"Rafe, calm down." Evelyn said as she watched Rafe
pace across the kitchen floor.
"Clam down. She show me this and you expect me to
just accept it. This is Gooz, my friend, and Danny's friend. He writes
me all the time and he never said anything. Not once that he was married
or that she is…" Rafe stopped and took a deep breath trying to control
his emotions, knowing the children were still asleep upstairs.
Iz jumped into the silence in a rush of words. "We
wanted to tell you, but not in a letter. We were going to come here once
he was back to tell you. It wasn't something I could put in a letter or
let him. Rafe, you are a brother to me, you deserve more then to find out
from reading a piece of paper. I…"
"I deserve more," he interrupted angrily, "so it
was better for me to find out when I came to get you. You didn't tell me
then either. Why didn't you tell me who the father was then? My God Isabel,"
he yelled seeing her flinch as he raised his voice, "did you throw yourself
at the first man you saw. If you did you should have gone for the second."
"I love David and he loves me, as for you implications,
if that is how you feel about me then we will leave. I'll go back to Scranton
and hope that my father will let us back into the boarding house." She
stood there toe to toe with Rafe as she said that, letting him know that
she meant what she said.
Rafe said nothing only looked at her trying to make
sense of this whole thing. He knew that things were getting out of hand
but he was just so confused and hurt. Shaking his head angrily he pushed
her away from him and stalked out the door.
Tears filled her eyes as she stumbled back into the counter from the
force of his push. She stood there at a loss of what to do next as she
listened to the pounding of his feet and the slamming of the door.
