Possibilities

Chapter 10

"This one is worse than the last twenty you sent me Demetri! Please just stop." I sighed.

I'd clicked on the link and saw this horrible looking mansion that he was calling a home. It was even colder and unfriendlier looking than his, if that was possible.

"Bella, I don't know what you want then." He ground out.

"For you to just stop! It's not like we're moving in together right away anyway. We haven't even planned our wedding." I snapped.

This was our relationship now, he was pushing and pushing to get married and settled and I had things I needed to do in my personal life before we did that.

"That's all you. I told you we could go to Vegas, Jamaica, Fiji, Scotland, Ireland, any fucking place you want to go!" he shouted and I knew he was pacing now too.

"Look D, stop. I'm not fighting with you. I've got shoots to prepare for and this is something to talk about face to face; seeing as how you're heading to London, that's not possible." I pointed out.

"And you should be with me."

"No, I have a business to run too, people who depend on me." I reminded him.

"You could have rescheduled." He was now pouting.

"Goodbye D. Love you." I hung up the phone before I said something I regretted and took a drink of my wine.

I truly loved Demetri, but he was not letting up on this wedding. Sighing, I turned my phone to silent so I could work, I'd deal with the aftermath later.

Finishing the wedding pictures and getting them packaged, I turned my phone back on several hours later; it beeped incessantly.

"Bella, call me- Jess."

"B! Come on! - Jess"

"BELLA!"

"WTF BELLA?"

"Are you too busy with your rich lifestyle to answer your sister?"

"Bella, I love you. We need to discuss a date. D"

"He's freaking out! Be aware! – James."

I sighed and decided to call my sister first, somehow, she was thinking I was some high society person.

"Jess, what's going on?" I asked as she picked up the phone.

"It's about fucking time!" she screamed.

"I'm sorry Jess. Contrary to what YOU think, I work for a living and I've been doing a wedding from hell." I snapped.

"Sorry. I've been trying to get in touch with you all day." She started crying.

"Hey, what's wrong. The kids OK? Mike?"

"It's dad." She sobbed and I bristled.

"What about dad?"

"He had a stroke Bella. Early this morning. Sue didn't call until this afternoon. She's acting strange." Jess sounded worried.

"What do you mean strange?" I questioned.

"I don't know, I'm getting a bad vibe from her. Can you get here, please?" She begged.

"Yes, on one condition."

"What?" she sounded exhausted.

"I'm bringing James and Jayme, yeah thanks by the way."

"I'm sorry. Dad and James are not on talking terms, you were in Atlanta and out of the loop."

"Well you could have kept me in the loop. I'm a sibling too. I could've helped James, like I just did. We'll be there shortly."

Hanging up, I took a deep breath and prepared to call James, but not before my phone rang.

"Jess, it'll be fine!" I snapped, knowing she was over thinking the entire James coming to see dad thing.

"Not Jess!" Demetri snapped. "Glad to know you're still alive. I almost sent over the police to check on you."

"Demetri, I don't have time to argue right now, I've got a family emergency." I warned.

"So, your family who treated your brother like shit needs you and you go running!" he shouts. "Fine." He hangs up.

I wanted to call him back and yell at him but I didn't have the time, I had to call James.

Calling James, I explained what was going on and of course he and Demetri were fucking BFF's lately and I heard Demetri cussing in the background and he tried to get the phone from James "Come on James, I need to apologize." Demetri was yelling. James was laughing "No, you two need to just have a weekend in bed, screwing each other's brains out."

I groaned.

"James, we need to go to the hospital, I think you should see dad too."

"OK. I'll have the housekeeper watch Jayme."

"No bring her. Everyone should meet her. I'll watch her." Demetri shouted in the background. "I need to be there for you Bella."

"James" I warned.

"I told you, he's worried about you. He's been pacing and on the verge of driving to your place all night. He woke me up at the crack of dawn." James was trying to act put out, but I could tell he was happy to have a friend like Demetri.

"I'm glad you two are friends James, but he needs to understand my work comes first, I can't spend every minute with him. Maybe that's where I lost Tyler." I said sadly.

"Hey, stop that. We're on our way. He loves you." His voice dropped. "He's worried about you running." James sighed.

"Me too brother, me too."

"Don't, please. Talk to him or someone." James pleaded.

"I will." I promised.

The ride to the hospital was tense and quiet.

Demetri or course had a driver, driving us and was wrapped around me; kissing my temple whispering his love for me in my ear.

"Bella, please let's talk after all this. I love you. Don't shut me out."

I just closed my eyes and readied myself for the shit storm I was sure we were going to be walking into.

"Bella!" Jess ran up to me and hugged me tight. James stood back with Demetri and Jayme in his arms.

"Jessica" James said tersely, when she ignored him.

"Hi James, is that Jayme?" she asked.

"Yeah."

"Wow. She looks so much healthier." She smiled.

"No thanks to you and dad." He bit back.

"James, I- I'm…" she tried to apologize.

"No, you don't get to apologize. You left us there and didn't try and help, just a weeks' worth of groceries, some formula and diapers and that's it. You didn't even offer to let us come home. So, you don't get to apologize!" he whisper yelled. "Now I'd like to see dad, because unlike him, I wouldn't leave him to suffer alone." He handed Jayme to Demetri.

Jessica took James and I to the room and we walked in.

"James, they never told me they came to see you. They said they didn't know where you were." I stopped him outside the door. "I'm so sorry." I hugged him. "I would've been here sooner."

"I know." James hugged me back and we entered the room.

Dad was hooked up to machines looking frail. We each took a side and held a hand.

He opened his eyes and focused on me first.

"Bells. You're here." He smiled.

"I am. I brought James too." I nodded my head, dad frowned. "No dad. James has been clean and working, he's left Vicky, he's been here with me for months." I squeezed his hand.

"Jayme?" Dad asked.

"Healthy, beautiful and safe." James assured him.

My dad smiled and looked at James with tears in his eyes.

"For good? Clean and safe?" he asked.

"Yes." James assured.

My dad smiled before going to sleep.

The doctor told us he'd had a stroke and he'd be in rehab for a little while then he'd need care when he came home.

We hadn't seen Sue since he'd been in the hospital and couldn't get in touch with her either.

James and Jess had gone by the house to get dad some clothes for his move to rehab and said all of Sue's stuff was gone. She'd left a note saying she couldn't go through losing someone else, so she left and to tell Charlie she was sorry.

Dad was heartbroken, he'd been there for her when she'd lost Harry, he'd loved Sue for a long time; but he understood.

They estimated dad would be in rehab 6-8 weeks and knowing that he'd need care after that, I now knew I was on a personal deadline and Demetri and I were going to have to have a talk, and soon.

Not sure how he'd like starting out our life with taking care of my dad, but Jessica and Mike weren't up for the task, I'm not sure he and James could get along, and I knew Demetri and I have the means to do so.

AN:

Enjoy the family reunion?

Next up is a talk between Demetri and Bella…

A wedding date?

Bella found a house…

It's a compromise…

Still bigger than what she wanted, but less obnoxious than what he did…

Here's the link… A preview…

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