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Someday
What are brothers for?
I looked into his pale blue eyes before I looked into Nina's searching green ones. I was really panicking on the inside though. I mean, Rob Wilkins, the guy who I was once in love with, the one who I had a child with, the one who broke my heart, was standing right in front of me.
When I didn't say anything he said, "Jess, look at me. What happened?"
I looked at Kat who happened to be in Jesse's arms right now before saying, "Listen, Rob, you're not a part of my life anymore. You hurt me so much; you really have no right to even be talking to me right now. You broke my heart."
"Jess, I swear-"
"Not anymore Rob. It's too late for apologies."
Nina put a comforting arm around my shoulder before Kat looked at my pained expression and said, "Mommy…"
I put my hands out so Kat could come into my arms and I pulled her into my chest and started stroking her hair. "I have a life now Rob. And you're not a part of it, so if you will excuse us. We have other places to be."
He had an unreadable expression on his face, but his eyes told me everything. They showed the regret, anger, confusion, and deep in there love. I know he still probably loved me, but what he did was unforgivable in my eyes.
We all said a last and final goodbye to everyone and I had to promise that I would come back before I left and then visit and call more.
It was about time for dinner, so we drove over to Mastriani's to have a bite.
We stepped inside and the first thing I said was, "Wow, this place has changed."
We ended up getting a booth in the back that could fit all of us. I ended up sitting next to Kat and David. We had decided that the two married couples would sit on one side when the others would sit on the other side. There was a little argument between the boys over who gets to sit next to me though. Eventually, Andy broke a toothpick in half and put it in with two others whole sized toothpicks and they had to each pick one. The one that got the shorter stick could sit next to me; David got it. Let's just say that Jake and Brad weren't all that happy. I swear they can act like ten year olds sometimes.
Our waitress came over a few minutes later. I wasn't looking up at her because I was tending to Kat. By tending I mean playing. But I had to look up when I heard her say, "Hi, my name's Mary and I'll be your waitress today. Can I start you off with anything?"
Helen was just about to speak when I said, "Hi Mom."
She looked over at me for a few good seconds before she said, "Jessie? Is that really you?"
I nodded and stood up after I handed Kat to David and I gave her a huge hug. "I missed you so much Mom." I pulled away and said, "I want you to meet someone," I leaned down and took Kat from David and held her in front of Mary, "This is your granddaughter, Kat."
"This is the little one? Oh, she's so beautiful, just like her mother. And as much as I would like to sit here and catch up with you Jessie, I have to work. So can I get you guys anything?"
I smiled and said, "Can we have a round of cokes and an apple juice? And also a large, pepperoni pie and a plate of spaghetti for the little one."
"Course. I'll be back soon."
Once Mary had left into the kitchen Helen looked over at me and said, "Who is she?"
"Oh, sorry. I forgot about introductions. That was Mary Wilkins. Rob's mother."
David looked confused, "Why would you call her mom then?"
"Because she was more of a mom to me then my own mother was."
After that we were joking around until Mary came back over. "Jessie, I brought someone over to see you."
I looked up and say Doug standing beside her. I gave Kat to David again before I stood up and jumped him. Doug was whispering soothing words in my ear while stroking my hair and I was crying. It's not like I meant to cry, but my brother was standing right there and I had missed him so much.
"Jess, come on sit down. It's okay now. I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere." He sat down and pulled me next to him. "Thanks Mary."
"Doug-"
"Shh, everything's fine now. I'm right here." He pulled me off him and looked me in the eye. I know I still had tearstains down my cheeks. He wiped my cheeks with his thumbs and said, "Tell me everything."
I nodded and said, "You know that day that I left and how I was acting weird…"
He nodded and said, "I remember, go on, sweetie."
"That day I took a pregnancy test and found out I was pregnant. I didn't tell anybody. I guess I panicked or something. I went over to Rob's house later that night to tell him. I thought that he should know that he was having a kid, but he…"
Doug was looking at me calm and collected. "You should have told me sweetie. I would have helped in any way I could."
"I'm not done yet. "I told Mom before I went upstairs to Rob's room. I thought that I should tell somebody sooner or later. Anyway, when I got upstairs and opened Rob's bedroom door, he was…" I broke off. I didn't know if I could finish this.
"What happened then sweetie?"
I gave a choked up sob and said, "He was…with somebody else. I rushed out and ran away. I called Nina and she told me I could live with her and her family." I nodded to Nina and everyone else. Before I looked back to Doug, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but I freaked."
"It's okay Jess. When you were acting squirrelly at dinner that night I thought that if there was something wrong you would eventually tell me. It did hurt when you left without any word whatsoever. But you're here now and that's all that matters."
Our food had arrived and I made introductions. "Jess, what was it like when Rob did that?"
I hesitated, "I felt like I had meant nothing to him and that I was nothing. But I don't want to talk about that right now."
"Okay, so did you know that Mikey and Claire got married?" I wasn't surprised. "Claire is actually pregnant right now."
"I'm not really surprised. But what about you? I mean, you were with Tasha for a while. Did anything happen?"
He looked down into his empty pizza plate and said, "It didn't work out. I guess we just weren't meant for each other."
"I'm sorry Doug. I know how much you liked her. At least you didn't leave her pregnant though." I was joking. He started laughing. That was the first time I had heard him laugh in years. It felt good to hear it.
All of a sudden Nina paled and said, "Hey Jay, was there a girl who died in this town a while ago?"
A.N.: So, how was it? I know that some of you are probably questioning Doug's use of the word sweetie, but I only did it because it was a word that would have comforted her. My brothers use it all the time when I get sad or I'm dealing with an emotion that they can't handle. And you guys finally found out what happened between Rob and Jess.
-Poll-
What do you guys think should happen?
1) Jess and Rob should get together and live happily ever after. (BORING)
2) Jess dies and Rob has to deal with everything.
3) Rob dies and Jess has to regret leaving in the first place.
4) Jess goes back to Carmel and leaves Rob behind again. (LEADS TO SEQUEL)
5) I skip ahead a few years until Kat is a little older.
6) Other, please specify.
Thanks so much for the help. I appreciate it so much.
