Sneak Preview: "A Song For You"

[Sweet Meat aka CC]

*More will be added to this story within the upcomin' weeks*

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A Song For You

Karmyn's Song:

My First Love
by Faith Evans

[Intro]
Oh, baby, yeah
How come it hurts so bad
Why does I feel so sad

[Verse 1]
To fall in love was something that my heart was dreaming of
And then there came the day when I found you
And heaven came to earth and you were my angel
I fell in love with you
No one but you
Suddenly I saw the change that came into your eyes
I feel you were afraid to tell me why
I thought this thing called love would be forever
I thought our love was true
And now the pain of losing you

[Chorus]
If you never know just what you mean
You are my first love
If you never know
You're everything
You are my first love

[Verse 2]
Tell me how a thing that brings such joy can bring such pain
And how could something so wrong seem so right
We never had the chance to make it get better
We never said goodbye, no
I never wanna feel the pain of losing love again
'Cause love just has a way of breaking down
Next time I'm gonna pray that things will be better
The second time around
So here's to love that's lost and found

[Bridge]
I won't cry, no, I won't break down
Even though inside it hurts so bad
Next time I will make love last
Though you will always have a place in my heart

[Chorus x2]

[Bridge]

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Marlon's Song:

4 Seasons of Loneliness
by Boyz II Men

[Verse 1]
I long for the warmth of days gone by
When you were mine
But now those days are memories in time
Life's empty without you by my side
My heart belongs to you
No matter what I try

When I get the courage up to love somebody new
It always falls apart 'cause they just can't compare to you
Your love won't release me I'm bound under ball and chain
Reminiscing our love as I watch 4 season's change

[Chorus]
In come the winter breeze that chills the air and drifts the snow
And I imagine kissing you under the mistletoe
When springtime makes its way here Lilac blooms reminds me of the scent of your perfume
When summer burns with heat I always get the hots for you
Go skinny dipping in the ocean where we used to do
When autumn sheds the leaves the trees are bare
When you're not here it doesn't feel the same

[Verse 2]
Remember the nights when we closed our eyes
And vowed that you and I would be in love for all time
Anytime I think about these things I shared with you
I break down and cry 'cause I get so emotional
Until you release me I'm bound under ball and chain
Reminiscing our love as I watch 4 season's change

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
This loneliness has crushed my heart
Please let me love again 'cause I need your love to comfort me and ease my pain
Or 4 seasons will bring the loneliness again

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[Sweet Meat aka CC]

Fall 2004...
I was sitting on the sofa going over some paperwork from my home business that I have as a CPA due to wanting to be a stay-at-home mother for my twelve-year-old son, DJ, that I had in my second year of college when something on the television caught my attention. It was the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and I had just heard that my first love and heartbreak, Marlon Wayans was one of the guest! I dropped all of my papers as I stared at the screen. No matter how many times I’ve seen him on tv in the past few years, I always got the same feeling about him. I couldn't even concentrate on Jay's monologue as I thought back to how Marlon and I first met....
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Summer 1987...
"Karmyn, why aren't you up and dancin' with your new relatives?", my Granny Jo asked as I sat at a table in the reception hall alone while watching my daddy, who is the son of Granny Jo, do the electric slide with his new bride. Her name was Pamela Grier, but as of today, she’ll be known as Pamela Stevenson. I watched as her daughter and my new stepsister, Vanessa, danced with them as well as some more of their family members along with members of my family.

"I don't know.", I sighed with a shrug of my shoulders while pushing my glasses up on my nose.

"Awwwwww, I know it's hard to see your daddy with someone else, but you know your momma is up in heaven smilin' down on all of you. She wants your daddy to be happy.", Granny Jo smiled as she sat down next to me.

"Maybe.", I mumbled while thinking about my momma who died the year before after a long battle with a rare form of leukemia. I had always been the only child since she couldn't have any more children after I was born, so she and I were extremely close. Don’t get me wrong though because this Pam lady daddy married today is really nice too, but I'll never see her replacing momma…I just won't.

My stepsister, Vanessa, who’s the same age as I am is a trip and she keeps me laughing. And talk about pretty! Sometimes, I think she’s prettier than I am. She's tall for her age with long, flowing hair and her skin is a pretty brownish-tan complexion. As for me, I'm on the nerdy side: I wear big red glasses, I always wear my hair combed back into a ponytail and I'm shaped funny or as Granny Jo has said "overly developed" except for my butt. She keeps telling me that in time, that too will fill out like my hips and breasts have, but I told her that she's not the one that the boys at school call "waffle doot", "ironing board", or "pancake girl". And one other name I’m always called is half-breed because I’m not of one race. Daddy is black, West Indian, and Native American and momma was white and black which would explain my weird skin tone. It’s like a light bronze olive complexion or something. Anyway, while I think I’m ugly, some girls have said that I think I’m cute because I don’t look black and because my hair is long and thick. BUT…as far as I’m concerned, I AM black and proud of it! Granny Jo has taught me that some people are blinded by both ignorance and stupidity and that I should just ignore the dumb comments made about me.

Anyway...I guess I'm gonna have to get used to the change in our family's situation. Daddy does look really happy.

For now, I think I'll go see what's going on outside until it's time to go home with Granny Jo and Vanessa while Daddy and Pam go down to Puerto Rico for their honeymoon.
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"Rise and shine, you two!", Granny Jo announced the next morning after turning on the light in my bedroom that I would share with Vanessa from now on.

"Awww, c'mon, Granny Jo! Juss five more minutes?", Vanessa whined while pulling up the comforter over her head.

"Nope! Yall got five minutes to get in the kitchen to eat breakfast!", she replied before walking out or so I thought.

"I ain't doin' nothin' but goin' back to sleep!", I huffed while burying myself deeper into my comforter. The next thing I felt was a hard whack on my leg.

"Get your narrow behind up, now! You too, Vanessa; and quit all that snickerin'!", Granny Jo stated in a stern tone.

"Okay, okay!", I sighed as I sat up and put on my glasses that were on the bookshelf next to me.

Several minutes later after eating breakfast and taking our showers, Granny Jo informed us that she was going to church. In the meantime, Vanessa and I went outside to sit on the porch while waiting for some of our girlfriends from our ’hood to show up so we could double-dutch.

"Hey yall!", Vanessa's best friend, Dori, smiled as she walked up the sidewalk. "Yall got some fine new neighbors movin' in!"

"How you know?", I asked as I leaned forward to peek around one of the tall bushes that lined our front porch. The only thing I saw was about three large men moving furniture from the back of a truck that was backed up to the front porch of a house two houses down across the street from us.

"Yeah, how you know?!", Vanessa anxiously asked as she jumped up with a sly grin on her face while trying to see who they were also.

"Actually, they went in the house toting somethin', but they should be back out in a minute. They look like they're around our age."

"Oh.", I sighed as I sat back down.

"What's the matta, girl?", Vanessa asked.

"Nothin'. I'ma go in the house to bring the radio out here. I'll be back."

While I was gone, my friend, Yasmine, came up to the house with her jump ropes.

"What'chall lookin' at?", she asked after noticing Vanessa and Dori stretching their necks trying to see the two guys that Dori was talking about.

"This girl said she saw two fine guys movin' in there that's around our age, but I ain't seen nothin'!", Vanessa huffed with a roll of her eyes.

"I'm tellin' you that I saw...ooooh...there goes one of ‘em now!", Dori giggled while eyeing a tall, muscular golden brown guy dressed in a white tank top, some black and blue jam shorts with a pair of black flip flops on his feet come walking out onto the sidewalk.

"Hey, Yaz!", I smiled as I walked back out onto the porch carrying my boom box which was loudly playing New Edition's "A Little Bit of Love (Is All It Takes)".

"Hey, Kar!", she replied although her eyes were glued on the same house that the rest of us had been watching. I took a peek and noticed a real skinny guy come out of the house dressed in a red t-shirt with a few tears and holes in it, some black shorts, a pair of worn and dirty British Knights, and a black baseball cap pulled backwards on his head. Several seconds later, I saw another guy that looked almost like him walking onto the back of the truck.

"Hi!", Dori grinned while waving at them.

"Girl, are you crazy?!", Yasmine giggled while pulling Dori's arm back down to her side. However, the guys looked in our direction and waved back. I immediately turned my head so they wouldn't see me.

"Okay, yall...juss so you know, I got the one in the tank top!", Vanessa giggled while still looking in their direction as they disappeared inside of the truck.

"Yeah, uh huh.", Dori replied with a suck of her teeth. "Anyway, let's go down to the store right quick to load up on some candy."

We all agreed to it, as I toted my boom box. When LL Cool J's "I Need Love" came on, I almost lost my head.

"That's gonna be my husband one day!", I grinned from ear-to-ear as I turned the volume up higher than it already was.

"Nuh uh...he's mine!", Yasmine giggled.

"Well, yall can have him because Ralph Tresvant belongs to me!", Dori grinned while pointing to herself.

"Yall can have all them negroes long as you don't touch MY new neighbor!", Vanessa blushed.

"Oh lawd!", the rest of us huffed at the same time while making our way inside the store.

[Sweet Meat aka CC]

Several minutes later when we returned home, we began to double-dutch until we heard a loud crash followed by some loud laughter behind us. When we turned around, we saw one of the older dudes lying on the ground on his back with part of a sofa lying across him. The two guys we had noticed earlier were standing on either side of him along with a woman that we assumed was their mother laughing while the man at the other end of the sofa leaned up against the back of the truck to keep from falling as he laughed his head off.

"Oh snap!", Dori giggled while we watched what was going on.

"Stop that laughin'! He could be hurt!", I giggled back.

"Only one way for us to find out!", Vanessa grinned as she took up to my hand as well as Yasmine’s so she could pull us across the street with her while Dori followed behind us.

As we approached them, I noticed the guy in the baseball cap smile at me before reaching down to help the injured party up.

"Oh my God! Are you okay?!", Vanessa stated in a concerned tone although I knew she was putting on because she was looking at the guy in the tank top who was looking back at her with an approving look on his face.

"Yeah, that ol' foo' will be aight! Nobody told him to be walkin' down that ramp so fast anyway.", he laughed.

"Leave your brotha alone.", the woman stated as she also helped the guy up from the ground. "Keenan, baby, are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, ma!", he chuckled. "Thanks for bein' concerned.", he smiled while looking at Vanessa.

"Huh? Oh anytime.", she replied after finally taking her eyes away from Keenan's brother.

"Yo, Keenan! You might need to go sit your clumsy self down somewhere!", the other guy that was helping to unload the sofa laughed.

"Shut up, man!", Keenan huffed back as he headed for the house. "Lemme see if Pop has the first-aid kit inside."

"So do yall live around here or somethin'?", the guy that Vanessa already claimed as hers smiled while looking at her.

"Well, my stepsister and I live across the street.", she smiled while looking at him. "By the way, I'm Vanessa, this is my stepsister, Karmyn, and these are our friends, Yasmine and Dori."

"Hey, yall! I'm Shawn and these are my brothas, Marlon and Damon.", he smiled back while introducing them.

"Marlon.", I thought to myself while smiling on the inside. Now that I had a closer look at him, he was really cute.

"Aight now...", their mother chuckled as she went back in the house, "...don't be too long. We still have some work to do."

"Yes, ma'am!", Marlon replied while watching her walk away.

"So it looks like yall will be attending school with us at Lincoln High, huh?", Vanessa grinned as she watched Shawn.

"Yup. I'm goin' to the eleventh and knucklehead here is goin' to the tenth. What about yall?", he grinned back although as far as I was concerned, the looks that he and Vanessa were giving each other, they might as well just made out right there in front of us.

"We're all goin' to the ninth.", she replied.

"You? The ninth grade?!", Shawn asked in disbelief. I guess after taking one look at how Vanessa was built as well as how tall she was, he would've thought she was a lot older.

"Yeah."

"Mmmm hmmmmmmm...well maybe we can talk some more later. I guess we betta get back to work or Pops is gonna have our asses!", he laughed.

"Maaaaaaaa...Shawn’s out here cussin'!", Damon yelled from the back of the truck which made us laugh.

"Man, shut up!!!", Shawn laughed while looking over at Damon.
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"Shawn, will you stop?! Don't you see your brotha is on?", Vanessa giggled while Shawn kept trying to get romantic with her.

"Girl, I done seen that skinny ass n!gga every day of my life!", he huffed while attempting to climb on top of her.

"Stop!"

"Nope!", he grinned before they started kissing. However, just when she was about to give in to Shawn's demands, their 7-year-old daughter, Victoria, came busting up in the room.

"Mommy, yall see Unca Marlon on tv again?!", she smiled.

"Dammit, I thought you had the door locked!", Shawn anxiously whispered while hurriedly climbing off of Vanessa.

"I thought you did!", she whispered back.

"Oooooooooh...!", Victoria giggled while placing her hand up to her mouth.

"What'chu ooooooohin' about, girl?! We were juss wrestlin'!", Shawn huffed.

"Uh uh.", she giggled with a shake of her head.

"Vicki, what are you doin' outta bed?! You have school tomorrow!", Vanessa sighed while sitting up on one elbow as she watched her with a stern look.

"Well, Shawny said that he was gonna watch Unca Marlon so I wanted to watch too!", Victoria whined as she ran over to the bed and climbed on it in between Shawn and Vanessa.

"Your brotha is a lot older than you are, so he can stay up.", Vanessa smiled.

"And who told you to get your lil' ass up here?!", Shawn grinned as Victoria began to playfully push him over so she could have more room.

"Hey, you're the one who couldn't go that one night without it seven years ago, so there it is.", Vanessa chuckled while throwing him a wink as she and Victoria sat up to watch Marlon.

"Yeah, right.", Shawn sighed as he sat up along with them. "Anyway, when Uncle Marlon goes off, you have to go back to bed."

"Okay, Daddy. Thank you.", Victoria smiled as she kissed him on the cheek.

When Jay asked Marlon about his personal life after he did his stand-up routine, Marlon explained that he had recently gotten out of a relationship with a well-known female actress in the industry. Rumors had been going around for months that he had been involved with either Nia Long or Meagan Goode. However, Marlon was quick to say that only he knew for sure who he was seeing and left it at that.

Shawn began to laugh while shaking his head.

“What’s so funny?”, Vanessa asked while giving him a strange look.

“I’m juss thinkin’ back to that day when you nearly took him out for talkin’ about Kar.”

“Man, you bring up that same tired story every time we see Marlon whether he comes to visit or we watch him on tv!”, she huffed with a roll of her eyes.

“That’s because it was funny!”

“Whateva! But it wasn’t so funny how he ended up breakin’ my sis’ heart now was it?!”, she snapped.

“Now here you go!”, Shawn sighed with a shake of his head as he returned his attention to the tv.

“You’re the one that wanted to bring up ol’ stuff!”…
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[Sweet Meat aka CC]

Fall 1987...
"Where that big head sista of yours?", Marlon grinned while he and Shawn walked up to Vanessa and Dori as they came back from the corner store after Sunday morning church service.

"I know you ain't callin' nobody big head!", Vanessa huffed as she and Shawn immediately took a hold of each other's hand.

Before school started, the two of them started going together. And Vanessa felt all special because her man was an upper classman. Daddy and Pam didn't like it too much that she was going with Shawn, so they decided to make me the lookout for them at both home and school...yeah, right! Like I was gonna tell them anything.

Anyway, as far as Marlon is concerned, I have the biggest crush on him, but I don't think he likes me because he's always callin' me names like "Big Head", "Four Eyes", or "Fun Bags" because of my size 38-C's. Plus when we're at school in study hall, he makes it a point to sit behind me so he can pull my hair, snap my bra in the back, throw paper at me, or tap me on my shoulder and then look away like he hasn't done anything. So each day that I come home, I pretty much stay in the house because I don't like being around him since all he does is make fun of me.

After changing out of my dress into a pair of sweatpants and one of my many oversized t-shirts that I owned so I could try to hide my “fun bags” each day that I went to school, I turned on my boom box and began to flip through the latest issue of "Right On!" magazine that I begged daddy to get me on the day before when we went grocery shopping so I could add the new centerfold of LL to my wall of posters and pictures that I already have of him hanging up next to my bed.

"So when you gonna get a man?", Marlon teased while looking at Dori from head to toe with a smirk on his face.

"I already got one foo'!", she huffed with a roll of her eyes as the two of them sat on the sidewalk watching the cars driving by. They had become quick friends almost like brother and sister.

"I don't see how when you lookin' like Mask!", he laughed.

"Like your ugly self is a prize!", she snapped back. "And then to top it off you AIN’T got nobody!"

"So? That don't mean I haven't found somebody already!", he huffed with a shake of his head.

"Who?!"

"If I tell you, you gotta promise to keep your big mouth closed!"

"I promise, now tell me!", she giggled.

In the meantime, Shawn and Vanessa were sitting all hugged up on his porch sharing quick kisses here and there while trying not to be caught by his parents.

"Girl, when you gonna let me get some?", he chuckled while placing a kiss on her ear.

"Why you gotta be so nasty?!", she giggled as she glanced over her shoulder to look at him.

"I ain't nasty! Besides, gettin' some is a natural part of life. If it wasn't then none of us would be here!", he winked with a sly grin.

"That don't mean nothin'! You betta be glad that you can get a kiss outta me!", she smiled as she leaned back in his arms to share another one with him. They were really getting into it until they thought they heard someone coming outside although it was a false alarm. But I saw everything as I stood at my bedroom window while leaning my arms on the window sill. After I got tired of watching them, I turned my attention back to Marlon and Dori who were laughing and falling all over each other. Then Anita Baker's "Caught Up In The Rapture" came on the radio which caused me to take a deep sigh as I continued to watch Marlon while drifting off into a daydream about him. However, I was brought back to reality when I heard Pam's voice behind me.

"Karmyn? Why aren't you outside? It's such a nice day.", she smiled as she approached me after I turned around to look at her.

"I don't feel so good. I have cramps.", I lied as I quickly walked back over to my bed to sit down.

"You have cramps already? You just had your cycle week before last, hon.", she sighed as she came to sit next to me. If there was one thing she kept up with between me and Vanessa was the date of our cycles. She had a calendar that she marked in red ink each time we went through it.

"It…it was somethin' I ate.", I tried to lie once more while making it a point not to look at her.

"I don't think that's it. Wanna talk about it? It'll be just between us.", she smiled as she stood up to close my bedroom door. She then came back over to the bed and sat down next to me.

For several seconds, I didn't say anything while continuing to hold my head down.

"It's okay.", she reassured me as she began to lightly rub my back.

I looked up at her with tear-filled eyes. "Why do I have to be so ugly?"

"Karmynnnnnnn...you're far from ugly. What would make you think somethin' like that?", she asked with a look of concern on her face.

"Because, I always get picked on about how I look.", I sniffed as I took my glasses off to wipe my tears away with the back of my hand.

"Marlon, right?", she chuckled.

"How did you know?"

"I was once a girl too and I had to go through the same thing with the stupid boys I went to school with."

"But you're pretty, so how was that possible?"

"Trust me, sweetie, it’s possible because boys are gonna be boys.", she smiled with a shake of her head.

"But look at me though?!", I whined as I stood up from the bed to face her. "I got to wear these ugly glasses, my chest is too big, I can't do anything with my hair and I don't have a butt!"

"Girl, if you don't stop!", Pam laughed as she stood up to take my hand. "We just gotta bring out some more of your beauty, that's all."

"How?", I asked with a shrug of my shoulders as she placed a chair in front of my dresser for me to take a seat in.

"Just leave it to me.", she winked as she went out of the room. About five minutes later, she returned with some hair products and proceeded to go to work on my head.

[Sweet Meat aka CC]

Meanwhile, back at Shawn and Marlon's house, Vanessa approached Marlon when she heard him talking about me to Dori saying that I was nothing but a lil' nerd. However, she didn't hear the part about how he confessed to her that he liked me.

"You got one more time to say somethin' about Karmyn and I'ma smack the ugly offen you!", Vanessa huffed at him while Shawn tried to grab up to her arm. However, she was able to snatch it away from him.

"Look…you need to take your big biscuit behind on away from me!", Marlon huffed back as he stood up to face her.

"What'chu say?!"

"You heard me! You and Karmyn need to do a trade-off! Give her some of your booty for some of her titties!", he laughed. Shawn and Dori couldn't help from laughing.

"Yall betta shut up! And you betta take back what'chu juss said!", she warned Marlon while balling up her fists at her side.

"I ain't gotta take back JACK sh...", Marlon started before Vanessa began to hit on him like a windmill gone mad. He immediately fell to the ground and got into a fetal position to protect himself while yelling for Shawn to get her off him.

"Oh snap!", Dori laughed as she moved out of the way while Shawn grabbed up to Vanessa's waist.

"Girl, calm down!", Shawn laughed as he tried pulling her away from Marlon.

Pam was in the middle of brushing my hair when we heard the commotion from my window. We both ran over to it and saw Vanessa attacking Marlon like a mad woman.

"Vanessa! Stop that right now!", Pam yelled before she ran downstairs and outside to go break things up. By the time, she reached them, the guys' parents had come outside along with Damon and his wife. As soon as he saw his baby brother being beat up by a girl, he began to laugh like crazy although his wife slapped his shoulder and told him to shut up.

"What's goin' on out here?!", Mrs. Wayans demanded to know while placing her hands on her hips.

"He keeps talkin' about my sister!", Vanessa cried after Pam was able to help Shawn pull her away from Marlon.

"I was only playin' girl, dag!!!", he angrily huffed as he stood up from the ground while brushing his clothes off.

"No you won't! You always messin' with her and sayin’ stuff and I'm tired of it!"

"Marlon, is this true?", Mr. Wayans asked.

"It's all outta fun, Pop. I don't be meanin' no harm!", he explained with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Get in the house right now!", Mr. Wayans huffed while pointing back towards the house.

"Yes sir.", Marlon sighed as he began to walk away. However, for a quick moment, he happened to glance over in my direction as I watched everything from my window. When our eyes met, I quickly backed away out of shyness and embarrassment.

"C'mon, son, let's go!", Mr. Wayans commanded as he walked over in Marlon's direction.

"Vanessa, you go home right now!", Pam stated while looking at her.

"But, ma...!"

"Now, Vanessa!"

"Okay."

"Mrs. Wayans, I am so sorry about that.", Pam apologized while turning back around to face her.

"So am I. I know that kids are gonna be kids."

"That is so true. But I will be punishin' Vanessa for this because I've taught her not to put her hands on anybody."

"And I'm goin' in here to have a lil' talk with Marlon. C'mon, Shawn."

"Yes ma'am.", he sighed as he followed her back into the house.

Dori proceeded to head back to her own place.

"What's wrong?", Daddy asked as he met Vanessa in the hallway after coming out of the bathroom with the Sunday paper tucked under his arm.

She was about to speak until she covered her nose. "Uggggh...ask Mommy when she comes in!", she huffed before making her way upstairs to our room. About a minute later, Pam walked in the house.

"What's goin' on around here? Nessa juss came in here with her jaws all swoll up.", Daddy sighed.

"That daughter of mine was beatin' on Marlon for talkin' about Karmyn.", she chuckled as she approached Daddy.

"So she won?!", he proudly asked before they both started laughing.

"Stop! This is serious! I can't have her beatin' on nobody like she's some kind of thug!", Pam whispered so that we wouldn't hear them laughing about the situation.

After reaching our bedroom, Pam had a long talk with both me and Vanessa about the “boys will be boys” thing and all of that stuff. Then she told Vanessa that she wouldn't be able to use the phone or go to Dori’s house for the next two days.

Afterwards, she finished up my hair which she placed in a banana clip as opposed to the usual rubber bands I always used to hold my ponytail in place with. I couldn't stop admiring my new 'do in the mirror while Vanessa sat on her bed pouting since she wouldn't be able to call Shawn for the next two days.

"You know I'll cover for you as far as the phone.", I whispered when Pam left our room.

"Thanks, sis.", Vanessa giggled as we winked at each other.
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After supper later on in the afternoon, while Vanessa and I were up in our room singing our heads off to Miki Howard and Gerald LeVert’s “That’s What Love Is” from my boom box, I had an unexpected visitor downstairs.

“Karmyn, someone’s here to see you.”, Pam smiled when she reached us.

“Me?”, I asked in disbelief while pointing to myself. I knew it couldn’t be Yasmine because her family was out of town at a Usher’s Anniversary church service that her daddy was invited to preach at.

“Yeah, it’s for you.”, Pam chuckled with a nod of her head.

“Okay.”, I sighed while glancing over at Vanessa. She gave me a puzzled look with a shrug of her shoulders.

“Your daddy and I are in the kitchen if you need us.”, Pam reassured me when we reached the bottom of the stairs.

“Oh, okay.”, I replied with a slow nod of my head as I began to walk into the den. When I stepped inside, I saw Marlon standing in the middle of the floor with his hands jammed down in the pockets of his jeans. When our eyes met, a sheepish look came over his face.

“Hi.”, I quietly stated before holding my head down.

“W’sup.”, he faintly replied. “I’m not gonna stay long. I juss came by to apologize for always pickin’ on you.”

“Oh, okay.”, I stated as I lifted my eyes up to look at him. “But it’s okay.”

“Aight.”, he half-smiled. “Well, I’ll see you at school tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

I was following Marlon over to the front door so I could close it behind him when he stopped and turned back around.

“I was about to go to the store to get a Jungle Juice, some chips, and Now & Laters. You wanna walk down there with me?”

“Me?”, I blushed.

“Yeah.”, he smirked.

“Oh, well ummmmmm…lemme make sure it’s okay with daddy. I’ll be right back.”, I replied before I quickly made my way over to the kitchen. As soon as I reached it, I began to jump up and down.

“Daddy, daddy, daddy! Can I go to the store with Marlon?!”, I pleaded with a big smile on my face.

“Uh ohhhhhh!”, Pam teased while playfully nudging me with her elbow.

“As long as you’re back within the next 15 minutes, I guess it’s okay.”, Daddy replied although I could tell he wasn’t too thrilled about it.

“Thank youuuuuuuuuuu!”, I giggled as I placed a quick kiss on his cheek. Then I ran back into the den where Marlon was looking at some of our family pictures hanging on the wall.

“Okay, Daddy said I could go with you…to the store I mean!”, I bashfully replied.

“Okay, let’s go.”, Marlon smiled with a nod of his head. Then he did the unexpected…he held out his hand for me to hold. At first I just stood there looking at it while thinking that this couldn’t be happening to me.

“Well? Are we goin’ or not?”, he huffed.

“Oh, I’m sorry.”, I stated as I placed my hand in his.

On our way to the store, we talked about nothing but music. I found out that we both liked the same groups such as Run DMC, Salt-N-Pepa, and The Beastie Boys. And I was shocked when he told me that he liked LL!!! Needless to say, by the time he walked me back home, I had been asked to be his girl. He even gave me a kiss goodbye on the cheek.

[glow=yellow,1,200]***Be Back Soon On This***[/glow]

[~Batgurl~]

sounds like another hit!

[AngelicVoices19]

Another CC classic! Can't wait for more!

[*~*Lady K*~*~]

I agree.