On the Loveseat Ch. 28

Shit!

It wasn't probably the best idea, but right then it was the only one that I could come up with on such short notice, short of calling mom and asking if I could move back in with her and dad. They had been thinking of selling the house now that it was just the two of them.

No, I wouldn't go back crawling to mom, even if we had let so much water pass under that bridge by then.

So, I went with my only other thought.

I packed as much as I could into my small beat-up truck and drove the short distance to Margie's house.

She seemed to be thrilled to see me and had no qualms about letting me stay for a while until I got my feet back under me and could find my own place. It would only be for a few weeks, I promised her, but she told me to stay as long as I needed.

Margie never asked what had happened with my aunt, as apparently that was all she was to me again, and I never offered any explanation. She still had her rendezvous with her part-time lover, but I was no longer invited. Margie and I had our own thing going on, but she was somewhat more than I could bear, and I made every effort not to prolong my stay.

A few weeks did become a few months as I never had saved any money for a rainy day as the weather had always looked so bright and shiny for me. I moved to a run-down trailer and even though Margie had me promise to still 'visit' her, I only set foot in her house twice more.

Johnny and Jo both did go to college and followed their own careers in different parts of the country. We would have family reunions with everyone that was still alive of the immediate family (all my grandparents had passed by that point). I was somehow looked on as the black sheep of the family, and I guess in a way I was.

I did find real girlfriends that would last from months to the longest being two years, but none really amounted to much and weren't more what might be called 'trailer trash' in more affluent circles. None were certainly as amazing, or nice, as the two sisters that I had fallen for so hard and had never recovered from either relationship. It certainly didn't help that I still had to see either of them when the family got together and even more, that I would see the scorn, and disdain for what I had done with my life.

So, it comes to pass that Jeremy lives his life, without a lifetime love beside him, nor does he have a Tabitha in his life to give him any joy, whether a daughter, or even a kitten!

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Thus, I wanted it to be known, that although many have requested alternate outcomes for our hero, such as staying with his mother, Jenny; or knocking her up; or having the aunt; each also comes with its own consequences and none of them the fairy tale ending that you might want. Now, yes, you could say that I wrote it this way intentionally, and I may have, but the ending that occurred in the main story, is the best outcome that Jeremy (or any of them) could have hoped for!

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So.

That's that.

The end.

The end end!

There is no more.

Finis!

I will say again to all of you, new readers and those that have been here from the start:

Thank you for reading this epic tale that only grew to be this long because of your demands for more! I've come to love these characters that had started out as not much more than stick figures. That's because of you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And farewell to you too!

Onedragon