Ever since Hannah dropped the bomb on her at Sully's a few hours earlier, Janet was in a whirl wind of confusion. She knew it was too good to be true before; she and Eddie had sex for the first time and he still stuck around. He didn't run for the hills early the next morning, he stayed, in her bed, and stayed there until he walked her out of her house at 3:45 in the afternoon on her way to work. It was an amazing breakthrough in their relationship, a huge step, and she knew everything was just too good to be true. Sure enough, Hannah had to ruin her perfect day by telling her a gigantic secret.
At first Janet was in utter shock; then once it sank in, she didn't know whether to be pissed off that her best friend was hiding something, a pretty big important something, from her for over 10 years, or to be supportive because she knew Hannah. For Hannah to keep something that like from anyone, especially Janet, it had to be something pretty immense. And then not to elaborate on the secret and just, disappear, for the rest of the night… Janet was going insane! So, she went to the only other person she could, Eddie.
After her shift ended at Sully's it was pretty late. Since they were ridiculously slammed tonight because of the Spelling Bee, Janet got off even later than usual. But Eddie wouldn't mind if she came by; she knew that, she just hoped he wouldn't mind talking about it. She also hoped that he would know something- anything about it. Even though there were no lights on in the house, she saw through the window that Phil was still plopped on the couch, watching the late news. She decided to just walk in like she did so many times before.
"Hey, Phil. It's me…" Janet could tell Physical Phil was not expecting anyone else to come to the house that night because he was white as a ghost, clinching onto a baseball bat as if to knock out whoever was coming through their door. "Sorry to stop by so late, I didn't mean to scare you."
"Oh, hi Janet. No, it's just, I wasn't expecting someone to come in. I guess I forgot to lock the door, good thing it was just you! What brings you by? Well, obviously you are here to see Eddie."
"Yeah, I just have to ask him something real quick. Is he in his room? Do you know if he's still awake?"
"Uh- I think he is. I heard him make a ruckus not too long ago so."
They chuckled and she replied, "Thanks Phil. I'm just ganna, go upstairs…"
"Right. Bye…" Phil watched her walk up the stairs light as a feather, shook his head, smiled and went back to his couch.
When Janet reached Eddie's door, she rested her ear against it to try to hear if he was awake or not. She decided in the car that if he was awake, she would talk to him. If he wasn't, she would just wait until the morning. She would feel bad if she woke him and he ended up not knowing anything about it. However, she heard him sneeze- yep, he was still up.
She slowly opened the door and peaked her head in the room, "God Bless you…" Eddie looked up from his magazine and saw Janet; she still managed to glow after a long night shift.
"Hey. What, what are you doing here? Come here…" He patted the spot next to him on the bed. "You must be exhausted after the Spelling Bee. Everything ok?" She sat on the bed next to him and he began to take off her coat. He kissed her on her forehead and slowly made his way down the side of her face. She realized he was getting the wrong idea, so she kissed him on the lips once and then began…
"Eddie, everything is great. I loved today so much-"
"And last night." She began to blush. If she didn't get to the point, they would only repeat what happened the night before.
"And last night… but I have a question." She paused and looked at his face and could tell she got his full attention. "I need you to be completely honest with me because if you're not and I find out later that you lied to me, I swear to God Eddie we will be done. As friends, lovers, neighbors, everything."
"Okay…" He turned his body towards hers and pulled her closer.
"Are you Sam's biological dad?"
Eddie was stunned. How did she find out? What does she know exactly? And when? Why now, why now when he asked Hannah multiple times before so say something? Now, just when things were beginning to get serious between them, their relationship is put to the test. Crap. He didn't know what to say. He had this blank look on his face, his heart began to pound, and she could tell she hit a sore spot.
"Eddie… you are. Aren't you."
"Janet, I, ah- thought that Gavin Goddard guy was Sam's dad."
"But he's not. Hannah told me tonight that Ray wants to adopt Sam when they get married but she doesn't know what to do because if she said okay, then she would have to tell him, and probably everyone else for that matter, that Gavin isn't Sam's father."
"Oh."
"And well, let's just say for the rest of the night I was going over and over this in my head. I mean this is huge! She was-is lying to everyone, including Sam, about his own flesh and blood. I don't know who the father of my God son is, he's 11 years old Eddie! He doesn't deserve this, Hannah should not have done this." Eddie didn't know what to say, or how to say it. So he just let her continue on. "But even though she is deceiving her own child, she would not have done it if it wasn't absolutely necessary. So I was trying to come up with reasons as to why she would lie... whoever is the real father either doesn't know he has a child out there because Hannah hasn't told him, or he does know and they just decided it would be best to say someone else was the father, or no one knows that Hannah slept with Sam's dad except Hannah and Sam's dad."
"Or, Hannah doesn't know who Sam's real father is." It was like a light bulb went off in Janet's head. She hadn't thought about that scenario before. She just assumed that Hannah knew who Sam's dad was…
