Capítulo 27: PLEASE MAKE UP
Zarah Fable
James is finally letting me do something today. He is back at the house continuing to set up the apartment with his mom and Kiki. James allowed me to go get some groceries. I've been working at a lawyers office as an intern to get some form of money so that I can help with as much as I can. I'm going down the aisle looking for some canned salmon and some other items when I run into another cart.
"Oh my gosh ma'am I am so sorry I didn't mean…"
His sentence gets cut off and when I look up I can't believe who I see.
"Mr.Danvers. How are you?"
He stares at me for a minute before deciding to respond.
"I'm alright, and yourself?"
"I'm pretty good."
"That's good, and the baby."
"Perfectly healthy and wanting out." I respond with a slight laugh.
"Right. Well, have a good day now."
Mr.Danvers begins to walk away. I don't know what to do. That's a lie. I know exactly what I should do.
"Mr.Danvers, wait!"
He turns around and looks at me.
"How would you like to come over for dinner tonight? James and I want to celebrate the new place we have and new beginnings. If you would like to, you would be more than welcome to come over and celebrate with us."
"I don't know about that."
"Please. Look, I know that you don't agree with this, but my dad is already not on our side about this and the last thing that I want is for it to be the same with you and James. All I'm asking is to try at least. After all, this kid is going to need a grandfather."
I let my word soak into him and wait for his response.
"Do you… Do you think that he will be willing to see me?"
"If I talk to him about it first then yeah totally."
"Okay then, I will give it a try. For my grandchild."
I smile. It may be a small step but it's a step nonetheless. I finished grabbing what we need for dinner tonight and for the next few weeks even though we are probably going to be eating out for a bit until we can get things settled. It seems like Mr.Danvers is doing the same thing. After that we both proceed to the check out and once we both pay, load up our cars, and get inside, I drive off first and he follows me to the new place.
When we get there I tell Mr.Danvers to wait in front of the door and I will leave the door cracked so that he can hear me tell him to come in. I walk through the front door and find James wiping down the counters in a tattered shirt and shorts.
"Hey babe."
James turns around and smiles at me. He takes a few steps forward and puts his hand around my waist.
"Hey, how was grocery shopping?
"Good. I uh actually ran into someone while I was there."
James turns around and continues wiping down the counter.
"Really, who?"
"Ummm." I stop his hand from wiping the counter and turn him toward me.
"I actually think that you will know them. Come In!"
I can hear the door open. As I hear the step from the door and it continues to open wider I can see the smile that James once had, slowly leaving his face.
"Hey son. How are you?"
"What the hell are you doing here? Get the hell out of my house!"
James begins to lunge at his father and it takes everything in me to hold him back. James is strong but normally I can just about match his strength but this time it seems that his anger has made him even stronger.
"James stop it!"
James backs off in a huff.
"Maybe I should just leave."
"No, you are not going anywhere and we need to talk."
I grab James' hand and lead him into our bedroom. I take him down the small hallway which is only about 5 feet long. Our bedroom is right around the corner on the left and the bathroom is only a little bit farther up. I pull him around me and let him walk in and then go in behind him and close the door.
"Why in the hell would you bring him here? You know what happened! You were there!"
"First of all you are going to lower your tone when speaking to me, got it?"
"I'm sorry, okay? It's just that… I don't want him here."
"Look James all he wants is a second chance. A chance to get to know his son's girlfriend and his grandchild once they are born."
I put my hands on James' arms and looked into his eyes. He puts his hands up allowing his hands to be placed on my elbows.
"I want this kid to have a grandfather. To have that older father figure that will be able to answer our questions and maybe even ones that our child has about life that we may not be able to answer or even about us."
"I know, but I haven't talked to him since then. What exactly do you want me to say to him?"
"Just talk, okay? I will be right in the kitchen. You two can sit at the counter while I cook so that we all can have a conversation and you will let me do something else besides just sit around."
"Ok, fine."
I turn back around and open the door and turn the corner back to the kitchen and living room. When we walk in I see that the front door is closed and all of the groceries are on the island where the sink is and everything is already out of the bags.
"Sorry, you left your car unlocked so I thought I should at least try to be helpful. I don't know where you want everything but I thought I could at least do this."
"Yeah, thanks for that." says James from behind me. I take a step back and push him forward and then clear my throat. He looks down at me and I tilt my head toward his father. He sighs and moves forward.
"Look, I get that you want to make up for what you said so, if you apologize, go back to mom, and keep in contact with us then I will consider forgiving you."
"Son, at the moment I was just angry. I wanted you to finish college and grow up a bit more before any of this happens. I guess finding out that it was happening early and you were okay with it along with your mother and your sister, I just kind of freaked out. But no matter what, I want to be in your life and my grandchild."
"Then do your best to make things better instead of worse instead of better."
"Or you both can put the past behind you and try to start over. You can both forgive but you don't have to forget. Just make up so that I'm not this stressed out anymore."
James chuckles and puts his hand out behind him for me to join. I walk up and he puts his arm around the side of me. I look at his face and then at his fathers. Looks like James has the same smile that his father does. I smile and laugh.
"So, what do ya say James?"
His father puts his hand out and looks at James. I look up at him and then James looks down at me. He sighs then shakes his fathers hand.
"OK."
"Great! Now you two go sit down in the living room on the floor somewhere until we get furniture for that area and I will start on dinner!"
"Ok babe."
James kisses me on the head and then takes his father to sit on two cushions from an old bench that his mom had. I walk into the kitchen and begin cooking dinner with a smile on my face. Well that certainly went both exactly how I thought it would and not at all at the same time.
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