Chapter 25 - Part 2 Kim's back!

Did you all have a Merry Christmas? It's been great to have our college kids home. They've been having such a good time together. I love this week in between Christmas and New Year's, don't you? It's kind of a limbo time with the kids out of school and no big holidays to plan. A nice time to rest and relax. This year we're staying at home with the family instead of traveling. I'm glad. Phoenix weather is perfect while everywhere else it's a blizzard. I hope you are all safe, warm, and cozy!

Make yourself a big mug of hot cocoa. Here's a nice, juicy chat with Kim full of lots of information to finish off Chapter 25! Enjoy.

LEESIE HUNT / CHATSPOT LOG / 06/23/2010  3:17 PM

Kimbo69 says:  You moved away from all those beautiful boys before I could come visit?

Leesie327 says:  Poor Mark. Do you drool like this when he’s around?

Kimbo69 says: We have a mutual agreement about eye candy.

Leesie327 says:  You’ll love Aunty Jaz.

Kimbo69 says:  Why do they call her that?

Leesie327 says:  Her name is Jasmine—like the flower.

Kimbo69 says:  Does she smell good?

Leesie327 says:  Michael thinks it’s a sign from his mom. She used to wear gardenia perfume. It’s like one tropical flower to another.

Kimbo69 says:  He’s getting as crazy as you are.

Leesie327 says: He took us to church Sunday. I didn’t even ask. All the sudden there he was in front Jaz’s shack, honking the horn of a used car he just bought because the 4X4 he’d rented was too hard for Aunty Jaz to get into. He wore a brand new white shirt and that Valentino tie I Ebayed for him when I made him go to that dance with me.

Kimbo69 says: He went to church with you?

Leesie327 says:  It took both of us to get Aunty Jaz in the front seat of the car. It was worth it, though. She was so excited to be going to church again. She used to take a bus. Can’t now with her foot.

Kimbo69 says: Is her house really a shack?

Leesie327 says:  Pretty much. There’s running water, a real toilet, electricity—no AC. We spend a lot of time on the porch.

Kimbo69 says:  How sick is she?

Leesie327 says: I have to make sure she eats and gets her insulin shot. We test her sugar, too. The nurse came Friday, and I helped her change the bandages on Jaz’s foot—it’s bad.

Kimbo69 says:  I’d hurl.

Leesie327 says:  I’m tougher than you.

Kimbo69 says: It soulds like you like this stuff.

Leesie327 says:  I do. I’ve got something to do other than flail myself with guilt over the accident or fantasize myself crazy about Michael.

Kimbo69 says:  You’ve stopped fantasizing about Michael?

Leesie327 says:  I’m trying—it’s not that easy.

Kimbo69 says: No fantasizing? That’s not healthy.

Leesie327 says: I’ve got to repent.

Kimbo69 says: Even your thoughts?

Leesie327 says: Yeah. That’s the hardest part. He walks into the room, and I have to start all over again. Let those thoughts go wild, and it’s hard to get rid of them.

Kimbo69 says:  I’ll never figure you out.

Leesie327 says:  It’s not such a mystery. If I can’t sleep with him, it makes it worse if I’m constantly thinking about it. Duh.

Kimbo69 says: Are you still getting married?

Leesie327 says:  I hope by the end of the summer like we planned. I’m never giving him his ring back. He’s stuck with me.

Kimbo69 says: That doesn’t sound too definite. What’s wrong?

Leesie327 says:  Nothing. I have to go home first—he promised my dad.

Kimbo69 says:  Can you do that now?

Leesie327 says:  I’ve been on the phone with my parents every day since that first call. I think I’ll be ready. I have to be ready. So we can get married.

Kimbo69 says: So is Michael pretty stoked? It’s what he wants, isn’t it?

Leesie327 says: We’re not talking about it. There’s still one big complication.

Kimbo69 says: You’re still holding the Mormon stuff against him?

Leesie327 says: That doesn’t matter to me anymore. I just want him.

Kimbo69 says:  Tell him then.

Leesie327 says:  I tried—and I choked on the words.

Kimbo69 says:  He deserves this, Leesie. Don’t be such a wimp.

Leesie327 says:  I know. I know.

Kimbo69 says:  How often do you get to see him?

Leesie327 says: He drives all the way over here every night after work. Hangs out until midnight and then goes back to East End. That’s a lot of driving.

Kimbo69 says: I’d call it devotion.

Leesie327 says:  Aunty Jaz told me her husband got baptized twenty years after they got married. I’d wait that long for Michael—I would.

Kimbo69 says:  What if he never gets baptized?

Leesie327 says:  He brought me back. He must believe a tiny bit.

Kimbo69 says:  He knows you need it—that doesn’t mean he believes it.

Leesie327 says:  I know. That’s why I’m too afraid to even bring it up. After all we’ve been though, I can’t risk offending him.

Kimbo69 says: You’ve got to talk to him.

Leesie327 says: I think I’m going to watch and wait. Nothing else feels right.

Kimbo69 says:  That’s it?

Leesie327 says:  And pray.

Kimbo69 says:  Pray?

Leesie327 says: Pray.