"Hi baby, where have you been? I've been looking all over for you."
"Scott you need to sit down, I have something to tell you. You know how you want to please your parents, well my family has been doing that sort of thing for years, almost centuries. You see both of my parents are mixed, two different races in their blood. My mother is mixed but was raised as white, my father is black with beautiful red curly hair, but he is so light you couldn't tell his race unless you look real hard. So you see I know exactly what you want me to do for you, but don't you think being truthful is the right way, I mean, if we keep on this way, what will we tell our grandchildren."
"Okay, but will you do it."
"Scott, didn't you hear a word I said?"
"Sure, your family has been doing this sort of thing for years. Now, will you do it for me."
Janice couldn't say a word, she just nodded her head, saying yes.
Although Janice felt it was horrible to pull such
a deceitful act on Scott's parents, even though her father has
done it for years, the couple decided to visit Scott's parents and not
say a word and let the chips fall where they may.
Soon afterward, Scott and Janice got married, and with
Johnny in Janice's arms they visit Scott's family all the time, even
for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Scott's family was so glad about their new daughter-in-law
and grateful it was not Bernice. They did not take the time to count
the months of the baby's birth. They were just happy they were not
going to have to worried about no ugly name calling like it would
have been if Scott had married Bernice.
The Payne family felt they can finally stop worrying about
Scott. With Bernard's two kids and Scott's one child, the
grandparents were looking forward to having more fun for the
holidays with the grand-kids.
Scott and Janice moved away to another state, not too far
away, just enough to keep Bernice from catching up with them.
The weather became cold and brisk, the evenings were dark
and long, ducks were still flying further South, Scott was finally
satisfied with his life his son and his loving wife, she was as
beautiful inside as well as outside. Scott felt he was in heaven.
Years have passed since Johnny and Ronnie were born.
(Scott changed they, to i.e., in Johnnie's name). As time would
have it, Scott and Janice had another set of twins this time it was
girls.
Scott explained to Janice how Johnnie is a twin also. How
he took one child to rise and Bernice had the other child, and to
keep confusions down Scott did not want to raise his child with the
knowledge of him being half of anything.
The second set of twins; both were olive complexion and
girls, Jamie and Sammie Payne. Now little Johnnie Payne had two
little sister, which was still unknown to Bernice and her son
Ronnie Perry.
After the girls were born Janice still find it hard to face
Scott's family with the lie they told them, she could no longer
continue with the masquerade where she had to falsely disguised
herself to someone she considered to be family. And knowing that
her father is giving her trouble because his daughter married a
White man and Janice father will not tell anyone why he does not
like Scott, moreover, he is keeping a safe distance from Scott. This
worries Janice because she doesn't understand why, because in her
eyes Scott is a good man. Janice feels her father just does not want
his past to catch up with him, and not knowing the truth about her
father's feeling, her heart, and mind went in the whole other
direction, Therefore, Janice moved on with her life.
Time past, however, Scott end up alone again, this time with
a little girl and little boy. Scott split up another set of twins, but
unlike before with Bernice, Scott stayed in touch with Janice and
his other daughter, however, Scott went on with his life to raise his
two children, Johnnie and Jamie Payne as they were White kids.
It has been twelve long years, which has passed and during that
twelve years, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas Taxes in 1963.
Then Martin Luther King a pioneer, peacemaker, was
leading advocate of integration. Race wars began in the schools.
Even though this did not affect Johnnie and his father, still, Scott
was shaking in his boots that Johnnie was going to find out about
his mother and brother, nevertheless, he did worry about how this
race of colors was affecting Ronnie and his mother, his other family.
While Johnnie was attending Boundary High School where
integration had already begun, Ronnie and his mother Bernice
moved to a town where she would not have to worry about her son.
Ronnie and Bernice had no idea they were now living in the same
neighborhood as Scott and Johnnie.
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CONTROVERSY OF COLORS
Fiction HistoriqueThere were some who thought the other race of humans was colorful and some who like just being around another race, it sometimes made them feel different in some way, but Scott was just in love it wasn't about color or race, it was more of wha...
