Alice and Fp story

Chapter 14- the past

I cleaned up the kitchen after eating my breakfast.  Polly was in the living room watching tv.  She got very tired easily since she was getting closer to her due date.  I took today to spend time with Polly.  She had a lot of questions about birth.  She trusted me and my answers because I was that age when I had my first child.  Polly had a lot of questions, but it was better than worrying about Hal and everything else that is crumbling around me.  Me and Polly talked for awhile then decided to go on a walk.  We took a walk around the park then came home because Polly wanted to lay down.  We walked inside and Betty and Jughead were inside.  "Elisabeth what are you doing home it's twelve-thirty."  I said walking into the house.  She didn't say anything, but she handed me a paper.  It was the register newspaper.  "Why am I looking at this?" "Turn the page." Jughead said.  I turned the page and it was me.  I could not believe he had done this to me.  The picture was an old one, but no one had ever known about it.  "Care to explain." Betty asked me. "When I was younger I was not as protected as well as you are and well one night I decided to go down to the river with a couple of friends and got into some trouble."I said hoping they don't ask me which friends because really it was just me and Fp. I looked at Betty waiting for a response.  "What did you do?" Polly asked me.  "That doesn't matter now, what matters is your father is still trying to destroy my life."  We all stood there not knowing what to do next.  "Has anyone showed Fp?" Polly asked.  "No ,we were going there next." Jughead answered her.  "How about we show him when he gets home." I said trying not to get him riled up at work.  "Ya we will just wait here Jug" Betty stated. We all sat around the couch trying not to say anything we would regret.  "Mom how come you and Fp have gotten so close all of the sudden?"  Betty asked me.  "Well we have known each other for a long time and used to be really close, but me moving to the northside with your father kind of pulled us apart.  That and your father not liking him."  "Why didn't dad like him?" Betty had so many questions.  "Well your father was a jealous type so when I was with Fp he would get jealous and accuses me of things, so I stopped hanging out with him."  The day went by with us hanging out and talking.  Fps shift was over, so he came here.  "Hey alice.  Hey kids." He said walking into the house.  Betty handed Fp the paper.  "What the hell is this.  I'm going to.."  I cut him off before he could say something he regretted.  "There is nothing to worry about now.  He's obviously too scared to come to the house, so all he can do know is try to hurt me emotionally instead off physically."  Everybody nodded their heads in agreement, but I could see in Fp's eyes that he didn't agree.  "I brought home Pops if anybody wants some." Fp said angered.  We went to the table and got out our orders that Fp had memorised.  We ate in silence because we were either pissed off, scared or hurt.  After dinner the kids went home.  Tomorrow is Friday so they had to get the gym ready for the formal.  After the kids left me and Fp sat on the couch and had a glass of wine.  "Are you tired?" Fp asked me.  "No I just have a mix of emotions between hurt and being pretty pissed off."  "Nobody on the northside knew about that arrest.  Hell not even everyone on the southside knew." "I know." Fp held me tighter trying to comfort me.  We didn't sleep much that night, but we still got up early the next morning so the kids couldn't see us.  I made breakfast for the kids and Fp.  They were all in a little bit of a rush to get to work and school, so we really didn't talk.  Me and Polly were home alone again and did the same thing as yesterday.  Having to take care of Polly makes me feel like I care for something again.  She almost makes all of this mess feel like its nothing.  I mean other than I am raising a pregnant teen, but hey we all mess up sometime in life.  After our walk Polly took a nap and I made lunch.  "Hey mom." Polly said coming downstairs.  "Hey babe how did you sleep?" "Good."  We sat down at the table and had lunch.  As we were eating Fp walked through the door. "I couldn't handle it." He came in saying.  "Couldn't handle what?" I grabbed Fp to try to calm him down.  "Hal came into the diner and just kept smiling at me like he knew I still loved you and he was causing all this just to hurt you.  like he knows I want to kill him, but can't."  "Fp slow down." I sat him on the couch.  After a couple minutes he finally calmed down.  "Are you ok now?" I asked.  "Ya I'm fine I just want to hit him, so bad."  "I know we all do, but I don't think I can get through this with you behind bars ok.  Promise me you will stay with me and fight for me."  He nodded his head and took me into his arms.  We laid there for awhile.  Just knowing that we had each other made us feel safe and secure again and this time that feeling would last forever.  We went to bed and slept pretty well considering we weren't that happy with life.  It was friday morning.  It was the same as the rest except Betty and Jughead were happy because tomorrow they were going to the dance.  "Hey kids." Fp said as they came inside.  "Hey." They all replied back.  I had made breakfast for everyone then started to clean as they left.  Me and Polly did our morning routine and came back to her taking a nap again with me making lunch.  After lunch we almost didn't know what to do with ourselves because these last two days someone has come through the door.  Later after everyone got home we had a nice dinner with plenty of fun conversation.  After we ate, the kids went home because they had to be up earlier than usual.  After the kids left me and Fp went to bed and waited for tomorrow to bring the first and last dance that we will ever go to together.