Chapter 20

The mood at the Bed and Breakfast was anything but festive. Pilar tried to start a lively converstion but no one was interested.

"Mama, Charity and I are leaving now." Miguel replied. "We have to meet with Father Lonigan."

"Can't you two stay for a few minutes longer?" Pilar asked. "Your sister just got home."

"Mama Theresa doesn't care if we stay or not!" He replied angrily. "Her only thoughts are about how to get Ethan back!"

Kay began to snicker. "She's plotting her next trap." She quipped. "Since drugging and kidnapping the big lunkhead didn't work, maybe tying him down to the bed and breaking his ankles will." She cracked. 'You kill my Misery.' She mouthed to Theresa.

Jessica and Simone giggled softly amongst themselves.

"Kay what a horrible thing to say." Grace said as she tried to stiffle a laugh, "Apologize to Theresa."

Theresa shot Kay a evil glance. Kay ignored her.

"Well Mom it's true." She continued. "And my idiot brother will kiss her ass all the more. Thank God Gwen is the mother of his child, that way my niece or nephew has a chance of being normal."

"Kay!" Sam hissed.

Theresa marched over to Kay and grind her slice of tomato soup cake into her face.

"Theresa!" Pilar gasped.

Reese and John high-fived each other.

"Alright dude." John grinned. "Catfight."

"Theresa is going to get her ass whipped." Miguel whispered hopefully to Charity. "Maybe that will teach her to wreck someone else's property."

Kay wiped the cake out of her eyes.

"No Kay please no fighting." Grace warned but it was too late, Kay had pushed Theresa's head into the punch bowl and was holding her under.

"Let her go Kay!" Pilar yelled as she tried to pull her away from Theresa. "Let my daughter go!"

"Pilar get your hands off my daughter." Grace warned.

"Aww Mama let Kay drown her ass." Miguel fumed. "I can use the life insurance money to get my car fixed."

Theresa struggled until she finally had enough strength to pulled her head out of the bowl. She purposely stepped on Kay's toes with the heel of her shoes...

Kay yelled out in pain...

"You retarded bitch!" Kay screamed. "You're going to die!" She smashed Theresa's face into the bowl.

"Leave my daughter alone!" Pilar shouted as she shoved Kay.

Kay, who had Theresa 's long brown locks wrapped around her hand, gave Theresa's head a mighty jerk.

"Mama stop it! You're hurting me!" She cried.

"Wait a damn minute!" Grace yelled. Everyone gasped.

"Your mom said damn." Simone whispered to Jessica. "I didn't know she knew that word."

Grace ran over and slapped Pilar upside her head. "I heard how you always manhandled Rebecca because of the way she talks about your whorish daughter." She said "But I will be damned if I'm going to let you jump on my little girl because she happens to be right about the slut!" She pinned Pilar's right arm behind he back and pushed her head in the onion dip.

"Way to go Mom!" Jess cheered.

"Wow, Mrs. Bennett said the slut word." Reese beamed. "John and Jess, your mom is soo cool."

"Pilar! Grace! Stop!" Eve cried. "Theresa! Kay!"

Her words fell on deaf ears...

"I hate you Ivy Crane! I hate you!" Grace hissed as she used Pilar's body for a punching bag.

"I'm not Ivy..ouch! Grace I'm ...HEY that hurts!" Pilar yelled.

"Slut crazy whore!" Kay shouted.

"Skanky cow!" Theresa retorted.

"Damn it Theresa you just had to meet Ethan!" Pilar hissed as she tried to defend herself from Sweet Grace's deadly blows.

TC licked his lips. "Man I wish Julian was here." He said to Eve. "So I can get in on some of that fist action." He began jabbing the air with his fists. "Take that Julian!" He roared. "You broke my Pops heart, he had planned on retiring once I began raking in the dough! I could have been the black Jimmy Conners! Oh what's that?! You want some of this too Chad?! I'm going to beat your trashy ass senseless, how dare you take away my ticket to the USA Open...er my daughter away!"

Eve backed away from her deranged husband.

"I have to hospitilaze TC before he kills Julian." She said to herself. "If he ever finds out that I am still in love with Julian, we both are dead."

As much as Sam was enjoying Grace and Kay beating the stuffing out of the Lopez-Fitzgerald women, he knew that he had to step in.

"Come on David, help me pull the women apart." He said.

"Are you kidding?" David asked in disbelief. "Have you ever tried breaking up a fight between women? They will turn on you!"

"Well what do you suggest?"

"Turn the hose on them."

"What about TC?"

The two men turned and watched as the enraged man yelled at his invisible opponent.

"A strait jacket." David replied. Sam nodded in agreement.

"It's a wonder that Eve hasn't made a reservation for him on the pysch ward."

Kay clamped her hands around Theresa's throat. "I'm going to wring your scrawny neck!" She rant.

Theresa's eyes began to bulge from their sockets, she kneed Kay in the stomach, hoping to cause enough pain so she would loosen her grip around her neck - it worked.

Theresa grabbed the punch bowl and dumped the remaining contents on Kay's head. This just infuriate Kay all the more...

"Twenty bucks says Kay will go for her throat again." Reese said.

"Nay, I think the claws are coming out." Miguel replied. "Look."

Kay punched Theresa in the nose...

Sending her reeling backwards....

"My nose!" Theresa yelp in pain. "You broke my nose!"

"You deserve a busted honker!" Kay smirked as she glare at the bawling woman. "It will vastly improve your looks."

Reese forked over the twenty bucks to Miguel.

"Now I can get a new used tire." Miguel said.

Grace had Pilar in a choke hold.

"Say my name!" She demanded. "Say I'm sorry Sweet Grace!"

"Sweet Grace you're hurting me!" Pilar cried.

Grace tighten her grip. "Say it!"

"Sweet Grace, I'm...EEK!"

A fountain of water engulfed the fighting women.

"Sam!" Pilar and Grace cried in unison.

"Don't get sore at me, it was David's idea." Sam replied. "He said it was the only way to stop women from fighting."

Grace kicked Pilar in the ass, which send her crashing into the buffet table.

"I'm going to wipe the table with you!" She said as she grabbed Pilar by the hair and dragged her across the table.

"This is better than anything on pay-per-view." John said. "Wow Jess, Mom kicks ass." He said admiringly.

"Take that Julian Crane!" TC yelled as he contiuned to punch the air. "You dirty bastard, you ruined my life!"

Simone felt her cheeks growing hot. "Mom do something!" She whined. "Daddy is embarrassing me in front of all of my friends!"

Eve took out the needle of sedative she keeps in her purse just in case TC gets out of hand.

"Chad didn't I tell you to stay away from Whitney!!" He spat. "You are going to wish..." Eve jabbed him in the neck, he fell like a ton of bricks.

"Mom you should really hospitilze him before my boyfriend Chad comes back from the mall with Whitney." She advised. "I don't want Chad to think that it runs in the family."

John, Reese, Jess, Miguel and Charity gaped at her.

"But Simone, Chad ran off with Whitney to California." Charity reminded her. "Remember you threw yourself in front of his car but he just drove around you."

"No he did not!" She said defensively. "Chad told me tht he and Whit are going to the mall to buy me the 'perfect gift' and they will not be back until they find it." She said smugly.

"But Simone they have been gone for nearly a month..." Jessica began.

"THEY WENT TO THE MALL!" She shouted.

"Oookaaay." John said softly as he gave the rest of them a knowing look. "If you say so."

"I do!" She huffed.

"I hope Dr.Russell get family discounts." Resse cracked. Jess nudged him in the side.

John placed his hands on Simone's. "I was going to ask you out." He confessed "I think you are a hot chick."

Simone looked at John in disbelief. "You do?" She asked earnestly as she ran her fingers through her hair. "You-you think I'm hot and NOT Whitney?"

John nod his head. "Yeah." He answered. "I mean underneath all that delusional, in denial crap about Chad, your'e a way cool chick."

John words broken the spell Chad had over her heart...

"John? Do you wanna hang out sometimes?" She asked shyly.

"Sure." He replied. "But what about your 'boyfriend' Chad?"

Simone shrugged her shoulders. "Screw the lying bastard." She said matter-of-factly. "I hope he and my slimly sister rot in hell."

Theresa kept screaming that Kay had broken her nose, while Grace mopped up the floor with Pilar...

No one heard the door slammed until it was too late...

Ethan stood gaping at everyone with his hands on his hips...

"What in the hell is going on here?!" He yelled.