Taming Of The TOMBOY!!!!

Chapter 20

He felt tired, extremely tired and all he wanted to do was go back to his peaceful sleep. Sleep, it was so comfortable, so soothing and it was calling to him, luring him towards its magnificent beauty. He wanted to respond to its call, go back to its pacifying arms but something was not letting him do it. Something was stopping him from going to this wonderful world and he was really annoyed about it. It kept nagging him, telling him that he needed to open his eyes but he ignored it. Because he didn’t want to open his eyes! He didn’t want to part from his peaceful friend. But the annoying nagging part inside him wouldn’t listen! It kept telling him to open his eyes and wake up. That he had slept enough and it was time for him to wake up.

Just at that moment, he felt a soft caress on his face and a warm feeling on his right hand. Immediately, his whole body relaxed and he felt even more peaceful than he had felt in his sleep. It was the warm feeling at his hand that finally brought him to open his eyes and the moment he did open his eyes, he got really happy with his decision for there sat his angel holding his hand, smiling at him with a teary face. He got confused seeing the tears on her eyes, he didn't like to see the tears on her beautiful eyes but he returned her affectionate smile.

“Hey handsome,” she said to him smiling softly, "how do you feel now?”

As soon as the words left her mouth Jack was pulled from his daze. He was not in heaven, he was in fact in a hospital, lying on a hospital bed; apparently as a result of that accident and the beautiful angel sitting next to his bed was actually his wife. All at once he got really excited. Jenny was there, really there, sitting beside him and he had so many things to tell her.

“Jenny!” he said urgently and tried to sit up at once but winced feeling the sharp pain on his head.

Jenny was immediately standing next to his side pushing him back on the bed. “Don’t try to get up Jack. You need rest.”

“Jenny I am so sorry! Please forgive me. I….”

“Hush now. We’ll talk later. Right now you need your rest.”

“No, let me talk to you please." He begged with a pleading look on his eyes. "I have so much to tell you! I won’t be able to rest until I talk to you.”

Jenny sighed. “Fine then. Tell me what you want. But don’t try to get up again, okay?”

“Okay, I won’t.” He said and closed his eyes in anguish at what he was about to tell her. He took a deep breath and opened his eyes and set it on hers steadily. “Jenny, I am really very sorry. I am sorry for everything I have done to you. I can't believe what a selfish jerk I have been to you all this time. I can only hope that maybe someday you’ll be able to forgive me. You were right. I had no right to do what I did to you. I should have never imposed myself on you. I should have never married you like that. I should have considered your feelings but I didn’t and I regret very much about it now. This marriage, it was a huge mistake; it should have never been happened in the first place, not like this. I... I completely understand your reluctance at staying at this marriage. So I have decided to set you free. I guess that’s the only right thing I can do for you now.” Jack finished with just a little bit hope that maybe, just maybe, by some miracle she would refuse this proposal and want to stay with him.

“You are right Jack. Everything you said was right. I am glad that you are finally able to see my point.” Jenny said calmly with a blank expression and with that all his hopes were shattered. So she wanted out after all. There’s no hope for him then.

“But don’t you think that you are repeating the same mistake?” She asked suddenly.

Jack got confused now. “I'm sorry?”

“You have again taken a decision without considering my feelings. You just realized that what you did was wrong so you just decided to set me free from this marriage all by yourself without even taking my consultation! Seriously Jack, what's wrong with you? When I didn’t want to be in your life you forced me to be in your life and now that I do want to be in your life you’ve decided to throw me out from it? What do I do with you?” She scolded him with fake anger as she laughed softly.

Jack froze at his place. He couldn’t believe his ears. “You want to stay with me?” He whispered in shock.

“I do.” She smiled softly.

“But… but … I thought you wouldn’t. I thought you’d never want to live with me. I thought that you hate me!”

“I don’t hate you, Jack. I never did. Yes, I have been angry at you, annoyed with you, frustrated at you, and sometimes upset with you but it’s never hatred that I felt towards you.”

“But…but… you left! You said you didn’t want to see my face!”

“I left yes, but I never meant it to be permanent. I meant to come back when I left. Didn’t you notice that I took nothing with me but my car? If I’d have meant to really leave you then I’d have packed my bags and took everything with me that belongs to me so that I’d never had to come back. But I didn’t do it, right? Because I knew I’d come back. I only left in the first place because I just needed space for a short while. And yes at that time I didn’t want to see your face but that was because I was angry! At myself, at yourself, at the circumstance and I needed to get away from you for a while. I was overwhelmed with emotions and I needed to sort things out. That’s what I originally meant to do when I left the house that night. In fact, I had been getting ready to come back already when I got the call from the hospital yesterday informing me about your accident!”

“Oh!” Jack managed to say finally, too overwhelmed with all the things Jenny just said to him. And then he suddenly grinned. “So I did all the worrying for nothing?”

“Well, I wouldn't say ‘for nothing’ though! It managed to put some senses into your thick skull after all!” Jenny grinned as well.

“So you are not leaving me.”

“Nope.”

“And you will stay with me.”

“Yes.”

“Forever.”

“Forever.”

“Why?”

“Isn't it clear dummy? I love you!”

“You love me.” He whispered in a low voice. Too overwhelmed at finally hearing the words he had been longing to hear for so long. And then he suddenly shouted with joy. “You love me! You love me! God I can’t believe that you actually said that you love me!”

Jenny laughed at his excitement and then grew serious. “Well, I don’t think that it’s a good idea for you to stay with me though!”

Jack got concerned. “Why?”

“I am a bad company.”

“What are you saying?”

“Well look at you! Just six months with me and my bad habits are already rubbing on you! Wasn’t it suppose to be me driving like crazy while upset? But here you are, lying on a hospital bed worrying the hell out of me!” She pouted.

He smiled. “I'm sorry for worrying you. I guess I was just not in my senses.”

“Just promise that you won't do it ever again; that from now on, you'll drive carefully.”

“I will only if you promise me that as well.”

“I promise you.”

“Then I also promise you that it won't happen ever again.”

Jenny smiled and leaned towards Jack sneaking his arms around his neck. “So, you finally tamed the tomboy after all!”

Jack frowned. “I'd rather say that the tomboy tamed me!”

“And you are not upset about it? That you couldn’t tame the tomboy?” Jenny almost whispered as he leaned even closer to Jack.

He grinned. “Naah. I kind of like my tomboy untamed. It was the untamed tomboy that I fell in love with in the first place!”

“Ah-ha?” she smiled her lips almost touching his.

“Yeah.” It was all he could manage before Jenny's lips crashed onto his.

.........................

Four Years Later

Jack Cooper watched in sheer amusement as his three-year-old daughter shoved the seemingly same aged baby boy roughly away as he tried to hold her hand on the playground. The boy started crying while his daughter held her head high with pride and continued playing with her toys without giving the boy any second glance.

“I don’t like the amused look on your face. Did Kate just did something again that she is not supposed to do?”

“Nope.” He denied immediately giving her a goofy smile. “Not at all!”

“Now why do I feel like there’s something fishy with that smile of yours?” She demanded trying to look stern but failing miserably.

“Because you think too much honey.” He said kissing her passionately while on the back of his mind he kept thinking about their daughter.

It’d take no genius to understand whose characteristics their precious daughter has mostly acquired. At the age of three, she was already showing all signs of becoming a tomboy just like her mother much to Jack’s amazement and Jenny’s chagrin. Jack smiled with amusement as he realized that he’ll have to keep his eyes open so that no guy could ever come near his little tomboy daughter with the intention of taming her!

...........................

THE END