Jackpot! by Pilossoph Jackie

Author:Pilossoph, Jackie [Pilossoph, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-24T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The next morning was Sunday. Drew had to get up early and go home because he had to work. After he left, I drank a pot of coffee, read three newspapers, and then started a new movie script. The idea: a woman who offers her son and her daughter millions of dollars to have babies. Pretty clever, huh? Essentially, it was a fictitious adaptation of what my nutty mother was putting Danny and I through. I figured this whole nightmare had to have a silver lining, so why not write about it? A person bribing her kids for grand-kids was so far-fetched, it seemed like fiction. People would think that was funny, right? I didn’t think it was funny in the least, but I figured, why not capitalize on it?

As I typed away on my laptop, the words flowing easier than they ever had with any script I’d written, the story as compelling and engaging as it was in real life, I felt I was writing something that would surely sell. The irony was killing me. My crazy, unethical, messed up life was the root of an amazing movie script that might make me a ton of money. Maybe I wouldn’t need Frankie’s after all!

Later in the morning I called Ma to get more details about the cruise. To my dismay, Frankie rushed me off the phone, saying she had a lot to do before the trip, such as last minute shopping, packing and cleaning.

“Can I help?” I asked.

“No, thanks. I’m good.”

“Can I at least drive you to the airport tomorrow?”

“Thanks, honey, but you have to work, and I have a limo coming at eight.”

This made sense to me. A multi-millionaire was getting a limo to take her to the airport. That’s why I didn’t push it. I said good-bye and hung up, but just as I had the night before, I felt very uneasy about the way my mother was acting. Was her extreme uncharacteristic behavior a byproduct of being nouveau riche or was I missing something?

I decided to call Danny.

“What do you think?” I asked him.

“I think it’s great,” he exclaimed, “Maybe Ma will start traveling and get her mind off becoming a grandmother. Who knows? She might end up realizing how nuts she’s being and how much she’s screwing with our lives.”

“Maybe you’re right,” I told him, “But still, something’s fishy. It’s weird.”

“Look, I think you’re reading into things too much. Relax. Be happy for her. More importantly, are you pregnant yet?”

“Danny!”

“What? Isn’t it a valid question?”

“I guess,” I said with a shrug, “I could be pregnant. I don’t know yet.”

“Boy, that would be nice for you, huh?”

“Sure. I’ll be rich.”

“Look, Jamie, I really do think you’ll be a good mother. I mean it.”

“Thanks,” I said to my brother as I stared at the living room floor and daydreamed about what I’d done there about fourteen hours earlier. Danny had no idea that I’d fallen for Drew and I was scared to tell him, as if saying it out loud might make it more real.

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