Everlasting Love

by Jasmine Hedgepeth

Mary and Michel shared a special bond and it was put to the test when Michael went to the East Coast to further his studies. Mary wrote him every year. Michael came back from the East Coast after four years, and Mary was excited.

When Michael first comes back in town he took his bags to his mother’s house. When he finished, he went straight to meet Mary. Their love was fully supported by Mary’s mom Ann who is happy and full of joy.

“Mary I heard Michael is back in town and you will see if it is true if he drops by to see you” Ann says.

“He probably doesn’t remember who I am.” she said to her mom.

“Of course he will.” How could he forget about you when you guys grew up together?”

Some one knocked on the door.

“I think this is Michael’ Ann said.

Mary ran to her room while her mom opened the door and saw a tall handsome guy standing dressed up in a black suit and black hat.

“Michael.”

“You have grown up so much.” Ann said.

Michael gave a warm hug to Ann and asked, “Where is Mary?''

“Mary is feeling shy so she ran to her room when she found out you came. You are more then welcome to go meet her upstairs in her room.’’

Michael went upstairs and knocked on the door. He goes in and sees her lying down in her room.

“I came back to see you and your still hiding from me?”

“Why does it matter? You never called or wrote not one letter.”

Mary responded.

“I felt that I shouldn’t have to write because while I was there you were all I was thinking about.”

Mary didn’t care about what he said so she continued to lie under her pillow. Michael left and said he’ll try again tomorrow. In the mean time Michael goes to his house to go see his mom. His mom is mad because he saw Mary before her. He walks over to his mother and says,

“So Mom you don’t want talk to me.”

“No leave now’’.

“Ok,” Michael said “don’t call me when you need something.”

At that moment his mom knew she was wrong so she told him to stay. To make everything better they gave each other a hug.

Later on that night Mary decided to give Michael a call and see what he was doing. She him over for tea and cookies. Michael showed up with flowers and candy and when Mary saw that she grabbed him and gave him a big hug and kiss. They both went to needed to tell her.

She opened her mouth and said

“Yes. What is it that you need to tell me? “

“I don’t think that this is going to work out between us.”

What do you mean”?

Mary stood there in silence looking puzzled waiting for Michael to give an answer.

“Well is not that I don’t want to be with you, but I want to get into the business life.’’

Mary wasn’t quite sure so she asked.

‘’What do you mean?’’ 

He told her that being in a relationship was not helping him financially so he want to go further but outside of their relationship.

“Is it some one else?” Mary asked with tears. She ran down the stairs and screamed to her “Mom Michael is leaving me!”

As soon as her mother heard this she yelled to Michael.” “Michael why don’t you want to be with Mary anymore?” Michael stands there with his head down and his hands in his pocket. Mary stands next to him and says

“Michael you know that I love you and I will do anything to make you happy” Ann stood next to Michael and said

“you’re the only boy that I ever call my son’’ why are you doing this?” are you trying to destroy me and my daughters heart?” The three of them just stood there in silence until they heard a knock came to the door. Police! Police!

“Yes!”

Ann said as she opened the door.

Hi my name is Officer Joe and I’m looking for a man named Michael. His mother said I can find him here. At that moment Mary started crying because she didn’t know what was going on.

Michael came to the door and the police arrested him. He knew why he was getting arrested b,ut he didn’t want Mary to ask so he asked for her.

“Why am I getting arrested”? 

“You’re under arrest for robbery.”

Ann and Mary stood there both crying tears of disappointment. As they saw the police put him in the car Michael’s last words were

“I’m sorry you had to see this”.

They took him away. Later on that evening Ann received a phone call from Michael’s mother. She answered and said

“Hello”

“I’m sorry about what happened.”  His mother said. “It’s ok. I’ll tell Mary to call you a little later’’

. So when they hung up, Ann told Mary to call Michael’s mother later. Around 9:30, she received a call from Michael was. She answered and yelled over the phone,

“This is the reason why you wanted to leave me”?

“Yes.” He replied.

“I didn’t want you to be involved in what I was going through.”

“What the hell you mean?” “I have known you for so many years.”

Ann hung up the phone and yelled in her pillow. She didn’t know what to do now that she was single, so she stayed home and stressed out over Michael.

Her mom came in the room and told her,

“I’m sorry sweetie. Maybe this is a sign letting you know that you have to move on”.

In that sense of the moment a smile came across Mary’s face.

“Your right mom. I think I’m just going to move on and live my life. If it’s meant to be then me and Michael will get back together in the future.”

Three months passed on and Mary decided to go out with her friends. They all decided to go to the mall to shop. So she met up with her friends and they were soon having fun. As they entered the mall Mary automatically spotted a tall black boy that stood 6’2 had wavy hair.

Her friends started laughing because she was drooling and couldn’t take her eyes off him. Suddenly the boy noticed that Mary was looking at him, so he walked over and approached her.

“Hi. My name is Jonathan.”

Mary was lost in words as she stuttered her name. Her friends said her name was Mary. He quickly grabbed her hand and wrote his number on it. After the big moment they went on and started shopping.

Later that evening Mary told her mom that she got a number from the mall and her mom said

“What are you waiting for? Go call him.”

Mary rushed to her room and called Jonathan. He answered the phone and said

“Hello Mary said”

‘Hi.”

You gave me your number at the mall.

“Oh yeah.” “How old are you Mary”?

. “19” ‘’how old are you Jonathan?”

“21.”

They both sat on the phone in awkward silence until a call came on the other end of Mary’s line.

“Hold on Jonathan”

.She clicked over and said Hello!

“Baby.”

She heard Michael’s voice say.

“Why are you calling me you jail bird?”

“I love you.”

“No you don’t cause if you did you wouldn’t be in there”

“I’m sorry. Please forgive me?”

“I’m on the other line. Bye.”

She clicked back over to Jonathan and said, Sorry about that”

“Who was that”?

She didn’t want to tell him it was her ex boyfriend so she told him it was a .friend. Mary and Jonathan were on the phone for hours but later realized they didn’t have anything in common. Both of them agreed that they shouldn’t talk anymore. 

Later that night Mary told her mom what happened and, they both agreed that she should continue to look for her prince charming. The next morning Mary looked at her caller ID and realized that Michael number popped up. She answered and said

“Hello”

“Hey baby. I’m home.”

“What do you mean your home? I thought you had 8 years?”

“They put me on parole.”

Michael hung up on Mary and decided to show up at her house.

That afternoon Michael went over to Mary’s and tried to work things out with her. She didn’t want to be with him anymore, so she told him not to waste his time. He left her house with no shame. A few days passed by and Michael started acting up.  He started selling weed, carrying guns, getting into fights, and living a life that you wouldn’t think he would live. Mary found out what he was doing and told him to his face

“I’m glad that I left you”.

Michael didn’t care what she said, so he continued to do what he was doing.

Later in the week Mary realized that she needed to work things out with Michael so she decided to give him a call.

“Hello Michael”

“Hey Mary. How are you doing?”

“Good and yourself?”

“ good.”

“I need to be real with you, Mary. I miss you a lot”.

“I miss you to. We should meet up and talk things out.”

Michael decided that he would be the bigger person and go meet Mary. So they met up and went to Denny’s. They wanted to make their night special, so they decided they were going to sleep at Michael’s house. After Denny’s they went straight to Michael’s house. His mom was shocked to see them together so she asked,

“So you guys decided to work things out”?

“Yes. We realized that we are meant to be and nobody can tear us apart.” Michael responded.

His mom agreed and let them in.

When they got in Michael’s room she went straight to his play station.

She loved to play it, so every time she went over there she would be play the game for hours and when he asked for it she wouldn’t give it up. Michael wanted to ask Mary a question but didn’t know how to so he just came out with it. “Mary, do you love me”?

“Of course. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be here.”

At that moment they realized their love was real and decided to work things out.