Cheyenne & David


It was half past four in the afternoon and Cheyenne was at home starting to prepare a homemade meal for the last girls night for awhile.  Almost everyone had their summer vacations planned for the same two weeks, so that way they wouldn't spend too much time apart.  

Cooking, cleaning, and playing the part of the perfect little housewife was Cheyenne's way of life.  Cheyenne was brought up in a very traditional household.  Her mother was very strict but her father loved to indulge her.  He let Cheyenne go out with him on the job site.  Cheyenne's dad was the owner of a oil company, so he taught her the most important thing about being on a oil rig job site and that was safety. 
One day when Cheyenne was about seventeen, she was hanging out with her dad at a job site.  What she really wanted was to ask her dad if she could skip curfew that night and go to a late drive-in movie with a bunch of her friends and she knew exactly what her mother would say if she asked her and that was "NO WAY!"  All of a sudden, they heard a man scream.  Cheyenne and her dad ran out to see what had happened and found one of her father's young employees on the ground doubled over in pain.  Cheyenne had volunteered at the hospital and knew how to care for David.  It turned out that David had broken his leg, so Cheyenne set the bone right there at the job site.  He offered her two wishes and she chose to save them for a later date.  At that moment all she was focused on was his safety.  From that day on David and Cheyenne were inseparable.  
Cheyenne and David were a great couple, especially in the beginning of their relationship.  They spent every waking minute together and of course her father approved of him because her father had hired him and he knew if his daughter loved him, David must be worthy of her love.  What her father didn't know was that David had a son named Randy from a previous marriage with his high school sweetheart.  No one, including Cheyenne, would find out about Randy until much later on.  About two years after they met, David and Cheyenne were married.  Not too long after that, they were expecting their first and only child, a baby boy whom they named Beau.  Beau was Cheyenne's pride and joy.  She lugged him with her everywhere and gave him all the attention in the world.  When Cheyenne's father passed away, he left his oil company in the hands of David because he knew that David would be the perfect man to take over his business, but he also knew that his daughter and grandson would be well taken care with the money that the oil company brought in.  Beau was about eight years old when David found out that he was dying of colon cancer.  Unfortunately for Cheyenne and Beau, they weren't aware of just how little time they had with David.  Two months later, David passed away.  It was only then that Cheyenne found out about Randy, David's first son.  She was beside herself with grief, but she was also angry at her late husband for not having told her that he had another son.  Cheyenne didn't know it, but right after David found out he was dying, he had a will drawn up.  The will named Randy as his successor at the oil company.  The will also stated that he still owed Cheyenne two requests which could change the will.  Cheyenne wrestled with thoughts of what she could do with her two requests, so she decided to make Beau the recipient of the oil company and to make Randy a partner within the company, but with only thirty percent of the company's stock.  But since Beau wasn't old enough to run the company, she hired her brother James to run it until Randy was old enough.
There was a knock at the door.  
"I'll get it, Mom!" Beau shouted.
"Ok, but remember you have to go out to the guest house because this is girls night.  There is pizza waiting for you, but please, Beau, don't spill anything on the suede sofa like you did last time.  And lock the door behind you.  I don't want anything to happen to my little man."
"Mom, I'm not little anymore," Beau said with a frown on his face.  He opened the door and greeted the girls and then raced out to the guest house with his chocolate Lab right behind him.
"Hi, girls, I hope you are all ready for a traditional homestyle meal."
"Oh, we can't wait," Ashley said with a grin.
Author's Note:  I had a hard time thinking of another love story for the fourth story of my storybook, and although the story of Kaikeyi and Dasaratha isn't a traditional love story, I hope that everyone is able to see the love that is shared between these two.  I included all the aspects of the story of Kaikeyi, but I just modernized it to continue with the theme that each story in my storybook is brought up to speed with our modern times.  I expanded the part of the story about the couple's courtship and marriage.  I also made it to where Rama's character, Randy in my story, is kept secret until the end.  Also, I wanted Cheyenne to be able to use her two requests as she saw fit.  In the original story, Kaikeyi used one of her requests to send Rama to exile trying to prevent him from taking over Dasaratha's throne.  In the original story, Kaikeyi makes the requests of Dasaratha while he is still alive, but in my story the conflict takes place after David is already dead.  Also, I took all of the conflict out of the story.  In the original version, Kaikeyi's requests caused all kinds of chaos.  Even her own son rejected what she had done.  Thankfully Cheyenne was able to avoid all of that turmoil in my version of the story.  She did this because she wanted her own son Bharatha to be heir to the throne over Rama.  I made Beau, who is Bharata in my version of the story, a little boy because Cheyenne is a young woman and so are all of her friends.  They girls throughout my stories aren't old enough to have sons in their late teens or early twenties.  I introduced Cheyenne's brother into the story to resolve the issue of who would run the oil company until the boys were old enough to take over the business.  I also changed how Dasaratha and Kaikeyi met.  Instead of Cheyenne being there to rescue David while he was at war, I had her rescue him while he was at work.

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