Karen and Chris both froze at the sound of the voice as they realised they had been caught out, and slowly they broke off the kiss staring guiltily at each other and then turning round to see a figure standing at the side of the rink, hands on her hips. Karen's body gradually seperated from Chris's, and she opened her mouth to give a reply to a surprised and shocked Jayne who had just walked in, exactly on time for probably the first time in her life.
"Jayne it's not what it looks like..." Karen said quickly, then realising it was exactly what it looked like.
"Ok well it is, we can explain though, it could take a while though, we never meant for anyone to find out yet..."
"No I shouldn't think you did!" Jayne said not quite believing what she had just seen, "What the hell are the pair of you up to? Does Jill know about this? How long has this been going on?" she was full of questions and wanted them all answered right that moment; she was so confused.
"Look, I think we should go into the office and we can sit down and tell you the full story," Karen said to Jayne, skating off the rink and pulling Chris along behind her. She then took hold of Jayne's hand and pulled them both into the dressing room.
"I'm getting a divrorce from Jill..." Chris started obviously not realising Jayne already knew this part, and then proceeded to tell Jayne the whole story about how he'd gone round to Karen's for advice about the break up and one thing had led to another and before either of them knew it they were kissing and then Chris had spent the night... Then Karen told her part about how Laura had not been happy this morning when she found out and got a bit upset all over again about how she thought she was a terrible mother, but Jayne hugged her comfortingly so she felt okay again and they proceeded with their story.
"Oh and Jill is pregnant..." Chris added which totally shocked Jayne she wasn't expecting that news to come out of his mouth.
"So your wife is pregnant... and you're leaving her? Have you even spoken about this with her?" Jayne asked curiously, not quite understanding the whole thing.
"No I haven't yet we had a massive argument this morning which resulted in me storming out the house, because she wanted to know where I'd been overnight... and when I walked in she was sprawled over the bathroom floor suffering from morning sickness which suddenly came over her, I'm happy I'm going to be a dad and everything honestly I am, but I don't love Jill anymore. Our marriage has been falling apart for god knows how long and neither of us are happy."
"If you've been unhappy for that long and not been talking like you've said, how did this baby come along then? You must have some sense of romance left." Jayne pointed out. It was a very valid point that neither Chris or Karen had spotted, and the more Chris thought about it the more confused it made him. He couldn't remember the last time him and Jill had kissed let alone any other activity in the bedroom department, so how was she pregnant? It had definately been longer than 3 months.
"Oh Chris I'm sorry..." Jayne said realising he hadn't seen the truth in the pregnancy before, and hugged him.
"No... no this is a good thing... it means the baby growing inside my wife isn't even mine which doesn't make me feel nearly as bad for walking out on her... oh I'm so stupid how did I not see this before? I should have realised when she told me!" Chris was now a bit frustrated with himself and got up walking up and down.
"Chris no of course you're not stupid!" Karen said who'd been a bit quiet over the past ten or so minutes. "How were you to know these things don't generally come into a man's head unless its so obviously staring you in the face, you're not to blame for any of this. But it means you now have another valid reason for divorce."
"Okay okay I've had enough talking about all this now can we get some work done please? Jayne you know everything now... I'm going to talk to Jill as soon as I get home I don't care how long it takes I just need this whole thing sorted out... I cannot believe that woman I really can't!"
"It will all be okay Chris I promise," Karen said getting up to give him a comforting hug, before all three of them got up together and went onto the rink where there was a small crowd of professional skaters accumilating in the corner waiting for them to start work on the group number for the show that week. It was quite a long day that dragged by, especially for Chris. They got rather a lot of work done for the weekend's show, but Chris kept loosing his concentration far too easily, and everyone could tell he wasn't his usual self, normally full of weird and wonderful ideas, and today not thinking of many at all - leaving the majority of the work to women for once.
At 4:30pm he decided to call it a day, much earlier than usual, but his concentration span was shrinking rapidly. Karen and Jayne both gave him plenty of advice and wise words as they all sat and untied their skates, quickly wiped the blades and packed away their skates changing into their shoes. Chris had been rehersing what he planned to say to Jill all day and more so now than ever, he was a nervous wreck driving back and he took a scenic route back which delayed his journey by about 10 minutes. The moment he walked in he just dumped his bags in the hallway and went into the living room to find the three boys occupied by something on the tv, and Jill was sitting on a brown leather bean bag in the corner, studying a maternity clothing catalogue.
"Hi kids! Jill, can I have a word please upstairs?" The boys came and hugged him, and Jill then followed Chris upstairs, they went into the bedroom and shut the door behind them.
"What is it?" Jill asked impatiently as if she was in the middle of doing something important which she clearly hadn't.
"We need to talk Jill... about us."
"I went for my 12 week scan today Chris."
"Oh well isn't that nice?"
"Don't you want to know what we're having?"
"Well maybe I wold if it was even my child! I can't believe you made me think it was mine when it clearly isn't... I can't remember the last time we even shared a kiss let alone anything else passionate in the bedroom... do you think I'm stupid!"
"Well you obviously are as its taken you a good few hours to work it out, the whole day in fact, and I bet it wasn't even you who worked it out, you've probably been telling everyone about our failing marriage and they had to spell it out to you..."
"You know I wish I cared about you Jill, but I really don't anymore and this marriage just isn't working... we used to be perfectly happy but I really don't know what has happened over the past year. I want a divorce."
"A divorce!? I'm sure we can work things out Chris, we can book some councelling sessions and make everything better? What about the children? And surely you're not going to walk out on your pregnant wife, what kind of a man does that make you? What does that say about you?"
"I'm sorry Jill but no amount of persuasion is going to make this whole situation any better than it is now, I've thought about it long and hard for long enough, I've wasted enough time in my life on you, and I'm not prepared to do it any longer. The kids will be fine living with you and I'm nly going to be moving somewhere local, so the kids can see whenever they like, and I hope it will work both ways here, you can't stop me from seeing them."
"Oh and were you ever going to tell me when you disapeared off to last night then?" Jill carried on, their voices getting louder and louder with everything they said, things were getting incredibly heated but the boys downstairs were totaly oblivious.
"You really want to know? I was at Karen's actually! I want a divrorce from you a long time ago so I could be with her, but I thought I'd wait until the boys had grown up a bit to understand, so that's what I did. But you know what, I wish I'd never married you at all, I'd have been far better off spending my life with her! Oh and were you ever going to tell me who the father of this baby is and how that one happened?"
Jill was now furious as was Chris, and they were both storming around the room, Jill felt some sharp pains in her stomach but never thought anything of it at first as they were just mild cramps but her emotions were going wild as her and Chris yelled at each other.
"Actually no I'm not telling you Chris because it's none of your bloody business!" she screamed and then sat down on the bed quickly clutching her stomach, Chris had had enough and turned his back on her and stormed out the room ran downstairs grabbing his car keys and slamming the front door on his exit.
-- Edited by Sk8tingGleek on Monday 31st of October 2011 09:09:05 PM
He texted Karen as soon as he got in the car and told her that he was on his way over to hers, he didn't want to spend anymore time with Jill than he had to and considered staying at Karen's that night as well but thought he'd decide when it got to it. On the way over he thought things through in his head about the whole divorce thing and then with Jill's mysterious pregnancy, he couldn't stand to be in the same house as her let alone the same room, he just needed some space. When he pulled up on the driveway outside Karen's he suddenly thought that maybe he should of rang first to check if it was okay, he hadn't even waited for a text message in response, but he'd just remembered the way Laura had reacted to Chris being there that morning and knew she wouldn't be impressed to see him again, and what if Emma was there too? He was sure his appearance could cause some disagreement between the the girls and Karen but it was a bit late now, they'd probably seen the car pull up. His heart beat raised a little, he knocked on the door hoping and praying that it would be Karen to answer not one of her daughters.
It turned out to be Emma, but she didn't know about Karen and Chris's relationship yet, so she thought nothing of it when she invited him in the house thinking it was something to do with work. "Hi Chris, how are you?" she said as opened the door and then called Karen telling her there was someone here to see her.
"I'm very well thanks Emma, yourself?" he replied surprised at how Emma had reacted to see him at the door asking for her mum.
"I'm good, tired though... Mum are you coming?" she shouted upstairs, and only half talking to Chris as she had her phone in one hand texting her boyfriend, and gesturing Chris to come in and take a seat while Karen was bust doing something upstairs, she hadnn't yet recieved Chris's text so she wasn't expecting to see him come through the door, and when she did see she automatically went to go and kiss him, not thinking whether Emma knew about them or not.
"Erm, Mum? When did this happen?" she asked, not mad but in fact happy for them both, of course she didn't know the full story.
"Oh sorry sweetheart, me and Chris see each other a little differently now... and he's going through a tough time at the moment so he might be staying here occasionally for the next few weeks, I hope that's okay with you?"
"Yeah that's fine just don't make too much noise and do all your lovey stuff around me... okay I'm going to Josh's again, I'll be back in a bit," she said happily hugging her mum goodbye.
"Okay baby don't be too late will you, remember you've got work in the morning," Karen said hugging her back and then going to wave her off at the door. "Well this is a nice surprise to see you? And she took that very well!" Karen said to Chris, giving him another quick kiss and then taking hold of his hand and sitting on the sofa snuggled up next to him as she switched on the tv.
"She did didn't she? Sorry to surprise you like that but I couldn't stay in that bloody house any longer, I did text you but I guess you didn't get that! Where's Laura?" Chris asked thinking he'd better check before he started filling Karen in on all he'd found out from Jill.
"Oh she's sleeping over at her friends, she went over straight from college. Did you talk to Jill this time?"
"Yes yes I did..." Chris said remembering the argument far too well. "Jayne was right, the baby isn't mine, but she won't tell me who it is, she said it wasn't any of my business. I said I wanted a divorce and she agreed with me the marriage wasn't working out for either of us, but she didn't want a divorce despite the whole baby thing, but I'll keep working on it because there is no way I can live with her much longer, not with all this lying."
"No I shouldn't think its much fun... Does she know about us?" Karen asked nervously.
"Yeah she does, I just went for it and told her the truth because that's what I think she deserves from me while we are still married, but now I definately regret telling her because she lied to me in the first place and won't tell me who the father of the baby is and doesn't look like she ever plans to tell me... she will at some point though I suppose she can't keep it forever, not if it ever turns out to be a serious relationship for her..."
"Maybe she doesn't know who the father is, she seems like the type."
"Right now nothing would surprise me you know Karen... god knows how many affairs she's had in the time we've been married." Chris said sadly, not realising whow unobservant he had been.
"Chris is that your phone ringing?" Karen said getting up to see where the sound was coming from.
"Oh yeah I left it in my coat pocket out there..." he said making his way to fiddle around eventually finding which pocket it was in, he had 6 missed calls from Jill, which he was going to ignore but as it rang for a seventh time his finger accidently hit the button and she was on the other end.
"CHRIS! CHRIS! I need you please come back its the baby..." she said panting heavily in agony, clearly distressed and had been trying to get through to him for a while.
Chris just hung up the phone debating whether to go and take her to the hospital or not, he thought maybe he should seeing as he was still married to her... But another part of him just thought he should just leave her because after all it wasn't his baby...
"Karen I don't know what to do... it's not even my baby so why should I take her to the hospital?"
"Because she is your wife still and once you did love her... this will probably be the last thing you ever do for this woman, and you don't know what is actually wrong with her, it could be serious Chris. Come on at least do it for the boys, they'll be scared out of their minds I expect!"
"Well maybe she should ring the actual father of the baby instead of ringing me as if it's my responsibility which clearly it isn't!" Chris was getting mad at Jill now he wondered why he'd ever got involved with her and maybe he should have walked out on her a long time ago. "If you're saying that I should go and help her then you are coming with me," Chris added thoughtfully.
"Oh she'll be so pleased won't she!" Karen replied sarcastically, thinking Chris had gone a bit mad and not thinking straight at even considering the idea.
"That's the whole point silly, it's a little thing called revenge... thank you Karen," he said kissing her, then pulling her up and they walked out to the car. They didn't make any effort to get back to Chris's in a hurry, but they were about to help Jill so she couldn't complain that much, after all Chris could have decided to just leave her screaming in pain. When they reached the driveway Karen stayed in the car while Chris went to knock, the first thing was his youngest son Tommy who came running to the door - petrified.
"What's wrong with mummy?" he said, tears streaming down his face and the other two followed out to see what was happening.
"She'll be okay don't you worry I've come to save her like a hero," Chris said picking up Tommy and carrying him upstairs to get Jill. She was right where he had left her before, but looking a lot more drained and collapsed on the bed.
"Come on then I'm here, I don't see why I'm even doing this but I am so be bloody grateful for once in your life... So where's the real father of the baby then, shouldn't he be the one to rush you off to hospital eh?" Jill just gave Chris an evil stare, too tired to speak but she reluctantly followed him into the car.
"Karen babe change of plan I don't know why I didn't think about this before but could you stay here with the boys please while I take Jill, and then I'll pick you up again afterwards," he explained getting Karen out the car and handing her Tommy to hold, leaving her in charge of a 4 year old, 6 and 8 year olds. Jill grunted at the sight of Karen but again was too weak to complain she got in the car and demanded Chris the whole way. Chris just dropped her outside the hospital and then drove off leaving her to fend for herself, and not regretting it. Traffic was beginning to build up as he made his way home during rush hour, and it took him half an hour to get back to the house, where he let himself in the house and Tommy came running up to him once more.
"Is she okay?" The oldest, Jack asked.
"Yes I'm sure she'll be fine," Chris reassured. "Right now what are we going to do? Have you had your dinner kids?"
"Yep Auntie Karen made us some tea while you were gone," Jack said innocently, and Chris very much approved of Karen's reference and both of them laughed at the name, but Chris was really happy that the children had taken to Karen so quickly as they'd never even met her before properly, only heard.
"Ah did she now?" Chris said cheekily turning to look at Karen who had Sam sitting on her lap. "Well I'd say you're a natural," he added chuckling.
"Well I've had my experience, haven't I?" she said. "Now why don't you three watch some tv while I talk to your daddy in the kitchen," said Karen turning on the tv for them, and then following Chris into the kitchen; then they shared a little kiss.
"I just dropped her off outside to fend for herself, you have to admit it does serve her right for getting knocked up like that in the first place, and then leaving me to think it was my own... she should be bloody grateful I took her in the first place, a lot of men wouldn't!" Chris said in a hushed voice so the boys wouldn't hear but Karen could tell he was not at all happy.
"I know you're very good for doing that you really are... If I was her I wouldn't have expected that of you, in fact I'd be ****ing terrified over what I'd got myself into!" Karen replied.
"You're the one that said I should take her..." Chris said unhappily.
"Well I was just trying to say the right thing, it wouldn't have been right to just leave her would it? She's probably just miscarried, or maybe the baby will be born a bit early? She could even be a bit further along than she thinks you never know." Karen pointed out.
"Hmm... Well you know what, I reckon she doesn't even know who the father is because she hasn't mentioned it at all, and well I told her about you, I told the truth, and she's not said one word. Wow this is going to get complicated when we get a solicitor involved... Everything's messed up."
"Oh don't worry everything will be okay I promise you," Karen said helpfully and encouragingly.
"Don't you think you'd better tell Emma where you are in case she comes back?" Chris pointed out realizing he'd dragged Karen away a bit quickly.
"Yeah I'd better give her a ring eh?"
*10 minutes later* "She wants me to go back she has something to tell me god knows what it is now but she said it can't wait so I'd better go, I'll ring you when I know and I might even pop back over!" she said and then let herself out saying goodbye to the boys, and then Chris went upstairs to lay down for a bit to think things through some more, he wondered if Jill was having the baby or lost it, who the father was and when she'd be back home, whether she'd have the nerve to ask him to collect her. But most of all he thought of how much he loved Karen and couldn't believe how stupid he'd been not to realize she felt the same way long before he did, and tears came to his eyes.
"Daddy can I have a cuddle?" A little voice came from behind the bedroom door, it was Sam.
"Of course you can buddy, hop up here then," he said reaching his arms out to scoop him up and give him a big warm hug.
"Daddy why are you crying?"
"Because I don't know what to do, don't worry you'll understand one day. I love Auntie Karen..."
Meanwhile, Karen had driven back home where Emma had told her to go and she said it was important, but nothing in her voice really gave away whether it was good or bad news, and Karen had ideas whizzing around her head the whole journey back, and she desperately hoped she wouldn't get stuck in traffic. It was just getting dark and the sun was blinding and shining brightly as it began to disappear behind the clouds slowly. Karen let herself in the house rushing in to find out what Emma's news was.
"Emma? Where are you darling, what have you got to tell me?" Karen asked not knowing whether to be worried or excited over the news.
"In the lounge mum! Come sit down!" Karen walked in the lounge to see Emma and her boyfriend Josh sitting very closely on the settee hand in hand, and she took a seat opposite them waiting in anticipation.
"Are you pregnant?!" Karen asked hoping she wasn't, she was too young to be ruining her life with a child, she had so much more to experience before child birth, however Karen didn't want to sound too put off by the thought in case she was pregnant and then that would upset Emma...
"No don't worry I'm not pregnant," she replied laughing as Karen took a deep sigh of relief. "I'm engaged!" she exclaimed happily not being able to contain the announcement any longer, and then hugging Josh tightly again. Karen then gave her daughter a humongous hug squeezing her tightly and tears welling up in her eyes as she did so.
"Congratulations baby!" she said and then releasing her from the firm but warm cuddle and wiping a tear as it rolled down her cheek, Emma herself welling up a little bit too.
"And you better look after her," Karen said to Josh, laughing.
"Oh you don't have to worry about that I certainly will," he assured her and then Karen hugged Josh too.
"This is amazing news both of you," Karen said absolutely ecstatic for her daughter, she couldn't wait to start organizing the wedding and everything, from the dresses to the venue...
"Look at my ring!" Emma said enthusiastically, thrusting her hand at her mother, she was so pleased with it.
"It's absolutely beautiful, you did an incredibly good job picking this one," she said to Josh, thinking it was the most sublime and exquisite thing she'd ever seen in her life, it was simple yet made a statement, a gold ring with a simple decorative diamante on top and fitted Emma's finger with perfection.
"Thank you, it's kind of a family thing, it was my grandmothers, and she passed it down to my mother, and now you have it," he said.
"Well it's beautiful," Karen said, getting up to go and get the champagne from the kitchen and returning with three glasses. She poured the bubbly carefully into each glass and made a toast to them both wishing them many years of happiness.
"Emma, would you mind if I rang Chris quickly and told him? He's probably wondering where I am actually..."
"Of course mum," she said sweetly, while Karen went out into the hallway to make the phone call and Emma and Josh got incredibly close and had shared a romantic kiss while Karen was out of the room.
"Chris, Emma's engaged!" Karen burst out as soon as he picked up the phone.
"Oh wow, fantastic! Tell her congratulations from me won't you? Gosh I'm glad it's you calling for a moment I thought it might be Jill," Chris laughed at the end.
"Yes of course I will, gosh you should see the ring it's absolutely beautiful... my daughter's all grown up now isn't she," Karen sighed.
"She is indeed, she'd going to have a wonderful life Karen, she's been bought up too well! Okay I'll let you go and celebrate with them, and I'll see you at the rink in the morning yeah?"
"Okay bye Chris... I love you..." she sighed again and put the phone down and then joined Emma and Josh again, they stayed up quite late and just spent the evening just chatting about anything and everything, and they told Karen all about the proposal and how it all happened...
The next morning Karen got up early to go to the rink, she made an extra effort to look nice and then picked Chris up on the way. The children had to stay with their grandparents, Chris's parents. It took them about 10 minutes to get to the rink from Chris's they sailed through all the places where normally they'd get stuck, purely by luck. They arrived before Jayne who was late as usual, so Karen and Chris had more quality alone time on the ice practicing their own thing and just talking as they skated round with ease, waiting for Jayne and everyone else to arrive. When she came in at last and swiftly got her skates on she came over to Karen and Chris, and all three of them skated around together, Chris and Karen filling Jayne in about what had happened with Jill, how she was in the hospital as they spoke, and had no idea what had happened, whether she had had the baby or not. Jayne was an incredibly good listener, she was always there to listen to other people's problems and often forgot about any of her own, but she was happy to help.
"Oh and Emma's engaged!" Karen added on the end.
"Ah, tell her congratulations from me!"Jayne said happily hugging Karen. "Do they have a date yet?"
"No I don't think so, and don't worry I'll make sure you're invited..." Karen said.
"Haha why thank you, I can do hair for her and bridesmaids if you like?" Jayne offered.
"I'll ask Emma and see what she thinks, that would be lovely Jayne," Karen replied.
The three of them then got to work after being fully updated on each other's news, and soon after the celebrities and professional skaters started turning up ready for rehearsals and training, there was two group numbers they had to work on. Chris gave them all an early break at 10am, he couldn't help but wonder where Jill was and what was going on, she hadn't come back home yet clearly, but there was no text messages full of demands or missed calls indicating she wanted to be picked up - he hoped maybe she had phoned the father of the baby? Maybe she'd move out of that house and go and live somewhere else with this mystery man no one knew, or something like that...
After their early but short (10 minute) break Chris called everyone back on the ice as now all the pros were there, and they did a good couple of hours working on that week's group dance, an 80's medley piece full of life and exciting tricks. After a while Karen left Jayne and Chris with the pros doing the group routine and she took a celebrity at a time to other sections of the rink to strengthen the basics, just so she could have a bit of time on her own to think about things, okay maybe just to think about Chris... but she was just fed up watching Jayne and Chris skate together and she certainly didn't feel like she was doing much just standing and watching, memorizing the choreography in her head.
"Could you tell me where Chris is?" a sharp rude voice demanded from behind where Karen was standing at the bottom of the large rink, and a baby could be heard crying in this woman's arms, but Karen had no suspicions as to who it was before she turned around. It was Jill of course, she had the baby and was demanding to see Chris, she was unbelievable, and Karen didn't know what to say, she knew Chris would not be in the mood to see her and he was quite busy with all the other skaters.
"Erm, are you ignoring me? Could you get me Chris please I need to talk to him!" Jill carried on, acting as if she didn't even know who Karen was, and then Karen realized she'd just been standing and staring at Jill.
"Oh I'm sorry," Karen snapped back, "he's over there but he's incredibly busy right now I really don't think now is the right time..."
Jill stormed off and wondered why she'd even bothered to talk to Karen, who she thought was a manipulative bitch, it made no sense as to why she'd asked her, she'd already done enough to upset her, even if it was Jill that did wrong first. Jill stormed up down the side of the rink snuggling the little tiny baby boy into her tightly trying to keep him warm in the freezing temperatures. Chris slowly turned round to see who it was, he was shocked to see Jill turn up without any warning and was even more shocked to see her cradling the most tiniest human being he had ever seen. He couldn't help thinking the baby was so beautiful, he tried to storm himself as he knew it wasn't his, and he tried to remember he was mad at her.
"Jill, what the hell are you doing here?!" he practically shouted, "Take 5 guys," he said to the rest of the skaters who had all turned and gone into little groups whispering to each other wondering what was going on, they'd no idea Jill was pregnant or that Chris and Jill were getting a divorce, and Chris guessed he'd have to give them some kind of an explanation as to what was going on at some point.
"I was expecting you to at least call and let me know what the hell is going on with all this," Chris said as he stepped off the ice in front of Jill and put his bright blue skate guards on carefully. "Am I ever going to know who the bloody father is? And let me tell you I want this divorce for definite now, no counselling necessary I've made up my mind this is ridiculous, I refuse to live with you and this baby that doesn't belong to me... does this mystery guy even know you were pregnant?"
Jill broke down a little and just squeezed her baby tighter into her body. "Chris I'm so sorry..." she started, trying to speak with some emotion in her voice to get Chris to take pity on her, but it wasn't going to work.
"Jill I'm not going to argue with you here and now, just go home please and wait for me there, because you're not getting away with this without saying anything, I want answers Jill, I want to know everything. I've told you my secret now I want to know yours. Besides, this is hardly a suitable environment for a baby, take him home and wait there the kids have been worried sick about you, good luck explaining why they have another little baby brother," Chris said icily and then storming off to the dressing room behind the ice rink.
Once she saw Jill walk out of the building, Karen went to go and find Chris, who was pacing up and down his dressing room with his head in his hands, not knowing what to feel, he thought he was mostly mad at Jill, her behavior was ridiculous.
"Chris it's me, can I come in," Karen said softly knocking on the door. Chris gave no answer but Karen went in anyway, walked over to Chris and comforted him with a hug, reassuring him that everything would be okay in the end.
"Look the sooner you can get rid of her then you will be happy again and we can be together with no regrets," she said kissing him gently.
"That woman is absolutely unbelievable, I don't understand her... I want to know who's baby this is!"
"I thought you said she was only 3 months? The baby couldn't have been healthy enough to be sent home again the next day if she was only 3 months I'm sure."
"Well that's what she told me - I only told you what I knew. She probably just made it all up it wouldn't surprise me," Chris said flatly. "Whatever happened to her Karen?"
"I don't know Chris I really don't... you two used to be so happy... But then again so did me and Stephen, I guess things just change..." she said and they shared a few moments in a tight hug. "Right are we going to get back to work or what? What are you going to tell everyone else, they don't even know that you and Jill were having your differences, the last news they probably got about the pair of you was probably when Tommy was born and that was 4 years ago..."
"Oh I don't know Karen I don't think I can be bothered to face everyone right now I haven't got the energy to face all the questions..."
"Oh come on it'll be fine I'll come wit you it'll all be fine I promise," Karen said taking his hand and going in the direction of the door.
"No really I don't babe, sorry... I think I'm just going to head home and get this argument over with and take the rest of the day off... Tell everyone I'm sorry and explain whatever you like to them," Chris said apologetically and then grabbing his bag and quickly changing out of his skates. Karen waited for him and waved him out, before returning to everyone else who was expecting Chris to return. It was then she realized she had just abandoned the celebrities she'd been working with and no one knew about her and Chris's relationship, and she didn't think Chris would exactly appreciate everyone knowing just yet.
"Okay back to work people. Chris has decided to take the rest of the day off as he's experiencing some difficulties at the moment and he'd appreciate it if you didn't bombard him with questions on his return tomorrow, he says he's really sorry and he will explain everything eventually," Karen said in her loudest voice so she got everyone's attention, and then lead everyone back onto the ice.
Meanwhile Chris had got back to the house and surprisingly Jill hadn't got back yet, though he'd no idea where she was or anything, he expected her to be waiting for him just like he instructed. He let himself in the house and asked his parents if they could take the kids out for a few hours, just to the local park or something as he had a feeling the upcoming disagreement was not going to be something young children want to witness in their own home. He was dreading when he was going to have to tell the kids that he and Jill were splitting up, he knew it was going to be hard for them.
20 minutes later Jill finally turned up in a taxi, still cuddling the baby tightly in her arms.
"Oh it was about time you turned up here, I've been waiting ages, I got the rest of the day off to sort things out with you and I want answers do you hear me? Oh and thanks to you the whole entire crowd of skaters involved on the show know I have serious marriage issues, nothing had been revealed until just then, and now I've got to explain the baby as well..."
"Oh I'm so sorry Chris, but quite frankly I don't care!"
"Sit down Jill. I want to have this conversation now and here, it's been dragged out far too long now and I'm sick of it, sick of all your dirty little secrets, I want to know, and I deserve to. And don't you dare sit there and tell me you don't think we should get a divorce because I find it ridiculous that you could even consider that, I refuse to live with you and some other guys baby!" he snapped slyly.
"Well I didn't exactly expect to have this baby last night either Chris, funnily enough, it wasn't on my agenda. I honestly thought I was only about 3 months, but then when I went for that scan they told me they didn't know how far along I was at all, they're totally useless at that place seriously sometimes I wonder if they have any clue what they're doing - I bet half of them aren't qualified!"
"Okay well that doesn't explain anything to me, how far gone were you?"
"7..." Jill said quietly.
"7?!! How could you have not found out until then?" Chris said raising his voice.
"Chris I was lucky I found out at all, lots of women never do...and then along comes the baby."
"Well I'm sure you could have worked it out... wait... how many times have you slept with this guy? And who is he, do I know him?" Chris said firing questions away at her wanting to know all the answers.
"Chris calm down please..."
"Calm down?! How do you expect me to calm down when you're giving me all this... How would you like it if I told you all that?!" Chris said his voice getting louder and louder as it went on.
"Okay okay... no you don't know him, at least I shouldn't think you do. I've known Cory far longer than I ever knew you... The difference is he actually loved me, all though our serious relationship never actually went very far as he moved out the country," Jill explained.
"Look I don't want your life story Jill and how many boyfriends you've had and all this crap I just want you to cut to the chase," Chris said angrily.
"I met him at the World Champions back when I skated, right before I would have turned professional, if it wasn't for breaking my ankle in my solo routine," Jill carried on, "We became excellent friends all those years ago and we started dating for a while, we loved each other dearly, even when we competed against each other a year later, we were inseparable. But he lived in Canada and I had to return to America with my parents, and shortly after I met you."
"Okay now I know all the crap behind this guy, when did you meet up again?! How did you get in contact after all those years, he must have been pretty hard to find."
"Remember when I went to America to visit my parents, while you couldn't come because you said you were far too busy with work?" Jill asked.
"Erm actually, you never told me you were going until you walked out the house, and that was summer last year..."
"Whatever... that was the first time I met up with him, turns out when I moved here with you he tried to contact my parents but he's been trying to get hold of me for years now and they never told him where I was as they thought I was living a happy life with you, but when I went over I found a load of letters he'd sent to my parent's house... I told them I wanted to see him..."
"You're telling me you've been seeing this guy behind my back for over a year now, and that's acceptable is it? Oh and I go off for one night which I told you about afterwards because I felt bad, yet you'd been playing your little games for all that time... you absolute bitch, I don't believe you Jill I really don't!" Chris couldn't believe what he was hearing, and the baby had started screaming at Chris shouting.
