Hey everyone! Sorry about the delay with the next chapter, had some financial stuff at school to deal with and I'm about to move into a new apartment and I won't have internet for a couple days so I'm not sure how that's going to go. Anyway, here's a new chapter.
I don't own Passions if I did it would be a lot better than it is now. I also don't own the song Collide by Howie Day. It's a great song and I wouldn't dare take it from the person who wrote it. Enjoy!
Solsticesoleil
Chapter 5
Fox's P.O.V
As I buckled Little Ethan into his car seat, I thought about the conversation that I had with Ethan. I know he still loves Theresa; heck the whole town knows it. I bet Gwen and Rebecca know it too, but they wouldn't admit it, especially Gwen. In my opinion, Ethan doesn't deserve Theresa after everything he's put her through. She's way too good for him. She's such a beautiful person and doesn't deserve the treatment she gets from Ethan, Gwen, or Rebecca. She deserves someone who won't break her heart over and over again and that will stick by her through thick and thin. Ethan's a coward; I don't know what she sees in him. He lets his wife, mother, and mother-in-law dictate his actions instead of being with the woman he loves. I wish Theresa would see Ethan for what he really is, but I rather see her smile again first. God, how I miss her smile and the way her eyes light up when she laughs. I miss my Resa. I miss my best friend. I hope she comes back to us, looking into the mirror and smiling, Little Ethan had fallen asleep.
Fox put on his seatbelt and started up the car. He pulls out and leaves the Crane Mansion estate, heading towards Pilar's. He looks through the rearview mirror, checking on Little Ethan. Fox loved the little boy just as much as he loved the boy's mother. Little Ethan's personality reminded him so much of Theresa's. They we're both easy to read when you looked into their eyes, and both had such a zest for life that he was somewhat jealous of. He was jealous of Little Ethan. To him, Little Ethan was the luckiest kid in the world to have a mother like Theresa. She was the mom he always wanted when he was growing up. She was caring, sweet, funny, and actually paid attention to Little Ethan, unlike his own mother who put him off on nannies and sent him to boarding school. Even when Theresa could have done that, she didn't, she always had Little Ethan with her when she lived at the mansion. Little Ethan deserves to be with his mother rather than being put off on nannies like he was when he was younger. He couldn't help but smile when he saw Little Ethan's reaction to seeing his mother. The pure happiness in the boy's eyes inspired him to find a way to get Theresa's son back to her. Fox reached over and turned the radio on as he waited at a red light.
The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You're barely waking
And I'm tangled up in you (yeah)
I'm open, you're closedWhere I'll follow, you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again.
Even the best fall down sometimes.
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme.
Out of the doubt that fills my mind,
I somehow found you and I collide.
As the music played, Fox thoughts drifted to the day Julian and Rebecca won full custody of Little Ethan and the look of devastation on Theresa's face as they handed her son to Gwen and Ethan. The way she cried in his arms and the days that followed afterwards haunted him. A tear slowly made itself down his cheek, as he remembered talking to her and her not speaking or looking at him when he did. Remembering the emptiness he saw in her eyes as she lay in her bed.
I'm quiet, you know
You make a first impression
I've found I'm scared to know,
I'm always on your mind.
A soft smile graced his features as he remembers the first time he met the dark-haired beauty. He remembered the scream and right hook she delivered to his jaw when she thought he was a burglar. Man, she had an arm on her, he thought to himself. He knew right then that there was something about her, that she was different from anyone he ever met and he was right.
Even the best fall down sometimes.
Even the stars refuse to shine.
Out of the back you fall in time
Somehow find you and I collide...
Don't stop here...
I lost my place...
I'm close behind...
Theresa was the first person in Harmony who accepted him for who he was. She befriended him despite everyone's opinion of him. She didn't judge him or make him feel unwelcome. She didn't fear him or throw herself at him like most girls did. She didn't care that he was a Crane, she cared more about the man behind the name. In doing so, she had changed him. She had changed him in ways that he didn't think was possible. He was still the same Nicholas Foxworth Crane, but he thought and cared more about people instead of just himself. He never thanked Theresa for that and he hoped that he'd have the chance to.
Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find, you and I collide…
You finally find, you and I collide…
You finally find, you and I collide…
Next chapter(s): Theresa and Little Ethan are reunited.
Charity and Fox talk.
Theresa has a plan to see her son.