It's February already, and Eros hadn't received any further calls from Auntie. Neither he ever called her again. He did try to, two moths ago, but he couldn't find the strength to do so. What he would say to her anyway? He wasn't planning on starting a family anyway. But he knew, it was time by now. Maybe she was lying ...
Just as he was thinking that, the phone rung.
"This is Auntie, Eros. I just called to say that me and Dewayne are back from the hospital"
"Hospital??? Are you OK??And who is Dewayne?"
"Yes we are both perfectly fine. Dewayne is your SON, you moron!Remember?I just thought to let you know in case you wanted to come to see him"
"How am I supposed to know that?"
"If you had called at least once, you would know."
"I did try.."she cut him off once more
"I don't want to listen to your excuses Eros. Are you coming to see him or not?"
"Yes I will. I have a thing to do first though"
"I know what "things" you are doing Eros, and I'm not interested in the details. Just don't be late. Dewayne and I are quite tired and we would like to rest soon"
"OK, I'll be there before 9pm"
"Fine"
He closed the door behind him and walked to his car. He had promised Pary Strange he was going to show her around the base. He had now been promoted twice already and he had some access to some of the labs. Pary wasn't really interested in those stuff, but he knew she was trying to impress him.
"You are late baby" she said and flung her arms around him
"I'm sorry, I had work to do. Shall we? We can't stay long, even though I'm allowed in here, you are not, and if we get caught, we'll be both in trouble. The guard on shift is a friend of mine and he will keep his mouth closed. But the shift will change in two hours and we'll have to be outta here before that"
"OK, let's go then"
Of course ten minutes later Pary was already bored. When he showed her the shuttle however, she changed mood.
"You will travel with that one day?" She asked
"Hopefully yes"
As soon as he said that, she kissed him. He kissed her back and things started getting out of hand once more. He pulled her in the armory and locked the door. Ten minutes before shift change, someone knocked on the door.
"You gotta get outta here man, Gus will be here any minute now, and he is already late"
They got dressed fast and run out. Pary was running ahead as he was still putting his shirt on.
"Back to my place?" She asked once they got into his car.
"OK" he replied and drove away.
Just around the corner, they saw Gus driving to the base
"Ha! that was close" Eros said and they both laughed
Two hours later and they were already all over each other again, at Pary's.
"Baby , I have to go"
"Already?I thought you where staying the night"
"I can't, I have work to do, and I'm supposed to get up early in the morning"
"You work too much"
"I have to get into that shuttle someday, remember?"
"I know, baby, I know"
As he left, Pary noticed that he didn't drive towards his house, but to a completely different direction.
"You are late. I was just putting him to sleep"
"I'm sorry I had.."
"..a "thing" to do. Yes I know. Does your "thing" know about Dewayne? Or about Cedric?I bet she has no idea. Poor Pary"
"Cedric? And how the heck do you know about Pary?"
"The whole Longview knows about Pary.She seems quite exited to be dating you and gets blabby about it. Not to your liking i guess."
Eros did not like what he just heard. He wasn't actually dating Pary, they were just hanging out every now and then.
"Pary and I are not dating.Who is Cedric again?"
"YOU are not dating her, but it seems you totally forgot to let HER know, as you usually do"
"Look, I never promised anything to anyone. Not to you either"
"The problem is that you might not be promising things, but you are still not making your intentions clear"
"I'm not gonna start a debate over this. Are you avoiding my question? Who is Cedric?"
"Cedric is your other son. The one Regina gave birth to, a week ago. The baby came a bit early"
"My what?How do you know Regina?"
He was starting to feel dizzy. This couldn't be happening.
"Regina is an old friend of mine. We met in the hospital after a long time. And we had a little chat about the fathers of our children, that ended up being the same person. She left two days after i got in."
"I need to sit down"
"Good for you. Go sit in your fancy car, I need to put the baby to sleep and go to bed myself.Goodnight"
Sitting in his car, confused and angry, was trying to figure out what his life had just become. Why Regina never told him? Auntie did, with her own unique way, but she did. He had to know.
"Eros??It's almost midnight what are you doing here?"
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"You never told me about Cedric!"
"Let me put Cedric in the crib and we'll head outside"
"I see you've talked with Auntie already. We both agreed that our thing was just for a night. When I found out I was pregnant I was extremely happy, since I always wanted a child. But I swore I'll never tell you. After all you are no father material and we both know that. When I met Auntie in the hospital after all those years, we started talking. We shared our baby stories and why there was no father there to support us.Once we realised that our babies where brothers, we freaked out. Auntie and I agreed that it's better if we let you know about Cedric as well. I had no phone number of yours since you keep changing mobiles. But Auntie had found your home number, and we decided that she will tell you."
"Wait a minute here, you were talking about me behind my back?"
"That's the only thing that bothers you? Are you THAT selfish? Do you have any idea what harm you could have caused to those children? What if one of them was a girl Eros? What if I never knew Auntie? They would have never known they are siblings! They are going to go to the same school! they would have met each other eventually. And they both have your gens..What if they started dating one day?"
Eros was getting dizzy again. And angry. How could she blame him about that? She was the one that wanted to keep Cedric secret from him?And then he snapped
"Did it ever occur to you that the fact that YOU decided to hide the child from me, is the biggest mistake you could have ever done? That if your son was a girl , she would eventually end up in my bed if i never found out about her?"
"You are disgusting Eros!Thankfully it's a boy and unfortunately it's not only MY son, he is yours too! Now get off my lot and don't come back. If you want to see Cedric ever again, hire a lawyer.You can afford that."
He almost did not sleep at all that night. He kept thinking what had just happened. And whenever his eyes closed, dreadful nightmares about him sleeping with his own daughter, or his children getting married to each other woke him up at once. Next day at work was horrible as he couldn't lift his feet from the ground. Thankfully his good performance so far had gotten him in the General's good side, and since he was sure that Eros had a quite "busy" night he gave him the rest of the day off.
Once he got home he got a phone call that was the icing on the cake.
"Hello?"
"So you had work to do, right?"
"What are you talking about, Pary?"
"Can you please explain to me what "work" you had to do at Auntie Lynds' place?And then at Sim Regina's?"
"What?How the heck..?"
"I saw you driving towards the other direction Eros!I knew you were not going home!I followed you! I saw you going into Auntie's house! And then I waited and you came back out and again you didn't go home!You went to Regina's instead!I didn't want to see more, so I left after she let you in!"
"You did WHAT? You've been following me around?"
"Yes I did! You are a liar Eros! A cheater! And I don't want to see you ever again!"
"ARE YOU THAT DISTURBED???WHAT ARE YOU 15?? YOU'VE BEEN STALKING ME AND THEN YOU ARE MAKING A SCENE??? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH THE WHOLE NIGHT?? I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS CHILDISH STUFF! GET A LIFE!"
Pary was crying hard but still Eros hung up on her.He didn't want to deal with this now. Nor ever. He hated that kind of behaviour and that was the end of Pary for him. She was really fun to be around with, but acting like this after a couple of dates? No , he would be way better off without her.
Just as he was thinking that, the phone rung.
"This is Auntie, Eros. I just called to say that me and Dewayne are back from the hospital"
"Hospital??? Are you OK??And who is Dewayne?"
"Yes we are both perfectly fine. Dewayne is your SON, you moron!Remember?I just thought to let you know in case you wanted to come to see him"
"How am I supposed to know that?"
"If you had called at least once, you would know."
"I did try.."she cut him off once more
"I don't want to listen to your excuses Eros. Are you coming to see him or not?"
"Yes I will. I have a thing to do first though"
"I know what "things" you are doing Eros, and I'm not interested in the details. Just don't be late. Dewayne and I are quite tired and we would like to rest soon"
"OK, I'll be there before 9pm"
"Fine"
He closed the door behind him and walked to his car. He had promised Pary Strange he was going to show her around the base. He had now been promoted twice already and he had some access to some of the labs. Pary wasn't really interested in those stuff, but he knew she was trying to impress him.
"You are late baby" she said and flung her arms around him
"I'm sorry, I had work to do. Shall we? We can't stay long, even though I'm allowed in here, you are not, and if we get caught, we'll be both in trouble. The guard on shift is a friend of mine and he will keep his mouth closed. But the shift will change in two hours and we'll have to be outta here before that"
"OK, let's go then"
Of course ten minutes later Pary was already bored. When he showed her the shuttle however, she changed mood.
"You will travel with that one day?" She asked
"Hopefully yes"
As soon as he said that, she kissed him. He kissed her back and things started getting out of hand once more. He pulled her in the armory and locked the door. Ten minutes before shift change, someone knocked on the door.
"You gotta get outta here man, Gus will be here any minute now, and he is already late"
They got dressed fast and run out. Pary was running ahead as he was still putting his shirt on.
"Back to my place?" She asked once they got into his car.
"OK" he replied and drove away.
Just around the corner, they saw Gus driving to the base
"Ha! that was close" Eros said and they both laughed
Two hours later and they were already all over each other again, at Pary's.
"Baby , I have to go"
"Already?I thought you where staying the night"
"I can't, I have work to do, and I'm supposed to get up early in the morning"
"You work too much"
"I have to get into that shuttle someday, remember?"
"I know, baby, I know"
As he left, Pary noticed that he didn't drive towards his house, but to a completely different direction.
"You are late. I was just putting him to sleep"
"I'm sorry I had.."
"..a "thing" to do. Yes I know. Does your "thing" know about Dewayne? Or about Cedric?I bet she has no idea. Poor Pary"
"Cedric? And how the heck do you know about Pary?"
"The whole Longview knows about Pary.She seems quite exited to be dating you and gets blabby about it. Not to your liking i guess."
Eros did not like what he just heard. He wasn't actually dating Pary, they were just hanging out every now and then.
"Pary and I are not dating.Who is Cedric again?"
"YOU are not dating her, but it seems you totally forgot to let HER know, as you usually do"
"Look, I never promised anything to anyone. Not to you either"
"The problem is that you might not be promising things, but you are still not making your intentions clear"
"I'm not gonna start a debate over this. Are you avoiding my question? Who is Cedric?"
"Cedric is your other son. The one Regina gave birth to, a week ago. The baby came a bit early"
"My what?How do you know Regina?"
He was starting to feel dizzy. This couldn't be happening.
"Regina is an old friend of mine. We met in the hospital after a long time. And we had a little chat about the fathers of our children, that ended up being the same person. She left two days after i got in."
"I need to sit down"
"Good for you. Go sit in your fancy car, I need to put the baby to sleep and go to bed myself.Goodnight"
Sitting in his car, confused and angry, was trying to figure out what his life had just become. Why Regina never told him? Auntie did, with her own unique way, but she did. He had to know.
"Eros??It's almost midnight what are you doing here?"
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"You never told me about Cedric!"
"Let me put Cedric in the crib and we'll head outside"
"I see you've talked with Auntie already. We both agreed that our thing was just for a night. When I found out I was pregnant I was extremely happy, since I always wanted a child. But I swore I'll never tell you. After all you are no father material and we both know that. When I met Auntie in the hospital after all those years, we started talking. We shared our baby stories and why there was no father there to support us.Once we realised that our babies where brothers, we freaked out. Auntie and I agreed that it's better if we let you know about Cedric as well. I had no phone number of yours since you keep changing mobiles. But Auntie had found your home number, and we decided that she will tell you."
"Wait a minute here, you were talking about me behind my back?"
"That's the only thing that bothers you? Are you THAT selfish? Do you have any idea what harm you could have caused to those children? What if one of them was a girl Eros? What if I never knew Auntie? They would have never known they are siblings! They are going to go to the same school! they would have met each other eventually. And they both have your gens..What if they started dating one day?"
Eros was getting dizzy again. And angry. How could she blame him about that? She was the one that wanted to keep Cedric secret from him?And then he snapped
"Did it ever occur to you that the fact that YOU decided to hide the child from me, is the biggest mistake you could have ever done? That if your son was a girl , she would eventually end up in my bed if i never found out about her?"
"You are disgusting Eros!Thankfully it's a boy and unfortunately it's not only MY son, he is yours too! Now get off my lot and don't come back. If you want to see Cedric ever again, hire a lawyer.You can afford that."
He almost did not sleep at all that night. He kept thinking what had just happened. And whenever his eyes closed, dreadful nightmares about him sleeping with his own daughter, or his children getting married to each other woke him up at once. Next day at work was horrible as he couldn't lift his feet from the ground. Thankfully his good performance so far had gotten him in the General's good side, and since he was sure that Eros had a quite "busy" night he gave him the rest of the day off.
Once he got home he got a phone call that was the icing on the cake.
"Hello?"
"So you had work to do, right?"
"What are you talking about, Pary?"
"Can you please explain to me what "work" you had to do at Auntie Lynds' place?And then at Sim Regina's?"
"What?How the heck..?"
"I saw you driving towards the other direction Eros!I knew you were not going home!I followed you! I saw you going into Auntie's house! And then I waited and you came back out and again you didn't go home!You went to Regina's instead!I didn't want to see more, so I left after she let you in!"
"You did WHAT? You've been following me around?"
"Yes I did! You are a liar Eros! A cheater! And I don't want to see you ever again!"
"ARE YOU THAT DISTURBED???WHAT ARE YOU 15?? YOU'VE BEEN STALKING ME AND THEN YOU ARE MAKING A SCENE??? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH THE WHOLE NIGHT?? I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS CHILDISH STUFF! GET A LIFE!"
Pary was crying hard but still Eros hung up on her.He didn't want to deal with this now. Nor ever. He hated that kind of behaviour and that was the end of Pary for him. She was really fun to be around with, but acting like this after a couple of dates? No , he would be way better off without her.
Oh boy, I love Regina. There is something about her that even in my game, she comes across as very feisty and strong and not afraid to say what is on her mind! And very likely to slap someone like Eros who gets on her bad side!
ReplyDeleteAuntie Lynds was good at dropping the bomb on Eros, too!
Poor Pary! She deserves better. But I can understand Eros not appreciating being followed and spied on.