Claire knocked on the door and Tom opened, she could tell from his eyes that she woke him but she didn't care.
"Claire ? What's going on ?"
"How fast can you prepare yourself to go to a wedding ?"
Tom looked at her. "What ?"
"You know the guy Kate's been dating ?"
"The engaged one ? You want to go to his wedding ? So he left her didn't he ? He broke her heart."
"No, she left him and the last one you can prevent. Kate's pregnant but she doesn't want Jack to know so she left to Iowa. I promised her not to tell Jack and I'm Kate's friend so I keep my promise but you never made such a promise so if you don't want her to make the mistake she's about to make you go to Jack and you tell him the truth."
"What ? You want me to barge into a wedding ceremony of people I have never met?"
"You know Kate."
Tom looked at Claire. "Of course I know Kate, I've been married to her for seven years."
"Well the man that's going to get married is the father of Kate's child and he's going to get married in three hours so if you get dressed you don't have to barge into someone else's wedding ceremony."
Tom looked at Claire. "If Kate doesn't want Jack to know than that's her own choice."
"But she loves the man, she's just scared of Sarah… You left her for someone else ! If you didn't do that she wouldn't have gotten into this problem in the first place !"
Tom looked at Claire who looked at her feet.
"I'm sorry that was rude. But please, just go to the wedding and tell him the truth. That's all I'm asking."
For as long as he knew Claire she had always been the kind of girl who had the best solutions to every problem so she probably was right but it didn't seem right to ignore Kate's wishes just like that.
For all he knew Kate didn't want Jack anything to do with her child.
"I'll get ready."
"Hurry !"
Tom invited Claire in and got into his bed room waking Rachel to tell her he was going to help one of his friends out of trouble so she better called her mother cause now she was eight months pregnant he didn't like the idea of Rachel being alone.
He would tell Jack or whatever the guy's name was, if it was the wrong thing to do Kate would be in Iowa so he had nothing to fear.
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Jack was getting into his wedding suit.
Kate was in Iowa cause something had happened to Wayne and he didn't buy it for a second but he guessed that she was hurt and he could understand that.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Jack turned around, his best man Larry entered the room.
"There's this guy here. He wants to talk to you. Says his name is Tom and that it's important."
"Let him in."
Tom entered the room and looked at Jack.
"So I take it you're Jack."
"So I take it you're the Tom Kate was married to."
Tom nodded and looked at Jack. For a second he wanted to go away but he knew Claire was waiting for him in the hallway.
"I hate to be the one who has to tell you this but still. Kate's in Iowa."
Jack nodded. "I know, Wayne had an accident."
Tom smiled. "If that's what she told you she lied. Wayne didn't had an accident. You and Kate had an accident."
"What do you mean."
"The morning of the day she left she took a pregnancy test. I don't have to tell you that that one turned out to be positive."
Jack remained silent and hit the wall with his fist.
"Why didn't she tell me ?"
"According to Claire she felt guilty. She's planning to stay in Iowa with the baby."
"Well if that's the truth she doesn't want me into her child's life."
He turned around and looked at the mirror.
Every muscle in his body wanted to call of this marriage and go to Iowa but he knew he couldn't do that.
"What do you want me to do ?"
Tom looked at Jack. "Claire's the one who brought me over to tell you cause she had made this promise to Kate but that's where it stops on following her advice. I've been unfaithful as well and I picked the girl that I wasn't married to but that was cause she was the right on for me. I can't tell in your place who's the right girl and who isn't. Your getting married in twenty minutes. It took me fifteen minutes to figure it out."
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Twenty-five minutes later Claire and Tom were sitting in the church watching how Jack and Sarah stood in front of the altar.
"What did you tell him ?"
"I told him that Kate was pregnant and than I told him that it was all his to decide who was the right one for him and who wasn't an obviously Kate's not the right one for him."
"Are you on Kate's side or not ?"
"Actually I'm on Jack's side. Look at Sarah. What did she do that doesn't give her the right to deserve Jack. What did she do to be cheated on the way Jack and Kate did ?"
Claire nodded and looked at the marriage that had just been started.
"…speak no or for ever hold his peace."
Claire had to clinch her teeth not to speak but to her surprise somebody else did.
"I do."
All eyes were focused on Jack.
"Sarah. You're a wonderful person and you didn't deserve this and I am so, so sorry but I have to go. I have to go to Iowa."
He looked at Tom and Claire.
"Where's your car."
"Outside."
Sarah hit Jack with the flowers she was holding and Jack looked at her.
"I really am sorry. We'll talk about this when I get back."
He followed Tom and Claire outside but got followed by his mother.
"Jack ! What the hell is this ? What will the people say ?"
"I don't care ! The woman I love is in Iowa and she's pregnant of my child. So right now I don't give a damn about my reputation at the local tea-room."
He got into the car where Claire and Tom were already waiting.
"There's no plane to Iowa today !"
"Than you just set me of at my house and I'll drive."
"No way ! We drive together. I'm not going to miss this spectacle."
Tom looked at Claire.
"Yeah, but I have a pregnant girlfriend at home who can have a baby every second now."
Jack looked at the both of them.
"I live two blocks from here. You just drive towards there and Claire and I use my car."
Tom smiled and drove towards Jack's house.
"You call me as soon as you spoke to her."
"Don't worry, I will."
Ok, big chapter I know.
So what do you think of it ? I hope it wasn't to cruel for Sarah but I always wanted to do this.
After all she left Jack in the show so I thought I'd give her a little payback.
I'm trying to break my review record for each chapter so I hope I receive more than 5 reviews for this one so please, it only takes two seconds to review.