Chapter 5-
daughter.
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"Ma'am, you
can't be here. We are not open till next week!" Julie called to
Lisa.
Lisa wanted to
run, but she felt glued to the floor. "Shoot," she thought.
Cassie looked
closer and saw that it was Lisa. "Jules, it's fine." But it was
too late; Cassie
could tell that Julie recognized Lisa.
"Lisa."
Julie looked at her mother. The last time she had seen her she had
been 12
years old and Lisa was still in the hospital. She could remember Lisa
explaining that
she was never going to walk again and that she could not work
anymore, and then
that she had to move back to Canada.
Lisa had told her that
she could not continue her gymnastics if she were to stay with Lisa. Julie had
kissed her and
gone to live with Cassie in a big house. She had gotten
everything that
she wanted, except she could not see her mother. And now, here
she was, and all
Julie wanted to do was yell at her. Nearly 20 years later,
Julie wanted to
yell at her mother.
Not even 'mom',
or 'Mother', but 'Lisa'. What happened to my little girl that
called me
"mommy"? Lisa thought.
"Julie, you
have a gym in Hudson."
Lisa couldn't think of much else to say.
"Yes. It is
the most boring town in the world and it was perfect for a gym."
Julie said.
"Why?"
Lisa was trying to figure out if it was an insult toHudson or a
complement.
"Do you not
remember any of the rules for Elite gymnasts? No dating, no
distractions, no
friends outside of this gym, home-schooled only, no dances,
no sort of
activity that puts your body in danger. That is why the town is
perfect. I didn't
know you lived here… And you are walking. I thought you
said you never
would." Julie snapped at Lisa.
Lisa was near
tears. "I had forgotten. Yes, I live here, and yes, I am
walking. But no,
I didn't say I would never - I said it was not likely."
"So do you
still live in a van like we did after Dan left?" Julie was trying
to make her
mother uncomfortable.
Lisa cringed.
Cassie's eyes widened "Julie! That was uncalled for!"
"No, it is
fine. I live on a Ranch. I train race horses, I own race horses and
I own part of the
ranch where Cassie is staying."
"Oh, so I
suppose that means you got back with Dan." Julie said. She had once
been told that
Dan had inherited money from his parents after the divorce.
"NO! I would
never do that. I have had enough black eyes for one life time. My
father left it
for me when he died. Half of it went to you and the other to
me. I put it in
to the farm and it worked out."
"But you are
married." Cassie confirmed, trying to change the subject.
"Yes. I
am." Lisa looked at her cell phone clock. "I have to go."
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Lisa lay down
next to Jack that night her mind spinning. Jack wrapped an arm
around her waist
and kissed her cheek. "You ok?"
"I can't get
what the doctor said out of my head." Lisa confessed leaving out
that she also
couldn't stop thinking about the daughter who seemed to hate
her.
"The tests
haven't come back yet; it could be nothing." Jack pulled her closer
to him.
"But Jack,
the doctor said my paresthesia is likely permanent, or worse, a
symptom of
something like Multiple Sclerosis or diabetes."
Jack sighed and
buried his face in her hair. "It could just be temporary."
"But-"
"You are a
lucky person and you will be fine. Like that doctor at the hospital
said, you are a
miracle. You are my miracle."
Lisa smiled. She
loved to see the side of Jack that no one else got to see:
the sweet,
romantic man and not the cowboy who did what had to be done.
"But what if
I fun out of miracles?"
"You
won't," Jack whispered in her ear.
"But-"
Lisa was cut off by Jack.
"You
won't." Jack twisted a few strands of her hair around his finger.
"Did I
ever tell you
that I love your hair?" Jack changed the subject.
Lisa smiled.
"No."
Jack smiled; glad
he had got her off the other topic even though now they
would spend ten
minutes talking about her hair.
Lisa lay on her
side with Jack's arms around her. She smiled at the peace of
the room, and
then the sensation of needles stabbing her hand returned. Lisa
bit back tears as
her paresthesia flared up and it went to numbness. Lisa
sighed with
relief when it started to burn. Thirty minutes after the flare-up,
Lisa was fast
asleep. All her worries were not forgotten, though.
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