A Different Party cont…

Pt 24

"Hi honey." Terese smiled.

"Wow what smells good?" he asked taking a whiff of the air. His bright blue eyes shining, his curly blonde hair in his eyes. He ran over to her and wrapped his arms around her. "I love you mommy," he said in a thick British accent.

"I love you too honey. How was school?" she asked. He was such a good student at six years old he was reading at a fourth grade level, well ahead of the kids in his class.

"Today in history we learned about the Boston Tea Party. Mommy, they didn’t believe me that you lived there." he frowned. "Mommy, are American’s really as nasty as Robert says they are?" He sat on her lap and started to help fold clothes. "He said that they don’t drink tea, and that they are to rebellious, and that they Lie and get away with it... is that true?"

"Honey, American’s drink tea, and yes some are rebellious, and some do lie and get away with it. But America is not as bad as Robert and his daddy say they are." she laughed. "Now you go change clothes and I will finish dinner." The little boys at his school sometimes make fun of him for having an American mommy. "Kevin...Dinner is ready." she yelled up the stairs.

He came running down the steps and jumped the last two. "Wow. Pot roast. Yummy mommy." he sat on his chair and they dug in. "Mommy?"

"Yes Kevin?" she looked at him, hopping this wouldn’t be the moment he asked the dreaded "whoops my daddy" question.

"Mommy, can I go to the Brittany Spears concert next week?" he smiled. He loved Brittany Spears.

"Have you been a good boy?" she said relieved, she knew that the question could come any minute.

"Yeah, I got all A’s on my report card." he smiled at her with anticipation in his eyes, they sparkled so blue, she knew without a doubt who his daddy was. "And mommy, I got the lead role in the school play." he grinned big. He had a fascination with Theater and show biz, just like his daddy, she didn’t know how he got bit by the show biz bug, but he did.

After dinner they went into the sitting room and turned on the TV. She heard a familiar voice on the local news, a voice from her past, a voice she never wanted to hear again.

Pt 25

"Mommy? What’s wrong?" Kevin said coming up to Terese. She had dropped her glass, thankfully it didn’t break.

"Nothing honey." she tried to play it off. She looked into Kevin’s eye’s hopping he wouldn’t notice the similarities.

"He has eyes like me." Kevin noticed. "Who is he?" he asked with childlike curiosity.

"Um,, Joe McIntyre. Ugh, He was in New Kids on the Block." she said quietly while she turned the TV off.

"Who were they?" he asked, not noticing how tense Terese was.

"They were like, N’Sync, when mommy was a young girl." She explained.

"Oh, teacher liked them, she like Jordan." Kevin said innocently. Terese held back tears. In one moment her past had just came back to haunt her.

"Kevin, go take a bath." she said to the little boy. She watched him walk up the stairs and then broke down in tears. A few minutes later she heard Kevin fall. She ran up the steps with tears still running down her face. "Kevin?" she yelled. She ran into the bathroom, he wasn’t there. "Kevin?" she yelled again going into his room this time. "Kevin?" he was laying on the floor by the bed. She touched his face, it was kind of cool. She dialed the ambulance and they headed off towards the hospital.

They rushed him in and doctors looked concerned. "Miss?" the doctor came out. "Your son is going to me ok. For now." he sat next to her, and handed her a tissue. "One of your sons kidneys failed." He paused. "We don’t have a match. We need to test you to see if you are a match, and then Kevin’s father, do you know where his father is?"

Terese put her head on her hands. After a minute she looked up at the doctor. "Test me first. Then we will try to find his daddy."

Pt 26

Kevin was in the hospital for three days, and Terese took the test to see if she matched her son. It didn’t look hopeful and she knew she would have to call Joe soon. She couldn’t let Kevin be sick and she had to tell Joe he had a son, he had a right to know. She thought back to the day she found out she was having a baby.

"Terese? Terese? Girl are you ok?" asked Carrie a friend from her new firm.

"I.... I.... I’m having a baby?" Terese said softly, it was her first week at her new job.

"Oh." said her British friend. "Is the father in the States?" she asked softly.

"Yes." Terese answered as she took a sip of her water. "I don’t know what I am going to do."

"Are you going to tell him?" Carry asked.

"I don’t know which one is the father." Terese told her story not saying the names of the men that could be the father. "I guess I’ll have to talk to both of them." she looked at Carry and then at her new boss. "Do you think he will let me go home early. I need to call them." Terese went and explained the situation to her new boss and he let her go home early. When she got home she picked up her phone. She new it was still early in Boston and didn’t know if the guys would be up.

She dialed Joe’s phone and let it ring. "Hello?" answered a woman.

"Hi, is Joe there?" Terese asked softly, the voice on the other line sounded like Kay.

"No, who is this?" Asked Kay McIntyre.

"This is Terese. I need to talk to Joe is there a way I can get hold of him." she asked trying not to upset the waters.

"No, I can give him a message." Kay said snottily.

"Ok, well can you tell him I called and tell him to call me." Terese gave Kay the number and then hung up. She had a sinking feeling in her stomach as she called Jordan. His phone number had been changed and there was no way to get it. "I guess he has moved on with his life."

A few months before the baby was born she saw where Jordan and Evy had gotten married. "He looks happy." she said to herself. "I never want to see you again, and I pray that this is Joe’s baby." she said as she turned off the TV.

Terese snapped out of it as the doctor came towards her. "Miss?" he looked at her "I’m sorry but you are not a match. Do you think you can find his father?"

She nodded her head yes. "It might take me a while though." Joe had never called her back. "He doesn’t love me and if he did he knew how to get hold of me."

Pt 27

Terese knew it would be a chore getting hold of Joe, after all he had a new album out and was touring, and from what she read online, he had a new girlfriend. She went into Kevin’s hospital room, his bills had almost exhausted her savings. "Hey honey." she smiled at him, now it was time to tell him about his daddy.

"Hi mommy, did you match me?" he asked with his eyes getting brighter with hope.

"No Kevin, I didn’t match." she had explained the process as well as she could on his level, she didn’t mention that his daddy might have to be tested, she wanted to keep Joe out of the picture as long as possible, she just couldn’t face him.

His face fell, "now what do we do?" he asked sighing, he looked so tired.

She brushed a lock of curly blonde hair out of his eyes "you look just like your daddy." she smiled as she said it aloud for the first time, she thought this was the best way to introduce the idea of his dad to him.

"My daddy?" he said with a little smile. "Are you going to tell me about my daddy?" he asked excited.

"Yes, I am. Kevin, your dad and were in love, we were going to get married but then something bad happened. It was my fault. We broke up and I moved here from Boston to get away from things. You know how I tell you not to run from your problems?" she paused as he nodded his head. "Well the reason I tell you that is so that you don’t make the same mistakes that I did. See I did a very selfish thing by leaving Boston without saying goodbye to your daddy. I did try to call him when I found out about you, but he never returned my calls, so I thought he was mad at me and didn’t want to hear from me. Well, I should have tried harder to find your daddy, and now I am going to do all that it takes to find him and bring him to you." she paused again, Kevin was listening intently. "He will take the same test that mommy did and maybe he can give you what you need." she sighed.

"Mommy?" Kevin said looking at her like he was trying to be a grown up. "I’m sure whatever you did, daddy still loves you and that he forgives you for whatever you did. I know he wants to see you again." he smiled.

Terese smiled at her son wishing that life and relationships were really that way. "Ok honey, thank you. I have to go and try to get hold of your daddy now. The doctors will be in again before bed time and I will be here at eight ok, that’s only a few hours."

"Ok mommy, I’m a good boy I can take care of myself." he said trying to be the tough man.

Pt 28

First Terese dialed Joe’s home number, it had been changed. All the guys phone numbers changed regularly because of the fans figuring them out. "Figures." she said disappointedly. "I knew this wouldn’t be easy." she tried his cell phone number. Of course it too had been changed. Then she decided to call Tom "hello?" answered a woman’s voice, she knew it was Kay.

"Kay, this is Terese, I really need to speak to Joey it is an emergency." she said to her kind of harshly.

"What kind of emergency?" retorted Kay.

"I need the number where he is, it is very important that I talk to him today!" Terese yelled beginning to cry, she had way too much stress to have to deal with this bitch today.

"Why, what kind of emergency is it?" Kay said not concerned at all.

"A health emergency!" screamed Terese "the rest is non of your fucking business."

"What!" yelled Kay "what did you do? Did you give my son aids or something!" Kay slammed the phone down.

Another voice come on the phone "hello?" it was Tom

"Tom? Thank you. Where can I reach Joe?" she asked kindly she had always liked Tom.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"I am doing ok, I’ll explain it to you later I really need to reach Joe." she pleaded. He gave her several numbers where she could reach Joe and he informed her that he was filming a video. "Does he have a girlfriend?" she couldn’t stand not knowing for sure.

"He is seeing someone Terese but I don’t know how serious they are and I don’t know how he will react to hearing from you after all this time." Tom was very nice but didn’t sound to thrilled OT hear from her. "I need to go now Terese." he hung up the phone.

Pt 29

Terese took a deep breath before dialing Joe’s cell phone number. She hadn’t talked to him since the day she went to get her stuff and he had passed out on the couch. That was almost seven years ago. "You! Joe’s phone!" said a giggling female voice. Terese could tell she was mimicking Joe.

"Ugh, hi, is Joe there?" Terese asked softly and nervously.

"Let me see." laughed the girl. "Oh, Joey Joe? Are you here?" \

Terese could hear Joe in the background asking who it was. The girl asked who she was. "I’m Terese."

"Who?" the girl laughed again, like she was being bombarded by tickle warfare. "She says her name is Terese, should I hang up I think it’s a fan." the girl said.

"Nooooo, I’m not a fan, I’m his ex-girlfriend." Terese said getting jealous and angry.

"She says she’s your ex Joey Joe!" giggled the girl again.

"This girl is getting on my last nerve." Terese thought to herself.

"What?" she heard Joe in the background get serious all of a sudden "terse?" he took the phone from the girl. "Terese is it really you?" he asked her.

"Yes Joe, it’s me." she said nervously.

"Well, it’s good to know you are alive." he said sarcastically. "Haven’t seen you in like seven years, why are you calling now?" he asked.

"I have a problem, well we have a problem," she said softly. "I would prefer to tell you in person." she crossed her fingers hoping he would agree to meet her it would be better face to face so that he could see Kevin.

"Why? What’s so important." he paused for a while and then sounding concerned added "you’re not sick are you?"

"Well, Joe I’d much rather talk about it in person." she said again being persistent.

"Look Terese if it’s about us I have moved on in my life, I mean I have a new girl and everything." Joe sighed and looked at Sherry, his girlfriend. "I really wish you would have called me after you left."

Terese paused a moment "what?" she said trying not to get upset. "I did call, I gave your mom my number and you never called."

"She never gave me your number Terese." he sounded concerned now. "Why didn’t you try back?"

"Well, Joe I figured you were so mad at me you didn’t want to hear from me." she leaned back and rubbed her head. "Anyway I really need to see you it is extremely important." she said still pushing him to come see her.

"Ok Terese, where are you I have the next week off." he said. She could hear his girlfriend start whining about something.

"But Joey you said we were going to Paris." Sherry whined.

"Sherry it’s important we’ll go to Paris next time, besides it will only take a few days." he said to his girlfriend "sorry Terese, where are you?"

"London." she rolled her eyes when she heard the girl still whining.

"Ok, I’ll be at the airport at six in the morning we’re leaving right now. Ok?" he asked her packing his back. "This better be important, I’m supposed to get married this week."

Pt 30

Joe and Sherry arrived at the airport at six am on the nose. Terese was wearing sweat pants, had her hair in a ponytail and looked exhausted. She had gained about 30 pounds since Joe last saw her.

"Is that her?" Sherry said with a disgusting tone in her voice. "She looks like shit." Sherry was a tiny blonde girl, who was a size 0 she was wearing tiny tight leather pants and a tiny black top, but she was very small chested.

"Damn Terese, you sure let yourself go." he said looking her up and down. Sherry laughed. Terese gave them both a dirty look.

"Believe me I wouldn’t have called you here if I didn’t have to." she let them carry there own bags. She glanced down at Sherry’s hand and to get back at the nasty looks and comments said. "Hey Joe were you to cheap to buy her a different ring?" she smiled in Sherry’s direction. "That was my ring first you know." Terese took a big bite of a donut just to rub things into sherry’s face. Terese didn’t understand why she felt so jealous.

"Joey? Was it her ring first?" sherry asked getting attitude with Joe. "I didn’t even know you would be engaged to such a cow." She said just loud enough for Terese to hear.

Terese turned around. "Well at least I’m not a little waif. I could break you in half girl so you better watch it." Sherry just glared at her. They walked to the car in silence.

"Why did you bring me here Terese, I’m really busy you know." he said in an irritated voice.

"I’m going to show you." She looked in the rearview at Sherry who was fixing her makeup. "Do you want to drop her off at the hotel?" she took a deep breath and could smell Joe, he smelled so sexy.

"Honey bunny, do you want to go to the hotel?" Joe looked back at her with a smile, "you can go shopping while I do whatever it is that she wants me to do."

Sherry’s eyes lie up when he said the word shopping. It was obvious why this girl wanted Joey, she spoke up "yeah that sounds good." They pulled into the hotel and Joe and sherry went in he got a room and came back out to the car.

He got in and shut the door. " I really wish you hadn’t talked to her that way Terese."

"Well, you need to tell her to keep her mouth shut. And what the hell was the comment about letting myself go. You use to be so sweet what happened?" she snapped back.

"Well, I got burned once, I played with fire and got burned. You were the one that left if I remember correctly. I guess you realized that Jordan wasn’t in love with you. I was the only man that loved you Terese. Well, all of that is gone and I don’t even think about you anymore." he said to her with hate in his voice. He had let his guard down and she walked all over him. Sure he knew sherry only wanted his money, but he could deal with that, girls like her were a dime a dozen. "Why the hell did you bring me here. And why are we pulling into the hospital."

Pt 31

"Joe." Terese turned around in the car to face him. "When I left your house that day, I went home, I saw Jordan sliding my engagement ring on Eve’s finger. I saw him kiss her. I didn’t know what to do so I left." She paused for a minute. "I drove to California to see an old friend of mine, called the firm here in London and told them I would take the job. When I got here.." she paused again.

"Why didn’t you just come back to my house?" Joe said with a tear in his eye. "I didn’t know he hurt you like that. I loved you Terese, why didn’t you come back to me?"

"I was ashamed." she looked down. "I didn’t know what to do. You were so mad at me. You were drunk, you said some awful, but true things. I had ruined your life, I couldn’t come back. Everything your mom said about me was true. I loved you to Joe, I just didn’t realize it then." she broke down in tears, not saying another word. He wrapped his arms around her. When she calmed down she looked up at him. "I still love you. But that isn’t why you are here. What I didn’t know was that I was pregnant, didn’t find out until later that month after I was here in London and working. I tried to call you and gave your mom a message to call me and my number. I thought since you didn’t call you didn’t want me, or us in your life."

"Well how do you know it is my baby?" he asked skeptical, he had heard of girls trying to do this to guys, especially rich famous guys.

"You’ll see," she said that getting out of the car.

"Wait? Wait a minute. Why are we at the hospital? Is he sick?" he asked very concerned.

"Yes, he needs a kidney transplant and we need a donor, I don’t match that is why I called you." she said as they walked into the elevator.

"How do you know he is even mine?" Joe asked again.

"Joey the only two guys I had been with in that time period were you and Jordan. I know he is yours, he looks just like you," she looked at Joe, she knew he was having a hard time believing him. "Are you guys really getting married?" she said with tears in her eyes.

"Yes we planned on it, we were going to get married in Paris in front of the tower." he said looking away from her. He knew she still loved him but he couldn’t’ let those feelings make him vulnerable again. They walked into Kevin’s room.

"Kevin?" Terese said walking up to his bed. Joe followed. "Kevin honey?" she woke him up.

Joe looked at the little boy, "he does look like me." he said to himself. "I have a son?" he said outloud. He started to cry, he had always wanted to be a father, but Sherry didn’t want kids and he wanted to be with her, he was going to give up fatherhood for her.

"Daddy?" Kevin said in a weak voice. "Please forgive mommy, she didn’t mean to hurt you."

Pt 32

Joe looked down at the miniature version of him. He felt warm tears run down his face. He had never had a love or a feeling like this before, "I’m a daddy?" he thought to himself. "This beautiful boy is my boy." he looked up a Terese as he said it. "There is no doubt about it."

"Mommy? This is the man we saw on TV." Kevin said as his eyes lit up.

"Yes Kevin." Terese said looking at Joe "he is your daddy."

"I always wanted a daddy," Kevin said with tears running down his chubby cheeks. "Will you hug me daddy?"

Joe leaned down to hug his son for the first time. "I’ll be here for you forever now Kevin."

The nurse came in the room "oh, my God you are Joey McIntyre." everyone in the room knew that she could barely contain herself. "Oh my God."

"He’s my daddy." Kevin said to her proudly. "And he’s on TV."

"Oh my God, I thought you didn’t have kids?" the nurse said softly to Joe.

"Well, some things are better left unknown." he said slyly. "Please don’t say anything to anyone just yet." he smiled at the nurse.

"Oh, sure, I won’t, I promise." promised the nurse. "I guess you are here to take the test?" she asked.

"Yes, when can I do that?" he said smiling at his son.

The nurse, still trying to contain her excitement said, "right now, that’s why I’m here." she smiled at Joe "lets go into this room." she pulled him into another room and preformed the tests.

When it was over Joe went back into Kevin’s room and asked Terese to get the doctor. Terese brought the doctor in and the doctor began to explain everything to him. Joe made arrangements to pay all the bills for everything. He turned to Terese "can we talk for a minute alone?"

"Sure." they went into a private lounge and he laid into her.

"How dare you keep my son from me!" he yelled. "I know you tried but Damn woman you should have tried harder!" he paced back and forth "I have missed out on six years of my child’s life, because you were to scared to come back and face the mess that you made!" He went on for an hour and she stood there and took it. Terese knew he was right and knew that she deserved every bit of it. "I know you did what you thought was right and I forgive you. He is here and I know about him, and I want to be in his life, for the rest of his life." he said looking at her and speaking in a calm voice now. "Thank you for giving me a son." he hugged her and felt all the feelings he had for her years ago and more build up inside of him, but he pushed it back down.

Pt 32

They did the tests and things weren’t looking too good when the doctor walked into the room "Mr. McIntyre?" he said somberly. "I’m sorry but the tests were negative. Do you have anyone in your family that may be a match?"

Joe thought a moment. "I’m not sure..." he paused. "Maybe mom or brothers." He still hadn’t told his mom about Kevin. Terese and Joe exchanged glances and he picked up his cell phone. "Well, here goes nothing" as soon as he opened it, his cell phone rang. "Hello?" he said confused.

"Joey? Where are you?" asked Sherry.

"I’m at the hospital, we have a lot to talk about honey." he said to her sweetly.

"What?" she replied impatiently.

"Sherry, Terese is my ex-girlfriend, well fiancée technically. We have a son he is six years old and he needs a kidney. We’ll talk about this when I get back to the hotel tonight ok."

"What? You mean you have a kid?" she asked upset.

"Yes Sherry I do and he will be in my life, for the rest of my life." he said to her.

"Ok whatever." she said to him sounding ok about it.

Joe hung up with her and finally dialed his mom’s number. "Hey mom." he said into the phone.

"Joey, how’s Paris, how was the wedding?" she asked excitedly, "is sherry there can I talk to her." she just loved Sherry and she let the whole world know it.

""No we didn’t go to Paris yet. Mom, I have a favor to ask everyone." he paused for a moment to collect his thoughts for a second. "Mom? I have a son." he paused a moment while she gasped. "He is six and he needs a kidney. I was wondering if everyone could go to the hospital tonight and get tested, I have already set everything up. If there is a match then you can fly here for the operation."

"Ok honey, is he going to be ok if he gets the transplant?" she asked a few more questions, he danced around the "who’s the mother?" as best as he could, he knew his mom still didn’t like Terese, she constantly complained about her and compared her to sherry. He hung up the phone and looked at Terese who had fallen asleep on the chair. "Hey? He shook her to wake her. I called they are going to do it. We won’t have the results till late tomorrow, I am going to go to the hotel to talk to sherry about this. You should probably go home too."

"Yeah, I plan too. If you need anything here is my number." she handed him her card. "Have a good night." she grabbed her purse, kissed Kevin on the head and walked out, trying not to let Joe see the tears about to erupt from her.

Pt 33

Joe unlocked the hotel suit door, there was no sign of Sherry. "Hmm wonder where she is?" he said checking their bedroom and then the bath. On the mirror in red lipstick was a message from Sherry it read.

Joe: We were supposed to get married today, we didn’t. Evidently your ex fiancée and her kid are more important, so fuck you. I left with a guy I met today, I am leaving for Paris with him. I don’t want kids, you know how I feel about that and it looks like he is a priority to you. Even when you get your priorities straightened out don’t bother to call me.

Joe just laughed when he finished reading it. "Figures." he wiped it off of the mirror and sat on his bed. "I’m a daddy. Wow" he looked out the window, he couldn’t help but feel like he should be with Terese right now, they were both going through the same thing, except he was trying to get use to the idea of having a six year old son. He picked up the phone and called downstairs "hey, this is Joe McIntyre, I need to check out and I need a car downstairs in thirty minutes. Thanks." he hung up. In a half an hour he checked out and went to the car. He gave the cabby the address on the back of her card that she said was her home. They pulled up in front of the apartment building and he paid the cabby, grabbed his bags and went inside. He walked into the elevator and pushed the button going to her floor. "Why and I doing this?" he asked himself. He knew why, he just didn’t want to admit it. He needed her just as much as he ever did.

He rang her doorbell and a few seconds later she opened it. "Joe?" she smiled "what happened?" she said looking at his suitcase. "I thought you were at the hotel with Sherry?"

"She left, she thinks I don’t have my priorities straight." he smiled at her, she was wearing only a silk robe that he gave her seven years ago. "You still have that?" she nodded her head. "It still looks great on you."

Terese opened the door up wider to let him in. "well, you know you are more than welcome to stay here."

He walked into her nice but humble apartment, it was decorated in white and navy, there were a few toys scattered about. He could tell that she hadn’t had much time to pick up. "Nice place." he smiled and sat down his bag.

"Thanks, you want something to drink?" she asked him.

"Sure, you ok?" he asked noticing how red and puffy her eyes were.

"I guess I’m as well as can be expected. It’s not easy. I had to take off from work and they are giving me hell about it." she handed him a beer and sat on the couch to him. "Joe, I.." she stopped before she said what she wanted to say.

"What, you know you can tell me anything." he wanted her to say it first.

"I. I’m sorry for everything that has happened." she looked away from him "I really miss you." she said softly. "I still love you and I am afraid that I fucked things up for good." She put her head in her hands and started to cry.

"I know you are. I still love you too, I always have. I wish we would have worked this out a long time ago. But we can’t dwell on the past. I love you Terese, no matter what." he put his arms around her and held her.

Pt 34

Joe let go of Terese and they sat together in silence. Terese turned to Joe. "Joe, I’m sorry, I was so wrong to fall for Jordan,"

Joe hushed Terse and put his finger to her lips. "It was partially my fault. I ignored your needs, I didn’t give you what you needed and he did. I didn’t help the situation much by not being there for you, and I’m sorry. And I’m sorry he hurt you."

They hugged and talked a while. "I only have one grown up bed, but you are welcome to it or the couch it’s up to you." she said quietly. He said he would take the couch and she went to bed.

A few minutes later he could hear her crying. He walked to her room. "Terese? You ok?" he asked opening her door. Her head was on her pillow and she was laying with her knees drawn up to her chest. "Terese baby?" he sat down next to her and began to rub her back "do you need anything?"

"Just you." she managed to whimper. "Please hold me."

Joe laid down next to her and wrapped his arms around her. She let her body fall in line with his in a spooning position. He remembered her favorite song was "I’ll be loving you forever." and began to sing it to her. He began rubbing her sides as she stopped crying.

Terese was tremoring with hope and excitement. It had been six years since she had been with anyone. She let him rub her legs and sides. His hands slide up a bit and she guided them to her breast. He started to massage them. He started kissing the back of her neck while his manhood started to rise through his briefs. She moaned in pleasure and let him take her panties off.

He slid his fingers between her legs and started to tickle the inside of her thighs. He made his way to her river of wetness and touched her as she jerked in pleasure. "You seem like it’s been awhile?" he asked. She nodded her head yes. He pulled his briefs off and got back into the spoon position with her. She felt his hardness on her ass and smiled. She opened her legs and let him slide inside of her from behind. She moaned in pleasure as he slowly moved his hard thick cock in and out of her. He gently pushed her to her stomach and rolled on top of her. She got onto her hands and knees, with him still inside and began to rock back and forth with him. They were both moaning in ecstasy. He began calling out her name like he had never done before. She fell to her stomach again letting him slip out and with Joe in the same position she got onto her back and wrapped her legs around him. He lowered himself down onto her and began thrusting himself into her hard and fast. They were both starving for sex and were getting out their anger, stress and frustration by fucking as hard as they could. When they both came, they laid in each other’s arms and cried.

Pt 35

The results from the McIntyre family were all negative, not a single match. Now they had to jump on a waiting list for a match. Internationally it would still be hard to find a match, Joe did the best to speed up the search, but it didn’t look promising.

A few days went by and Joe spent the days getting to know his son and the nights catching up with Terese and crying. He didn’t know how to feel, he didn’t’ know how to adjust to having a six year old son, let alone the fact that he may lose him. Terese and Joe were both getting stressed about the situation, it looked bad, not a single match had been made yet and the list was moving slowly. The doctors had told them that he may not last must longer, not even on dialysis, he was just to young and his system to weak.

Joe had hired the best doctors and they were doing everything they could they were facing losing the son that he had never gotten to know. Terese and Joe were driving home from the hospital and for some reason the tension between them was high. "Joe, please tell me what is wrong?"

"I don’t want to talk about it Terese." he snapped.

"Joe come on talk about it." she said wondering what was wrong with him.

He turned to her. "You really want to know?" he asked angrily.

"Yes, what is wrong?" she said pulling into the parking lot of her apartment complex.

He stepped out of the car and looked at her. "I am so fucking pissed that I am going to lose the son that YOU Never game me a chance to get to know." he screamed at her. "You are such a selfish bitch!" he walked around to her side of the car. "I cant’ believe you didn’t have the balls to come to me about all of it, about Jordan about Kevin, any of it!!" He screamed at her and people were beginning to stare. "Will all of the nosey British ass holes please stop staring at us!" he took Terese to her apartment.

"Joe? I’m sorry, we have talked about this and I am just as upset as you are." she screamed back.

"Yeah, right! The only fucking reason that you even called me was because you needed something. You are so God Damn selfish!! You always have been, all our relationship ever was was Terese Terese Terese, it was all about you! The minute I did something for me you went whoring around with Jordan!"

Terese slapped him across the face, he pushed her to the floor and she hit her head on the coffee table. She blacked out.

Pt 37

"Oh my God!! Terese!!" Joe had realized what he did and ran towards her. He shook her a bit and she came back too.

"What happened?" she asked.

Joe had tears streaming down his face. "Baby I’m so sorry, I am such and ass hole." He helped her up "please forgive me!"

Terese got on the couch and rubbed her head. "Joe, if I remember correctly I hit you first." she looked up at him "can you get me some ice?" she asked.

"I’m sorry I had no right to say what I said. I’m so upset I don’t know what to do with my anger. Please forgive me Terese." He was on his knees in front of her.

"Joe, I hit you, you just pushed me." she said. "In a way I needed it. I ‘m angry about it to Joe but as long as we take it out on each other things will never get better between us."

"I know honey I’m sorry." Joe and Terese hugged. The pager that the hospital gave her went off. They both looked at each other. "Hey, this is Joe McIntyre, I’m responding to a page." he said into the phone that was set to the hospital on speed dial. He smiled at Terese and hung up the phone "we have to go to the hospital they are flying in a kidney from the States. They found a donor that wasn’t busy and he went to the hospital and did it." they hugged and ran to the car.

They ran to into the children’s ward and asked to talk to a doctor. "Doctor? What’s going to happen now?" he asked.

"Well," the doctor started. "We have him in surgery now. We hope that it will be ok."

"Who is the donor, I want to meet him and thank him," he asked. He and Terese were holding hands. The doctor gave him the donor information that he had from the States. Joe picked up the phone and called the hospital that gave them the kidney. He talked to a woman who was relaying a message to the donor, they set up a time in a week to meet him and give him a personal thanks.

After a few hours of pacing the doctors came out. "Mr. McIntyre?" he said looking exhausted. "Everything is going to be fine. We have to keep him in the hospital to watch how he reacts, but with any luck he can go home next week." Terese and Joe sighed and ran into the room where their son was laying.

Pt 38

Joe and Terese took a jet home to the States. They had arranged to meet the donor at a restaurant that night, they had to thank this man in person. But first they had to stop by his mom’s house. They cab pulled up in front of his mom and dad’s house. Joe got out of the car followed by Kevin and then the reluctant Terese. Kay ran to them, not noticing Terese and hugged Joe and Kevin. Joe finally spoke up "mom, you remember Terese, this is Kevin’s mom."

Kay looked up to Terese "Terese," she walked over to her. "I’m sorry I never gave you a chance, I was very wrong to treat you that way, I hope you forgive me." Kay waited for a response and Terese leaned into Kay for a hug. The whole family cried.

Later that night Joe, Kevin and Terese began to get ready for dinner. They were all nervous except Kevin. He was feeling so good he didn’t have time to be. They got into Joe’s car "daddy, the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car and your driving on the wrong side of the road." Terese and Joe laughed and explained to him that it was supposed to be on that side. "Oh." he said still confused. As they drove down the coast to downtown he asked "mommy, why is the ocean on the wrong side of the road?" She again had to explain that they were on the other side of the ocean from England. After a hundred questions from the six-year-old and laughs from his parents Joe pulled into the restaurant.

"Well, here we are." Joe stepped out of the car and helped Kevin and Terese out. "Let’s go." they walked in and asked for the table for McIntyre. The maitre’d took them to a table and the man sitting at it stood up. "Jordan?" Joe asked.

"Hi Joe, Terese, Kevin." Jordan looked at the boy with tears in his eyes.

"Jordan?" Terese looked at him. "What? Why?" she asked.

"Terese, I know I did you wrong and I don’t know when or why you left. Joe I’m sorry about everything that has ever happened between us, Evy, Nina," he paused "and Terese."

"How did you know about this?" Joe asked with tears running down his face.

"Your mom called me, she knew that I had the right blood type, I went in and was tested. I had to do something." he ruffled Kevin’s hair.

Joe took Jordan in an embrace and the men cried together, in public.