I’m angry.

I shouldn’t be but I am.

I mean who gets angry over a fictional character? 

Me, I guess since I AM ANGRY!

That’s the power of a good story.

For the past four years, I’ve reread The Baxter Series.

If not all, 95 percent at least. I read it last month and as usual, I  got angry at this character: Cody

He’s in love with Bailey. And for over eight books in the series, they went through a lot.

Bailey loves him. So much that she made the mistake of calling the boyfriend she wanted to break up with Cody. 

The guy’s name’s Tim.

Imagine your girlfriend in the process of breaking up with you and wanting to call your name, calls you by the name of the guy you know is in love with her. 

How horrible is that?

But this guy Cody “no get sense”.

How on earth would you think that person you love and who loves you back is too good for you?

Can you imagine?

Yes, you have an unpleasant past, but that’s what it is; THE PAST

But this guy will not allow the past to rest oo.

Hopeless man. 

And Karen did a great job breaking my heart. I was so sure they’d end up together. She made me fall in love with their love. Only for them not to end up together.

The funny thing is whenever I reread it, there’s a part of me that hopes. That by some miracle, the story would change and they’d end up together. 

But they don’t. And whenever I get to where I am in the book, the part where Bailey works to forget Cody and end up marrying another guy, I always think,

 “Karen’s gonna break my heart. But why do I reread it every year? Why do I let my heart be broken?

My friend Isaac was right; “Authors not only kill characters, they kill relationships too.”

But I realized this time why I read it every year, and that’s to remind myself of a simple truth about being a Christian; Not perfect.

To put it in Ashley Baxter’s words;

“Being a Baxter doesn’t mean you’re perfect. We bend and sway; we go through trials and temptations and heartbreak. But Baxters don’t break, and we don’t walk away. We keep getting up and dusting ourselves off and turning to God. As many times as it takes.”

Personally, I believe being a Baxter is being a Christian.

As Karen would write,

In His light and love.

Amos Bani 

Bibliophile/Writer.