I Want You Back by Meminger
Chapter 68

Chapter 0068

Laura

“What? W-what are you talking about…?” I stammered, feeling my throat dry as I felt terribly judged by Richard and Ava’s scrutinizing gazes, it was as if they were reading my soul in search of the truth.

“Good heavens, what’s all the fuss about? Even Annie could sense that something wasn’t right,” Terrence said, approaching us, leaving Annie to watch the television in the living room.

“We’re just resolving an important issue,” Richard said to Terrence, still looking at me for an answer.

“I know. I heard you cursing and insulting my friend Jason. Ah, be ashamed of yourselves,” said Terrence defending Jason, going close to his wife and pulling her nose lightly in an affectionate gesture, but Ava avoided him with a pout on the lips.

“Know that no one here likes your friend,” she said to him in an

accusatory tone.

“True,” Richard agreed. “He’s a pain in the ass, he should know that there’s no longer a place for him in Laura’s life and he should just get away from Annie, but he keeps insisting. How hateful!”

“Look, if you were in his place I think you would insist too, Richard,”

said Terrence.

“No, Terrence. I would never be in his place because, in the first place, I would never lose Laura’s love like your idiot friend did. Let him. suffer, it’s only his fault, he lost her, and then let him be content with that,” said Richard, insisting.

Terrence rolled his eyes. “I would say that you are the one who is

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insisting so much here, friend. I mean, you might think you have a chance with Laura, but with Annie, it’s a lost cause, Jason simply has

the rights to that child, and believe me when I say that he will fight hard to get what he wants. As for you, you’re just a friend of Annie’s mother in this whole story, that’s why I say you’re stressing yourself out in vain,” he said, looking at Richard coldly. It was as if Terrence had impersonated Jason.

“For God’s sake, Terry. Look at the things you’re saying, you idiot,” Ava scolded him. “It was Richard who was on Laura’s side all this time,

don’t treat him like that!”

“Do you think he’s right, Laura?” Richard asked me, his jaw clenched.

I just sighed and shook my head. “Terrence is just protecting his friend, Richard,” I said.

“That’s right, I’m not going to let my friend be massacred by you guys like that. Jason has changed, okay? Stop thinking he’s a psychopathic criminal who’s going to do Annie any harm,” said Terrence, exasperated.

“He’s changed so much that one day he says he loves Laura and th next he’s hanging out with sluts,” countered Ava.

“What? Sluts?” I even screamed in amazement and then looked in the

direction of my daughter, reproaching myself. I looked back at Ava and asked quietly. “What did you say?”

“That’s exactly what you heard, Lau. Jason hasn’t changed a damn thing. He keeps meeting some suspicious women, one of them called Suzy,” said Ava.

“Stop it, honey,” Terrence said, stopping his wife from talking any

further. “It wasn’t like that, Laura. Ava is just in a bad mood today, it

must be her hormones that are out of control.” He smiled

apologetically.

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“Hormones out of control, unbelievable,” Ava said, crossing her arms over her chest.

“Who cares if Laura’s ex-husband is always seeing women? I want him to get fucked more,” commented Richard, still upset. A certain tension formed there with those words. Richard didn’t know, but I cared a lot.

“Oh my God, it’s almost Christmas Eve and we’re still going to keep fighting about this? Let’s just be at peace, guys. For God’s sake,” Terrence pleaded and I ended up agreeing with him.

“Terrence is right, I don’t want to talk about this subject anymore, at least not for now,” I said, wanting to leave all that confusion behind.

So Ava, Terrence, and Richard all had lunch at my house with me and my daughter, we talked about various things trying to keep Jason and recent events away from the topics we were talking about, just to not raise bad feelings. Ava and Terrence had to go back to their house in Manhattan, the couple even invited Annie and me to spend Christmas with their family, but Richard insisted that I had to spend it his aunt who lived in the Bronx, so I ended up accepting Richard

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