“You two want to explain?” David asked heatedly.
“About?” Jamie muttered, rolling his left hand.
“Don’t you get smart young man; you know full well what he’s asking?!” Rhonda intoned, glaring at her son. “What did you do to get Krissy to marry you?”
“Nothing,” Jamie answered, wearing a coy smirk.
“I’ve had enough of your snarky attitude! I will get this marriage annulled!” David shouted, surging to his feet. A cold chill ran down his spine as his daughter’s eyes flicked up at him while her leg lazily kicked as it rested over the other.
“You can’t, if you try to take my husband away from me, you won’t have a daughter any longer, am I clear, father?” Krissy spoke in a hard-edged tone. “Dad, Rhonda, we’re sorry, but we’ve been married for four years now. I’m sorry we’ve kept it from you, but you two obviously don’t understand how I felt about Jamie back then or how I still feel about him, so we hid it from you.”
“You’ve what?!” Rhonda and David yelled in unison.
“We’re married; surely you’re hearing hasn’t gone out yet, surely now,” Jamie stated, poking fun at the two of them.
“I can’t believe this! Krissy, tell me he didn’t force you into this!” David said, pleading with his daughter to tell him that this was all a joke. That this was just one of Jamie’s sick pranks, he would have done just to irk him and his mother.
“Do you think I’m so weak-minded that I’m so easily led into something?” Krissy asked testily. “I understand you’re upset, Dad, but if you disrespect my husband again, you can forget about coming to our renewal,” she threatened.
“Now, now, let’s all just take a breath for a moment before we say anything we might regret,” Rhonda said, trying to defuse the situation. However, the taunting grin on Jamie’s face was not helping matters.
“You would really choose him over your own father?!” David asked, a little shocked that his daughter gave him that ultimatum.
“I’m not the one that will be doing the choosing, Dad. That would be you; whether you like what we’ve done isn’t the point. We were both over eighteen, both legal adults that could do what we saw fit, and I saw fit to marry the man I love. Now that you know, I don’t have to tiptoe around the fact that I had to hide our marriage from the family,” Krissy responded, sighing in her mind that her father just couldn’t accept the fact that she and Jamie would be together for all their lives if she had it her way. Her arm moved over Suzie’s head and rested along Jamie’s shoulders or as much as she could reach from her spot. “This is how it’s going to be, Dad; either accept it and be happy for us or you can forget being a part of our lives. The same goes for you too, Rhonda,” she said, her eyes flickered over to her stepmother.
“Now, wait just one minute!” David spoke, getting rather hot beneath the collar at his daughter’s audacity to dictate how he was going to act in his own home. “I will not put up with this in my house!”
“Alright,” Jamie said, shrugging his shoulders. He didn’t really want to stay there if he could help it, and it seemed that David just gave him the out he wanted. “Remember you chose this,” he stated, holding out his hand to Krissy.
“Jamie, David, let’s just wait a moment,” Rhonda uttered, getting between the two of them. “I think David’s just letting his emotions get the better of him, isn’t that right, dear?” she asked pointedly as she stared David down.
“No, I’ve put up with his shit for years now; I’m not going to do so any longer!” David snapped.
“You can’t say I didn’t try,” Jamie said, peering over at Krissy, who wore a disappointed look on her face at her father’s lack of respect.
“I know you did, just didn’t think my father would be like this. Don’t worry, Suzie, we’ll come back and see you,” Krissy said, bending down, hugging her little sister, and placing a kiss on Suzie’s right cheek. Her back snapped up when the front door slammed shut, not realizing that Rhonda had rushed to it and forcibly closed it, keeping them from leaving.
“No! No one is leaving! David get over your shit,” Rhonda snarled at her husband. She was not about to lose this chance to keep her son as close to her as he would allow. “I’m not allowing your attitude to estrange me from my son,” she said, seeing a strange look in Jamie’s eyes when she said that. “We’re going to work this out; whether you dislike the fact they’re married isn’t going to change a thing. All you’re going to do is keep her away from us,” Rhonda stated, waving her hand at the two children she had with David. “Is that what you want? For your other children to never see their brother and sister again because you’re having a hissy fit about what they legally did when they were out of this house? Who didn’t need our permission to do a damn thing since they were well over the legal age? So when did this happen?” she asked, ignoring her husband’s angry stare as she peered over at the two of them.
“A week after we arrived at Hugo’s and Marla’s place,” Jamie answered truthfully, flashing Krissy a smile when his mother just sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose as she shook her head.
“So then all that you told was just a lie?”
“Pretty much,” Jamie replied.
“And why did you feel the need to lie to us?” Rhonda asked, looking between the two of them.
“Seriously?” Jamie spoke with an arched eyebrow. “Do I need to remind the two of you how the two of you were acting back then? Also, you two had to go and get that woman involved.” Jamie wouldn’t say Krissy’s mother’s name ever again, not after he learned it was her hand in what happened two years ago. He’s never told Krissy about it and thought it better to keep it from her so she would at least have some form of a relationship with her. Although, if he thought back over the past two years, Krissy’s calls or texts to her mother weren’t all that numerous. Shaking the thought from his mind, whether or not Krissy knew of her mother’s involvement in the event two years ago wasn’t important at the moment. “If you think I’m just going to stand by and allow you or anyone to stand between me and my wife, you don’t know me very well.” It wasn’t hard to note Krissy’s bashful, loving look when he said that.
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