Lost Cause, Chapter 15
by SIPort

 

“ So, I guess I’ll begin at the beginning.”


” I guess you will.”, Simone responded.

“ From what Daddy told me tonight, Liz is Mom’s sister. Mom wasn’t from this respectable family. She was poor. Mom used to be a singer.”

” A singer? That’s crazy. Mom’s never sung in her life. Not in front of us.”

  ” Well, it seems like she used to be a singer. And, when she was, she was disowned by her family because they didn’t approve. Mom used to be in all sorts of bad things. Drinking. Drugs.”

” Stop it, Whitney. Stop saying those things about Mom!”


” Simone, it’s true. But that’s not the worst part.”


” There’s something worse than Mom being into booze and drugs?”


” Yes. Mom had a baby back then.”


” A BABY?!”

“ Yes.”

” Wow. Where is it? What is it?”

  ” We have a brother, Simone. “

” A brother?”


” Well, we might have a brother. “

“ Might?”

“ Mom was told that the baby died, a few hours after his birth. But, around a year ago, she found information that hinted that the baby had lived, but had been kidnapped.”


” Kidnapped? Whitney, this doesn’t make any sense. This sounds like a soap opera. How could Mom not know if her son was alive or not?”


” She believed what the doctors told her. Someone was working hard to make sure Mom believed her son was dead.”


” Who, Whitney? Who would be that cruel to Mom? Who would want her to think that her son was dead? That was so mean, I can’t even wrap my mind around it. “

“ Alistair Crane.”

” Alistair Crane? Now, you’ve REALLY lost me. Why would Alistair Crane care about Mom’s son?”

” Because Julian Crane is the father of her son.”

Simone looked at Whitney and processed it. “ JULIAN CRANE?...THE Julian Crane that Daddy hates with every fiber of his being? THAT Julian Crane?”

” Yes. That Julian Crane.”

” Whoah.”

” Yes."

  ” So, why did Liz shoot Mom?”

” She hates Mom. It seems like she’s wanted revenge on Mom, and when Liz told Daddy about Mom’s past with Julian, Daddy didn’t react to it the way that she thought he would. She thought Daddy was going to throw Mom away, and then come to her. She’s been making advances towards Daddy since practically the first day she arrived. “


” She likes Daddy?”


” I dunno. I think it was more revenge than any true feelings for Daddy.”

“ So, Liz shot Mom. How did they save Mom?”


” Daddy and Julian Crane worked together to get Mom.”


” They worked together?”


” I know….bizarre.”


” How is Mom?”

” Still in surgery.”

“ I….I’m still processing this. It’s so much to handle. “

“ Yep.”

“ How’s Daddy?”


” I think the only thing he’s focused on right now is Mom. He’s worried to death about her. Watching him worry about her, it’s so obvious – he still loves Mom, despite finding out all of this about her.”


” It was in her past, right?”


” Well yeah. The singing and the alcohol and drugs are in the past. But, Simone, our brother is very much alive and in the present.”


” Wow. We have a brother.  But you know, finding this out about Mom is sort of a relief.”

“ A relief?”

” Yes. She lied to us, which is a bad thing, but she did it because she loved us. From what you told us, Mom had it rough. She just didn’t want us to go through the same thing too. And, Whitney, we both love Daddy, but we’d be millionaires for all the times that Daddy said that Mom was ‘perfect’. She just couldn’t be a mother, she had to be THE perfect mother. That’s an awful burden for any woman to shoulder, including Mom. She was hard on us because wanted the best for us. But, to know she was human…..it’s a good thing. “

Whitney hugged her sister. “ I’m going to find a nurse, and then I’m going to go get Daddy. He’s prayed a lot for you.” Whitney kissed her sister. “ We all have.”

Whitney left the room, and Simone sat there, contemplating about how things have changed.


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