LOVE FROM WAY BACK

chapter eight

"thanks for lunch boys, we sure do appreciate you paying for it" Betty said
"Decky here as always been a ladies gentle man he'll pay the price for it all" ava said patting Declan's shoulder Declan smile
"It's only in my nature" he said leaning in to Martina "pretty I'll see you, call me ok"
"Mmh" Martina said cuffing his cheeks between her finger then pull his face together kisses him long and deep leaving the others to view,
Marcus pull Declan back "enough man, let's go" he said
Declan and Martina grin as they pulled apart Declan and Marcus walk away holding shoulder,
"Girl....!" Betty and Ava said laughing as they shove Martina,
"He's still so sweet"
"Well I can say now your boyfriend is the bomb" Betty said
"Yeah" Ava agree, "as I say your father better not find out he's back"
Martina grin "too bad" her phone rang only when she was finished speaking, her father was calling but she ignores
"Your husband?" Betty asked
" The man I called father" Martina said
"Oh" Betty said
"What's his story?" Ava asked
"He call said I'm to come over we have serious condition to discuss"
"What could be so serious?" Ava and Betty asked looking at each other,
"My husband must have told him how late I got in last night"
"Probably smells" ava said
"No of course not" Martina giggled, "he was supposed to be out on a late night making some form of business deal with my dad his dad and Scott"
"So what happened?" Ava asked they all climb into Martina's car to go to the hair dresser,
"He said the meeting got called off, but I was at a place where I didn't stop to think and beneath Declan I was so trilled and warm I didn't want to get up and go anywhere.
Ava and Betty laugh,
Martina's phone rang again
"Now that's the results for going home after midnight" ava said and they grin,
From the hair salon to the store then the girls went home, it seems to Martina her  husband was still at her parents for he wasn't home, or she wasn't sure if he was meeting with David they have their time when they two went out, Martina wasn't going to call to find out she barely rest her hand bag down on the counter when her phone ring Declan call and she forgets everything as they gets into talking she fix dinner by she was to set the table Horace walk in and she dish for him they both sat at the table to eat, "how is mom?" Martina asked
"You should try asking her that?"
"They don't want to talk to me" Martina said,
"you're not giving them the chance"
"what chance? Am the one in need of a chance, and a break with it too, I have been going through this with my parents since I be come thirteen only because I like a boy they think wasn't good enough for me, since them I'm the worse daughter a father and a mother could have, but do I care anymore"
"You're married now"
"And so?" Martina snap,
"I'm just saying"
"I didn't asked for this I was going to stay single for the rest of my life, but just because daddy thinks he know what I wants and what's good for me but deep down this marriage wasn't for me it was so he can benefit" she got up and started cleaning the table even before Horace stop eating, Horace sat looking at her but didn't say anything, when she was finished she started washing the dishes right away when Horace notice he wasn't going to be able to speak to her and have her respond on a good term he got up and left going to his office space,
Martina's phone rang she turn around to find that her husband wasn't at the table any more she went to answer the phone,
"Martina, Martina you've disobey me and you didn't come by the house" Carlos shout Martina held the phone away from her ears,
"Daddy I had things that I had to do"
"What ever it was wasn't important and you're starting to let me loose my way"
Daddy what did I do for that, for you to loose your way, and what make you  think that what I had to do wasn't important?"
"Hanging out with those low life friends of your's you you're calling important,
"Daddy I have no low life friends and if my friends are my friends of course daddy they are important"
MARTINA!" Carlos shout almost leaving Martina without hearing, you listen, you better listen good, shut up, shut up and hear me, you hear me, I am not going to tolerate you speaking back to me, you're not bigger than I am, you don't own me, you're not responsible for me, I'm my own man I am responsible for me not the other way around you're not responsible for me I am the one who provides for you"
"what daddy a husband that I didn't asked for, is that what you provide for me?" Martina asked
"you should be grateful I've found someone who see beyond your fault, for other wise you would be useless to men"
Martina heard he said that before he had put a snare on her because she had slept well Declan wait till he found that she's doing it again, she thought,
"you know what daddy I had enough of your insult and mistreat and that is why I'm avoiding you"
"avoiding me are you in any position to do that are you paying your own rent are you working at your own business?" Carlos asked
Kate turn and look at it, from she entered the room and hear him shouting she knew it was their daughter he spoke to but she didn't say anything,
"Is this about the bed and breakfast inn? I thought you said it was for me"
"oh so because you think you own a business you're riding on your high horse, well go a head then and see how high you can go, continue to treat your husband the way you're, hang with your friends and pretend that your marriage isn't important and I'll show you what God you're serving one more complain from him and that's it my good lady" Carlos said and hang up
Martina squeal with anger and almost toss the phone she realizes it was it and rest it on the counter and started to cry,
Horace reach out to touch her when he came in to find her crying but she got up and left him there she turn her back to him the minute he climb on the bed next to her ,
"What happened last night?" Horace asked when he walk in the kitchen to find Martina fixing breakfast, she rest his on the table and left out the back door everytime she remember her father she cry about it,
Monday Martina didn't feel like going to the inn but she went out to get a ice pop and to take a walk in the park, while she was ordering two ice pop a purple and a pink Declan shows up,
"So you read my mind" he said as he came up behind her and kiss her cheek,
Martina smile she haven't since Saturday and her heart was staring to get heavy,
"It wasn't that I read your mind" she said
"So why order two"
She shrug, "I was going to pretend I wasn't a lone"
"so who would go home with the mess you or your pretend friend?" Declan asked
Martina laugh out, "oh my I didn't thought about it"
"well not to worry I'm here so your pretend friend can take a hike" he said to Martina look side ways and said "I'm sorry man but you definitely should take a hike I'm here for the woman ok"
Martina giggled Declan smile at her she hand him his pink ice pop, the man at the stand smile at them, he never forget them they have been his most popular customers since high school the guy wasn't here for a while but she always come and brought the same two flavors each time,
"they say that where true love is you grow old but not apart" he said
Martina and Declan smile,
"here is your money it's on the house"
"Thank you" Martina said
Declan nod
The old man watch them with a smile
They walk to the park spend few hours kiss and talk giggle and kiss,
"So you got a job?" Declan asked
"I was told by my dad that the inn was mine but now he's at my throat about it"
"What happened?" Declan asked
"He's saying I'm not treating my husband good for I spent more time with my friends, I feel as if I am helpless when he mentioned the inn I love that place"
"I know you lost your innocence there" Declan said
Martina grin, " yeah" she nod grinning once again covering her face shyly,
"so what will he do if he take it?"
Martina shrug she knew her father he might sell it or let someone else run it just to get back at her,
"Maybe he's bluffing" Declan said
"Maybe he's not" Martina said "I don't want to loose it Declan" she said
"You won't I think he is threatening you"
"Well I hope so" Declan smile and push back her hair, "let's just go home and relax a little, later you call me and tell me how you're feeling" he said he kiss her forehead slightly as  he got up he barely turn his head when he say the man he was staring at him and Martina he noticed it was Danielle Martina stood next to him she look at him then to Danielle across from them, he smirk at them "Mr Elliott I see you and miss Michigan still hangs in the park, what was that saying about old fire sticks" he said grinning
Martina look at Declan's face from the looks on it he was boiling with anger, he was for he remember what he and his father did to push him out of his own town maybe if he was here Martina wouldn't be for anyone else but because of him and his father, he step out towards Danielle when Martina held him back, "did you say we were leaving?" She asked
Declan nod he let Martina pull him away but he look back Danielle was standing there smiling he wave at him and Martina felt him tense "baby he's not worth it" she said Declan look at her hearing her say baby always gives him the trill  he didn't speak but it make his head swell he loved it when he was called baby by her so often it softened his spirit,
"I'm alright" Declan said
"Are you sure?" Martina asked
He nod, she held his upper arm leading him out the part when Danielle couldn't them he turn and left the other way, he didn't mention it to his father that he saw Declan with Martina he had said to him the other day he was back he didn't seems to care or maybe he totally for got that Declan is the same boy from high school who had smash his car the one he gave him to drive, he know who will love to hear that Declan make his appearance back in Boston and who is seen hanging around him Danielle smile as he thought of the outburst with Declan and the Michigan's once again he'll never be in peace and will have no other choice but to move back to where ever the hell he was,
After leaving from the park Martina went straight home, Declan drove by the tec office to see what was going on over there, he had drop in at the gym earlier and put in a little work on himself, the office space was now on finishing terms the fixtures were being putting in so with in a week or two he'll be sitting comfortable in his office space, he call his dad and talk with him, talk with Georgea for some time he hang up from her and call Alando the guy that manage things in his tec company in Tokyo, he told him of the process of this new building and giving him a estimate of when exactly he feel he'll be having the opening, he hang around the building with Marcus while he work and promised to buy him a drink before they both head home,
Horace visit the bed and breakfast inn after leaving the office only to learn his wife didn't show up for work he wonder what happened why she didn't turn up he was told she didn't call or send a message,
Horace call his father in-law to tell him that his daughter didn't show up for work and at the same time he asked if his father in law had any idea why she wouldn't go to the bed and breakfast, Carlos didn't know why but have the feeling it's because of the argument between them, she was working up his last nerves and he can't help but to feel mad and angry, he call her but he didn't get her cellphone, the land line was busy so he left a message, "Martina more and more I've become disappointed in you, and I'm sure that your mother his too, and to mention your husband, I'm sure this attitude of yours is going to cause him to walk away and you'll never find another man to put up with your style" he growls before hanging up the phone with a hard bang,
Martina hissed to herself and put the phone aside
Since Saturday night Martina barely  spoken on good terms   with her husband  she was talking to ava and Betty when he walk in the kitchen Monday evening they said goodbye for Betty was about to fix dinner and ava was just pulling up from work,
"good evening" Horace said
"Mmh"Martina reply in her throat  she felt that angry feeling she felt towards her dad earlier creeps up on her as her husband walks in,
"Where were you all day?" Horace asked
"Where did you hear I was?" Martina asked
"I asked you for I heard you weren't at work"
"Oh so what I didn't feel like going today"
"Did you think about how it might upset your father?"
" What are you my father's spoke person?"
"I hate to break it to you Martina but this behavior of your's is becoming unsuitable it's not just to your parents anymore but to me as well, if you don't clean up your act you're going to loose everything" Horace said
The fork Martina held in her hand fall from it as she stood to stare at Horace he left the kitchen and Martina frowns,
When she was finished with the dinner she went into the office to to let him know he came but she didn't sit with him she use the back veranda to eat and while she eats she reminisce on the times with Declan's.