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• They stayed silent as the waitress placed their orders in front of them. Jenny picked up her chicken sandwich and took a bite enjoying watching Joe putting some off the eggs from his omelet on a plate for Sandy. She had to choke back her laugh as Sandy picked up a piece of egg and threw it straight in Joes face. “See what I said about wearing the food?”
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• “Oh yes, uhm… you might want to move the cottage cheese there.” She giggled to see Joe move so fast.
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• "yip, seriously parenthood totally changes your life; like because this little monster here my life was all about me; what make me happy; what I want what I need; but now all of that seems shallow, now all I care about is her; what she want, what would make her happy I know its cheesy but its true"
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• "yeh I bet; it must be hard, are you alone at this?"
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• "luckily, not; I have my sister she watches her and all but I like to depend on my selfl; she is really nice and all but she has her own family to worry about, and I've got my brother Mark; he tries to help but he sucks at it" as they both laughed so did Sandra even though she has no idea what she was laughing about
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• "you know what's funny about my family"
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• "what?"
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• "Its globalized!"
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• "Globaized? What do you mean' laughin' is that even a word?"
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• He laughed "you see my sister is married to a guy from Sweden, and Sandra was British and worse of all my brother mark is in love with a Canadian girl"
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• "ha ha ha, why is it worse? Whats wrong with Canada eh?"
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• He laughed "its not Canada that is the problem; it’s the fact that the girl has no idea he loves her that bad or even want to be with her"
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• "Why doesn't he tell her how he feels?"
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• "Two reasons first he is afraid she would turn him down, second he is too shy to do it"
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• "how old is your brother?"
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• "24 he is the eldest, and my sister is 22 and I am 18 u?"
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• "Hmm never ask a girl about her age right"
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• "Only if she looks real old" he joked
• She laughed "well I suppose that was a compliment, am 18 as well"
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• "Interesting, you defiantly look younger! I was going to ask you to show some ID" ha ha ha
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  “I envy you.” She shook her head. “With my dad gone and my mom… well, being sick and all, I would give anything to find my brother. I know he would want to be here.”
  
  “Where is he?” Joe asked
  
  “Andy just left one night. Just a year ago actually. He had a fight with my mom, pretty bad and left.” She paused thinking. “It’s very confusing to me. We always got along great, the whole family.” She stopped and looked at him. “How much do you want to know?”
  
  “I want to hear. Tell me.”
  
  Jenny took a shaky breath. “Okay… Well, my dad was a great guy. And we had the perfect life. Andy adored dad, always looked up to him and wanted to be just like him. A little over a year ago my dads’ job transferred him here. We moved here not knowing anyone and it was a little stressfull at first.” She sipped her coke, “My parents got into a fight one night, over something stupid I can’t even remember what. My dad did what he always did, went out for a walk to cool off.” Jenny felt herself shiver as she remembered. “He was only two blocks from the house when he was hit by a drunk driver and killed. Andy blamed my mom for driving him out of the house that night.” She looked up into
  Joes eyes. “Aftre that the family fell apart. Andy did all he could to hurt my mom. They faught all the time and made friends with people he knew
  She wouldn’t like. I didn’t know anyone so I tried hard to fix the things between the two of them. It just made Andy think I was betraying my dad and my mom leaned on me more than she should have.” She smiled a sad smile. “I just wanted the family I had left to be like I remembered. As close to that as possible anyway.”
  
  Joe nodded but kept silent.
  
  “That was a year ago. I know Andy would have had time to cool off, he’s always been smart, but I cant find him. I tracked down an old highschool friend of his who finally admitted to seeing him awhile back, but he didn’t promise to pass the news along.”
  “That’s a lot to take on all by your self. Not something you could fix alone.” Joe said
  
  “I know.” Jenny smiled softly. “I just thought that if my brother came back my mom would rest a bit better. She was having a hard time with the aniversary of my dads death and Andy leaving. Her perfect family ending so suddenly. Now that she is in the coma I havent been trying so hard to find him. She wouldn’t know and I’ve been unwilling to leave her much.” She looked at her watch. “In fact this is the longest I have been away from her.”
  
  “What time is it?” Joe asked looking at his own watch. “Wow. 4 o’clock.”
  
  “You know. This has been the longest I have been away from the hospital all week. And I’m not even been worried. Thank you.”
  
  “You’re welcome.” Joe laughed. “For what exactly?”
  
  “You got me out, helped me sleep, got me food and coffee!” Jenny smiled. “I didn’t realize howbad I needed someone to talk to. I’m glad you were there.”
  
  “Glad I could help. It was nice for me to have someone to talk to as well.” Joe said.
  
  “You know what?” Jenny asked.
  
  “What?”
  “I don’t think you ever did tell me why you were there. What tests were you having? Do you mind me asking?”
  
  
  he trembled ... as the memory led him back; it was the first time he ever entered the hospital ever since Sandra's death; it was the same hospital she had died in; the same hospital they did all the tests; the same hospital he actually found out she was pregnant, he remember jumping around hugging the nurses like crazy when he found out; he wanted anything so that she could stay with him forever. she was scared; after all she was only 16 and he was almost 17; the doctor warned them; because she had a weak heart and that wasn't such a good idea; they both insisted to take their chances; after all they aren't going to kill a baby; or so she thought; if only he stopped her then, she would be still alive; but instead he was selfish enough and only thought of him self. he wished that he could go back in time and change one thing; but he would never deny the fact that he always found comfort in his little girl eyes .. he could always see her mom in her; and now they are taking his only hope in life. the only thing that left for him to go on living this misery life; then he finally realized he was spacing out and by that time Jenny was staring at him waiting
  he chuckled
  "oh you still there?" he laughed
  
  "oh" she smiled back "I'm still here"
  
  her smile was so comforting; he could feel his racing heart beats calming down, he thought she would get mad or mock him; but some how she knew exactly what he needed; he started playing with little Sandra's hair; as he tried to drink some of his empty sprite; making some noise; he stopped and hoped she didn't hear
  "uhm so you were saying?"
  
  "I was asking what the tests were that you were having done?"
  "oh... right; nothing much just some DNA tests; to prove that this little devil here is mine he laughed; am not that cute!!!" as he took her in his lap because she was starting to make a mess
  
  Jenny laughed "There was doubt about that? I see quite a bit of her in you… You have the same eyes"
  
  |"ha ha ha ... no way my eyes are cooler! ... there was no doubt it just Sandra's grandfather wants to take her away; and he is trying everything he can; so the last thing he came up with is saying that she isn't mine to begin with, I mean how can a father accuse his own daughter with something like that is beneath me"
  
  he didn't know why he was telling her all of that; he looked at her as she was biting her lips and he smiled; somehow Jenny reminded him of Sandra as well
  
  she thought of how sad it must be, and hard for Joe. He was holding Sandy and just wanted his life back
  
  "How horrible!"
  
  but she knew nothing she could say would really help, he was still someone she just met, but she wanted to help. "I'm so sorry for you" It felt inadequate even as she said it. So she continued to just sit there biting her lips hoping she could find something useful to say.
  
  he smiled once again; trying to stop Sandra from trying to take the empty sprite, and thought shit I must look like a dork or something then he looked at her, "you know what's really heartbreaking"
  "what's that?"
  
  "you would think that one day we would remember that stuff that made us cry and laugh about it; but we never think that we would cry at the things that made us laugh… like whenever I remember the good memories; her laugh; the way she looked at me .. everything ... a piece of me dies as well knowing I wont have that again"
  
  "you know that's true! we always say we will look back on this and laugh one day, but spend our time wishing for the good times again, trying to recreate them. wow, I never thought of that before!"
  
  "yeah! … you know its good to have someone to share everything with ... without having 'em weeping on me" he laughed
  
  Jenny laughing as well "I think I have cried enough for a long time! Its good to get it off my chest. How can I even begin to thank you?"
  
  "thank me? for what?
  
  "hmmm lets see… she started ticking things off on her fingers. You listened to me... supported me... got me to sleep... fed me... got me out of the hospital longer than I have been all week... fed me again and made me smile, laugh... that's quite a bit for someone I just met… how did u do that?"
  
  "a good friend of mine always told me you cant help greatness ha ha ha"
  
  She laughed "well…
  
  He continued looking more serious "I did what any man would do, I guess I just got lucky I was in the right place at the right time"
  
  She grinned "Marcy will thank you too. I don't think she likes me much. I am kind of a pain"
  
  He joked "tell me something I don’t know" he laughed she stared at him in a shock and laughed as well"
  
  "u got me out of her hair"
  He smiled "maybe she paid me to do it"
  "hmmmm did she? I wouldn't put it past her. she pretty much has had to throw me out in the past…"
  
  he put his hand over hers to stop her from ticking; it reminded him so bad of Sandra
  
  …just for holding moms hand"
  
  She stopped talking and looked at his hand then asked "is something wrong?"