Hey! Hope you guys are liking the story...........sorry for taking so long
to update my fault completely I totally forgot I had finished chapters for
this story! Hey Kelly how are you? I missed the OC this week so I have no
idea what went on with Marissa and Ryan besides she went to Chino (I don't
know why, she could just went to some unused room at her mom's......I'm
sure they've got atleast a dozen they haven't even been in, it's a freaking
manison). So if you could update me, since I am giving you sorta what you
want (watch Kyle's change in attitude) well I'm tired so u guys get
reading
Justine
Monday morning Harry sat looking at his class, he hadn't seen or spoken to Amanda since she left the apartment. Kyle had tried tracking her down assuming she had gone to her dad's but Jessica was tight lipped and wouldn't give out any information, not even a phone number. Now he was dreding two things this morning, seeing Scott and Ronnie. Parts of him just wanted to wipe the smirk off of Ronnie's face but he felt it was just best to ignore her and forget she was even around, Scott on the other hand was another story. Scott was her father and a protective one at that, he was sure that Scott would know what happened by now and would has a few things to say about it. Though they weren't the first thing on his list of his concerns, his biggest concern was getting through the day without anyone serving him divorce papers.
Harry was jolted from his thoughts as he felt his cell phone in his pocket start vibrating, pulling it out he seen Kyle's number on the caller ID.
"I'll be back in a moment,"said Harry quickly as he left the classroom. He stood just outside the closed door and answered the phone.
"Hello."
"Hey man, I got a hold of her,"said Kyle,"And you owe me man, I spent close to an hour on the phone with the operator sweet talking her into looking up a private number."
"What did she say?"asked Harry.
"Well as I told ya you're gonna have to work your ass off this time,"said Kyle,"She's not a crying mess but she's not all happy smiles. She said she didn't want to talk about you."
"Maybe I should call her,"said Harry.
"Yeah no, I don't think so,"said Kyle,"She's mad at you no doubt about that, I believe in her words quoted hell would freeze over before she ever claimed to be your wife."
"Did she say anything about divorce papers?"asked Harry praying to god she was going to give herself time to clam down before she did anything drastic.
"Yeah, but she said she had some financial aspects to get in order first before she filed,"said Kyle,"Which means you might want to work fast because when a woman does financial aspects before a divorce she's usually looking into what you've got and hiding what she has so she can leave you penniless."
"I'm gonna go now,"said Harry,"Someone can take my classes."
"I wouldn't, Aiden is there and she won't do anything in front of him,"said Kyle.
"I gotta see her, when she's alone,"said Harry,"Get Leanne to pick Aide up."
"Thought of that and tried,"said Kyle,"She said no and chances are she won't, Harry she's a smart girl she's not going to give you any leverage. Chances are she doesn't want to risk you holding Aiden from her."
"I would never do that,"said Harry.
"Yeah but Harry as far as she's concerned she's going to protect what she's got from you,"said Kyle,"Look go on with your classes and I'll think of something, I'll call you later."
"Okay,"said Harry before hanging up, he couldn't get through his classes, not knowing Amanda was walking away from him without a second thought. Walking back into his class he looked around before going over to his desk.
"Class is dismissed,"said Harry. The class looked up at him confused as he announced once again that he was dimissing them. Without question the students quickly got up and left the room. Harry himself got ready and followed behind them out of the room. He went up to the office where Lousia was typing at her computer.
"Lousia, can get you get a hold of a sub to cover the rest of my classes?"asked harry quietly as she glanced over at Scott's closed door.
"It's a little late,"said Lousia.
"I've got to go,"said Harry.
"Why?"asked Lousia knowing vaugely the situation. She had seen Ronnie and Harry leave the party together and Scott had confided in her briefly that Ronnie and Harry had slept together, so if Amanda was to show up she was to see him right away.
"I'm not feeling well,"said Harry.
"You have to confirm it with Scott,"said Lousia.
"What? We've never had to before,"said Harry.
"Hey don't bark at me, I'm just saying that's what I've been told,"said Lousia. Harry sighed and walked out of the office. Lousia looked at him with little to no sympathy, he cheated on his wife and to her that was the lowest of the low. Not only had he embrassed her but he laid it on to Aiden and Scott.
*******
Amanda sat watching Aiden play with some brightly colored foam balls, Marty sat next to her. They were at a drop-in kinder gym that one of the other mothers from the daycare had told her about. Aiden needed to get out and play, she didn't want to stay in the house all day having him see her moping around and bursting out into tears every five minutes.
She had just finished relaying the whole story of her and Harry to Marty who sat almost stunned next to her. He had never in a million years thought Harry would be the one to cheat, he had also thought that if anyone in that relationship was gonna cheat it would be Amanda, not because she was a bitch but because she was younger and always had so much life in her, he couldn't see her tied down to married life, she was a devout and loving mother to no end but as a wife, he never seen her like that.
"What am I going to do?"sighed Amanda resting her chin on her knuckle.
"Divorce him,"said Marty simply. Amanda looked over at him with creased brows, sure she had told Kyle she was hell bent on a divorce but she wasn't sure she could do it, it was killing just to be away from Harry, divorcing him meant the end, no turning back.
"Look Aje, I love you to death, you know that and I hate to say it and I really do but he cheated, when you cut away all the bullshit it comes rawly down to the fact that he slept with Ronnie Cook in your bed, and being drunk is no excuse. If he couldn't handle his booze then he should've been drinking that much, mistakes happen but tripping and landing with your dick in some other woman is not a mistake,"said Marty,"And I'm not going to lie to you, it's gonna be the hardest thing you ever do, not only are you at stake but Aiden is to."
"He'll loose his father,"said Amanda softly.
"And if you stay with Harry he's going to loose his mother to heartbreak,"said Marty,"Can you honestly tell me that you can look at Harry again, touch him, go to bed with him in that bed and not feel any pain? If you don't leave him you're a complete idiot."
"It seems surreal ya know, like for five years this was coming and I seen it. Like it just came at me like a eighteen wheeler and it just kept coming and coming and I never stepped out of the way,"said Amanda,"Like that day when she found us in Harry's class I thought she had succeeded in her twist little games but like this teeny tiny little part of me said she wasn't done and she was going to get the job done, and she did."
"Fine then, let her have him,"said Marty,"This is what Ronnie wants, she wants you a basketcase, I'd put my last penny on it that she doesn't want a relationship with Harry. Ronnie wants you two back together so whenever she sees you she can walk around smuggly with her nose in the air, like some victory over you. So don't give it to her, Harry fucked up so push him out of the picture, he's got his own reasons to be taking a hike but Ronnie, don't give in to her, you never have." Amanda was silent as she watched Aiden, Marty was right if she was going to do this for anyone it had to be Aiden because she couldn't be a mother in this kind of state and she couldn't be a proper mother in the state she'd be in if she was with Harry. Inhailing deeply she looked over at Marty.
"Okay, we'll file papers as soon as I can pull myself together,"said Amanda,"I little bit of time to sort things out."
"Don't worry Aje, we'll get you through this,"said Marty wrapping his arm around her shoulders,"Remember , what doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
"I'm gonna be able to take on the fucking world when this is all over,"huffed Amanda.
******
Kyle sat on Harry's couch waiting for him to get home from work. Leanne was busy rushing around the apartment fixing things up, first thing on her list was to throw out the bedding from Harry's bed and replace it with the new stuff she had bought earlier for him. Kyle had tried getting a hold of Amanda again but got nothing besides an answering machine. After talking with his mother and thinking about it he had a nagging feeling that they were going to put in all the effort and strive for nothing, that maybe it was better to let them be and let Amanda leave Harry. He hadn't said anything to his mother because how was he going to back it up? He wasn't going to honestly say that he was sort of happy things were playing out the way they were, he never understood why Amanda stayed with Harry anyways, he held her down. He had remembered when he first met her and she was in highschool, at first he thought it was just going to be some stupid fling, it wouldn't make it to the end of that summer then he would swing by and take Harry's place. But now it was five years later and Amanda was twenty four and married with a child and her husband had just cheated on her. And against his own intution Kyle never went as far as to try and break the two of them up or act on his own feelings, Harry was his cousin and he respected that but on Saturday night when he seen Amanda sitting on the couch like someone had just cut her heart out and handed it to her, Kyle felt an almost uncontrollable feeling to beat Harry senseless. Not that he'd have too much sense to begin with, sleeping with Ronnie.
"Try and call her again,"Kyle was broken from his thoughts as Leanne stood over him with the phone in her hand. Kyle nodded and took the phone from her and dialed in Scott's phone number as he left the living room and wandered out onto the balcony for privacy. After a few rings a male voice answered.
"Hello."
"Hi, um is AJ there?"
"Who's this?" Kyle assumed it was Scott.
"Kyle,"
"Hold on a moment," Kyle heard some shuffling and a muffled voice finally Amanda's voice flooded his ear.
"Kyle we already talked,"sighed Amanda.
"I know, I know,"said Kyle,"I uh, I don't want to talk about what we talked about before."
"Okay,"said Amanda.
"How are you doing?"asked Kyle.
"Good,"said Amanda.
"How's Aide?"
"He's taking a nap right now, he spent the afternoon at the gym,"said Amanda.
"That's good, I noticed he left one of his elmos at home. I was thinking maybe I could drop it off tomorrow for him,"said Kyle.
"Kyle, please don't try this. I don't want to drag more people into this mess, please don't try to help Harry like this,"said Amanda.
"It's not for him. Look I thought about it today and you're right, you don't need me trying to meddle in this, if you don't want to be with Harry then by all means as your friend I support your decision,"said Kyle,"But then I thought we weren't gonna talk about this, so tomorrow is it okay?"
"Um, yeah, well, yeah tomorrow is okay,"said Amanda softly.
"You do remember we are friends right?"asked Kyle.
"Yeah,"said Amanda,"Sorry I just, I had a really emotionally straining day."
"Care to talk about it?"asked Kyle.
"No, no, we can talk tomorrow,"said Amanda,"Today, I've done enough talking today."
"No problem, so I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow,"said Amanda before hanging up the phone.
*******
Kyle sat on the patio looking at the cordless phone in his hand, looking up and into the apartment he seen Harry was home and Leanne was starting her pampering and mothering on her heartbroken nephew. Rolling his eyes he stood up and stared at his cousin and mother, he couldn't help but feel a bit angered by it all. Harry had been the one who had done wrong and people were giving sympathy to him, not saying that he wasn't guilty of it either but that was before he heard Amanda breaking down on the phone earlier and having the day to think about it. Sighing Kyle pulled open the balcony door and walked in to be met by two sets of questioning eyes.
"Did you talk to her?"asked Leanne.
"Um yeah,"said Kyle.
"Well c'mon what did she say?"pressed Leanne. Kyle looked over at Harry and seen the suspense that was slathered over top of the grief that encased Harry.
"She um, well she's calmmed down and she uh, well she sounds like she still loves you,"lied Kyle,"But she didn't want to talk about it." Harry slumped over to the couch and took a seat on it.
"Harry that's a good sign,"said Leanne,"She still loves you."
"Did she say anything else?"asked Harry.
"Kyle maybe you could get together with her and talk to her,"said Leanne.
"She said she didn't want to see me,"said Kyle quickly as he walked into the kitchen,"Which makes sense, Harry and I being family." He could hear Leanne mumbling as Kyle grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge. Silently he sighed and leaned against the counter listening to Leanne cooed over Harry.
Justine
Monday morning Harry sat looking at his class, he hadn't seen or spoken to Amanda since she left the apartment. Kyle had tried tracking her down assuming she had gone to her dad's but Jessica was tight lipped and wouldn't give out any information, not even a phone number. Now he was dreding two things this morning, seeing Scott and Ronnie. Parts of him just wanted to wipe the smirk off of Ronnie's face but he felt it was just best to ignore her and forget she was even around, Scott on the other hand was another story. Scott was her father and a protective one at that, he was sure that Scott would know what happened by now and would has a few things to say about it. Though they weren't the first thing on his list of his concerns, his biggest concern was getting through the day without anyone serving him divorce papers.
Harry was jolted from his thoughts as he felt his cell phone in his pocket start vibrating, pulling it out he seen Kyle's number on the caller ID.
"I'll be back in a moment,"said Harry quickly as he left the classroom. He stood just outside the closed door and answered the phone.
"Hello."
"Hey man, I got a hold of her,"said Kyle,"And you owe me man, I spent close to an hour on the phone with the operator sweet talking her into looking up a private number."
"What did she say?"asked Harry.
"Well as I told ya you're gonna have to work your ass off this time,"said Kyle,"She's not a crying mess but she's not all happy smiles. She said she didn't want to talk about you."
"Maybe I should call her,"said Harry.
"Yeah no, I don't think so,"said Kyle,"She's mad at you no doubt about that, I believe in her words quoted hell would freeze over before she ever claimed to be your wife."
"Did she say anything about divorce papers?"asked Harry praying to god she was going to give herself time to clam down before she did anything drastic.
"Yeah, but she said she had some financial aspects to get in order first before she filed,"said Kyle,"Which means you might want to work fast because when a woman does financial aspects before a divorce she's usually looking into what you've got and hiding what she has so she can leave you penniless."
"I'm gonna go now,"said Harry,"Someone can take my classes."
"I wouldn't, Aiden is there and she won't do anything in front of him,"said Kyle.
"I gotta see her, when she's alone,"said Harry,"Get Leanne to pick Aide up."
"Thought of that and tried,"said Kyle,"She said no and chances are she won't, Harry she's a smart girl she's not going to give you any leverage. Chances are she doesn't want to risk you holding Aiden from her."
"I would never do that,"said Harry.
"Yeah but Harry as far as she's concerned she's going to protect what she's got from you,"said Kyle,"Look go on with your classes and I'll think of something, I'll call you later."
"Okay,"said Harry before hanging up, he couldn't get through his classes, not knowing Amanda was walking away from him without a second thought. Walking back into his class he looked around before going over to his desk.
"Class is dismissed,"said Harry. The class looked up at him confused as he announced once again that he was dimissing them. Without question the students quickly got up and left the room. Harry himself got ready and followed behind them out of the room. He went up to the office where Lousia was typing at her computer.
"Lousia, can get you get a hold of a sub to cover the rest of my classes?"asked harry quietly as she glanced over at Scott's closed door.
"It's a little late,"said Lousia.
"I've got to go,"said Harry.
"Why?"asked Lousia knowing vaugely the situation. She had seen Ronnie and Harry leave the party together and Scott had confided in her briefly that Ronnie and Harry had slept together, so if Amanda was to show up she was to see him right away.
"I'm not feeling well,"said Harry.
"You have to confirm it with Scott,"said Lousia.
"What? We've never had to before,"said Harry.
"Hey don't bark at me, I'm just saying that's what I've been told,"said Lousia. Harry sighed and walked out of the office. Lousia looked at him with little to no sympathy, he cheated on his wife and to her that was the lowest of the low. Not only had he embrassed her but he laid it on to Aiden and Scott.
*******
Amanda sat watching Aiden play with some brightly colored foam balls, Marty sat next to her. They were at a drop-in kinder gym that one of the other mothers from the daycare had told her about. Aiden needed to get out and play, she didn't want to stay in the house all day having him see her moping around and bursting out into tears every five minutes.
She had just finished relaying the whole story of her and Harry to Marty who sat almost stunned next to her. He had never in a million years thought Harry would be the one to cheat, he had also thought that if anyone in that relationship was gonna cheat it would be Amanda, not because she was a bitch but because she was younger and always had so much life in her, he couldn't see her tied down to married life, she was a devout and loving mother to no end but as a wife, he never seen her like that.
"What am I going to do?"sighed Amanda resting her chin on her knuckle.
"Divorce him,"said Marty simply. Amanda looked over at him with creased brows, sure she had told Kyle she was hell bent on a divorce but she wasn't sure she could do it, it was killing just to be away from Harry, divorcing him meant the end, no turning back.
"Look Aje, I love you to death, you know that and I hate to say it and I really do but he cheated, when you cut away all the bullshit it comes rawly down to the fact that he slept with Ronnie Cook in your bed, and being drunk is no excuse. If he couldn't handle his booze then he should've been drinking that much, mistakes happen but tripping and landing with your dick in some other woman is not a mistake,"said Marty,"And I'm not going to lie to you, it's gonna be the hardest thing you ever do, not only are you at stake but Aiden is to."
"He'll loose his father,"said Amanda softly.
"And if you stay with Harry he's going to loose his mother to heartbreak,"said Marty,"Can you honestly tell me that you can look at Harry again, touch him, go to bed with him in that bed and not feel any pain? If you don't leave him you're a complete idiot."
"It seems surreal ya know, like for five years this was coming and I seen it. Like it just came at me like a eighteen wheeler and it just kept coming and coming and I never stepped out of the way,"said Amanda,"Like that day when she found us in Harry's class I thought she had succeeded in her twist little games but like this teeny tiny little part of me said she wasn't done and she was going to get the job done, and she did."
"Fine then, let her have him,"said Marty,"This is what Ronnie wants, she wants you a basketcase, I'd put my last penny on it that she doesn't want a relationship with Harry. Ronnie wants you two back together so whenever she sees you she can walk around smuggly with her nose in the air, like some victory over you. So don't give it to her, Harry fucked up so push him out of the picture, he's got his own reasons to be taking a hike but Ronnie, don't give in to her, you never have." Amanda was silent as she watched Aiden, Marty was right if she was going to do this for anyone it had to be Aiden because she couldn't be a mother in this kind of state and she couldn't be a proper mother in the state she'd be in if she was with Harry. Inhailing deeply she looked over at Marty.
"Okay, we'll file papers as soon as I can pull myself together,"said Amanda,"I little bit of time to sort things out."
"Don't worry Aje, we'll get you through this,"said Marty wrapping his arm around her shoulders,"Remember , what doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
"I'm gonna be able to take on the fucking world when this is all over,"huffed Amanda.
******
Kyle sat on Harry's couch waiting for him to get home from work. Leanne was busy rushing around the apartment fixing things up, first thing on her list was to throw out the bedding from Harry's bed and replace it with the new stuff she had bought earlier for him. Kyle had tried getting a hold of Amanda again but got nothing besides an answering machine. After talking with his mother and thinking about it he had a nagging feeling that they were going to put in all the effort and strive for nothing, that maybe it was better to let them be and let Amanda leave Harry. He hadn't said anything to his mother because how was he going to back it up? He wasn't going to honestly say that he was sort of happy things were playing out the way they were, he never understood why Amanda stayed with Harry anyways, he held her down. He had remembered when he first met her and she was in highschool, at first he thought it was just going to be some stupid fling, it wouldn't make it to the end of that summer then he would swing by and take Harry's place. But now it was five years later and Amanda was twenty four and married with a child and her husband had just cheated on her. And against his own intution Kyle never went as far as to try and break the two of them up or act on his own feelings, Harry was his cousin and he respected that but on Saturday night when he seen Amanda sitting on the couch like someone had just cut her heart out and handed it to her, Kyle felt an almost uncontrollable feeling to beat Harry senseless. Not that he'd have too much sense to begin with, sleeping with Ronnie.
"Try and call her again,"Kyle was broken from his thoughts as Leanne stood over him with the phone in her hand. Kyle nodded and took the phone from her and dialed in Scott's phone number as he left the living room and wandered out onto the balcony for privacy. After a few rings a male voice answered.
"Hello."
"Hi, um is AJ there?"
"Who's this?" Kyle assumed it was Scott.
"Kyle,"
"Hold on a moment," Kyle heard some shuffling and a muffled voice finally Amanda's voice flooded his ear.
"Kyle we already talked,"sighed Amanda.
"I know, I know,"said Kyle,"I uh, I don't want to talk about what we talked about before."
"Okay,"said Amanda.
"How are you doing?"asked Kyle.
"Good,"said Amanda.
"How's Aide?"
"He's taking a nap right now, he spent the afternoon at the gym,"said Amanda.
"That's good, I noticed he left one of his elmos at home. I was thinking maybe I could drop it off tomorrow for him,"said Kyle.
"Kyle, please don't try this. I don't want to drag more people into this mess, please don't try to help Harry like this,"said Amanda.
"It's not for him. Look I thought about it today and you're right, you don't need me trying to meddle in this, if you don't want to be with Harry then by all means as your friend I support your decision,"said Kyle,"But then I thought we weren't gonna talk about this, so tomorrow is it okay?"
"Um, yeah, well, yeah tomorrow is okay,"said Amanda softly.
"You do remember we are friends right?"asked Kyle.
"Yeah,"said Amanda,"Sorry I just, I had a really emotionally straining day."
"Care to talk about it?"asked Kyle.
"No, no, we can talk tomorrow,"said Amanda,"Today, I've done enough talking today."
"No problem, so I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow,"said Amanda before hanging up the phone.
*******
Kyle sat on the patio looking at the cordless phone in his hand, looking up and into the apartment he seen Harry was home and Leanne was starting her pampering and mothering on her heartbroken nephew. Rolling his eyes he stood up and stared at his cousin and mother, he couldn't help but feel a bit angered by it all. Harry had been the one who had done wrong and people were giving sympathy to him, not saying that he wasn't guilty of it either but that was before he heard Amanda breaking down on the phone earlier and having the day to think about it. Sighing Kyle pulled open the balcony door and walked in to be met by two sets of questioning eyes.
"Did you talk to her?"asked Leanne.
"Um yeah,"said Kyle.
"Well c'mon what did she say?"pressed Leanne. Kyle looked over at Harry and seen the suspense that was slathered over top of the grief that encased Harry.
"She um, well she's calmmed down and she uh, well she sounds like she still loves you,"lied Kyle,"But she didn't want to talk about it." Harry slumped over to the couch and took a seat on it.
"Harry that's a good sign,"said Leanne,"She still loves you."
"Did she say anything else?"asked Harry.
"Kyle maybe you could get together with her and talk to her,"said Leanne.
"She said she didn't want to see me,"said Kyle quickly as he walked into the kitchen,"Which makes sense, Harry and I being family." He could hear Leanne mumbling as Kyle grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge. Silently he sighed and leaned against the counter listening to Leanne cooed over Harry.