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A few silent moments pass; Jessica closes her eyes and rocks Noah back and forth; Noah is now calming down.
Danny puts his hands on her knees as her tears continue to fall down her cheeks. She wanted to escape his touch and yell; but she didn't want to upset Noah again.
"Jess...please! Listen to me. I'm not going anywhere until you let me tell you what happened. Let me explain." He pleaded with a quivering voice.
Jessica opens her eyes and sees tears falling from Danny's eyes.
"Fine." she whispers and stares into his eyes.
Danny tells her everything that he remembered that day. Everything up until he got to the elevator which was the last thing he remembered.
"...the next thing I know, I wake up; my head was pounding. I didn't know where I was; when I finally realized my surroundings, that's when I noticed her next to me." Danny finishes feeling defeated.
Jessica never took her eyes off of Danny. She could tell he was telling her the truth.
By this time she had finally stopped crying but remained silent. Her face expressionless.
"Jess, say something."
"Why didn't you just tell me this in the first place?" she finally responds.
"I knew you wouldn't have wanted me to go. I thought that if I spoke to her in person, she would realize that what she was doing was wrong. I thought we could be civil about it, and not have the police involved. You were so sick and I didn't want to worry you even more." Danny pauses and wipes his eyes. "I wish more than anything, to turn back time and not have gone that day. I should have just gotten the restraining order. I just...was so fed up with dealing with her...I didn't know what else to do."
Jessica looks down at Noah who has been quiet the entire time; she sees him gently playing with her necklace.
She looks back at Danny. "You can stay...but I don't want you in my bed. You can sleep in the guest bedroom. I need...I need time to..." She trails off as exhaustion takes over. She takes a deep breath and continues. "I just need to be alone right now. I'm going back to bed."
Jessica stands up and carries Noah to her room. She closes the door and walks over to her bed and lays down with Noah. She kisses his forehead and plays with his hair.
Even though they just woke up, Noah begins to close his eyes after a few minutes; soon he was asleep.
After giving him one more kiss on his forehead, Jessica lays her head down and places her hand on her growing belly. She wonders what's going to happen next.
She closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep.
Some time later, Jessica is being woken up by Noah. He begins to cry and is pulling at her shirt. Jessica notices how heavy her breast are and that they were leaking.
"Shit!" She thinks to herself.
She lifts up her shirt and his mouths quickly flies to her breast.
"I'm so sorry my little love bug. I didn't mean to over sleep."
There was a knock on the door. "Jess, can I come in?"
"Yes." She says with difficulty.
Danny slowly walks in. "Jess, I love you. I need to know if we'll be okay. Why don't we take a breather and go somewhere. Let's get out New York for a while. Let's leave this mess behind for a while."
Jessica looks up at him. "I wouldn't mind that. But I don't think that'll help. When we come back, the mess will still be here. Who knows what that woman will do next." She pauses. "I keep seeing those pictures in my head. Seeing her with you, just makes me sick to my stomach; and no it's not morning sickness. She drugged you, you didn't know what you were doing BUT you did lie to me. You lied about where you were. You should have told me that day it happened."
"Jess, what can I do so you can forgive me?"
"I honestly don't know Danny. I don't know."
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