LOGINChapter 12
“No Davis we should not be doing this, we should not be doing this Davis no” he kissed me so passionately as he looked me in the eye and I could see the smirk in his eyes.I wanted it too and although I struggled a little I finally gave in, he kissed my neck and was unhooking my bra…“Charity!!!!” Tiffany Shouted“Wake up Charity, you asked me to wake you up you mentioned something about a big test today” she continued“You usually don’t need people waking you up or did you have something strong to drink at the party?” she asked“was it a dream” I said out loud“huh” Tiffany asked as she looked puzzled“Oh, it’s nothing” I concluded as I looked away to prevent further questions.“What are you talking about?” she asked confused“Nothing, Nothing” I said as I got up“It does not seem like nothing”“I had a bad dream okay, now you better get going before you are late” I said as I tried to end the conversation.“Okay, if you say so, Sam already left earlier, there is cereal for you to take, and pills on the table incase you are having a hangover, byee”“Bye” I replied as I locked the door.What was that? What sorta dream was that anyways, I never have dreams like this so why did I have it today and with Davis Garraway in it, Yuck. There was nothing between Davis and I as far as I was concerned, so why will I have a dream with Davis in it. I wondered as I prepared to go to classes. Charity what’s wrong with you? why will you be having such a dream and about someone we triple hate, you have lost your mojo girl you have, sub con spoke. This is certainly not the reason you came to college, And then Davis! Davis Garraway, like Devil Davis Garraway charity yuck. Sub con kept speaking as I walked into the class.The class started and was going smoothly but then In the middle of the class Derick entered the class.“Sorry sorry I’m late sir” he apologized to the professor“Why are you late Mr. Mclean” he asked“I overslept sir I’m sorry” he replied as the professor asked him to get a seat, and as usual Mr. Mclean walked to my direction.“Hey soda water is this seat taken?” he asked“Yes, you can clearly see my bag is there” I replied as I looked away“Hey Chilo, I am going to have to borrow your seat for a while, yeah.. thanks, Chilo” he said as he walked towards the seat and removed the bag then sat down.“Are you fine soda water?” Derick asked I completely ignored him.“When did you leave last night?” I ignored him again.“I remember you left with a man and I am guessing it was my fault”“Yes, yes it was, you could not stop him from attempting to take advantage of me” I finally replied“Shit, I am so sorry soda water” he apologized“Are you still upset I’m sorry for leaving you I was drunk” Derick tried to apologize.“It’s fine Derick we were both drunk, I am not upset with you” I replied him. *****Okay, okay I know you have been wondering what actually took place after Ron dragged me into the from and was chased out right? Okay so rewind back to the room scene.A familiar voice had come and chased Ron away from the room, when he turned it was Davis Garraway. Wait Davis Garraway actually came to save you?, not now sub con I am in the middle of something. He looked at me for a while.“The bad dude tried to touch me” I said as he continued staring at me. I got up and attempted to leave when I missed my step and Davis tried to stop me from falling when I slammed into him and we both landed on the bed with me on him. We were directly staring into each other’s eyes and I could swear I saw his eyes sparkling.“How is one person allowed to look this beautiful” he spoke as he brought his hand and tucked my hair behind my ear“You are cute when you are drunk” he continued.“Wait who are you?” I asked as I managed to get up from him“You do not know me?” he asked“No, but I can see two horns on your head and a tail wagging behind there, are you the devil” I repliedHe chuckled as he stood up and said “Is that what you think of me? I’m a devil figure to you, wow okay” he said as I started laughing.“What is so funny” he asked“Well I didn’t know the devil gets hurt when he knows people see him as the devil it is actually funny” I said as I kept laughing and he watched me.“Come devil, come grab a seat” I said as I patted the bed, he came towards me and sat down.“Do you know of any Davis, Davis Garraway?” I asked“Yes” he answered“I know he is your son, cos he behaves like you” I said as I continued laughing“No he is worse, he makes me cry every time and he always does every thing to hurt me, I really do not like him” I said as he stared“In fact I triple hate him, shii do not tell him” I whispered“If you are going back to hell, please take him alon..”“Okay that’s the most I can hear let’s go” he immediately cut in as he carried me on his shoulders.“Please devil take him with you, he keeps tormenting me”“Quit your whining or I will drop you” he spoke as I put my hand on my lips. *****We got to the hostel and he removed my heels and dropped me on the bed and covered me with a duvet“Now quit whining and get some rest” he spoke and turned to leave and I grabbed him arm immediately“Please stay devil please stay with me” I said weakly as he sat back on the bed and I put my head on his legs as he patted me.Few minutes later, I opened my eyes and Davis Garraway was standing right in front of me, he had brought me home from the party.“Davis?, Yuck, Davis what are you doing here I don’t like you” I complained as he looked at me.“Yeah, you really do not have to rub it in, I heard you fine before” he said“Why are you here” I asked“I had to carry you home from the party genius” he replied“Yuck” I said“And you think I enjoyed carrying you here, you weigh much more than a bag of beans” he remarked as he left. ******Back to today, the class was over and I was still feeling very tired and my head was aching.I left after the class and I went straight to my room as I was not feeling good. I removed my clothes and went straight to the bathroom. I was done in the bathroom so I went over to apply lotion.“My heart’s a stereoBeats for you so listen closeHear my thoughts and every not” I sang out loud as I applied lotion. My roommates had some engaged and had informed earlier that they will not be home till the next day so I had the room all to myself. After applying lotion, I went to get clothes, I was opening the drawer when I looked at the window and I saw Davis, yep Davis Garraway was at my window, my eye balls increased as I stared in shock. Has he been standing there the whole time? Did he see me get undressed? Various questions popped up in my mind as I looked at him, Davis kept staring then he smirked and climbed inside the room.“Quit asking yourself silly questions Goblin I just got here I saw nothing”He smirked as he climbed to the bed. Wait how did he read our thought sub con asked. I was still naked with only my towel covering me, I had always been shy but somehow at that moment I could look at him so boldly.“You know I should consider having you as a side chick” he said as he laid down well and smirked.“How is it that all these years we’ve been neighbors I haven’t done anything to you I mean with what I am looking at right now you are quite the meal goblin” Davis asked while analyzing my body, he looked at me like I was naked and he could see through the towel.“Maybe it’s because I’m not one of those h**s you bring to your room and disturb my sleep with every single night” I replied while I walked towards the wardrobeI did not intend changing until he left, but I’m guessing that was when the shyness kicked in. I walked straight to the wardrobe and stood there staring at clothes I see all the time, I looked at them like they were a new collection from D&G. I finally pretended to search for an outfit to wear.“Yeah, find a beautiful dress and then you can show me how ladies put on their clothes” Davis said“Pervert” I said underneath my breath as I continued my endless searchThen I heard breathing very close to my ear, I got scared. The Davis spoke “I came to check if you are fine after what happened with the drinking and then the guy who tried dragging you”Well, this is a first, since when did Davis Garraway start caring about me? I asked myself as I walked away from him and towards the door.“You know goblin you are not as ugly as I say” he said as he started coming close, he walked towards me as I staggered like someone who had 15 shots of whiskey I moved back towards the wardrobe he kept coming close.“How can a goblin be this attractive” he said as he continued coming close“Why do make feel what I do not like feeling” he continued coming close as I hit my back on the wardrobe. Then he pulled me close and kissed me lightly, I was shocked and I could not comprehend what was happening everything happened in the speed of light.The valley does not keep track of time the way the city does. There are no billable hours, no fiscal quarters, no frantic, calendar-driven deadlines. There is only the cycle: the ice, the thaw, the green, and the yield.It has been three years since I walked away from the mahogany-paneled offices of London, leaving behind a life that was as polished and hollow as a store-bought mannequin.I am sitting on the porch of the cabin. The wood beneath me is smooth, worn silver by the sun and the weather—a surface I have maintained with my own hands. The orchard we planted in the first year is finally bearing fruit, the trees heavy with apples that taste of nothing but rain, sunlight, and the specific, iron-rich soil of this slope.Elena is down by the creek, working with a team of neighbors on a community-managed irrigation system. They aren't fighting the developers anymore; the developers, frustrated by the valley’s stubborn refusal to accommodate their rigid designs, long ago sold their p
The morning after the storm brought a silence so profound it felt heavy. The valley, washed clean by the deluge, shimmered under a pale, post-rain sun. The creek had retreated into its banks, though it left behind a landscape rearranged—driftwood piled against the bridge pilings, new gravel bars where the path had been, and a thick, rich layer of silt coating the garden's edge.Elena sat on the porch steps, staring at the debris-strewn creek bed where her entire life had been stored in cardboard boxes only twelve hours ago. She looked different—less like a city tourist, more like a survivor. The manicured polish was gone, replaced by the grime of the mud, and her eyes, though exhausted, had lost their frantic, darting edge.I stepped out with two mugs of coffee. I didn't offer sympathy; sympathy is a soft commodity in a place that demands hard ones. I offered the mug, sat down, and watched the water."It’s going to take a week to dig out the silt from the lower rows," I said. "And the
Spring in the valley was a relentless teacher. It didn't care for the elegance of a legal argument; it only responded to the precision of the planting. The "first green" had turned into a lush, aggressive canopy, and the cabin was now surrounded by a riot of life.I was no longer just the woman who had walked away from the firm. I was the woman who knew exactly how many days of sun it took to bring the snap peas to maturity, and how the soil composition near the eastern drainage ditch dictated the yield of our summer squash. The "geometry" of my life had shifted from the abstract to the tangible."The squash is crowding the beans," Davis said, emerging from the garden patch with a trowel in hand. His shirt was stained with chlorophyll, and his forearms were corded with muscle from months of steady work. "If we don't thin them, we’ll lose the nitrogen balance for the later crops."I stepped into the rows, my own hands mud-caked and steady. I didn't reach for a schedule or a spreadsheet
The thaw arrived not with a gentle sigh, but with a rhythmic, percussive roar. The ice on the creek, which had held the valley in a hushed grip for months, shattered in a series of sharp, resonant cracks that echoed off the ridges like small-caliber gunfire. Then came the rush—a torrent of meltwater fueled by the receding snowpack, turning the sleepy stream into a churning, slate-grey artery of life.I stepped onto the porch on the first morning the temperature stayed above freezing, and the smell hit me first. It was the scent of damp, liberated earth—an aroma so dense and fertile it felt like a physical weight in my lungs. Life, having been compressed and frozen, was now expanding with a frantic, almost violent ambition.Davis was already at the creek, testing the structural integrity of the small footbridge we had built the previous autumn. He looked up as I approached, his face mapped with the weariness of the long winter but alight with the kind of primal satisfaction that only c
Winter did not arrive; it invaded. It came on a Tuesday, heralded by a sky the color of a bruised plum, and by sunset, the valley had been erased. The world beyond the cabin walls ceased to exist, replaced by a swirling, white void that hammered against the cedar siding with a relentless, rhythmic intensity.For the first time since my arrival, the cabin was no longer a workshop; it was a fortress.The rhythm of our life shifted. The frantic, external labor of the harvest was replaced by the internal, meticulous labor of maintenance. We mended tools, we organized the grain stores, we checked the rafters for stress, and we sat.The silence of winter was different from the silence of summer. Summer’s silence was porous, filled with the hum of insects and the rustle of leaves. Winter’s silence was absolute, a heavy, velvet weight that pressed against the windows and demanded a different kind of articulation."The fire is dying," I said, my voice sounding small in the vast, still room.Da
The victory over Sterling-Crest Developments was not marked by a victory party or a celebratory drink. In the valley, such things were not the way of the world. Instead, it was marked by the quiet, steady return of water to the lower basin. Three days after Vane’s departure, the trickle in Elias’s creek deepened into a steady, singing flow. The pasture began to green again, a subtle shift in the color palette of the hillside that only those who lived in constant conversation with the land would notice.For me, the victory brought a different kind of shift. The word had spread, with the speed of wind through dry grass, that there was a "law-woman" in the cabin near the high ridge—someone who could speak the language of the developers and turn their own jargon against them.The consequence was an immediate and overwhelming influx of "neighbors."They came in the evenings, appearing at the edge of the clearing like ghosts emerging from the trees. There was Sarah, a widow whose logging ri
Chapter 9I was already used to Davis’s bullying since we were in preschool. I mean Davis had always bullied me, he would call me ugly, break my glasses, laugh at me whenever he passed me in class, throw away my food, call me goblin, drag my hair, force me to be his slave and many more and then whe
Chapter 8“Fine I’ll will go”. I got ready and we left for the party, well by ready I do not actually mean that I wore sexy clothes or anything, nope It was just mu usual hoodie and jeans.“Yuck what is that, all that” Tiffany asked as she pointed at what I was putting on“I told you; you made a mis
Chapter 7Peach, the nickname my mom called me. Since I was a child, I have never heard her calling me Charity, it is always: Peach, my Peach, darling Peach. I guess the name equally made her feel she had to protect me from the world. Whenever I was found derailing from the blue print she would get
Chapter 6My mom prepared my life’s blue print, and in the blue print one of the important details there was the kind of people I had to interact with, the kind of friends I was to make and the kind of people I should have business with. The blueprint only allowed me to mingle with the rich, the sm







