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Chapter 37

Stan's POV

I'm cooking dinner for the family. I thought I would keep it simple tonight and just make spaghetti. I'm holding Eli and trying to cook at the same time, which is now proving to be challenging. Meanwhile, Eli is using my shirt as a teething ring.

"Stan, why don't you let me hold Eli while you cook?" Mom asks as she comes in the kitchen.

"It's ok mom, I've got him."

She takes him from me anyway and Eli starts to cry. "It's ok baby, grandma has you!"

I take him from her and he immediately stops crying. "He's been very attached to me lately. He even cries when Susan holds him."

"That's because you never put him down when you're home." She smiles.

I turn down the sauce and sit down next to her. "I wanted to talk to you about Susan."

"What about her?"

"I'm going to ask her to marry me."

Her eyes light up. "That's great sweetie!"

"I just need to do a few things before that happens."

"What?"

"For one, I have to save up to get her a nice ring. I found a perfect one, but that's $1100. I found one similar that's only $500."

"Your dad and I can loan you the money."

I shake my head. "I have to do this on my own. Plus I need to move out. I don't want to start off a marriage living off of her. Maybe we can buy a house together. I don't want to make the same mistake twice."

"She's not Wendy hon." Mom reminds me.

"I know she's not, but I don't want her to look at me as a pathetic excuse for a man that can't provide for his family."

"You're being too hard on yourself."

"Like I said, I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I want this marriage to last."

"It will. She's a lovely woman. I don't know too many people that would help raise someone else's kid."

I smile just thinking about that. "I love her so much and I love that she's there for Eli. He needs a mom." I hand Eli to mom and surprisingly he doesn't cry. I go to fix our plates. "I am concerned about her relationship with Julia or lack thereof. That's not Susan's fault." I set mom's plate down in front of her.

"Don't let Julia stand in the way of your happiness."

"I'm not, but it would make things easier if she would give Susan a chance."

"Remember what I said about not forcing the issue."

I sigh and sit down with my plate. "Yeah, I know. It just sucks that's all." Next thing you know the front door opens and then slams shut. We look and see Julia approaching us and she looks pissed.

"Hi honey. Are you ok?" Mom asks her.

Julia doesn't respond, instead she walks over to me and gives me the evil eye. "Juju, what's wrong?" I ask her.

"You ASSHOLE! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!" She knocks my plate on the floor as Eli jumps and begins to cry. Mom takes him out of the room.

"What are you talking about?

"You told Kyle about Kobe and me!" Her face is red with anger at this point.

I look away. "It accidentally slipped. I'm sorry."

"Sorry? Kyle filed a restraining order against me! I can't go anywhere near Kobe. Why would you open your big mouth? I told you not say anything!"

"It was accident. I wasn't thinking."

"Thanks a lot for ruining my life!"

I stand up and try to take her hand, but she quickly backs away. "Don't touch me!"

"Juju, listen-"

"Don't call me Juju! I don't want anything to do with you! You ruined my life!"

"It's not the end of the world. We'll find a way to work this out. Again, I'm sorry." I try to hug her, but once again she backs away.

"You're dead to me!"

"You don't mean that…"

"Yes I do! I hate you and you're fucking dead to me!" She storms out of the house. I sit down and mom comes back in the room. She puts her hand on my shoulder.

"Let her cool down honey…" I nod slowly. I can't believe Julia said that to me. I've never seen her so angry before. I don't even know how to handle this.

Wendy's POV

"She told me the same thing." I tell Stan. He called me in tears because Julia said he's dead to her. She's angry with me too for telling Nichole.

"How did you know about it?" He asks.

"Cartman told me, Shannon told him." I explain. "Stan, I'm sick of her attitude anyway. When she stops being mad, she can live with you. I'm done."

"You're done? She's your daughter."

"That's Satan's daughter. I don't know where she came from."

"She's still our little girl. You can't give up on her!"

"She's not a little girl, she's damn near a grown woman. She'll be 18 in a few months. Maybe she needs sometime in the real world."

"Until she's 18, she's our responsibility."

"She can be yours." I look and see Cartman coming into our room. "So like I said, she can live with you. I'll talk to you later." I hang up and smile at Cartman. "Hi honey."

"Who were you talking to?" He asks.

"Stan. Julia went off on him too and he's really upset."

"So he felt the need to call you because…?"

I kiss him. "Babe, no need to worry. He just wanted to discuss Julia with me. It's nothing like what you think. You know there's nothing between us."

"I trust you, it's him I don't trust."

"Well since you trust me, then there's no reason to worry, right?"

He sighs deeply. "Right." We kiss. "So does he know where Julia is?" Cartman asks me as he pulls away.

I shake my head. "He was hoping she came back here. I told him I don't want her here and that she can go live with him."

He raises his eyebrow. "What about child support?"

I smack myself on the forehead. "I didn't even think about that."

"So you'll tell him you changed your mind, right?" He smirks. "We don't really need the money, but it's always nice to have that extra $500 something."

"Yeah, you're right." I really want that girl out of my house, but Cartman's right. Who couldn't use the extra money? We'll work something out because I don't want Julia in this house.

Julia's POV

Dustin and I are in his car, I have no clue where we're going, we're just happy to get away. He passes me a vodka bottle and I take a drink. "That's what you get for hanging out with that boring black Jewish kid anyway. He's such a square just like his old man." Dustin slurs.

"He's not a bad guy." I tell him slightly annoyed. I hate when he calls Kobe that.

"Well he has a restraining order against you, so what does that tell you?"

"His dad's a dick!"

Dustin laughs. "Touché. My dad thinks very highly of him."

"I don't know why! God, I hate him so much! I hate Nichole too, she had just as much to do with this!"

He pulls over and pulls cocaine and a straw out of his pocket and does a line. "You want a hit?"

I shake my head. "I don't do drugs."

"It will calm your nerves…" He passes me a straw. "Go on."

I shrug. "Fuck it!" I go ahead and do a line. "Wow, I got an instant high!" I tell him as he does another line.

"Do another one!" I do as he says. He pulls out a bag of pills. "X, do you want one?"

I shrug again. "Sure, why not?" I take the pill and I see him pop 3. The next thing I know, he's unzipping my pants. Within seconds, we're screwing and he finishes quickly.

"Let's go a little further out and find a hotel. I want to finish what I started." He slurs.

"Where are we going?"

"Just riiiiide baaaabe!" His slurring is getting worse.

"Are you ok? Do you need me to drive?" I'll admit, I'm a little scared right now. I've never seen him like this before.

He shake his head. "I got this!" He looks at me and smiles and I notice he's swerving off the road near a pole.

"THEN WATCH OUT FOR THAT-" CRASH!