I know, I know I'm a liar (again). I told आप this is a one-shot fic but I was moved द्वारा the टिप्पणियाँ and ratings आप guys gave me. So here I am, confirming that indeed, this fic is now a chapteral one. ;) Hope आप guys like the idea. Anyway, here's the सेकंड part of it, enjoy:
When he cleared his throat, Hugh got all pairs of eyes staring back at him. He pulled Bessie closer and let both his palms land on her tiny shoulders.
“You know some stuff about Bessie too, dad?” his eldest asked. Hugh nodded before giving a sigh.
He earned nothing but looks he couldn’t explain after he said, “Guys… Bessie’s a Laurie.”
As Hugh expected, the room became quiet that if आप happen to drop a needle on the floor, hearing it hit the ground is a huge possibility. None of his ‘legal’ family member wore a smile, all of them were shock and neither one wanted to speak up first. It was really a hard blow for Charles, Bill, Rebecca and most especially for Jo. There had been issues about her husband sleeping around while he’s in LA but this was something she wasn’t warned before.
“This sucks,” Bill was the one who broke the silent. He stood up and went straight to his bedroom, slamming the door close behind him. Charles shook his head and kicked the coffee तालिका, टेबल in front of them before following his younger brother’s gesture. Now it was all up for Hugh’s eldest daughter. He knew she wasn’t happy about the revelation after seeing her brown eyes already filled with tears but it’s amazing that she could still look straight into her father’s eyes.
“For the first time in my life,” Rebecca uttered, “how I wish आप weren’t my father.” Those words stung Hugh’s दिल that if words could kill, he’d be dead right on that moment. He nearly cried when his daughter heavily shooed his hand when he tried to touch her shoulder the moment she reached his side on her way back to her own bedroom.
He gave out a sigh before turning back to Jo who had been staring at the floor since Bill walked out of the room. There were sobs coming out of her and द्वारा the time she looked up, Hugh politely ordered Bessie to come with one of their help to settle in one of their guest bedrooms which the little one immediately followed.
“You bastard! You! You! You!” Jo yelled as she half-ran towards her husband. Her arms were flying in the air but both have one landing place, Hugh’s chest. She was hitting him hard that Hugh have to hold her wrist with his own hands.
“Jo, let me explain,” he said, his hands still trying to hold his wife’s, “listen to me!” Their kids peeked out their heads out of their slightly opened doorways while Bessie returned on the hallway. Both she and Rebecca were crying while the boys wanted to hold their mother back as well as she continues to hit their father.
“How dare you?! How dare you?! How damn dare you?” Jo continued her rants with tears backing it up. Tired from controlling his wife’s arms and hands swings, Hugh let her wrists go and allowed her to bring on some और hard punches on his chest. Having a tiny frame of her own, Jo gone tired and began to slow down with her pace and eventually feeling herself falling on her knees against their carpeted living room.
“I’m sorry,” Hugh quietly कहा as he lowered himself just beside Jo, “I’m so sorry.” He possessively took her into her arms and let her tears damped his shirt. He expected she’ll burst द्वारा his revelation but definitely not this way.
Three hours later, the door to their bedroom opened and Hugh finally walked in. He couldn’t feel his feet as he walk towards Jo who was silently seated near their deck doorway but was pleased with the idea that she lit their bedroom not with chandeliers but with sconces and nightstand lamps alone. When she didn’t turn her head to see him, Hugh knew that she’s still angry at him. She felt betrayed and that is something she doesn’t want to feel again but too bad that on that day, she was.
“Are आप now satisfied with the idea that आप made me look like a fool again?” Jo blankly asked him as he took the chair opposite their coffee table. Hugh looked at her but she wasn’t returning some, in fact even when she asked, she wasn’t looking at him. Her eyes were fixed on the city horizon before them.
“Hell, no,” he replied.
“Happy?”
“Jo…” he eased himself sideward to face her and द्वारा that his wife returned some as well. Her eyes were swollen from hours of crying, traces of tears were also on her cheeks and her lips gone blue as worst.
“It might not be your intention to make me look like a fool, but I ended being one,” she calmly कहा with bitterness in her voice.
“You really think I hid this from you? If I want to, I shouldn’t have brought Bessie with me.”
“Then what do आप call about this revelation, Hugh? A goddamn surprise that आप expect me and your children accept the moment आप blurt out आप have an alien daughter who had been around for four years?”
“Look, आप don’t understand…”
“Because आप kept this from me,” with that Jo retreated her stares at her husband and began to sniff again that gave Hugh no choice but to sigh for the hundredth time that day.
“I didn’t hid anything from you,” he कहा and was answered with a sarcastic chuckle, “if I didn’t went to New York two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have known that she exist.” She looked at him and waited for him to continue, “Lisa didn’t tell me anything about her for the past four years. Sure we sometimes exchange hi’s and hello’s in the net but Bessie’s name never come out.”
“So आप really slept with her four years पूर्व and even knocked her up? What else do I need to know?”
Hugh stammered at first but he knew what he wanted to say, “Nothing more,” and a deafening silence followed. He reached out for Jo’s hand and softly said, “I’ll make it up to आप and to our children, I promise.”
Jo wiped the last tear she hoped will be falling and stood up, not minding Hugh’s hand that landed on her wrist instead of her hand.
“But will आप give me this chance to make it up to my daughter as well?”
“I don’t know, Hugh, I don’t know,” Jo कहा before burying herself in between their sheets facing the दीवार instead of him.
A knock suddenly echoed in her New York विला while Lisa was folding some of Bessie’s clothes two days later. She was separating some of the old ones from the new ones for they’ll be put into a campus sale as part of her daughter’s school project. The knock continued as she hurried down the stairs knowing it’ll be Dan, who obviously left his phone this morning, getting back घर just to get the gadget.
“I’m coming,” Lisa कहा loud enough for the person on the other side of the door to understand they’ll be seeing each other in a few seconds. But before going straight to the doorway, she grabbed Dan’s phone on चोटी, शीर्ष of a side तालिका, टेबल in the living room so he won’t spend so much time getting the device alone.
Lisa straightened her blouse, fixed her stray hair with one hand and the other holding the phone before slowly opening the door to meet her lover for the सेकंड time that दिन only to be greeted with a faint smile.
"Hey.."
"Hugh?"
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When he cleared his throat, Hugh got all pairs of eyes staring back at him. He pulled Bessie closer and let both his palms land on her tiny shoulders.
“You know some stuff about Bessie too, dad?” his eldest asked. Hugh nodded before giving a sigh.
He earned nothing but looks he couldn’t explain after he said, “Guys… Bessie’s a Laurie.”
As Hugh expected, the room became quiet that if आप happen to drop a needle on the floor, hearing it hit the ground is a huge possibility. None of his ‘legal’ family member wore a smile, all of them were shock and neither one wanted to speak up first. It was really a hard blow for Charles, Bill, Rebecca and most especially for Jo. There had been issues about her husband sleeping around while he’s in LA but this was something she wasn’t warned before.
“This sucks,” Bill was the one who broke the silent. He stood up and went straight to his bedroom, slamming the door close behind him. Charles shook his head and kicked the coffee तालिका, टेबल in front of them before following his younger brother’s gesture. Now it was all up for Hugh’s eldest daughter. He knew she wasn’t happy about the revelation after seeing her brown eyes already filled with tears but it’s amazing that she could still look straight into her father’s eyes.
“For the first time in my life,” Rebecca uttered, “how I wish आप weren’t my father.” Those words stung Hugh’s दिल that if words could kill, he’d be dead right on that moment. He nearly cried when his daughter heavily shooed his hand when he tried to touch her shoulder the moment she reached his side on her way back to her own bedroom.
He gave out a sigh before turning back to Jo who had been staring at the floor since Bill walked out of the room. There were sobs coming out of her and द्वारा the time she looked up, Hugh politely ordered Bessie to come with one of their help to settle in one of their guest bedrooms which the little one immediately followed.
“You bastard! You! You! You!” Jo yelled as she half-ran towards her husband. Her arms were flying in the air but both have one landing place, Hugh’s chest. She was hitting him hard that Hugh have to hold her wrist with his own hands.
“Jo, let me explain,” he said, his hands still trying to hold his wife’s, “listen to me!” Their kids peeked out their heads out of their slightly opened doorways while Bessie returned on the hallway. Both she and Rebecca were crying while the boys wanted to hold their mother back as well as she continues to hit their father.
“How dare you?! How dare you?! How damn dare you?” Jo continued her rants with tears backing it up. Tired from controlling his wife’s arms and hands swings, Hugh let her wrists go and allowed her to bring on some और hard punches on his chest. Having a tiny frame of her own, Jo gone tired and began to slow down with her pace and eventually feeling herself falling on her knees against their carpeted living room.
“I’m sorry,” Hugh quietly कहा as he lowered himself just beside Jo, “I’m so sorry.” He possessively took her into her arms and let her tears damped his shirt. He expected she’ll burst द्वारा his revelation but definitely not this way.
Three hours later, the door to their bedroom opened and Hugh finally walked in. He couldn’t feel his feet as he walk towards Jo who was silently seated near their deck doorway but was pleased with the idea that she lit their bedroom not with chandeliers but with sconces and nightstand lamps alone. When she didn’t turn her head to see him, Hugh knew that she’s still angry at him. She felt betrayed and that is something she doesn’t want to feel again but too bad that on that day, she was.
“Are आप now satisfied with the idea that आप made me look like a fool again?” Jo blankly asked him as he took the chair opposite their coffee table. Hugh looked at her but she wasn’t returning some, in fact even when she asked, she wasn’t looking at him. Her eyes were fixed on the city horizon before them.
“Hell, no,” he replied.
“Happy?”
“Jo…” he eased himself sideward to face her and द्वारा that his wife returned some as well. Her eyes were swollen from hours of crying, traces of tears were also on her cheeks and her lips gone blue as worst.
“It might not be your intention to make me look like a fool, but I ended being one,” she calmly कहा with bitterness in her voice.
“You really think I hid this from you? If I want to, I shouldn’t have brought Bessie with me.”
“Then what do आप call about this revelation, Hugh? A goddamn surprise that आप expect me and your children accept the moment आप blurt out आप have an alien daughter who had been around for four years?”
“Look, आप don’t understand…”
“Because आप kept this from me,” with that Jo retreated her stares at her husband and began to sniff again that gave Hugh no choice but to sigh for the hundredth time that day.
“I didn’t hid anything from you,” he कहा and was answered with a sarcastic chuckle, “if I didn’t went to New York two weeks ago, I wouldn’t have known that she exist.” She looked at him and waited for him to continue, “Lisa didn’t tell me anything about her for the past four years. Sure we sometimes exchange hi’s and hello’s in the net but Bessie’s name never come out.”
“So आप really slept with her four years पूर्व and even knocked her up? What else do I need to know?”
Hugh stammered at first but he knew what he wanted to say, “Nothing more,” and a deafening silence followed. He reached out for Jo’s hand and softly said, “I’ll make it up to आप and to our children, I promise.”
Jo wiped the last tear she hoped will be falling and stood up, not minding Hugh’s hand that landed on her wrist instead of her hand.
“But will आप give me this chance to make it up to my daughter as well?”
“I don’t know, Hugh, I don’t know,” Jo कहा before burying herself in between their sheets facing the दीवार instead of him.
A knock suddenly echoed in her New York विला while Lisa was folding some of Bessie’s clothes two days later. She was separating some of the old ones from the new ones for they’ll be put into a campus sale as part of her daughter’s school project. The knock continued as she hurried down the stairs knowing it’ll be Dan, who obviously left his phone this morning, getting back घर just to get the gadget.
“I’m coming,” Lisa कहा loud enough for the person on the other side of the door to understand they’ll be seeing each other in a few seconds. But before going straight to the doorway, she grabbed Dan’s phone on चोटी, शीर्ष of a side तालिका, टेबल in the living room so he won’t spend so much time getting the device alone.
Lisa straightened her blouse, fixed her stray hair with one hand and the other holding the phone before slowly opening the door to meet her lover for the सेकंड time that दिन only to be greeted with a faint smile.
"Hey.."
"Hugh?"
So, again, how was it? I will once again be grateful to know about your insights and ratings. THANKS FOR READING!