Chapter Fourteen
[Chapter Thirteen Recap] "Honey where are you?" Carly called throughout the house wobbling around trying to find me.
"I'm in here," I yelled from my office on my computer.
"Sweetie, what are you doing? The party starts in an hour and we have to get there early." She says out of breath.
"I have a really important program I'm working on, leave without me and I'll be there in 30 minutes, okay?" I holding the phone to my ear with the other person on hold and write and typing.
"Okay," she says then sighs and walks over. I kiss and hug her as much as I could with her stomach sticking out.
I continued to work after she left and thirty minutes flew by, I put my things away, Carly insisted on having a party before the wedding. Of course, I wasn't for it but she went on and planned it without my say. I buttoned up my suit jacket and yanked up my straight leg suit pants. I looked at the time on my watch 6:35pm. I quickened my pace realizing how late it was. I hope that this turns out I think to myself and leave the apartment.
The party is in full blast by the time I make it there, I see many people I recognize and some I've never seen. My best man Garret instantly finds me in the crowd.
"Dude go find Carly ASAP, she was pissed last I saw her." He says then falls back into the crowd. Quickly I start searching fro Carly hopefully she isn't yelling and threatening someone. I turn my head to look for Sam and spot Carly then my mom, yelling, fiercely at each other. This only meant one-thing trouble- lots of it!
I sit in the driver's seat; I bang my head against the steering wheel. Now what? I pull out my phone then dial Carly's number then instantly erase it. I had booked out of my hotel this evening so now I'm stranded in a Wal-mart parking lot with two kids. I run my hands through my hair.
"Is everything okay Mr. Freddie? My daddy runs his hands through his hair when he's mad." Connor says from the back seat, I turn and look back at him.
"Everything's fine okay?"
"Okay." He says then smiles. "Can I change into my pajamas?" he asks looking for his overnight bag.
"Pajamas! That's it!" I open my suit jacket and grab the receipt, the writing was kind of smudged but it was still legible. I dialed and there was an answer on the third ring.
"Keep you're clothes on!" I sternly tell Connor, as soon as she answers the phone
"Hello?" She says a bit confused.
"Hi sorry about that," I look down at the receipt "This is Freddie Benson."
"Oh I'm so sorry! Hello how are you?" She says very excited.
"Listen I um," I say in a more serious manifestation "I need a huge favor, and I'm really sorry to drag you into all of this but I have a I-" My words are cut short as a tear rolls down my cheek. I try to compose myself before she can notice but it's too late.
"Mr. Benson." She says sounding concerned. "Is everything okay?"
"I cant explain right now, but I have nowhere to go and I've missed my flight home and have two kids with me, I'm sorry for dumping all of this on you. I just-" She cuts me off.
"My address is 36290 Winchester Hills, be here as soon as you can." Then she hangs up, enter the address in my built in GPS and start in the intended direction.
"Where are we going?" Connor asks from the back seat
"Mr. Freddie I wanna go home!" Conner whines from the back seat then begins to have a temper tantrum with crying whining and throwing his fists everywhere. Then he smacks Natalie square in the face, she looks shocked then startled but then starts to howl and punch him back.
"Be quiet!" I say in a semi loud voice, but they don't seem to hear me.
"It was an accident." Connor says through tears to Natalie who isn't listening to him either.
"Shut up!" I say a little bit louder and they still ignore me. I have definitely got to work on my parenting skills.
I pull into the driveway of the gorgeous house and unbuckle and grab the crying kids out of the back. Connor refuses to touch me and Natalie grabs onto my left leg. I try and pry her off and get Connor to stop his 'all too famous' temper tantrum.
"Stop it Connor! And let go of my leg!" I say shaking my leg and trying to grab Connors arm.
"No!" They both say loudly in tears. I feel like I'm about to die when Stephanie comes running out in a tank top and some tight workout kapri's with white lines going down the side.
"Freddie!" she says running over to us and yanking Natalie off my leg, I start to gain my circulation back. She puts Natalie in my arms and picks Connor up off the floor.
"Follow me." She says walking into her double front doors.
She sits Connor down in a room that appears to be her the den then grabs Natalie and sit her right beside Connor.
"Listen to me!" she says in a very sharp tone "Stop the crying and you better behave yourselves got it!" She snaps. They look up at her scared, and shake their heads and start to wipe away the tears. She hands them both a couple of Kleenex's then puts up and a door cage so they can't get out.
"Wow." I say honestly shocked as I follow her into the living room and we sit down on the couch next to each other.
"I used to work with children in college, I was a nanny." She says smiling "Comes in handy sometimes."
"Listen, I am so sorry just showing up here and bringing them. Remember in Macy's, when I first met you?" I ask completely changing the subject.
"Yes?" she says a bit caught off guard.
"I had the girl with me, Natalie, remember?"
"Yes I do." She says trying to see what I'm getting at.
"And you asked "who's the lucky mother."?
"Yes Freddie I remember everything!" she says trying to get to the point. I run my hands through my hair.
"Natalie's my daughter." I say then I hold my head down. She starts to rub my back.
"What's wrong with that?"
"She has been my daughter for six years and I never knew! I have been living for six whole years thinking I killed my daughter; she lied and said the baby died. I have been miserable for so long living with that doubt and regret; I haven't even been able to talk to a woman and actually feel any emotion towards anything. I thought I killed the most precious thing that will ever mean as much as anything in my life. How could she be so selfish?" I say almost in tears.
She rubs my back whispering comforting words, her thin warm hands moving up and down, I was glad she hadn't chose to try and make me feel better by saying "I know how you feel". At this point I don't think anybody knows how I feel.
"I'm sorry." I say about to run my hands through my hair she grabs them.
"Don't apologize, I just want you to feel as comfortable and loved right now as you can be. This is a very tough thing to go through and I want to help so please stop apologizing." I lift my head up shocked, I'm about to apologize when I catch myself.
"Relax" she says unbuttoning my suit jacket then she takes off my leather dress shoes. "Please just breathe steady and close you're eyes. I'll check on the children." I watched her walk away, I dint even know what to feel. I was shocked hurt and just so many other things thrown in the mix.
My eyes started to droop and I kept blinking to keep them open, all I remember is trying to stay up, but not going to sleep, and within minutes I was dreaming.
Endnotes
Sorry for leaving like that and not even saying anything, I will try and stick to writing and balance it with everything else I'm doing. Well, I hope I haven't lost all my readers, because I have a lot in store for this story! Well thank you for reading and please feel free to review!
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