Teresa woke up early the next morning expecting to wake up beside Matt, but he was no where. Teresa threw on her robe and walked around the house and yard looking for him. But still there was no sign of him.
"That's strange." Teresa told herself. "Why would Matt leave without telling me is was going out?"
Teresa went back inside and saw that Maria was now sitting in the kitchen reading a news paper. She thought maybe she knew where Matt was.
"Aunt Maria, have you seen Matt?" She inquired.
"Good morning, Teresa!" She smiled. "I just woke up a little while ago and when I was watching TV. in the front room I didn't see him at all. Why he's not here?"
"N...no, he's not. I just find it strange that he wouldn't leave me a note or anything to tell me where he was going."
"Well, maybe he went out to get you something as a surprise since you two are newly weds." She suggested.
"Perhaps, but this just doesn't seem like Matt." Teresa couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right.
"Don't worry, Dear, I'm sure he's fine." Aunt Maria tried to comfort her.
"You're probably right. I'm going to go take a shower if Matt calls or comes home tell him I'm looking for him."
"Okay." Aunt Maria smiled.
Once Teresa left the room Maria said to herself, "I hope to God Matt has changed for the better and Pilar is wrong."
After a nice long shower, Teresa got dressed and expected Matt t be home by now, but when she went in the kitchen she sat down next to Aunt Maria. She didn't ask Aunt Maria if he was back because Teresa could see in Aunt Maria's eyes that she was believing that perhaps Matt wasn't a changed man. Maybe he was just lying to Teresa again.
"I wonder where he is." Teresa worried out of her mind said to Aunt Maria. "Do you think something may have happened to him?"
Aunt Maria sat still. She didn't want to tell Teresa what she really thought, but Teresa already knew.
"You think he's lying to me again. Don't you?"
"Teresa," Aunt Maria spoke softly.
"No! Don't say it!" Teresa interrupted her. "I just know he wouldn't do something like that again to me."
"Why don't you call the local hospitals and see if he's there." Aunt Maria suggested.
"Yeah, I guess that's a start." Teresa said.
Teresa called the hospitals, but he wasn't at any of them. Teresa was beginning to lose faith in him when suddenly he walked in through the door holding a dozen of red roses.
"Where were you!?" Teresa demanded knowing the truth.
"Let me explain." He said coolly as he handed her the roses.
Teresa took the roses, but whipped them against the wall. Aunt Maria knew that this wasn't her place so she went for a walk around the park nearby.
"Teresa, I brought those for you." He acted hurt, but Teresa could just look in his eyes and see it didn't matter much.
"I don't want flowers!" She screamed.
"Then what do you want?" He stayed calm.
"An explanation! Where the hell have you been!? I've called hospitals, the police, everywhere! And no one has seen you!"
"Teresa, calm down and I'll tell you."
"Just tell me now!" She would not calm down until she heard what he had to say for himself.
"Okay, okay!" He sat down and began, "I wanted it to be a surprise."
"Oh You've surprised me enough today!" She interrupted him.
"Can I please explain to you without you interrupting me?"
"Go ahead, be my guest." She responded sarcastically.
"Like I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," He began again. Teresa took what he said as an insult. She was going to yell at him for it, but she decided to let it be for now. "the reason why I left this morning without telling you or Aunt Maria was because I wanted to surprise you with something I know you'd love to have." He paused to look into Teresa's fiery brown eyes. "I bought us a house." He smiled impishly.
Teresa's angered look on her face faded into a shocked _expression. When she smiled, the tears began to fall.
"Oh Matt! I'm so sorry I ever doubted you!" She jumped up to hug him.
"It's okay. You had reason to worry."
She kissed his cheek as she said, "Oh I do love you, Matt! Ever so much!"
"I love you too, Resa!"
"No one has ever called me that." She pulled away from him and smiled.
Except Ethan. She thought.
"Don't you like it?"
"Oh yes! I'm your Resa for life." She said excitedly.
"Well, I'm going to go take a quick shower before I go to sleep," he informed her.
"Okay. When your done can you tell me more about our new home?"
"Of course."
Teresa got off of him so he could go and take his shower. But before he left he took Teresa's face in his soft hands and kissed her gently.
"I'll never give you up." He told her.
Teresa laid in her bed waiting for Matt to come out of the bathroom. She wanted to rest her eyes for a little bit so she closed them, but told herself she wasn't going to fall asleep. As she laid there she did drift off to dreamland.
"Teresa? Teresa?" A man spoke to her trying to wake her up.
Teresa opened her eyes to see Ethan standing before her.
"Ethan, what are you doing here? How did you find me?"
"Teresa, I love you, not Gwen. Please, I want to be with you so much."
"Ethan, you're getting married in two days." She said not having forgotten about the wedding.
"I told Gwen I didn't love her. I told her there could only be one woman in my heart."
"Whose that?" Teresa asked stupidly.
"You, dear."
"Oh Ethan!" She jumped into his arms.
He embraced her with sweet kisses along her sensual neck. Ethan wanted Teresa right then and there and Teresa wanted him just as badly. Since she first met him she always fantasized what it would be like to make love to Ethan. Teresa pulled away from his kiss and pushed him on the bed. Ethan liked how dominate Teresa was. She got on top of him and ripped his shirt off. She looked at his beautiful chest. It was just how she had imagined it, if not better. Ethan pulled Teresa closer and gently pulled her shirt off her head. Teresa pulled Ethan close to her by his neck tie she had left on him. She grabbed a can of whipped cream and a bowel of cherries from the table beside her bed. She sprayed the whip cream from the top to the bottom of his chest, placing a cherry every now and then. She placed her tongue against his upper chest and Ethan moaned. Teresa definitely knew how to use her tongue. Teresa unzipped his pants and helped him out of them. But now it was her turn to be made into Ethan's dessert. While Ethan licked the whip cream off of Teresa's body Matt walked out of the bathroom.
"What the hell is going on here!?" He asked.
"What the hell is going on here!?" He asked as he tapped Teresa's shoulder.
"Huh? What?" She asked tiredly as she awoke from a nap she didn't want to have.
"Teresa, whose Ethan?"
"Huh? How did you find out about Ethan?"
"Teresa, you were saying, 'Oh Ethan I love you!'" Matt informed her.
"I did?" She acted surprised.
"Yeah, you did. Whose Ethan?"
Ethan got on the Crane jet in the afternoon and headed for North Carolina. By 7 p.m. that night he arrived at the house which Pilar gave him the address. A older, fair skinned, Mexican woman was sitting outside on the front porch just sitting back and enjoying the fresh air. Ethan thought that she must be Aunt Maria.
"Are you Aunt Maria?" he asked.
"I am. And who might you be?" She asked.
"I'm a friend of your sister, Pilar, and of Teresa. Is she in now?" He asked politely.
"She is, but she's had a rather difficult day." Aunt Maria informed him.
"Well, is she alright?" He asked only as a concerned friend.
"Now she is."
Ethan looked at his shoes, he didn't know what to say now.
"You can go in and see if she would like to see you." Aunt Maria said kindly. She had heard about this young man from Pilar before Teresa had come. She could tell he still had feeling for her and he hoped her was her to take Teresa away with him.
Ethan lifted his head, "Thank you, ma'ma."
Ethan stepped inside the house rather quietly. He wanted to surprise Teresa. He looked in the kitchen and front room, but she wasn't there. Finally he heard her voice. She was laughing. He peeked in a door that led to where she was. That's when he got his first glimpse of Matt. Ethan thought he led the competition between him and Matt by far. Matt jumped next to Teresa and wrapped his muscular arms around her waist tightly. He kissed her cheek gently and she sighed a breath of relief and contentment. Ethan didn't want to disturb them just then. He walked away closing the door gently. But as he walked away he tripped over his foot and caused a big bang.
Teresa, Matt, and Aunt Maria ran in to see what it was. Matt and Teresa thought Aunt Maria had hurt herself, but Aunt Maria thought Ethan and Matt were going at it. Fighting over Teresa.
How romantic Aunt Maria thought as she ran inside.
"Ethan?" Teresa out of shock. Never did she expect to see him there.
"Ethan? This is Ethan?" Matt asked.
"What happened?" Aunt Maria asked half out of breath.
"Nothing," Teresa said absently.
Aunt Maria excused herself out of the room and went back out on the porch. Teresa helped Ethan up and Matt helped him over to the couch. Teresa just stared at Ethan in amazement and Matt just stood looking at Teresa's reaction.
"Ethan, what are you doing here?" She asked.
"I had to see you."
"That's not the only reason." She said. "Did mama send you here? If she did I want you to know that I'm a big girl and I can take care of myself."
Matt cleared his throat and Teresa remembered that he was lost in all of this.
"Oh Matt, this is Ethan."
Ethan held out his hand and Matt took it out of kindness, after all he didn't really know the guy so how could he hold a grudge against him?
"It's nice to meet you." Ethan said.
"Same here." Matt plastered a fake smile on.
"Teresa, I came to see if I could bring you back to Harmony." Ethan said honestly.
"Well," began Matt, "My wife and I are perfectly content in living in North Carolina." he finished by holding Teresa's hand in Ethan's face.
Ethan knew that Matt wasn't happy about Ethan being there. Teresa's wedding ring wasn't that special. She deserved more than that and Ethan was the one who could give it to her.
"Ethan, Matt and I love each other. We want to spend our lives together here in N.C. Can't you understand that?"
"I suppose so." He lied. "Ouch!" he cried out in pain as Teresa looked over his ankle.
"I think it may be broken." She turned and said to Matt. "Matt, darling, can you please go and call the doctor for us. The number is on the refrigerator. Oh and get some ice so the swelling can stay down."
"Okay," he said before leaving.
Now that Teresa and Ethan were alone Ethan thought this was the best chance to try to persuade Teresa to come back home.
"Teresa, please your mother is very sorry. She just wants you to be home again. She really misses you. And so does Whitney."
"Whitney?" Teresa remembered her best friend.
"She does miss you terribly." He informed her.
"But if I come back mama and Luis won't let me stay marry to Matt. They'll do whatever they can to keep us apart."
"Teresa, you belong with your family. You're not ready to start your own family."
"Maybe I should go back home."
"Teresa, you want to leave me?" Matt asked as he returned with the ice.
Back in Harmony.
"Mother, have you seen Ethan?" Gwen asked.
"No, Gwennie. I haven't seen him all day. Why?"
"Well, I just want to spend all the time together we can before we get married."
"Oh well go ask Ivy if she's seen him."
Gwen went and found Ivy in her room looking over some last minute things for the wedding.
"Oh Gwen!" She said as Gwen walked in. "What can I do for you?"
"Have you seen Ethan?"
"Ethan? No, why?"
"I'm just looking for him. I haven't seen him all day. I'm just worried about him."
"Go ask Pilar if she's seen him. I'm sure she has. Her and Ethan have gotten to be good friends."
"Yeah. Thanks." A worried Gwen said.
Gwen found Pilar in the kitchen.
"Hello Gwen!" Pilar said trying to sound cheerfully.
"Pilar, have you seen Ethan at all today?"
"I have indeed."
"Great. Can you tell me where he is?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because I promised Ethan I wouldn't tell anyone."
"Please Pilar it's important I find him."
"Well, alright. Ethan is in North Carolina trying to find Teresa."
"Teresa? Why?"
"Because he's trying to bring her back home for me."
"Did he volunteer to go?" Gwen asked suspiciously.
"Yes." Pilar said frankly.
"How could he do that two days before our wedding!?" Gwen shouted. "Ugh! He's fallen for your daughter! I just know it!" Gwen stammered out of the room.
Spoilers*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Gwen goes to North Carolina to find Ethan and Teresa!
Does Teresa go back home with Ethan?
Someone breaks up! Who will it be?
Much feedback is appreciated!!!
~Mandi~
"That's strange." Teresa told herself. "Why would Matt leave without telling me is was going out?"
Teresa went back inside and saw that Maria was now sitting in the kitchen reading a news paper. She thought maybe she knew where Matt was.
"Aunt Maria, have you seen Matt?" She inquired.
"Good morning, Teresa!" She smiled. "I just woke up a little while ago and when I was watching TV. in the front room I didn't see him at all. Why he's not here?"
"N...no, he's not. I just find it strange that he wouldn't leave me a note or anything to tell me where he was going."
"Well, maybe he went out to get you something as a surprise since you two are newly weds." She suggested.
"Perhaps, but this just doesn't seem like Matt." Teresa couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right.
"Don't worry, Dear, I'm sure he's fine." Aunt Maria tried to comfort her.
"You're probably right. I'm going to go take a shower if Matt calls or comes home tell him I'm looking for him."
"Okay." Aunt Maria smiled.
Once Teresa left the room Maria said to herself, "I hope to God Matt has changed for the better and Pilar is wrong."
After a nice long shower, Teresa got dressed and expected Matt t be home by now, but when she went in the kitchen she sat down next to Aunt Maria. She didn't ask Aunt Maria if he was back because Teresa could see in Aunt Maria's eyes that she was believing that perhaps Matt wasn't a changed man. Maybe he was just lying to Teresa again.
"I wonder where he is." Teresa worried out of her mind said to Aunt Maria. "Do you think something may have happened to him?"
Aunt Maria sat still. She didn't want to tell Teresa what she really thought, but Teresa already knew.
"You think he's lying to me again. Don't you?"
"Teresa," Aunt Maria spoke softly.
"No! Don't say it!" Teresa interrupted her. "I just know he wouldn't do something like that again to me."
"Why don't you call the local hospitals and see if he's there." Aunt Maria suggested.
"Yeah, I guess that's a start." Teresa said.
Teresa called the hospitals, but he wasn't at any of them. Teresa was beginning to lose faith in him when suddenly he walked in through the door holding a dozen of red roses.
"Where were you!?" Teresa demanded knowing the truth.
"Let me explain." He said coolly as he handed her the roses.
Teresa took the roses, but whipped them against the wall. Aunt Maria knew that this wasn't her place so she went for a walk around the park nearby.
"Teresa, I brought those for you." He acted hurt, but Teresa could just look in his eyes and see it didn't matter much.
"I don't want flowers!" She screamed.
"Then what do you want?" He stayed calm.
"An explanation! Where the hell have you been!? I've called hospitals, the police, everywhere! And no one has seen you!"
"Teresa, calm down and I'll tell you."
"Just tell me now!" She would not calm down until she heard what he had to say for himself.
"Okay, okay!" He sat down and began, "I wanted it to be a surprise."
"Oh You've surprised me enough today!" She interrupted him.
"Can I please explain to you without you interrupting me?"
"Go ahead, be my guest." She responded sarcastically.
"Like I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," He began again. Teresa took what he said as an insult. She was going to yell at him for it, but she decided to let it be for now. "the reason why I left this morning without telling you or Aunt Maria was because I wanted to surprise you with something I know you'd love to have." He paused to look into Teresa's fiery brown eyes. "I bought us a house." He smiled impishly.
Teresa's angered look on her face faded into a shocked _expression. When she smiled, the tears began to fall.
"Oh Matt! I'm so sorry I ever doubted you!" She jumped up to hug him.
"It's okay. You had reason to worry."
She kissed his cheek as she said, "Oh I do love you, Matt! Ever so much!"
"I love you too, Resa!"
"No one has ever called me that." She pulled away from him and smiled.
Except Ethan. She thought.
"Don't you like it?"
"Oh yes! I'm your Resa for life." She said excitedly.
"Well, I'm going to go take a quick shower before I go to sleep," he informed her.
"Okay. When your done can you tell me more about our new home?"
"Of course."
Teresa got off of him so he could go and take his shower. But before he left he took Teresa's face in his soft hands and kissed her gently.
"I'll never give you up." He told her.
Teresa laid in her bed waiting for Matt to come out of the bathroom. She wanted to rest her eyes for a little bit so she closed them, but told herself she wasn't going to fall asleep. As she laid there she did drift off to dreamland.
"Teresa? Teresa?" A man spoke to her trying to wake her up.
Teresa opened her eyes to see Ethan standing before her.
"Ethan, what are you doing here? How did you find me?"
"Teresa, I love you, not Gwen. Please, I want to be with you so much."
"Ethan, you're getting married in two days." She said not having forgotten about the wedding.
"I told Gwen I didn't love her. I told her there could only be one woman in my heart."
"Whose that?" Teresa asked stupidly.
"You, dear."
"Oh Ethan!" She jumped into his arms.
He embraced her with sweet kisses along her sensual neck. Ethan wanted Teresa right then and there and Teresa wanted him just as badly. Since she first met him she always fantasized what it would be like to make love to Ethan. Teresa pulled away from his kiss and pushed him on the bed. Ethan liked how dominate Teresa was. She got on top of him and ripped his shirt off. She looked at his beautiful chest. It was just how she had imagined it, if not better. Ethan pulled Teresa closer and gently pulled her shirt off her head. Teresa pulled Ethan close to her by his neck tie she had left on him. She grabbed a can of whipped cream and a bowel of cherries from the table beside her bed. She sprayed the whip cream from the top to the bottom of his chest, placing a cherry every now and then. She placed her tongue against his upper chest and Ethan moaned. Teresa definitely knew how to use her tongue. Teresa unzipped his pants and helped him out of them. But now it was her turn to be made into Ethan's dessert. While Ethan licked the whip cream off of Teresa's body Matt walked out of the bathroom.
"What the hell is going on here!?" He asked.
"What the hell is going on here!?" He asked as he tapped Teresa's shoulder.
"Huh? What?" She asked tiredly as she awoke from a nap she didn't want to have.
"Teresa, whose Ethan?"
"Huh? How did you find out about Ethan?"
"Teresa, you were saying, 'Oh Ethan I love you!'" Matt informed her.
"I did?" She acted surprised.
"Yeah, you did. Whose Ethan?"
Ethan got on the Crane jet in the afternoon and headed for North Carolina. By 7 p.m. that night he arrived at the house which Pilar gave him the address. A older, fair skinned, Mexican woman was sitting outside on the front porch just sitting back and enjoying the fresh air. Ethan thought that she must be Aunt Maria.
"Are you Aunt Maria?" he asked.
"I am. And who might you be?" She asked.
"I'm a friend of your sister, Pilar, and of Teresa. Is she in now?" He asked politely.
"She is, but she's had a rather difficult day." Aunt Maria informed him.
"Well, is she alright?" He asked only as a concerned friend.
"Now she is."
Ethan looked at his shoes, he didn't know what to say now.
"You can go in and see if she would like to see you." Aunt Maria said kindly. She had heard about this young man from Pilar before Teresa had come. She could tell he still had feeling for her and he hoped her was her to take Teresa away with him.
Ethan lifted his head, "Thank you, ma'ma."
Ethan stepped inside the house rather quietly. He wanted to surprise Teresa. He looked in the kitchen and front room, but she wasn't there. Finally he heard her voice. She was laughing. He peeked in a door that led to where she was. That's when he got his first glimpse of Matt. Ethan thought he led the competition between him and Matt by far. Matt jumped next to Teresa and wrapped his muscular arms around her waist tightly. He kissed her cheek gently and she sighed a breath of relief and contentment. Ethan didn't want to disturb them just then. He walked away closing the door gently. But as he walked away he tripped over his foot and caused a big bang.
Teresa, Matt, and Aunt Maria ran in to see what it was. Matt and Teresa thought Aunt Maria had hurt herself, but Aunt Maria thought Ethan and Matt were going at it. Fighting over Teresa.
How romantic Aunt Maria thought as she ran inside.
"Ethan?" Teresa out of shock. Never did she expect to see him there.
"Ethan? This is Ethan?" Matt asked.
"What happened?" Aunt Maria asked half out of breath.
"Nothing," Teresa said absently.
Aunt Maria excused herself out of the room and went back out on the porch. Teresa helped Ethan up and Matt helped him over to the couch. Teresa just stared at Ethan in amazement and Matt just stood looking at Teresa's reaction.
"Ethan, what are you doing here?" She asked.
"I had to see you."
"That's not the only reason." She said. "Did mama send you here? If she did I want you to know that I'm a big girl and I can take care of myself."
Matt cleared his throat and Teresa remembered that he was lost in all of this.
"Oh Matt, this is Ethan."
Ethan held out his hand and Matt took it out of kindness, after all he didn't really know the guy so how could he hold a grudge against him?
"It's nice to meet you." Ethan said.
"Same here." Matt plastered a fake smile on.
"Teresa, I came to see if I could bring you back to Harmony." Ethan said honestly.
"Well," began Matt, "My wife and I are perfectly content in living in North Carolina." he finished by holding Teresa's hand in Ethan's face.
Ethan knew that Matt wasn't happy about Ethan being there. Teresa's wedding ring wasn't that special. She deserved more than that and Ethan was the one who could give it to her.
"Ethan, Matt and I love each other. We want to spend our lives together here in N.C. Can't you understand that?"
"I suppose so." He lied. "Ouch!" he cried out in pain as Teresa looked over his ankle.
"I think it may be broken." She turned and said to Matt. "Matt, darling, can you please go and call the doctor for us. The number is on the refrigerator. Oh and get some ice so the swelling can stay down."
"Okay," he said before leaving.
Now that Teresa and Ethan were alone Ethan thought this was the best chance to try to persuade Teresa to come back home.
"Teresa, please your mother is very sorry. She just wants you to be home again. She really misses you. And so does Whitney."
"Whitney?" Teresa remembered her best friend.
"She does miss you terribly." He informed her.
"But if I come back mama and Luis won't let me stay marry to Matt. They'll do whatever they can to keep us apart."
"Teresa, you belong with your family. You're not ready to start your own family."
"Maybe I should go back home."
"Teresa, you want to leave me?" Matt asked as he returned with the ice.
Back in Harmony.
"Mother, have you seen Ethan?" Gwen asked.
"No, Gwennie. I haven't seen him all day. Why?"
"Well, I just want to spend all the time together we can before we get married."
"Oh well go ask Ivy if she's seen him."
Gwen went and found Ivy in her room looking over some last minute things for the wedding.
"Oh Gwen!" She said as Gwen walked in. "What can I do for you?"
"Have you seen Ethan?"
"Ethan? No, why?"
"I'm just looking for him. I haven't seen him all day. I'm just worried about him."
"Go ask Pilar if she's seen him. I'm sure she has. Her and Ethan have gotten to be good friends."
"Yeah. Thanks." A worried Gwen said.
Gwen found Pilar in the kitchen.
"Hello Gwen!" Pilar said trying to sound cheerfully.
"Pilar, have you seen Ethan at all today?"
"I have indeed."
"Great. Can you tell me where he is?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because I promised Ethan I wouldn't tell anyone."
"Please Pilar it's important I find him."
"Well, alright. Ethan is in North Carolina trying to find Teresa."
"Teresa? Why?"
"Because he's trying to bring her back home for me."
"Did he volunteer to go?" Gwen asked suspiciously.
"Yes." Pilar said frankly.
"How could he do that two days before our wedding!?" Gwen shouted. "Ugh! He's fallen for your daughter! I just know it!" Gwen stammered out of the room.
Spoilers*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Gwen goes to North Carolina to find Ethan and Teresa!
Does Teresa go back home with Ethan?
Someone breaks up! Who will it be?
Much feedback is appreciated!!!
~Mandi~