When Paul entered his sisters hospitalroom 30 minutes later, she and Emily were still talking.
"Hey, how are my two favourite girls" He asked, giving Emily a kiss.
She tried to hide the unhappy look in her eyes, but Jenn saw it and knew exactly why.
Spending all this time with Jenn had reminded Emily exactly of what her life as mrs. Munson had been like.
Compared to Hal, Paul was nothing. He didn't shower her with complements, he was constantly involved with Rosanna and he never made her feel the way Hal did.
With Hal, she felt safe and loved. She felt like they could get through anything together and she felt on top of the world while being his wife.
With Paul, she always came second to Rosanna, she didn't feel on top of the world and she sure as hell didn't feel loved.
She planted a fake smile on her face and turned to Paul. "Did you need something?"
"As a matter of fact I do. I was just talking to Hal outside and he wanted to know if you could come by the house sometime today and help him with rearanging some stuff"
"Sure, I geuss I can do that. I'm gonna have to cancel my dentist appointment, but..."
"You don't have to do it if you don't want to or if it's too much trouble"
"What are you talking about?" Emily asked surprised. "Ofcourse I do, you just said Hal asked if I could help him"
"Yeah, so, who cares about what Hal wants?"
Before Jenn even had time to speak up in defense of her father, Emily already yelled "I do!" Shocking Paul and Jennifer, but surprisingly, not herself.
She turned to Paul and said "paul, could you give me a few more minutes alone with your sister?"
He quietly left the room and shut the door behind him .
"Jenn, remember how you mentioned that I really helped you out when you slept with Billy and didn't know what to do? Well, the roles are reversed, I need your help right now" She took a deep breath and finally said what she had been thinking for a while now. "I miss your dad"
Jennifer smiled. "Well yeah, it's about time you finally admitted it"
At Emily's confused look, Jennifer had to laugh.
"I'm sorry,. But it was pretty obvious to me that you missed him. Now I geuss the question is: what are you gonna do about it?"
"What am I gonna do about it? What can I do about it? Your dad hates me after doing this to him again after Chris"
"My dad doesn't hate you, Em, he could never hate you. He loves you, that's the reason he's so mad at Paul all the time. He hates the fact that the guy he once thought of as his son is now sleeping with his wife, the woman he loves more then anything"
Emily took a deep breath and slowly released it.
"I geuss the first thing I gotta do is talk to Paul. Not that I think he is gonna care any at all, but still..."
"He never got over Rosanna and you never got over my dad. You were both just to stubborn to see it"
"Yeah, I geuss you could say that. I geuss I also need to get a reservation at the Lakeview before Daniel gets home from camp"
"How is Daniel doing? I need to spend more time with you guys, I miss you and I feel really out of your life"
"Well, Daniel comes home from camp in two days. I could swing by here so you can spend some time with him. I know he'd love to spend some time with his big sister"
"Could you? I'd love to spend some time with him too"
"Sure. Why don't I come by around noon? I could bring lunch from Al's?"
"It's a date. Now, now that we got that settled. What do you plan on doing about getting your marriage back on track?!"
"There's nothing I can do. Your dad said he already filed for divorce papers. I geuss I just have to except the fact that my marriage is over and try to move on"
"You most certainly will do no such thing" Emily turned around to see carly standing by the door.
"You will fight for your marriage if it's the last thing you'll ever do"
To Be Continued...