The Taylors invited Lady P over for dinner. Fatima was hungry so she ate a little and then waited for her mom to get there to eat some more.
"Zac, what do you have up your sleeves?" Fatima asked as she sits at the bar with her arms folded.
"Who says I had something up my sleeve? I just want to hear this lame apology from your moms and I may have a question or two on the side for her," Zac grabs a third plate.
Fifteen minutes later, Pat had arrived. Fatima opens the door to let her in.
"Hey Ma, we were eating dinner. You can go into the kitchen."
"Hey moms," Zac looks up to greet her.
"Hi, Zac." She responded.
"Please have a seat. I made dinner for T and I, but it's enough for you. Would you like some? It's spaghetti and meatballs with mozzarella sticks."
"Sure, I'll have a little."
Zac continues to make everyone's plate and then sits at the bar with Fatima and Pat.
"Thank you, it looks delicious," Lady Pat said.
Zac's said grace and then they ate.
"Let's go ahead and address the elephant in the room," said Fatima. Zac and her mom have never set in the same room together without an argument or something happening. So it was getting a little awkward. "Mom, didn't you come here for something?"
At first, she was looking a little dumbfounded then she clears her throat. "Umm, Zachary, I apologize for the way I treated you." She said quickly.
"Zac, do you have anything you would like to say?" asked Fatima in attorney mode.
"Yes. Before I accept the apology I have a few questions and concerns."
Mrs. Pat looks at him strangely. "Look I would like us to have a better relationship for my daughter and granddaughter. I don't want any problems."
"Saying the queen of causing problems," Zac mumbled.
"Zac!" Fatima said.
"Look I never said much because I was trying to be respectful. Now, I just have a few questions to ask your mom, respectfully. Is that okay with you, Momma P?"
"Sure go ahead?" She said nervously.
"Fatima told me everything already," Zac said trying to find the right words to say next. "So you let this woman extort your daughter just so your dirty little secret wouldn't get out?"
"It was not like that!" Pat yelled.
"Then tell us, what was it like?" Zac asked Pat.
Fatima was quick to believe and forgive her mother, but Zac wasn't having it.
"Is there more to this story I don't know how much more I can take," Fatima takes a deep breath and looks at her mother.
Lady Pat glanced over at Fatima and then bowed her head in shame. "That night was not the first time Mr. Johnson and I slept together. I met the Johnsons back in college. We used to have..." Lady Pat paused. She couldn't believe she was about to tell her daughter this."
Fatima looked at her confused.
"Fatima please don't judge me."
"Judge you for what?"
"What I am about to tell you." She clears her throat. "We used to have threesomes. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and me. We had fooled around a few times while I was with your dad. Your father wasn't around much because he had family issues. I ended up getting pregnant with you."
Fatima interrupted. "Is Mr. Johnson my father?" Fatima started to get sick. "I need a moment." She ran upstairs and started throwing up in the bathroom. Zac went to go check on her.
"Babe, are you ok?"
"No. This whole time I've been kissing my brother," she almost throws up again. "What if we had sex?"
"Well, you did almost marry him." Zac joked.
"This is not the time to be joking," Fatima said.
After several minutes Fatima gathers herself and heads back into the kitchen where her mother was.
"Are you okay, Tima?" His mom asked.
"Yeah, I'm ok. Can you finish the story?"
She continued. "We had stopped messing around by the time I got pregnant with you. Later I found out Mrs. Johnson was also pregnant."
Zac was bewildered, "So, is Fatima a Johnson?"
"No. I got a paternity test done years ago," she started to get frustrated.
"Did Dad know about any of this?" asked Fatima.
"No. You can't tell him, Fatima. I'm begging you please don't."
"One thing Fatima and I don't do in the house is keep secrets." Zac announced.
"But this isn't your or her secret to tell." Lady P Snapped.
