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“I do. I‘m sure I‘ll do a good job, although I won‘t be as good as you are.”
“Never be negative. You can do anything you put your mind to, no matter how hard it is. I accept your proposal. I think you‘ll be great. You don‘t know how grateful I am to you for this.”
“So you are going to continue being in charge of the record label?”
“Yes I am, God willing. I realized that this is what I‘ve always wanted to do and I should‘ve never tried to do two things at the same time, especially things like filmmaking and making records. I had to choose one of them, for my own good, and I have chosen this.”
“I love making films. I have worked very hard and I‘ve even practiced.” She got her fourteen-inch laptop out of her purse, opened it up, turned it on, and when the computer was done booting up and starting up, she browsed her files for a thirty-minute film that she had produced with Jose Milian and Carlos Roman, aspiring actors, who were not willing to give up their dream. This one was a horror film, and they‘d been working on it for four months while Robinson was working outside the home. It took them this long because they needed tarantulas, and they needed to make it seem like tarantulas could eat people alive piece by piece. Haggai would take a few minutes of his time to make the tarantulas seem bigger and more terrifying than they really were, and make them do things that in the real world they‘d never do. Robinson closed up his own laptop, letting it go into standby mode, set it aside, and placed Kay‘s laptop right beside it. He started watching the mini film and when he finished thirty minutes later, he was impressed.
“You‘ve got talent,” he said. “You know what you‘re doing. You‘re in charge of Bennett Films from now on. Kay, I thank you for doing this.” He got up from his chair. “I‘m going to go take care of Brie. I promise there will be no genetic enhancement.”
“Oh, I know you can do it without enhancing her genes in any way. Believe me, I‘ve seen you in action, not precisely helping someone to heal, but do other things…anyway, you know what I‘m talking about.”
“Yes,” he said, surprised, “I do. Do you want me to take you back home?”
“Get on with what you have to do. I have to go shopping.” She got up from her chair, walked closer to him and gave him a big hug. Smiling, she said, “I promise not to break the bank.”
“You don‘t have to promise. I know you never do. When you go shopping you only get things you really, really need.”
Every time that Kay went shopping, she would buy clothes and shoes or office supplies. She would go shopping once a week and never once throughout her and Robinson‘s marriage did she spend more than $500 in one day, and she wasn‘t planning to start spending more than that today. Although he was succeeding in everything he was doing, she didn‘t have the heart to waste his money on things that she didn‘t need. She would never waste money. She was taught the value of a dollar. It was Robinson who bought her new laptop for her, as a birthday present, and it was a surprise. “Thanks for being so good to me.”
“We‘re good to one another. I‘m just so sorry that in all this time we haven‘t been able to start a family.”
“You don‘t know, do you?”
Smiling, he said, “Know what?”