Episode 13
882 Words
POV The Big Man
It was Christmas morning and I was spending it in Glasgow with my mum and dad and younger brother, it was the first time I had been home for Christmas in years and my mum was excited to have me home. I had spent the past two Christmas’s before on set of one of my movies and the Christmas before that in Thailand with Gorgeous, Chris and Fran. I knew Lydia was in Glasgow with John and I planed on surprising her with a visit later that day. I woke up and my mum had laid out lots of presents for me like I was a kid. “For god sake Mum I’m not five years old anymore” “Jamie son I’m so glad to have you home” she said and it was nice to be with my family. I opened my gifts and I had bought my mum and dad a new car each and they were excited but I was more excited to see Lydia. I knew she was happy with John for the time being but I knew her too well and I had a feeling that it wouldn’t last. He was too old for her. And I planned on being there when she realised and dumped him. One day before she had left for Glasgow me and the boys and John had been playing golf. Chris was saying little Ocean had him and Carmela up most nights and that it was killing him. John said he was glad all that was behind him. I asked him what he meant and he said “my boys are grown up, I’ll look forward to being a grandad but I won’t be changing any dirty nappies again” this was all the ammunition I needed, once I told Gorgeous that he didn’t want kids she was sure to realise they weren’t right for each other. I asked him if him and Lydia had spoke about starting a family and he said no but that it was a given. But I didn’t agree with him. After all she was a natural with kids and had always mothered me and the boys. She was great with Waterfall and Ocean and when she told me a few years ago she had lost a baby she seemed devastated by it, this was perfect that he didn’t want kids it was the only way I was going to get rid of him. I had breakfast with the family and told them I was heading over to see her. My mum and dad knew how much I loved Lydia. I never tried to hid it from them and often confided in mum how I wanted to be with Lydia and asked dad for advice. Before I left to surprise her at Johns house I had a text message from Fran, it said ‘hate to ruin your Christmas mate’ when I opened the attachment it was a photo of John and Lydia kissing in the snow and the caption said “I said YES’ I could feel the blood pump to my face with temper, I sat on my mums sofa and actually felt like I was going to kill someone, my dad walked in with a big grin and a stupid Christmas jumper and a Santa hat on then his face fell as he realised I wasn’t happy, “what’s wrong Jamie?” he asked, “Lydia got engaged again” he sat down next to me and put his hand on my shoulder “well you know what I say, all’s fair in love and war don’t stop fighting until you get her. The best man always wins, look at me and your mum” I had to laugh, dad had basically fought with every boy that tried it on with my mum at school, then dad joined a band and Mum dumped him because he was away too much. They both married other people and bumped into each other in the supermarket one day ‘out of the blue’ (which I know wasn’t true, dad found out where she lived and basically stocked her) and they were divorced and married to each other within the year and the rest is history. “I’ve told you before you need to fight dirty, you’ve done it before you can do it again” the set up with Tommy had been my dads idea and I had to hand it to him it had worked but I was too slow with my play for her after their break up and I had lost her to John. Well I wasn’t going to let that happen again, this prick had my Lydia and I had to do something before it was too late. I told my dad what John had said about not wanting kids with her and he clapped his hands together “there you have it Jamie, you just need to play this one right, slow and steady won the race, this time next year she will be here with you for Christmas dinner” and I believed him. This was all I needed to get rid of John I just had to drip the poison in her ear and wait.
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