I can't believe I'm already on my seventh chapter. And I just wanted you guys to know, that the next two chapters are gonna really heat up drama wise, with everyone, especially Mei and Tommy! Well anyway, enjoy the show my fellow ridicules.
Tommy's POV:
I walked in with Tex and saw Mei out of the corner of my eye; just the sight of her bringing butterflies to my stomach and making my knees weak. I hated it whenever she smoked, mainly because I knew it was really bad for your lungs. I mean come on, I dissect human bodies for damn sake –I can tell if a person's a smoker or not because of the condition of their lungs, if the flesh was pink and fluffy, than the person wasn't a smoker. But if the flesh was black and a bit deflated, the person was a smoker.
I stood in front of her and held out my hand, already giving her the signal to hand over the toxic joy stick. She raised an eyebrow and smirked before changing her face completely; her bottom lip puckered out and her eyes widening to create her signature "puppy dog face"
I held her hand in mine and kissed it; rubbing the soft delicate skin that held together the innocence her blood and flesh carried. She was my angel, my beautiful, perfect, little angel. I hated to see her smoke because I only wanted what was best for her, I wanted her to live a long happy life with healthy pink squishy lungs, not malfunctioning black deflated ones. I didn't want her to die young in my arms, I wanted her to live to be at least a hundred; to live as long of a happy life she could before throwing in the towel and crossing into the other side. I wanted to grow old with her, no exceptions.
"I'm not gonna let a tar filled cigarette get in the way of us growing old together."
She put out her cigarette and dumped it into the ash tray that rested on the nightstand that held the living room lamp; cupping her hands over my cheeks as our foreheads rested on one another.
"You sure you wanna see me with wrinkles and raggedy white hair?"
I gently kissed her and looked into her pretty brown eyes. I didn't know why, but I loved Mei's eyes, I had never seen eyes like hers before. Even though she hated them and always referred to them as "ugly Asian eyes" they were the most beautiful things I had ever seen. I swear they made the stars jealous; the way they would always outshine them without even trying. They were so beautiful and exotic to me, and I loved that about them, they were different, they were unique.
"I'd give the world for it love."
She giggled as she began to use her thumb to smudge my lips and their sides –well my mask's lips if you would.
"I'm sorry sweetheart; I got some lipstick on your mask. And I must admit you would make quite the Marilyn Monroe, Thomas Hewitt."
I laughed genuinely at her stupid humor; I honestly think she was the only person that could make me do that.
"You're right Luda Mae, they truly are beautiful together."
"I told ya' Patty. The minute she got here you could tell somethin' was gonna unfold between them two, something so beautiful and rare it's barely genuinely around these days –love."
We looked over to see mama and a morbidly obese woman I'd never seem to meet before.
"Mei, that's my auntie Pattie; mama's little sister, she's also Tex and Alfredo's mom."
Mei's POV:
I smiled and waved hello as I introduced myself and said "Hello… may I call you auntie or do you prefer just Patty?"
She walked over and hugged me; practically picking up all of my body weight so that my feet were no longer on the ground, her embrace so tight my lungs felt squished.
"Why 'course you can call me auntie deary. You're family now."
She put me back down as Luda Mae walked over to us as well.
"I'm just so happy my boy has finally found the love of his life."
She hugged me tight then Tommy as well just as Hoyt busted through the door with a man I also couldn't recognize. I didn't think he was another captive for next weeks dinner because it was obvious him and Hoyt were good buddies; they appeared to be drunk and still drinking the bottles of whiskey and scotch in their hands.
"HOYT WHAT THE HELL AER YOU DOING!? WE HAVE COMPANY AND YOU'RE AN HOUR LATE"
She marched over to him with her hands on her hips as he patted his little buddy on the back.
"I was driving down the road and saw my old friend Jackson Miller here trying to change a flat tire"
My heart stopped and I felt my knees give out, causing Tommy to have to hold me up while screaming for mama to come over. I felt extremely lightheaded and my legs felt like Jello; all I could see was Mama running over to me as she screamed my name. And then I saw him. For the very first time I saw my daddy in person.
I could dimly see him and Hoyt run over to help and that was when he saw me for the first time in person, it was definitely not the way I expected us to meet for the first time in person, but that was okay, because I honestly thought that I would never see him now that I was in the Hewitt clan.
Jackson's POV:
Never in my life, had I thought I would ever see my daughter.
Mainly because I thought she was dead.
After a few weeks had passed I had been expecting Genevieve and the girls to arrive but they never did, I called the house phone and the servants made it clear they had left on their way to New Orleans to visit me for the first time. I started an investigation to look for them, but after about a month of looking it was made aware that they were kidnapped and had died. I honestly could care less about Kristie and Kylie's deaths because they never truly cared about me, and I was ecstatic about Genevieve's death. Believe me; I was happy that gold-digging bitch was gone. It was Mei that I was looking for, and now I found her.
For the first time in seventeen years I'm right in front of my baby girl.
I watched the commotion as I stood there in absolute shock; tears sliding down my cheeks gaining the attention from everyone else. Charlie looked at me as if I had four heads and everyone else was in down right confusion. I tried to hold it all in, but it was impossible, I cupped my hand over my mouth as I fell to my knees, just staring at her in complete awe.
"My baby. My beautiful beautiful baby girl. How long has it been?"
I moved closer to her as she tried to regain enough strength to sit up and hug me. I wrapped my arms around her and immediately got a death glare and a growl from the boy right next to us who was wearing a mask that covered everything below his eyes. I narrowed my eyes and hissed back in his direction, rocking my daughter back in forth in my arms.
"I love you daddy."
Everyone's response was absolute shock, and Charlie seemed to be even more in shock that his best friend from the glory days back in the Korean War was the father of his nephew's love interest.
"I thought you said your girls were dead."
"Apparently the other ones are, but this one isn't."
I kissed her forehead as she wrapped her arms around me; the boy's glare now a smile.
"How long has she been stayin with ya's for?"
"For about four months now, I must admit the girl's a survivor Jack. I should've known she got that from you"
I looked at Charlie and smiled, happy that I was re-united with the second love of my life –my daughter.
I asked where her room was and Luda Mae directed me to it, I laid her down onto her bed and kissed her forehead before turning out the light; watching her rest peacefully as I felt my heart leap up to my throat.
"I love you dumpling, please forgive me."
I closed the door holding back tears on my way out.
I went back downstairs to a tornado of questions and to my surprise; I answered them all without a problem. The only thing I had a problem with was explaining my drafting into the Vietnam War and how I had to leave. I wiped tears off my cheeks and I handed them a stack of letters I had been holding onto since the day Mei was born; glad I hadn't burned them because of my daughter's "death"
It took every fiber of my being to leave her, but I knew she was well taken care of in that house, probably better than I would've ever managed to do. So I sucked up my feelings and quit acting like the pussy I was beginning to sound like.
Before I walked out the door after saying my goodbyes, I glanced over at the boy with the mask once more; walking over to him and resting my hand on his shoulder.
"I see the way my Mei looks at you, and it reminds me of the way her mother would look at me –with love. Please, please protect my little girl. I know she's not so little anymore and I know you two truly love each other, but please don't let anything harm her. She's all I have"
He vigorously nodded as I handed him a picture for him to give to Mei.
"I'll do anything to protect her sir."
I smiled and began to walk out the door, stopping mid way to look back at the family who decided to take care of my little girl and love her.
"And please. Please tell her I always did and I always will love her."
I left as the cold air hit me abruptly, the image of me, Lin, and little Mei in her mama's belly still burning in the back of my mind.
