heart beats for you (Book 2)

Chapter 15

"This is bad. No, this is worse." Marissa was hitting her forehead with the pillow.

"Stop it, Risa. This is worse than you pacing around." Ronny groaned.

"Then how the hell am I supposed to react? We have a dance competition coming up in a few weeks, then there is your wedding preparations, plus my twisted ankle. Everything is so messed up. How are we going to manage everything?" She whined and then glared at him.

"It's not that bad. Everything will go just fine." Ronny tried to assure her.

"Yeah, right!" She told him sarcastically.

"Cut it out, guys and Marissa, Ronny is right. Enough time is left." Cameron intervened to calm both of them down.

"I can't believe that I agree with my good-for-nothing brother, but he is right."

For Marissa's sake, Jenny had begun tolerating his presence and she still held a grudge against him and never left a chance to taunt him for it.

Marissa, however, could sense the tension between the siblings irrespective of the fact that they have indirectly started talking to one another.

"Ronny and Cameron, make me some sandwiches." She ordered the boys.

"Why should I?" Ronny shot back.

"Do I look like I am in a position to stand and make food?" She raises her eyebrows.

"Come on, Ronny. Marissa needs rest." Cameron pulled Ronny up and dragged him to the kitchen.

"Even I am hungry; you two better make some good sandwiches. But Ronny, please be safe! Cameron tends to make a disaster of even simple things." She said loudly.

"Jennifer," Marissa said with a warning tone.

"What?" To which Jenny gave her a puppy dog look.

"Give Cameron a break."

"After what he did to you and all of us? No, never." Jenny gruffed.

"Jenny, you know the whole story. You cannot blame him for everything. It is not fair to him." Marissa stated.

"Marissa, stop defending my brother."

"I am not defending him. Yes, what he did was wrong, but Cameron is a good person. We might have gotten on the wrong foot, but now he is at least trying. Please don't be angry with him for my sake. He loves both of you and your sister, and I can see that he hates it when you two don't talk to him."

"He deserves it." Jenny looked away.

"Does he, Jenny? Why should he pay for all the mistakes? Even I was part of the lie where I didn't tell you people about him being my husband. So, in this case, you should not talk to me as well. I am as much to blame as him."

"Marissa, you don't understand. None of it would have happened if he hadn't dated Daphne or hadn't divorced you." Jenny tried to explain it to her exasperatedly.

"Jenny, he is your brother. The one whom you love with all your heart. I still remember when you were actually dancing from joy when he contacted you and apologized to you. You gave him a chance. Things that happened to me were before that. He has done nothing wrong now and whatever happened to me post my marriage was not his fault. He cannot be held accountable for my decisions. Moreover, he is trying to do things right. You do know that for the past week, he has been staying with me just to take care of me. He never let me out of my bed. I have tried everything single thing to make him get out of my house, but that stubborn man just wouldn't listen."

"But what about the fact that because of him, you suffered so much. Whatever you say, you cannot reject the possibility that if you were still married to him that Rob would have never come to your life."