Chapter 16 - Crossed

Eliza finally decided to go back to Cambridge after a week of grieving. On her way to Barnstaple Railway Station, she noticed a man with black leather jacket observing her movements and even follows her inside the train, even tho she was annoyed, she still chooses to ignore him.

Now that Junior knows the truth about her dark past, she still determined that Junior will love him the same as before, she already put all her trust to him. Junior said that he will fetch her from the station, so Junior is probably waiting for her by now. When she finally arrives, Junior immediately noticed her and run towards her and hugged her tight.

"Oh I missed you so much." Junior said while still hugging her, she hugged him back too not knowing that the man who is following Eliza took a photo of them.

"Come, they're waiting for you." Junior said while pulling Eliza.

"Who?"

Junior took Eliza to a fast food restaurant, Zelbert and Gerald was waiting there and prepared a surprise for her to cheer her up.

The boys even made a mini banner for her saying "CHEER UP MS. CLEAVER!". Eliza was so touched and cried thanking that there are still friends always there for her.

"You remember Lucas?" Junior asked.

"Uh..The one we met at Fitzwilliam Museum?" she asked even tho she already knew him.

"Yes, and he invited us to his debut party tonight at London!" Junior said with a jolly voice.

"London?"

"Don't worry, we'll hitch a ride to Dad, he's coming too, Lucas's Dad is his friend too."

"So Ms. Cleaver, you're coming with us?" Gerald asked while eating his spaghetti.

"Please.." Zelbert begged too.

Fortunately, Eliza agrees in the end.

Willie and Emily together with their sons are having their family time at the park they used to date. Billy is still in his puberty so he keeps his distance between his parents and just keep staring at his phone.

"I'm really glad that we still have time to do this adorable dates." Emily said while holding Willie's hands."

"We have to celebrate my promotion of course."

"You got promoted already?"

"Just last night."

Emily already resigned on her job as a Writer and Journalist because she decided to spend most her time on her children.

"Really?" Emily was so happy and proud about her husband but Willie's face is not satisfied, he thinks that his dignity as a public Journalist are taken away from him.

He is also worried because if the truth will come out, he could lose his job and will be imprisoned for bribing which is a really big deal and makes him uncomfortable. In the middle of their bonding, a sudden call from Irina on Willie's phone.

"Hang on a minute, I have to accept this call." Willie said while moving away from them.

"Yes?"

"Hello Willie.. How's the promotion? Did you like it?" Willie didn't liked it actually, so he doesn't respond.

"Why'd you call by the way?"

"You remember your cousin Hugh?"

"Yeah? What now?"

"All we know that he runs a bar here Cambridge, but he's also the owner behind the strip Club here."

"So? It's his business. We shouldn't meddle with it"

"I want you to write about how successful his business are, and we'll show it to our Great Aunt Sophia. By that, she will exclude them and we are the only left as her option then the castle will be ours."

"I can't do that, he's still a family, we must respect what Aunt Sophia's decision will be."

"Really? Ah okay..I forgot that Patricia is a family too." Willie knows that this will lead to threatening him so he have no choice but to agree.

"Okay, but Irina please, whatever happens, don't drag me into this."

"Sure do.. I'll send to you the pictures and email to me the document and I'll let Sam handle the rest...Good luck Willie!" then Irina dropped the call then Willie get back to Emily.

"Who was that?"

"Uh.. It's Franklin, he's been congratulating me until today."

"I'm so proud of you Willie." Emily said while kissing him.

Junior, Zelbert, Gerald and Eliza is on Junior's apartment waiting for William to fetch them.

"What time is it? I think it's almost six. Why your Dad hasn't arrived yet?" Zelbert asked.

"He said he's on his way."

Actually William was delayed because Irina is discouraging him not to attend on that party, but William didn't listened to her and even yelled to each other. Princess Irina pretended that she don't want William to attend the party so that William won't suspect her bringing another man in their house which is Sam. After William left, she immediately called Sam Westerby to come over and introduce him to his son Jim.

"Junior!" William shouted while horning his car outside Junior's apartment.

"Coming!" The four of them rushes outside.

Junior put Eliza beside his dad so that she won't feel stuffy at the back seat with Zelbert and Gerald.

Lucius and Lucas on the other hand is already waiting for them together with their neighbors and Lucius's colleagues at work.

"Dad." Lucas said while looking at his Dad with worry.

"I invited them"

"Who?"

"Mom...With her husband."

"You found her?"

"Yes, last Tuesday. They had two daughters and a son. The eldest isn't mom's child but from the previous wife of his husband who died in giving birth."

"Uh..Okay.." Lucius seems uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry, I'm making you uncomfortable."

"No, no, no, it's really really okay.. It's just for this special night, for you, I don't care what you'll do, just enjoy your night." Lucius said while tapping his son's shoulder. "By the way, where did Susan actually lived?" he added.

"Dulwich Village, big big houses there. I can tell that they're rich and wealthy because of the gardeners outside and lot of nannies inside. At first the guard didn't let me in, I created a mess so that mom will come and see, I thought she won't recognize me but she immediately hugged me and let me inside. She married a wealthy business man and he's a Darcy."

"Darcy? Could be William's relative."

"Maybe but who knows."

They stopped talking when William finally arrived with Junior and his friends.

William handed Lucas a tiny box as his gift then they greeted him.

"Don't open it just yet." said Lucius to Lucas after William gave him the tiny box.

"Junior, thank you for coming. And you too Eliza." Lucius welcomed them by shaking their hands.

"Man this is awesome, there are only few of us here, I like it." Gerald said while giggling.

"Come, I designed a table set for us." Lucius led them to his self designed table with a lot of drinks and foods on it.

Lucius and William is on the kitchen drinking their favorite drink.

"Lucas said that Susan is coming tonight."

"Susan? Your ex-wife? She's coming?" William asked in confusion.

"Yes. And I heard that her new husband is a Darcy."

"Yeah, I met them many times at Pemberley every there is a family gathering."

"Why you didn't told me in the first place?"

"Well I thought you don't care about her anymore."

"She haven't met you when she was still my wife right? Perhaps you already knew each other in one of your family gatherings." Lucius added.

"Yeah, but we aren't that close, I'm avoiding her because I know she's your ex-wife. Did Susan knew about me?"

"She knew you existed, but she doesn't know your name."

"Then how'd she know that you're dating me 15 years ago?"

"Someone told her and she immediately believed it then made me sign the divorce paper."

The kids is already having fun on their table.

"You sure you won't open that little gift of yours?" Zelbert asked Lucas.

"Maybe later." he responded

"Lucas, can I change the music?" Gerald asked, he likes hard rock so much but the music currently playing is a melodic and he thinks that it didn't fit for the party.

"Okay sure.." Then Gerald rushed going to the speaker and played a hard rock.

Most of the visitors are Lucius's colleagues so they were disturbed by the type of music played by Gerald and they all looked at him. He was embarrassed and immediately change the music into pop rock.

Susan finally arrived with tons of gifts and presents for her son. Lucas immediately welcomed her inside, Lucius also welcomed her with a shake hands.

"Welcome Susan, we've met again." Lucius greeted her.

"Hello again, Lucius, look at you, you're still cute and short." Susan is a foot taller than Lucius and he doesn't know if he takes that as an insult or not.

"So.. who's with you?" Lucius asked.

"Oh..My husband over there." she pointed Hugh Darcy who is unloading the gifts and drinks that they brought for the party.

"Good heavens that's a lot of gifts and drinks." Lucas was shocked.

"Only for you my dear." Susan said while pinching Lucas's chin.

William went outside and welcomed Hugh then helped him unloading.

"William! It's you!" Hugh was surprised and hug his cousin as greetings.

"Yeah, Lucas's father is my friend."

"Oh really? What a surprise."

"Here, let me help you." William helped Hugh carry the presents and drinks inside.

When they got inside, William commanded the boys to get the drinks outside including Junior. Hugh immediately noticed Junior.

"Junior, you're here too."

"Oi..Uncle Hugh. Who's with you?"

"My wife." Junior already gets that Hugh's wife is Lucas's mother then he went outside to get the drinks.

Hugh caught his attention to Eliza who's sitting alone on the chair.

"Eliza?" he was shocked and surprised because he thought that he won't see Eliza again.

"Mr. Darcy." Eliza was surprised too, she immediately hugged Hugh as greetings.

"Good Lord you came back, I thought I never see you again."

"But now I'm back."

"I'm sorry about your mother." Hugh reached his condolences late but Eliza thanked him anyway. "Come, I'll introduce you to my wife." Hugh added while leading to his wife.

Susan doesn't actually know that Hugh had been helping Eliza all this time because Susan is an envious kind of wife and a homophobic person, she don't want Hugh to interact with other women.

"Susan, this is Eliza, my employee at the bar." Hugh introducing Eliza to his wife.

"Oh hello there young lady." She greeted with a fake smile.

Eliza notices her fake smile so she greeted back and went back to the table where she sat earlier.

Hugh then greeted Lucius in a friendly manner, Susan also recognized Junior and William and was frightened about it.

"Oh, William, it's you..And your Junior is here too.. What at coincidence." she said while hugging William.

The party went well even tho Lucius is quite uncomfortable.

Sam Westerby already arrived at Milton, Cambridge where William and Irina lives. It's not actually his first time here, he and Irina has been hooking up in the past months everytime William is not around and the kids are already asleep. But this time, he will finally face his son and introduce himself as Jim's real father. Sam wore a decent suit so that he won't look like a gangster in front of his son. Irina was waiting for him inside, as soon as he arrived, he commanded the nannies to lock Jerry on his room and call Jim to go down from his room.

"You think he will like me?" asked the nervous Sam.

"He will, you and him have a lot of common." Irina said while embracing Sam's face.

Jim finally went down and he's actually annoyed because the nanny waked him up.

"Hello darling." Irina said while rubbing Jim's face.

"You're Sam right?" Jim asked.

"How'd you know?" Sam is curious

"I caught you many times sneaking here, you just didn't notice me observing you." They were surprise about what Jim said.

"Well that's great then, it well be lessen your feelings when I tell you -" Irina was interrupted.

"That's he's my real father?"

"How did-"

"Mom, I'm already 16, and I'm not stupid, I heard you both talking about it in Dad's room. Mom, did Dad know about this?!" Jim asked in a higher voice, it's obvious that his mad about this.

"No, but he will someday." Irina said while comforting Jim.

"Hey, I know that it's too late for me to introduce myself on you, but I'm willing to do what you wanted me to do. You want to live in London? My house is bigger than this, you want your own car? I can give it to you right away." Sam is just not a leader of the hired killers but he also runs an Illegal Guns smuggling groups. Jim was shocked and excited at the same time about it.

"Awh.. That's so lovely hon.." Irina while clinging on Sam's shoulders

"So, what do you think? You want to go now?" Sam said while holding Jim's hand gently.

"Uh...Maybe tomorrow, it's Saturday anyway, I'm gonna sleep for now."

"Sure, get some rest.. I'll show everything to you tomorrow." Sam said while shaking Jim's head and went back to his room.

"It didn't go as we expected." Irina said while chuckling.

"Yes, but it went more than we expected, you're right, my son and I has a lot in common. He's handsome like me isn't he?" Sam said while starting kiss Irina's lips and neck.

"Shall we?" Irina grabbed Sam's tie to her room.

Emily and Willie is also having their good time in the bed. Willie was so tired that he fell asleep after but Emily is still awake and finishing the wine they drink before having sex. She caught her attention on Willie's phone who just received a message from an unknown number who is actually the Grandparent of Patricia.

"Willie, When are you coming back here? Your daughter is crying looking for you."

She looked at Willie and started to shed tears, she hesitated if she want to wake Willie up, instead she put on her dress and went out crying.

Back at the party, Gerald is already drunk and dancing with the neighbors of Lucas, the adults are talking about their lives. Zelbert is still eating the cake, Lucas, Eliza and Junior are the only ones still drinking and haven't drunk yet, Eliza is just listening and talking with them, she's quite uncomfortable because she knew that Lucas and her have a little secret that they still don't want to talk with Junior, not just in their past relationship, but the agreement to each other. Suddenly, she felt and ultimate pain on her abdomen so she rushed on the restroom to find out. Junior followed her in the restroom by curiosity and worry.

"Eliza, are you okay?" Junior asked outside.

"...Yes..just..wait for me at the table, I'll be back immediately."

Eliza isn't taking the pills the doctor gave to her because she thought that there is no hope that she will be cured, not just HIV, but her Cervical Cancer. According to the doctor, it will be a miracle if she will survive for 6 years carrying the disease. In fact, she only told one person about it.

Princess Irina received a text message from a boy who's in party in the middle of shagging with Sam.

"Lucas's mother was here in the party together with the husband named Hugh Darcy. Send me a money tomorrow, I ran out of money since yesterday."

"Copy. By the way, you know the name of his mother?"

"I heard it's Susan Darcy."

"Who was that?" Sam stopped and asked Irina.

"A boy, I pay him weekly just to spy on Junior."

"Oh, that's clever of you." Sam continued what he's doing.

Princess Irina is planning to meet Susan to see if she could lend some help of separating William and Lucius.