Chapter 4
“Excuse me?” Jessica looked her mother up and down.
“Don’t give me that attitude Jessica, your father told me what you said” Sydney told her.
“Sorry mom, but it’s true. You two can’t say that you had ‘irreconcilable differences’ and that you were protecting us forever. Sooner or later you’re going to have to tell us why the hell you split up” Jessica told her with a shrug.
“We do not owe you any explanations Jessica, things didn’t work out, and you have no idea how sorry I am that you happened to have gotten caught in the crossfire of a divorce, but it happened and we cannot change that, however, it has been almost 3 years since your father and I split up, you need to deal with the fact that we are not getting back together” Sydney told her.
“No mom! You’re not sorry; if you were sorry you wouldn’t be pretending not to love each other!” Jessica shouted and ran back upstairs to her room.
“Jess!” Sydney called after her. She let out a long sigh as the bedroom door slammed shut. “Is this all our fault?” she sighed.
“No Sydney, it’s not our fault. I mean…I guess Kris and Morgan are going to start hating us soon too. Sydney, it’s not our fault, things didn’t work out…we can’t change that now” Vaughn told her.
“Do you ever wonder what would have happened it…well…it hadn’t happened?” Sydney asked him sadly.
“It?” Vaughn asked her.
“You know what I’m talking about Michael” Sydney looked at him.
“I don’t want to call what happened ‘it’” Vaughn told her.
“Okay, well…how’s this? Do you ever think about what would have happened if I hadn’t miscarried?” Sydney asked him sadly.
“I think about it every day” Vaughn admitted.
“What do you see having happened?” Sydney asked him.
“We’d probably be together right now, with a fourth child, happy…living at home…your home…Jess wouldn’t hate us like she does and we’d all be happy” Vaughn told her quietly.
“Me too” Sydney whispered before she turned and walked out the door.
Vaughn sighed as he heard Sydney’s footsteps walk out the door and the door click behind her, he figured that he really needed to talk to Jessica but knew she wouldn’t want to hear from him tonight.
“Kris, Morgan, come downstairs” Vaughn shouted.
“Okay dad, what’s up?” Kris asked as he came downstairs and his sister followed a minute after him.
“We’re going to the grocery store and we’re going to get some food so we can make pizza” Vaughn told them.
“Why are we making pizza?” Morgan asked him
“Because, you’re sister likes pizza” Vaughn explained.
“So you and mom pissed Jess off and are trying to win her love by making her pizza?” Kris asked him.
“Don’t use that word in my house. And essentially, yes” Vaughn told him as he grabbed his keys.
“You’re weird” Morgan muttered.
“Tell me about it, but let’s go, grab your coats, it’s cold” Vaughn told them as he grabbed his leather jacket.
“Okay, okay” Kris and Morgan muttered as they grabbed their coats.
“Go, meet me in the front lobby, I’m going to tell Jess that we’ll be back in an hour” Vaughn told them.
“okay” Morgan smiled and pushed the elevator button that was directly at their apartment’s level.
“Don’t leave the building guys!” Vaughn told them seriously, “I do not want you going out and playing in rush hour traffic in New York City”
“we know dad” Kris shouted as the elevator door closed and Vaughn ran up the stairs two at a time to Jessica’s room and knocked lightly.
“Go away” she shouted.
“Jess, we’re going to the store, we’ll be back in about an hour ok?” Vaughn told her.
“Whatever, I don’t care” Jessica told him and continued to cry into her pillow.
Vaughn, Kris and Morgan had been gone for about an hour when the phone rang, Jessica lazily got out of her bed and answered it.
“Hello?” she muttered.
“Jessica, darling is that you?” the, oh so annoying sound of Lauren Reed, her father’s girlfriends voice answered.
“Yeah, its me” Jessica told her.
“I didn’t realize you would be here so soon. Anyway, is your father there?” Lauren asked in her fake British accent.
“Actually Lauren, he’s talking to my mom right now” Jessica lied with a smile.
“On his cell?” Lauren asked.
“No, dad called her over, said they had something important to discuss, they’ve been down there for about 2 hours now. It seems serious” Jessica lied to her.
“Oh, well, I guess your mother’s new dilemma is much more important than me right now, tell him I love him will you doll?” Lauren asked her, an obvious twitch of anger in her voice.
“If I’m still awake when mom leaves, I’ll be sure to, tootles” Jessica smiled as she hung up the phone and burst out laughing into her pillow
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