Reading Log #2 (Let's Get It On)

The book Let's Get It On is a very excellent book. The main characters are Kenya Taylor, Maurice, and Lauren Michaels. Kenya and Maurice has been a couple all through and high school and now there in college together. Maurice is the only man she ever has layed ryes on. She shared her first for everything with him. He feels the same about her. Maurice is a very fine popular man due to his football skills. In college all the girls liked him and literaly threw themselves at him every chance they got. Kenya wasnt worried about it because she knew they had a bond so strong that no other female could break...or so she thought. One day Kenya stopped by his room for something and caught her boyfriend Maurice in the bed with Lauren Michaels. Seeing that changed her life drastically. Kenya wasnt the ghetto type girl to go and jump on people. She tryed to keep her composure but she knew when she seen Lauren by herself and pushed her down the hill that she had to switch schools before she got herself in some deep trouble. Maurice had found Kenya and talked to her but what he said only the made the situation worse. He said he was sorry how she found out about them but he was glad she did because she had to know sooner or later. He also admitted to her that he wanted to be with Lauren and that they should go their separate ways but still remain friends. Kenya ended up moving back home to Atlanta to go to another school. Kenya also was pregnant but didn't know at the time. She had a feeling that she was because she missed her period but was to scared to go and find out. She ended having a miscarriage and never told anyone. Her life was going downhill because of what Maurice did. She dated again but broke up with them after a short period of time because they wasn't Maurice or anything like him. She buried herself in work twenty four seven to get her mind off of Maurice so much. Nine years has passed and she still isnt over the heartbreak that experienced in college. Maurice wanted to take his relationship with Lauren a little farther. He started catching feelings for her. He felt bad about the way Kenya found out about them and he he was also thinking about her after nine years has passed. Maurice has now it to the NFL. Lauren love being a famouse football player girlfriend. She was loving all the money, jewelry, and going to the most expensive restaurants and clubs. Everything her and Maurice did together she wanted it to be in either the papers or on t.v. Maurice wanted to propose to her in the privacy of their own home but she wanted him to do it at the end of his big game so it can be on t.v. He started to wonder about her and why was she really with him. Lauren ad this best friend Mya that she was always with but Maurice didnt think anything of it. Lauren was enjoying being engaged to Maurice. Maurice was having second thoughts about marrying her but went through with it anyway. The day of the wedding he found out something. Mya convinced Lauren that deep down iside she didnt want to get married it was just the money that made her want to do it. All along Mya and Lauren had a relationship that Maurice didnt know about. Lauren left Maurice at the altar for Mya because she thought about what Mya said and knew that it was true. She really wanted Mya. Maurice didnt know what to do. He knew he was used and all he could think about was hat Kenya would have never used him for his money and fame and mos def wouldnt leave him at the altar for another woman. He wanted Kenya not because he didnt have Lauren and now he was alone but because he knew he made a mistake by leaving her for another woman. He felt Kenya was the one for him even after nine years of not seeing her. His honeymoon to the bahamas was already paid for and they couldnt reimburst him his money so he decided that him and his brother would go on the vacation. Kenya career as a lawyer was hard work but she was good at what she do. They told her to relocate to Charlotte North Carolina. That is where she moved from nine years due to the bad break up. But they offered her a vacation to think it over. Just so happen the vacation was the bahamas. SO she accepted it. Yes you guessed right...they ended up there together. Kenya was mad as when she felt that hurt all over again when she seen his face. She smacked him. The whole time they was there he was trying to when her heart back and convince her that fate brought both of them to the bahamas together. It wasnt easy getting to Kenya to hold a conversation with him. He seen how she has changed. She has lost weight with perfect shape and everything. He felt that they had to work it. She knew she couldnt fight it. She still felt the same way for him even after all these years, but she couldnt put what she seen in his dorm room nine years ago to the back of her mind. She constantly wandered if she gave him a second chance would he hurt her again. They spent the whole vacation together trying to make things work. They didn't rush into it but he finally worked his way to her heart. No matter how hard she tryed not to give in she couldnt fight what she felt. She agreed to relocate to her new firm in North Carolina. Lauren seen them together and began to get jealous. She missed all the money she had easy access to. Mya didnt have what Maurice had and she was missing it. She began to see more of Maurice and Kenya. She tryed everything to break them up. She made a sex video to make it look like Maurice cheated again with her. But she made the video by putting Maurice face on somebody else body. She got so jealous that she shot Kenya and slomost cause her to die. Maurice made sure she was put away for that. But to make a long story short they got back together and got married and Lauren was never heard of again.