EPISODE 23
“You know what you are asking for is practically impossible!" Mrs Mallory yelled after fixing her emotions.
"Impossible or possible, I don't actually care. All I know is that I want Jake and you have to give him to me."
It was clear that Tess's mind was already made up and going into further discussion with her would clearly just be a waste of time.
"Everyone is at the peak of their emotions right now, and we would keep arguing with each other and see everything the other party has to say as garbage. So I suggest we all just sleep off this tension. You could use the visitors room at the..."
"I know my way around. I've been here before, remember?" Tess walked out of the living room taking her bag with her, leaving Mrs Mallory there, all alone, thinking.
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"I can't do this!" Jake said as he pushed Mandy away and then he left the room.
Mandy fell to the ground with her hand on her chest. It's been a while since someone made her feel this way.
"Oh my goodness!" Mandy exclaimed with her hands still on her chest. "What was l about doing?" She slapped herself really hard across her cheek trying to get a grip on herself.
She walked to her bed feeling embarrassed and good all at the same time.
Jake was behind the door, still wondering if he had made the right choice. He doubted himself now, before now he was so sure of himself but not anymore.
"I really hope this doesn't backfire." He said to himself as he left the door.
The night was a long one.
It was an awkward morning at the Mallory's residence. There was awkwardness both at the penthouse and at the main building.
"No no no! You can't be serious about this Tess." Mrs Mallory said trying to hold her back.
"No... you, can't be serious!" Tess said shocked at Mrs Mallory's action. "I can't believe you are really still on this issue."
"That makes both of us then. I can't believe you still woke up with this mindset."
"Why is this so hard for you? What are you even afraid of? It's not like your son is going to do anything to you, so I really don't understand why you are so afraid of him finding out."
Mrs Mallory thought hard about what Tess just said, she actually really had no idea why she desperately doesn't want Jake to find out about what she did. She knew she was afraid of something, but what she didn't know was what and why.
"It's either you introduce me to Jake as his wife, or I would do the introduction myself." Tess added.
"Look, there is nothing you can say to me right now that would change my decision, you can't get married to my son and that's it."
"We would see about that." Tess took to her heels running directly into the main building.
She banged the door really hard and holding it with a stick from behind to prevent Mrs Mallory from running after her. If at all she was going to catch up, Tess would have made her introduction.
"I'm sorry, you go first." Jake said to Mandy after they been having a series of bumping into each other.
"No it's fine you can go." Mandy said trying to give way to Jake.
"Nah. You go first." Jake said still insisting.
"Oh just go already!" Tess exclaimed tired of watching the back and forth the two were displaying.
Jake and Mandy turned their faces almost together at the sound of the voice.
"Who are you?" Jake asked the beautiful and slender lady leaning on the door with her arms folded.
Tess moved away from the door and took some steps closer to where Jake stood with Mandy, then she said. "Well I am your...”
"Your cousin." Mrs Mallory said cutting
Tess short.
"Mom! Why are you running? What are you doing here this early? Do you know her?" Jake asked the questions all at once like it was water rushing out from a water fountain.
"Too many questions! Too many questions! Slow down boy!" Mrs Mallory said gasping for air as she walked to take a seat. "Let's take it one at a time."
Tess scoffed, shocked by how fast Mrs Mallory could actually run.
Everyone wore a different facial expression on their face, but with the same question in their head, although the questions were for different reasons, but it was still the same.
"What is going on?" This was the question.
While Jake and Mandy asked the question within them, to Mrs Mallory, Tess was directing hers towards Jake and Mandy, still unable to get the image of what they were both doing out of her head.
Everyone was seated. The look on their face said they were all calm and responsible adults who were seated to have a mature conversation, but the thoughts running in their heads said otherwise. It was crazily noisy in there.
Mrs Mallory raised her brows at Jake wondering if there was something he wanted to hear from her as she noticed his incessant staring.
The more she did that, the more Jake stared deeply into her eyes.
"Oh be serious mother! You know why I am staring." Jake finally voiced out feeling frustrated by his mother's play of ignorance.
"Do I?" Mrs Mallory asked still trying to play dumb.
"Really mom! Really now! C'mom talk to us. What is going on? Who is she? What is all the ruckus and running for this morning?" Jake asked loosing his patience.
"Look, (Tess said facing Mrs Mallory.
She too was also getting frustrated) if you don't know what to say, I would help you out."
"Oh no no no!" Mrs Mallory shouted almost immediately. Now her brain cells had been reactivated. "I don't need you to help me, just remained seated in silence, you don't have to say anything (she stressed her voice when she said 'anything').
"Then you better hurry up." Tess said.
In all of this, Mandy said nothing, she just listened quietly to what they were all going to say, hoping that someone gets to ask what she has in mind to ask. Saying anything here would be to just draw attention to herself and she wasn't ready for Mrs Mallory's drama.
"This lady right here is your cousin, my neice, and her name is Tess. She would be staying with us for the main time, but she would be staying at the penthouse with me. You know how I always get bored all the time, so l asked her to come stay with me to keep me company. Yh that is all it is." Mrs Mallory said faking a smile as she tried to be as calm as she could.
Tess was shocked to her bones, she sat with her mouth wide open. She just couldn't believe how this old lady managed to come up with such a smooth lie in a limited amount of time, and she said it like it wasn't a lie at all, for a second she actually thought she was Mrs Mallory's neice. If she wasn't aware of the actual situation, she would buy the lie, because Mrs Mallory sold it so convincingly.
"You are lying mom." Jake said.
Both Mandy and Tess were shocked.
Tess was shocked as to how Jake actually spotted the lie, while Mandy was shocked as to how Jake read her mind.
"Why would you say that?"
It was almost as if Tess and Mandy suddenly became invincible, Jake could only see and hear his mom and it was the same for Mrs Mallory.
"I know all my cousins mom. You know that."
"No you don't know all of them."
"Yes I do. Stop all of this. Hearing you have to lie about this makes me even worried the more. You are not one to lie mom, and for you to be doing so right now means there is something you desperately have to cover. So spill it."
"You really want to hear it, don't blame me for how you would get to feel later."
"I"m not a baby mom, just say what you want to." Jake said sitting upright and a little over the edge, he was positioned to take whatever blow his mom was going to throw at him.
"This is Tess, she's not your cousin."
"I know that, I figured it out." Jake said, not shocked by the information.
"On the night of Tiffany's birthday party, I had sneaked Tess in, knowing the kind of person Tiffany was, I knew there would be no way she would spot out the intruder at her party."
"You snuck her in?" Jake asked as he scoffed."What for?"
"I would tell you, just calm your nerves.”
Tess was getting uncomfortable. She didn't expect things to go this way and she had no backup plan for this, because she was so sure that Mrs Mallory wouldn't spill out the beans.
"I had the drinks drugged that night, everyone was to drink it except Tess, but little did I know, I had snuck in a dumbass, who stupidly drank the drugged alcohol too."
"What!" Jake exclaimed in disbelief.
"I'm not done, there is still more."
—If you had a mom like Mrs. Mallory, what would be your action? Leave a comment —-
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