Love and Literature (2)

chapter 13

Just a reminder, if you didn't remember, Chresanto's mother is Viola and his father is Richard.

Jazmine: hello everyone. I've called you all here to bring some very important news. Firstly, I brought refreshments if anybody would like some.

Viola: excuse me, but you look a lot like my late son

Chresanto: well that's because I am your "late" son. It's me mama

Viola: Chresanto? You're alive?

Chresanto:yes mama I'm alive...... and no you're not seeing things.... no that wasn't me in the casket. You buried the wrong person assuming it was me. And if you need proof mama I'll show you the birth mark on my shoulder

Viola: will my life has been turned upside down

Richard: as for mine

Jazmine: I don't mean intrude, but we have to get started

Jacob: Okay. So what's the news?

Jazmine: okay, so I visited the alleged grave site of Chresanto August and had them dig it up for investigation. And took some teeth for evidence. They were sent back to the lab and the dental records were found. This person wasn't Chresanto August, but his older brother..... Jeremy August

Chresanto: wait I had a brother?

Viola: no you didn't. I remember pushing out one of you, not two

Chresanto: then how do I have a brother?

Richard: I think you messed up somewhere

Jazmine: no I didn't. I also ran a DNA test on it and-

Richard: bullshit

Viola: Richard don't be rude. Let her talk

Jazmine: thank you ma'am. Like I said I ran tests and it proves that Jeremy August is in fact Chresanto's half brother

Jacob: half brother? Something doesn't add up

Viola: Richard I need an explanation. How do you have two kids and I only had one?

Richard: okay okay okay. Now Viola, this is why our divorce was filed, you know I had an affair. But it was more than that.

Viola: explain Richard

Richard: okay well it was back in 92, we had just gotten married. Well I had met a nice lady who was saucy and a fast talker. And I ended up sleeping with her

Viola: why Richard?

Richard: I continued seeing her, until one day she called me and told me to meet her at her place, so I did..... she told me she was pregnant with my baby

The air had gotten tense and everyone was silent. Chresanto was speechless along with Jacob and Jazmine, but Viola was all but calm, or at least on the inside. She looked as if she was handling it well, but she was dying on the inside. Her true love divorced her three years ago, and now she's finding out that his affair she knew of resulted in a baby she never even heard of.

Chresanto: are you okay mama?

Viola: finish your story

Richard: I went ghost on her. I changed my number, we moved to California and I thought I escaped the fire. To this day I still haven't heard from her and I hope it stays this way. Viola dear I wanted to tell you

Viola: get your hands off me fool

Richard: baby I'm sorry

Viola: I'm not your baby, I never was... was i?