Between the pool and the Gardenias

Between the pool and the gardenias is a sorrowful story of a woman and the dead child. It’s story of a woman who had a miscarriage and now she desperately looking for a baby. She is hoping that someday she’ll have a child. One day when she was walking on the street, she found a baby girl, who looked like a little expensive doll. She was afraid to touch her, because she thought that it’s a trap from my enemies. Finally, she picked her up into her arms. The child was wearing a dress with the letters R O S E on it. So, she started calling her Rose. The woman is a maid at the house in Petion-Vile. She took Rose with her to the house. She was talking to Rose, but Rose didn’t have any expression on her face. In so little time Rose was very close to her. She started telling Rose about her life, all the things that gave her pain and happiness. She kept talking to her for three day and realized that Rose is not making any reaction. Rose started to smell like intestines. She started giving her bath three or four times a day and sprayed Madame’s perfume on her. Finally she realizes that Rose is dead. She wanted to bring Rose back to the same street where she found her, but then she thought that she have taken on her soul as her personal responsibility. She left her behind the house in a sack. Rose’s skin was turning dry, ashy, and started attracting flies. She gave Rose a final bath and wore her yellow dress. She dug a hole to bury her. When she was about to put Rose in the hole, someone stopped her. It was the Dominican (pool cleaner), who spent one night with her. He accused her for killing the child for her evil purposes. He kept a hold on her, so she won’t run away. She looked down at Rose and thought of all the things that a mother can imagine about her child. Over Rose’s corpse, she thought of a nice picture of Rose, me and him. Between the pool and the gardenias, waiting for the police to come. I think it was a miserable story of this woman, who always wanted someone to love her, and a child who she can love. But, her destiny was that bad that everyone deceived her. She never got a husband or her own child. I think it was very heart touching story that after reading it makes you very emotional and pray for these types of women.