A new face after the race
Chapter 21
A loud impatient knocked woke Luke and Laura from sleep late that night. They slipped on some suitable clothing and sleepily answered the door. Luke opened it and saw Audrey pacing around on their doorstep. He opened the door, inwardly hoping he could be the opposite of neighborly but didn't. When Luke made no moment to say anything Laura did.
"Hello Audrey." Laura said and without an invitation Audrey charged into their household without a word. Luke closed the door and stood by his wife.
"Audrey, not that I don't appreciate your visit but what are you doing here; especially at this time of night." Laura said politely. Luke just gave a quiet snort.
Audrey stopped pacing and looked at them, finally seeing how she was acting. She tried being as polite as she could and called some patience. "Yes, I apologize for that, but this must be addressed immediately." She said staying firm.
"Okay, if it's that important you have our complete attention." Laura said and guided her to the living room for a seat. She asked if Audrey needed anything to drink or eat, but she quickly declined. Luke followed like a zombie.
"Well, we have no idea what you're so upset about, so you better tell us." Laura replied and gave a dirty look to her husband who was misbehaving as usual.
"I'm upset about a lot of things. My granddaughter for one, you'd think she'd know better than to do this." Audrey ran off, shaking her head. Luke and Laura stayed quiet and let her rant her obvious anger off. "I'm a nurse and have told her a number of times, but no and now I'm stuck in this situation! I don't know what to do!" She revealed and left Laura and Luke giving her blank faces of confusion of what she was talking about.
"You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?" Audrey asked, much calmer and down to earth.
"Laura said that earlier." Luke remarked, and got an elbow in the gut.
"Ignore him; he's just tired and so am I. So could you please share your knowledge of whatever this situation is that it has you going off like this?" Laura said, as pleasant as ever.
"Of course, I'm just a little rung up. You see, I just found out Sarah's pregnant, and not from her. I had to hear it from Dr. Meadows." Audrey informed them.
"Pregnant? Are you serious? Sara isn't even married, nonetheless seeing someone." Laura said, knowing because she ran the town newspaper.
"Yes, I'm dead serious. I thought better of her. I should have known better. She dressed in all those revealing clothes and I heard all those rumors, but I ignored them. Now where am I?" Audrey said dramatically. "With a single and pregnant granddaughter!"
Laura felt for her. That was a hard position to be any. Not impossible though. They can make due, but the kind of mom Sara would be scared her.
"I'm sure, everything will be fine." Laura comforted her.
Luke raised his hand as if asking to speak like they did in school. Laura agreed. Luke cleared his throat. "As sorry I am to hear of this, why come here and tell us? Laura tends to print what she hears." Luke had to add, getting another elbow in his gut.
"Because your son is the father of my great-grandchild!" Audrey screamed and Luke and Laura's jaws literally dropped to the floor in shock.
Elsewhere...
As soon as Elizabeth heard what Sarah said she sneaked out the back door and ran towards the penthouse. No doubt her grandmother would head there at sometime this evening and Emily and Lucky would have to know the truth. If Emily heard the news not knowing it was a lie, it would tear her up and she wouldn't take it well.
She had a boyfriend who cheated on her and the pain she felt was unbearable. But to know the boyfriend cheated and impregnated, Emily couldn't take that; especially since she loved Lucky so dearly. She would do something rash and it wouldn't be good.
Possibly break up with Lucky, and god knows what would happen to either of them. And she couldn't let that happen if she could and had the power to do so. And with the knowledge Lucky was a virgin and despised Sara was that power. They saw knowledge is power. It was in this case.
Elizabeth charged up the stairs and knocked on the penthouse door loudly. It must have echoed in the penthouse. The door didn't open up until what felt like an hour. It could have been for all she knew.
A ragged and tired Lucky stood there, fully dressed, but tired and exhausted. His knuckles were a bit bruised, but that was a question for later.
"Elizabeth? What are you doing here? At this time of night too?" Lucky asked, rubbing his eyes from the sleep still present.
"Good, you're here! I need to talk to you immediately!" Elizabeth rushed into the penthouse. Lucky made a gesture of invitation with annoyance, but she didn't care. He needs to know.
Lucky shut the door behind him. He gave a big yawn. "Okay so talk." He said rudely, but what did she expect when he woke him from his sleep, this late at night?
"Sara's pregnant!" She exclaimed, getting straight to the point. Lucky did nothing, just stared at her and blinked occasionally. "Didn't you hear me? Sara's pregnant!" She repeated.
"Yeah so what do you want me to do? Say congratulations, your going to be an aunt?" Lucky joked, though Elizabeth saw no joke in it. But he didn't know the seriousness of it, so that explained it.
"No, it gets worse! Don't joke, this is serious!" Elizabeth continued, almost hyperventilating
"Elizabeth, breathe. It can't be that serious that you collapse and stop breathing." Lucky said in all seriousness.
Elizabeth took a deep breath that would cost more than her whole perfect life as she knew it. "The baby, Sara said you were the..." Voices outside stopped her. Oh no! Just one more minute, she prayed as Lucky headed for the door. "No! Lucky, not yet, let me finish" She begged.
"I will when this noise goes away, it'll wake up Emily and she needs her rest." Lucky said, passing her by without a thought. A thought that could destroy everything he had.
As Lucky swung open the door, Audrey and his parents came into view. Which was highly suspicious, they rarely hung around together and why were they up this late? His parents were usually asleep, unless something was wrong with Lulu, but it wasn't about her. A part of him said so strangely. It was about him? What did he do to get on Audrey's bad side except refuse Sarah, but that wasn't enough to tell his parents on him. So why was she so angry? He wondered and found out soon enough.
"Lucas Lorenzo, how dare you!" His mom scorned him, poking him in the chest sharply with her nails she had just gotten done while Lulu was getting a haircut.
"Excuse me?" He asked clueless to what his mom was meaning.
"Don't act all innocent, you got yourself into a big mess!" His dad said, surprisingly angry.
"And this big mess would be..." Lucky drifted off, patiently waiting for an answer.
"What is happening down here?" a voice demanded. Everyone looked to see one of the innocent victims in this mess coming down the stairs, as tired, no maybe even more tired than Lucky. Emily came to Lucky's side and Lucky pulled her close for comfort.
Everyone became quiet with Emily's presence surprisingly. Before Emily came down they were screaming at him for some present unknown reason.
Audrey, Luke and Laura stared at each other. This news would hurt Emily most of all considering she was the trusting girlfriend and to hear he not only slept with another, but impregnated her, would be heartbreaking. Elizabeth was thinking much the same thing, but she was too late and Audrey or the rest of adults didn't notice her presence. They were all concentrating on the couple who were the ones most connected to the situation.
Lucky broke the silence. "Would you tell me what you're angry about already?" He insisted impatiently.
"Sarah's pregnant." Audrey announced, not happily as it should be. She was more serious which led them to believe it was more detailed than Sarah expecting a child and becoming a mother in the soon to be future.
"I know, Elizabeth told us." Lucky said gesturing behind them. Elizabeth gave a small wave of greeting uncomfortably.
Audrey gave a small nod of greeting, not being in the mood of happy greetings.
"Not that I'm not happy for you and Elizabeth to be extending your family, I am really, but why come here in the dead of night with this information, with Lucky's parents out of all people?" Emily spoke up, curious and confused at the same time.
Luke and Laura gave each other strange looks of pity, she guessed. Her curiosity was more attentive now with the emotion she didn't like to see or receive.
"The father of the child is Lucky." Audrey said with a heavy heart.
Lucky subconsciously pulled away from Emily in immediate fury. "What?" He roared, obviously surprised to this information.
"You're going to be a father Lucky." Laura spoke up uncertainly, almost cowering away.
"Says who?" Lucky challenged. "Sarah? The favorite granddaughter that dresses like a prostitute? God knows how many guys she had slept with within her conceiving date."
"Lucky, this is the mother of your child were talking." Luke responded still somewhat hiding anger at his son's denial. If he was in such a jam, he would take responsibility for his actions. That was how Lucky was taught to do as well.
"I'm not the father! I'm in a relationship for goodness sake; do you think I'd chance that for a one timer with Sarah, the town slut?" Lucky replied angrily, spitting out the information that everyone knew and heard and trusted its truth with her clothes and conceited behavior.
Speaking of relationships, Lucky thought and turned to find Emily fighting tears with her arms crossed in shock. He took one step towards her and Emily took one step back. "Me, I swear she's lying, I would never..." He approached her and grabbed her hand, but Emily quickly pulled it away from his grasp.
"Don't touch me." Emily spattered and turned away from him.
"Why would Sarah lie about this Lucky? I threatened to kick her out for goodness sake if she told me she didn't know who the father was!" Audrey got into the fight, pointing out the specifics of the threat.
"You answered your own question." Lucky sputtered and turned to Emily again, hoping to explain, who found she couldn't hold on to her tears and ran upstairs. Lucky charged to the stairs hoping to catch her before she reached her bedroom and shut it, shutting him out which wouldn't be good. Emily was up at the top of the stairs and entrance to the hall when he called her back. Emily ignored it and continued on her way. Lucky would have run up the stairs after, but his dad's strong grasp stopped him.
"Lucky, don't leave, this is serious!" Luke responded, as Lucky struggled to get away from his father's grasp but stopped when he heard Emily's bedroom door slam. The door blocked any attempt in saving his relationship because Sara lied about her baby's father, destroying his life dramatically.
"I know this is serious!" He snapped, finally cracking under the pressure. "A woman that I have pushed away numerous times has finally got what she wants. Me single by a lie of me being her babies father, whom I repeat, I am not!"
"Obviously you are if she says you are going to be a father! There's no proof that you're not the father either!" His father argued, wanting him to take responsibility of the child that wasn't his.
"Proof? You want proof? Its right here! How do I know I'm not the father? I know I'm not the father because I never slept with Sara. She offered enough, but I never took it! Elizabeth knows of this because she had to sit around and listen to Sara's complaints of me not being interested in her offer, which was in her mind a rejection that could be followed by payback, which is this lie she has fed to her own grandmother!" Lucky spoke angrily, steam literally coming from his ears.
Audrey spoke up in all this anger and accusations. She turned to her other granddaughter, Elizabeth for assurance. "Elizabeth, is this true? Did you have to sit by and listen to your sister complain of Lucky's rejection?"
Elizabeth nodded quietly until she could find her voice. "Yes, she was doing it just before you came home and dropped the bombshell. She did it before this pregnancy came known as well." She reassured Lucky's rejection statement.
"Do you know for a fact that Lucky didn't sleep with her?" Audrey continued her questions and this question led to Elizabeth giving Lucky a questioning look. Lucky nodded sullenly as if he knew her answer wouldn't help him any.
"No, but I know for a fact that Lucky would never betray Emily like this. He loves her with all her heart and he has done some stupid stuff like forget their anniversary, but sleep with Sara wouldn't be one of them, I know it." Elizabeth insisted relentlessly, standing up for him and em's relationship that could be no more for all he knew because Sarah's lie.
"That doesn't mean that it never happened so I'm going to side with your sister, despite the truth of Lucky's statements. Sarah could have slept with countless men around the child's conceiving time given her wardrobe and reputation, but until I know for sure that Sarah is lying, I'm going to stand with the fact that Lucky is the father." Audrey told everyone stubbornly, especially Lucky and Elizabeth.
Lucky knew by that statement that no one would believe him, so he would have to go to the source of the lie and tell her to admit she didn't know who the father of her child was. There was no promise that she would, but he had ways if it didn't work the first time around. He was a Spencer after all.
Author's note: Interesting chapter no? Here, read what I wrote during my brief writers block!
Pillow, where's my big fluffy pillow?
In my bed, all the way upstairs.
With my blanky and my monkey and my bear.
My monkey is fat and velvety soft my bear in overalls with a red heart on the pocket.
They make good friends at night and are mistreated during the day.
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Wait to see: Lucky confronts Sarah! (As if you didn't figure that out)
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