Maybelle was sitting at her desk trying to figure out the choreography for a new song on the show when Inez's head popped in her office.
"Momma!"Inez yelled.
"Yes baby girl? Is everything ok?" Maybelle ask turning around to face Inez.
"No. Dad keeps callin."
"Corny knows i'm not supposed to talk to him, and it's only been 4 hours." Maybelle said getting up from her desk towards the phone.
"No momma, not daddy, DAD!" Inez said stepping infont if her.
"Like your father dad?" Maybelle ask losing half the air in her lungs. Inez nodded her head.
"Well, what does he want?" Maybelle ask sitting back down. She looked like she was about to pass out. She hadn't heard from Simon since he left her for another woman with two kids to raise around 10 years ago.
"I don't know. I havn't answered." The phone rang again and Maybelle rushed to it and answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey Belle!"
"What do you want Simon?"
"Well I heard you were getting married tommorow."
"I am. What do you want?"
"Well can I come? You know see my son, my daughter, my wife.
"I'm not your wife anymore Simon. I don't have a problem with you comming but just know if you start any kind of mess, you will have to answer to me.Got that?"
"Yes ma'am Belle."
Maybelle hung up the phone, breathing heavily. All the times she used to write to that man or call him, and he didn't answer, and he wants to come to her wedding and pop back into the kid's life like this?
"Momma are you okay?" Inez ask. Maybelle just stood and nodded.
"Yeah, i'm fine." Maybelle said walking away quickly. She sat on her bed and thought about all the things that could go wrong at the wedding and comming up with solutions. For hours she just sat in her bed in deep thought, shedding a few tears and wiping them away.
"Momma?" Inez said in a soft voice entering her mothers room. Maybelle wiped her face of any tears quickly and looked up at Inez.
"I can't get my prenatals open." Inez said walking over to Maybelle holding out the jar. Maybelle opended the jar with ease and handed it back to her. Inez took one than sat at the foot of her mother's bed screwing the lid back on the jar.
"Momma what happened between you and da-- Simon" Inez said stopping herself from calling him dad. Corny was her dad. She doesn't even remember Simon.
"He um, h-he left when you were 3. He had um, gotten another woman pregnant and went to be with her and their kid." Maybelle explained fresh tears flowing down her face. Inez could tell it was deeper than that and wanted to know what happened. The only thing she remembers when she was three was alot of screaming all the time and Maybelle crying alot.
"Momma did Simon beat you at all? I can remember you screaming and crying a lot when I was three." Inez ask softly. Maybelle nodded her head and let more tears stream down her face.
"Simon was my boyfriend in middle school and one day he dicided that he was ready to have sex, but I wasn't. He told me that if I really loved him that I would have sex with him. I still just didn't feel ready. I was just 13. He cornered me, gave me a kiss and said 'i love you' before- before he-" Maybelle started to explain but Inez didn't want her to finish and cut her off.
"Stop, Momma. You don't have to continue." Inez said. Maybelle wiped her tears and looked back up at Inez , who had anger glossed over her eyes.
"So he always been this way?" Inez ask getting angrier by the second. Maybelle nodded.
"And now he wants to just pop back up like this?" Inez ask getting even angrier. Maybelle shrugged and nodded.
"Excuse my french momma but OH HELL NO! SEAWEED!" Inez yelled storming out the room to the cellar where the rest of the wedding party was staying. She found Penny and Seaweed ssnuggled up together in a corner and smiled, but then remembered why she was down there.
"Seaweed we need to talk, right now." Inez said gesturing up to the hallway. Seaweed could tell that something was wrong because Inez was almost never mad or even upset. Of couse, she was pregnant so it could be that she is hormonal, but still, he knew something was wrong. He walked up the stairs, Inez at his heels. She had to catch her breath before dragging him up the other stairs to Maybelle's room.
"What is going on?" Seaweed said. His sister was madder than a bull thats seeing red, and his mother had tears streaming down her face like two rivers.
"I can't fight in my current state but you can and there will be a person at the wedding tomorrow that I bet you will have to fight." Inez said pacing the floor.
"Who?" Seaweed ask.
"Simon." Maybelle said getting up from her bed, walking over to Inez and stopping her pacing.
"Calm down Inez." Maybelle said guiding her to the bed.
"Simon? Like my father Simon? The Simon i'm named after?" Seaweed ask.
"Yes. He's comming tomorrow and i'm not okay with it." Inez said acter getting calm.
"Ok. So he wanna beat my momma, then leave my momma, then wanna come see my momma get married to somebody who actually deserves her?" Seaweed ask. Maybelle and Inez simotaniously nodded and Seaweed was ticked off.
"Oh HELL no momma!" Seaweed yelled.
"That's what I said!" Inez said walking up to him and standing side by side with him.
"Look guys I don't want another word about it. If he starts anything tomorrow leave it to me. Now like you said he's seeing me marry someone who deserves me and loves me very much and that's all that matters. Not a word of this to Corny." Maybelle said walking up to them and giving them hugs.
"Yes momma." They said together.
"Alright I gotta get some rest. I'm getting MARRIED tomorrow!" Maybelle yelled excitely, dissmissing them.