What!
Ellie was still thinking about what Jake had said about him still loving her mum. Ellie thought her mother still loved him. She had to talk to someone about it, Ellie knew her mother inside out but she was still getting to know Jake so she wanted to talk to someone who knew Jake as well as her mum did. She was on her way to talk to Stella.
She arrived at Stella's, she knocked on the door and went in.
"Hello, Grandma, its Ellie" she shouted before she saw Stella emerge from the kitchen
"Hey, you know I still can't get used to being called Grandma, I'm not even 50 and I have a 15 year old granddaughter. I'll never forgive Jake for making me a Grandma at 35" said Stella
Ellie just laughed and then said " Sorry, Stella"
"That's much better, now what can I do for you?"
"What can't I just come and visit?"
"You can. Are you just here to visit me?"
"No I wanted to talk about my mum and dad."
"Oh right what you wanna talk about? What do you wanna know?"
"I dunno I just wanted to talk to someone about them. It's so frustrating I know they both love each other but they won't admit it"
"I know they've always had something special between even when they were kids. It was you, you know that kept them from ending it all over something stupid." said Stella
"What do you mean" asked Ellie
"Well, in high school they were always breaking up over a silly argument but they couldn't be without each other, but when you came along they realized they had to grow up and be a family for your sake, to make a stable environment for you"
"So do you think they still love each other?"
"Oh I know they do, now more than ever because they have been apart for so long"
Ellie was thrilled to hear this.
"But what about that woman dad's seeing"
"Suzi, that tramp"
Ellie couldn't help but laugh at hearing Stella describe her like that.
"What she is a tramp and she doesn't mean anything to your daddy. He's lonely well not so much now but he was so he started to date women where there was no future. I reckon he was waiting for your mum and he still is. I think he'll wait forever" said Stella
"I hope he doesn't have to wait that long" said Ellie quietly.
Ellie stayed and talked to Stella until she had to go and meet her friends, it was 10:30pm before she arrived back at Jake's
"Hey, why were you out so late, you know you start school tomorrow" said Jake as she walked in
"I know I'm sorry"
"Your mother called she said you were to call her back as soon as you came home"
"Why I talked to her this morning and Gabby will be asleep by now. What does she want?" asked Ellie
"Dunno I didn't ask"
"Okay I'll go call her now" said Ellie as she made her way to the phone in Jake's room where she always spoke to Melanie.
Jake was sitting watching tv as Ellie spoke to Melanie, suddenly he heard Ellie yell but he couldn't make out what she yelling. Ellie spoke to her mother for another few minutes and then she came out of Jake's room looking incredibly pale.
"What is it?" asked Jake concerned " Are your mum and Gabby alright?"
"Yeah they're fine, it's just Mum and Andrew have set the date for the wedding they're getting married in two weeks at the Carmicheal plantation, she said she wants to get married in her home town." babbled Ellie before muttering "I'm going for a shower"
Jake felt as if his heart had been ripped out. Two weeks. At least if they were getting married in New York Jake could pretend it wasn't happening.
"Hey Ellie I'm going out, keep all the doors locked Okay" Jake shouted up the stairs to Ellie
"Okay" Ellie shouted back.