Sunday, September 27, 2009

Silhouette Winter 2003

Jenny told her husband what happened with Jared, expecting him to kick his "friend" out immediately and hold her as she cried, but that didn't happen. Mark said he would talk to Jared about it when the time was right, but he didn't want to cause a big scene about it. Jenny was furious that her husband wouldn't take up for her, so she left.

Jenny left for her Aunt Molly’s house an hour away, where her mom was already staying. Jenny and Mary, as well as Mary’s other daughters, were always welcomed with open arms. “Family takes care of Family” was the motto. Jenny and her younger cousin, Sabrina, spent hours a day walking around town and talking. She hadn’t been around her cousins in years and it took her a little while to realize her cousins grew up, just like she did. Her other cousin, Shain, spent a lot of time trying to comfort her about her husband back home. He may have never been married, but a lot of what he said was strangely insightful. Aunt Molly was like a second mother to Jenny, and had even helped raise her and her sisters when they were younger. Good ole Uncle Vic was always around somewhere, and couldn’t get over how grown up Jenny was then.

More than a month after Jenny went to her aunt’s house, her husband finally has Jared move out, but Mark was still friends with him! Jenny couldn't believe it, but she just held in her frustration and moved on with her life. Mark and Jenny had been intimate with no protection for 9 months, but had yet to see a positive pregnancy test. Jenny desperately wanted a baby. Deep inside she wanted a child to make up for the attention Mark would not give her. Many times Jenny would start crying at the sight of a baby on TV. This was around the same time Jenny's older sister, Missy, who already had one little boy, was pregnant with her second. Missy invited Jenny over to see the baby's room, and all Jenny could do was cry when she walked in. She felt horrible for ruining her sister's special occasion, but she just could not hold it in. Now that Mark and Jenny had a goal, they were intimate much more often, and that in turn made the fights occur less often. Late at night on November 5th, Jenny received a frantic phone call from Missy telling her to get to the hospital. It was time. As Jenny peered into the nursery, once again she couldn't hold in the tears. Many of those tears were from jealousy. "How could one person, no better or worse than me, have not one, but two babies and here I am, with none?”

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