Chapter 5
Nora was sitting in bed looking over a case file, but couldn't keep her mind on the case. She was thinking about how to tell Matthew about her brain tumor, and not being able to take him to soccer practice or going to Rodi's and pigging out on junk food.
She sighed and put the file on her night stand and pulled her glasses off setting them on top. Just then the phone rang.
Nora reached over and picked up the receiver. "Hello?" She answered.
"Hello Nora how are things?" Vicki Davidson's voice came through the phone.
"Oh, Vicki, everything is good, I'm good, Matthew's good, and Bo is good as well. If you wanted to talk to Bo, he had to go back into the station; they called him in, just as we walked into the house." Nora yawned; she covered her mouth.
"Actually I called to speak with you Nora." Vicki was worried that Nora wasn't taking care of herself and that her health could be in danger. She thought that if she and Nora talked, Nora would tell her what the problem was.
"Vicki everything is fine, and there is no need to worry about me either. So how is Jessica doing, do you know why she went to New York without telling anyone?" Bo had told Nora what he knew about Jessica's situation which wasn't much. She didn't know much about the disease called DID, but she know that Jessica was mentally sick.
"Well, I'm not going to lie, Jesse isn't doing to well and she needs help, but I think that she's trying to be strong and not ask for help from anyone. I don't know how much Bo has told you, but Jesse has an alter named Tess, who has a life outside of Landview. I've called Clint and he's on his way down here as we speak; I just hope that we aren't too late to help her.
"Oh, Vicki I don't know what to say, I hope we can save her before she does any harm to anyone. Does Antonio know about this Tess person?" Nora didn't know it went this deep and wanted to help Jessica and Vicki through this ordeal, but didn't know the first thing to do.
"I don't think Antonio knows, and that's the way she wants to keep it. Maybe she doesn't want to alarm him and hurt and feelings, but either way she needs to let him before it's too late." Vicki sighed heavily, she didn't know what to do about her children, they all had developed some very complicated situations and she didn't know how to help them.
Nora was pretty tired and didn't want to be rude, but she had a trial in the morning and wanted to get some rest for the big day.
"Vicki, I don't mean to be rude, but I have a trial in the morning and want to get some rest for tomorrow. So if we could talk some more about this later I really appreciate that."
"No no darling, you're not being rude, I just wanted to check on you and fill you in on what's going on with Jesse. You get some rest and I'll call you later. Good night dear."
"Thank you for checking on me and good night Vicki." Nora hung up the phone and laid her head on the pillow closing her eyes, drifting off into a peaceful sleep.