Story on Display: Southern Rain

First, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Eat, drink, and be merry! Don't do anything stupid and don't do Christmas shopping today! Save that for December! And now back to your regularly scheduled post.

Heavy Drops:

Your grandfather invited me out to a party. Not just any party. This was a party for mostly Negros. That’s right. I was going to be the only white girl at the party. Talk about awkward. I didn’t even want to go at first. Jim pushed me to go anyway.

“Come on baby,” he coaxed me. “Don’t stand me up like that! You have to be there!”

“Are you sure?” I asked. Jim tightly held my small waist close to him. I blushed at his touch. I stared deep in his eyes in surprise. Jim nodded at me once.

“Yes,” he said. ”I would be bored without you!” I raised an eyebrow at him.

“And what does that mean?” I asked. Your grandfather gave me that goofy grin I got used to in a few minutes. He shrugged at me a little bit.

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Southern Rain

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