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At Tragic Heights; NEW! James/OFC short story...sequel to Firewalking and HYBTB
Topic Started: March 8, 2012, 3:23 pm (8,489 Views)
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James asked Lars to do it? I hope :biggrin

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Aw! I love Lars so much at this moment. :heart: Great chapter! I feel with her all those contradictory emotions. Poor Nadia. Poor James. Loved this!
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The next two weeks were occupied packing all my stuff and making arrangements to move up North. My mother stayed with me during that time, after all packing with a huge belly wasn’t easy at all, Diana also gave her contribution and sooner than I thought I was saying goodbye to my friends and inside a plane to the city of San Francisco.

I shed some tears while LA disappeared from my sight, I couldn’t ignore the years I’ve spent in that town. I had been happy in there despite all and I carried excellent memories in my heart. My mother grabbed my hand in support.

“It’s going to be alright sweetie.” She whispered in my ear, but I was scared. I knew how it was to adapt to a new place and new town, and I had never been to San Francisco before, everything was unknown to me.

“I am so scared.” I let out.

“You have friends in there, you’ll see it’s going to be alright. I’ll stay with you just another week, your father has been complaining on the phone. I also need to take care of him.” She said and made me laugh.

“I can imagine him alone in the house.” I commented, knowing my father was the most disorganized person I have ever met.

After an hour we landed in San Francisco. My mother carried the stroller with our bags while I tried to see Lars and Connie, as they were the ones waiting for us. Finally I saw a hand waving and saw Connie smiling at us.

“Welcome.” She said kissing my cheeks. I greeted them both and so did my mother. Lars offered to carry the stroller while we walked to his car.

“Did you received my stuff last week?” I asked him.

“Yeah, well I wasn’t there, a friend of mine were, as we couldn’t be there at that time but he said there was 29 boxes.”

“So you didn’t check if everything was alright?”

“No, but it must be, that company I told you is very careful, don’t worry.” Lars said while driving. I began to watch out the streets, no doubt, San Francisco was very different from LA, but at the same time I liked what I was seeing.

“Where is the apartment?” I said when I acknowledged we were crossing the bridge.

“San Rafael.” He said.

“Lars!” I blurted.

“Don’t worry.” He reassured me. “Look, it’s the best place around here, nice schools and shit you’re gonna love it.”

“But James lives there.” I argued.

“It’s not like it’s a small village or anything. Don’t worry about it Nadia. Just enjoy your life.”

I looked out at the street again. I was worrying, living near him was not what I had in mind. I was sure, sooner or later, I would bump into him somewhere. Soon he parked in front of a luxurious building.

“Is it here?” I asked with my mouth open.

“Yeah…” He said. I watched the structures of the building and it all seemed recent, even new.

“Didn’t you say it was an old apartment of yours?” Lars and Connie exchanged a look between them. I looked at my mother and she shrugged. “This looks like new.”

“It’s not that new.” Lars said. “There’s a garage, when you get your own car you have your place in it. Here is the remote control to open the gate, ok?”

I grabbed it reluctantly and looked up at the building again, then he guided us in. There was a security man and a reception that he greeted warmly. The elevator also looked new and he pressed the sixth floor. My heart was beating fast from nervousness and finally he opened the door to what was going to be my house for a while.

When the door cracked opened my jaw dropped. The living room was almost bigger than the apartment I had down in LA. I couldn’t ignore the huge windows with view to the bay, and the large terrace too. Everything was decorated in tones of black and white as I loved. If I had the money to buy everything that was in there, that would be the way I’d do it. Again, all the furniture looked like new. My boxes were pilled on a corner.

“This is the living room.” He said. Then he began to show us around the house. The kitchen was huge, everything was huge. The master room had a private bathroom in grey marble, it was astonishing and there was also a balcony with a view to the bay, when I went there I realized it was the extension of the terrace of the living room. The terrace had lounge chaises and a table, and in a corner a Jacuzzi. I looked at it and I could swear it had never been used.

“You have the instructions how to use that in a drawer in the kitchen.” Lars told me.

Our journey around the house continued and he showed me a guests room. Then he opened the door right next to what was going to be my room and my eyes opened wide and my mouth opened to speak but no sound came out of it. I stepped inside in a light pink painted room. A whole nursery was in there, everything a baby needs was in there, even some toys and stuffed animals.

“What is this?” I finally asked turning around to face them.

“This is Mara’s room, for when she is born.” Connie said.

“And who did this?” I asked.

“We did.” Lars answered quickly. “It’s our present for her.” He said. “There’s also some clothes inside the drawers.” My eyes filled with tears. I didn’t have to buy anything else for my little girl if I didn’t want to.

“Thank you.” I said crying.

“Now we’re going to leave you alone with your mother. The house is yours…” He said giving me the keys. “Hope you enjoy it here. You have to meet Frank at three PM, the address is written on a paper that is on the table in the kitchen. Grab a taxi until there.”

When my mother and I were left alone I came back to the baby’s room, I was astonished with everything but Mara’s room impressed me the most. There was even a stroller at a corner. Sure Lars and Connie knew what a baby needed, they were both parents but I couldn’t ignore the amount of money they had spent in there and I was truly touched by everything they were doing to me. I stared at the walls, freshly painted for sure and then I felt my mother’s steps behind me.

“Everything in here looks so…”

“New…” She completed my sentence and I turned around to face her.

“Yeah…everything…the furniture, the building, the Jacuzzi outside has never been used…”

“Maybe they painted everything for your arrival…I don’t know…” My mother shrugged.

“I have never lived in a place like this. Never in my dreams I’d thought I could live in a place like this…” I said amazed.

“Mara’s room looks so cute.” I smiled at my mother’s acknowledgment.

“Indeed…it was carefully thought, one can tell. They are amazing friends.”

After a quick lunch we began to take stuff out of the boxes, but a bit later I had to leave for the first meeting with the person that would be my boss. At the street I looked up at the building one more time, again it seemed too recent. Shaking the thoughts away, I motioned a hand and taxi stopped. I gave the driver the paper and he took me to the address written on it.

The office was the typical lawyer’s office. Classic furniture, carpet on the floor and then a guy in his forties came to me.

“You must be Nadia.” He smiled and stretched his hand out at me. I shook it.

“Yes, nice to meet you.”

Frank guided me to his office and our meeting began. First he explained what he expected me to do, the typical secretary job.

“My clients are mostly musicians.” He said. “So you might see some coming in and out of the office. I have been dealing with musicians almost since I began my career.”

“Do you work with Metallica?” I asked, since Lars told me he was a friend of his.

“Not Metallica as a band, but James, Kirk and Lars are my clients in their private matters.” Hearing James’s name made me gulp and swallow dry.

“Do they usually come here?”

“No, usually I meet them at HQ or in their houses.” That put my heart to a rest. I knew I needed that job more than anything, but after all, my fear to encounter James had a foundation. I knew we would meet, that moment I was so sure of that. “Well, I’ll be paying you 3000$ a month.”

“That’s nice.” I said.

“You start next Monday. I know you were living in LA so this gives you some time to meet the city and organize your things. Also, I know you’ll be needing hours to go to the doctor, I just need you to tell when and the time so I can also organize my things in here. Other than that Nadia, I am free now to answer your questions if you have any.”

“James never comes here?” I asked again.

“Rarely. Look…don’t worry about it.” He said. I had been hearing these words for quiet some time and in the end I had all I needed to know I should care.

“I guess I don’t have anymore questions.” I said.

“See you on Monday then.”

With the proper goodbyes I left again to what was now my place. When I entered the building I greeted the security and pushed the elevator’s button, then I looked at the security again and walked up to him.

“Hi.” I said shyly. “I live now on the sixth floor. Can you just tell me how old this building is?”

“Just six months old miss.” He smiled. I nodded and went to the elevator again. Something was not right. I could feel it, smell it. Something in the whole story was not right. As long as I believed Lars had a great soul, I felt something was just not right.
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This is a gift from James, right? Yeah it is!!!
He said to Lars don't tell her, so must be :biggrin
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March 29, 2012, 5:59 am
This is a gift from James, right? Yeah it is!!!
He said to Lars don't tell her, so must be :biggrin
:biggrin i think the same ^^ he is so cute
well i wan´t more :heart:
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I hope you're right girls! :heart: :heart: :heart:
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Awww! The house sounds awesome! I think like you girls, James must be behind all this, the proud bastard! lol

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That night Lars threw a welcoming party in his house. Connie was the one picking us up and driving us there. It was a good surprise to see everyone I met on tour in there, of course, James was nowhere to be seen. I didn’t expect him to be there anyway.

It was a nice and warm night and Lars threw a barbecue in his garden. Music was playing and we were having fun. My mother talked to every one and for a moment, seeing all the people common to me and James, I thought of him. My smile disappeared and I sat on the ground with my back against a tree letting my thoughts run wild. Though I showed everyone how strong I was, deep inside I missed a manly support. I hated to be alone in the doctor’s office when all the other women had their partner with them. I felt lonely even if I was always with my daughter as a company. It wasn’t the same thing, I missed her dad, I missed him deeply.

“A penny for your thoughts?” Lars joked sitting by my side.

“Just thinking about life…”

“Are you having fun?” He asked.

“Sure, thanks for this. Man, I can’t thank you enough for everything you’re doing. I owe you a lot, really.”

Lars looked away and stared at nothing. “It’s ok Nadia…you don’t have to thank me that much, honestly.”

“Does he know I am here?” I asked him.

“Yes.” Lars confirmed.

“He asked you? How does he know?” I inquired. I remembered Lars had told me James, not even once, asked him about me or Mara.

“I just told him.”

“You told him? Are you out of your mind? What if he comes to find me? I don’t want him near me or my daughter…” I said.

“Don’t be unfair to him Nadia…” He said. I knew Lars loved James as a brother but defending him in that situation was rather offensive to me.

“Unfair? Lars…” I said indignant. “I wasn’t the one being unfair or telling him horrible things…”

“He also knows it is a girl. I told him he was having a girl.” He continued.

“He’s not having anything. I am having a baby girl, not him.” I shot shaking.

“And he smiled Nadia…” Lars said, I stared at him silent. “He smiled at the news…”

“I don’t care. This baby is only mine and he better stay the fuck away from us.” With that I prepared myself to get up but Lars grabbed my arm to prevent me to do so.

“I know him, alright? I know him better than anyone and I know he does things he shouldn’t do especially when things get out of control because he loves to control. I know he did wrong and I am sure he also knows that. The fact that he hasn’t said anything to you these months doesn’t necessarily mean that he doesn’t care, he knows he fucked up and now he simply doesn’t know what to do to mend things. That’s him, that’s the way he deals with his shit, he closes himself in his bubble. I know he’s struggling…”

“Like I said Lars, I don’t give a shit about that now. I don’t want him near us. As far as I am concerned, he denied this little girl twice, I think that’s enough and the fact that he didn’t call at all just means, to me, that he doesn’t want her and doesn’t care about her. I don’t care if he has problems, we all do and disappearing in this case…” I shook my head not able to finish my thought, then I got up.

“How long does he know it’s a girl?” I asked.

“Since you told us. I had to tell him…” Lars confessed. I turned around without saying a word and left. “Nadia…” He called my name running after me. “He had the right to know…”

I turned around fast to look at him. “He had the right to know if he cared.” I almost yelled. “He doesn’t! You shouldn’t have told him anything.”

“I am going to say this again, you are being unfair to him.”

“Why? Wanna explain why?” Lars looked down at his feet and stayed silent. “Is there anything I should know and I don’t?” I insisted, he just shook his head and that was it for me. I left him there and joined my mother, Connie and Lani, who were talking cheerfully.

Later, and already at home, I explained my mother the reason why I stopped having fun at the party. Patiently she listened to all I had to say and just nodded her head letting me know she was following me. I talked fast, still nervous and my tone was high, as if I was yelling at someone, in that case like I was yelling at James, because I had so many things inside that I had to tell him and I couldn’t.

“Nadia…you’re my daughter and I defend you with all I can, but have you ever thought that Lars, who is his friend, and a close one as you said might be right?” I looked at my mother in disbelief. I could understand Lars defending James but not my mother. She had to stand by me, she had to tell me I was 100% right.

“What? Now you’re defending him too?”

“I am not defending him. God…no…I don’t agree with what he’s done to you but sometimes people have weird ways how to deal with things and you said he didn’t want to have kids, so I take it he’s having a hard time dealing with it. I am not excusing him for being this absent but even you say how clumsy he is dealing with his feelings.”

“HE LEFT ME ALONE!!!” I yelled at the top of my lungs. “He left me alone while expecting his child!”

“A child that he didn’t want, think of that. You have your guilt in all of this. Nadia, you were quite irresponsible.”

“MOM!” I exclaimed indignant. “So now this is all my fault?” My tears began to fall.

“No…you shouldn’t have had unprotected sex and he should have acted in a better way once you told him you were pregnant. It’s 50% of guilt to each one of you. This is not entirely his fault. I am a bit older than he is, so I can understand his point. He has lived most of the things you haven’t yet, like having kids. He has his own and they are grown up already, so it’s normal that he didn’t want more and even since you were not together the news fell on him even worse. Wanna truly know what I think?”

I shook my head. “Not really.” I said offended.

“I am going to tell you anyway because you’re my daughter and you have to listen to me. I think he’s hurt with what you’ve done to him, you have to admit you were pretty childish and in a very wrong way he took the excuse of not wanting to have children to punish you now, and you Nadia, you’re using your daughter as a weapon against him. He’s an adult, in every sense, he’s more mature than you are. He knows what he did was wrong and he knows perfectly well that now you don’t want him near. Even if he showed up here trying to talk to you he knows you wouldn’t listen, so he doesn’t know quite well know how to approach you, and what makes me think that, is that you’re here in a brand new apartment, yes because this apartment is new as well as everything in it. And Mara’s room? Come on…open your eyes…”

I sat back on the couch a bit shocked. “This apartment is six months old. I asked the security downstairs.” I commented.

“I think this was him and Lars is just the escape goat.”

“If that is true, and I am going to try to find out because I also think something here is not right, I will leave this house. I don’t want anything from him, anything! I thought I had made myself pretty clear about that.”

“Why are you being so proud? You need help, you can’t support yourself now without help and if he decided to give you that help stop being so proud, you need it. Grow up sweetie, you need the help. It’s time to grow up Nadia, you’re going to be a mother. And if he really did this for you and for the baby, you should definitely think about it, because this shows he cares, not only for Mara but for you too. Put your feet on the ground.”

“Do I have the entire world against me? Even my own mother! You don’t even know him, how can you say such things?”

“You’re right I don’t know him and I wish you had never get involved with him, you could have done so much better, he’s almost your parents age, come on…but something tells me that he’s not that bad that’s all and if in fact he was the one providing you all this, it shows me that he cares after all and my heart is also hurt, don’t think it’s not, because someone who hurts my daughter hurts me too.”

“What is the part that he left me alone when I needed him the most that you guys don’t get it? I am pregnant! Do you know how I feel when I see all the fathers at the doctor and I am there alone? Do you even know how much I cry every night before I sleep because he’s not around? I don’t mean around for me, being with me as a couple, but for the baby. To me it would be enough that he’d be around for her, it’s true, it hurts me to know he doesn’t care about her, that’s all I have to say. To me he’s dead. I am going to bed now…” I said getting up and leaving the living room sobbing low.

I disposed of my clothes and changed to a nightgown, then I crashed on the bed crying loud. That night wasn’t different, I didn’t lie when I said I cried every night because of James, but I cried silently, the only thing different that night was that I cried loud. Soon my mother knocked on my door.

“Can I come in?” She asked from the outside.

“No.” I said trying my voice not to shake.

“I can hear you cry Nadia, I am coming in anyway.” She warned and cracking the door open the next second. My mother sat next to me and patted my hair. “It hurts me so much to see all the pain you’re going through and all that hate you have inside of you.”

“I love him alright? I just love him like I can’t even explain. It’s bad when we miss someone who as died and we can’t be with that person anymore, but it equally hurts when you miss someone that you simply can’t have. And I love him and all I want to do is hate him with all my heart and sometimes I do, but that’s because I am so hurt inside…”

“You should talk to him. I don’t know…”

“I don’t want to see him.” I argued.

“Just don’t use your daughter to hurt him, that’s all. Soon she’s going to be here and she’ll be too little to understand, but she’s going to grow up and then she’ll understand and you don’t want your daughter to blame you for her father not being in her life, if things turn out like that and I think it will.”

“Are you suspicious that this is all his treat?” I asked motioning my hand in the air to point at the apartment. My mother nodded. “I confess I find this all very weird too.”

“And if he did this, all of this, it’s not just because of the baby, it’s because he loves you sweetie. A man that doesn’t love a woman doesn’t go this far, doesn’t giver her all this comfort just because she’s carrying his child, but a man who loves the woman does. He didn’t just think of giving the baby the best, he thought of giving you the best too.”

I stayed silent staring at the ceiling, my mother bent over me and kissed my forehead goodnight. “Think of this.” She said before closing the door.

I thought about her words for about an hour, but then when I remembered all the things he had told me when he met me in LA I turned around to sleep and closed my eyes and my tears fell down again. “No…” I whimpered. “I hate him…” I convinced myself.
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No you not!! You love him!! And he loves you, simple :biggrin

Usually I would say more but I know I need to wait till tomorrow for another update :P so see you tomorrow :P :nanner: :lol:
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Oh, I love this! lool All the angst! Poor Nadia, she might be whatever, but I feel her. xD God, may I be childish? I'd feel just exactly like her!! I think I'm also proud as a peacock. This is great! More! :biggrin
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A month passed. My mother came back to Illinois a week after I had moved to San Francisco and slowly the city became familiar to me, I liked it there though much different from LA, but in the end I thought it was a better place to raise my daughter, quieter.

During that month I was lucky enough not to meet James though I had many encounters with people close to him, mutual friends but I never asked about him again. My suspicions were still alive, every time I came back home and acknowledge all the luxury a simple secretary like I was, was living in. That day was pay day and as soon as I left the office I went to check on my bank account, I was dying to see my salary in there. When the small piece of paper was spat from the machine I grabbed it smiling just to stop smiling the next second.

“What? $20.000?” I spoke loud as I realized that was what my company had transferred to my account. That couldn’t be, we had agreed on $3000. Something was wrong. I came back there just to talk to Frank who I knew was still at the office. I just had to cross the street.

“Frank?” I called knocking at his door. “May I come in?” I asked him while I opened the door slowly.

“Something wrong Nadia?” He asked taking his eyes off the computer he had in front of him.

“You transferred $20.000 to my account!” I said sitting in front of him. “That’s not my salary…”

“Consider it a bonus from the good work you’ve been doing.”

“A bonus? But I have been here for just a month…” I argued. Frank moved in his chair and I could tell he was searching for an explanation.

“It’s a little part of the cases we’ve won and that you took care of it. Just be happy…” He smiled. I looked at him not convinced, everything was weird.

“Who’s giving me all this money?” I decided to ask directly.

“I am Nadia.” He insisted.

“You’re not going to tell me? I think I have the right to know…”

“I am Nadia. I ordered that transfer.” I nodded and got up.

“Ok…” I said and then I left, but not convinced at all.

The next day, alone in the office while Frank had been gone for a meeting I decided to investigate. I knew sneaking around in computers could cost me my job but I had access to Frank’s computer and it wouldn’t be weird if I was seen in his, it would look like I was working and needing some information in there. I searched his files and then found one saying “James Hetfield”, the one I was looking for, because Frank kept all his files organized by the names of his clients. I clicked on that file and opened it. Several documents showed but one more than the others caught my attention, because it said “Greenside Way”, where I lived.

With shaking hands I clicked on the mouse to open it and began to read it and stopped on the part that said buyer of the 15 Greenhouse Way, 6th floor, James Alan Hetfield, by the amount of $498 000. I realized right there that James was the owner of the apartment I was living in and the date showed he had bought it 2 months before I got there.

“My God…” I whispered. I closed all the files and shut the computer down, coming back to my desk right after. A million thoughts running a mile per second in my mind and I even felt like crying. What I didn’t want to happen was happening. I was living at his expense, in his place and there I was also sure that he had something to do with the $20.000 that were transferred to my account the day before. I grabbed my cell and called Lars.

“I need to talk to you.” I said straight away as he answered my call. “Right now Lars.”

“I can’t Nadia, what’s wrong?”

“You’ve been lying to me!” I almost yelled. “How could you do this?”

“Wait…” He said confused. “What are you talking about?”

“Can we meet? I don’t want to talk about this on the phone.”

“I am at HQ…” He said.

“I can’t go there.” I stated.

“James is not here and I don’t think he’s coming here today, so it’s alright to come.”

“Are you sure?” I asked.

“Yes.” Lars said firmly.

“Then I am going there. Prepare yourself to give me a damn good explanation Lars…” With that I hung up the phone and grabbed my purse. I had to go there, he had a lot to explain.

I warned Frank over the phone that I needed to take care of an urgent issue and that I was leaving earlier, then I called a cab and hopped in it, telling the driver to where I wanted to go.

I entered HQ a nervous wreck, my whole body was shaking and I couldn’t even disguise it, even my lips trembled a bit. I was at a place where I knew it was his territory and I always avoided to go there or near. Still I got in, guided by Sam, who took me to the kitchen. Kirk and Lars were there and both greeted me warmly.

“I need to talk to you in private if you don’t mind.” I talked to Lars. My tone was not friendly and promptly Kirk got up. “I’m sorry.” I told him.

“It’s ok.” Kirk told me kissing my cheek friendly. He offered me a smile before he left and I knew he knew what had brought me there. Lars immediately handed me a coup of tee.

“Have this.” He said. I took the cup from his hands eyeing him like I was about to kill him. “Don’t look at me that way Nadia…I did what a friend asked me to do.”

“I trusted you. Am I suppose to trust anyone these days?”

“Nadia, you needed help. Your condition was fragile, you are pregnant and were on the verge of not having any money to support yourself.”

“I would figure something out!” I exclaimed. “Who’s idea was this?”

“How did you find out?” He asked instead.

“How I found out doesn’t matter, I just did. The apartment I am living in it’s his. Who’s idea was this?”

“His.” Lars almost whispered. I stayed silent waiting for him to tell me the whole story.

“He always asked how you were doing and the baby too, because he knew I was still talking to you and I told him everything I knew, then he came up with this idea and asked me for help. The rest you know…”

“And you betrayed me just like that…without thinking twice.” I said with tears in my eyes.

“You needed help Nadia!” Lars raised the tone of his voice. “You needed his help whether you like it or not.”

“Not his help! God…not his help! I said this so many times…not after all the things he did to me.”

“He ended up being the one to give you the help you needed. I thought and still think it was the best thing to do, after all, it’s his child. And James…James might have his own weird way of caring but he cares and I gave him my help and I would do it again, because in the end I helped two friends of mine. Him, by getting him what he wanted and you because you needed something steady for the kid. He cares, I know he does because I have been around him.”

“He cares so much that he didn’t even bother to talk to me first. The way he’d show me he cared was to try and talk to me and tell it to my face and not hiding behind a friend of his. He’s a coward!”

“If he tried to talk to you, would you listen?” Lars asked me and I remained silent. “Answer me Nadia?”

“Probably not.” I confessed.

“There. You wouldn’t and James knows that. He also knows he fucked up badly and he doesn’t know how to mend things now and this is the way he thought it would work. My sincere opinion is that it was a mistake, the way he did things that is, but it was the only way possible and I heard his explanations about it and had to agree with him. You two are having a kid together, wake up Nadia! It’s not like you can erase him off your life! He’s the father of your daughter, he’ll always be in your life and he’ll always have a say in Mara’s life too, because she’s his.”

“He didn’t want her, he told me she wasn’t his. I thought we were done with this subject. He asked me to terminate the pregnancy. I think that pretty much sums up his position about Mara and now he thinks that getting me a house is gonna fix all that?”

“Maybe not with you, but with the baby yes. What I am trying to tell you Nadia is that he’s going to claim his rights as her father and you have to give him that. We’re all humans and we all make mistakes, you made a mistake and he did as well, but human beings are not perfect and James is far from that, but with all his imperfections he is trying to mend this one and you have to give him the chance. Mara deserves to have her father around and James deserves to be part of his daughter’s life and you, it doesn’t matter how much you hate him right now, you can’t deny him that right. In the end, what he did is very noble, he’s taking care of you in his own way.”

“I never asked him to take care of me.”

“And even then, he is…don’t be unfair to him.”

“Was it him who made Mara’s room?”

Lars nodded. “Everything that is inside that apartment is his work.”

“He couldn’t have done this. I don’t want anything from him.”

Lars was going to answer me when the door of the kitchen cracked open. I saw his eyes getting wide open and he stared at it. I looked back and our eyes met. James stared at me and then his eyes paused in my seven months pregnant belly. My worst nightmare had came true. He was right in front of my eyes.
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They met!!!!!
Yeah!!!!
And I knew it!!! It was all cute James :heart:
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I understand Nadia's pain, I really do, but she needs to give James a second chance, I am a very proud person and never except help but lately I've learned that sometimes you need it. James knows he fucked up, she should talk to him.
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Ho.ly.shit. They finally met! :o

OMG! Poor Nadia, I would want to choke Lars, honestly! xD Ah, but we knew it all along. Fucking sweet James! :cloud9 He could have been more careful not to be discovered! xD

Ugh, can't wait for more, lol
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Okay, I've refrained from commenting because I wanted to see how this played out.

I have to say that if I'm honest, I'm not really a fan of Nadia's. Perhaps its her naivety about how the real world works and how relationships work, I don't know. I do know that I don't exactly feel sympathetic towards her situation. If anything, I sympathize more with James, for obvious reasons. I feel like Nadia is full of contradictions and expects a lot from James, perhaps unrealistic expectations, and thus gets mad, hurt and upset when he doesn't meet those expectations. However, I do think James has done his best to make amends with her in the only way he knew how to. I wish she could see that. And while I understand that Nadia is angry with Lars over keeping James' secret, Lars did right by James by doing so - I think anyways.

I'm actually not sure if I want them to be together. They just seem toxic together. I think if they do get back together, then they have a lot of work to do in order to improve their communication skills and overall relationship. I would hate to see them get together just for the sake of the baby.

Looking forward to seeing how it plays out :heart:
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