Distressd Drama...

OVER IT...

Shuffling through the messy bedroom, Joselyn trips over her wooden clog as she suddenly hears her phone ringtone "I Dont Care.." by Ella Varne and yells out to the front room where her best friend Alanna was busy unpacking her dishes.

 

"Answer the phone for me, pleeeaassee!!! Girl, its a war zone up in here I have to give away some of these clothes I cant take all this to Atlanta."

 

Joselyn opens the door to the hallway and stands there as Alanna stares at her with a stale face while holding the Iphone in silence while she listened to the barotone voice on the reciever. Joselyn stands still 5" in front of Alanna trying to make out the caller's voice.

 

"Tell your friend I miss her and ask her why she cant pick up her own damn phone I been trying to call her for 14 days now and I need her to just hear me out.."

 

Alanna removes phone from her ears and touches the 'speaker' selection so that Joselyn could finally hear whom she already assumed it was being that he was the only person, let alone man on her contacts with that ringtone.

 

"Look Darnell you know you are bogus as hell for doing JoJo like that and she DOES NOT want to have NOTHING to do with you so go straight to HELL!!!"

 

Alanna twisted her neck, rolled her eyes, press 'END CALL' and handed Joselyn the phone in a silent stare.

 

 "You did not have to go there Alanna, I would have handled Darnell another way like I have been: "silent treatment."

 

As Alanna turns her back from Joselyn she walks over towards the living room furnace and slides her manicured toes into her Old Navy flip flops she purchased last week at the END OF THE SUMMER SALE.

 

"Lets go get something to eat Im starving. I want to go to our favorite Thai restaurant in Hyde Park girl Im dying for that Basil Chicken and a Thai Ice Tea."

 

Joselyn grabs her $45 Fendi bag she got from Stan the hustling man at the beauty shop last week and snatches her keys from the fireplace mantle. As Alanna starts walking towards the front door Joselyn follows only to suddenly be stopped by her bestie as she prepares herself for another lecture.

 

"Girl, you need to get yourself a real man and stop dating the jump-offs like your fake Fendi bag, you are too pretty and too educated for all that extra drama and brokeness...girl BOOM, hurry up before they close I'll meet you in the car!" Joselyn stands in a daze for a few seconds and thought about Darnell's voice over that reciever, "damn I miss him..."

 

She locks the door and rushes out front and jumps in Alanna's 2006 black Chevy Impala.

 

"It's written all over your face lady, you need to let go and let God. I know you love him, but baby he is not for you. What God has for you is for you so shake it off right now cause tonight we are going to have some fun and take a walk downtown and probrably do the ferris wheel at Navy Pier."

 

Alanna turns on the ignition to the car and shift the gear to Drive while she bumped Mary J Bliges' "I Can Love You Better" and speeds down 49th street eastbound towards the lakefront. As thoughts and memories raced through Joselyn's mind about her third and final breakup with Darnell six months ago, she couldnt help but constantly rejustify her reasoning and logic behind leaving the man she undeniably loved and wanted to spend the rest of her life with. The only problem was he planned to be with someone else or better yet another woman.

 

"Was it my waistline? Did I not have enough backside? Am I not pretty enough? No, cannot be...that b***h look like a character strait out the the 1968 Franklin J Schaffner film Planet of the Apes. Ugh!!! How could he? Why did he? I got to leave thats the only way I can get over this because Im definitly over it!"

 

Joselyn reached in her bag and pulled out her MAC Oyster Girl lipgloss and refreshed her full lips to perfection while she threw on her Kenneth Cole sunglasses. From this moment forward Darnell is the least of her worries and not her business any longer. With her dual degree BA in Journalism and English she was still uncertain of what career path she wanted to tackle but one thing she was certain of it's time to start new in Hotlanta and she could wait to touch down in Sweet Peach Georgia.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

"Look Darnell you know you are bogus as hell for doing JoJo like that and she DOES NOT want to have NOTHING to do with you so go strait to HELL!!!"

did you meant to write "strait" vice "straight" in there...I can see the language is slang a bit for expression...so if so never mind me asking...as for this --- story line --- in modern age and fast pace in the way it develops for the reader...lots of events takes place at one time...does not hinder the read --- the areas where you use your dialogue:

"Lets go get something to eat Im starving. I want to go to our favorite Thai restaurant in Hyde Park girl Im dying for that Basil Chicken and a Thai Ice Tea."
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"Lets go get something to eat I'm starving. I want to go to our favorite Thai restaurant in Hyde Park. Girl, I'm dying for that Basil Chicken and a Thai Ice Tea."

seems to run on sentence there...but I could be wrong...hyphen those "I'm"...unless that's just more your style...

"It's written all over your face lady, you need to let go and let God. I know you love him, but baby he is not for you. What God has for you is for you so shake it off right now cause tonight we are going to have some fun and take a walk downtown and probrably do the ferris wheel at Navy Pier."
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"It's written all over your face lady, you need to let go and let God do his thing. I know you love him, but baby he is not for you. What God has for you is for you so shake it off right now cause tonight we are going to have some fun and take a walk downtown and probably do the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier."
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Of course...I'm just filling in the blanks there in the first sentence...and the misspelling in "probrably" and grammar in "ferris wheel" to "Ferris wheel"...minor as they are in there...

the way you convey the characters and the ending seems, you put a bit of yourself in there from reading your biography...as for continuing this -- there's wide open spaces...if that is what your intent is in the immediate future...of this work...funny you put:

that b***h look like a character strait out the the 1968 Franklin J Schaffner film Planet of the Apes.

again there is "strait" vice "straight"...since I just posted "Caesar" in my writings here...but it gave me a laugh...how things manage to do a de ja vu...have at this and look at the entirety of your narrative...you're your own best critic...

[Vita Rose]

I love the friend.....Alanna....she is the Robin every girl needs.....i wish to follow Jojo.
It's as if you want her to win and stick it to Darnell. More please :)

[A. Amos]

My fellow reviewer Glen said it all, he is good and helping Author. Looking forward to read more of your work!

[Dicy Peters]

Awesome thanks..looking forward to more insight

[A. Amos]

You're most welcome...