One womans heart break anothers pot of gold

Chapter twenty

CHAPTER TWENTY:

Christmas day arrived Jake was conveniently away, he was spending christmas day with his mother in San Fransisco, he had supposedly left the day before. So Brooke spent christmas day at her brother's house Chuck and Kim in San Diego.

There was twelve of them for christmas lunch, Brooke ate so much she could hardly move, neighbours and friends popped in for a christmas drink throughout the day. The best part was watching Lauren and Dillon open their presents.

Jake gave Brooke a quick call to wish her a Merry Christmas, she was happy to hear from him he was due back home in a couple of days. He told her he would call her every day to say hi, and when he returns he will come over.

Brooke the kids and her mother were staying at Chucks house overnight, one neighbour came over with a karioke stereo that she had received as a christmas gift from her family, so they were all having turns singing on the karioke machine songs by Abba, the BeeGees and Elvis, they were belting these songs out like they were professional singers, after a few drinks they were thinking they sounded better than ever. It ended up being a verry funny and late night.

Morning arrived and Brooke woke with a throbing headache! too much white wine she thought to herself, she got the kids packed up and they had their showers and got dressed, by that time everyone else was up. They all had breakfast together and afterwards Brooke decided to head off home, as it was over an hours drive.

Jake came back a few days later Brooke had bought him a couple of nice dress shirts to wear out and he had given her a bottle of Chanel Chance perfume. She was happy to see him and she had missed him terribly, they went out for dinner that night.

The next day arrived and Jake went home early.

Brooke was going over to her mother's house for lunch with the kids. Jake didn't ask her what she was doing so she assumed he was busy working in the recycling yard.

After lunch at her mother's they took the kids for a walk in the park, they rode their bikes around the track and played on the swings. It was 3.00pm and Brooke decided to take the kids home. On her way as she was driving down a street in Marina Delray she saw Jakes car it was parked in a street that had lots of cafes and restaurants all the way along the marina on the waters edge. She noticed it was parked in a clearway which started at 3.00pm it was now 3.15pm so she thought she would try and call him on his cellphone to worn him that his car may get towed away, it went straight to voice mail. She left a message "Hi Jake it's Brooke, I just saw your car on my way home parked in a clear way which is already in force, I didn't want your car to be towed away incase you have forgotten, talk to you soon" and then she hung up.

As she drove further down the street it got the better of her, so she turned the car around and headed back to where his car was parked, there he was strolling down the street towards his car with the blonde headed lady who he claimed to be Robert's wife last time she saw them together, there was also an elderly woman with them. Brooke was on the other side of the road, her heart was beating at a hundred miles an hour, that sickly gut feeling was back again. She pulled over to the curb which was on the other side of the road and wound down her window and yelled out to him, she didn't want to accuse him of anything, she just wanted them to see and hear her just incase it was another woman he was seeing behind her back. "Jake!" Brooke yelled, he stopped and waved hello to her.

Brooke yelled "Are you coming over tonight and will you be staying over?"

"I will call you later" he yelled back

Then they got into his car, so Brooke then drove off around the corner to see where he was going as she was going to follow him, she wanted to get to the bottom of this. Five minutes later his car drove past and she stayed a few cars behind hoping he would not see her, he then drove into a car park underneath a popular hotel, she still didn't want him to see her so she waited a few seconds and then drove in. She drove around the carpark but couldn't see the car anywhere, so she did another lap of the carpark and bingo! there it was parked in a disabled car spot. Lauren and Dillon started asking Brooke questions as she parked in a spot close to Jakes car, she could see the car through her rear view mirror and noticed the elderly woman was sitting in the front passenger seat, but there was no Jake or the mystery blonde headed woman. There were a million things running through Brooke's head. "Dillon and Lauren just wait here in the car, I will be back in a minute".

"Where are you going? Can't I come with you?" asked Dillon

"No, I am only going over there, I just want you to wait here please!" The children could hear the stress in Brooke's voice, she was trying very hard to hold back the tears. She got out of the car and started heading over towards Jake's car, she was going to ask the lady where had Jake gone and then who she was, then she was going to proceed to tell the elderly lady that she was Jake's girlfriend.

Brooke had only taken about twenty steps and a voice from behind her yelled out to her.

"Brooke!"

It was Jake she turned and looked at him "Come over here" he said, he was on his own.

The first thing that went through her mind was he was saved by the bell once again. She started to walk towards him.

"What are you doing here? and what were you about to do?" asked Jake

"I was going to go up to the lady and introduce myself and then ask her where you were"

"Please don't, she's very upset that is Robert's mother we have been out to lunch, I said to them I would drive her home"

"Why would that upset her?" asked Brooke

"Her husband only just passed away two weeks ago, and she's a bit fragile that is why we were all out at lunch"

"Who was the blonded headed lady with you?"

"That was Robert's wife, she parked her car here, so I gave her a lift over here, I went and paid for the parking ticket"

"Then where was Robert?"

"They all came in seperate cars he has gone to the recycling yard to lock up for me, as you know he works there and all the trucks would be back"

Brooke was dumb founded, was she really going to believe this story she thought to herself. But how could she not, how could someone be that good and qick on making up such a tale, even though her heart was racing and she was in no state to argue right there especially with Dillon and Lauren in the car watching and listening, the last thing she wanted was for them running back to their father telling him Brooke was crying and arguing with Jake, so she once again gave him the benefit of the doubt and believed him.

"Okay, I'm sorry for questioning you on this" said Brooke

"It's okay, I understand, but please, you have to believe me and stop being paranoid"

"I'm sorry, are you still coming over tonight?"

"Of course I am, I'll be there at 8.30pm. I love you". with that he turned and walked towards his car.

Brooke got back into her car and drove off, the elderly woman in Jakes car had no idea Jake had even been talking to Brooke.

Dillon asked Brooke "Are you fighting with Jake?"

"No honey, everything is fine, don't you worry about a thing, besides Jake is coming over tonight"