Family Portrait

Chapter 14: Father and Son

They stared at each other as they heard a throat being cleared. They turned around and saw John staring at them.

"Not together, right?"

"Dad!"

Tommy and Jude stoop up.

"What Thomas?" his Dad asked innocent.

"Jude get in the house!"

Jude looked at Tommy who nodded.

She walked out.

"Dad stop this"

"For how long did you screw with her?"

"I never screwed with her, Ím not you and hurt the people I love."

Suddenly reality hit him, he hurted Jude more than anyone else, because he was too afraid of his feelings.

He felt his fathers fist make contact with his jaw.

Tommy clenched his fist as he felt his anger rise.

His father looked at him.

"Right not like me" he said with a smirk.

Tommy took a deep breath and went out.

He ran into the kitchen and saw Joyce and Jude sitting at the island.

They saw that his Jaw was red.

"Thomas, what happened to you" Joyce asked concerned.

Jude looked at Tommy with the same concern in her eyes.

"If I feel his fist again on me, Íll punch the shit out of him!"

He looked angry to Joyce.

"You might wońt do anything against it, but I do and if he hurts you or Stacey again, I promise I wońt hold back I did it the last 10 years but now it́s over." he continued and stormed out of the kitchen.

Ten minutes later

Tommy came downstairs with two suitcases, Judes and his.

"What are you doing?" Jude asked confuesd.

"We are going to a hotel and tomorrow yoúll fly back to canada and mom, stacey and I to grandma." he said while looking at his mother "Mom go pack your stuff and staceys!"

"Thomas, I dońt know!"

"I do pack your stuff!"

Joyce nodded and I looked at Tommy.

"I wońt go back to Toronto without you"

"Jude, I..."

"No, Tommy I wońt go without you, Íll come with you"

"I cańt win, right"

Jude shook his head no.

Tommy laughed as he saw his father coming into the kitchen.

"What are you doing, Thomas?"

"Íll bring Mámere and Stacey away from you"

John laughed

"Oh really, I want see that"

Jude looked to the ground and than back at Tommy.

"Yeah you can watch your whole live walking out of this door"

Joyce and Stacey came downstairs with Siutcases in her arms.

Tommy shielded them while they walked out the door. Her father smirked and Jude took their suitcases and walked out.

"Dad dońt follow us."Tommy walked out and saw Jude, Joyce and Stacey already in his Hummer.

In the hotel

Tommy rented 3 rooms one for Jude, one for his mother and Stacey and one for him.

Tommy sat on the bed staring at the wall. While Jude was in the shower and Joyce and Stacey watched T.V.

Tommy stood up and walked into Judés room, he heard the so he walked over to Joyce.

"Hey mámere, are you okay"

"Yeah, Ím fine, Thomas I should go back."

"Only over my dead body"

Joyce nodded.

"You and Stacey should go to a Restaurant and eat something here is money"

He gave her two hundred dollar.

"You and Jude?"

"Mom I have to talk to her because she want to go with us!"

"Thomas this girl loves you with her whole heart"

"How do you know?"

"I have a feeling that if yoúll go in her room yoúll get lucky again, happy for once in your life, because she can make you happy, if you let her."

Joyce took Stacey and walked out of the room.

Tommy walked back to Judés room and heard that she was still in the shower so he walked over to her bed and sat on the edge.