Chapter III
Time, Love and Tenderness :
The moonlight is beautiful outside Lily Manning's window. Though for her nothing seems beautiful at this exact moment. It just doesn't make sense, nothing seems to make sense anymore. Awake in bed she checks the clock on her nightstand "1:00am" She reads. 1 in the morning and the right side of her bed is still empty. Jake hasn't come home yet.
B&W Lily: "He doesn't even try to hide anymore! . . It's day, night . .he always finds an excuse to go out with them" Tears roll down her eyes. " He doesn't want me anymore!"
Lily listens to the door opening downstairs and close her eyes to pretend she's sleeping.
Jake takes off his shoes and carefully walks up the stairs not to wake anyone up. His tie is half undone, his shirt wide open showing off the lipstick signs on his chest. He steps into the shower and takes a long time in there. He than goes down stairs and throws his clothes into the watching machine. Only than he walks back upstairs and lays down next to Lily, who has watched all his moves.
In the morning :
The alarm clock buzzes over Lily's head and she forces herself to stand up.
B&W Lily: "Lately, waking up has been the most difficult thing to do!"
She does stand up and walks through the corridor into Andy's room. There she sits at the end of his bed softly caressing his back.
B&W Lily: "Only thing that seems to make sense in my life, the only thing that makes me get up in the morning. . . I mean look at him! He's gorgeous and I'm not just saying this because I'm his mother. . but he's such a perfect mixture of Rick and I. He has more of Rick, the faces he makes, the way he sleeps, his dark brown hair, his deep green-blue eyes, the shape of his face, many of the traces in there. . though he has my nose and my mouth. . it's amazing to think that I gave life to this beautiful boy!"
On the other side of town the alarm clock buzzes over Rick's head. Alone in his room he struggles to get up.
B&W Rick: "Yeas, I did move on with my life! Yeas I do have a woman whom I sleep with! Does she mean something to me? No! Am I still in love with Lily? Yeas! Am I still hoping I'll have her? Absolutely! Crazy? . . Maybe!"
He stops to take a look at a picture he has hanging on the wall. In the picture Lily's wearing a turtle neck gray pullover, tight black pants and sunglasses. She's hugged to Andy wearing a black pullover and black Adidas pants with buttons on the sides, he's holding a white rabbit in his hands.
B&W Rick: "Andy's so smart, so curious, so full of life and so creative! He's always planning on building something! And he's a amazing sportive kid. I mean he plays basketball, baseball, soccer, and Ice hockey. . . And he's only 5"
Rick knocks on Lily's door.
Grace, Zoe, Lily, Jake and Andy are having breakfast.
"Andy, you're dad's here!" Lily helps him get his stuff and walks him to the door.
"Morning" Rick smiles, though Lily's face and the way she fakes her smile, tells Rick she's not ok, he's learned to know her and he knows she's depressed, hurt. He helps Andy into the car with Jessie and Eli and walks back to Lily.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah" Lily fakes her smile again.
"You know you can call me about anything, right?"
"Yeah" her eyes let a few tears drop.
Rick kisses her forehead and walks to the car.
Later that day:
Lily's replacing some books in their shelves when the phone rings. Remembering that she's alone there, she steps down from the stairs and hurries to the phone.
"My sister's bookstore. ."
"Mrs Manning?" A female's voice asks.
"Lily, yeas?"
"I'm nurse Roger's. ."
"From Andy's school. . Oh, my God, what happened?"
Naomi enters the store at that second and realizing something's wrong she keeps standing there.
"I'm calling because Andrew fainted!"
"He what???? How??? Where is he???"
Realizing the situation Naomi gets Lily to sit down.
"He was sent to Memorial hospital. . ." The woman doesn't finish the sentence Lily hangs up and grabs her purse.
"Naomi, I need you to close this store for me, Andy fainted and was sent to the hospital."
"Oh, My God! How?"
"I don't know! Please call Rick!"
"I will!"
Before Lily has even closed the door, Naomi's already dialing the number to Rick's office.
Rick and Lindsey are making out and giggling when the phone rings.
"Hello?" Rick picks it up.
"Rick? Naomi!"
"Naomi what?. ."
"Andy was sent to the hospital. ."
"What ? Why, what the hell happened to my son?"
he's already standing up. In his face clear worry.
"He fainted!"
"How the hell did he faint? I mean why?"
"I don't know. Lily rushed out of here!"
"Thanks Naomi! I'll be there in a few minutes!"
He races out of there, without even looking back.
On her way to the hospital, Lily dials the number to the restaurant.
"George? Lily! I need to talk to Jake!. . what do you mean he hasn't showed up there yet? . . thanks, . . no I'll find him!"
She dials Jake's cell phone number, there's no answer.
"Jerk!" Seeing herself parked at a light just in front of the restaurant she turns to park her car there. She jumps off, knowing she should have not stopped. She races into the restaurant, asking everyone where Jake is, no one has seen him. Though she goes on further in and stops in front his office's door, when she hears giggles and Jake's voice. She carefully opens the door to find Jake sitting on top of his desk undressing a one of the waitresses of the restaurant.
Rick runs through the corridors of the hospital looking for Lily or anyone who could tell him where his son is. He stops in front of a doctor "Andrew Richard Sammler!"
"Are you his father?"
"Yeas!"
"He's in room 540, he's fine, it was only low blood pressure"
Rick races to the room.
Where he finds Andy sitting on the bed and a female doctor listening to his heartbeat.
"Daddy!" Andy smiles at his father.
"Hi my sweetie! Are you ok?" He asks coming to stand right next to Andy.
"He's fine! It was just a little shock, hum!"
"So what happened?"
"He told me it was a boy from school that pressed his arm really hard. . and I think he got a little panicked because he couldn't get out of the situation and fainted"
"Who pressed your arm?" Rick wants to know while he keeps checking on Andy.
"Ian"
At this moment Lily shows up at the door.
She rushes to stand next to her son and caress his face.
"I'm sorry I ran late , sweetie. What happened?"
Her voice is tearful, her eyes are a prove that she has been crying.
Rick figures it isn't because of Andy.
"He's ok now, it was a mean kid who pressed his arm too hard for him to take it."
"Who was it?"
"Ian" Andy tells her.
"We'll talk to his parents!" Rick assures her.
"Guys, look, Andy may go home now, but I want him to rest a lot, I don't want him under any stress. ."
The listen carefully to all instructions, thank the doctor and than Lily turns to Rick:
"Can we sleep at your place with you tonight?"
"Sure! But. ."
"I'm getting divorced! I caught Jake with a waitress and . ."
"Needless to say! . . Lil, I'm so sorry!"
"Yeah, me to"
Rick walks out of Andy's room and walks up to Lily in the tv room.
"He fell asleep"
"Thank God!"
Rick sits on the couch next to her.
"Do you want to talk about. .?"
"The fact that I'm feeling like an extremely old woman, unattractive, hurt,depressed. ."
"Lily, stop! . . You have no idea of how beautiful you are, how young you look. ."
B&W Lily: "I have been waiting to be with this man for the past 5 years, . . I have controlled every nerve in my body to not just kiss him. . all because I was married . . But if Jake has the right. ."
She kisses him passionately, Rick gives into the kiss.
B&W Rick: "OH God!! I knew this would be perfect. . but I never imagined it'd be this perfect. . . Her lips tasted like strawberry and I couldn't get enough of her."
B&W Lily: "Perfect! . . it was like his lips meant to be sealed with mine, . . nobody ever kissed me like that before."
Sitting on his bed with Lily standing between his legs, Rick raises her blouse and kisses her belly, driving Lily over her mind. She holds onto the back of his head and lets him take full charge of her.
With her help he takes of her blouse and stands up to face her.
They take their time to look into each others eyes before sinking into a new passionate kiss. Both having been waiting for this for such a long time they want to take their time. He kisses her chin, her neck and makes his way down to stop at the limit where her braw begins. There he still lets his tongue taste the skin between the valleys. At this act Lily moans softly pressing his face harder. Rick does the same another two times, on the second time he sinks his teeth in the fabric of her braw letting his tongue run down a third time, he takes her braw off. He comes back to face her as he cups her breasts.
"God, you're beautiful" He tells her before diving his mouth on her breasts. Lily's hands begin to open his shirt. Wanting her skin to skin with him, Rick quickly takes of his shirt, kisses her lips pressing her hard on him. With this Lily's fingers softly trace the line of his spine, as her nails scratch softly his spine, Rick yelps in pleasure. Not having enough with her hands explorations, Lily allows her hands to go inside his pants and boxers. Pressing her index finger on his manhood. This brings Rick to softly bite her nipple and trying to avoid pain he quickly sucks on it. Lily looses grip, allowing Rick full charge. He settles her on the bed and kisses and sucking her entirely.
B&W Rick: "Tonight my goal is pleasing her until she understands how much I love and need her"
B&W Lily: "God, don't let tonight end"
He slowly takes off her pants and panties, leaving her completely naked for his yes. He takes his time to adore the view. He takes his time kissing her every inch of skin.
B&W Lily: "Never had a man known me so well. Every move that pleases me, every kiss, every touch . . my body was yelling out for him and he knew exactly every need it had."
Lily's sitting in bed caressing her tongue on Rick's stomach while she unbuttons his pants and takes them off along with his boxers, kissing every skin revealed. She takes him in her hands and begins massaging him, driving Rick to his limit. His hand caresses her hair pulling it softly back so he can see as she takes him in her mouth, just like he had done to her minutes ago.
B&W Rick "Nothing ever felt so dam right"
"I love you! I have always loved you and I will always love you" He tells her before entering her in one slow move, so they can enjoy every second of it. He kisses her lips.
Spent they lay snuggled together.
"Rick?"
"Yeas?"
"What happens now? I mean we did wait for this for five nearly six year and. ."
"This doesn't stop here if that's what you're asking"
"It is!"
"Lily, from the minute I met you, I didn't want anybody else. I didn't care about anybody else. . you don't have to worry about that" he tells her with tears in her eyes.
She caresses his face and kisses him again.
"I just don't know how to brake this to everyone. I mean how am I going to tell Andy that? Or Grace, or Zoe? I mean I sent my husband out of the house only tonig. I mean yesterday, and Grace and Zoe were in different sleep overs. ."
Rick smiles taking away the hair from her face.
"You're asking me for time"
Lily smiles herself. "How can you know me so well?"
"My love for you makes me pay attention to every reaction, every move you make. . . I'll tell you what: I'll give you six months time to brake it to the kids and we both to talk to Andy about this."
"But in six months there's summer vacation" Lily reminds him.
"Well you let the girls spend this summer vacations with Jake, Jessie and Eli will spend it with Karen and you and I spend it together with Andy."
"Deal!" Lily smiles. "Now I want my dinner" She tells him, trying to get out of bed, Rick pushes her back "You're gonna have to starve for another hour or so"
"ok"
Time, Love and Tenderness :
The moonlight is beautiful outside Lily Manning's window. Though for her nothing seems beautiful at this exact moment. It just doesn't make sense, nothing seems to make sense anymore. Awake in bed she checks the clock on her nightstand "1:00am" She reads. 1 in the morning and the right side of her bed is still empty. Jake hasn't come home yet.
B&W Lily: "He doesn't even try to hide anymore! . . It's day, night . .he always finds an excuse to go out with them" Tears roll down her eyes. " He doesn't want me anymore!"
Lily listens to the door opening downstairs and close her eyes to pretend she's sleeping.
Jake takes off his shoes and carefully walks up the stairs not to wake anyone up. His tie is half undone, his shirt wide open showing off the lipstick signs on his chest. He steps into the shower and takes a long time in there. He than goes down stairs and throws his clothes into the watching machine. Only than he walks back upstairs and lays down next to Lily, who has watched all his moves.
In the morning :
The alarm clock buzzes over Lily's head and she forces herself to stand up.
B&W Lily: "Lately, waking up has been the most difficult thing to do!"
She does stand up and walks through the corridor into Andy's room. There she sits at the end of his bed softly caressing his back.
B&W Lily: "Only thing that seems to make sense in my life, the only thing that makes me get up in the morning. . . I mean look at him! He's gorgeous and I'm not just saying this because I'm his mother. . but he's such a perfect mixture of Rick and I. He has more of Rick, the faces he makes, the way he sleeps, his dark brown hair, his deep green-blue eyes, the shape of his face, many of the traces in there. . though he has my nose and my mouth. . it's amazing to think that I gave life to this beautiful boy!"
On the other side of town the alarm clock buzzes over Rick's head. Alone in his room he struggles to get up.
B&W Rick: "Yeas, I did move on with my life! Yeas I do have a woman whom I sleep with! Does she mean something to me? No! Am I still in love with Lily? Yeas! Am I still hoping I'll have her? Absolutely! Crazy? . . Maybe!"
He stops to take a look at a picture he has hanging on the wall. In the picture Lily's wearing a turtle neck gray pullover, tight black pants and sunglasses. She's hugged to Andy wearing a black pullover and black Adidas pants with buttons on the sides, he's holding a white rabbit in his hands.
B&W Rick: "Andy's so smart, so curious, so full of life and so creative! He's always planning on building something! And he's a amazing sportive kid. I mean he plays basketball, baseball, soccer, and Ice hockey. . . And he's only 5"
Rick knocks on Lily's door.
Grace, Zoe, Lily, Jake and Andy are having breakfast.
"Andy, you're dad's here!" Lily helps him get his stuff and walks him to the door.
"Morning" Rick smiles, though Lily's face and the way she fakes her smile, tells Rick she's not ok, he's learned to know her and he knows she's depressed, hurt. He helps Andy into the car with Jessie and Eli and walks back to Lily.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah" Lily fakes her smile again.
"You know you can call me about anything, right?"
"Yeah" her eyes let a few tears drop.
Rick kisses her forehead and walks to the car.
Later that day:
Lily's replacing some books in their shelves when the phone rings. Remembering that she's alone there, she steps down from the stairs and hurries to the phone.
"My sister's bookstore. ."
"Mrs Manning?" A female's voice asks.
"Lily, yeas?"
"I'm nurse Roger's. ."
"From Andy's school. . Oh, my God, what happened?"
Naomi enters the store at that second and realizing something's wrong she keeps standing there.
"I'm calling because Andrew fainted!"
"He what???? How??? Where is he???"
Realizing the situation Naomi gets Lily to sit down.
"He was sent to Memorial hospital. . ." The woman doesn't finish the sentence Lily hangs up and grabs her purse.
"Naomi, I need you to close this store for me, Andy fainted and was sent to the hospital."
"Oh, My God! How?"
"I don't know! Please call Rick!"
"I will!"
Before Lily has even closed the door, Naomi's already dialing the number to Rick's office.
Rick and Lindsey are making out and giggling when the phone rings.
"Hello?" Rick picks it up.
"Rick? Naomi!"
"Naomi what?. ."
"Andy was sent to the hospital. ."
"What ? Why, what the hell happened to my son?"
he's already standing up. In his face clear worry.
"He fainted!"
"How the hell did he faint? I mean why?"
"I don't know. Lily rushed out of here!"
"Thanks Naomi! I'll be there in a few minutes!"
He races out of there, without even looking back.
On her way to the hospital, Lily dials the number to the restaurant.
"George? Lily! I need to talk to Jake!. . what do you mean he hasn't showed up there yet? . . thanks, . . no I'll find him!"
She dials Jake's cell phone number, there's no answer.
"Jerk!" Seeing herself parked at a light just in front of the restaurant she turns to park her car there. She jumps off, knowing she should have not stopped. She races into the restaurant, asking everyone where Jake is, no one has seen him. Though she goes on further in and stops in front his office's door, when she hears giggles and Jake's voice. She carefully opens the door to find Jake sitting on top of his desk undressing a one of the waitresses of the restaurant.
Rick runs through the corridors of the hospital looking for Lily or anyone who could tell him where his son is. He stops in front of a doctor "Andrew Richard Sammler!"
"Are you his father?"
"Yeas!"
"He's in room 540, he's fine, it was only low blood pressure"
Rick races to the room.
Where he finds Andy sitting on the bed and a female doctor listening to his heartbeat.
"Daddy!" Andy smiles at his father.
"Hi my sweetie! Are you ok?" He asks coming to stand right next to Andy.
"He's fine! It was just a little shock, hum!"
"So what happened?"
"He told me it was a boy from school that pressed his arm really hard. . and I think he got a little panicked because he couldn't get out of the situation and fainted"
"Who pressed your arm?" Rick wants to know while he keeps checking on Andy.
"Ian"
At this moment Lily shows up at the door.
She rushes to stand next to her son and caress his face.
"I'm sorry I ran late , sweetie. What happened?"
Her voice is tearful, her eyes are a prove that she has been crying.
Rick figures it isn't because of Andy.
"He's ok now, it was a mean kid who pressed his arm too hard for him to take it."
"Who was it?"
"Ian" Andy tells her.
"We'll talk to his parents!" Rick assures her.
"Guys, look, Andy may go home now, but I want him to rest a lot, I don't want him under any stress. ."
The listen carefully to all instructions, thank the doctor and than Lily turns to Rick:
"Can we sleep at your place with you tonight?"
"Sure! But. ."
"I'm getting divorced! I caught Jake with a waitress and . ."
"Needless to say! . . Lil, I'm so sorry!"
"Yeah, me to"
Rick walks out of Andy's room and walks up to Lily in the tv room.
"He fell asleep"
"Thank God!"
Rick sits on the couch next to her.
"Do you want to talk about. .?"
"The fact that I'm feeling like an extremely old woman, unattractive, hurt,depressed. ."
"Lily, stop! . . You have no idea of how beautiful you are, how young you look. ."
B&W Lily: "I have been waiting to be with this man for the past 5 years, . . I have controlled every nerve in my body to not just kiss him. . all because I was married . . But if Jake has the right. ."
She kisses him passionately, Rick gives into the kiss.
B&W Rick: "OH God!! I knew this would be perfect. . but I never imagined it'd be this perfect. . . Her lips tasted like strawberry and I couldn't get enough of her."
B&W Lily: "Perfect! . . it was like his lips meant to be sealed with mine, . . nobody ever kissed me like that before."
Sitting on his bed with Lily standing between his legs, Rick raises her blouse and kisses her belly, driving Lily over her mind. She holds onto the back of his head and lets him take full charge of her.
With her help he takes of her blouse and stands up to face her.
They take their time to look into each others eyes before sinking into a new passionate kiss. Both having been waiting for this for such a long time they want to take their time. He kisses her chin, her neck and makes his way down to stop at the limit where her braw begins. There he still lets his tongue taste the skin between the valleys. At this act Lily moans softly pressing his face harder. Rick does the same another two times, on the second time he sinks his teeth in the fabric of her braw letting his tongue run down a third time, he takes her braw off. He comes back to face her as he cups her breasts.
"God, you're beautiful" He tells her before diving his mouth on her breasts. Lily's hands begin to open his shirt. Wanting her skin to skin with him, Rick quickly takes of his shirt, kisses her lips pressing her hard on him. With this Lily's fingers softly trace the line of his spine, as her nails scratch softly his spine, Rick yelps in pleasure. Not having enough with her hands explorations, Lily allows her hands to go inside his pants and boxers. Pressing her index finger on his manhood. This brings Rick to softly bite her nipple and trying to avoid pain he quickly sucks on it. Lily looses grip, allowing Rick full charge. He settles her on the bed and kisses and sucking her entirely.
B&W Rick: "Tonight my goal is pleasing her until she understands how much I love and need her"
B&W Lily: "God, don't let tonight end"
He slowly takes off her pants and panties, leaving her completely naked for his yes. He takes his time to adore the view. He takes his time kissing her every inch of skin.
B&W Lily: "Never had a man known me so well. Every move that pleases me, every kiss, every touch . . my body was yelling out for him and he knew exactly every need it had."
Lily's sitting in bed caressing her tongue on Rick's stomach while she unbuttons his pants and takes them off along with his boxers, kissing every skin revealed. She takes him in her hands and begins massaging him, driving Rick to his limit. His hand caresses her hair pulling it softly back so he can see as she takes him in her mouth, just like he had done to her minutes ago.
B&W Rick "Nothing ever felt so dam right"
"I love you! I have always loved you and I will always love you" He tells her before entering her in one slow move, so they can enjoy every second of it. He kisses her lips.
Spent they lay snuggled together.
"Rick?"
"Yeas?"
"What happens now? I mean we did wait for this for five nearly six year and. ."
"This doesn't stop here if that's what you're asking"
"It is!"
"Lily, from the minute I met you, I didn't want anybody else. I didn't care about anybody else. . you don't have to worry about that" he tells her with tears in her eyes.
She caresses his face and kisses him again.
"I just don't know how to brake this to everyone. I mean how am I going to tell Andy that? Or Grace, or Zoe? I mean I sent my husband out of the house only tonig. I mean yesterday, and Grace and Zoe were in different sleep overs. ."
Rick smiles taking away the hair from her face.
"You're asking me for time"
Lily smiles herself. "How can you know me so well?"
"My love for you makes me pay attention to every reaction, every move you make. . . I'll tell you what: I'll give you six months time to brake it to the kids and we both to talk to Andy about this."
"But in six months there's summer vacation" Lily reminds him.
"Well you let the girls spend this summer vacations with Jake, Jessie and Eli will spend it with Karen and you and I spend it together with Andy."
"Deal!" Lily smiles. "Now I want my dinner" She tells him, trying to get out of bed, Rick pushes her back "You're gonna have to starve for another hour or so"
"ok"
