104 12: Severing The Ties.
Meanwhile, in the hospital waiting room, Bo, Nora, Rex, Cruella and Jason were all sitting in chairs, waiting to hear from the doctors about Molly. Jason had fallen asleep in his chair and was leaning up against Rex, and Moose and the other four dogs were all lying down on the floor next to the humans.
Moose looked and saw Gigi coming from down the hallway and barked.
Cruella and the others, minus Jason, then saw Gigi coming from down the hallway, crying. Clearly she was upset about something. "Uh, Rex, do you think maybe you, Bo and Nora could stay here with Jason and the dogs while i go talk to Gigi for a minute?"
"Sure." Said Rex.
"Of course." Added Nora.
"Absolutely." Said Bo.
"Thank, you." Said Cruella. The blond haired british woman then got up from her seat and went to comfort Gigi. She walked up to the American girl as she entered into the room. "Gigi, what is it? Is it Molly?"
"(Crying) No, she's okay...for now. I just...(Sobbing)." Gigi started sobbing as she fell on Cruella, who embraced her with a hug.
"Come on, let's go talk about this some place else." Said Cruella as she led Gigi out of the waiting room and down the hall.
Rex, Bo, Nora and the dogs just watched as the two women walked down the hallway.
Cruella led Gigi inside an empty hospital room and released her from the hug and closed the door. "Okay, so what's going on?"
"(Crying) I found a money doner who offered to donate the money we need to pay for Molly's operation." Said Gigi.
"So what are you crying for? That's great!" Said Cruella.
"(Crying) Yeah, i got all excitted. I was over the moon at first. But the doner...backed out and decided not to donate. And the doctor said that Molly's condition is getting worser why the minute, and that if we want any chance of saving her, we'll have to transport her to the vet. And Molly...she may not have that long." Said Gigi.
"Darling, if there was one donation, there's bound to be another." Cruella asured.
"(Crying) Yeah, there is someone else." Said Gigi.
"Who? Who is it, who's the other doner?" Cruella asked.
"(Crying) The same one who backed out of donating." Said Gigi.
"What? So that's good news, right?" Said Cruella.
"(Crying) If she'd do it!" Said Gigi.
"She? Who is she? Who is this mysterious doner?" Cruella asked.
"(Crying) Rex's fiance...Stacy." Said Gigi.
"Stacy volunteered to donate money to save your dog? Why, that's so nice of her." Said Cruella.
"(Crying) Yeah, if she'd do it." Said Gigi.
"What do you mean?" Cruella asked.
"(Crying) She won't donate." Said Gigi.
"What? Gigi, what's going on?" Cruella asked.
"(Crying) My son's dog is dying and Rex's fiance won't...save her. Or she will. Oh, she'll donate. Yeah, but only if i agree to stay away from Rex." Said Gigi.
"What?" Cruella asked in disbelief. Did she hear her right? Was Stacy really refusing to donate money to the hospital to pay for a sick dog's operation unless Gigi stayed away from Rex? That was insane. No, it wasn't insane, it was evil. Pure evil, with a cappitle 'E'.
"Stacy clames she saw Rex first as her boyfriend." Said Gigi.
"How so?" Said Cruella.
"I wasn't even in Rex's life when any of this happened. But she swears that when she was a freshman in college, she was madly in love with Rex. They were dating each other online at the time, didn't even know that they were each others secret admirers, and that she told me how she fell and how i'm trying to steal him away from her." Said Gigi.
"And she thinks what? You stay away from Rex and he's just forget all about you and your son and they're gonna get married and ride off into the sunset?" Said Cruella.
"I know how it sounds, but that's the deal. Rex...or Molly. (Crying What am i gonna do?" Said Gigi.
"You're gonna tell Rex the truth, that's what." Said Cruella.
"(Crying) I can't. I can't. If i tell Rex, he'll either acuse me of trying to sabotage his relationship, or worse, he will believe me and go off on Stacy and call off their engagement and break up with her, and the deal is off. She won't agree to donate the money." Said Gigi.
"So she's blackmailing you." Said Cruella.
"And if i don't do what she wants...(Crying) Molly pays with her life." Said Gigi.
"Please don't tell me you're thinking about doing this." Said Cruella.
Gigi bowed her head.
"Gigi." Said Cruella.
Gigi looked up at Cruella. "I can't let my son's dog die. It's not like i have a choise. There are no other doners...and Molly needs that operation."
"Do you really think Rex's fiance would let a sick dog die?" Cruella asked.
"Cruella, she's so out there, i don't know what she'd do. She could disappear. That's what she's threatening, to just take off. And then what?" Said Gigi.
"We hunt her down." Said Cruella.
"And do what? You can't force someone to donate, they have to volunteer." Said Gigi.
"There must be another way." Said Cruella.
"(Crying) Trouble is there isn't any time. Molly needs that surgery as soon as possible." Said Gigi. "(Crying) Oh, man, i have to take the deal. I have to tell Rex to his face that i don't want him in my life anymore."
"But what's to stop you and Rex from faking some sort of separation, then Stacy donates the money, Molly has her operation and Rex dumps Stacy like a sack of potatos. It's not like she can take the money back." Said Cruella.
"And if the surgery isn't a success...and Molly needs another one...All those years, when Jason would have his asthma attack, i'd tell God that i would do anything if he would just breath. Maybe i didn't do enough. Maybe this is payback." Said Gigi.
"No. No, darling. No, God's not paying you back. At least, i don't think so." Said Cruella.
"But i did it again, i said i'd do anything...give anything, if he'd save Molly." Said Gigi.
"It's not God asking you to give up Rex, it's Stacy." Said Cruella.
"She may as well be God, she's holding all the cards." Said Gigi.
"What i don't get is how she thinks she can get Rex to just forget all about you and Jason and pretend like you never existed. You and Rex have known each other since first grade." Said Cruella.
"Then how am i gonna be able to convince him that i don't want him in my life anymore? He knows me better than anyone in this town, next to my son and my parents." Said Gigi.
"Are you sure about this, darling?" Cruella asked.
"You got a better idea?" Gigi asked.
"If it were me...i'd tell Rex the truth." Said Cruella.
"And then Stacy takes off...and my son's dog dies. (Crying) Please, Cruella, don't tell Rex. It's not like i wanna do this. I have no choise." Said Gigi.
"Gigi." Cruella said.
"I have to do it. I have to stay away from Rex. I have to tell him that i never wanna see him again." Said Gigi.
"Gigi?" Came a voice from behind.
Gigi turned to see Rex and Moose standing in the door way with the door half closed. "Rex."
Rex, Moose and the other four dogs entered into the room. "Gigi...what's wrong?"
"How long have you been standing there?" Gigi asked.
"Long enough to hear you say that you never wanna see me ever again. Is this a joke? Cause it's not funny...AT ALL!" Said Rex.
"It's not a joke, Rex." Said Gigi.
Cruella: "Listen, Rex..."
"Hey! Cruella, don't." Said Gigi. "I'm sorry. What you heard is exactly what it is. I want you out of my life."
"Well, this doesn't make any sense. How could one of my long time friends, who i've known since my childhood, suddenly decide to cut me out of her life?" Said Rex.
"I'll leave you two alone." Said Cruella before she and Moose and the dogs exited the room.
"Miller, please, what is all of this?" Rex asked.
"Just what i told you before: i want you out of my life, Bryson." Said Gigi.
"Just like that?" Asked Rex.
"Just like that." Said Gigi.
"You expect me to believe that? We've known each other since were were in first grade, we went to high school together, we grew up together here in Paris, Texas. And now here it is, a whole decade later, our paths cross again, and you've been happy to see me again over the past three days. And now, all of a sudden you decide you don't want me in your life anymore? No...you're lying. Gigi, you would not do something like this unless you were forced to. Tell me the truth. It's Molly, right? The situation with Molly is starting to get to you?" Said Rex.
"No. No. Rex, i'm not under any kind of stress. If anything, i'm seeing more clearly now." Said Gigi.
"What?" Rex asked.
"I...i made this decision all on my own. Not because of stress, not because of the situation with Molly, but because i don't want you here." Said Gigi.
"I can't believe what i'm hearing. We're best friends, aren't we? Gigi, your son's dog is in need of an operation and your kid is a wreck over the thought of losing the only thing he has left of his father. Are you telling me you left him in his time of need just to figure out how to tell me that you don't want me in your life anymore?" Said Rex.
"(Crying) No! Just the opposit! I couldn't think of any thing else but Jason and Molly! That's why i'm doing this! I'm doing this for them!" Said Gigi.
"You're cutting me out of your life for Jason and Molly's sake. What does that mean?" Said Rex.
"I haven't been there for Jason in the way he's needed me. I've been preocupied." Said Gigi.
"Since when, a minute ago? Have you lost your mind?" Rex asked.
"The truth?" Said Gigi.
"Please." Said Rex.
"There are other reasons that i'm doing this." Said Gigi.
"What other reasons?" Rex asked.
"That when i went to see you that day, at your place, back in (2009). But the only person who was at home was your Mom, who told me that you had left Paris, Texas." Said Gigi.
"But that was over 10 years ago, we were teenagers, for pete sake." Said Rex.
"Age had nothing to do with it, Rex. Nothing made you skip town without saying anything to anyone, you did it cause you wanted to." Said Gigi.
"I can't believe this is happening." Said Rex.
"Well believe it. You're a guy who can't help but disappear on the people who love and care about him. And you vanishing in (2009), it just drove it home." Said Gigi.
"You, and everyone else that i love, are not the reason i left town. I can't rap my mind around this. You find out from my Mom that i've skipped town, you don't call me, you don't text or E-Mail me. Nothing. You asume i've disappeared forever and now you're holding it against me after all this time." Said Rex.
"Say what you want about how i feel, but everyone else in this town has always been there for me." Said Gigi.
"And i haven't?" Rex asked.
"Rex, you left town without saying anything to me." Said Gigi.
"That was over 10 years ago. I was a kid...an idiot. But i'm here now, and we're still best friends. Or has that changed too?" Said Rex.
"(Crying) No. No. Rex, i like you. I like you so much, oh gosh. I can't do this." Said Gigi.
"What? What can't you do?" Rex asked.
"I can't...be friends with someone i don't trust. And i don't trust you, Bryson." Said Gigi.
"I don't get where this is coming from." Said Rex.
"Never mind, it's nothing. Besides, it doesn't matter anyway, right? You're gonna be gone in three months anyway, remember? You're only gonna be here in town for 90 more days after this month is over, and then it's back to Vegas with your blushing bride to be. Now i may not have been able to stop you from disappearing on me and hurting me all those years ago, but i will not let you do the same to my son!" Said Gigi.
"Is that what you're worried about? That i'm gonna disappear on Jason?" Said Rex.
"You did it to me 10 years ago, so why should this time be any different? Face it, Rex, you're just not a stick around kind of guy." Said Gigi.
"You really think that? You really think that i would disappear on a little kid?" Asked Rex.
"Yes, i do." Said Gigi.
"Forget this. I am not gonna stick around here and get trashed by my best friend. You think i'm such a horrible guy? Fine. Hate me. I'm gonna go back outside to the waitingroom...to comfort your son. You remember your son...right? The one who's dog is dying? Jason." Said Rex. The blond haired guy then left out of the room, just as Cruella re-entered the room.
Cruella looked and saw a crying Gigi sink down to the floor and burried her face in her knees and rapped her arms around them as she began to sob. The british lady went over to where the American girl was and bent down to her level and hugged her.
"(Crying) I just ruined the best thing that ever happened to me (Sobbing)." Said Gigi.
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As Rex and the dogs walked down the hallway and headed back for the waiting room, Stacy came up to them.
"Hey. Uh, Jason's still asleep and Bo and Nora are still in there with him." Stacy then noticed the expression of Rex's face. "You look upset."
"Yeah, uh, i don't wanna talk about it." Said Rex.
"Are you sure you don't wanna get it off your chest? Cause i don't think it would be good for Jason to see you upset when he wakes up." Said Stacy.
"I'm fine." Said Rex.
"Well, you don't look it. Didn't Gigi come back up here?" Stacy asked.
"Oh, she came back, alright...to tell me how much she hates my guts and never wants to see me ever again." Said Rex before he and the dogs walked past Stacy and returned to the waiting room.
A wide grin appeared on Stacy's face. "(Laughing) Nice move, Gigi. You work fast."
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Cruella and Gigi were still on the floor, now discussing what had happened.
"I came so close to telling Rex the truth." Said Gigi.
"You still can." Said Cruella.
"Not if i wanna save my son's dog." Said Gigi.
"How can that Stacy girl mess with your dog's life like this?" Cruella asked.
"She won't let it go. Molly get's the surgery...and i stay away from Rex." Said Gigi. "I'm just so sorry that i had to drag you into this."
"It's okay." Said Cruella.
"No, it's not. It's not fair to make you carry this heavy secret too." Said Gigi.
"I don't blame you...i blame Stacy." Said Cruella.
Gigi's cellphone rang and she answered it. "What?"
"Good news. Rex told me you never wanted to see him again. That's cold." Said Stacy, talking to Gigi on her cell.
"I didn't mean all those things i said, i pretended to." Said Gigi.
"Yeah, well, i really don't care, as long as you live up to your end of the agreement. Look, you wanna save your son's dog, you call Rex out for being a horrible person, great. All you have to do is convince him that you never wanna see him again." Said Stacy.
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