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"How are my babies?" I ask Kendal as we sit on FaceTime.
"Good as usual. Dallas had a little hiccup at school today with some dude but it was nothing major and Zion came and grabbed him and Keziah to take them to some indoor playground type thing." He shrugs "How long is this pasta supposed to boil?"
"Until it's soft but not mushy." I tell him "Taste it."
He frowns up his face. "No thank you. Why would anybody do that to themselves? I'm just going to assume it's done and drain it."
Rolling my eyes i place my phone down on the counter and began undressing ready to soak in the tub. I had the bathroom lights dim, Alexa playing softly from the room, and a glass of white wine with fruit on the side. My body was aching bad due to all the choreography we shot today.
"Why am I looking at the ceiling?"
"Because I was getting naked." I respond picking my phone back up and placing my face into the camera as i eased into the hot water. "You wanted to see that?"
Kendal licked over his pink lips at the thought and immediately I shook my head with a small smirk shutting it down.
"Come onnnn you don't even know what I was going to say."
"I do and I'm telling you no now."
"A titty at least."
I laugh and once again shake my head. "No sir, focus on making my children dinner."
It's been a wild year to say the least. Once I decided to accept the role of Celie, I knew a lot of things were going to change for me. So before setting off on this spiritual journey; I made the decision to not only stop doing traumatic therapy but separate from my husband. It was strange and very out of the blue coming to that conclusion especially since Kendal did nothing but love and support me, but ultimately i had to do what was best for me despite the pleas of the ones around me. This new way of life definitely took some time for us to adapt to but I was beyond grateful for Kendal and his cooperation. Because, although I didn't give him much of an explanation as to why, he understood and was prepared to support me anyway he could.
"I'm just playing with you but in other news you got a week left. You ready to wrap up and come home?"
"Yes and no. I miss my kids like crazy but it's something about this process that's been so rewarding and therapeutic for me that I'm not quite ready to let it go yet."
Just thinking about it made me want to shed tears. I didn't expect to get so attached and form genuine bonds with my co-stars. My experience on braodway was not a fun one and the environment was toxic on my end as well as the people around me. So coming in to this; I most definitely had a wall or three up, but that all came tumbling down that night at Oprah's. Everyone from the start had genuine intentions on making the Color purple the best experience possible, but they all also came in with their own personal and spiritual journeys.
