EPISODE 49
"What!" Jake screamed as he shuffled over to the other side of the road, away from other moving vehicles. "What in the world! Why now! Why in the world does this have to happen now!" Jake pressed really hard on his car horn, making an extremely loud honking sound. He only wanted to ease out his frustration. The whole honking didn't ease his frustration, he placed his head on the car horn, making a loud long-lasting noise. "Okay, l'm on my way," Jake said after some minutes.
He raised up his head and then he scanned his face from the rearview mirror, he wasn't sure he wanted to go with the decision he just made.
If he moves forward he would finally get a hold on Mandy, but if he reverses and goes back home, he would miss his chance of taking her unawares. There was Mandy on one hand and Tiffany on the other.
Jake's phone rang again, he heaved out a heavy sigh, everything was just happening all at once.
"Where are you, sir?" The detective asked Jake over the phone.
"I won't be coming. Some other time." Jake answered.
"But sir...”
"No buts," Jake said cutting the detective shortly. "The shot is mine to call and right now, I'm saying some other time," Jake said as he hung up the phone. "This wasn't the plan, this wasn't the plan at all," Jake said to himself in a frustrating tone.
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"Are they still there?" Joey asked Mr.
Peterson.
"No sir! They left a while ago." He replied.
"I see," Joey said nodding his head."
They threw in the net first, now it's time for us to play catch," Joey said with a smirk on his face. "You can go back to your business," Joey said making eye contact with Mr. Peterson.
"Hello!" Joey said over the phone. "It's time." He said with a stern look.
"Okay!" The person at the other end of the phone replied.
"I guess the game just began," Mandy said with her hands folded.
Joey turned to her and then her gave her a response with a raise of his brows.
"Oxygen just became expensive," Joey said as he walked back into the building leaving Mandy outside.
"What's with him and all the riddles today?" Mandy said in a quirky manner.
"Ouch!" Mandy yelled as she felt a sharp pain in her stomach immediately she tried taking a step into the house.
"What's with this pain every time? It's been three days now." She said with her hand rubbing over her stomach. "I think would have to go see the doctor tomorrow."
Mandy walked straight into Joey's study, the moment she got inside.
"Okay I was going to ignore all of this but, what the hell is going on!" Mandy yelled.
Joey was startled first off by her sudden entrance and even more by her yell. "You startled me. Could you bring your voice down a little?"
"I mean, you said something about calling someone, I ignored the fact that you didn't fill me in on that. You made a statement about some nest and fishing, I didn't concern myself with the fact that you still didn't explain to me what it meant, basically because I felt you just didn't want to say anything because Mr. Peterson was there.
Goodness, you literally did it again with the whole oxygen talk, and it was just you and me, then I realized you weren't wiling to fill me in on anything. You asked me to show you my worth, but how do I show it to you if you don't give me a chance to." Mandy said now in a sad tone.
"You just did," Joey said with a smile.
"Huh!" Mandy exclaimed, confused once again as usual. "How exactly?" She asked.
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"How did it happen?" Jake asked sobbing Tiffany. "Tiff talk to me." He beckoned. "Tiffany, look at me." He raised her head up with his hand and pushed her flowing blonde hair to the back of her ear.
"Why? What would looking at you do? Would it bring back my child!" Tiffany cried out.
There is something called karma. It may come a little too late, a little too early, or at the right moment, but the constant here is, it would definitely come. And it seemed like, it already came for Tiffany, or maybe it was nothing but just a staged act.
"Would looking at your face bring my child back, huh!" Tiffany lamented."
What did I ever do to go through such pain? Why did life decide to treat me this way? It would have been better if I never got pregnant in the first place!" Tiffany bemoaned.
"Babe calm down!" Jake said trying to get Tiffany to relax. "We could always make another, I mean it's even a good thing it left now. Okay, what if you lost the child after bonding with it." Jake said folding his arms feeling like he had made some valid points.
“What did you just say?" Tiffany asked dumbfounded by Jake's statement. "Do you even hear yourself? Do you? How can you say that, to my face? Gosh, Jake. I am really disappointed!" She yelled. " Do you even care about my feelings, do you think a mother only bonds with her child after childbirth, no. The connection begins the moment she conceives of the child." Tiffany was slowly breaking down in tears. This wasn't an emotion she exhumes so often.
"It's all your fault! It's all your fault! Tiffany cried striking Jake's chest at every breath she takes. "If you never got me pregnant, if you never left to go after Mandy, I won't be in this state." Tiffany sobbed and then she hurried to the stairs. She paused after taking a step and then she turned towards Jake.
"Sometimes I wonder why I am still with you." And then she weft for her room.
"C'mon Tiff! It hasn't gotten to that." Jake cried out to Tiffany who was long gone by now. "We could talk this out, babe!" He shouted as he walked closer to the stairs. Realizing his pleading won't yield any positive outcome, jake walked back to the couch.
"I can't believe I sacrificed my chance of getting Mandy back just to get into a fight," Jake said to himself as he slumped into the couch. It had been a stressful day for Jake, physically, but most especially, mentally.
"Are you ready to leave?" Mrs. Mallory asked Tess who was searching for her journal.
"Yes, Mom I am. I just have to find my journal." Tess said still grabbling
around.
"Are you referring to this?" Mrs. Mallory* asked flaunting the book in the air.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Tess said, feeling relieved. "I thought I had lost it." She added as she walked up to her mother. "Thank you, Mom!" She said with a reliving smile as she stretched her hand to reach for the journal.
"Oh don't thank me yet young lady!" Mrs. Mallory said, moving the journal to her back.
"So this had been your plan all along huh! C'mon Tess! I thought we were a team!" Mrs. Mallory said with pitiful eyes.
"I don't understand! What are you talking about mom?" Tess asked feigning ignorance.
"Cut me some slack child. What do you take me for? Some fool! | read it okay, I read your journal and oh heavens, I am so glad I did." Mrs. Mallory said holding on to the journal more firmly.
Tess fidgeted. "I really..! really don't...l don't understand you mom. Could you make me understand!" Tess said her voice quavering.
"Tess c'mon! We talked about all of this
didn't we!" Mrs. Mallory said grabbing onto Tess's arms, just a little more push, and tears were going to roll down her cheeks. "I was doing all of this for you, you, all for your sake. What do I get in return? A stab on the back, by my own child!" Mrs. Mallory withdrew herself from Tess. "It would have been less painful if you were someone else. I could take it if it was someone else but not you. No Tess! Not you!" Mrs. Mallory cried out even more.
Busted! That was exactly what Tess was right now. There is nothing to hide anymore, there is nothing to deny. The evidence was clear and it was out in the open. If she was ever going to keep such information, she could have done better hiding them. Maybe, just maybe, Tess actually wanted her mother to find out.
"I'm sorry Mom!" Tess said breaking down in tears. "I'm sorry Mom! I'm sorry Mom! I'm sorry Mom!" Those were the only words Tess kept singing. Anyone could tell the young lady was broken.
one could only imagine how terrible she must have felt having to keep this away from her mother. If she felt this bad, one would wonder why she did what she did in the first place. "I'm sorry Mom! I'm sorry Mom!" Tess beckoned again.
"Who is this person?" Mrs. Mallory asked, seeing the sincerity in her daughter's eyes.
"Her name is Ava. I don't know what she did and how she did it, but she somehow just got me into signing the contract. I didn't know how to tell you after realizing what I've done. I know I messed up mom. I was going to sort
this out without getting you worried. But you somehow just got to find out. I messed up mom, and I am very very very sorry." Tess cried out more.
Mrs. Mallory stood about six steps away from Tess. No matter how mad she was at her daughter, she could refrain herself from pulling Tess into her embrace.
"Come here!" She said opening her arms
wide. Tess sprinted into her mother's opened arms like she was in a racing competition.
"We would fix this somehow." Mrs. Mallory said patting the twenty-three years old on her back.
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