The Brooch

You Took The Brooch Pt 2

A pure plumb feisty, Maple was set on fire, as her blood boiled over in uncontrollable rage!

In fact she was out for blood! Mrs. Crowder's blood to be precise!

"You said you wanted some em to live for? Well Mrs. Crowder... I'm gone give you some ta die for! Now stand still!"

"Ain't no way!" Mrs. Crowder squealed like a pot belly pig!

Maple would not let up...

"Glory alive! I'm gone to tell yo Mumma!"

"You gone ahead and tell myyyyyy mumma! She'll bring her popcorn... sit down and get herself a first class seat to uh certified jackass whoopin!"

Mrs. Crowder screamed at the top of her lungs, like an opera star gone wild!  Still... in all the irony... Cleaver was no where around... Now I wonder where he was? Still eating that chicken, I gather.

What one would have thought to be a chase that would never end... Fortunately for a rundown Mrs. Crowder, it finally did.

A fierce, on fire, enraged, Maple Joelle, just stopped!

"I'm done with you, Mrs. Crowder!" Maple scowled!

"Whutchu mean done?" A petrified out of her mind Mrs. Crowder panted!

"I mean... I'm done! I'm gonna do as I said. And I'm gone get the sheriff!"

"See! This is why I didn't tell you all these years!" A worn down Mrs. Crowder gloomily replied. "I knew this was gone happen. I knew as soon as I gave you that brooch, you were gonna accuse me of the worst! Maybe I deserve it! I ain't a good woman, I know. But I'm tryin ta change that Maple!"

A breathless, and sheer exhausted Mrs. Crowder. plopped wearily onto a bar stool...

"Can't you see whut this has done to me? I knew the moment I held that brooch in my hands, I was done for! I had ta fight with the voices in my head! Keep it! Take it! Keep it!" She said as her lip began to quiver once more. "I know it was wrong whut I did. This is one time, I don't blame ya for the hate you have in yo heart for me. You don't thank I agonized ova this day and night? If you were listenin to whut I was sayin earlier, I wuz poorin out my heart to ya.

Mrs. Crowder kept speaking through her tears.

"I have cried and I have lived for the past five years with the voices of reason. And the voices of insanity! And unfortunately, the voices of insanity, for the time being, won. But I would have had rather gone insane! Berserk like a looney toon than than ta come face to face with whut you are rat naw! A woman on fire! Didn't matter whut I would say, I knew you were gone accuse me! I knew you were gone call me a thief! A liar! A horror! So I hid it! I put it in my safe! And everyday, for the past five years, I have done nothin, but go insane tryin to figure how on God's green earth I wuz gone return it. If... I was gonna return it. ! Caused part of me dared to keep it! But I knew I couldn't. Not if I wonted ta make amends. Get my family back.

Mrs. Crowder began to pour herself another glass of sherry...

"Maple, I have lived a long time! And I have lived in misery, much too long! As that sayin goes misery loves company! But I'm past time to kick that effin misery out on its hide and send it packin!" She said taking a drink. "Im tired of being alone! And my onlay company are the voices in my head and around me! Like a raging storm that never ends! All I wont is peace. Can't you see that? I need ta make an amends with my children. I'm estranged from them. And have been foe some time naw. And it ain't their fault! Not entirely. As I mentioned earlier, I am the one, who pushed them away. Who made them feel they lost both their parents when Rusty went to be with the Lawd!