Amanda walked back into the apartment, she had called earlier and talked to
Aiden before he went to bed. She had been at Jessica's and by the time
Aiden's bed time rolled around she still didn't want to have to go back to
the apartment and deal with Harry. Now it was just after eleven and she
expected Harry to be in bed, he knew where she was and that she was okay.
But to her surpise she found the lights on and the TV softly playing.
Quietly she took her shoes and jacket off then sauntered into the living
room not really expecting anything from Harry. He looked up at her and
smiled as she walked in and sat down on the loveseat alone.
"Feeling better?"asked Harry.
"No,"said Amanda crossing her legs,"I didn't realize my husband just chalked me up to some over spending brat."
"I never said that,"said Harry.
"You imply it,"said Amanda.
"I just don't want to find out in a couple of months we're broke, that's all I'm not making anywhere near as much money as you were, hell I still don't,"said Harry,"And you're just getting royalities."
"Then take my name off your account,"said Amanda,"Do what you want with your paycheck."
"Seriously?"asked Harry.
"Do whatever you want as long as this fight ends,"said Amanda,"I don't need money from you, we'll just split the accounts, then if I go broke it'll be all my money I lost."
"And that'll be the end of it,"said Harry.
"Yeah, I don't know why you didn't think of this earlier,"said Amanda,"Have it all split, credit cards all of it, just give me the bills for this month and I'll pay them off."
"And you're okay, being taken off my bank account?"asked Harry.
"I suggested it didn't I?"asked Amanda,"Then when I blow three hundred on a maid you don't have to worry about it."
"I thought you'd be offended if I suggested something like that,"said Harry.
"Not in the least,"said Amanda,"Look I'll even tell ya what, you can have some of my mom's bonds when I get the inheritance, then you'll have security money or whatever."
"I'm okay,"said Harry.
"Okay your choice, but since I'm letting you do this, I don't ever, ever, ever want to hear again that I'm spending too much,"said Amanda.
"Agreed,"said Harry,"Are you going to have the maid come back?"
"Why?"asked Amanda raising an eyebrow.
"Well to be honest I wasn't looking too much foward to cleaning this place up,"said Harry.
"You stupid sonofabitch,"cursed Amanda as she playfully threw the VCR remote at him,"You give me all that shit and you didn't even want to do it in the first place." Harry laughed at her, she was so adorable to him when she was mad.
"Ya know you're beautiful when you're upset,"laughed Harry.
"Then I must be a goddamn goddess all the time at the rate you piss me off at,"said Amanda. Amanda shook her head in frustration as she got up and went into the kitchen. She opened the fridge and took a look inside to see what they had to drink.
"Aren't you tired?" Amanda felt Harry's arms wrap around her waist. She closed the fridge and turned in his arms to face him.
"Why?"asked Amanda smiling.
"Well ya know we could go to bed,"said Harry,"Make up for lost time from this morning."
"Oh really?"asked Amanda.
"Really,"said Harry before he pressed his lips to hers. Amanda gave into the kiss wrapping her arms around his neck. Slowly as they parted she allowed him to lead her to the bedroom, closing the door behind them.
******
Amanda sat in the bank the next morning waiting for the manager to become available. She had dropped Aiden off at a drop in day care centre Jessica had told her about. She felt Aiden needed to be around kids his own age and have some fun, she was sure it wasn' much fun for him to go everywhere boring with his mother.
"Ms.Senate, Mr.Fredricks will see you now,"said the secratary. Amanda nodded as she stood up and followed her down the hall of offices to the last one. Amanda walked into the average looking office and took a seat. Behind the desk sat an older man smiling warmly.
"Ms Senate," Amanda shook hands with the man.
"How may I help you today?"asked Eric Fredricks.
"I need to make a transfer of money, they refered me to you since it was such a large sum,"said Amanda, 'Harry wants his own account, well he's not going to get any of my money,' thought Amanda.
"Okay, how much are we talking about?"asked Eric.
"Seven figures,"said Amanda.
"That's quite a sum,"said Eric,"If you don't mind me asking why?"
"My husband wants to play the breadwinner of the household,"said Amanda.
"Okay, then may I have the original account number that the money is being taken out of,"said Eric. Amanda dug through her purse and pulled out a bank statement. Eric took the piece of paper and typed it into his computer.
"The new account number?"asked Eric.
"Sure,"said Amanda pulling out another statement,"The branch it's in is in Paris."
"No problem, do you have a card to access the account?"asked Eric.
"I do,"said Amanda nodding.
"How much would you like to transfer?"asked Eric.
"Um, leave five thousand in the account,"said Amanda,"Also I need payments that will be made to the original account rerouted to the new account."
"No problem Ms.Senate,"said Eric as he typed away at his computer. Amanda knew what she was doing was underhanded but Harry was going to learn his lesson about bitching at her.
"The payments you want changed, would they be the ones from Paris?"asked Eric.
"Yes they would,"said Amanda.
"Okay I'll get you to sign papers and fax them through to Paris,"said Eric,"Well Ms.Senate you are a smart woman, hitting a man in the wallet where it hurts."
"I'm not trying to hurt him just trying to cut out his bitching,"said Amanda,"Apparently I"m a woman who spends too much." Eric nodded in understandment. A half an hour later she was done with the paper work done Amanda left the bank.
********
Harry sat in his last class trying to calm down his class, they had just finished a fire drill and the choas just continued. Sighing Harry slammed a text book down on the desk which successfully grabbed the classes attention.
"Can we get back to our lesson?"asked Harry.
"Yeah you guys, calm down or he'll rat to Guber on us,"said one of his students,"we got screwed with his son-in-law."
"Hey Senate, you got a picture of Guber's daughter?"asked a male student, Darrell.
"Not for you guys,"said Harry not wanting to get back on to that subject.
"Yeah camera probably broke when he tried to get a picture,"laughed another student.
"I don't believe my wife was in today's lesson,"said Harry.
"Oh c'mon Mr.Senate, we all gotta know what the hell were you thinking marrying Guber's daughter?"asked Sasha, one of his female students,"Like we can only imagine what kinda cage ya had to get her out of it." The class continued laughing, Harry rolled his eyes and sat back in his chair and allowed them to keep laughing. As they calmmed down he sat up and pulled out the text book they were using.
"Well not that it's any of your business but my wife was a model when she left highschool,"said Harry.
"For what, before plastic surgery pictures?"blurted out Darrell.
"No, she was a fashion model in Paris,"said Harry,"And if anyone doubts me, next time your in Mr.Guber's office which I predict won't be too off in the future look for her picture on the desk."
"Can I go to Guber's?"asked Darrell.
"No, you're in class,"said Harry.
"Can I go to the bathroom?"asked Darrell.
"No, why is it so important to you guys what my wife looks like?"asked Harry.
"Well we look at Guber and we can only imagine what she spawned,"said Sasha,"C'mon you gotta have a picture."
"Yeah I need the crap scared out of me,"said Darrell.
"If I show you, will I ever hear another word about it?"asked Harry. Darrell and some of the other students shook their heads. Sighing Harry reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his wallet, flipping through his pictures he found the one of Aiden and Amanda. He pulled it out and walked around to the other side of the desk. Slowly the students came up and were silent as they looked at it.
"That's Amanda and my son,"said Harry.
"Damn, did Guber adopt her?"asked Darrell. Harry just laughed and shook his head.
"Told ya,"said Harry.
"Geesh man Winslow don't have girls like that anymore,"said Darrell.
"Yeah, how did you get back here if you were dating a student?"asked Sasha, this drew the attention of the students.
"I didn't date her as a student,"said Harry,"Now can we get back to class?" Slowly everyone made it back to the desk and Harry continued on with class.
***********
Kyle sat on the couch in Amanda and Harry's living room as Amanda got Aiden a glass of juice in his sippy cup. She walked back into the living room and gave the cup to Aiden who was playing with his blocks. Sitting down on the loveseat she looked over at Kyle and smiled.
"So he left me a message saying he called the bank and had my name taken off his account,"said Amanda.
"I still can't believe you're the one suggesting this,"said Kyle,"All the girls I know would shoot their husband in the head before they had their names taken off their bank accounts."
"Well I can't stand him badgering me,"said Amanda,"So it's a quick fix. Plus I took all my money out of the account."
"Oh so that's it,"said Kyle smiling,"Took the money and ran."
"It was my money and I left Harry a nice chunk,"said Amanda. Their conversation was cut short as the sound of the door opening was heard and they heard Harry groan as he walked in. Amanda leaned back on the loveseat and looked down the hallway.
"Hey honey,". Harry looked at her with little amusement in his eyes, biting her lip she thought he might be mad over her money transfer but he hadn't mentioned anything in his message.
"Baby what's up?"asked Amanda. Harry shook his head as he moped down the hall to the living room and flopped down on the loveseat next to Amanda. She looked over at him silently, confused by him.
"Daddy,"mumbled Aiden slowly pulling himself to his feet using the coffee table.
"Hey buddy come here,"said Harry reaching out and pulling his son into his lap.
"So how was your day?"asked Kyle.
"Only fine and dandy until my last period,"said Harry.
"Oh thank god,"sighed Amanda leaning back. Harry and Kyle looked at her now with confused expressions. Amanda smiled as she looked at them.
"I thought you were made because I transfered some money today,"said Amanda taking Aiden as he crawled from Harry to her.
"No, I knew about that when I called the bank,"said Harry shaking his head,"I just had a tought last block."
"Over what?"asked Amanda.
"Over you,"said Harry rolling his eyes.
"Me?"asked Amanda.
"Why?"asked Kyle.
"My class quite couldn't believe that I married Scott's daughter,"said Harry,"They wanted to know what zoo you were born in." Amanda smiled as she laughed slightly, Aiden fussy as he waved his cup at her. She took it from him and found it empty.
"Ya showed them a picture of her didn't ya?"asked Kyle.
"Yeah, shut em' up,"said Harry.
Ah, Harry was showing off his beautiful wife,"cooed Amanda as she stood up with Aiden and turned to set him back down on the couch next to Harry. She walked into the kitchen with Aiden's cup and put it in the sink. The phone started ringing as she walked out of the kitchen.
"Someone wanna grab that?"asked Amanda. Kyle leaned over and grabbed the cordless phone off the table. He tossed it to Amanda who answered it.
"Hello."
"Hi honey." Amanda smiled at the tone of her father's voice.
"Hey Dad,"said Amanda walking down the hall to her room for some privacy,"What's up?"
"Just calling to see how you are,"said Scott.
"I'm fine,"said Amanda,"How are you?"
"Fine,"said Scott,"How's Aiden?"
"Good, he's playing with Harry right now,"said Amanda flopping down on the bed.
"That's good," Amanda cocked an eyebrow as she heard something wrong with her father's tone,"Dad what's really up?"
"Uh, well this is hard to tell you,"said Scott softly,"It's about Cate."
"What?"asked Amanda sitting up.
"She's in the hospital,"said Scott,"Apparently she overdosed on medication, she was attempting suicide."
"That stupid old bitch,"muttered Amanda.
"AJ, she's at Boston General, her husband Gavin called me earlier,"said Scott,"If you want to go, I will go with you."
"I can't believe she'd pull that,"said Amanda.
"You don't have to go to the hospital if you don't want to,"said Scott.
"Oh you better believe I'm going,"said Amanda getting off the bed.
"Would you like me to go with you?"asked Scott.
"Well someone's gonna have to be with me for her sake, otherwise she won't have to worry about suicide I'll kill her,"said Amanda,"I'll meet you at the damn hospital."
"Okay,"said Scott not wanting to argue with his daughter of it. Amanda hung up the phone and threw it down on the bed. Angrily she stormed into her closet and got herself dressed to go out. She was mad over the fact her mother was solely doing this for attention, Amanda knew her and she knew well for a fact that as long as that woman could speak and make people's lives miserable she'd stay alive. Pulling on her jacket she walked out to the living room where Harry, Kyle and Aiden still were.
"I gotta go out,"said Amanda throwing her keys into her purse. Harry got up as the three of them looked at her. He followed her into the kitchen were she was getting her cell phone out of the charger. It was obvious that she was upset and over something about the phone call.
"Are you okay?"asked Harry.
"No, my fucking mother tried overdosing today,"said Amanda running her hand through her hair,"My dad and I are going to the hospital."
"Are you okay?"asked Harry. Amanda inhaled deeply and nodded, but it was clear she wasn't.
"Do you want me to go with you?"asked Harry,"Kyle can watch Aiden."
"No,"said Amanda shaking her head,"My dad will be there. But I won't be long."
"Okay, but if you need me call,"said Harry. Amanda nodded and put her cell phone in her purse. She quickly kissed Harry's cheek and headed to the door. Harry turned and watched as she left the apartment.
"Feeling better?"asked Harry.
"No,"said Amanda crossing her legs,"I didn't realize my husband just chalked me up to some over spending brat."
"I never said that,"said Harry.
"You imply it,"said Amanda.
"I just don't want to find out in a couple of months we're broke, that's all I'm not making anywhere near as much money as you were, hell I still don't,"said Harry,"And you're just getting royalities."
"Then take my name off your account,"said Amanda,"Do what you want with your paycheck."
"Seriously?"asked Harry.
"Do whatever you want as long as this fight ends,"said Amanda,"I don't need money from you, we'll just split the accounts, then if I go broke it'll be all my money I lost."
"And that'll be the end of it,"said Harry.
"Yeah, I don't know why you didn't think of this earlier,"said Amanda,"Have it all split, credit cards all of it, just give me the bills for this month and I'll pay them off."
"And you're okay, being taken off my bank account?"asked Harry.
"I suggested it didn't I?"asked Amanda,"Then when I blow three hundred on a maid you don't have to worry about it."
"I thought you'd be offended if I suggested something like that,"said Harry.
"Not in the least,"said Amanda,"Look I'll even tell ya what, you can have some of my mom's bonds when I get the inheritance, then you'll have security money or whatever."
"I'm okay,"said Harry.
"Okay your choice, but since I'm letting you do this, I don't ever, ever, ever want to hear again that I'm spending too much,"said Amanda.
"Agreed,"said Harry,"Are you going to have the maid come back?"
"Why?"asked Amanda raising an eyebrow.
"Well to be honest I wasn't looking too much foward to cleaning this place up,"said Harry.
"You stupid sonofabitch,"cursed Amanda as she playfully threw the VCR remote at him,"You give me all that shit and you didn't even want to do it in the first place." Harry laughed at her, she was so adorable to him when she was mad.
"Ya know you're beautiful when you're upset,"laughed Harry.
"Then I must be a goddamn goddess all the time at the rate you piss me off at,"said Amanda. Amanda shook her head in frustration as she got up and went into the kitchen. She opened the fridge and took a look inside to see what they had to drink.
"Aren't you tired?" Amanda felt Harry's arms wrap around her waist. She closed the fridge and turned in his arms to face him.
"Why?"asked Amanda smiling.
"Well ya know we could go to bed,"said Harry,"Make up for lost time from this morning."
"Oh really?"asked Amanda.
"Really,"said Harry before he pressed his lips to hers. Amanda gave into the kiss wrapping her arms around his neck. Slowly as they parted she allowed him to lead her to the bedroom, closing the door behind them.
******
Amanda sat in the bank the next morning waiting for the manager to become available. She had dropped Aiden off at a drop in day care centre Jessica had told her about. She felt Aiden needed to be around kids his own age and have some fun, she was sure it wasn' much fun for him to go everywhere boring with his mother.
"Ms.Senate, Mr.Fredricks will see you now,"said the secratary. Amanda nodded as she stood up and followed her down the hall of offices to the last one. Amanda walked into the average looking office and took a seat. Behind the desk sat an older man smiling warmly.
"Ms Senate," Amanda shook hands with the man.
"How may I help you today?"asked Eric Fredricks.
"I need to make a transfer of money, they refered me to you since it was such a large sum,"said Amanda, 'Harry wants his own account, well he's not going to get any of my money,' thought Amanda.
"Okay, how much are we talking about?"asked Eric.
"Seven figures,"said Amanda.
"That's quite a sum,"said Eric,"If you don't mind me asking why?"
"My husband wants to play the breadwinner of the household,"said Amanda.
"Okay, then may I have the original account number that the money is being taken out of,"said Eric. Amanda dug through her purse and pulled out a bank statement. Eric took the piece of paper and typed it into his computer.
"The new account number?"asked Eric.
"Sure,"said Amanda pulling out another statement,"The branch it's in is in Paris."
"No problem, do you have a card to access the account?"asked Eric.
"I do,"said Amanda nodding.
"How much would you like to transfer?"asked Eric.
"Um, leave five thousand in the account,"said Amanda,"Also I need payments that will be made to the original account rerouted to the new account."
"No problem Ms.Senate,"said Eric as he typed away at his computer. Amanda knew what she was doing was underhanded but Harry was going to learn his lesson about bitching at her.
"The payments you want changed, would they be the ones from Paris?"asked Eric.
"Yes they would,"said Amanda.
"Okay I'll get you to sign papers and fax them through to Paris,"said Eric,"Well Ms.Senate you are a smart woman, hitting a man in the wallet where it hurts."
"I'm not trying to hurt him just trying to cut out his bitching,"said Amanda,"Apparently I"m a woman who spends too much." Eric nodded in understandment. A half an hour later she was done with the paper work done Amanda left the bank.
********
Harry sat in his last class trying to calm down his class, they had just finished a fire drill and the choas just continued. Sighing Harry slammed a text book down on the desk which successfully grabbed the classes attention.
"Can we get back to our lesson?"asked Harry.
"Yeah you guys, calm down or he'll rat to Guber on us,"said one of his students,"we got screwed with his son-in-law."
"Hey Senate, you got a picture of Guber's daughter?"asked a male student, Darrell.
"Not for you guys,"said Harry not wanting to get back on to that subject.
"Yeah camera probably broke when he tried to get a picture,"laughed another student.
"I don't believe my wife was in today's lesson,"said Harry.
"Oh c'mon Mr.Senate, we all gotta know what the hell were you thinking marrying Guber's daughter?"asked Sasha, one of his female students,"Like we can only imagine what kinda cage ya had to get her out of it." The class continued laughing, Harry rolled his eyes and sat back in his chair and allowed them to keep laughing. As they calmmed down he sat up and pulled out the text book they were using.
"Well not that it's any of your business but my wife was a model when she left highschool,"said Harry.
"For what, before plastic surgery pictures?"blurted out Darrell.
"No, she was a fashion model in Paris,"said Harry,"And if anyone doubts me, next time your in Mr.Guber's office which I predict won't be too off in the future look for her picture on the desk."
"Can I go to Guber's?"asked Darrell.
"No, you're in class,"said Harry.
"Can I go to the bathroom?"asked Darrell.
"No, why is it so important to you guys what my wife looks like?"asked Harry.
"Well we look at Guber and we can only imagine what she spawned,"said Sasha,"C'mon you gotta have a picture."
"Yeah I need the crap scared out of me,"said Darrell.
"If I show you, will I ever hear another word about it?"asked Harry. Darrell and some of the other students shook their heads. Sighing Harry reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his wallet, flipping through his pictures he found the one of Aiden and Amanda. He pulled it out and walked around to the other side of the desk. Slowly the students came up and were silent as they looked at it.
"That's Amanda and my son,"said Harry.
"Damn, did Guber adopt her?"asked Darrell. Harry just laughed and shook his head.
"Told ya,"said Harry.
"Geesh man Winslow don't have girls like that anymore,"said Darrell.
"Yeah, how did you get back here if you were dating a student?"asked Sasha, this drew the attention of the students.
"I didn't date her as a student,"said Harry,"Now can we get back to class?" Slowly everyone made it back to the desk and Harry continued on with class.
***********
Kyle sat on the couch in Amanda and Harry's living room as Amanda got Aiden a glass of juice in his sippy cup. She walked back into the living room and gave the cup to Aiden who was playing with his blocks. Sitting down on the loveseat she looked over at Kyle and smiled.
"So he left me a message saying he called the bank and had my name taken off his account,"said Amanda.
"I still can't believe you're the one suggesting this,"said Kyle,"All the girls I know would shoot their husband in the head before they had their names taken off their bank accounts."
"Well I can't stand him badgering me,"said Amanda,"So it's a quick fix. Plus I took all my money out of the account."
"Oh so that's it,"said Kyle smiling,"Took the money and ran."
"It was my money and I left Harry a nice chunk,"said Amanda. Their conversation was cut short as the sound of the door opening was heard and they heard Harry groan as he walked in. Amanda leaned back on the loveseat and looked down the hallway.
"Hey honey,". Harry looked at her with little amusement in his eyes, biting her lip she thought he might be mad over her money transfer but he hadn't mentioned anything in his message.
"Baby what's up?"asked Amanda. Harry shook his head as he moped down the hall to the living room and flopped down on the loveseat next to Amanda. She looked over at him silently, confused by him.
"Daddy,"mumbled Aiden slowly pulling himself to his feet using the coffee table.
"Hey buddy come here,"said Harry reaching out and pulling his son into his lap.
"So how was your day?"asked Kyle.
"Only fine and dandy until my last period,"said Harry.
"Oh thank god,"sighed Amanda leaning back. Harry and Kyle looked at her now with confused expressions. Amanda smiled as she looked at them.
"I thought you were made because I transfered some money today,"said Amanda taking Aiden as he crawled from Harry to her.
"No, I knew about that when I called the bank,"said Harry shaking his head,"I just had a tought last block."
"Over what?"asked Amanda.
"Over you,"said Harry rolling his eyes.
"Me?"asked Amanda.
"Why?"asked Kyle.
"My class quite couldn't believe that I married Scott's daughter,"said Harry,"They wanted to know what zoo you were born in." Amanda smiled as she laughed slightly, Aiden fussy as he waved his cup at her. She took it from him and found it empty.
"Ya showed them a picture of her didn't ya?"asked Kyle.
"Yeah, shut em' up,"said Harry.
Ah, Harry was showing off his beautiful wife,"cooed Amanda as she stood up with Aiden and turned to set him back down on the couch next to Harry. She walked into the kitchen with Aiden's cup and put it in the sink. The phone started ringing as she walked out of the kitchen.
"Someone wanna grab that?"asked Amanda. Kyle leaned over and grabbed the cordless phone off the table. He tossed it to Amanda who answered it.
"Hello."
"Hi honey." Amanda smiled at the tone of her father's voice.
"Hey Dad,"said Amanda walking down the hall to her room for some privacy,"What's up?"
"Just calling to see how you are,"said Scott.
"I'm fine,"said Amanda,"How are you?"
"Fine,"said Scott,"How's Aiden?"
"Good, he's playing with Harry right now,"said Amanda flopping down on the bed.
"That's good," Amanda cocked an eyebrow as she heard something wrong with her father's tone,"Dad what's really up?"
"Uh, well this is hard to tell you,"said Scott softly,"It's about Cate."
"What?"asked Amanda sitting up.
"She's in the hospital,"said Scott,"Apparently she overdosed on medication, she was attempting suicide."
"That stupid old bitch,"muttered Amanda.
"AJ, she's at Boston General, her husband Gavin called me earlier,"said Scott,"If you want to go, I will go with you."
"I can't believe she'd pull that,"said Amanda.
"You don't have to go to the hospital if you don't want to,"said Scott.
"Oh you better believe I'm going,"said Amanda getting off the bed.
"Would you like me to go with you?"asked Scott.
"Well someone's gonna have to be with me for her sake, otherwise she won't have to worry about suicide I'll kill her,"said Amanda,"I'll meet you at the damn hospital."
"Okay,"said Scott not wanting to argue with his daughter of it. Amanda hung up the phone and threw it down on the bed. Angrily she stormed into her closet and got herself dressed to go out. She was mad over the fact her mother was solely doing this for attention, Amanda knew her and she knew well for a fact that as long as that woman could speak and make people's lives miserable she'd stay alive. Pulling on her jacket she walked out to the living room where Harry, Kyle and Aiden still were.
"I gotta go out,"said Amanda throwing her keys into her purse. Harry got up as the three of them looked at her. He followed her into the kitchen were she was getting her cell phone out of the charger. It was obvious that she was upset and over something about the phone call.
"Are you okay?"asked Harry.
"No, my fucking mother tried overdosing today,"said Amanda running her hand through her hair,"My dad and I are going to the hospital."
"Are you okay?"asked Harry. Amanda inhaled deeply and nodded, but it was clear she wasn't.
"Do you want me to go with you?"asked Harry,"Kyle can watch Aiden."
"No,"said Amanda shaking her head,"My dad will be there. But I won't be long."
"Okay, but if you need me call,"said Harry. Amanda nodded and put her cell phone in her purse. She quickly kissed Harry's cheek and headed to the door. Harry turned and watched as she left the apartment.