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Chapter Two
As they walked inside the house it was like walking back in time. Everything was just as it was when Joey left. Joey put Cassandra down and she walked around and looked at everything and then she pointed up to the picture on the mantle and asked her daddy "who's in that picture?"
Greg walked over to his granddaughter and held out his arms and she lifted her arms and he picked her up and then he pointed to the picture and told her "that's your daddy, me and your daddy's momma, your grandmother." Cassandra then asked "where's grandma?"
Greg smiled at her and then he told her "she's gone to heaven." Cassandra touched the side of Greg's face and then she said "like my mommy, she's in heaven too and daddy says that someday we all will be together."
Greg kissed her little cheek and told her "your daddy is a very smart man and yes we all will be together someday. Then Greg said, why don't you show Cassandra your old room and maybe she'd like to play with some of your old toys."
As Joey held his daughters hand and they walked down the hallway and then he stopped and opened the door to his room, and as they walked in, nothing had really changed which really shocked Joey because it looked as if his father thought he would come home sooner then he did. Cassandra loved to look around the room and when Joey opened the closet door there were some of his old stuffed toys and his daughter squealed and reached for on toy in particular, a stuff toy that looked like Winnie the Pooh. Joey smiled because that was his favorite one too.
When they left the room, Cassandra had the stuffed Pooh with her and they walked back to the living room and Greg smiled as he saw what Cassandra had and then he asked "could please spend a few days here?" Cassandra looked at her daddy and he chuckled as she used her eyes the way her mother use to when she wanted something and Joey said "sure we'll stay for the night." Greg smiled and said "who wants pizza for dinner?"
Cassandra jumped up and down as she said "please daddy?' Joey ruffled her hair and then he said "alright, pizza sounds good." So Greg picked up the phone and called for three cheese pizzas's and told them where to deliver them.
So now they all sat down and watched television watched "Sesame Street" which was Cassandra's favorite shows.
After dinner as Joey was helping his father clean up the mess he turned around and Cassandra had fallen asleep in the floor holding onto Pooh and Joey smiled and walked over and picked her up and was carrying her to his room and as he laid her on the bed and was changing her into her pajamas Cassandra said "can I sleep with Pooh she asked as she yawned."
Joey chuckled to himself and said "yes baby you can sleep with Pooh." He then kissed her forehead and went back to help his father. As Joey walked back to the kitchen he found his father sitting at the table looking at the Newspaper and when Joey sat down Greg put it down and asked him "what was Cassandra's momma like?"
Joey's eyes filled with tears and a smile came over his face as he remember Michelle and then he said "did you know that I stayed with Aunt Theresa while I was gone? Greg nodded that he knew, then Joey went on, well Michelle would go over and see if Aunt Theresa needed anything from the store and we got talking and discovered that we had the same likes and dislikes and we started seeing each other and then after a few months we found ourselves in love with each other and I asked her to marry me and she did and then we found out about Cassandra and I was so happy that I was going to be a daddy.
She had a very easy pregnancy and when she went into labor she had a pretty easy time and then our baby girl was born and as I held her for the very first time and looked into her angel face I knew that her name would be Cassandra Marie and that's what we named her. Michelle and I were the happiest parents in the world an Cassandra was the best baby, she hardly cried and she was always smiling at me though Theresa told me that it probably was only gas, I knew that she was really smiling at me. Then came the worst day of my life.
Michelle was going to the doctor to get a check-up and I had taken the day off to be with Cassandra when two Police Officers came and told me that my wife had died in and accident caused by someone driving drunk. I would of fallen apart if not for Theresa, Andy, Michelle's older brother and of course our little baby girl who needed me more now. It was a very tragic time but with everyone's love and my daughter smiling at me and giving me her love well I finally made it though I still miss Michelle really badly I know that she's in heaven watching over Cassandra and I and it helps me go on."
At the Motou Residence:
When Yugi got home from taking Joey and his little girl to his fathers house he came back home and as he was telling Yami about what happened someone came into the Game Shop and overheard what we were talking about and then he turned white and walked out again. Little did we know that it was Seto Kaiba and he had come to talk to Grandpa about some new Game that Kaiba Corp. had just come up with. It wasn't until the next day when Mokuba came to the Game Shop did I realize that Seto had overheard my conversation with Yami.
Mokuba came to see me about what his brother had said "that Seto overheard what we were talking about and he wanted to know if it were true?"
I told him "yes, Joey is back home and living with his father but if you want to know why he left and why he's home now, well you'll have to ask him."
Mokuba then with tears in his eyes said "Yugi you know how Seto has been acting lately, well it all started when he found out that Joey had left Domino and no one knew where he had gone. Seto hasn't been the same since and I do know that he had sent Joey a letter, was it that letter that made him leave?"
Yugi the said "listen, Seto is going to have to talk to Joey personally if he wants some answers I can't say anymore." Mokuba then smiled and thanked me and he left.
Back at the Wheeler Residence:
Greg closed his eyes and then as he opened them he asked his son "are you ever going to forgive me for what I said to you that caused you to leave here?"
Joey then said "listen dad, that was a long time ago and in some ways yes I have forgiven you, but when you said that I could never say my mothers name in this house again, well that's something that I don't know if I can ever forgive you for. I know that the circumstances of my being conceived was very stressful on you, but to tell me that the woman that I loved more then life it's self wasn't ever my mother, well that was just horrible to say, so like I said before I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive for that." Then Joey got up and went to his room leaving his father sitting alone.
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