Another story written for my Composition 101 class. Like the others, and everything else I wrote in that class, I got an "A" on it. This was also published in my High School literary journal, Visions. It probably helped that I was the Cheif Editior and we didn't recieve much good quality work.
I now present to you "Tea Talk" written/last updated on October 26, 1998.
Tea Talk
"What do you mean they left him in the rain?" Terri asked her friend. The sun beat down on them from the sky light overhead. Terri had gone over to her friend Jocelin's house for their afternoon tea.
"Exactly what I said. They left the old man standing in the rain." Jocelin took another sip of her tea, her delicate hands encompassing the cup.
"Why would they do that?" Terri asked setting her cup on the table.
"He was being a jerk. Why else?" Jocelin said setting her cup on the table also. She got up from the table and walked over to the refrigerator to get some cheese for the crackers. "He had forbid Jes to marry Mark even though it was very obvious that they were very much in love. The old geezer told them that Jes would be cut out of the will if she married him." She set the cheese next to the crackers on the table. Terri picked up a cracker and started to nibble on it with a puzzling look on her face.
"Why would he do something like that? He used to be so nice," she said in between bites.
"I know, I know. That's what got Jes. Why would her own father not want her to be happy? She got so mad at him." Handing another cracker with a bit of cheese on it to Terri, she continued. "Jes wanted to obey her father but she didn't want to leave Mark. She loved both of them so much that it was tearing her in two."
"What happened? Did Jes go with Mark or her father?" Terri finished off the rest of her tea and set her cup down.
"Well Jes decided . . . Do you want more tea?" Jocelin grabbed the tea kettle and poured Terri some more tea without even waiting for a reply.
"Quit delaying. Finish the story!" A wide grin came across Jocelin's face.
"I was waiting for that. Where was I? Oh, that's right. Jes decided to go with her father."
"She what?" Terri managed to get out in between coughing from chocking on her cracker. Jocelin giggled to see her friend so surprised.
"She went with her father. He was already very ill and she figured that Mark would understand. As soon as Jes' father passed away, she and Mark could get married. They would still be seeing each other behind her father's back." Jocelin picked up the empty platter that had contained the crackers and brought it to the sink to rinse off.
"How did he find out that they were still going together?" Terri said while standing up to bring their empty mugs over to the sink and help clean up. Jocelin turned her head to look at her friend.
"He didn't, not at the beginning anyway. Everything was going smoothly until Jes' father finally came out and said that he had only told her not to marry Mark because he wanted to know where her loyalty lied." Terri and Jocelin walked into the living room to continue their conversation in comfort.
"How could he do that? She could still be loyal to him and Mark at the same time. That jerk." Terri was really starting to get mad.
"That's what Jes told him. He just laughed and called her a silly girl. 'How could one woman be loyal to more than one man?' he asked her. She got so mad that she slapped her father across the face and ran out of the house." Jocelin stopped as if she had no more to say. Terri knew she was just playing games with her.
"Well, what happened to Jes? Did she go back to Mark?"
"Oh, of course she did. They decided to get married as soon as they could," Jocelin said with satisfaction in her voice.
"What about the old man? You said they left him standing in the rain," Terri reminded her friend.
"That they did. He came to their wedding and begged Jes to come back to him. Jes told him no and she and Mark got into their car and drove away leaving him standing there in the rain."
"Wow, and all that happened in a thirty minute episode."
Copyright 2001, K.C. Ramey. Don't take this without my permission. you can read it but don't steal it as your own. If you want to use it as an example please e-mail me with what you want to use it for. sardogmom@yahoo.com