Characters:
Monty Brooke – Mike's best friend. Father of Donnie and husband of Linda. He is famous for cheating on his wife.
Linda Brooke – A quiet woman who is sick of her husband cheating.
Donnie Brooke – Monty's youngest son. He is a lot like his father and his wife Jordan is sick of him leaving her out and has been considering leaving him.
Jordan Kisich Brooke – Mother of two, the heroine and villain of the piece. She believes that she is a little Arabic because of her middle name.
Timmy Brooke – Jordan and Donnie's teenage son.
Katie Brooke - Jordan and Donnie's young daughter.
Mike Lewinsky – A man who is in love with his wife but feels disillusioned. He decides to go on vacation because he is sick of watching television where people assume he is related to Monica Lewinsky. He is not of course.
Febe Lewinsky – Mike's wife, a quiet caring woman who is stubborn in her ways.
Nick Lewinsky – The son of Mike and Febe, their only son. He is almost a man and his loyalties to his father run deep.
Bessie Ward – A wealthy woman who has been hot for Mike for years and finally suddenly becomes his mistress.
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Part One
It began with a sudden realization of Monty's white turning on his compact disk player. Mike was standing in the room looking out the window thinking, watching an attractive black woman walk down the street, turning the corner and disappearing. She had been very pregnant from the looks of it, as still very attractive. He wished that Febe would want to have more kids. They had only Nick, and Nick was a fine son but Mike had always dreamt of having more children. The black woman seemed a world away, and a race away.
"I got this cd player for fifty bucks up at the store. Surround sound, what do you think of that Mr. Lewinsky?" Monty said to Mike. But Mike did not answer, he was too busy watching the woman disappear, her fine ass moving off into the distance. "Looks like one of the kids left a cd in here."
The cd began playing. Monty had left the room, thinking that it was Randy Travis, but it was actually Lil Kim.
"To all my motherfuckin' gettin' money hoes, used to clothes… love a hard bitch
One that get up in a nigga's ass quicker than an enema
Make a cat bleed then sprinkle it with vinegar"
It wasn't that he wasn't happy with where his current situation, he was married and very content being a man with his wife. It was nice to get away from her a little bit though. Distance makes the heart fonder. He walked into the hallway of the old trailer made in the late 70s, the long thick green carpeting flat from the years of being trampled. So this was where Monty and Linda Brooke had decided to live, found a place alone to spend the middle part of their days away in a trailer park that allowed absolutely no children. He couldn't help but laugh at the idea as he realized that most of their stories were of things that had happened when the entire gang was much younger. Now, as Monty had noted to him once before, his children were now having children.
The cd continued, "…Make him call his wife and say he never coming home…"
Mike looked up at the picture in the home of his lifelong friend Monty, and Monty's wife Linda. The long serious look on his face, his son in the other room talking to Linda. The years slipped by him, and slowly he began to deposit each and every idea in his mind.
Cd: "What? I'm loving this shit
Queen Bitch!"
The drive had been long, and the heat was intense, but was not to last. These were the final days of the Autumn that he had enjoyed. Fishing with his son, and going on trips with him while he had a few days away from school. It gave the two a chance for a father and son outing.
Cd: "…I treat y'all niggas like y'all treat us
No Doubt! Ay yo, yo
Come here so I can bust in ya mouth"
Just the two of them together, the way his wife had suggested. The picture on the wall reminded him of how fortunate he was to have both an understanding wife like Febe, and friends like Monty and Linda.
Cd: "…And if I was dude I'd tell y'all to suck my dick."
The four of them had always been close, and the picture on the wall of Monty's son and daughter in law getting married made him realize what they had all been through together.
Cd: "…All I wanna do is get my pussy sucked…"
Mike snapped to reality as a bus drove by, slowly he walked over to the cd player just in time as Monty walked into the room. "I'm turning this shit off." He winced, "I take it this isn't your music."
"Nah, like I said, the kids listen to that shit." Monty laughed shutting it off. "Damn bitch thinks she's a man or something."
"Or something." Mike laughed.
"Mike, I'm going down to Benny's store to see if he has any lights for my truck. I need to get the damn thing fixed. You comin?" Monty asked, always in a hurry with his fat belly flopping out of his pants.
"Um…." Mike looked over at his son, "Yeah why not. You coming along too?"
His son nodded and walked over with him to the door. "Ya know dad, I'm so glad that you brought me up here this weekend like I asked." Nick gently put his arms around his father and hugged him. Such a rare moment for there to be affection between the two of them. It was almost a once in a lifetime occurrence these days for them.
"You know Monty…" Mike said, putting his hand on his old friend's shoulder as they put their coats on and began to walk out of the house, "I have to tell you that he's been nagging and nagging me to come up here to see you guys. He really enjoys coming up here."
Monty nodded at him, really not paying much attention to him, he looked at his wife. "Have you seen my keys at all?"
Linda walked out and looked around on the table and the chair and finally found them shoved down behind the door in the carpeting. It was such a small house, situated in low income housing for older people who did not want to be bothered by children in a neighborhood. It gave them the opportunity to be totally free from the noises and the broken windows. But deep down, neither of them could be happy. They had tried to build a security wall around themselves in hopes that their family would hold together.
"I mean it Monty. This boy, the only thing he can talk about is coming to Seattle to see you guys." Mike said, trying to get his friend's attention, and feeling somewhat brushed off by his friend. Nevertheless, Mike felt that it was up to him to talk and ramble or whatever the case may be in his friend's eyes.
Monty opened the door for them, Linda having thrown him the keys to their blazer. "Good. We're happy to have you two around here." He said with a warm smile, then messing up the kid's hair for a laugh. "And maybe this boy will get some action."
"He's pretty smart, not out sleeping with every girl he sees." Mike added, trying to defend his son, who was feeling uncomfortable being looked upon so negatively by the obviously dirty old man that Monty was.
"Well you a virgin boy?" Monty said with a passing glance.
"Uh…" the poor boy stuttered, "Ye..yes.. I am." The teenage boy looked up at the pictures on the wall of Monty and Linda's grandchildren. His eyes skipped across them until it found the picture of their granddaughter Katie in the arms of her mother. A weary sigh escaped him in his shame.