If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. – BanskyAfter their talk, Reese told Helen not to stop going to the gym. She was doing good and should keep up her routine. Monday she didn’t go. Tuesday she almost talked herself out of going. But she went. Pinky realized immediately that Helen was not her usual happy bubbly self. Her heart wasn’t in the workout. “Helen? Why don’t we go talk in my office?” Pinky suggested. Helen nodded and followed her into the small office behind the reception desk. “Let’s go ahead and get your weight and measurements.”She stepped up onto the scale and Pinky wrote down the number. Then she stood still as her waist, thigh and arm measurements were taken. When that was all done, they sat on opposite sides of the desk. “What’s bothering you?”“It’s nothing important.”

To ignore evil is to become accomplice to it. – Martin Luther KingHank had thrown away the rest of Jolene’s birth control the morning after he decided that they were going to have a baby. The pill packs had been thrown away and taken to the dumpster on his way to work. He had been taught by his father and uncle that women were manipulative and sneaky. If there was any chance that they could do something that they were told not to do, they would. A man had to keep a tight rein on his woman. The man was the head of the house. The leader of the family. The ultimate authority. The woman was to submit to his wishes.Currently, his wish is to have a baby. More importantly, he wanted a promotion to sergeant. A steady home life would help. And a baby would show that he had a steady and secure home life. Therefore, his wife would give him a baby.By the time she had the baby, she would be done with school.

If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done. – Jen SinceroIt was a little lie. Not big. But it would guarantee that her uncle would be home. Looking at the text again, Dean sent it. ‘Uncle O. Need you to sign papers for coach. Be home after school. No practice.’It was lunch. Reese would be up. She checked her family app and found him leaving the Family Advocacy Center. Good. Maybe Bunny could talk some sense into him.Plus, he knew that she had her coach for math in the morning. Seriously. What kind of a coach also taught trigonometry? The sadistic kind. Then again, what kind of an athlete took trigonometry? Possibly a masochist. Obviously, it was a good relationship.She had made a joke about that one time and the coach heard her. The next day at practice, Dean had found a note in her locker. “The beatings will continue until morale improves.” Dean had busted out laughing and tucked the note away before anyone else saw it.It was current

If you want to fly, give up what weighs you down. – BuddhaMonday morning Reese walked into the florist shop with the names of the flowers JD had given him. Well, most of them. Dean had said that they were hopeless since neither could figure what the star flower was. Reese looked around the shop a little bit while the clerk finished up with the other patron. It was in a shopping center that he had recently bought. This would be his second shopping center. It was a huge loss in the beginning. The profit would be in the long game. But he was willing to wait.He could afford to lose some money at the beginning of a project. And it gave others a chance to do just as he did. Start with a small business and let it grow. If he could say that he was part of the process of making someone’s dreams come true, he would consider himself a success. The money was nice. Being able to spoil his family was great. Helping someone fulfill their lifelong dream was the best. Also high on the list, was re

I believe in you, now it’s your turn. – Natalia HarhajDean and JD texted and spoke often. Each would send pictures and memes back and forth. At one point, he got caught sending a selfie of him at practice.“Who the hell are you texting?” Craig asked.“My girlfriend.” JD said it without thinking and thought that it was the right answer.“Is she hot?” One of the freshmen asked and Deon pushed the kid into the pool.“Is she hot?” Deon asked with a grin.JD scrolled up to the picture that Dean had just sent from her own practice. "Damn!" Craig said as he tried to take the phone from him."Get your hands off my phone before I tell your girlfriend your checking out mine." JD warned."Asshole." Craig muttered as coach ordered them all into the pool. JD got a message from Dean Friday afternoon asking if she could come to Sunday dinner for a few minutes. He told her that they were welcome to come for however long they wanted. It would be at their apartment this time and prepare for a fabulo