CAN LOVE SAVE (A HIGH SCHOOL REUNION JUMP STREET STYLE PART TWO}

CHAPTER 8: CONFRONTATION

At Doug's, Doug got Tom a beer. Tom said "Thanks and thanks for letting me come over and talk. Dorothy gone?" Doug said "Yeah she's at work." Tom said "Good." Doug said "Hanson I have to be honest, I don't like the sound of this I mean on the phone. You keeping secrets from your wife. But I'll keep your secret on one condition" Tom said "ok" Doug said "Don't tell me what it is, if this is about another girl, cause I can't and won't" Tom said "Penhall shut the hell up. Come on man, you can't be serious. You know how much I love Sydney. How Syd is the love of my life. How I can't live without her. She's my entire world. No hell no this is about Sydney ok"

Doug said "I thought so, I just had to say it" Tom said "ok sorry I don't mean to go off on you. But God no I would never " Doug said "ok good now that we got that settled, what is it" Tom said "ok this is about Sydney, this isn't about me at all, and I know that she deserves to know, and knowing my wife as well as I do, I think she would want to know." Doug said "Ok so then shouldn't you just tell her Hanson. Whatever it is"

Tom said "yeah but I don't know man. I mean Sydney is so happy. I mean she's exhausted yes, and struggling a little with the babies, and thinking she needs take care of me, but she's so happy, her eyes light up, she's glowing and she's finally becoming so self confident, and I can just see she's like a whole new person after we had these babies. The pain from the past is not in her eyes. I mean even before I knew she was Michelle, you know at Jump Street, she carried that pain from her past in her eyes, like at her desk, sitting at Jakes, there was a small part like a glimmer of sadness of pain in her eyes, The bad dreams, words that would bring up bad memories, flashes of torture inflicted on her."

Doug said "Right Hanson I know what you mean" Tom said "Penhall that's all gone. I mean you look at her now and her eyes are full of joy, love, peace. The pain and the past is gone. It's totally like it happened to someone else. I mean yeah Sydney will always be Michelle and always remember, but she doesn't let it trigger her. She's so focused on being the best mommy she can be, and I mean our babies are the most beautiful angels, so she really the past and pain is gone. But I'm afraid if I tell her this, it's all going to come back"

Doug said "So this have something to do with her past then?" Tom said "yeah. I mean look I know I'm a big part of the pain and torture, I didn't mean to. I mean I wish I could go back and change things Doug. You have no idea" Doug said "I know you do" Tom said "I mean I had no idea that Michelle was in love with me. I didn't think of her like that ok. I wish I had known though, because if I would have, I would have probably ended things with Anna, I mean that's how much her friendship meant to me. I would never have wanted to hurt her like that make her watch me with Anna. I mean hell Doug I can't believe Sydney wanted to be with me at all after all that I did to her and the way I hurt her and tortured her."

Doug said "I know you will always beat yourself up over it, but she loves you man."  Tom said "I know and I thank God she does."  Doug said "This have something to do with Anna or the bullies"  Tom said "no this has to do with her dirtbag asshole bastard of a father. I mean hell you can't even call him a father, he's a sperm donor I guess. That man pisses me off so damn much. Doug I'm telling you. Now that I'm a dad. Now that I have beautiful little babies. I want to kill this man, kick the crap out of him. What kind of a man walks out on his little innocent 5 year old daughter, and even worse leaves her alone with a monster, a bitch, a whore who only cared about sex with strange men. That psycho mother of Sydney's did so much damage to Sydney. Her self esteem, beat her down, made her feel like she was a bad damaged little girl, blamed her for her dad leaving, told her no man would ever want her, she was ugly, stupid, dumb, Her mom and dad both piss me off so much, and even more so now that Syd and I have kids."

Doug said "yeah I have the same opinion of her monster parents.  So what about her dad?  I mean she doesn't even know if he's alive, did you find out, is he dead?"  Tom said "no he's very much alive, and you won't believe where he lives"  Tom filled him in on Judy's case.  Doug said "no way oh my God Tom. Now I get why you're conflicted."