The snow was falling rapidly around the small courthouse. People rushed frantically in and out while people stood outside either victoriously from winning their case or waiting for a verdict in their case. There were about seven courtrooms in the courthouse but for such a small town that was a lot. Most of the court cases were small domestic squabbles; all of them except the case in courtroom #7.

The case in courtroom #7 had been going on for about a month. There was always some new dramatic event taking place. On either side of the room they sat there; neither of them dared to say a word to each other in court. She had ruined his life in many ways. First she had sunken herself into his life and made it miserable in ways that he could never fathom until now. She had had a planned along time ago and she had succeeded. She did it without anyone know it; no one except for Eric.

Eric sat in the back of the courtroom; he was praying so hard that he hadn't heard what Hyde's lawyer had said. The courtroom was jammed packed everyone was there except for her. Eric hadn't seen her in almost six years. All he knew of her was that she and Robert were about to celebrate their seventh year of marriage. They didn't live in an exact location from what he understood. They mainly traveled around the world; Marissa was now six and Courtney, Jackie and Robert's daughter, was just turning two years old. Hyde hadn't seen Marissa since his tripped to Paris. He had promised Jackie that he wouldn't interfere with their lives. Hyde did however make sure to send Marissa money and pictures. Eric had remembered the day that Hyde and Valerie had married. The day of the wedding wasn't filled with happiness instead, it felt more like a funeral. Mr. Foreman had walked Valerie down the isle. It wasn't that he wanted to, he mainly did it for Hyde's sake. Eric would never forget that day.

( Flash back to Valerie and Hyde's wedding in 1979)

Valerie stood in the dressing room with her mother. Her gown was long white and sleeveless. It had been two months since Hyde had visited Jackie in Paris. Everything at the time had seemed to be falling apart for her. Donna had food poisoned her, and Hyde had run off to Paris to be with Jackie and his stupid new daughter. When he came back it took him two days to visit her at the hospital and when he had finally came to see her, he didn't even ask how she was or apologize for leaving her without telling her where he had gone. Instead, he kept going on and on about his daughter, Marissa. He kept talking about how pretty her eyes were and how cute her small face and pudgy little arms were. He said that her head was so soft and she was so small. She didn't even cry the whole entire that he had held her.

"Now my dear would you like to know what the second part of the plan is?" Her mother asked her.

"Yes I would." Valerie said.

"For you to become rich." She said.

"What?! That was your stupid plan for me to get rich. Well let's think about this mother, Hyde isn't rich. There's no way he'll ever be able to become rich now that Jackie had her little brat Marissa." Valerie said.

"No you misunderstood what I'm saying." She said.

"Oh...okay...what did you mean then?" She asked him.

"Do you remember when I was in Palm Springs?" She asked.

"Yeah." She replied.

"Well, I was in a bar and I met a lady there. She was sitting at the bar smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer. I could tell that she was definitely wasted and maybe even stoned. She was telling me about a son she had ditched a long time ago. She said that she told him that she was leaving him for a trucker but that was a lie." She said.

"What does this have to do with becoming rich, mother?" She asked.

"I was just getting to that; well, as she kept telling me her story I realized who she was talking about when you first bought Hyde over to our house. It was his mother." She said.

"Yeah so." Valerie said.

"So, she lied to him. She had ditched him to go out to Palm Springs to collect her inheritance. Valerie, Hyde's mother told me that her son and whoever his child and wife were in the future, would inherit the money." She said.

"Where did you get all of this information from?" She asked.

"She was drunk." She replied.

"So all I have to do is marry Hyde and that's it; I'm rich. There's only one problem though." Valerie said.

"What's that?" Her mother asked.

"I'll have to share the money with his little brat Marissa." Valerie said.

"No you won't; Marissa won't see a dime. The money goes to his wife and their child; not his wife and his first born child. Marissa and Jackie get left out in the cold." She said.

"Yeah but my baby is his." Valerie said.

"Well, no one has to know that now do they?" She asked.

Valerie smiled at her and began to walk out the door and towards the church; it was now time for her to get everything that she had always wanted.

It had been about two months since Hyde had seen Jackie or Marissa. She was now living in upper Madison. Hyde stood in the front of the altar and waited for the ceremony to begin. In ten minutes, everyone had finally arrived and Valerie was already walking down the altar. When everyone had finally taken their places, the ceremony was getting under way. About twenty minutes into the wedding ceremony, the door to the chapel had opened up and a young woman with a child had walked in.

No one had noticed Jackie walk into the church; until Marissa had started to cry. Jackie had tried to calm her down but Marissa would not keep quiet. Once Hyde had heard her crying he stopped the service.

"What are you doing?" Valerie asked angrily.

"I heard Marissa crying." He replied.

"You're just hearing things Hyde." She said.

"Yes you are; now can we please continue the service." Valerie said.

"No we can't continue until I make sure that it isn't her." He said.

Hyde looked around until he spotted Jackie all the way in the corner holding Marissa. She looked up at him and smiled. Hyde walked away from Valerie and towards Jackie. He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her out the door.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"I wanted you to see Marissa on your wedding day." Jackie said.

"You told me that you wanted me out of Marissa's life because I was having a baby with Valerie." Hyde said.

"I know; I also came here to talk to you about it. Hyde, I think that you should get to see Marissa every once in a while. So how about this Christmas and Christmas Eve, her birthday; oh and I think you should spend a weekend with her every month. I won't always be there to bring her to see you but I'm sure the nanny can bring her to see you. When she gets older she'll be able to spend the summer at the Foreman's and I think if you want to you could take her off their hands." She said.

"Jackie...I...really don't know what to say but thank you." He said.

Valerie watched him hug her through the little window; just as she was about to get everything that she had always wanted, Jackie had come back into her life. Except instead of her clinging to him she was dragging her little brat along with her. Now she would never get Jackie and Marissa out of their lives.

"Jackie, can I hold Marissa up at the altar?" Hyde asked.

"During the ceremony?" She asked.

"Yeah during the ceremony." He said.

She handed Marissa over to him and he gladly to her up in his arms. They both went back into the chapel. All eyes were on Hyde and his new baby girl.

"Hyde is that her?" Donna asked.

"Yeah this is Marissa. Didn't I tell you that she was cute?" Hyde asked.

"She's beautiful." Donna said.

Valerie watched as everyone admired Hyde's new baby girl; his first born child, his and Jackie's first born child. The baby girl that stood to gain 5.5 million dollars if Valerie's secrets were ever revealed.