Chapter 35

Wait & See

[Jade's POV]

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK

"Who is it?"

"It's me! Open up please!" I said in a cracked voice and the door swung open immediately.

"Jade? Jade what's wrong?"

"Andre…I quit. I'm sorry!" I cried.

"Hey now, what's going on? Did you hit my dog?"

"No! Andre…It's about Cat."

"Oh…you hit my cat!?...Wait I don't have a cat…"

"Andre I'm serious!"

He sighed loudly as he pulled me into his house and slammed the door behind me. "What did you do to her now Jade?"

"Andre, I told you a long ass time ago remember what I told you?"

"No?"

"Andre!" I yelled as I sat down on one of his sofa's.

He sighed as he sat down on the sofa opposite from me as I brought my hands to my face and cried.

"Jade."

"Andre I'm serious this time. I am. I want to change. I hurt her so bad. I don't mean to do it, you know I don't, I just….I want help. I love her Andre, she's all I have and you know it!"

"And how am I supposed to believe you're for real this time Jade?"

"Have I ever came to you in tears!?"

He sighed again as he sat back on his sofa. "Jade…. from what I've heard and seen I think you need psychological help."

I wiped my tears as I nodded. "Okay, okay whatever! I'll do whatever it takes. I don't care what it is! I just don't want to hurt her anymore."

"Alright. Come here." He said as he stood up and walked over to his computer.

He pulled up a chair next to his desktop apple computer and patted the seat. "We are going to look up some places for you to go, and you're going to help me. And we'll take things from here."

I just sniffed as I nodded.

He chuckled.

"What the hell is so funny!?"

"Jade West crying. It's-" He immediately shut his mouth as I gave him a death glare.

"-Okay let's just look these up."

"Yes let's." I stated irritably.

"You know I'm proud of you Jade West and I know Cat will be too. It shows how much she really means to you." He said seriously before he turned his glare to the computer screen.

I gave a smirk as love filled my heart for Cat. I'm going to show her I can be the best wife ever. I'm going to show her how much I love her. I know I need help okay, I admit it. And the first step is admitting you have a problem, and I do, I know I do. I'm going to get help and I'm going to love my wife and my kids the way that I'm supposed to.

Cat I love you baby and I'm going to start genuinely showing it. Just wait and see babe, just wait and see.

[Cat's POV]

I sighed as I finished off packing the rest of my belongings I could pack in one suitcase before going across the hall to my kids room and waking them.

"What is it?" Italy asked as she wiped her sleepy eyes.

"Get up and pack everything you love. You're going to stay with your grandmom for a little while."

She sat up as she looked at me with sad eyes. "Are you…leaving Jade or something?"

I didn't answer as I leaned in and gave her a kiss on her cheek and pulled her into a quick hug. "Hurry." I said and with that, exited her room.

I gave a small knock on Ikenzie's door before I slowly walked in to see her lying back in her bed with puffy eyes and tears falling slowly.

"Ikenzie." I said softly, but she didn't turn around or even acknowledge me, and I took that as her being upset with me and ignoring me until I realized her hearing aid was on her night stand.

I walked over to her bed slowly and took a seat and that's when she turned to me and wiped her eyes.

I pulled her into a hug and talked directly into her ear so she could hear me.

"Pack your things. You guys are going to stay with grandmom for a little bit, okay?"

I pulled away to see her with furrowed brows and even more tears started to fall. "W,why?"

I sighed as I rubbed her knee. "Just until I figure some things out okay?"

"Are y,you and Jade getting a d,divorce?"

I reached up and rubbed her face. "I don't know baby. Just hurry and get packed okay? I'll be back."

I wiped a tear that fell down my face as I made my way to Isis's room but she ran from Italy's room with furry as she stopped me.

"What the hell is going on?" She swore at me as she threw her hands up.

I sighed as I held my hand up to try and stop whatever argument she was about to start. "Just pack your things Isis, you're going to stay-"

"-I'm not packing my things and I'm not going anywhere. Where is mom?"

"Isis…please don't argue with me right now-"

"-I'm not going anywhere unless it's with Jade."

I just threw my hands up. I'm not going to argue with her right now. "Isis, your mom is sick. She's not okay right now. I need you to pack your shit and get your ass in my car within 30 minutes and I'm not going to tell you that again so shut your mouth, do what I said, and do it now. Period."

I watched as she looked at me wide eyed as I pushed passed her and back to my own room.

It was all within two hours that my kids were all packed, driven to my mother's house, and I to Tori's house and settled in and not once had I heard from Jade and I can't lie, I'm worried about her.

Maybe I shouldn't have left. Maybe I should have given her another chance? No Cat, she doesn't deserve another chance, all she would do is continue doing what she's doing now and I have to stand up for myself now, if not now then never and I know for sure I would end up dead. I've given her so many chances and yet she fails. She won't open up to me or to anybody and she's getting worst. I can't take anymore. The last thing I want to do is hurt her, but she needs to see that I'm serious. I'm tired of playing games with her, I'm tired of being her "bitch". It's over, I'm done.

"Hey Cat, want to see my collection of creek rocks!?" Kaylee asked as she leaned her small body over my knees as we sat on the couch. Her smile went from eye to eye as she beamed at me.

"Sure!" I smiled as I let her grab my hand and lead me to her room.

"This one I found at Hay's Creek down the road!" She smiled as she showed off the sparkly rock. "I love to collect rocks! It's my favorite thing to do!" She smiled as she ran over to her computer.

"Look Cat!" She waved for me to come to her computer.

"I did a picture in Visual Communications and my teacher sent me back a grade! Look at my grade!"

I smiled as I looked at the picture of an airplane with a huge 100% across the top. "Oh my god! That's so great! You drew that from scratch!?"

She nodded. "It's a graphic thing, but it's hard to do and my teacher said I have a good talent with it!"

"Do you like airplanes?" I asked as I sat on the edge of her computer desk.

She nodded again. "I want to be a pilot!"

"Wow that's a big job!"

"I know. I know I can do it though."

"I know you can too."

"Oh and guess what!?"

I was about to start guessing random things until Tori walked into Kaylee's room and interrupted.

"Kaylee, there you two are. What did I just get done telling you to do?" Tori said as she walked in her room with crossed arms and a lifted brow.

Kaylee sighed irately. Her smile instantly gone and her whole demeanor changed. "It's not my chore to wash the dishes! It's Monica's!" She yelled as she stomped out of her room and down the stairs to the kitchen.

"Monica is sick. Just do it Kaylee!" Tori yelled after her. "I'm sorry she's bothering you Cat. Come on downstairs."

I frowned. Every time I'm over here it seems that Tori is always either yelling at Kaylee, or paying her little attention and it kind of makes me mad. I mean…you have a child turning 11. She's going to be handful and she's going to want your attention. Don't ignore her and push her to the side like she's nothing. That's horrible.

We finally made it down stairs to the living room where Tori had two glasses of tea sitting on her coffee table. I took a seat on the couch as she reached down and handed me one.

I just sighed as I thanked her.

She sat down beside me as she wrapped her arm around my shoulder and my head automatically went to her shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Cat." She apologized again for the billionth time this morning about Jade.

I just shook my head as my gaze went to the small girl in the kitchen struggling to wash dishes. She was barley even able to reach the sink.

"Tori why is she washing dishes?" I just blurted out.

"Because she has chores to do." Tori lifted a brow confused at why I would ask that.

"She can't even reach the sink Tor."

Tori glanced over to the kitchen to see Kaylee on her tip tip toes like a ballerina and still she could barely reach.

"Kaylee go get a chair!" She yelled out before turned back to me. "She has no common sense."

I just sighed again as I put my glass down.

"Tori….I'm not trying to be rude, but why do you treat her like you do?"

Tori almost choked on her tea. "Excuse me? What do you mean?"

"You treat her like you don't care about her or something, like she's not important."

She shook her head offended. "I care more about her than anything in the world Cat!"

"You pay no attention to her Tor."

"Yes I do! I give her more attention than she really needs! That's why she's so spoiled."

I crossed my arms. "What's her favorite thing to do?"

I watched as Tori opened her mouth but no words came out.

"What's her talent? What does she want to be when she grows up? What's her favorite color?"

Tori shook her head as her face turned into an angry one. "Who do you think you are?"

"Someone who can answer questions about your daughter that her own mother can't even answer!"

"You don't know any of that!"

"Her favorite thing to do is collect rocks. She's very talented at graphic communications and even made a 100% on her airplane project she drew. She wants to be a pilot when she grows up. I can tell her favorite color is green from all the green things she has in her room, her green frog earrings and the green bracelet she wears every time I see her. I can tell she's irritated and frustrated that her mother isn't in her life the way she wants her to be. And I found all this out within the matter of 5 minutes. Do you know she likes to talk a lot Tori? She loves company. She wants someone to talk to and not just her friends. She wants her mother."

I watched as Tori shook her head and stood up still with an angry expression plastered over her face.

"Hey babe." Beck said as he walked into the living room with two suitcases. "I'm ready." He looked over at me. "Hey Cat, how are you?"

I just put my head down.

"Aw, I know. Everything will be okay soon. I'm going away for the weekend to meet up with a production who wants to go over my script for a film."

"That's great Beck." I said as I lifted my head and forced a smile for him and I really was happy for him, that's great.

He smiled as Tori grabbed her keys and purse. "I'm going to run him to the airport. I'll be right back." Tori said with slight agitation as she walked out of the door with Beck following behind.

I got up and walked into the kitchen to see Kaylee now standing in a chair washing dishes before I stood beside her and started to help.

"Thank you." She said as she noticed my work with her.

"Do you like school Kaylee?"

She nodded. "It's fun. I like it." She shrugged.

I sighed as I reached over and took the dish Kaylee was washing from her hand and put it back in the sink before I turned her face to me. "Kaylee she loves you. Don't think she doesn't. I just don't know what her problem is."

Kaylee looked down as she shook her head. "She doesn't love me."

"Yes she does! I promise she does. She's your mother, she love-"

"-She's not my real mother."

I scrunched my brows as I shook my head. "What do you mean?"

She sighed as she sat down in the chair. "She's not my real mother, and she's never liked me."

"What do you mean she's not your real mother?"

"I don't think I'm supposed to know this, but I overheard them arguing one day about my mother when I was like 4. Apparently I'm some else's kid, but dad is my real dad and Tori took me in. That's why she hates me, and that's why she pays no attention to me. I could hear you guys talking just now. She loves Monica more, because Monica is actually her and Beck's daughter. Dad doesn't pay much attention to me either. I think he's just…mad I guess."

"Kaylee….I don't think that's true."

"Do I look anything like Tori?"

I looked her over, and it's true she doesn't look much like Tori, but she looks so much like Beck. It's like they can be twins and I just figured Beck took over her features.

I ran my hand threw her dark hair before pulling her into a hug and giving her a small kiss on her head.

"Baby it's going to be okay."

I felt her shiver against me and I knew she was crying and I instantly melted for her. "It's okay."

"No it's not. I don't belong to this family. They don't care about me Cat."

"Yes they do baby, they just have a heck of a way of showing it."

She pulled away as she looked up at me and wiped her tears. "You care about me."

I nodded. "I do."

"Adopt me Cat please. Then I can live with you and Ikenzie. It would be so great."

I smiled as her as I rubbed her face. "Kay, that can't happen. I'll talk with your parents okay?"

She looked me in my eyes with her big pretty coffee eyes and frowned. "Okay."

I wrapped my arms back around her.

Poor kid...but how could Beck have a child while him and Tori were together? Unless he….Oh my…

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