Chapter 22

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Grace POV

Shane and I have gone to Malibu to stay at his beach house for a few days. This evening Shane's sister Sophia invited me to go Christmas shopping with her. I give Shane a kiss on the cheek and say, "Your sister is outside waiting for me. I will be back later."

He says, "Have fun, here is my credit card."

I say, "I have money Shane!"

He says, "Come on please. It would make me happy to have you help me spend my money."

I say, "No!"

He asks, "Why not?"

I say, "It just doesn't feel right to do that."

He laughs and says, "I wouldn't mind taking money from you."

I laugh and say, "Liar Liar!"

He says, "Fine, go off and have fun with Sophia!"

He gives me a big kiss.

When I get outside she is driving a black range rover. I get into the car and she says, "Hey Grace!"

I say, "Hey Sophia, how are you?"

She says, "I'm doing great! Thanks for hanging out with me."

I say, "Of course, this should be a lot of fun."

We have a blast shopping and when we are finished her mom calls her cell. She puts Elizabeth on hold to talk to me.

She asks, "My mom invited us to meet her for dinner, I'm pretty hungry! Would you want to eat dinner with her at a little Italian restaurant down the street?"

I say, "Sure!"

I'm not that excited about it but I don't want to be rude.

While eating we have a nice discussion.

Sophia says, "It's so awesome to see Shane settle down and he seems really happy with you."

I say, "I'm very happy with him too."

Shane's mom says, "I think you seem like a nice girl, Shane definitely hasn't ever been this serious about a girl before. I'm just afraid that you are too young for this to be so serious. You both are moving too fast."

I say, "We are serious but we aren't engaged or anything."

She says, "That is another thing wrong with your generation, moving in with a man you aren't even sure you want to marry."

Sophia says, "This bread is amazing."

I say, "I would want to marry Shane in the future."

Sophia says, "Mom you should really bring this up to him, it isn't fair to bombard her with this."

His mom says, "I have brought it up and his response is I'm not getting married until my 30's close to 40's."

Sophia says, "Either way, it's none of our business."

Through the rest of dinner we just have small talk. Once we leave and drive back home.

Sophia says, 'I'm sorry about my mom, she can be so opinionated sometimes."

I say, "Not your fault, most mothers are."

Once we get back to Shane's beach house.

I say, "Thank you so much for this evening! I had a blast hanging out with you."

She says, 'Thank you so much for coming! I loved hanging out!"

Once I get inside Shane is in his office going over some paper work.

He smiles when he sees me and gets up to pull me into his arms.

He says, "I missed you."

I give him a kiss and say, "I missed you too."

He says, "What's wrong? Did Sophie talk your face off?"

I say, "Oh nothing. I loved hanging out with her."

He says, "Grace, I can tell there is something bothering you."

I finally tell him about the conversation with his mom.

He says, "I'm sorry, I will talk to her about it."

I say, "No, that isn't what I'm really upset about, she said something about you not wanting to get married until your 30's close to 40's?"

He says, "I hadn't really planned on getting married at all. If we did get married I would think around that time would be good."

I'm a little shocked and I ask, "Why so long?"

He says, "I don't know how to explain it, I've always felt that way."

I ask, "Do you want kids?"

He says, "Around that age, maybe one. I love kids but don't want any anytime soon."

I say, "Wow."

He asks, "What's wrong?"

I say, "I wanted to get married and have kids a lot sooner than that."

He says, "Babe I love you, let's just take everything as it comes. When you feel like that's what you want, we can talk about it and I might feel completely different."

I say, "You are right; I was just a little surprised."

He asks, "Why don't we take a nice long hot bath in the jetted tub?"

I say, "That's sounds perfect."

Amy POV

After leaving the condo I go over to my mom's to check on John. Ashley looks like she is about to leave.

So I ask, "Where are you going?"

She says, "Over to Chloe's to watch movies."

Then I tell Ashley about what happened with Ricky and Clementine.

She says, "You should really talk to Ricky about it. Where are you going?"

I say, "I don't know, Jay invited me to stay the night over there and I wouldn't do anything with him so I might. Can I use your cell phone? Kayla had called me earlier and I need to call her back"

She says, "Sure."

I call Kayla and there is a lot of music in the background. I tell her what happened with Ricky and that I might go stay at Jay's tonight.

She says, "That is a bad idea, you are angry right now and that can lead to doing things you will regret. Why don't you come to Sarah's party, you can stay at my house tonight. We can talk and have fun."

I say, "That sounds like fun, I will be there in about 20 minutes or so."

I tell Ashley, "Call Kayla if you need to get a hold of me."

I just need to use your phone to call Jay so he isn't waiting around for me.

Once he answers he says, "Are you okay?"

I say, "Yes. Thank you for telling me tonight about Ricky but I can't stay at your house."

He says, "Okay, you are going to marry him still?"

I say, "I don't know. I haven't talked to him about what happened."

He says, "He is sneaking around with her, if he says that it is innocent then he is lying because if it was he wouldn't have to hide it from you."

I say, "I know that but you don't understand!"

He says, "He is John's father so you will marry him anyways."

I say, "It has nothing to do with that, I'm just saying I have to talk to him before I end things with us."

He says, "Fine Amy, hear his excuses but just be careful."

I say, "I will. Goodnight Jay."

He says, "Goodnight."

Once I hang up I give Ashley her phone back and say, "Thanks Ash."

When I arrive at the party I quickly find Kayla and Jack playing truth or dare on the couch. Once she sees me she says, "Let's go upstairs and talk."

We go upstairs and she says, "You need to talk to Ricky about all this."

I say, "We were supposed to get married on Sunday and Christmas is just a few days after that. Why would he cheat on me 2 days before we are going to get married?"

She says, "Maybe he wasn't cheating, we don't know yet. That is why you have to confront him."

I say, "I can't. Not yet anyway. I don't know if I can handle the truth if he is cheating on me."

I take a paper bag out of my purse and pull out a pregnancy test

I say, "I'm a week late."

There is a knock on the door and I quickly put the test back in my purse.

Ricky POV

After dinner my dinner with Clementine I drive home. Once I get home I find Amy's letter, I see she left her cell phone there so I can't call her. I know she went to dinner with Jay so I get her cell phone and call him and of course he doesn't answer.

I get out my phone to call Grace to get the address to his house.

I drive over there and of course he has to have a freaking gated house. I press the button and he comes on the intercom.

He says, "How can I help you?"

I say, "Where is my wife?"

He says, "She isn't your wife and now I doubt she ever will be. You know how Amy feels about cheaters."

I say, "Obviously worse than you do because she cheated on you with me remember!"

He says, "Man I'm glad that she can see the real you, now she can give us a real chance. I can protect her from people like you."

I say, "You don't even know me! Would you just let me talk to her?"

He says, "I'm only going to tell you this one time, leave before I call the police."

I leave and drive back home.

I get a text message from Ashley, "I know I'm not supposed to tell you this. Amy isn't with Jay, she came to check on John and gave me her friend Kayla's phone number to call if John needed anything. Her friend Sarah is throwing a party tonight and when she was upset Kayla talked her into going so she wouldn't be alone or end up doing anything stupid with Jay."

I say, "Thanks Ashley, where is the party? I have to talk to her."

She says, "I don't know if that's a good idea and I don't know where the party is. But I know that Jack is there with Kayla."

I reply, "Thanks again."

I call Jack and get the directions.

Once I get to the party I don't see Jack, Amy, or Kayla anywhere. I leave the backyard to check inside and I see Jack sitting on the couch alone.

I ask, "Do you know where Amy is?"

He says, "She is upstairs talking to Kayla."

I go upstairs and knock on the door and a minute later someone says, "Come in."

I go inside and Kayla says, "I will give you some time to talk."

She leaves and Amy's expression is Ice cold, which makes me nervous. Maybe I should have given her a day to calm down. I try to grab her hands and she pushes them away and says, "Don't touch me."

I say, "Nothing is going on with Clementine."

She asks, "Then why would you be sneaking around with her?!"

I say, "I'm not sneaking around with her; I was hanging out with her because she doesn't have any family or friends around here and she has been really lonely and kind of suicidal."

She says, 'That doesn't explain why you haven't told me about you going golfing with her or anywhere else?!"

I say, "Because you have nothing to worry about, I have no feelings for her. I was going to tell you but I was afraid it would start a huge fight."

She sarcastically says, "Well this was such a better alternative, I feel like I can trust you completely."

She laughs and says, "How could we get married now?! You have ruined everything."

I say, "Amy I made a mistake, I'm not perfect. I would never hurt you or cheat on you. I was only trying to be a good friend because I care about her as a friend."

She says, "So you cared more about that than keeping things from me because I might be jealous."

I say, "There is nothing I care about more than you and John."

She says, "Actions speak louder than words."

I say, "You know I have shown you, you are just angry. You have every right to be. I'm so sorry Amy. I will never keep anything like that from you again."

She doesn't say anything, a couple tears run down her cheek.

I wipe away her tears and pull her into my arms.

A few minutes later she says, "You can hang out and be friends with her that's fine, just be careful because she still has feelings for you."

I say, "At dinner at tonight I realized she is just trying to hold on to hope that I would somehow choose to be with her, she can make other friends."

She says, "Let's just go home, I'm so tired."

I say, "I love you Amy."

She says, "I love you too Ricky."

Do you think Amy should be preggers?

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