Chapter 4 Cassidy laid there crying and feeling sorry for herself for about an hour.  Then she got mad.  The more she thought about how Jeff acted, the more angry she became.   "He’ll send for his things later?!?!  I don’t think so!", she said to herself as she searched the house for a box.  Since Jeff lived only a few miles away, he didn’t have many things that he kept at Cassidy’s house, therefore she wouldn’t need a very big box. "This should do.", she said pulling a medium sized box from the top of the linen closet.  She dumped the few items out that were in the box and then looked around for anything that belonged to the man she once loved, the man she thought she would be with forever.  Each item that she threw into the box entered with a stronger force than the one before it.  Thinking that she had everything, she put her shoes on and grabbed her keys.  As she bent over to pick up the box, she saw the picture sitting on the end table.  With tears pouring down her cheeks, she picked up the picture and looked at it.  It was a picture of the two of them in Jamaica.  The memories of that trip filled her mind.  How happy they had been. "Asshole!", she said as she threw the picture into the box causing the glass to crack.  She picked up the box and took it to her car.  Her anger built as she drove the four miles to his house.   As she pulled up to the house, she almost turned around to go home when she saw Jeff standing in the front yard talking to Matt, Shane and Shannon.  But she was pissed and she wanted him to know it.  She pulled up in the driveway causing all of their heads to turn.  Jeff started to walk towards the car.  Cassidy completely ignored him as she got out of the car and retrieved the box from the back seat. "Don’t do this Cass.  Don’t cause a scene.", Jeff pleaded quietly.   She ignored him.  She opened the top of the box and dumped his belongings all over his yard, "Send for your things?  Well here they are!"   "Stop it Cassidy, Damnit!", he yelled. The picture caught her eye again causing her to pick it up.  She looked at it lovingly one more time before yelling, "Take this!  So you can remember what a good thing you lost!"  And with that she threw the picture at him missing him by inches as he ducked out of the way.   "You bitch!", he yelled and he started towards her. "What?  Are you going to hit me?!?!  Go ahead!  Hit me, so I can lose the baby and you won’t have to deal with it!!!", she yelled as Shannon grabbed Jeff and held him back. "You’d like that wouldn’t you?", she yelled as Matt was now holding her back from jumping on his brother. "Calm down, Cass.", Matt said calmly. Jeff was fuming.  "I think you should leave, now Cass.", Shannon said. "Fuck you, Shannon!", she snapped. "Get her outta here!!", Jeff yelled as he was being restrained by Shane also at this point.  "Come on, Cass.  Just get in the car and go.", Matt pleaded.  She looked painfully into Matt’s eyes.  Was he on Jeff’s side, too?  But she could tell that he was only saying that out of concern for her.  "Fine!", Cassidy huffed.  "Thank you.", Matt said as he opened the car door for her.  She started the car and pulled out of the driveway squealing her tires the whole way.   Jeff jerked his arms free from Shane and Shannon’s grip.  Matt turned to look at his brother and his anger grew.  "What the hell is going on?", he asked Jeff.   "Just stay out of this Matt.", Jeff snapped. "Did I hear her right?  Is she pregnant?", Matt demanded.   "Stay out of it Matt!", Jeff yelled. "IS she?!?!", Matt demanded again.  "YES! MATT, she IS!  Are you happy?", Jeff yelled. "And what?  You skipped out on her?", Matt asked full of rage. "It’s probably not even mine.", Jeff said coldly.   Then before Matt knew what he was doing, he punched Jeff right in the nose.  As he fell to the ground holding his bleeding nose, Jeff asked, "What the hell did you do that for?" "Because you know it is you shithead.  This is Cassidy we’re talking about.  She loves you.", Matt stated. "It doesn’t really matter now does it?", Jeff said standing up and walking into the house to get a towel for his nose. Matt was so angry that he had to get away from there, away from his brother.         Last Chapter ..*.. Next Chapter ..*.. Chapter Index ..*.. Home