Chapter 2: Happy Days

Now to prove he loves me I will recalled some words my Weller once wrote me.

It goes like this:

Love is but a virtue and a powerful entity within the garden of life. It is like a flower that blooms beautifully threw tender nourishment and happy memories.

But even with that it can wither when built upon lies, decite and betrayal. So to keep it going it must be planted in the fresh grounds of Trust, honesty and loyalty. When it blooms it is has powerful and bright has the sun but delicate as glass, once broken it cannot be mended.

When it withers it grows powerful thorns like that on a rose bush. So to keep these thorns harmless, the love must be shared by two.

These are just words taken from a poem written to me.

But a common saying is that at the end you think of the beginning. You know how it all started. With this... it is the best years of my life. Literally.

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Fine chapter, Happy Days, for the first stage of my life.

To understand my life and how I we got here we have to start at the beginning of my life; because it all started then. That means 50 years back.

In September 1989 my parents, Donovan James and Melina Samuels, met at the Oxford University. According to my mom it was a rainy day and he bumped into her. After coffee it led straight to sex.

As all her papers dropped my father quickly took off his glasses and said, "I am sorry! It is my fault."

"Oh it is nothing. It is only my Thesis on Baldwin Mates!" Replied Melina as she got the wet papers from the ground.

"Wait! You are a law student?" Donovan quickly asked her and she smiled.

She then said, 'Of all the pickup lines I heard. That is the corniest."

She then went away leaving him. And Donovan chuckled as he admired her ass as she walked away.

Later that day

Melina laid in her bed in a blue boy shorts and blue sports bra. As she lay there, she was blow drying the paper.

'How am I going to get back 4 weeks of research and another interview thanks to him? But, in other news he was cute' Melina taught and smiled.

Boom! Boom! {a knock on the door}

She wondered who it was. She opened the door and it was Donovan standing in his white suit.

He was holding two cups of Mushroom Cafe coffee and a, to go bag in his left hand. In addition he had a large black folder in his right hand

"You?" she quickly told him.

"Donovan, Donovan James. I didn't introduce myself," replied Donovan to her.

She smiled and asked, "Why are you here? And how did you know where I live?"

"Well I felt bad about destroying your thesis so I redid all, 4000 pages. And I got Baldwin Mates to send another copy of your research so it is in it.

I brought you some of Mushroom Cafe coffee special. And I found where you live because I am the president of the Student Government," replied Donovan as her as he gave her everything.

Melinda took it and asked, "How did you get another interview?"

"Easy! He is my stepfather. And I did your research last year. I hope this makes up for everything I did to you,' he quickly told her.

She blushed and bit her lips.

As she played with her hair she said, "No you didn't, but there is a way to make up for it."

He took a minute to get what she was saying. Then he went in and they kissed closing the door behind them.

They were in their final year of Law school. With this they stayed in touch. My father became a civil/defense lawyer working for Blackwell Legal Partners Limited.

Meanwhile she became a cooperate lawyer for News Corp. UK. On September 22, 1998 they got married. While on Honeymoon they conceptualized the idea of having their own firm.

On November 9, 1998 James Samuels & Associates Law was born. It was started with: 5 Lawyers, 7 secretaries/Paralegals and only 4 Clients. In the Law world this was rock bottom, but they had each other.

A month later

They both sat and the doctor said, "Congratulations MR & Mrs. James you're pregnant. And it is twins, two girls to be exact."

With this they brought a manor in Yorkshire, England.

On June 27, 1999 my sister and I was born at the Princess Diana Memorial Hospital. My sister was 5 pound 3 ounces and I was 7 pounds 7 ounces.

She was diagnosed with a deficiency disease. My mother named us Melinda James and Malinda James. My twin sister live seven days and then she passed. My mother abandoned my father and relocated to New York.

This after she wanted to sue the hospital for not saving my sisters life my father disagreed, she divorce him and took off to America.