With the sun beginning to set on a beautiful day, Gwen heads for home. All the way home Gwen thought about the wonderful day she just had and the new acquaintance with CJ that she had formed. When she arrived at her destination, she saw that Jes hadn't gotten home yet. She pulled into the driveway and unloaded her car. There was a short, brown skinned, elderly gentleman in blue overalls and a dusty gray cap standing on the porch of his home, watering his lawn.
"Hello pretty lady?" The man spoke.
"Hello Mr. Davis, how are you today?" Gwen asked.
"I'm doing just fine now that I done seen you."
Gwen smiled and proceeded into her home.
Six o'clock time to relax. Gwen places her bags in her room and flops
on her bed as though she had just returned from a hard day's work.
With Jes not in from work yet, Gwen decides to take a bath before she
gets home. Gwen turns on the CD player and burns incense and candles
in the bathroom to make her mood more serene. As Gwen's water runs
in the tub, she listens to Gerald Levert. While the song plays, she once
again takes a journey to her isolated world and thinks of what she would
do to fall in love. The song plays:
"And I'd give anything and everything to fall in love, just this one time
I'd like to find, what I've been dreaming of, well I could find someone to
hold me, but that wouldn't be enough, but I'd give anything to fall in love."
She would, Gwen would give anything to fall in love, to truly fall in
love. Gwen had been in love before, but her man was in love with
everyone else; including himself. She had learned time and time again
from men who had taken her love for granted, that love don't love
nobody, and don't nobody love love, but love. She had now made up her
mind that the next time she fell in love it would be a love of substance.
She decided there had to be a foundation, and the foundation that
needed to be established would need to be of a spiritual one.
Gwen removed her clothing and got into the tub with the music still
playing. While she soaked, she heard the door close and a loud voice.
"Hey girl, I'm home and I got to tell you about my day and this new
guy I met at work."
Knowing that her mood would be interrupted, Gwen begins bathing
so that she could get the conversation over with Jes before it could really
begin. At times, Gwen thought of how she and Jes had remained friends
for so long. With Gwen being conservative and Jes being worldly, she
wondered how they were so much alike. I guess it's true that opposites
attract. Jes was the type of woman who would get what she wanted from
a man, but she also believed in giving a man what he wanted before she
knew his game plan. Jes was the type of woman who was in and out of
love, week in and week out.
Gwen made the suggestion that maybe she
needed self-love first, then seek a love that would love her for the truest
woman that she was. But each time Gwen revealed it to her, Jes
contested that she did love herself and that her actions were just a part
of her plans. Jes needed love, but she didn't know what love was to truly
magnetize it. Beautiful Jes was. She stood five foot five inches tall, with
the skin color and feel of a velvet black mane. She was a secretary at a
prestigious law firm in downtown LA and a 90's kind of woman. She
needed her nails done weekly, her hair done weekly, pedicures and bikini
waxes. She didn't believe in going Dutch on the first date.