Chapter 1- I'm Old

"How you doing Lemon? The writers were doing a complete mess and my guess was that you didn't go to work, and certainly you did not" Jack said as he stand on Liz's doorway.

"I'm sorry, I just… I didn't feel like going today," Liz answered

"May I come in?"

"Sure" said Liz as she let Jack in "Sorry about the mess". The apartment was indeed a mess, dirty dishes everywhere, papers all over the place, and tissues covering the couch.

Jack was surprised, Liz was not very clean all the time, but she tried to keep her apartment in order. Something was definitely not right, she didn't go to work and apparently she had been crying… a lot.

"Is everything alright Lemon? This is not usually you"

"I'm fine, is nothing"

"I didn't come all the way down from my office to hear you say I'm fine, c'mon, tell me what's going on, you didn't go to work, you didn't even call to tell me and your apartment looks like those extreme makeover house before they destroy them."

Liz remained silent for about 2 seconds before she started crying, "I'm old!"

"You are old? That's what you are saying?"

Liz tried to answer but she couldn't speak, she was crying to hard. Jack hugged her and sat with her on the couch to try and calm her down. "You don't have to cry because you are old Lemon, we all grow old, it's nature, there are people much more older than you out there and they are not crying"

Liz took a deep breathe and stopped crying "Is not that Jack… Today I had the worst nightmare of my life, I was on this same apartment and I looked in the mirror and I was this horrible old lady, and it turned out it was me! Then I got a call, from Floyd, he said that he was sorry that it didn't work out between us, but he knew that I was going to be alone forever. I was old and I was not married and I had no kids, and I realized I'm actually getting old and the store is closing and I don't have a baby! I don't care if I'm not married, I want a baby before it's to late, who is going to visit me when I'm crazy and old? Or change my diapers?! No one!

"You are being ridiculous, you still have some years to meet the man of your dreams and have beautiful babies"

Liz threw him a badger face

"I'm just trying to help Lemon, you think I don't feel bad for not having any kids of my own? And I have been married before! I'm just trying to be positive and you need to be positive"

"I'm trying to be positive here Jack! But I mean, how much time do I have to wait? I mean first we have to date, and then we have to prepare a wedding and then try to have a baby! I can't wait that much. I already tried adoption, a surrogate mother is so fucking expensive and so is the artificial insemination, I'm out of options"

"Well, you can go to a bar and have a one night stand with some guy that you meet there and boom. After all when married people have babies, all the romantic part of their marriage is lost. You skip all that shit, easy as that"

Liz knew that was true, most of couples with kids that she knew were a mess.

"I'm not going to have sex with a random guy, what if he has an STD?"

"It was just an option, but you need to calm down, everything is going to be alright, you should clean this place to clear your head and also go to the studio before your writers destroy the entire place, we can go for a drink later, introduce you to some rich friend of mine that can pay your kid's college"

Liz rolled her eyes "Shut up… but thank you for listening, I'll clean this place, as for the writers I'll call Pete, see if he can calm them down. See you tonight at 8? Is it okay?"

"Eight will be"

TBC