Chapter 22
At the cory's Rachel went straight up to her bedroom,trying to avoid mac when she saw him sitting on the bed as she came in;"Don't start again,mac,please?"
"Start what?"asked her husband slowly;"You keep telling me that there is nothing wrong with you,but I'm finding that very hard to believe when I'm looking at the way you have been acting lately and also at the at painkillers I've you taking,Rachel."
"I had no idea that you've been spying on me lately."answered she irritated;"I'm tired,so can we please just drop this right now?
"You've been tired a lot lately."started mac worried;"Can you really blame me for being worried about you,honey,what kind of a husband would I be if I didn't try to look out for you?"
"What do you want me to say,mac,do you want me to tell you that I'm dying?"asked Rachel angry;"Is that what you wanted to hear?"
"I…."said he in shock as he stared at her;"You're dying?"
"I'm sorry,mac,I didn't want you to find out like this!"answered his wife and started to cry when she saw the shocked look on his face;"I didn't wanna tell you yet."
"How long have you known about and why did you try to keep this from me?"asked mac softly as he pulled himself together and his wife into his arms;"What's wrong with you and are you sure that there's nothing that anybody can do?"
"I have a braintumor that they can't remove or cure and I've only known since about a week or so,but I didn't want you to know yet because I didn't want you to worry."started she tired;"I don't want the rest to find out yet,mack,promise me that you won't tell them!"
"You should have told me right away,Rachel,I had a right to know to something like that right away!"said her husband;"Don't you think that your children have got a right to know as well about the fact that their mother is going to die?"
"I'm not going to die tomorrow or something,mac,so there's no need to tell them yet."answered Rachel annoyed;"If they were to know about this then they would start acting differently towards me and I don't want that!"
"Allright,we can talk about this another time."started he slowly as he gently kissed his wife;"But you should have told me right away and I'm glad that I know now,because I can atleast help you through this now that I know the truth!"
Mary was cleaning up in the kitchen at home after she'd spend the whole evening at the hospital when Kathleen walked in with cass;"Hi,guys,what are you two doing here?"
"I came to see m.j."said her daughter hesitating;"I wanted to tell her that I was sorry about earlier,mama."
"That's sweet of you,honey,but she isn't here."answered she;"She went to adam's a while ago to try and talk to him again."
"How long ago did she leave?"asked Kathleen a bit worried as she looked at her watch;"Maybe somebody should go overthere to see if they are both still in one piece."
"I'm sure that they are both fine."laughed her husband;"Maybe they are finally talking things out."
"Or maybe she went for a walk after she went to see adam."started his mother-in-law slowly;"Aaron told me that m.j. does that a lot when she's troubled about something when he called about an hour ago and I told him about m.j. going to talk to adam again."
"How did he react to that?"asked cass curious;"It must be difficult for him to be in new York and hearing over the phone that his girlfriend is with her son's father."
"Come on,cass,as if adam would ever try anything with my sister right now."said his wife with a faint smile;"I have never seen him as angry as I did yesterday."
"Maybe I should try calling her.""said mary as she started to get worried because of what her daughter had just said about adam being really angry and grabbed the phone;"Just to check if she's okay."
At the same time adam was laying on the couch in the livingroom with m.j. in his arms as he gently stroke her hair with his hand;"Hey,are you awake?"
"Yes."answered she and looked up at him;"I'm awake."
"Hey,what's with the tears?"asked adam surprised as he gently wiped them away with his other hand;"Are you sorry about what happened?"
"No."said his ex;"Are you?"
"I didn't expect it to happen,but I'm not sorry that it did."answered he;"So what's up with the tears?"
"I just cheated on aaron."started m.j. softly;"No matter what you might think I have never cheated on anybody else before tonight."
"I only said that out of anger,but I really didn't mean it and I know that you've never cheated on me."said her ex feeling guilty as he gently kissed her;"Neither of us meant for this to happen,but it did and now we can deal with it."
"Deal with it how?"asked she and got up as she started to get dressed again;"I should go home."
"Hey,where are you going?"answered adam confused and pulled her back on to the couch;"We need to talk about this."
"And then what?"started his ex tired;"You were drunk and I was upset,adam,that's all there is to it,adam!"
"Do you really think that this happened because I was drunk?"asked he a bit angry;"Is that what you think?"
"Why else did it happen?"said m.j. confused;"We have been apart for so long!"
"This happened because I love you damn it!"yelled her ex almost furious as he jumped up from the couch;"Damn,woman,you can drive a man insane,do you know that?"
"What did you just say?"asked she stuned and grabbed his arm;"I thought that you didn't love me anymore and that you stopped since…."
"So did I,but I guess we were both wrong."answered adam with a faint smile as he calmed down again;"Do you still love me?"
"Do you really need to ask me that?"said his ex softly as she looked straight into his eyes;"I wish that I didn't,adam,but I do and that has never changed!"
"What happened tonight wasn't a one night stand as far as I'm concerned,m.j."started he hesitating and pulled m.j. into his arms;"I want you back!"
"But what about aaron?"asked m.j. shocked;"I'm with aaron,adam,and you're with susan!"
"No,I'm not because susan broke up with me the day after I came back from new York."answered her ex;"Do you love aaron?"
"Not in the way that I love you and he knows that because I have always been upfront with him about that,adam,but where does that leave us and what am I suppose to do now?"
"Right where we want to be,baby,with eachother!"smiled he and kissed her;"I promise that I won't push you on this and I will give you all the time in the world to take a decision on where we go from here,but to me it's simple and I want us to get back together again since it's clear we both still love eachother,so it's up to you."
The next morning Scott was having breakfast when his wife came into the kitchen;"Goodmorning,honey,can I make you some breakfast?"
"No."answered she;"I'm feeling sick enough as it is."
"Are you feeling sick again?"asked her husband worried;"Maybe you should talk to sharlene about that."
"Come on,scott,don't be stupid."said dawn annoyed;"I'm pregnant and pregnant women sometimes feel sick,so there's no need for me to talk to sharlene about that!"
"Allright,I won't say another word about it."answered he quickly;"I'm sorry that I even said anything at all."
"I'm sorry."began his wife a guilty about being so mean to him;"You were only being sweet to me and I shouldn't have overreacted like that."
"It's okay,honey,I do know that pregnant women can have pretty bad moodswings sometimes."smiled scott teasing;"I remember that from when you were pregnant with eric."
"Very funny,scott!"laughed dawn and gently hit him against his shoulder;"Hahaha!"
"I saw your brother lastnight,dawn,when I came from the hospital."said her husband all of a sudden;"I called out to him,but I don't think he heard me."
"Where did you see him?"asked she surprised;"Was he alone?"
"Yes,I think so."answered scott;"I saw him driving near where my mother lives."
"Why would he go to your mother's house,scott?"
"I didn't say that I saw him at my mom's house,honey,I only said that I saw him near there."
"When I saw him yesterday at tops,in his room,he was acting really strange."started dawn slowly;"He seemed to want to get me out of there as soon as possible and I got the feeling that he was hiding someone in there or something."
"Come on,dawn,you're making it sound like he's 16 or something."laughed he;"Why would he be hiding something?"
"Maybe he's afraid of the reactions of other people about his new secret girlfriend."answered his wife annoyed;"Maybe it's something like that."
"Why would anybody be against chad having a new girlfriend or do you think that he has suddenly turned out to be gay or something?"
"Ofcourse not!"said dawn hesitating;"But I'm sure that the 's wouldn't be too happy if Cheryl were to end having a relationship with my brother because some of them still think that chad had something to do with the break-up between adam and m.j."
"I have never heard something more stupid in my life."answered scott;"Cheryl is the last person to start something with your brother."
"Why is that stupid?"asked his wife angry;"Because you'd rather call your wife stupid then to think about the possiblty that your ex-girlfriend is sleeping with my brother,scott laSalle?"
"Ofcourse not,dawn,I would never call you stupid."said he and grabbed her arm as she wanted to walk away;"Come back here,honey,I didn't mean that the way that it came out out and I'm sorry."
"Go to work,scott."answered dawn still angry as she pulled away from him and walked back up the stairs to their bedroom,where she slammed the door shut.
"Nice going."said scott to himself irritated and walked towards the frontdoor;"Just great!"