Who Says You Only Have One Chance? A Jemi Short Love Story

Episode 10

I begin to ring Joe and it takes a few rings until he picks up.

"I thought you never wanted to see or talk to me again?" He says without saying hi or anything, I sigh noticing his voice is different.

"Are you okay? You sound weird."

"I'm fine." He says and I look at the picture on my nightstand of us and the girls.

"I only phoned about the divorce." I explain and I hear a shaky sigh.

"Look can we not wait a while?" He begins and carries on. "Let's just say I'm not myself at the moment."

"Why what's wrong Joe?" I ask a bit concerned.

"You wouldn't understand Demi, it's complicated." 

"I will try and understand."

"You can't Demi." I feel tears start falling gently down my cheeks. How can I still love him after what he did. 

"Mia still wants to see you." I hear him sigh again.

"I can't, I'm um out of the country."

"Where?" I ask curious to what this story is going to lead to.

"France." I decide not to ask any more details, not yet anyway.

"You still need to see your children."

"I'm closer to them then you think." What's that supposed to mean? I hear the line go dead, I guess that's that. I put my phone on the nightstand next to our family photo and start running a bubble bath attempting to wash my worries away, it doesn't work. How can I still be in love with him? I don't want a divorce, I just want things to be back like they were when I didn't know what he was doing and when Shanice actually liked him. I get the family album out and start flicking through the pictures. Some of the pictures include me and Joe when we we're at kindergarten and they end up to the last family photo we had, it has everything in, my baby scans of Shanice and Mia, pictures from the day they we're born and the most important ones for me, wedding pictures. I love my family and all but now I don't have one, he's gone so we're incomplete, without him here it's not the same. I miss him holding me at night and giving me hugs when I feel down like this, I miss his soft lips on mine. I just don't function properly without him.

I wake up the next morning exactly in the same position as before in the clothes I wore the following day. I get up and take a shower changing into new clothes and waking the girls up for school. We sit down at the table and I turn to Shanice who called my name.

"Sel is coming over today."

"What for?" I ask and she smiles.

"Your clearly not over dad so she's coming over to help you get back onto the market."

"I am over your dad!" I exclaim. 

"Mom you slept last night hugging a picture of the pair of you at your wedding." Mia says and I sigh knowing it's the truth. I agree to it and we finish of our breakfast and wash up the dishes. The girls leave for school and I sit down waiting for Sel to come, I've always been best friends with Sel and she was Joe's friend too. She's been away with work for the last few months so I haven't really seen her since I kicked Joe out of my life.