The words hit Lisa like a fist. She had never imagined Georgie to say those words. She just stared at the teen in front of her, not believing the words that had left her mouth.
"God can't you say something?!" Georgie said, the anger almost making her burst.
"Why?" Lisa said, calm and collected.
"Why?! Isn't that a bit obvious. Since you moved in with us everything has been getting worse for me! At first Lou wanted to take me to New York with her because of you and well, Jack talked her out of it but now that there will be triplets, I'll be dragged to another country and even if not, I'll be the baby sitter for the rest of my life!" Georgie screamed.
Lisa felt somehow glad that Georgie showed the emotion she kept inside for what must have been quite a while. The tears were streaming down Georgie's face freely by then.
"So you're afraid of your uncertain future," Lisa said and felt sorry for the girl in front of her.
"No… yes… I don't know. But why couldn't you just not get pregnant? Nothing would have changed and I'd still have my old life! Even Lou is interested in the babies!" She screamed and it was hard for Lisa to stay calm.
"Look Georgie, I didn't plan to get pregnant. It just happened. I wasn't happy about it either. Do I look like I'm happy? Look at me! I'm three times as big as I used to be and I feel awful all the time! Do you think I like this?"
"You could have thought about this before you spread your legs," Georgie said and Lisa's mouth fell open. She couldn't believe her ears. She didn't want to believe her ears.
"What did you just say?" She said, shocked and hurt.
"You heard me just fine. I won't repeat myself," she said and a wave of anxiety shot through her at the thought of Lisa's possible reaction.
Lisa didn't know what to say. She just stared at the girl in front of her and felt disappointed in the person she thought she knew.
"I know it hasn't always been easy between us but I have never been this disappointed in you," she said, stood up and left Georgie alone.
She exited the house and went into the stables. She had always loved it there. She hadn't spent much time around horses lately. She missed it.
She went into an empty stall and sat down on the ground. You would have never guessed she was in there. She just sat there and thought about the past couple months and how everything seemed to be going wrong. And only then, she allowed her tears to flow.
…
Jack came back from town to find an empty house. Well, at least he thought it was empty. He searched everywhere for Lisa but didn't find her anywhere. He saw Georgie's boots and knew she was in her room.
"Knock knock," he said and opened the door slowly.
"Do you know where Lisa is?" he asked and Georgie just shook her head. "She left an hour ago. Don't know where she went," she said and directed her attention back to her school work.
Jack sighed, wishing Georgie would end the war between her and Lisa and be a bit nicer to his wife. He went downstairs and decided to call Lisa.
He dialed her number and heard her phone ring in the living rooms short after. That's when he began to worry. She'd never leave without her phone.
He ran out and into the barn, hoping to find her or Amy there. He was met by emptiness that left him even more worried. "Where could she be?" he asked, tears threatening to come out.
He heard a quiet "I'm here." He ran towards the empty stall, the words came from and looked down to find his wife sitting on the ground. He opened the stall and sat down next to her, pulling her as close as possible.
"I thought something happened to you," he said and she felt immediately sorry for not letting him know where she went.
"I'm sorry. I just needed some air," she said and a tear rolled down her face.
"What's wrong?" Jack asked worriedly and wiped it away with his thumb.
"I don't want you to get mad," she sad and he noticed the puffy, red eyes and knew she had cried for a while.
"You can tell me anything and I promise I won't get mad," he said and looked her deep into the eyes. She avoided his eyes and looked at the ground instead.
"It's Georgie. She came home and I wanted to talk to her, to finally solve the problem but she said some pretty mean things," she said and felt sorry for betraying Georgie like that.
"She what? What did she say?" Jack asked, not believing the behavior of his great grandchild.
"I feel like I'm betraying her if I tell you what she said," Lisa said and Jack sighed. "Lisa… I won't tell anybody that you told me," he said and she nodded.
"She told me that she hated me and how things have been going worse for her since I moved in and…" she began but refused to continue. She didn't want to get Georgie into any trouble.
"And…?" Jack was boiling inside but he knew that Lisa held something back.
"And that I might have should thought about it before I spread my legs," Lisa burst out.
"She what?!" Jack didn't believe his ears. This was nothing like her but he saw how she treated Lisa the past two weeks so it was not that big of a surprise.
"You don't have to yell at her, I'm not mad at her, it's just… she's right," she said, her voice cracking at the end of the sentence.
Jack was furious. Not so much about the words his great grandchild chose to use but that she destroyed Lisa's confidence, he worked so hard on. He didn't believe that she had carelessly thrown around words and hurt more than just one person. He wanted to lecture her but Lisa needed him now.