Title: I Pick You
Author: Jettie Woodruff
Release Date: Feb 23, 2016
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Book Description:
When I left Nashville, Tennessee, I knew deep in my heart I wouldn't be back. I knew I would never be heard on every country music station around the world, and I would never step foot on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Cold hard guilt and responsibilities that I didn't want forced me on a different path.
Me being responsible for an eighteen-month-old was a horrible idea. Me being a second grade teacher in a catholic school was plain ludicrous.
Life sucked, love hurt, and I didn't know who to pick.
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Excerpt:
Kit held up the blue book with white
stickers, spelling out The Bay Bible. “This book will tell you any and everything you
would need to know, right down to a mosquito bite.”
I blew out a puff of air, cocky air. “I’m pretty sure I
can handle a mosquito bite. I didn’t need a tab for that one. I’m not stupid,
just not made for this daddy stuff.”
“What you put on your mosquito bite isn’t the same as hers. You have
to be careful with all those chemicals. A little bit of baking soda and water
does the same thing.”
“Oh, okay, yeah, that makes sense,” I admitted while I stepped off my
pedestal, accepting defeat, the thought of my grandma using that same home
remedy crossing my mind. Nope, didn’t know how to do this, and I didn’t want
to. I was doomed, she was doomed, and this was a horrible idea.
“You’re going to be fine.”
That wasn’t what I was worried about. Not
fully. “And what about the girl? You’re trusting someone who has never been
around little kids. Ever.”
“I’m trusting her with her dad, and stop calling her the girl. Her
name is Bay.”
“Yeah, I know. Why you would name a child, Bay is beyond me.
Especially when your last name is Berry.”
“Hey, I gave her your name. I could have given her mine.”
“Whatever, it’s still a stupid name. How much time do I have, Kit? I
have to pack up this place, get a job and get out of the city.”
Kit frowned while her head did this little
jerking thing. Like I had just slapped her across her face. “You’re leaving
Nashville?”
“I know you’ve only seen the ceiling of my apartment, but I’m sure
you noticed the size? Where’s she going to play? Where is she going to sleep?
And, what? Am I just going to make her a bed in my guitar case while I perform
on the streets until two in the morning? Of course, I’m leaving Nashville.”
“I remember your apartment, idiot, but where would you go?”
“Idit,” the tiny
little voice said from the bed.
Kit laughed and scolded her with a
lighthearted tone. “You can’t say that.”
“I don’t know yet. I just sent out a resume right before I called.
I’ll let you know when I know.”
“But what kind of job? I mean what can you do besides sing?”
I shook my head a little with that one,
deciding not to tell the dumb twit. Not because I wasn’t proud of the degree I
had gotten as a backup plan. It was more because she didn’t think I was capable
of such an accomplishment. She didn’t know shit about me, and it pissed me off
that she was so quick to judge. “Oh, I don’t know, Kit. I bet I could mow lawns, or
maybe change some oil or something.”
Kit’s frown never changed and she continued to start each sentence
with, but. “But where would you go? I thought you would stay close to your
family. You know, so they can help with Bay.”
I did the frowning that time. “See, this is why
this is wrong on so many levels. You don’t know me any more than I know you. My
family lives in Michigan. Not Nashville. I came here right after high school.
“But I met your sister.”
“Bridgett, yes. She just so happened to be visiting that weekend. She
doesn’t live here. She’s a social worker back home. Not here.”
I could almost see the air being exhaled as
Kit’s eyebrows sank with both her shoulders. She looked back at Bay, dumping
raisins onto the bed, and back to me. “This changes things.”
“It does?” I questioned, wheels spinning like crazy in my head while
I tried to contain the excitement.
“Yeah, I mean I was already having an issue with how immature you
are, but moving her from place to place with no family. Yeah, I don’t know.”
Normally the immature remark would have
pissed me off, but honestly, it was sort of true. Although in my defense, I had
nothing to be mature about. It sounds selfish now, but at the time, I didn’t
really think about Bay being my responsibility. My duty to my daughter
consisted of six hundred dollars set up to automatically deposit into Kit’s
bank account on the first day of every month. At least, I wouldn’t have to send
that anymore. Surely a baby didn’t cost that much.
“I’m sure we’ll be fine. I’m not going to move her from place to
place. Why do you think I need to know how much time I have until you fly
halfway across the world?”
“You have no idea how much I want this, Brantley. It took me months
to ask you. I wouldn’t even consider it if it wasn’t you.”
I didn’t understand that at all. “Why? I’ve never
even been in her life.”
“Because nobody but you will love her like I do.”
I didn’t touch that one either. How could
she say that, knowing we didn’t even know each other? “When do you leave?”
“Six weeks,” Kit replied in a faraway tone. Her head turned back to
Bay and a smile took over her entire face.
That didn’t give me much time, but it
wasn’t like she hadn’t asked six months before. That’s just how long it took
for her to talk me into it, begging and pleading until I finally caved. And I
still wasn’t one hundred percent convinced. My eyes moved past Kit to Bay,
throwing both hands into the air, calling out some incoherent chant, raisins
scattered all around her. “I’ve never changed a diaper.”
“She’s doing great on the potty. If you’re lucky, I can have her out
of diapers before you get her. There is one thing, Brantley.”
“Here it comes. What?”
“I want her back. You have to sign something promising to give her
back. You can see her and get her on weekends, but you can’t keep her. I’m
getting her back.”
That wouldn’t be a problem. “Sure, whatever.
I’ll call you in a few days.”
“Thank you so much, Brantley.”
“Yeah, yeah. See ya.”
I closed my laptop, seeing my guitar case
propped in the corner. My sad guitar. The one that I would retire for an
eighteen-month-old. What the hell was I doing?
About the Author:
Jettie Woodruff is a lifelong writer, living in a pretend world since she was a little girl. Jettie spent hours filling pages of spiral notebooks with a number two pencil and a wild imagination. Her very first story was a scifi of all things.go ah
Jettie writes more along the lines of erotica now. She likes to keep her readers on edge, and deliver a story that will pull out every emotion possible. Writing on the edge of taboo and dark, Jettie hopes to distribute an adventure you'll not soon forget.
Married for twenty five years, raising two boys and one girl has left lots of writing material. She has recently become a grandma to not one, but two of the most beautiful little girls on planet earth.
Jettie also hates doing this bio. That's all you get. She loves to read and write. What else is there? <3
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