Life Turned Upside Down
Miss Donna’s Story
By
Julia Matthews
(section 8)
TWO YEARS
LATER
“Keith,”
I yelled after shutting the door, and shoving another letter from Tally into my
pocketbook.
“Coming,”
Keith yelled from his office area.
Soon as
Keith got within sight he stopped and looked around me. “Where’s Kelly?’
Shit.
I’d done it again. My mind was getting really bad. This was not the first time
I’d forgotten to get Kelly out. I know she’s there, and how important it was to
take care of her. Just like I knew the hidden letters of Tally’s come for a
reason, but not why. It’s why they got hidden. Keith worries way too much. No
sense in adding more. He’d worried since my returned from that short visit to
London.
“Don’t
worry. Your hands were full. I’ll go get her.” Keith swatted my rear-end as he
passed me. “Take those on in and we’ll join you in a minute.”
I sat
the bags down, and flopped onto the couch, burying my face in my hands and
mumbled, “Mother Earth what is wrong with me. Can’t take living like this any
longer. Sadness, and forgetting the most important thing in my life is not a
life.”
“There,
there,” Keith soothed a crying Kelly as they entered the hallway. “Mom had both
arms full. She couldn’t carry you and all those bags. Daddy should have been
paying attention and came to help her.”
Man,
Keith was a saint. Luck had been on my side when Mother Earth mated us. How in
the world could I continue living like this? If I do, it will only cost him and
Kelly. Keith is a powerful man, whose dream to be on the Supernatural Council
won’t come true if his mate can’t live properly. Kelly’s life will be even
harder with a mother who can’t remember to bring her in. What if I forget her
completely and something happens. Not something any mother could live with. Nor
wanted to think about what could happen.
Keith
sat Kelly down on the floor. “Go play, and let daddy help mom.”
Kelly
walked over, looked up at her and smiled so loving then scurried over to her
toy chest.
“Donna,”
Keith’s concerned voice drew my attention. “Why don’t you go take a rest, I’ll
watch Kelly, and put these away.”
“You
sure.” Donna knew there’d be no resting, too much to figure out. No way could I
let my deteriorating health destroy Keith and Kelly’s entire life.
“Go on.”
Keith kissed her and gave a little push towards the hallway.
I spent
two hours laying on our bed, remembering those first three weeks of our lives.
They had been so much fun. Love filled. There’d been lots of fun over the last
two years, but lately, bad things out weighed those. It was time to end my own
suffering, and any future suffering, which meant convincing Keith. Won’t be
easy, but Kelly deserves a happy, and easy life. I’m no longer able to provide
it, and a Mother Earth mate won’t follow his mate into the after life with a
young child to care for.
“You
sleeping?” Keith asked from the doorway.
“Nope.
Kelly asleep?” Keith nodded and walked toward the bed. “Can we talk?”
“Of
course.” Keith pulled her into his arms. “What’s on your mind?”
FINAL SECTION WILL BE POSTED ON DEC. 31
REMEMBER THIS IS A a work of fiction. All names, characters and events are from the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or person is purely coincidental.
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Copyright © Julia Matthews December 201
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