Let's go back to a time when life was simple and easy. Like peaches and cream on a summer set day. And the smell of happiness was a like a hot apple pie, fresh out of the oven. Where children's laughter filled the air... Time was simple. No worries...
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"Josephine... I don't wont you to compete with me." Maple interjected.
"Maple__"
"Jojo no." Maple said jumping up from the swing. "Can't you see? Landsakes alive! I am a married woman naw! Geez Louise! I am married to Tator! I chose him. He's mine... and I am blissfully his. Whut you say bout Andrew, you, and I in so called competition like chasin to catch a pot belly pig in the mud? Well that's ova. It's been ova. Truth is, it neva really began. You and I were neva in a competition for his heart."
"Naw that's a downright lie!" Josephine interrupted. "He chose you first! You were always first choice! And to many, perhaps even him, the onlay choice! I was simply just the leftover stew that was jest still simmering on the grill."
"Oh Jo, you exaggerate too much."
"Do I?"
"Yes. Even after I clearly said yes to Tator, do you thank we are still competing till this day? If so my friend, you are sorely mistaken. Why can't you see that?"
"In yo minds eye, you may not thank we were in any competition whatsoever. But in God's honest truth, I have been competin with you, for Andrew's heart since the day he even glided into Ponchas Avenue Row when were kids. Even more so, the very night we were boppin foe apples at the Wellington's festive galla on his seventeenth birthday! That's when it really all began. Even though we were a little younger, his family invited us to join in the festivities. I was so excited it nearly peed my pants! We were to play pass the apple, and I was in the perfect spot to be the one to receive the apple from his sweet lips. I positioned myself there on purpose! Even beating out, Macy Lynn and Contessa for that spot! They gave me the stank eye, but I didn't care! Glory alive, I was the envy of all the girls there. But nooo here you came from outta nowhere, excited to see me bout some em that had jest happened. You were so eager to tell me all about it, you didn't realize you cut in line to where I joyfully stood. All of a sudden you were now the lucky recipient of his sweet lips...not me. Heck it didn't even dawn upon you, that was the day you officially caught his eye. Next thang I know, you are the one standin next in line to receive that apple from "my Andrew." Somehow as a result, I ended next to smelly ole Elmer Hooch and he ended bein my partner for the rest of the evenin! And__"
"Naw you lie!" Maple guffawed falling back on that swing laughing boisterously at the thought. "He didn't even have a chance to be your partner! Let alone touch your lips. Child the moment he opened his pasty mouth to receive from your pink lips, and you saw that his teeth that were more yella and brown than a rotten apple's core, not to mention how his breath kicked like rotten eggs doused in garlic and onions, why you took off faster than a wet hen bout to get its neck rang for moonlight suppa!"
"And he came chasin, lickin his lips like I was the main course he was gone get a juicy bite outta me!" Josephine gagged!
"And he almost did!" Maple cried laughing. "You made me hide outback with you for the rest of that evening!"
