Ellie Questions Jake

Ellie had gone and washed her face and reapplied her make up, when she had done this Jake decided to buy her lunch at the diner. After they had ordered Ellie turned and looked Jake straight in the eye and said,

"Well I answered your questions, now it's your turn to answer mine"

"Okay shoot" said Jake

"Why did my mum leave you?"

"Oh I thought you were going to ask that question. Well I was still a kid, I spent all my free time, playing football or working on the truck. I also went to the bar almost every night. Your mum was still a kid as well but instead of having fun she was stuck at home all day with you, even when you started school, she got a part time job and she had to cook and clean as well. I wasn't fair to her and I was to young and stupid to realise it, and by the time I did it was too late."

"Why didn't you try to get her back?" said Ellie trying her best to sound like an interigator.

"I did, a few months after you both left I went to New York, but when I saw the sort of life you could have there I knew it would take more than an apology to you both back"

"What did you do when you got back?"

"I decided to make something of myself, I started a business one thats quite successful now. I grew up, I gave up football, and bought a truck that actually worked and stopped drinking every night."

"Why didn't you try and get us back then?"

"It took a long time to get where I wanted to be and too much time had passed, I figured you had both moved on and forgotten I even existed."

"When and why did you start dating, if you ever stopped"

"Hey I never cheated on your mother, and I never would. I started to date about two and a half years after you and your mother left. I hadn't spoke to you in months and I was lonely."

"Do you love that woman you were with at the bar?"

"No"

"Do you still love my mum?"

"Uh Ellie I think thats enough for now" said Jake uncomfortably

"You said you'd answer my questions, anyway I think I already know the answer but I need to hear from you?"

"Fine okay I love her, I never stopped. I've always loved her and I always will"

"Thats what I thougth" smiled Ellie

"I don't want you to get any childish fantasies about me and you mum getting back together. She's made her decision she's marrying that other guy" said Jake miserably

"So, she loves you, I know she does. I used to catch her looking at your picture late at night at the time. I saw the way she was looking at you before she left. She loves you, I don't think she ever stopped."

"Stop it. She's marrying someone else. Anyway I have one more question for you. What do you think of her ... fiance?"

Ellie could see how much it pained Jake to describe someone else as Mel's fiance.

"I don't like him and to be honest he never really liked me that much either. He liked playing happy families with Gabby but I was the baby mum had when she was 17 shock horror. Think of the scandal I could cause."

Jake could hardly bear to hear that another man had played tried to replace him with Gabby. Ellie noticed the hurt in Jake's eyes when she said that Andrew that played happy famillies with Gabby and she wished she hadn't said anything she should have known that that would hurt him and she thought she had done enough of that in the past week.

Jake and Ellie spent the rest of the day together and it soon felt as thougt they had never been apart.