Chapter 32 - Michael/Leesie CHAT!

I couldn't figure out how to write this scene. It came out as a long conversation. And then I realized, duh, Michael and Leesie aren't in the same apartment anymore. They can chat!! It was so much fun to type this up as a chat. It gives an unbiased spin to the conversation.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

LEESIE HUNT CHATSPOT LOG / 07/06  5:30 PM

liv2div says: hey babe, it’s me…I borrowed Alex’s computer

Leesie327 says: Does this mean you aren’t coming over tonight?

liv2div says: I have to teach…last minute

Leesie327 says: We missed you at church yesterday.

liv2div says: I missed going.

Leesie327 says: Really?

liv2div says: don’t get mad…I’ve been reading the Book of Mormon without you

Leesie327 says: That’s amazing! Read as much as you want.

liv2div says: I got to the part where an angel stopped that rebellious guy and his friends and told them to change their evil ways…I feel kind of like that

Leesie327 says: I never said you were evil.

liv2div says: who says you’re the angel?

Leesie327 says: I forgot what a snot you are when we chat.

liv2div says: how’d you get to church?

Leesie327 says: Junior has a vintage VW bus.

liv2div says: whoa, classy wheels

Leesie327 says: He got it back from a friend on Saturday. I helped him scrub it this morning, but it still smells like pot.

liv2div says: how do you know what pot smells like?

Leesie327 says: Today was an education.

liv2div says: So, babe, what do you want to do now that Jaz doesn’t need you?

Leesie327 says: She still needs me—lots. I’m going to help with the fish shack, too.

liv2div says: how long?

Leesie327 says: Until you’re done here, I guess.

liv2div says: And then I can take you home?

Leesie327 says: Yeah. For sure. Let’s go so there’s plenty of time before school starts.

liv2div says: time for what?

Leesie327 says: To see my parents and Stephie. Visit Gram, and um

liv2div says: spill it…what else?

Leesie327 says: Maybe enough time to have a quiet wedding in the backyard?

liv2div says: What if I got baptized? Would there be time for a wedding in the temple?

Leesie327 says: Excuse me. I just had heart failure. Did you really say that?

liv2div says: it doesn’t seem impossible anymore

Leesie327 says: Listen, I’d love to have you get baptized that soon, but I don’t want to rush you. Take your time. You have to be a member for a year before you can go to the temple.

liv2div says: A whole year? That’s a new one. I thought all I had to do was get baptized.

Leesie327 says: Baptism is a huge step. Don’t do it until you’re totally ready. But marry me before we move down to Provo.

liv2div says: what if I decide not to get baptized?

Leesie327 says: It won’t make me love you less. I’ll respect your decision and pray you’ll change your heart.

liv2div says: if you start praying, I won’t stand a chance!

Leesie327 says: So I can tell my mom to start planning a wedding?

liv2div says: no…don’t do that

Leesie327 says: Please, Michael. I’ve got your diamond on my finger. End of the summer. You promised.

liv2div says: in the backyard? even if I’m not a Mormon?

Leesie327 says: If we’re married, we can have our own apartment, no more saying good-bye every night, and we can—24/7, remember?

liv2div says: I know

Leesie327 says: Don’t you want that?

liv2div says: of course I do

Leesie327 says: So we can get married?

liv2div says: let me think about it

Leesie327 says: You’re not getting out of it.

liv2div says: what am I supposed to do in Provo?

Leesie327 says: That’s you’re problem.

liv2div says: maybe I want to come back to Cayman and work or go somewhere else

Leesie327 says: You need to go to college. You could go to the U or UVU.

liv2div says: and study what?

Leesie327 says: I don’t care. Our kids need an educated father.

liv2div says: KIDS!

Leesie327 says: Uh-huh. Three girls and two boys.

liv2div says: FIVE?

Leesie327 says: Don’t you want kids?

liv2div says: yeah, I do

Leesie327 says: I’m starting young. We can have lots.

liv2div says: We’re just 19.

Leesie327 says: I’m almost twenty.

liv2div says: not…maybe we should wait that year

Leesie327 says: No. No way. You’ll take off. Leave me again. I’ll lose you.

liv2div says: give me some credit…I’ll stay in Provo…I won’t let you out of my sight

Leesie327 says: But that puts all kinds of pressure on you to get baptized right away. I won’t do that to you.

liv2div says: you aren’t doing it…I am…you really want to be a mom at twenty?

Leesie327 says: So we’ll wait a couple years on the kids. Let’s just get married. The backyard will be full of flowers in August.

liv2div says: and what will you tell those kids of ours when they want to do that instead of hang on for the temple?

Leesie327 says: That their father drove me crazy every time he walked into a room, and we’d suffered long enough.

liv2div says: you just want my body?

Leesie327 says: Uh-huh.

liv2div says: aren’t you the girl who taught me we came to earth to be tested?

Leesie327 says: That’s not fair. You’re too good a student. I give.

liv2div says: get used to it, babe, I don’t like to lose

Leesie327 says: That means we wait? Crap. What do we do next?

liv2div says: I guess we better call the missionaries…if I’m going to do this, let’s do it!