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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:13:18 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:13:18 GMT
My story 'Chloe' has being closed at s2c. I am still really proud of it (it was my first) and know people that are still reading it. So i am posting it here. Kate, Becka...hope you both dont mindChapter 1Hi. My Name is Chloe Bergman, and this is my story. This is my Family. My Father Tyler, my mother Sindee, my older sister Lizzy, and of course me. Not sure if you can tell but my sister is into posing. I think it was more to do with the camera man then anything else at the time. Well he was flirting back. If you ask me she can do a lot better. Well look at her, she is stunning, and of course she knows it. You can give me the land any day. The wide open spaces. No one around for miles, just you and your horse. To really understand my story we need to start back at the beginning, way back when………. Opppps, sorry to far. That was me when I was born, in my Daddy’s arms. Wasn’t I sweet? Me again, with my Daddy. Everyone said, even back then how much alike we are. How very right they were and still are. If only I knew then what I know now… Ok enough with memory lane, onto my story. It starts with me and Lizzy been children, as you know she is and WAS very much a lady. Mother always said she was the best of both of us and never failed to show it. She gave Lizzy what ever she wanted. I remember on Christmas, I got a present from my Daddy, a computer game. My one an only present, I was so happy and went to play it straight way, I guess Lizzy couldn’t stand to see me happy. Because the next thing I know, Mother was taking that game away from me. She gave it to Lizzy. She never played it, and I never saw it again.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:16:27 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:16:27 GMT
Chapter 2Daddy was a Jackaroo, and I hated it when he had to go away and muster the cattle. Mother would always be extra cruel. Getting me to make her and Lizzy breakfast and serve it to them while they laid in bed. She would also make me clean the house. All this on top of my normal chores of feeding the animals, milking the cows, running the horses and slashing the grass. This is where my best friend Jakob Thomas comes in. I don’t really know how we became friends or even when. I just know he is the best thing in my life, not including my Daddy. I don’t know what I would have done without his help when Daddy was away. He would come over give me a hug, patch up my small cut and blistered hands, and make me laugh till I almost peed. I would then forget about how much I missed Daddy and how much work there was to do. Some days were so hot, and if we finished early we would saddle the horses and sneak over to his house. He had the best pool in our town. Everyone was jealous. Mother always thought I was still working, I never dare tell her I wasn’t. That was until Jakob turned into a teen, he would still come over to help me on some days, but I could never sneak away as Lizzy had taken to coming to the stables with me. At the time I thought she was spying on me, and in a way I think she was. It became clear in the end what she was there for, she had the hots for Jakob. Yeah like she ever would have a chance with Jakob, he is way to cool for her.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:19:58 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:19:58 GMT
Chapter 3Before I knew it both Lizzy and I were teens, She got prissier. Her and mother took more trips to the city, telling Daddy it was for clothes and other girly stuff. Unfortunately they took to dragging me along to. If I dare to complain I’d receive a whipping when we got home. Lizzy always had a smug look on her face when I did. I learnt fast to keep my mouth shut. As I go older so did Daddy. He started letting me go on mustering trips for him, much to mothers discuss or delight, you can never really tell with that woman. I loved it. No Lizzy hanging around. No mother telling me what to do. Just the wide open spaces. And myself for company. Though sometimes Jakob came along. When it came time to go off to uni, I didn’t want to go, but Daddy said an education was important if I was going to take over the farm one day and that it would make him very proud, and he can’t wait for the day I come home with my degree. So that’s where I went for four years, joining Lizzy at Uni. I wanted both my parents to be proud of me, so while Lizzy flirted her way through I put my head down and studied. Only lifting it to hang with Jakob.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:23:57 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:23:57 GMT
Chapter 4I passed with Honors! Lizzy was meant to finish the year before me, She wishes. She finished the same year as me, with just a pass. Mother was so happy for her and made her a special dinner. All I got from mother was a snarl. Daddy was so proud of me and after dinner told me to meet him at the stables. There he had a cake, he had purchased from the bakery, and sitting on a create was Jakob holding a black ball of fur. “Oh Jakob you got a puppy” I said. Both he and Daddy laugh, “No” Daddy said “He is yours, so what are you going to name him?”. Daddy had organized a small party just for me and brought me my own special present, my own dog. I named my new puppy Max. Daddy is so sweet. He made me promise never to tell mother, I never did, we just pretended Max was his. Been an Adult now, Daddy did less of the mustering, leaving it to me, which of course was fine. Though I was never on my own again, Daddy said he worries about me out there on my own and he hired Nathan to help. He is a year younger then me, and a wonderful worker. Jakob comes by less and less these days as his father is very ill and needs complete bed rest. Jakob told me the doctors don’t expect him to see Christmas. So Jakob has taken over the running of his fathers farm. Some days get lonely without him, I guess I got used to him be ‘around’. The only good thing is that Lizzy isn’t hanging around either. Her and mother are doing more fancy lunches these days. Its to try snag a rich man for Lizzy. But of course mother tells us after each suitor leaves the house “They just aren’t good enough for my precious Lizzy”. I don’t dare say this to them, but the truth is, they just aren’t rich enough. I can’t wait for my dear sister to get married and move away. That would be bliss. Hey it will mean that she is gone from the house and can’t follow me around telling me “No man will what you Chloe. With those grubby broken nails and dirty jeans”. What she doesn’t get that I don’t care. If a man was to want me they would just have to accept my ‘grubby broken nails and dirty jeans’, cause this is who I am, and I aint changing for no man.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:27:13 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:27:13 GMT
Chapter 5My days were pretty much all the same, working the land and watching with amusement , the lunches that went on in our house. One day, two weeks before Christmas we received a phone call. Jakob’s Dad, Kevin Thomas had passed away. My heart went out to Jakob, I can’t even imagine what it would be like to loose my Daddy. Jakob was a great support to his mum Katherine during that hard time. He came over the day after the funeral. That was the first time I ever saw him cry. I guess he was trying to be to strong. Time went by, and before we knew it daddy’s 70th birthday arrived. Mother cooked a roast, will all the trimmings and invited the Thomas’s over for the celebration. Daddy is a simple man and never wanted anything big. He blew out the candles and ‘grew old’ Mothers birthday, two weeks later was a massive extravaganza. All the people worth knowing were at the party. What I mean by that is anyone with money or power. I spent most of the night in the barn, to get away from the fakeness of it all. I mean come on, mother made me wear a dress. I don’t have anything against them, I just prefer my jeans. That was the night of my very first kiss…………….. (I am going to leave you all guessing on who the lucky person was to give Chloe her first kiss. There is part of this story Chloe hasn’t told you. *Wiggles eyebrows* But you are all going to have to wait till after Christmas. As we are moving states and I am not sure when the net will be re-connected at the new house. Until my next update, I hope you all stay safe and have a wonderful holiday!)
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:32:26 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:32:26 GMT
Chapter 6Ok so you all know something now that I was keeping quiet from you all. I guess you are all thinking it was Jakob that kissed me that night, hate to disappoint you all but it wasn’t. I was somewhat disappointed myself. But I guess life has a funny way of happing. It was Nathan that kissed me. You know the man Daddy hired to help me with the farm. Yeah him. I would have given anything for it to have been Jakob. I have been in love with him since High school, and tried to make my feelings known at Uni. All it took was one day. Jakob told me he was honored to have a friend like me and hopes we will still be best friends when we are old and grey. He broke my heart that day, I also knew then he would never look at me the way I did him. So I continued my life, loving Jakob from afar With that explained you are probably still wondering ‘why Nathan’ as I haven’t talked of him much. Basically he and I got close, working together an all. On one of our musters he blurted out that he loved me, and has from the first day he met me.. This came as a shock to me, as I never really thought of him in that way. I always saw him as the brother I never had. I asked him for time, as I am sure I could come to love him. So the night of mothers party was our first kiss. Nathan wasn’t invited of course. Not rich or powerful enough for mother. So that takes you to where we first began this story. The day of the family pics. Mother wanted them, Daddy made sure I was in them and standing behind him. Mother told Lizzy off after then photographer left. Telling her, he wasn’t good enough. I had a giggle behind my hand. I wonder if she will ever get that rich husband. She would scream blue murder if she knew her baby sister had a man before she did. No, neither Mother or Lizzy know that I am with Nathan. My mother would lock me up and throw away the key if she knew and would lecture me about disgracing the family name. She doesn’t look at the person, she looks at what they can give her. I know all this because Lizzy brang a ‘commoner’ home once, Mother went on a rave about one of her daughters bringing home rif raf and how dare she disgrace her. That night she also turned on me, telling me that Lizzy was to be engaged and married first. That she also doubts that I will ever get a husband, but if I was to ever find one I was to bring him to her first. I could never do this to Nathan. I am so glad he knows who my mother is and understands. I really do hate it though, as I get the feeling he is going to ask me to marry him. I really do want to say yes as he is my boyfriend, but I want to say no, as I can never marry him while mother is alive.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:38:12 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:38:12 GMT
Chapter 7I have a new friend, her name is Akala Cupitt. I was mending the back fences today when I see a dark figure ridding my way. I wonder who it could be, as that property has been empty for years. The figure stopped, got off the horse and stuck out a slim hand. She introduced herself, she has the voice of an angel. Akala explained to me that her family brought the house cheap from the bank as it was falling apart. She wasn’t wrong, the house didn’t even have a floor. She stayed to help me with the fences, it didn’t take long with her help. Mother was in a bad mood and I was in no hurry to get back, so Akala and I went down to the creek at the end of our property and talked for hours about life, parents (me mostly talking about mother), Nathan and her children. The sun was setting when I bade good-bye promising to come by soon. Mother was still in a horrid mood when I returned. I think I may have mad it worse by wearing my boots inside. Daddy was no where to be seen, not that I can blame him. Lizzy was sitting on the couch with a sour look on her face, she glared at me as I passed her on the way to the shower. As I headed up the stairs I heard her say something about me having all the freedom I wanted. Yeah right Lizzy, I will swap you for yours any day. Like she would, the thought of breaking a nail is to much for Miss prissy Lizzy. Daddy told me later on Mother caught her at one of the clubs in the city. Which was bad in itself. No Bergman is to be seen a night club she used to tell us. What made it all the more worse for Lizzy is that she was also caught kissing a ‘man’. Lizzy has disgraced us all bla bla bla. I say good on her, she gave me a great belly laugh. I know its not all that funny. But come on how stupid does Lizzy have to be. If you are going to go to a club, don’t get caught by mother! Nathan has asked for my hand in marriage. I didn’t answer him right away. He knew why and told me that he understands that we can’t get married right away. He gave me the most gorgeous ring. I took one look at his hopeful face, jumped into his arms yelling ‘yes’ I couldn’t take the ring though, if mother was to ever see it. Well…..I think you know my mother enough to know what would happen if she saw it. We have told Daddy though, he is over the moon for us and gave us his blessing. To me this means the world. I told Nathan that we wouldn’t be woohooing till our wedding night. So not to get any ideas when we are away together. I want my wedding night to be special, since my day never really can be. He is a wonderful man and is respecting my wishes. I can’t wait to tell my news to Akala. Speaking of Akala, she is pregnant with her 5th baby. She wont revel who the father is. I don’t care if I can be anywhere near the mother she is I will be the happiest person on earth. Her family don’t have much money, but her children are always clean and never go hungry. I just wish she would accept my offer for a loan, to finish of that dump of a house. She is a proud woman that Akala.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 6:43:26 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 6:43:26 GMT
Chapter 8After dinner tonight Daddy pulled me aside, he asked me if I really love Nathan. I told him I did as I wouldn’t be marrying him. No daddy said, anyone can get married and have children. What I want to know is if you really LOVE him. I had to be honest with both him and myself. I hung my head and said no, I gave my heart to another along time ago and never got it back. But I can come to love him Daddy, with time. He gave me a smile I have never seen before, it was knowing. He said to me, child if I leave you with anything it is to remember this, always wait for your true love and follow your heart, as if you settle for second best you may come to regret it and become bitter. He told me to come back to the house when I was ready. After he left I burst into tears. As Jakob is my one true love and I can never have him. He doesn’t feel the same. I wish I could tell Daddy this. I didn’t sleep very well last night. I spent most of it tossing and turning, thinking about what daddy had said. Sometime in the wee hours I decided I would go and see Jakob make him sit down and listen to what I had to say and how I felt about him. It was better to do it now, before Nathan and I were to be married. It was 6.00am when I got up, I had a shower, put on some fresh pretty clothes, did my hair and then sat in my car. I sat there for at least an hour, going over what I would say to him, how I would say it. But most of all what he would say to me. Eventually starting my car I drove over. Taking a deep breath I got out, smoothed my clothes, walked up and knocked on the door. A pretty lady with blonde hair answered, I have never seen her, before she could say anything Jakob appeared behind her. “Oh my god Chloe” he yelled, wrapping his arms around me in a bear hug, “its great to see you kid”. He was full of questions “How are you, how is your family, hows the farm..?” “Jakob, slow down” I told him with a laugh “first I’d like to be introduced”. I looked over at the blonde lady, she to had a look of confusion. Jakob laughed, oh how his laugh always makes me melt. “This” he said, putting a strong arm around the lady’s shoulder “is my girlfriend, Missy” “g…g…girlfriend” I stuttered. “are you ok” Jakob asked me as Missy stuck out her hand to be shook. “Oh, so this is THE Chloe. I have heard so much about you, I feel like we have been friends forever”. She gushed. I just wanted the ground to open and swallow me up. I needed to think about what just happened. But before I knew it, and before I could make an excuse to run, I was been dragged inside. I went into auto pilot, Missy was telling me about her and Jakob meeting and something about us been best of friends, I remember nodding to most things that were said. Jakob then asked me the worst question he could have at the time “So Chloe, what brings you here” I had to think quick and told him the first thing that came to my mind. “I am engaged to be married, to Nathan” I could have sworn there was a look of disappointment on Jakob’s face, but it was gone as quickly as it come. “Congratulations” they both said to me. Missy telling me I must be so happy, I want to scream at her. I was far from happy. Jakob ran off to the study, fetching his elderly mother Katherine. “Oh Chloe darling, this is such wonderful news. Your father and mother must be so proud of you” I thanked Mrs Thomas, asking all that were there to keep it a secret as I hadn’t told my mother. All I wanted to do was to run, and knock Missy on her pretty ass as I went, instead I accepted Mrs Thomas’s offer to stay for lunch. It was horrible, Missy couldn’t keep her hands off Jakob. I wanted to jump over the table, throw her off her chair and rip her to shreds, making Jakob mine like he should be. After helping Jakob and his maid clean up, I told them all I needed to get going, as mother would be getting worried about me (Yeah right). I left that house with my head held high, drove home and parked the car, walking into the house ignoring Lizzy’s questions on where I was and what I was doing, I went to my room and locked my door behind me, I slid down the wall took a breath and cried. I was still crying when Daddy knocked on my door telling me it was time for dinner, through my tears I told him I wasn’t hungry. I must have cried myself to sleep, because the next thing I knew I was waking up, in the same spot I had fell.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 8:00:24 GMT
Post by Kate on Apr 5, 2006 8:00:24 GMT
Kate, Becka...hope you both dont mind Not at all! I enjoyed this story; it'll be nice to read it again!
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 8:59:22 GMT
Post by Dizzy on Apr 5, 2006 8:59:22 GMT
MORE!! MORE!!
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:44:07 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:44:07 GMT
*rotfl* @ Diz..goose.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:45:44 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:45:44 GMT
Chapter 9After a shower I went downstairs, Lizzy gave me the weirdest look. I wanted to shake her. Some days I wish we were close so I could tell her what was happing, after all she is my sister. Mother saw me and told me that because I skipped dinner the night before, I could forget about dinner. I ignored her and grabbed an apple on my way to the stables. Nathan was already there, feeding the horses. He greeted me with a cheery good morning, walked over and gave me a kiss. The thing is I didn’t return his kiss, he noticed and asked me what was wrong. All I could do was look at him. How do I tell the man I am engaged to I don’t love him at all, and I am not even sure if I ever will. That I love Jakob with all my heart and soul. I don’t want to break his heart, with tears behind my eyes I lied to him and told him I had a bad night with mother and Lizzy. He looked at me with confusion. I could have sworn he knew I was lying. I hated myself for doing it, I did as I don’t was to break his heart along with my own. I told him that I needed to speak to Akala. I am thankful the look left his face, he said to me “It looks like you need some girly time. Don’t worry about anyone here, I will cover for you”. I gave him the biggest hug. Poor Nathan thought it was because I loved him, instead I gave him the hug because he is so sweet. I saddled sunshine and was about to get up on her when Nathan pulled me into his arms gave me a long, deep, passionate kiss and told me he loved me. I once again held back tears. With a “I love you to”, I was riding away to Akala’s. Always the mystery woman is my Akala, I was half way when I saw her riding my way, with eldest daughter Honey and new baby Dejah. I got of sunshine, Akala handed Dejah to Honey, grabbed my hand and lead me over to a near by tree. “Sit down” she told me. Doing then same herself she looked at me and said “Spill it”. I told her about my engagement to Nathan, Jakob and missy, and how I had lied. I talk for hours. The sun had gone by the time I left the tree and headed home, to the loving arms of my fiancé, wishing with all my heart I could love him just as much in return.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:49:01 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:49:01 GMT
Chapter 10*editors note: Dear readers to understand this story I need to take you through another’s eyes. So…..for this chapter Lizzy will be ‘talking’* Me? You really want to hear what I have to say? Ok well growing up is never easy, not for anyone. I know Chloe hates me and you probably do too. But all I really want in the world, is like everyone else. I want to love and be loved in return. I guess I will just tell you about my life as I see it, so we may be covering old topics here, sorry but there is no way around it. I know you all think I have it easy with mother, but it isn’t as easy as everyone thinks. She doesn’t really love me. She just wants to be me, to have her life over again. She puts so much pressure on me and I’m not feeling sorry for myself. I know everybody has pressure from somewhere. I am just trying to help you understand what it’s like to be me Elizabeth Victoria Sindee Bergman. Anyway mother is my pressure, she wants me to be everything she couldn’t be. My happiness has never been a consideration. Mother always wanted a daughter, to be just like her. So when I was growing up she brought me pretty dolls, girly clothes and everything in pink. By the time Chloe came along, all mother wanted was a boy to make our family rich, as girls cant do that. At least not in her eyes. Chloe is so lucky, because when mother started rejecting her daddy took her under his wing. He looks at her with such love and adoration . When he looks at me its different, almost like he is just tolerating me. Just for one day I would love daddy to look at me then way he does Chloe. Chloe has everything. She has her freedom, mother doesn’t make her into someone else. I know I have, at times been cruel to Chloe. I can’t tell my baby sister I am just jealous of her. She wouldn’t understand. I see the way she idolises mother, I don’t get it. Mother is a cold, bitter woman who is stuck in the past, from a time when all a daughter was good for is marriage to a rich husband and a baby making machine. She would never understand that I don’t want children. That I want to be my own person and happy. I think that is enough of me ranting about mother, I think you get the picture My first real crush was Jakob. Chloe is so lucky, he protects her and is always there for her. He never lets her down, not to mention how good looking he is. But just like daddy he only has eyes for Chloe, I don’t know what it is about her that inspires loyalty from every guy around her. After he snubbed me for so long, I kind of got over my crush and now I just want to find that loyalty in a guy, but directed at me. I know I flirt a bit, I don’t mean anything by it, I mean mother would never approve anyway. Mother wont be happy until I am married to some rich and powerful man. So I figure I am doomed anyway so I might as well have a little fun along the way, its usually worth the trouble. Mother found me in a nightclub in an incriminating embrace with a guy, my gosh did she hit the roof. It would have been a lot worse is she knew the whole story. The guys name is Kolton and he and I have been secretly seeing each other for a while now, well had been. Mother put a stop to that when she had him fired, he couldn’t find any other work in our town cause mother knows everyone. He left town yesterday. I don’t love him or anything, so I’m not upset, but she had him fired for kissing me. Imagine what she would be capable of doing if I actually fell in love with someone she didn’t approve of. Speaking of love mother wouldn’t approve of, I saw Chloe alone with that farm hand today. He actually had the nerve to kiss her. As far as mother is concerned the help should know their place and I was on my way to let mother know that the help was making designs on Chloe, but she came barrelling out of the stables on her horse, not 2 minutes latter. So I assumed she put him in his place and got out of there. She’s too smart for him anyway, not that I have spoken to him mind you, but how smart could he really be, he is a farm hand for us. After I saw Chloe ride off I decided to check on him to make sure Chloe hadn’t hurt him, I mean he did man handle her and all, its not like he didn’t deserve it, if he was hurt, but I have never seen her in that much of a rush unless she was going to see Jakob, and for that she was heading in the wrong direction. When I walked into the stables I saw him for the first time face to face, he was sitting on a bundle of hay, wiping away an escaped tear. He saw me come in and was immediately on his feet he said to me over his shoulder, “sorry I was just taking a moment I will get back to work” I knew he said that for my benefit so I told him there was no rush and to take his time as everyone needs a break now and then. His reaction to his comment surprised me he kind of turned and looked at me like he expected me to be an ogre. The confusion in his eyes made the light grey of them almost look like pools of tar, nearly black. He sank back down onto the pile of hay and looked up at me, he said “I am sorry I have had a bit of a rough day, the girl I love doesn’t love me the way I do her” and he gushed out a bit of the story before he could stop himself. He didn’t tell me it was Chloe and I didn’t tell him I knew. Without thinking I went to his side and put my hand on his shoulder and sat beside him while he talked. Something shifted for me that afternoon, he was no longer just the farm hand, he was Nathan. Someone who understood how it felt to be lonely with people all around. After he told me of his pain, I suggested we go and sit in the private garden, where mother wouldn’t find us and ended up telling him of mine. We talked of Chloe, Mother, Daddy, our dreams and that pain. The pain of needing someone who really understands you. I few hours later, I was going back up to the house and I knew this was different, I knew he was the man with whom I wanted to spend for ever.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:50:46 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:50:46 GMT
Chapter 11I was coming down the stairs after having a sleepless night, when mother and Lizzy walked into the entry way. “Good” mother said “you are finally up”. She told both Lizzy and myself she was going away for a few days with the ladies from her bridge club, and that we were to make sure Tyler got his dinner and the house was kept clean. My heart leapt for joy yippi two wonderful days without her, but could she hurry up and go faster. Lizzy replied “of course mother, I hope you have a wonderful time”. Mother kissed Lizzy’s cheek, glared at me and told me to behave myself with that she was gone. What did she think I was going to do have a drunken orgy in the lounge room? I mean come on mother there is so much work to do, then everything that is going on with Nathan and Jakob, I couldn’t throw a party if I wanted to. I heard Lizzy sigh on her way to the kitchen and thought well at least someone is going to miss her, I certainly don’t have time to. I walked out to the shed and started up the ride on mower. It was about 2 hours later when I heard Lizzy screaming from the house, I ignored it assuming that she had seen another mouse. I had a giggle thinking about her expression. When she didn’t stop screaming, I knew then it was serious. My heart leapt into my throat, I jumped off the mower, leaving it running I took off at a sprint to the house. When I got inside I found Lizzy in the kitchen floor, her face was swollen and red, tears were pouring down her face, on the floor beside her, with his head in her lap was Daddy. She looked at me with red eyes and chocked out my worst nightmare, “He’s dead”. I rushed to his side not believing her, I touched his face and tried CPR, while screaming at Lizzy to call an ambulance. When the ambulance arrived, I move away so they could continue. Lizzy came to me and put her arms around me. I shoved her off and continued to watch the officers work on Daddy’s lifeless body. Knowing deep in the pit of y soul, that my Daddy was never coming back, I couldn’t wait and watch them take him away. I couldn’t think cause all I thought of was his body going cold, buried underground with no-one to touch him, or be with him. With him gone, no-one to love or protect me. I ran blindly from the house, I couldn’t stop my tears and they blurred my vision. I don’t know how I made it to the stables. I remember been there and pushing Nathan away. I remember seeing the concern in his eyes. I remember jumping bare back onto sunshine, and riding like a mad woman. I didn’t know where I was going, but sunshine knew me well enough to take me to Jakob. I don’t remember how he found me. What I do remember is been in his arms, in his room, feeling like I wanted to die. He stayed with me all night, stroking my hair and kissing the top of my head. Reassuring me that everything was going to be ok. Which made me scream at him “No its not. Daddy is dead”
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:53:10 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:53:10 GMT
Chapter 12The day’s leading up to the funeral passed by in a blur with a few defining moments. When I went home from Jakob’s the next day, mother was there. The seconde I walked through the door, mother flew at me, her words venomous. She screeched at me “What did you do to him, What did you say to him you little bitch. I know this is your fault”. I didn’t know how to reply, because deep down I thought it was my fault too. Out of the blue I hear a voice and feel mother being pulled off me. I looked up to see Lizzy attacking mother. Her face was still red and was contorted with rage. She stood over mother and screamed in her face “This has not got anything to do with Chloe, I was the one with Daddy as he died. If anyone should be taking the blame for this it is not Chloe and it is not me, it is you. You are the one who has to control everything and everyone. You are the one who made his life hell from the day you married him. You are the one who ruined any chance he and I had of ever having a relationship. You are the one that told me he didn’t love me. You are manipulative, conniving, sour cow with no love or thoughts for anybody but yourself. Chloe has just lost our father, and unlike you she loved him. If you want to attack her, you are going through me”. Lizzy put her arm around my shoulder and took me up to my room. She asked me if I was ok, but I was still in to much shock from Daddy’s death and this unexpected ally. I sunk onto my bed and looked at her, I asked her “why did you do that?” “Mother has been controlling every aspect of my life for as long as I can remember. Daddy spoke to me before he died, he told me he always loved me and that you would need someone when he was gone, he asked me to tell you he loves you and will always be with you he told me that you loved me and for us to look out for each other. His last thoughts were of you. I am sorry Chloe, for everything I have done to you. I do love you. I hope we can fix our relationship”. She put her arms around me in the fist hug of out lives and that’s were we fell asleep. She was still there when I woke up. Mother still hasn’t forgiven me for turning her Lizzy against her, add that to the other list of my faults and you can imagine how she is treating me. She never does it when Lizzy is around, and though Lizzy asks how mother is treating me I cant tell her, as I don’t want to cause anymore friction between them. Lizzy has been disappearing from the house for hours at a time, cant blame her I have been avoiding it myself. The day of the funeral came and went. People came from all around to pay their respects. Lizzy stayed by my side through it all. She spoke for me when anyone asked me a question. Jakob was there with Missy. Nathan was there and watched us both. There were a lot of people I didn’t know, and probably more that I did, but didn’t recognize. I couldn’t make a speech. When everyone walked away from Daddy’s grave I stayed there, Lizzy didn’t leave my side but agreed to when Jakob came and stood beside. He took me in his arms and I cried, like I had lost everything important to me, because I had. We stood there until it started to get dark and Jakob took me home.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:57:12 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:57:12 GMT
Chapter 13(though Lizzy’s eyes)Daddy’s death was the scariest thing I have ever experienced in my life. He clutched at his heart and fell down in front of me. I ran to his side and put his head in my lap. I said “I love you Daddy, you can’t die”. He spoke to me for about 2 minutes, told me he has always loved me and always will. He was gasping for air and asked me to look after Chloe. He took one last shaky breath and died in my arms. I guess I must have screamed, because the next thing I know Chloe was there asking me to call an ambulance, while she tried to revive him. Nathan came in after the ambulance left, he took one look at me and came over and took me into his arms. With his arms around me I collapsed, he carried me to the lounge room and sat me on the couch. He held me in his arms and told me the ambulance officers had told him what happened. I started crying then. Crying for me, crying for Chloe and crying for the relationship mother stole from me with every snide remark of how lucky I am she loved me, especially when y father doesn’t. Once I had cried myself to sleep, Nathan left my side long enough to call mother. When she found out who it was, she hung up on him. He then called her back and didn’t give her the chance to hang up again, he told her what happened and came back to my side. When I woke up he was still holding me, but had fallen asleep himself. So I took the opportunity to admire him. He is extremely good looking, and he had a little smile on his face as if he dreamt beautiful dreams. Feeling me stir, his eyes fluttered open and he gave me a groggy hello, but still didn’t let me go. It wasn’t until that moment that I thought to ring mother and the start I got for realizing that was enough to make me jump. “Oh crap, mother” I yelled. He told me to relax as he had already rung her and told her what had happened. When I realized mother was on her way, I knew I had to get Nathan out of the house. We went down to what I now consider out spot, the private garden and he let me talk about everything. He knew when to hold me and when to let me go. He know how to comfort me and yet to give me space. Though I hate to admit it cause I just lost my father, every time he touched me I felt sparks even though the touches were so innocent. We stayed together until we heard mother get home. We hugged and I gave him a kiss on the cheek. I know he loves Chloe and he has been the best friend I can imagine having through this time, and I refuse to jeopardize that. I avoided mother because I was too angry to deal with her, and went to and slept in Chloe’s room, waiting for her to come home. When I heard mother screeching the next day I bolted from the bed and raced downstairs in time to see her screaming and shaking Chloe. I don’t know if it was because of the lie mother had told me or because of my promise to Daddy, but something inside me snapped, and I attacked mother. I don’t remember what I said, but the look of shock on Chloe’s face when I turned to comfort her tells me it was pretty big. I took her to her room and gave her Daddy’s message. In the lead up to the funeral and during the funeral itself I tried to offer as much support and love as I could. I also took some time for myself as mother was too afraid to say anything about it. I spent a lot of that time with Nathan. I don’t know how, but he seems to know where I am all the time and just turns up. Most of the time we just talk. He occasionally touches me, but it was never anything more then friendly gestures, until the other day. He caressed my face and turned it towards him, our eyes locked and I knew at that moment I was going to kiss him. For fear of my mother catching us and what she would do to Nathan, I asked him to take me to his place. When we got there I tried to re-capture the moment, we ended up head butting and laughing hysterically. It was enough to remind me that Nathan was in love with Chloe, even if she doesn’t love him back. Just the thought of Nathan, my Nathan still been in love with Chloe turned my laughter into tears. Seeing me cry again, Nathan panicked , and backed away thinking he had upset me. I saw him backing away and assumed he had just come to his senses and realized I wasn’t Chloe, which sent me running from the house. He was not far behind me, grabbed me by the arm an spun me around, his eyes locked with mine again and I screamed at him “Why her? How can you be in love with my sister, and still manage to make me feel the way I do?” “I’m not in love with Chloe, I have been doing everything in my power to stop myself from kissing you, it has taken every ounce of strength I have to not take you in my arms and love you with every fibre of my being” he said, with that he took me into his arms and his mouth me mine in a hungry exploring mind numbing kiss that made my knees weak and my heart soar. When he pulled away from out kiss he looked into my eyes and held my hands. “I love you Lizzy, without you in my life I have nothing, I wake up every morning and you’re the first thing on my mind. I am drawn to you and know where you are without any reason. I cannot for the life of me stay away, even though I know that being with you is risking your mothers wrath, it is a risk I am more than willing to take. I need you in my life and if you leave me I would have no reason to go on. I love you with all my heart and soul.” I never thought I could ever find someone who would love me this much and when he spoke those words to me, I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him tenderly. During our kiss he scooped me up and took me back into the house, to his bedroom where he lay me gently on the bed. I whispered to him “Make love to me Nathan”. He groaned as his lips met mine. He made love to me, he was so gentle as he held me, kissing, exploring and loving me with his hands, mouth and body. That night will stay with me forever, and I don’t care what mother has to say. If she makes him leave, I’ll go too. Nathan and I have made some of the most beautiful memories of my life. Its been about 3 weeks since Daddy’s funeral. Chloe and I are closer now then we have ever been before. I haven’t told her about Nathan because she is till in a daze from loosing Daddy, but I will. Because I don’t know how much longer I can keep my happiness a secret. Chloe has thrown herself into working on out property. I think its both a combination of avoiding mother and getting over the loss of Daddy. Mother is up to her usual tricks, and though Jakob is seeing someone when ever he drops by to see Chloe and I am around, mother tries to force his intentions on me, its getting a bit old. Jakob and I have spoken more in the last few weeks then ever before. He is the only one to have noticed that I am in love. He hasn’t pried into the identity of my beau, and I cant tell anyone till I have told my sister. He is in love as well, his girlfriend sure is a lucky girl. Nathan has been away mustering for the last 4 days. I am expecting him back tomorrow afternoon, so I am going shopping for a gift to let him know that I have been thinking of him. Once I got home this afternoon everything had changed. I have never been more confused, hurt, lonely, angry or frustrated as I am now. A pretty blonde girl approached me, she seemed familiar, but I couldn’t place her. She came up to me and put her small hand on my arm and said “Lizzy, Hi. I’m Missy, Jakob’s girlfriend. I am so sorry about your father, I was at the funeral. At least there is some good to look forward to”. Fighting back the urge to slap her I replied smoothly, well as smoothly as I could in a situation like that. “What good? I have lost my father, my sister is miserable, my mother and I don’t talk. What good could you possibly be talking about?” Her face went ashen, she stuttered “I’m really sorry, I just thought with your sisters engagement you would have something positive to look forward to”. “Chloe engaged? She hasn’t told me she is engaged. I think, Missy is it, you have been misinformed”. “But I cant have been, I was there when Chloe told Jakob, her and Nathan are to be married” she said to me with wide, tearful eyes. I don’t think I said anything else to her, but I cant be sure, it was to much of a shock. My Nathan and Chloe……Engaged! Since when? Why haven’t either of them told me? I went to his house and left him a note. I then came home, I haven’t been able to stop crying since. That was 3 days ago. He has been home, he has left messages, sent flowers and even tried to get into the house. But mother, the ever faithful guard dog, has not let him in. I haven’t told Chloe I know what is going on. I can not over come the quilt I feel for sleeping with her fiancé, and don’t want to ruin the bonds of friendship that we have so recently developed
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 9:59:36 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 9:59:36 GMT
Chapter 14Ever since Daddy died everything has changed. Lizzy has been amazing. She is the only person I really get to see. I see Jakob every now and then, but its different since Missy. Nathan and I still haven’t spoken properly. Akala has been wonderful and is the only person who knows everything. I arrived home the other day and there were several more bouquets of flowers for Lizzy. The cards all read the same To my dearest LizzyFrom the man that loves you
Today was different though, I heard Jakob’s voice as he was leaving and I as I got home. He called out good-bye to Lizzy and was gone. I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, so I ran to my room and sat thinking about the possibilities. Mother interrupted my quiet reprieve “Isn’t it wonderful Chloe. Jakob just brought in another wonderful bouquet of flowers for Lizzy and finally that pathetic gold digger, Missy is off the scene. Now Lizzy can have him all to herself.” She sighed happily “Don’t forget to wash up for dinner, it will be ready in 10 minutes” with that she glided out of the room. Today was different though, I heard Jakob’s voice as he was leaving and I as I got home. He called out good-bye to Lizzy and was gone. I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, so I ran to my room and sat thinking about the possibilities. Mother interrupted my quiet reprieve “Isn’t it wonderful Chloe. Jakob just brought in another wonderful bouquet of flowers for Lizzy and finally that pathetic gold digger, Missy is off the scene. Now Lizzy can have him all to herself.” She sighed happily “Don’t forget to wash up for dinner, it will be ready in 10 minutes” with that she glided out of the room. I couldn’t take anymore, enough is enough. I packed some things and left. I went to Nathan, I told him about Lizzy and Jakob and how happy mother is they are together. I told him I wanted to get married, tonight. His shoulders slumped and he walked inside packed up some of this things and we were gone. We travelled to the next town and booked ourselves into a motel for the night. We decided to do the registry office first thing in the morning. I don’t know why Nathan was upset, but he seemed to sense my sadness and we took comfort in each others arms that night, then we were married the next morning.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 10:05:51 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 10:05:51 GMT
Chapter 15(this is more of a continuation of the last chapter..)When we arrived back to our room, Nathan went for a shower. I walked around the room picking up the dirty clothes we had shed the night before. I heard something crinkle in Nathan’s jacket pocket as I hung it on the chair. I don’t know why, but I put my hand in and pulled out a piece of paper that had been folded and unfolded so much the edges were curly. I opened it up and saw Lizzy’s handwriting. Wondering why my new husband had a letter from my sister in his pocket, I sat down on the chair and began to read Dear Nathan, This is the hardest thing I have ever had to write. I love you, more than words can say, and wanted to spend my life with you regardless of the consequences, but that was before I knew the truth. Why didn’t you tell me you are engaged to my sister? How could you let me find out from a stranger rather then from you, the man I love? I was so embarrassed, so hurt. I will miss you, but it is time I start looking out for and protecting my little sister, she is the only family I have left and I will not see her hurt again, by my actions either intentional or unintentional. That is why I am saying good bye. It has to be like this, though I wish with all of my heart and soul it could be different, I cannot let her be hurt again. She has been through too much. We can never be together, you have made a commitment to her and if you wont honor that then I have to. I want you to know though that our time together will always stay with me. When I think of us, I will smile. I will always remember that first time, the night you proclaimed you love to me, how gentle you were with my body, and the way you worshiped me. What we had was wonderful. Nathan I want you to remember that I will always love you.
With love, forever yours, Lizzy XXOO
Feeling not a little shocked and more then a little confused, I re-folded the letter and waited for Nathan to get out of the shower. Stepping out of the bathroom 5 minutes later, he saw me on the chair with the letter in my hand. He knelt down in front of me and took my hands in his “Chloe, just like I know you are not in love with me, you know that I am not in love with you. I do love and respect you enough to honour the commitment I made to you. Lizzy and I are in love. Neither of us wanted to hurt you”. He went on to explain everything in detail. He also told me it was no use, an that Lizzy doesn’t want him back. He tried calling, coming around and even sending flowers. “But you said yourself, she has moved on, she and Jakob are together now” he said with sad eyes. “Its no use”. “Flowers! To my dearest Lizzy, from the man that loves you. You sent them?” I asked with wide eyes. “Yes” he replied “I had to at least try win her back somehow”. “I have a confession to make. I am now and always have been in love with Jakob. The only reason I accepted your proposal was because I thought you loved me, and as one of my dearest friends, I thought I could grow to love you. As one of my dearest friends I also want to see you happy and if I thought for one second that you were in love with someone else, I would never had gone through with this. Jakob doesn’t love me like that, and when mother told me he was sending Lizzy those flowers, it broke my heart and that’s when I decided I was going to marry you. But I can put this right. We are going back home, I am going to talk to Lizzy and you are going into town to get our marriage annulled. If there is any chance of you and Lizzy being happy, I am not going to stand in the way of that” Nathan dropped me back at his place when we got back to our town, so I could get my own car. I drove home like a crazy woman, my heart was soaring. I couldn’t wait to tell Lizzy the good, no great news. I flew into our driveway, knocking over one of the statues in my rush. I ran into the house and almost knocked over mother. “Chloe” she snarled “where the h*ll have you been and who the h*ll have you been with you tramp?” I leaned back slightly, looked her up and down and thought to myself, you are not worth it. Without saying a word I pushed passed her on my quest of Lizzy. I searched the house hight and low, eventually finding her in the secluded garden. She had a formal looking letter in her hands and her eyes were wide, but she had a slight smile on her lips. I called out to her in my excitement, she looked up at me in surprise and tried to hide the letter, I didn’t even think about it as I gushed out all my news. “Nathan loves you Lizzy. We got married. As we speak he is getting it annulled. He wants to marry you”. I took her hands, looked into her sad eyes “I want him to. You deserve to be happy”. I spilled the rest of my news. When I had done talking she stood up and gave me a long, tight hug. When we pulled away she handed me the letter she was reading earlier “Chloe, I have some news of my own. Read it” she said. Four words jumped out at me, Elizabeth, pregnancy test, Positive. I started screaming in delight. I was so happy for them. Lizzy stopped me then and there and said “I cant be happy unless you are”. “I am happy Lizzy, I am happy for you” I replied. “Why didn’t you and Jakob get together, you are perfect for each other” she asked. I lowered my eyes. “Lizzy, Jakob doesn’t love me like that”. Lizzy laughed, I wanted to slap her for laughing at my pain. “Chloe, Honey. He does love you. He has loved you since we were Children. That hasn’t changed, just grown. Why cant you see that?” “He told me one day that he just wanted to be my friend”. Lizzy looked at me and said “Did he say ‘just’ or did he say ‘always’. Because if he said always he is probably just afraid of losing you”. My world started spinning as the realization of her words sunk in. “So what are we waiting for” I yelled as I grabbed her hand and walked her as fast as I could to the car. We piled in and I dropped her at Nathan’s on my way to see Jakob. When I arrived I sat in the car, my stomach was churning as I built up the courage to tell him my feelings. I was still sitting there when he came out. His face lit up into a smile. I got out of the car and stood in front of him. I looked into his dreamy eyes, I didn’t know what to say to him . So I lifted myself up and kissed him on the lips. It was not just any old friendly kiss on the lips, behind it I put all the love and feelings I had on the line, for him to accept or reject. Finally after 15 years of waiting he kissed me back, with no fear, no doubt, but with intensity and passion. His arms folded around me and my body merged with his in the most soul searing kiss, my hands found their way up his neck and moved through the thick hair at the nape, and his hands captured my face to pull me closer. My blood felt like it was on fire and every sensation in my body was magnified. My heart felt like it was going to burst forth from my chest, I could hear it beating in my ears. My stomach danced in a way that might have made me sick if Jakob’s arms had not been around me. When we broke off the kiss, real life came back into focus, I pounded on his chest with my fists and said to him “Don’t ever do that to me again” He looked so confused when he said “What, kiss you?”. I said “No, waste fifteen years, or hold back the full truth from me”. He took me back into his arms and kissed me again, while murmuring against my lips, I won’t waste another minute, much less a year. If it hadn’t been for Lizzy’s hysterical phone call we probably would have stayed there for the next week making up for lost time, but the phone call came and Lizzy needed me. I couldn’t imagine what could have gone wrong, I knew Lizzy and Nathan loved each other. I told Jakob I had to go to Lizzy and when he saw how upset I was he took my keys, got in the car and drove me to Nathan’s. Lizzy was waiting out the front when we got there and came running to the car, she jumped in, while buckling her seat belt she told Jakob she had to get to the hospital. She told us on the way that Nathan had been in an accident. The police had come to his house, as per his instructions that a ‘Lizzy’ was waiting for him and to tell her. We found Nathan sitting up, on his hospital bed, talking with the nurse. Lizzy ran over and lay next to him on the bed. She lay there kissing his swollen and cut face “Don’t you ever worry me like that again” she scolded him, he started to laugh, then growled in pain, grabbing his ribs. Lizzy panicked, the nurse reassured her that he was fine, just has very bruised ribs and minor concussion. Jakob put his arm around me and pulled me to his side. I leaned into him and he kissed the top of my head. Lizzy and Nathan looked at us, “its about time you two got yourselves sorted out and together” Lizzy said with a smile on her face. Jakob just grinned. I knew then everything was as it should be. We stayed for a while before agreeing to leave a happy, if sore and sorry Nathan and a very happy Lizzy in a contented embrace. We went back to Jakob’s place after we left the hospital. Jakob helped me out of the car, well pulled me from the car into his strong arms, planting his lips on mine in a hungry, hot, searching kiss which I returned with just as much hunger. He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist. He walked me to his front door, holding me and never breaking our kiss. He leaned me up against his door and pushed himself into me and deepened out kiss. “Jakob” I murmured “Jakob stop and put me down so I can go inside, we will wake your mum” He ignored me and started kissing my neck. I giggled and put my hands on his face and lifted it up “Jakob, baby. I want you, just as much as you want me, but this just isn’t the place to do it. Put me down”. “No” he growled “you are not going anywhere”. With that he opened his front door and took a laughing me upstairs, laying me gently on his bed and only leaving me for a moment, he joined me seconds later, once again joining his lips to mine. His hands freely roamed my body, as he shed my clothes. . Looking down at me he said with lust in his eyes “Chloe, you are beautiful”. Grabbing his large shoulders I forced him onto his back and re-paid the favour, I touched his rock hard, tanned chest. Running my hands down the length of his torso to the tops of his jeans. He grabbed my hands before I could shed them, I looked up and into his eyes as he said “Chloe, I love you.” I swooned and bent my head to his, meeting his lips with mine we had another long hot kiss. He swung me under him and left my side just for a moment as he took off his jeans. When he came back to me, to my lips I whispered “I love you to Jakob”. He was so gentle, loving and caring, but yet strong and masculine. He made love to me over and over again, each time better then the next. We eventually fell asleep in each others arms.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 10:08:56 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 10:08:56 GMT
Chapter 16I have had the most amazing past few months. Nathan went back to work on our farm, originally. He and Lizzy decided to keep their love and marriage a secret, well at least until she started to show. When Nathan was working in the stables on day he came across a trap door he hadn’t encounter before. Hidden within was a copy of Daddy’s will. Attached to it was a letter in Daddy’s hands made out to Lizzy and I. In it Daddy stated that he knew Sindee well enough to know that the original will had probably been destroyed, in order for her to maintain the lifestyle to which she was accustomed. He also said he knew she wouldn’t dream of going into the stables, much less fossick around for a hidden copy of his will, so he had figured it would be safe until some body found it. He also stated that everything was top be left to Lizzy and I, with the acceptation of a small cottage in which mother could live out the rest of her days and that the homestead having belonged to his parents, and being willed to him and his daughters by them, she was not able to contest it. It was a couple of weeks after the will had turned up that we confronted mother with the news of our respective marriages. News she didn’t take well. She hit the roof and screamed at Lizzy and I. Turning on Lizzy first she shouted “After all I have done to put you into a position of respect and in the path of suitable bachelors, you choose to disgrace your family and marry the help”, and you she said turning onto me “You have the ordasity to marry above your station, to ruin all Lizzy’s chances of happiness”. Lizzy told her to calm down and there was more “Mother, whether you choose to believe it or not I am happy and not only am I happy and in love with Nathan, but we are also expecting” Mothers face went white, before turning to Lizzy and telling her that “that child will never be welcome in my home”. Deciding on impulse to take some of the unwelcome scorn from Lizzy, I said “and does that apply to my child too?” “And who’s kid is yours she replied icily to me. Don’t think I don’t know about you dallying with the help too, you have to do more then travel to the next town for me not to hear about that, you little slut. I bet you don’t even know which one of them is the father.” “So I guess that means my children aren’t welcome either, mother. Well time for you to get down off your high horse. We know you destroyed Daddy’s will. We also know that in it you are entitled to a small cottage in that little town you seem to have eyes and ears in”. “Prove it” mother dared. “Mother we both love you, in spite if everything you have said and done to us. We still want you to be involved in our and our children’s life’s. Now is your chance to accept us as we are and play a role or to choose to alienate yourself from us. You can have some time to think about it”. We rose ready to walk away and give her some time when she declared “I have no daughters, and therefore no grandchildren, I do not need time to think. You are both ungrateful and unworthy of the Bergman name. I don’t want to see either of you back here again, now get out”. Later that afternoon, Jakob and I returned to the homestead with our Lawyer. He presented her with the verified copy of the will and told her she had the standard 48 hours to leave the property and that with her, she could take her clothing, jewellery and any personal effects, but everything else was to remain in the home. Should she attempt to fight this, we would also be seeking damages for attempting to conceal the original will of one, Tyler Isaac Bergman. Mother turned and left the house, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. When Lizzy and Nathan showed up later and asked how it went, I told her everything. The she attacked me “Why didn’t you tell me you were pregnant?” “I found out yesterday” I laughed as Jakob came up behind me and wrapped his arms protectively around my lower belly “and I had to tell this one first” nodding over my shoulder at Jakob. Lizzy grabbed me from Jakob’s arms, hugging me and squealing “Oh we are going to be pregnant together”. She spun me around grinning stupidly. Jakob groaned, I guess the thought of having two beautiful pregnant women was too much for him to bear. I poked him in the ribs and he leaned in and gave me a long kiss. Lizzy interrupted us, by taking my hand and asking for some quality sister time. Jakob grumbled something about leaving me and I giggled. I took the time to appreciate his jean clad rump as he walked away. Lizzy looked serious for a minute as she grabbed my hand again and dragged me up to her old room. We relaxed on the bed and she said “I have some more news to tell you. My baby is not a baby, it is two babies. I am having twins!” It took me a moment to recover from the news, but before I could she asked if I knew how Nathan came to work for Daddy. I replied that all I really knew is that Nathan looked up to Daddy as a Father figure. She told me there was more to the story than that and that Nathan had kept a few secrets of his own up until recently. I raised my eyebrows in question and she continued. “Daddy had know his parents, they died in an accident about a year before he came to work here, they had been involved in a car accident. I told her that I knew that, but she continued as if I hadn’t spoken. He was on a downward spiral, getting heavily into drinking and it was then that Daddy went looking for him. Daddy pulled him out of it and offered him a job, a place to stay and let him know he would be here for him. The secret that Nathan had being keeping was who his parents were before they died. Mother would have kittens is she actually knew, Nathan is not just the help. He was also the sole heir to the Fosters fortune. He is rich in his own right and more powerful then any of the ‘suitable bachelors’ mother had paraded me past. Nathan told me that the work and his promise to Daddy, that if anything happened to him, he would look out for us, that kept him here”. I smiled at her words, as Nathan had told me all of this when we got engaged he also asked me to keep his secret. For Lizzy though, I sat awestruck. I let her words sink in and I panicked, Does this mean Lizzy would move away? and with me moving in with Jakob to help on his farm, if Nathan and Lizzy went who would I get to supervise it? Unwilling tears sprung to my eyes as these questions fell out of my mouth. Lizzy was very quick to reassure me that they had every intention of staying and looking after Daddy’s dreams and it was only then that the irony of the situation sunk in. Mother would have kittens? Can you say understatement! Without any further explanation I dissolved into tears of laughter. I guess you really do make the bed you live in. Poor mother, she will never know.
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Chloe
Apr 5, 2006 10:11:06 GMT
Post by Shell on Apr 5, 2006 10:11:06 GMT
Chapter 17Our pregnancies progressed and Lizzy and my friendship grew (along with our bellies). Our husbands were in complete awe of out changing bodies and were walking on egg shells trying to protect us from everything. At seven months, Lizzy was told that due to the fact it was her first pregnancy, and that twins tend to come early anyway, in order to give them as much of a head start as possible, she needed complete bed rest. Nathan didn’t want to leave her side and I was only six months myself, so I offered, much to Jakobs dislike, to help out on the property. At least until I hit eight months. I was down the back of the property, checking the fence line on my last day of work (Jakobs insistence, I reluctantly agreed, working at eight months is a bit of a strain) when I felt a sharp pain, it didn’t last long and I assumed it was boston hicks contractions as I hadn’t had any before. The next one came harder and I decided it was a good idea to sit under the tree near the lake and wait for them to stop. It took what felt like forever to get around the lake and under the tree, it probably was only 15 minutes. As one pain would go, I had about 2 minutes before the next one came. I was sitting there waiting for them pain to reside, when I decided now was a good time to go home and start resting up for the birth, because if this was an example of how painful it was going to be, I needed all my strength. I pulled out my mobile phone and called Jakob. I told him about the phantom pains and asked him to come and get me. As I hung up the phone I heard a voice of an angel. Akala was standing at my side. “Chloe” she giggled “They are not phantom pains, you are having. They are real and your son is on his way”. I looked at her in shock “But I am only eight months”. She laughed “well, then tell him that, because like or not he is on his way. Chloe your attractions are real and at 30 seconds apart he is going to be here in the next 10 minutes. You can have him here on the bank, in the dirt or you can do the smart thing and go into the water, submerge yourself and have a relatively easy delivery. I will be here with you the whole way. I won’t leave you”. Had anyone else spoken those words, I would have been gripped by panic. Knowing Akala and knowing that she had delivered five children of her own, her words calmed me as I followed her instructions. We were both in the water when the first urge to push struck me. Supporting me from behind, Akala told me to let instinct be my guide. By the time Jakob arrived, half an hour later. I was cradling our son in my arms. He was small but health. He approached us and sat awe struck as I fed out son. He tried to speak but words failed him “I…., but…., how…., what…..”. He put his arms around us and asked “are you both alright?”. “Yes” I replied in a calm and contented voice “but I think we should go to the hospital”. We got into the car, me holding out new born son. Jakob kept looking over at us like we were going to disappear on him. The shock, surprise and pride was written all over his face. He still couldn’t speak and it was only when we were in the hospital that he found his voice again. “What happened?” he asked. “When I got off the phone to you, Akala was there. She helped me with the birth, she cut the umbilical cord and wrapped our son, when she saw your car approach she left us” I told him.
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