Their Eyes Watching God
After Tea Cake left Janie wanted to ask Hezekiah about him but she didn’t because she thought that he would take her asking about him for her being interested. He looked so young to her. She thought maybe that he was hanging around like all of the others to get was Joe left her after he died. So, Janie decided that she would treat him coldly if he ever came around again. He waited a week before he came back to visit Janie. They talked and spent a little time together at the store. Then Janie closed the store and she and Tea Cake started to her house. The two sat on the porch and laughed all night. They got hungry and Tea Cake suggested that they go fishing. The next morning Kiah started to warn Janie about Tea Cake. Janie wanted to know why, it wasn’t because he was thief, or a killer, or married. It was because he didn‘t have anything and Kiah thought he might try to take advantage of her. The next night Tea Cake was waiting on Janie at her steps with a fish ready to fry. Janie and T.C at and soon he went to the piano and began playing the blues for Janie. The sounds from the melody lulled Janie to sleep. When she woke up Tea Cake was combing her hair. It, as said by Tea Cake, was his “comfortable.” All the next day in the house she thought about Tea Cake, at the store she thought about Tea Cake. In her mind she tried to make fun of him in order for her not to think about him in that way. That night Tea Cake didn’t come to see Janie and in an innocent way she wanted him to. But, when Janie woke up the next morning she found Tea Cake there. She wanted to fix him some breakfast but he wouldn’t let her, he just told her what he had to say and left for work. That night when she came home he was waiting for her in the hammock. Once again that night the laughed and ate and enjoyed each others company. The next morning Janie was awakened by feeling Tea Cake kissing her and holding her tightly. Then he quickly got ready for work and told Janie not to budge, but to rest her body. In her heart she wanted to fix him breakfast….. And that was the beginning of Janie and Tea Cake. Suddenly doubt came knocking on Janie’s door. Tea Cake didn’t return that night, or the next, or the next. On the fourth day he came, he came in an old beat up car. She looked at him and to herself adored and hated him at the same time. Janie had the key to Tea Cake’s heart and he had no problem expressing his feelings for her. There was a town picnic and it was after that when the town began to notice the two were a couple. They talked about her husband only being dead for nine months, she’s stopped going to church, and they didn’t like that. One night Sam Watson, Pheoby’s husband, filled his wife’s head with all kinds of mess, the same kind of mess the rest of the town was talking. But his concern was genuine, he didn’t want her to end up like Mis’ Tyler. Miss Tyler was a woman in her early fifties who had been left well off by her deceased husband. She got involved with a boy in his late teens, early twenties, named Who Flung. To make a long story short, he convinced her to move, took her for all she had, and then left her to survive on her own with no money. She died eventually. With all that her husband said, Pheoby decided to talk to Janie. Janie was glad to see her friend and had something to tell her as well. While Pheoby was telling her about what the town thought, Janie told her friend that she and Tea Cake were to be married, soon.