Free Say Hello to the Broken-Hearted by Dervan Brown Page B

stretched to his dimples. The chemistry rippled her face and refracted a smile that radiated the night and soothed the suffocating tension.
    She thrust onto him with clasping arms, and he welcomed her without second thought.
    “I don’t know how to say I am sorry.” She cried.
    “You don’t have to…Your having my baby.”
    “I love you so much.”
    “That’s all I needed to know.” John assured.
    “John…”
    “Yes?”
    “I am keeping the baby.”
    “Of course, I want you to sweetie.”
    “I am happy that we are having this baby. Besides I couldn’t go through that pain again.”
    “Everything is going to be ok Karla…I promise.”
    “ Ahh John…Joe and Andrew are walking this way.”
    “I am through hiding. I had enough.” John proclaimed.
    “So have I.”
    “What is going on here?” Andrew yelled, furious at the sight of his little sister and cousin in a compassionate embrace, “You two are cousins, my God!!”
    “We are much more than cousins Andre w.” John responded boldly.
    “You must have lost your fucking mind!” Andre w cursed in an enraged voice as he stepped to his face with clinched-tight fists, “What the fuck are you trying to say!”
    “Andre w please, leave him alone.” She cried and eased him away from John.
    “So this is the reprobate you dumped me for!!” Joe fired at Karla in the midst of the screa ming intensity, “You witch! You took my money and dumped me for your fucking cousin!!”
    “If I am a reprobate, I’m sure that makes you a pedophile! As a matter of fact, fuck you!”
    “Joe I respect you, but refrai n from calling my sister names.” Andrew demanded as he pointed to his face.
    “First of all, I am not a witch . Secondly, I didn’t take your money. You gave it to me. Now leave me alone for Christ sake, Leave!!” She commanded.
    “You heard the lady, leave!” John supported and clasped his fingers in between Karla Steelburg’s fingers, “There is nothing here for you anymore. Another man has taken over.”
    The agony of the truth hit home hard.  Joseph face went cold and his eyes dilated into a hard stone. Th e repudiation quickly sunk in. That was it for him. Time to go back home. Never was there any sense in fighting a losing battle.
    “Look, I am not sure what’s happening between the two of you” Andre w uttered loudly and shrugged John a good six feet away from Karla.
    “Andre w, stop!!” She exclaimed.
    “Karla, this idiot is ruining your life and you don’t even realize it.” Andrew pleaded.
    “No he is not!”
    “Andrew, I love your sister dearly, but God forbids, she can’t see that this fool is using her!” Joseph exclaimed.
    “How am I using her? You sick bastard!” John responded, “You are a fifty year old man, having sex with a girl that is the same age as your daughter. For Christ sake, how do you sleep at night!! ”
    “The same way you sleep! Don’t come to me with that. We were good together.”
    “You were supposed to be a father to her! You knew she needed one and you took deliberate disadvantage of her! What kind of man are you!!”
    “I never used her. I was everything to her!” Joseph emphasized.
    “And yet she never loved you!” John touched the spot. Joseph had always doubted her love for him. Regardless, he never questioned it. He had always indulged in the back of his mind that she would eventually grew to love him, but tonight the songs were different and all hope had shattered into unwarranted pieces.
    “Joe for heaven sake leave. Go home.” Karla instructed.
    Without further resistance, Joseph retreated, “Goodbye Karla.” He replied.
    She nodded her head and gave him a cold repudiated stare.
    “You are going to pay dearly for this” Andrew exclaimed at John.
    Joe walked to his car without even glancing backwards. He drove away at God’s speed.
    “Andrew listen, I’ll explain everything to you later. Let’s just calm down ok?”
    “How am I supposed to be calm! You are destroying your