Ice and Fire

"Jackson, why don't you look deep inside yourself for your answers instead of asking them from me? Everything was your fault! Why do you need to blame others?" cried Cherry.

"It wasn't my fault, it wasn't!" yelled Jackson. He then looked into Cherry's eyes, and said, "Cherry, you chose to leave me, and you chose to keep my son away from me! You were happy, weren't you?"

Cherry's couldn't help but cry when the past five years instantly flashed in her mind. She looked at Jackson, and while she shook her head, she said, "Do you really think I was happy? When I gave birth to Joe nobody was there for me! I refused my family's help and I brought up Joe alone. Do you really think that I could have possibly been happy?"

"Then why did you leave me? Wasn't I capable of providing anything that you ever wanted?" Jackson almost shouted with his face twisted with anger. He stared at Cherry, and thought that she deserved every bit of her sufferings.

Cherry didn't lose her train of thought. She calmed herself down, and carefully said, "Jackson, you still don't understand, not even now... I wanted a family!"

After she paused for a moment, Cherry continued, "I couldn't bear a third person getting between us! I just wanted a simple life, but then, what did you do? You got tangled up with Sally, and after she killed Emily, the only friend that I ever had, and walked away unpunished...did you think that I could also afford to leave my son to you?"

Jackson's heart was punched badly by her words. He knew very well how Cherry had been when Emily had passed away.

Cherry turned her head away from him, and didn't want to look at him anymore.

After some time, she broke the silence between them, and said, "You should go now, I don't want to see you anymore."

"Are you just going to let me go like this? Do you really think that I can leave like this?" asked Jackson intensely.

she had a bad feeling about it, Cherry suddenly turned around to face Jackson again, and with fear in her voice, asked, "What do

to keep my

she grasped Jackson's hands, she fiercely started to shake her head, and said

pleas, stared into her eyes and stonily replied, "He's

hand, and continued to beg, "Please, don't take Joe away

knew very well that Jackson got everything he wanted, either by

that, but the thought

go, and turned around to

Cherry again caught his hand and hastily said, "Jackson, I'm begging you, please, please don't

instead just shook off her hand off of his sleeve.

wondered. How was he going to treat her from now on? And how was he going to treat her son? She had absolutely no idea about any of that.

with Joe for a while, she went to the doctor and told him that she was going to bring her son back every two days

Elsa immediately took Joe in

so much, little Joe manly said, "Grandpa, Grandma, really, I'm okay. Joe's a big boy now, and this little scratch

little boy, come over here to Grandma, but be careful not to accidentally

how much her family would suffer if Joe would ever be taken away from them. All of them loved him very much, and