. "I want you and those brats out of my house!"
The sound of Carolyn slamming the phone down ending their conversation was the last sound Sabella heard.
'The woman is crazy,' Sabella said to herself putting the phone down and making her way over too the twins sleeping in their cribs in the living room.
She looked down at the sleeping babies thinking that Carolyn might be crazy, but she was right, she and the twins had to leave.
Sabella went upstairs to gather her things and whatever the twins would need and prepared to leave Malcolm's house.
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"Do you think she'll leave?" Carolyn's father asked her.
Carolyn turned to face her father. "Of course she's going to leave," she said chuckling, "she wants to keep those babies safe, and she doesn't want Malcolm to go to jail."
"Why did you give Malcolm two weeks to make up his mind?" her father asked.
"I want a wedding," Carolyn replied. "It won't be as grand as I want, but two weeks should be enough time to put together a small ceremony and a decent reception."
"Why don't you and Malcolm elope?"
"Because I want pictures," Carolyn said, "and I want all the nay-sayers in this town who said Malcolm would never marry me to be there, all of them eating crow, choking on their own words."
"I won't be home for dinner," Ed said. "I have some things to handle, and I won't be home until late tonight."
"Alright," Carolyn replied. "I'm going to start making arrangements for my wedding. It's going to be the surprise event of the year."
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