Chapter 3
“Remember the promise you made”
The
older Terry took Candy and Terry to the restaurant for the evening,
Then he left to get the flowers to Susanna at the hospital. Jones
appeared to him;
- How is it going? He asked
Terry was startled.
- You have to stop doing that! You scared me!
- Sorry about that… did you convince yourself not to leave Candy?
- I haven’t got to that part yet, I’m going to see Susanna…
- How are you going to convince her? She loves you to death…
- So does Candy…But I can’t be with Susanna, because even by choosing her, I ended up leaving her anyway…
- You’ll have to find a way to convince Susanna…
- If I only knew who to convince, which one of them could make all the changes… can’t you help me a little?
- I can’t, you have to do it on your own… otherwise , don’t you think we could’ve just done it ourselves?
- You want to make me work and suffer
- We want you to understand the importance of the decision your younger self is going to make…
- Like I don’t know that!
- Your job is to convince yourself, I can’t do that for you…
- You’re not making it easy for me, of course!
- You got it…
Jones
disappeared. Terry parked the limo in the hospital parking lot and he
took the bouquet of dark pink roses. He didn’t need to ask were the
room was, he knew it way too well… He arrived at the door, he looked at
Susanna, she seemed so fragile, so vulnerable. He knocked once and
entered the room with the bouquet of pink roses…
- Miss Marlowe, I’m here on behalf of Terrence Grandchester…These flowers are for you…
- Thank you, said Susanna, where is Terry?
- He’s not available…
- He’s with her, isn’t he?
- I’m sorry?
-
You know he’s with her, with Candy! He’s never going to love me! He’s
not coming to see me tonight, he rather stay with her and make love to
her! While I’m here suffering because I saved his life! What do I get?
Bupkis, zilch, nada, squat, diddly squat! While Candy gets the man I
love!
The older Terry looked a Susanna and he had almost forgot how whinny and annoying she was…
-
Miss Marlowe, forgive me, but from what I understand, Mr. Grandchester
and his girlfriend have been together since they were in school… their
love began before he even met you…
- I love him!
- He’s not available…
- He’s got to be with me
- He can do that, but without love, your life is not going to be better with a man in love with another woman…
- Who are you to talk?
- I’m the driver he hired for …
- Candy! Great! And you’re lecturing me?!
- I just left a loving couple, to come and give you theses roses…dark pink roses!
Susanna stopped whining and looked at him.
- Dark pink roses? That’s supposed to mean something to me because?
- You’re an actress, don’t you get roses from your friends?
- Of course I do, I get red roses from my male admires, yellow from females…
-
Red means passion, they want a night of passion with you… one of the
meaning of the yellow is jealousy, that’s what you get from your female
admirers…
- Oh… and dark pink?
- Dark pink is… gratitude… Terry is grateful you saved his life and that’s all he’s ever going to be with you…
- What did he buy for Candy?
- He gaver her 1 red rose…
- Just one? I got a whole bouquet… maybe…
- Don’t get your hopes up… one rose of any colour has only one meaning: “I love you”…
Susanna
remained silent. Even with the flowers, he showed her he loved Candy…
She knew he loved Candy, she could hear him every time he talked to her
on the phone, how his face changed when he got a phone call from her,
how happy he was afterwards… but she was hoping…
- Why are you doing this to me? Said Susanna in tears
-
Miss Marlowe, said the older Terry, I just don’t want you to get your
hopes up… Think…if Terry stays with you in love with Candy… every time
he’s going to look at you he’s going to see the reason he’s unhappy…
the reason he’s not with his beloved, is that what you want to be for
him for the rest of your life?
- He’s mine…he’s mine…
- Susanna, has he ever encouraged you?
- No, but when we did King Lear…
- That was just on stage, it was make believe…
- I really thought he was talking to me…with all that passion and that love
- That was for the stage…
- Why are you doing this to me? get out! Get out! Now!
Mrs. Marlowe arrived and saw how upset her daughter was,,,
- Who the hell are you? What are you doing here ?
The older Terry heard a voice he wished he would never hear again. Mrs. Marlowe!
- I’m Mr. Grandchester’s driver, he said, I just brought some flowers for your daughter
-
Flowers? And where would Mr. High and Mighty be? He has no time to
bring the flowers himself to the person who saved his life?!
- He had a previous engagement, said the old Terry
- Nothing should be more important to that man than my daughter, nothing! You hear me?! You tell him that!
- Very well, said Terry
He was restraining himself not to yell at her right there and then! He walked to the door to leave…
Jones appeared to him.
- What? Said Terry
- You wanted to say something to her… why didn’t you
- I wanted to strangle her you mean…
- She’s upset for her daughter…put yourself in her place… what if it was your daughter in that situation?
- I would be upset I give you that, but … she had no right to pressure me like that…I had no one to help me, to speak for me…
- Mrs. Marlowe is only doing what she things is best for her daughter
- She wants me to pay for being saved by her daughter for the rest of my life you mean…
- That’s what you came here to do right, to stop that from happening? … the clock is ticking…
Jones
disappeared. The older Terry went to get Candy and Terry at the
restaurant. He took them back to the apartment. The older Terry walked
with them to hear the instructions for the next day.
- Freckles, go get ready, I have to speak to Clarence, said younger Terry
- All right Romeo, said Candy smiling
She went to her bedroom to change and shower. Terry was speaking to Clarence.
- Did you give her the flowers?
- I did…
- I hope you didn’t poke your nose where it didn’t belong…
- Well…
- Oh no! How did I know you were going to do that?!
- I was just trying to tell her she was going to be unhappy if she forces you to be with her…
- Did you get through to her?
- I thought I was then she got upset and her mother arrived…
- Great! You pissed off the old hag! I’m going to have to pay the price for that! Thanks for nothing!
- I think the fact that you didn’t go the hospital tonight was enough to piss her off…
- You didn’t tell them why I didn’t show, did you? Tell me you didn’t!
- Susanna knows…
- You told her?
-
No… she has been spying on you this whole time, she heard you on the
phone booking me at the agency, she heard you talk to Candy on the
phone…
- Oh my God! She was stalking me?
- That’s basically it… she was kind of stalking you… did you know how sick she was?
- I know she likes me, but …
- “Like”? She’s obsessed with us! I forgot how whinny she could be!
The old Terry realised too late, that he said too much… The younger Terry was looking at him.
-
“us”? Dude are you ok? I thought Susanna was obsessed with me only… I’d
like to share the spotlight on that one, even give it all to you if I
could… but the truth is… she’s obsessed with being with me…
- I … got a little carried away… I’m sorry
- It’s ok, said younger Terry, I like that you feel so concerned about this whole thing…
- Have you told your girlfriend yet?
- I’m going to tell her now… before we…
- I’m going to go then…, said Older Terry, good night sir…
- Call me Terry, you know too much about my life …
- Thank you, Terry. Good night
- Good night Clarence…
The
older Terry left. He knows what was going to happen and how painful
it’s going to be for him to tell Candy the truth… He went to the car
and started driving. Jones appeared again.
- How is it going?
-
He’s going to tell Candy now about Susanna… that was the beginning of
the end for us… Terry needs support…I should’ve asked for help back
then… my mother…. Right! I can ask my mother for help or at least for
support…
- All right, how are going to ask her for help for her son, she doesn’t know you…
-
It’s going to be tricky… and if she knows Terry hasn’t call her, she’s
not going to show… so I need to convince Terry to call his mother...
but that will have to wait tomorrow…
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Meanwhile in Terry’s apartment. Candy was all freshen up with a beautiful silk nightgown. Terry was shirtless in boxers… Candy approached him and they started kissing passionately. They went on the bed in Terry’s room and they continued making out, caressing each other, moaning and feeling great until the phone rang… They ignored it and they continued their kissing… until the answering machine picked up…“Terrence, Terrence? Are you there? Susanna wasn’t feeling good, she was looking forward to your daily visit… But looks like you’re busy doing something more important, you can’t spare 5 minutes to come and see the woman who saved your life… you owe her your life Terrence, don’t you ever forget that…Susanna sends her love, she’s still waiting for you…”
Candy and Terry had stopped when they heard Mrs. Marlowe’s voice, the content of the message was like a cold shower. Terry didn’t want to let Candy go, he held on to her.
- Terry?
- I’m sorry you had to find out like this baby…
- What’s going on?
- You heard Mrs. Marlowe… There was an accident at the theatre on stage… Susanna saved me… but she got hurt…
- Hurt how?
- Her leg got amputated…
- Oh my God! Oh Terry…
- Mrs. Marlowe wants me to be with Susanna for the rest of my life
- Oh… and what do you want?
- I want to marry you Candy, I want us to be together…
- Terry…
- I need your help, would you help me?
Candy remembered Clarence’s words, he made her promise to stay with Terry, he probably knew what was going on… She promised to stay with Terry…
- Terry, I’m going to help you…
- You won’t leave me?
- I promise… I won’t leave you, said Candy
- Mrs. Marlowe is pressuring me… I need your support Candy…
- I’m going to be there… but first of all, I want to know, does Susanna has any ground to hope…?
Terry let go of Candy and stood up. He looked at Candy.
- What are you asking me Candy?
- You know what I’m asking…
- I’ve never cheated on you…
- Maybe not physically, what about in your mind?
- Do you really think I’d do that?
- No…but did you give her some kind of a sign?
- Never… the only time I was romantic with her was during the plays, King Lear…
- Cordelia… you played her love interest
- It was a play...
- You promise me nothing happened?
- Well…
- What?
- One day during rehearsal, she came to me to ask me to tell you not to come…
- Why?
- She said I was hurting her… that she loved me to death… she had heard that I book the best place for you for the premiere of “Romeo and Juliet”… She begged me to dump you and she kissed me on the lips…
-
- On the lips…
- I was stunned by her audacity, I didn’t respond to the kiss… I swear to you…
- I believe you… that’s all?
- I pushed her away and I told her I’ve been in love with you since our first meeting… one day I misplaced my cell phone and I couldn’t find it… She gave it back to me after making a scene for no apparent reason, about spending my time on the roof playing the harmonica instead of spending my time with her… I had the feeling she had it the whole time…
- I was wondering why you didn’t reply to my text messages…
- That’s all, I swear to you…
- You promise me?
- I promise you…
- So you don’t want to be with Susanna?
- I liked her like a colleague, a sister… that’s all I was nice to her and she might have thought something else was happening between up, but it was all in her mind… That’s why I don’t understand why she’s not telling her mother the truth…
- I think she hopes her mother succeeds in pressuring you to be with her…she’s in love with you, that’s why she saved you…
- In love? Try obsessed! She was practically stalking me… I’d always met her in front of the building “by chance”…She would show up early in the morning with breakfast… we studied our lines for Romeo and Juliet together and she almost threw a fit, when she had to audition with another actor than me… when the rumour came out that I was Eleonor Baker’s son, she defended me like her life depended on it… It’s funny, it’s now that I talk about it with you that I realised how invading she really was…
- She lost her leg Terry… you must be very comforting for her…
- That’s too bad, because I don’t want to let you go… it doesn’t make sense, I don’t love her…I love you!
He remembered Clarence’s words. Nothing was more important than to be with your soul mate and Candy was his soul mate, he was sure of that. He wanted to give in to Mrs. Marlowe before Clarence arrived, now he saw that he was stronger and happier when he was with Candy… Letting Candy go to be with a woman you don’t love would be a mistake… Staying with Candy was the only thing that made him feel better… There are other ways to take care of his duty than to spend the rest of your life with a woman you don’t love… It will not be easy to make Mrs. Marlowe understand, he will need the support of Candy, the woman he loves …
- I love you too Terry, I’m not going to leave, I promise…
- And I promise I won’t let you go, ever!
- About what the phone call interrupted…, said Candy
- You want to wait?
- For our wedding night… is that ok with you?
- It’s fine Freckles…, he said smiling and hugging her
- So I’m going to go to my room before I change my mind…
- You do that, but kiss me again before you go…
She smiled and complied…
- You want to go to the hospital? She asked
- No… if I go after what she just did, she’s going to think she can manipulate me like a puppet, that one call from her and I obey her like a puppy…
- Are you sure?
- Yes, don’t worry about it, I already told Susanna I wasn’t coming today, because you were arriving…
- But she got ill…
- She’s in the hospital, they will take care of her if she’s sick
- Oh Terry…
- Don’t feel bad honey, we have to think about us… about what’s better for us… we’re going to take care of Susanna, together… Let’s make this a labour of love…
- A labour of love, said Candy smiling
The older Terry was in his bed thinking about the first time around… Mrs. Marlowe’s phone call interrupted them and the message she left was devastating for Candy. She did it on purpose to guilt Terry and Candy and it worked perfectly… Candy wanted to leave for Chicago the next night…Terry convinced her to stay for the premiere and Candy agreed… After the play they both went to the hospital and they found Susanna’s room empty… Candy had found her on the roof top and saved her… He went to get Susanna and she was so happy to be in his arms… that was the final blow for Candy, she went to talk to Susanna, she came out of the room saying she was going back to Chicago that same night… he caught up with her on the stairs, he cried, begged her not to go, that they can find a solution, but Candy refused, Susanna almost died because of her, because Terry loved another woman and not her…
- Yes talking to Candy was a good thing… making her promise not to leave… by now you probably know everything my love… Remember the promise you made Freckles, remember the promise you made…
To come to your defense
Would you worry for me
With a pain in your chest?
Could I rely on your faith to be strong
To picked me back up and to push me along?
Tell me
You'll be there in my hour of need
You won't turn me away
Help me out of the life I lead
Remember the promise you made
Remember the promise you made
If I gave you my soul
For a piece of your mind
Would you carry me with you
To the far edge of time?
Could you understand if you found me untrue
Would we become one, or divided in two
Please tell me
You'll be there in my hour of need
You won't turn me away
Help me out of the life I lead
Remember the promise you made
Remember the promise you made
Could I rely on your faith to be strong
To pick me back up and to push me along
Please tell me
You'll be there in my hour of need
You won't turn me away
Help me out of the life I lead
Remember the promise you made
Remember the promise you made♪♪