"Second Chance"
Ginger Laroy Fernandez
I went away to school looking foreword to all life had to offer and wouldn’t you know it a good looking brother made the moves on me. Like in the movies our worlds collided in a frenzy of love and money. Right after collage we got married and jumped foot first into our careers. Working such long hours we eventually drifted apart. When I discovered that our marriage was in trouble I tried to make thing right. I began setting up special rendezvous so that we could begin working on relationship.
Unbeknownst to me Robert was seeing other women. He was not interested in saving our marriage. Then one night while my sister was out on a date she saw Robert with another woman and confronted him. She hired a private detective and got the goods on him. She called mo one night invited me out to catch the Temptation’s show at the Flaming Embers. During intermission she dropped a bomb on me that changed my life forever. She told me about Robert and gave me the proof she had collected.
With the proof right there in my hot little hands I went home and confronted him. I laughed in his face and tossed the proof in his lap. We argued for hours. Then I kicked him out on his proverbial ass. About a week later he returned apologizing all over the place. When I refused to take him back he got mad and hit me dead in the face. I called the police and had him arrested for first degree battery. While he was locked up I filed for divorce.
The next time I set eyes on him was in divorce court. I got what I came for I was free. I left him still begging me to come back. As sisters often do, Kim caught up with me and we went to the gym for a workout so I could bring her up to speed on my life.
In need of a family fix we went home to Mom and Popi’s house. The following morning Mom took us shopping. The three of us had our makeovers while Popi set up a divorce party for me that lasted late into the night.
A couple of days later I ran into my ex-brother-in-law. We got into a fight. The owner Sal saved me and took me to the hospital.
A couple of weeks later I packed my bags and took a road trip. While hanging out at a park in Arizona I met a cutie and hung out with him for months. Ramón and I made love every day. We spent the next three months traveling around the country in my jeep. Our vacation was awesome. We had the time of our lives. Ramón was what the doctor ordered and naturally we fell head over heals in love. Then one day I took out the time to phone my sister Kim to check in. She told me that Popi had a heart attack and to get home as soon as possible. Ramón stepped up to the plate and the following day he flew me home in his private jet. We were waiting for him in his hospital room when he came back from testing. Mom and Kim came later so we spent most of the day with my family.
Later that afternoon Ramón and I wet home to my apartment at the Trolley. My girl Patsy in security told me that my ex-husband had been living in my apartment while I was away and that he might be there at that time.
The three of us set up a plan to get rid of him. Ramón and I went up to the apartment. He and Robert argued until it escalated into gunplay. During a struggle Ramón took a bullet to the chest. Patsy called the police, but before they arrived she subdued and cuffed Robert. The police showed up in time to haul Robert away to jail.
After a through investigation we found out that he and his brother had planned to stage Robert’s murder. They were going to blame me and skip the country with all of our money, but their plan failed when James went to jail for jumping on me. I won everything, my freedom, the money, and my new live with Ramón.
The End
